Prue - 20
Piper - 14
Phoebe- 10
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Phoebe sat in the living room bouncing a tennis ball off the wall. "Phoebe, don't throw that ball in the house" Prue scolded her.
"I'm not throwing it I'm bouncing it" Phoebe said as she continued.
"Don't be a smart aleck, you know what I mean" Prue said to her, getting frustrated.
"Fine" Phoebe said as she caught the ball. "But, Prue I'm bored."
"Did you do your homework?"
"Yes" Phoebe sighed.
"Well, why don't you go color then?"
"Okay" Phoebe relented.
About twenty minutes and four drawings later Phoebe was sitting at the kitchen table, bored again. Phoebe took out the ball and began bouncing it again. 'Prue's in the other room, she won't catch me' she rationalized. A few minutes later she missed catching the ball. It bounced past her and hit the cookie jar sending it to the floor with a sickening crash. Prue heard the crash and rushed into the room to find out what happened.
"Phoebe, are you okay?" she asked as she quickly entered the room.
"Yes" she replied quietly.
"What happened?" Prue asked skeptically.
"I … I was getting a cookie and accidentally knocked the jar of the counter." She stammered.
"Phoebe I know when you're lying, now tell me the truth"
"I was bouncing the ball and I didn't catch it and it hit the cookie jar" Phoebe said, unable to look her sister in the eye.
Prue stood glaring at her sister, "Didn't I tell you not to play with that ball in the house"
"Yes"
"What the hell were you thinking then?"
"I didn't think I would break anything, I thought I would catch it. Prue I … I'm sorry"
"I don't want to hear it Phoebe. I want you to go to your room until dinner." she said sounding irritated but doing her best not to lose her temper.
"Okay" Phoebe replied.
After Phoebe left Prue started getting things out for dinner. Piper came in the room and asked "What happened?"
"Nothing really, Phoebe broke the cookie jar."
"I'm sure it was just an accident"
"I am too, but I had already told her not to play with her ball in the house and she just did it anyways, it pisses me off. I tell her not to something and she just goes ahead and does it anyway"
"How hard on her were you?" Piper asked.
"I sent her up to her room to until dinnertime. You can't possibly think I was too rough on her this time. I didn't yell and I stayed perfectly calm. Okay?"
"Okay, I just wondered" Piper said.
"I know. Do you wanna help me with dinner?" Prue asked.
"Yea, sure"
They were just finishing dinner so Prue called Phoebe downstairs. When Phoebe went into the kitchen Piper was putting everything on the table.
"Yay! Spaghetti!" Phoebe said. "That's my favorite."
Dinner was going quite smoothly for a while, but that changed soon enough when Phoebe accidentally spilled her milk all over herself and then burst into tears and ran upstairs to her room.
"I'll clean this up, Prue. You should probably go up and talk to her" Piper told Prue.
"Yea"
Prue went up to Phoebe's room and knocked on the door gently and said "Pheebs honey, can I come in?"
"No! Go away!" Phoebe shouted from the other side of the door, but Prue opened the door anyway and went in.
"Prue, I don't wanna talk, please just leave me alone" Phoebe said.
"Come on, what's wrong?" Phoebe didn't say anything. "Please talk to me, I only want to help." Prue continued
"No. Nothing is wrong. Go away!"
"Phoebe, I've known you your whole life, I can tell when something is up, now spill."
"I already told you, it's nothing. Now will you please just leave me alone?"
"Okay, but if you want to talk, I'm here." Prue said, and Phoebe nodded. Then Prue left and went downstairs.
When Prue got downstairs Piper was doing the dishes. Prue went into the kitchen, and when Piper saw her she asked "Is she okay?"
"I don't know. She won't talk to me. I don't know what to do, Piper."
"I guess there's nothing you can do except be supportive and make sure she knows you're there for her. When she's ready to tell someone what's wrong she will."
"You're right. I guess I should just give her some space."
"Yup."
After she finished the dishes she went into the living room where Prue was working. "Prue, can I ask you something?"
"Yea sure"
"Can I go to a party this weekend?"
"That depends"
"Depends on what?"
"Nothing big, I just want to know a few things before I agree to let you go."
"Okay, like what?"
"Like first of all, when is it?"
"On Saturday."
"And where is this party?"
"At my friend Melanie's boyfriend's house."
"Will his parents be home?" Prue asked.
Piper wasn't actually sure, but her guess was that they wouldn't be so she lied because she knew that Prue would never let her go if there weren't going to be any adults there. "Yes of course. So, what are we like playing 20 questions or something?" Piper said getting exasperated with Prue's questioning.
"Watch it Piper, I don't need any attitude from you"
"Fine, I'm sorry. Any other questions?"
"Just a couple. Who is Melanie?"
"My new friend, we just met at lunch the other day."
"I see well, what's her boyfriend's name?"
"Chad"
"And they're freshmen as well?"
"No, they're seniors."
"Seniors?" Prue asked sounding concerned.
"Yea. So?"
"So, I'm not letting you go to a party with kids that much older than you."
"Prue, it's only 3 years"
"I know but I don't want you going, so the answer is no."
"Oh my God Prue! Come on, that isn't fair!"
"I don't care if you think it's fair or not. You're not going and that's final Piper."
"Why not?"
"Because those kids are older than you and there could be alcohol or God knows what else at that party. I'm just looking out for you"
"Well maybe I don't want you to look out for me! I'm not a little kid. I can make decisions on my own, and even if there was alcohol, you should trust me enough to think I wouldn't drink. You can't protect me from everything you know!" Piper yelled at Prue then turned and ran upstairs.
Phoebe came downstairs a little while later looking worried, because her two oldest sisters hardly ever fought. "Prue?" she said timidly from the doorway.
"Yea, honey? Do you need something?"
"How long are you and Piper gonna be mad at each other?"
"I don't know. Not very long I hope."
"But I heard you guys yelling at each other. And you guys never fight."
Prue sat down and motioned for Phoebe to come over to her. When she did, Prue pulled her into her lap. "Don't worry about me and Piper, we just got into an argument. But Piper and I will make up because we're sisters and we'll always love each other no matter how mad we get. The same goes for you, no matter how mad we get at each other I'll always love you because you're my baby sister. Got it kiddo?"
"Yea I got it" Phoebe said feeling less anxious now.
"Good, so you don't have to worry then"
"Yea, okay"
"So do you wanna tell me why you were so upset before?"
"No"
"Why not?"
"Cause it's stupid."
"Come on Pheebs you can trust me."
"Okay, it's just that everything seems to be going wrong today, me and Ally got into a fight, and I tripped and fell on the playground and then I broke the cookie jar…and I don't know why I got so upset about the stupid milk, I just did."
"That's not stupid. You were just having a bad day, that's all"
"Yea, it sucked. It was like one bad thing after the other today."
"Don't worry. I'm sure tomorrow will be better."
"I hope so"
"That's my girl. Now, it's almost 9:00 it's time for you to go get ready for bed"
"Okay" Phoebe agreed and then ran upstairs to get ready for bed.
On her way to her room, Phoebe stopped at Piper's room "Hey Piper"
"Hey"
"Can I come in?"
"Yeah, sure. What's up?" Piper asked.
"Nothing really, I was just wondering if you'd do something for me?"
"Sure. What is it?"
"It's not a big deal type thing, I just wondered if you would braid my hair for me?"
"Of coarse I will, come and sit down on my bed with me" Piper said and Phoebe smiled with delight and ran over and jumped onto the bed. They were talking while Piper braided Phoebe's hair, when Prue walked in.
"Hey, Pheebs aren't you supposed to be getting ready for bed?"
"I will. Piper was just braiding my hair for me real quick"
"Okay, I'll tuck you in when you're ready." Prue said.
Once Piper was finished braiding her hair Phoebe went and got ready for bed. Then Prue went into Phoebe's room to tuck her in.
"Did you brush your teeth?" Prue asked.
"Yes"
"Wash your face?"
"Uh huh"
"Alright then hop into bed and I will tuck you in"
"Okay" Phoebe said as she got under the covers.
"Night, I love you." Prue said as she hugged her goodnight. Then she turned off the light and shut the door most of the way leaving it open just a crack. Then Prue went downstairs to do some work and around midnight she finally went to bed as well.