A/N This isn't one of my better ideas, as far as one shots, and might be crappy, but I needed to write something. This was surprisingly hard to write.
Piper's new school has done her good, Tristan decides. When she came back in the summer, she seemed more athletic, braver, more confident. It makes Tristan feel as if he's going to burst with pride. His little girl.
Yet there are a few things that are a bit odd. She never seems to want to talk about her school. She says that she likes it, but whenever he or somebody else asks a question about the place, she'll give a vague answer and change the subject. There are few other things too. Her new boyfriend Jason, for example.
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Jason came over once over the summer. He and Tristan got along well. He was a very nice boy, Tristan decides, he approves of him.
But he looked very familiar. In fact, he looks just like the infant son of Beryl Grace, before he disappeared, along with his sister Thalia a few weeks later. They look almost identical, right down to the crescent-shaped scar above his upper lip that he got from attempting to eat a stapler.
Tristan had briefly been friends with Beryl, but he cut ties with her as soon as she started to drink more and work less. He heard that she died driving while drunk coming home from a wild, and probably illegal party.
Tristan smiles and holds out his hand for the boy to shake. "You look very similar to the son of Beryl Grace, that disappeared a long time ago. Same name too."
Jason laughed nervously, and replied quickly, too quickly, "Well, th-that's funny I guess"
Tristan frowned and started to narrow his eyes when Piper cut in, In a much more confident tone, "Wow! Well that's funny, Dad. They say there are 7 people out there that look just like you, I suppose. Same name too! What are the chances? Beryl Grace huh? I don't think I've heard of her. Perhaps you can tell me about her sometime?", she says, laughing. Her voice was very relaxing. Very convincing. Of course, he can't possibly be Beyrl's son. This boy has glasses and furrow in his hair. What a coincidence.
If it wasn't for the charmspeak, he might've realized that glasses and a bullet furrow might be something Jason had obtained after infancy.
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There was the boy, Leo, too. Somehow, he looked familiar, as though Tristan had seen him before, even though he remembered no such thing...
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Another thing he notices is how when they play three questions, she always used to use one of her questions to ask about her mother, yet she never asks anymore. Which Tristan figures is probably a good thing, since he doesn't know much more about her mysterious mother's disappearance than she does.
Yet sometimes Tristan feels as if there's something missing. Not something tangible, although he loses his set props quite often, but something in his mind. An empty space where something should be, a blank spot in the memory of his life. Yes, sometimes Tristan Mclean feels as if there is something he's forgotten.