Ava watched the boy blow the candle out before deciding to move on from the party.
She was already bored; she had successfully dissociated herself from the trauma she had, even ignoring her mother. She was allowed a semblance of control, even from her own household, but now she feels like returning home.
She walked around the neighborhood before getting near a door. There was the doorknob, she stared down at it and twisted it as she entered her mother's house.
She came through, placed her shoes in the containers, and closed the door, her eyes focused on the kitchen and living room.
The atmosphere was cold, and the sense of warmth was erased as her feet entered the inside.
Everything was clean, and there was no mess. There was no cooking; it felt cold, even the hands felt it. No lights, just the windows themselves doing the illuminating.
Soon, a figure arrived from the shadows, it was porcelain with dark, dark-brown hair. Young looking and beautiful, her eyes gazed at the figure, hazel eyes, once feeling warmth and maternal, felt cold and calculated.
Ava was finally certain that this was her mother's cold, calculating nature, devoid of warmth; it was the aura of a matriarch. Oppressing and diabolical.
She slowly walked, as she sauntered. Arms straight as her head looked straight, soon her eyes turned from cold to fury. A mouth that looks like someone who would kill.
But instead of hearing something deranged, her mother says, "Where have you been, darling?"
"How has my dear Ava been doing in the past three months?" Cassandra stood still, her eyes deadly serious. As bleakness surrounds both the mother and the daughter.
Ava, who has finally got a piece of her mother's true nature, smirked with the nonchalant words, "Wouldn't you say I have been out for some time? You know, in the library? Hehe"
Her hair dishevelled in front of Cassandra, as she smirked.
Trying to reframe the situation in her mind, however, Cassandra sauntered near Ava before arriving at her side and replied in a cold voice, "Hmmm, I see, very clever and very rebellious."
Cassandra then looked at Ava, who was at her side, and asked, "I see, I see. But has it occurred to you that your teachers and I had a meeting regarding you?" without even smiling, but with authority that pinches through her nerves.
Ava did not stare; the door behind her was closed, and the only light was the area illuminated by the sunlight through the windows.
Ava just froze, and didn't say anything. While her mother looked at her with coldness.
Cassandra then walks at Ava's back as she's frozen, she then asked, "I wonder if my sweet little pumpkin"
Cassandra then leaned her head against Ava's ears as she purred with a smile, "Or rather, should I say my honey's special subject has finally hatched from the shell of rebellion," before she walked back in front at about 10 meters.
"What has been planting seeds of rebellion in my dear, dear pumpkin?" she smiles condescendingly towards Ava, as Ava stares at her mother, the looming darkness that envelops her body and face inconspicuously, her body seemed dramatic.
Cassandra then gripped her own hands into fits, as the tension could be felt in both of her fists. Teeth biting becomes intense.
Before revealing something in venom, "Do you have ANY idea how much I called you, every attempt to communicate brushed away by your selfishness?"
Cassandra raised her hand, palm open, "And you didn't even bother to give me a single look at my messages!"
"Why? Were you and your rich boyfriend smooching, having a good time behind my back?!"
Ava's eyes looked at Cassandra, "No, mama. I - I don't know how…"
Cassandra then simmers and raises her hand towards her, as her beautiful almond hazel eyes turn back to being cold, fueled with disappointment.
"Save it, Ava. I don't want to hear another word from you."
Silencing Ava, as her mouth became quiet, not allowing her to speak.
Cassandra rotated herself a little bit as she walked while staring at Ava, her head tilted.
"Do you have any idea? How much I have spent on your university, the scholarships… All the equipment that you use for your pure hobbies, so you can thrive in this world."
"Yet even with all of that, all my grace, all my support wasted, that you decide to throw yourself at the den of wolves"
"And with action, including not attending your class, not even coming home!"
"Is this what it's all about, Ava?" Cassandra asks as she looks at Ava as she walks around the living room.
Cassandra points her finger towards her and calls her, "You are ungrateful! Child
"You have no idea! NO IDEA! How much I cared for you, do you know how much I HAVE SACRIFICED FOR YOU?!!" Cassandra bit her teeth as the vocals were tremendous
"Is this what it's all about now, huh, Ava! Do you want to be that self-preserved?! FINE!"
Cassandra's slender torso and head looked straight at Ava and said, "FINE!"
"It seemed like you won't even be satisfied by my care anymore." Hazel's eyes looked maniacal as tears came out of her eyes.
Before picking out her tears with her fingers, she looked straight at Ava, "I have packed your bag, sold your computer and equipment. Within that, I leave you only with your clothes."
"Consecutive absences, transactional relationships…" she speaks with disappointment, as if moralizing herself.
Cassandra hastens her walk speed, and her mouth turns sour, "All of that stuff makes it seem like I am not worth being your caretaker anymore."
"And because of that. YOU CAN GET OUT OF MY HOUSE"
Ava reflexively, with her hands pulled, trying to plead, interrupting her, "BUT MA! I still need to stay in this place, where am I supposed to stay, if this is the only place I can lie, relax, behave, even play with Max?"
Cassandra reached her hand, palm open, before gripping her. "Who are you to speak to?" Cassandra rushed to a vase and, with deadly force, threw the vase to the ground, with enough anger that the vase shattered, disrupting Ava's internal state.
Cassandra stood straight, looking up from the vase, and told her with a smile, "You are aware that this would happen right…?"
"It was planned, and you played along. You made a deal with me, and I proceeded."
"But.." Cassandra looked down at the shattered vase
"I didn't think it would be this disappointing."
Cassandra pulled from her bag a paper, and she showed Ava the tuition fees, transactional fees for every semester, uniform and equipment, etc.
She whispered, "I was certain you would graduate from your course with flying colors with a prepared position for Genesis innovation work, but you, in your recalcitrance and insubordination, have proven yourself to be in an unpredictable manner."
"That is why I sold your computer, equipment, and stuff."
Cassandra placed her hands behind my back with a smile, "Or perhaps, someone could make really good use of them."
"You never know"
Cassandra then ripped the paper, before slowly pointing her hand to the door, "So… Now that we come to this, you should get OUT of my HOUSE!"
Cassandra sauntered near Ava, touched her shoulder, "You have no idea how many people, how many people thought I was enabling your terrible behaviour! You are ungrateful, you with your actions have DISGRACED my very own existence."
Where Cassandra rushed impulsively threw a remote and threw next at Ava, hitting the wall, "And because of you, they CALLED me a TERRIBLE MOTHER to my pumpkin."
"So leave! For both of our sakes. Prepare yourself for the den of wolves, because that's where you truly belong," before looking away from her daughter, as her back could be seen by Ava.
She looked clearly hurt, pride wounded. As Cassandra's head angled down.
No lights, just the shattered vase and the remote that fell from the wall next to Ava in her frozen state with deadly force.
Ava slowly looked away from Cassandra's shoulder as she went through the main door, before meters away in her mother's lawn away from the house's door, and shouted.
"Can I at least have my access card for whatever my father works at?" with a flicker of resignation and bitterness.
Eyes looked at the door.
Cassandra opened the door with a bored expression and threw the card at her so that it landed near her statue, while Ava was on the lawn of her mother's house.
Ava picked it up, placed her card in her pocket, "How about a nice shower? I haven't even returned for months," she sneered, staring at the door.
However, Cassandra, who was holding the door, said nothing, leaving Ava to her fate.
Ava was confused, and she blurted out, "At least say something?!"
Cassandra looked at her with coldness, bringing her packed bags outside.
The bags flew as well, with enough force that they landed near Ava
"Find one yourself," she said to Ava with coldness in her mouth.
Soon, Ava brings the bags packed with clothes and starts moving. She has been looking for places to stay, even sitting on the benches. She looked at her own uniform and it was so rugged.
Alas, Ava continued searching; she was feeling hopelessly defeated because of the actions she had performed.