Following Your Heart.
A/N: this story isn't going to be a Piper/Leo one. Sorry guys! As much as I love them together, and u love them together, I wanted to try something different. I've been playing around with this idea for week's now, not sure if I should write it or not. I'm going to try, and please tell me if u like it, or hate it. And if u hate it, I'll change it to a Leo one, with everything else staying the same. But try to have an open mind bout this, it sounded good to me, hopefully it will to u also. If you see any ref to the group Fuel, I don't own the band and that goes for any other band I use in here. I just really like them, so they will be the choice of music she listens too. Also I don't own anyone from Charmed, only the ones I make up, which aren't many.
Time Setting- Piper meets Jeff one day of campus grounds, and as time goes on between the two, she finds herself falling hard for him. Leaving her with the choice of making a life changing decision. Is it all worth it to spend your life with the one you love? Leaving all your dreams behide?
Piper Halliwell sat in her seat, writing down the notes the professor put on the board. After checking the clock for the 5th time during the class, the bell finally rang.
"Don't forget tomorrow is the quiz!" The professor yelled out before any student made it to the door, but smiled as he heard the normal groans and whines of the students.
Piper shut her notebook, and put it in her shoulder bag before getting up and making her way out of the dim-lighted classroom, into the warm bright sunlight outside. Piper instantly started to walk to her Jeep, since she had to be at Phoebe's high-school to pick her up. Even though she was 23 years old, in her final year of college, and so close to getting into chefs school to help out her career. Piper still found time to spend with her 19 year old sister on the days she only had one class.
"Hey Piper, wait up!" a voice called from behide, pulling Piper out of her thoughts. She stopped and turned around to see Leo Wyatt running over to her.
"Hey Leo, what can I do for you today?" she said as she smiled at her friend, who was trying to catch his breath. She guessed he had run all the way from his dorm, just to catch her before she left.
"For one thing, you could walk a bit slower so I don't have to kill myself to get over here." He said as he finally stood up straight.
"I'll try to keep that in mind next time. Anyway, what's up?" she asked after giving him a pat on the back.
"I wanted to know if I could borrow your notes from Lit class. I can't find mind anywhere in the dorm, I think Mike moved them on me."
"That is neat-freak Mike for ya dude, but yeah you can use mine." She said with another smile before reaching in her bag to grab her notes. After finding them she handed them to Leo. "Hope they help, I missed some of the stuff on the board, but I don't think it was important information."
"I'm sure it wasn't, but thanks anyway Piper. I owe you one big time!" he said and gave her a quick hug, before running back across the lawn to his dorm room to study.
"Your welcome!" she called to him, than got out her keys and started again on her way to her car. After getting to her Jeep, she got in and started it up. Fuel started to blast thru her speakers as she turned the car in reverse and backed out of her spot, than went in drive mode and was on her way to the high-school. About half way to the school, the jeep started to make funny noises. Piper pulled off to the side of the road, and not two seconds later her car died out. "Shit, why now! You couldn't do this later in the week, like a day I wasn't suppose to spend wit Phoebe! You evil car, I hate you!" she said as she hit the steering wheel. She pulled out her cell phone and dialed in Phoebe's cell number.
"Phoebe speaking, how may I not take your call?" Phoebe answered in a quick manor.
"Pheebs, it's Piper and what have I told you about answering your phone like that?" she asked her sister, even though she knew Phoebe knew she was joking around.
"Well, the last time you asked me that, I told you that you taught me only to do it to the people I really don't want to talk to, after I check the caller ID." Phoebe told her wit laughter in her voice.
"That's right. Good job for remembering, but serious Pheebs that's not why I called." Piper said getting right down to the purpose of the call.
"Aw Piper." Phoebe said already whining. "Don't tell me your class is running late! We were supposed to hang out today; I haven't seen you in like three weeks!"
"No, my class isn't running late, but my jeep died on the way over there. He just couldn't hold out long enough for me to get there."
"What! He is evil! I told you to threaten him with trade in." Phoebe said as she shook her head.
"I did Pheebs! He just wouldn't listen to me. I have to call a tow, if it goes quick, I'll give you a call and we can still hang out if you pick me up from wherever."
"Alright, sounds good to me sis. Just try to hurry! Love ya."
"Love you too, and I will try. Bye." Piper said than hung up the phone. She waited two seconds before getting out of the Jeep and walked to the front of her car. She popped opened the hood and looked inside just to make sure, after that she called a tow-truck to come and pick her up.
Twenty minutes later a blue truck drove up and pulled in front of the Jeep. A guy around 5'9 with brown hair and hazel eyes came out of the truck, and walked over to Piper. "Hey, what seems to be the trouble?" the guy asked after standing next to Piper at the front of the jeep.
"He started to make some funny noises, than after I pulled over, he died on me." Piper said as she watched him look under the hood.
"Well, it looks like your car battery is dead; I can bring your car down to the gas station and have them put in a new one." He said as he closed the hood and leaned against it to look at Piper. From the way he was leaning, his muscles were showing from the tight blue shirt he was wearing, which had spots of grease stains in different places.
"That sounds like a good plan to me." She said as she took turned her head to stop checking him out.
"I'm Jeff by the way." Jeff said holding out his hand smiling. He had leaned against the hood just to see her reaction, and the way her cheeks had gotten a little pinker as she checked him out, he knew she liked what she saw. Jeff had also liked what he saw when he first got to the scene. He expected some blonde bimbo he past dated to call in and try to get him back, but when he saw this beautiful girl standing by her car, he was very well shocked. She had been leaning against the front, with her legs crossed in front of her, her arms across her chest, hiding the words on the tank-top she was wearing and he was pretty sure she would look damn hot in the shorts she was also wearing. Her hair was pulled into a ponytail, but he was sure that when it was down it had to be long and make her look even more beautiful.
"I'm Piper." She said as she turned back and shook his hand with a smile in return. 'So Jeff is his name.' Piper thought to herself as she stood off to the side, to let him hook up her jeep to the back of the truck. As she stood off to the side, Piper watched his every move, but when he looked her way, she would look down at her shoes blushing a rosy color in her cheeks.
"Alright, well you jeep is ready to go, how bout you?" Jeff asked as he wipes his hands on a towel he kept with him.
"I'm all set too." She replied and walked over to the passenger door and got in.
After awhile of silence, Jeff broke the quietness. "You know, you're the only girl I know who calls her car a him. Why is that?" he asked as he took a quick glance at her.
"Well, to tell you the truth, I have no idea. My little sister and I just started to one day, and never really thought to say she, it was always he."
"That's very weird, but very cool at the same time. I like that." He told her smiling.
"Thank you." Piper said as she smiled back, than looked out the window.
"So you got a little sister? How old is she?"
"19 years old. She is in her last year of High-school. I was supposed to hang out with her today, but the bum back there broke down on me."
Jeff started to laugh at her choice of words for her car. "I like your choice of words also. Wow, high-school? Damn I hated high-school, it was more about who was popular than really learning anything." he said as he pulled into the station.
"Yeah, I hate high-school myself as well, but that part of my life is over, and I just have to finish college." Piper said as she got out of the car after he did.
"You're in college? How old are you?" he asked as he leaned over her hood with a questioning look.
"I'm 23, and I'm in my last year, nothing wrong wit that. How old are you 20 questions man." She asked as she leaned on the other side to copy him.
"If you must know, I'm 25 and done wit college life. Plus I never said there was anything wrong with being in college. I just thought you would already been done, since you look like you should be. I mean, not like you look old or anything, because you don't. You look really hot, I mean you look hot, don't get me wrong but I don't think I should have said that and I'm really going to stop talking right now." He said after he realized he just made a complete fool out of himself and he was rambling! He never rambled when it came to a girl.
Piper just started laughing after he stopping talked and started to get her jeep unhooked. "Wow, a guy who actually looked very cute when he rambles and embarrasses himself." She said as she backed off the jeep.
"So you think I'm cute?" he asked with a playful grin across his face and made his way around the jeep to go inside to get what he needed.
"If I answer yes to that, how much higher is your ego going to go?" she asked with a raised eyebrow.
"Not as high as you think." He told her with a wink, than started to change the battery in the jeep.
"Right Jeff, whatever you say pal." She said as she patted him on the back with a smile.
"Ha ha, you're so funny." He said as he finished up and put down the hood.
"So, how much do I owe you?" she asked as she went to grab her bag from the car.
"You owe me nothing, only if..." he started, but than trailed off with a smile.
"Only if what? C'mon man, don't leave it hanging like that." She said as she leaned against the car door, waiting for him to go on.
"Only if you give me your number, and if I call, you agree to go out with me so I can get to know you better." He said still smiling. "Simply as that."
"You know, if you were any other guy that I just met, I would slap you." She replied as she opened the door to her car and got a pen. "Give me your hand." She said, once he did, she wrote down her cell number and dorm-room number. "Call either of them, if I'm not at one, I'm at the other." She said as she climbed back into her jeep, starting it up.
Jeff looked down at his hand smiling, than back at her and leaned against the door, his arms resting on the open window place. "Well, I will call you later tonight than and good luck on keeping this old boy alive." He said and backed off the window to let her drive off.
"I'll be waiting for that call Jeff, thanks for everything." Piper said smiling before driving off to pick up her sister from the house.
Jeff gave a small wave as she drove off and than looked back down at her hand. He was really surprised that he had felt so out of control when talking with her. He knew that had never happened before, since no girl ever make him feel like he was back in high-school, with all the guys trying to get the guts to ask out the girls. "Must mean there is something there." He said to himself before going back inside to write down the numbers before he washed them off by mistake.
Piper drove to the manor as quickly as she could, and when she pulled up into the driveway Phoebe came running out before Piper had a chance to beep the horn.
"Piper! You're here! Alive with the evil man jeep!" Phoebe said as she gave Piper a huge hug once she was in the car.
"Phoebe! You're here! Alive without the boyfriend following you!" Piper said teasing as she hugged her little sister back.
"He doesn't follow me around, and you know it." She said smiling as she put on her seat-belt and Piper pulled out of the driveway.
"I know, I was just messing with your head. So my best sister in the world, where are we off too now?"
"Let's go to the mall, there is this really cool outfit I wanted to get, but I wanted to see what you thought of it." Phoebe said before she turned up the music a bit more.
The rest of the way to the mall was talk about Piper's run-in with Jeff and there talk at the gas station.
A/N: ok, i hope you enjoyed that. that i think is the most i've ever written for a chapter. please let me know if you hate it or like it or watever it. Leo is just going to be friends wit Piper. sorry for P/L fans, i really just wanna try sumthin new. thanks for anyone who took the time out to read this one.