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After tea, Mia retired to her room to settle in.

"Supper is at seven o'clock sharp, Mia." Mia's Grandmother informed her, before she left the room.

"Yes, ma'am. I'll see you then." Mia answered.

After arriving at her room, Mia put up some pictures of her and Lily and her and Michael. Looking at her best friend and her boyfriends face made her want to cry. But instead, she picked up the phone and called the very familiar number.

"Hello?" Mrs. Matchkavitz said into the phone.

"Hello, Mrs. Matchkavitz. Is Michael or Lily home? This is Mia."

"Hello, Mia. And no, neither of them is home. Michael is working and Lily is taping a segment of her TV show. Do you want me to have them call you back?"

Mia sighed. "Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Bye."

"Bye." Mrs. Matchkavitz said and hung up.

Mia listened to the dial tone, beeping forlornly, for just a minute and then hung up.

"It's like I never even left. Like everything's normal, but it's not. Michael's working and Lily's taping a segment of her show. But they are there and I'm here." Mia said with another long sigh.

Wiping away a few tears, that had managed to escape, she crossed her room and looked out the window. This window faced the garden and Mia saw her mother out amidst the flowers, carefully selecting some and putting them into a gardening basket.

"This is so hard." Mia whispered to herself sinking down into her desk chair.

Suddenly the door from the bathroom was pushed open and Fat Louie sauntered into the room.

Looking at Mia, he meowed and jumped into her lap. "Doesn't look like your having to hard of a time adjusting to your new life." Mia said with a laugh.

Fat Louie smelled like shrimp and he had been combed to a luxurious shine.

Purring, he stretched out in Mia's lap and rubbed his head on her leg.

"Okay, okay." Mia said laughing, and began to scratch his head.

After a few minutes of rubbing Louie she felt a little calmer.

"All right, Louie. I have work to do." She said, as she picked him up and set him on the floor.

Fat Louie just twitched his tail and headed off to his bed. It was a royal cat bed set up beside Mia's own bed.

Mia just rolled her eyes and got down to organizing her desk, to her liking.

Thirty minutes before seven, Alison lightly knocked on the door. "Mia?"

Mia looked up from the book, on Genovian etiquette, that she had been reading and replied, "Yes, Allison?"

"It's time for you to get dressed for dinner." Allison answered.

"All right. Thank you." Mia replied and stood up.

Allison nodded and left the room.

Mia walked over to her closet and opened the doors, and gasped, she could not believe her eyes. Her closet was humongous. There was not only plenty of shelf and hanging space, there was even a built in shoe rack.

Shaking her head, Mia grabbed a green dress and got ready for dinner.

Mia arrived downstairs promptly at seven o'clock.

Her Grandmother nodded approvingly at her dress choice and everyone took their seats.

"So, mom, I saw you picking flowers earlier. Did you find some good ones?" Mia asked as she took a sip of her water.

"Yes, I did. You have a beautiful flower garden, Clarice." Helen said.

"Thank you, but it's not just my flower garden. It is our flower garden." Clarice answered.

Mia smiled at her Grandmother and took a roll out of the basket on the table.

"So, Grandma, what's on the agenda for tomorrow?" Mia asked.

"We are going shopping. Your mother and you need more suitable clothing for functions and such. You can wear your regular clothes at the castle, but when we go out you both need to be properly attired."

"Yes, Grandma." Mia answered.

Helen just smiled.

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