Helanie:
"Good morning," I heard my mother greet Lord McQuoid. I was asked to join breakfast so we could sit and eat before I headed off to the academy again.
It was Norman and Emmet, Emma and my mother with Lord McQuoid. I hadn't seen Charlotte the whole of yesterday, and now she was missing breakfast too.
Of course, she was.
She wouldn't want to sit and celebrate me. Or anything related to me.
"Helanie! Honestly, it was so nice to have you here with us. We felt like a family. Even when there weren't many moments for us to celebrate as a family, you being around felt so good," Lord McQuoid gave me a warm smile, my mother uncomfortably shifting in her seat and then looking up just to check others' reactions.
