Chapter Thirty-Six
It was the first half-term of the year and for once Mildred and Constance were looking forward to the holiday as they will be together. Mildred hung back with the other teachers as her and her mother were leaving last. Eventually they set off Mildred following her mother on her new broomstick which was still in one piece.
Landing on the ground Mildred looked up and saw an homely little cottage. It was not large but it looked cosy inside. She smiled to her mother as they walked towards the cottage and they walked inside. Mildred looked around curiously.
The rooms were spotless and tidy and it reminded her of the nice houses people on television have. She walked to the large bookcase and started looking at the spines of the books.
"Grab any book you want at any time Millie, if you decide you want to read that is" she told her. Mildred smiled.
"It's so nice here and just me and you can you believe it?" she asked
"No, do you want to see your room?" she asked
"Yes" she said as she followed her mother up the stairs. Her bedroom was fairly large but empty.
"I know it is bare it is your room so I thought you should get to pick the colour we can buy some paint later, you can sleep in my room for now I already have your bed in there" she told her.
She smiled happily. "I can't wait" she said.
Later on that day after both had settled in they decided to go to the shops. They needed to buy paint and food as of course there was nothing as they are not there all year. Constance was going out in her black dress and tight bun. Mildred had her hair down today and was wearing jeans and an white t-shirt her mum had given her for her birthday. As Mildred went downstairs she saw what her mother was wearing and rolled her eyes.
"Mother we are on break you can wear something different you know" she said
"I am fine wearing what I am wearing" she told her.
Mildred shook her head and walked up to stand behind her mother who was on the sofa she smiled and started to pull her bun out.
"Mildred what are you doing?" she moaned
"Keep still a minute" she laughed as she took the bun out of her hair
"Why did you do that now I have to redo it" she told her
Mildred ran her fingers through her hair messing it up a little.
"You have gorgeous hair don't hide it"
"Millie please"
"Just go out like that, you won't get arrested for it you know"
"You are not going to give up are you?" she asked her.
"I wasn't planning on it" Mildred laughed
"Fine let's just go" she said as she stood up.
Despite them being witches they were going shopping in an normal supermarket because of course magic food is disgusting and they had to get food somewhere. Constance grabbed an trolley and walked into the shop with her daughter who ran ahead.
"Stay where I can see you please" she told her as she got out an piece of paper with an list on.
"Right we need Fruit,Vegetables, Rice" Constance said
"Chocolate, Sweets, Biscuits" Mildred said
"Potatoes" Constance started
"Chips" Mildred finished
"Crackers" Constance said
"Crisps" Mildred said.
"Mildred do you have any idea how bad that stuff is for you?" Constance asked
"I eat that horrible food served at Cackles most of the year I deserve an treat" she said as Constance rolled her eyes.
Constance walked along the aisles putting things into the trolley not realizing Mildred was sneaking things into the trolley when she was not looking. As they carried on with their shop Mildred started to notice her mother was getting an lot of attention from men. She burst into laughter.
"What is so funny?" she asked her
"There is an lot of men staring at you" Millie said with an smirk
"Yes well they are probably not used to seeing people dressed the way I am" she replied
"Actually mother a lot of people that are...normal dress like that all the time" she told her
"Then why else would they stare?" she asked
"Because of your beauty, they are memorised by it obviously,I bet you always got attention when you were younger too" she laughed.
"Well if they knew I had an daughter they probably wouldn't stare"
"Now we need to get you different clothes and they will be lining up" She mocked as Constance glared at her.
Mildred just smiled in response she found it funny that someone who hates men as much as her mother was getting so much attention of them. She laughed even more as her mother glared at one of the staring men and he looked away scared dropping the orange he had just picked up in the process.
After they had finished food shopping they had gone to get some paint for Mildred's bedroom. She had picked an sky blue colour because she said it was the colour of the sky at Cackle's. Constance had gotten up early the next day out of habit and left her daughter asleep. She could easily use magic to paint the room but the spell was not very good and bits were always missed out because of this she was going to do it by hand but she knew paint stained so she went to look for some old clothes.
Mildred woke up an hour later and went looking for her mum she walked into her room and saw her painting but she was dressed different. She was wearing an long sleeved blue jumper and jeans.
"What are you wearing?" she asked laughing
"Shh you, I had to wear old clothes to paint this is all I had"
"I will be back" she said as she left the room still laughing. Constance shrugged and carried on painting until she heard footsteps she turned around to talk to her child when all of an sudden she clicked the camera she was holding up and took an picture. Constance gasped and dropped the paint brush.
"Give me the camera" she said
"No this picture needs to go in our memory book: 'Constance Hardbroom wears jeans!" she said laughing.
She made an grab for the camera but the girl moved it out the way.
"Mildred delete it right now" she said as the girl giggled and ran off. Constance ran after her chasing her down the stairs. Mildred ran into the sitting room and Constance grabbed her from behind but was laughing slightly.
"Give it here now" she said
"No way" Mildred said laughing hard
"That's it" she said
She started to tickle the girl who screamed in laughter as she dropped the camera on the floor.
"No hahaha no please I can't"" she said as her mother tickled her more
"Then delete it" she said but she was smiling.
"No way" she said but she was tickled more.
"OK OK just stop I can't cope" she said as her mother stopped and laughed. She picked up the camera deleting the picture.
"Thank you now time for breakfast" she said with an laugh.
"I will be there in a minute" Millie said as her mother walked into the kitchen laughing. Mildred waited until she was gone then smirked. Her mother had not known she took two pictures.