Drabble Wars: Write your character being a mother/mother figure to someone. (Good or bad)
Chocolate Frog Card: (Bonus) Damocles Rowle: Challenge: Write about someone who could be seen to be a little too harsh or strict.
Word Count: 213
"Mother, can I go outside, please?" Helena asked, closing the large tome that she'd been reading after saving her page with her bookmark.
"What for?" Rowena asked, looking up from her parchment to stare at her daughter with an analaysing look. Helena knew that her mother could read her like a book. "You've got lots of studying to do and outside would have too many distractions," she told her as she returned her eyes to her book and picked up her quill.
"But I've been studying for three hours straight," Helena protested, resisting the urge to scream and cry; it hadn't got her anywhere in the past before.
"And you'll carry on studying for another three," Rowena replied, not even bothering to look at Helena as the quill scratched away at the parchment. "If you want to be the best, you have to put in the work."
"I don't want to be the best," she muttered petulantly, her bottom lip protruding in a pout. Her mother didn't reply, whether that was because she didn't hear or didn't want to dignify her response with a reply, she didn't know. But Helena opened her book again and carried on reading.
She'd be free one day, escape her Mother's clutches and live the life she wants.