The office door opened and Myrtle smiled.

-Delia my dear, your mother is here to see you.

Cordelia could hear the girls whispering behind her, she wanted to die.

Cordelia entered the office and closed the door, Fiona was standing there smoking and as soon as she entered the roomshe could feel her mother looking at her up and down, and she felt small, she hated feeling like that.

-Cordelia, how are you?

Cordelia wanted to scream at her. How could she be like that? Three years away and now she shows up saying "how are you?" Was this a joke?.

-Hello mother, i'm fine and you?

Fiona looked at her , almost challenging her to say what she really wanted to say, but Cordelia stayed quiet.

-I trust you know that i've been busy and that's away i stayed away for a while and i knew Myrtle would take good care of you.

Cordelia couldn't believe what she was saying, Fiona acted as if she had been away for three months and not three years.

-Oh i know you've been busy, we all know about all of the parties you had to go to. Did you have fun mother?

For a moment Fiona looked shocked by Cordelia's courage to respond, but that didn't last long.

-Cordelia , think hard before you try to disrespect me. I am your mother and the supreme of this coven.

Cordelia couldn't help but laugh.

-Is this serious? You left me here! You didn't call, you forgot about me! I'm your child!

Fiona Laughed at her

-Cordelia please you're16 put yourself together, you're not a baby and i didn't leave in the streets, i left you in a school with you aunt. And i don't need you to quastion my decisions. Do you understand me ?

Cordelia knew that there was no point in arguing so she just nodded.

-Now, I can't stay in town, and I'm sorry I missed your birthday, but I brought you a present, it's outside, shall we?

Cordelia was surprised because she didn't think her mother even knew how old she was. Fiona opened the door and faced a group of girls staring at her, she simply walked past them without even saying hello, and headed toward the door.

Cordelia and Myrtle followed her, with the girls just behind.

Cordelia gasped as they reached the porch, at the entrance to the house was a beautiful blackcar with a large red bow on it, Cordelia looked at her mother who said,

-Did you like it?

At that moment she can not help but feel like a child again and run to hug her mother. That surprised Fiona who let the hug happen for a few seconds and then pulled away.

- Well, get in the car. It's yours.

Cordelia went to her new car, she sensed the girls' looks, but at that moment she did not care because at that moment she was getting the attention she wanted so badly from her mother. The abandonment was set aside even if only for a while.

Fiona and Cordelia drove for a while, Fiona told a little about Paris and about her latest boyfriend. Cordelia did not tell her mother how her life at the Academy was, she was ashamed to say that she had no friends and that she spent her time alone in the greenhouse. Fortunately, Fiona had asked her out of obligation rather than genuine interest. It was a pleasant afternoon, and Fiona agreed to stay for dinner since her flight was the next morning. Cordelia was not sad because she was accustomed not to have her mother around.

At the dinner, all the girls talked to Cordelia like they were best friends, all of them wanted the Supreme to like them, it made Cordelia mad but she didn't say anything. At the end of the night, she said goodbye to her mother and went to her room.

She would not see her mother for a long time.