The family secret

Chapter 4: "The scandal against the Blanchet name"

Corinne woke up that morning in excitement, she jumped out of bed ready for her new school day ready to learn more things about her new life. She did not know what to wear for her first day of school, she thought she would ask her grandfather. She walked out of the room trying to find the short old man Corinne thought it was funny how short her grandfather was. "I have a question what do I wear to this magic school" giggled Corinne her grandfather looked up from his book to make eye contact with the giggling girl. He did not understand what was so funny "The school is very formal a dress shall do fine with the school's dress robe over it" muttered Bastien. Corinne turned around to get dressed. She thought it was weird how formal a magic school would be. Once Corinne got into her room, she picked out a black dress that was not too formal not too casual, she wore a lot of black, it was common in her family. She slicked her hair back as usual. She never liked the hair on her face, it was unappealing. Corinne walked out of the room to find her grandfather she did not know how she was getting to school. "How am I supposed to get to school," Corinne asked her grandfather looking up from his book again to answer sweet Corinne's question. "Bruce will pick you up" Bastien informed Corinne looked down at him she thought her grandfather was going to take her. "He should be here soon," Bastien said Corinne was excited to be seeing the redhead boy again.

"Ding dong" rang the doorbell Corinne got up from her seat to go greet the boy she opened the door they said their hello's. They made their way to the car Corinne was surprised to see a black mustang in front of her eyes. Bruce noticed the look in Corinne's eyes and gave a little chuckle as he opened the door for the short girl. Corinne did not think he would open the door for her. He made his way to the other side of the car to let himself in. "Are you excited to start school?" Bruce said in a dead tone "yeah can't wait to learn new things" Corinne muttered joyfully. He did not say anything to her until they pulled up to the school "there's just a few rules you're not allowed to talk to me while we're at school your family betrayed magic kind" nagged Bruce. Corinne was flabbergasted there was no way she would let this insipid talk to her like that. When she was about to say something, he walked out of the car and walked over to a vast group of kids.

Nobody seemed to notice her getting out of the black mustang she stomped her way over to the tall redhead. She was not going to let him talk to her like that when she reached the big crowd that he entered she looked around for the boy. She finally found Bruce she tapped his shoulder when his green eye looked down at her she let it all out. "How dare you talk about my family like that" her French accent came out more when she was vexed. Everybody turned to see where the voice came from the tall American boy looked fuming at the words she said. He started laughing "why would I let a Blanchet talk to me like that" A gasp was relieved from the people's mouths. Corinne was confused why did everyone hate her snickers left people's mouths "I warned you Corinne" the redhead muttered." Corinne was confused and she needed answers so after lunch she made her way to the library to see if she could find anything in her name. After a little bit of searching, she found an old article with the front title: "The scandal against the Blanchet name" Corinne kept reading and could not believe it was about her father. He married a non-magical person they must mean her mother which is why she could not talk about being a witch in front of her. She did not understand the fuss about why it was important, she would just have to ask her grandfather about it when she got home.