Disclaimer: I do not own Charmed or any of the characters on the show.

Chapter one

"Phoebe, where is my hairdryer?" Paige called from the bathroom.

"Right here," Phoebe yelled as she came running down the hallway. "Nice shirt, I'll have to borrow that sometime."

"Thanks. Hey how about you borrow it tonight and you go on this date with what's his name," Paige remarked.

"His name is Todd, and Paige you need to go out. It has been like six months since you and Richard split up and you haven't been out on one single date. That's not like you."

"I know, I know. I guess I've just been too busy to think about dating. And besides I wasn't ready. In fact I still don't know if I am."

"Well the only way to find out is to go out with Todd and see how you feel."

"What if I don't like him? What if I am constantly comparing him to Richard and I have a horrible time?" Paige asked.

Phoebe had never seen her sister so worried about a date before. "Paige you'll be fine. Todd is a great guy, I've known him for a few months and he seems like your type."

"I don't know Phoebe, I just feel weird about this, bad omens or something," Paige said shuttering.

"Oh come on Paige, it's not like you're going to marry the guy tomorrow," Phoebe said.

"Who's getting married tomorrow?" Piper asked as she climbed the stairs with a laundry basket in her hands.

"No one," Paige replied quickly, then added, "I'll be lucky if I ever get married."

"Paige you need to stop being so pessimistic. The right guy is out there, you just have to find him, and the only way to do that is to go out and have a good time. You never know, love could be waiting around the corner," Piper said, giving Paige a reassuring glance.

"Okay well as fun as this has been, I need to dry my hair before this date or Todd will think he's got a date with a drowned rat," Paige said pulling her hair out of a towel.

"Oh, I guess that's our queue to get out of here and leave her alone," Phoebe said to Piper. Paige gave them a wink and the two of them walked away to leave Paige drying her hair.

Inside the bathroom, Paige was still trying to convince herself that everything would be okay with her date. "It will be fun. You haven't been out in a while and Phoebe says he's nice so it will be okay. I just have this funny feeling in the pit of my stomach that something bad is going to happen. No, stop it Paige," she said scolding herself. "Everything will be fine, there is no reason for anything bad to happen.........." Before Paige could finish her thoughts the power went out. "Damn, I must have blew a fuse," Paige said going downstairs to find out what the problem was.

"What happened?" Phoebe asked as Paige came down the stairs.

"I don't know, I think maybe I blew a fuse."

"No, because the whole house lost power," Piper replied. "If you had blown a fuse the whole house wouldn't have lost power, just the bathroom."

"Oh great," Paige muttered. "I knew something was going to go wrong."

"No, it's okay Paige this was just an accident," Phoebe said reassuringly.

"Yeah, there's no need to panic, I'm sure we're just experiencing a power outage. There is nothing weird going on here........." Piper's words were cut short when a spark suddenly flew from the wall and a figure began to appear.

"Uh, still think this is just a power outage?" Paige exclaimed.

"Shocker demons," Phoebe muttered. "Piper blow him up."

Piper raised her hands and blew up the shocker demon. A bright light went swept through the room as Piper blew him up, followed by a loud popping noise and then an explosion of light.

"Ouch!" Paige cried out as one of the sparks flew from the demon and hit her on the forehead, another on the eye.

"Paige are you okay?" Phoebe asked as she saw her sister get hit with sparks.

"Yeah, I think so. Aside from the fact that hurt like hell I think I'll survive." Suddenly the lights came back on.

"Thank God. I don't want Todd picking me up and thinking that I live in some sort of freak house," Paige said with a smile.

"No we wouldn't want that," Piper responded. "He might think you're a witch or something."

"Funny," Paige replied, looking down at her arm and then reaching up to touch the burn on her eye.

"Do you want me to call Leo and have him heal that before you leave?" Piper asked. With that the doorbell rang and Paige could see it was Todd.

"No time for healing. Time to face my fears and go on this date." Paige walked over and opened the door to see a tall, dark-haired, muscular man standing at the door with a rose in his hand.

"Hi, I'm Todd. I'm here to pick up Paige Matthews."

"Hi Todd, I'm Paige," she said extending her hand. "It's very nice to meet you. Come in."

"This is for you," Todd replied, handing the rose to Paige.

"Thank you so much, you didn't have to do that. It was very sweet," Paige said. She was still taken aback at how attractive Todd was. Phoebe sure knows how to pick them she thought to herself. Maybe it was time to start dating again.

"What happened? Are you hurt?" Todd asked Paige as he noticed her arm and face.

"No, no, it was my own fault," Paige said, trying to think of some excuse as to how it happened. "I was curling my hair, and you know, those little curling irons have a way of escaping your hand," she lied. "These are my sisters, you know Phoebe" she said changing the subject.

"Hi Phoebe," Todd replied.

"Hi," Phoebe replied back.

"I'm Piper, Paige's oldest sister," Piper said as she extended her had to Todd.

As Piper and Todd says their hello's, Phoebe mouthed to Paige, "I told you he was hott!" Paige just smiled and nodded her head in agreement.

"Well we should probably get going if we are going to make it to the movies on time," Paige said to Todd.

"Well it was nice meeting you Piper, and Phoebe, I'll see you in the morning."

As Paige and Todd turned to walk away, a small glow is emitted from Paige's arm and eye.