Sorry for the shortness but this is kind of introductory chapter so I hope you enjoy :)

The pic at the side is of her mother -

I was walking home from the Halliwells the day it happened. The sun was blazing down on me and there was a gentle breeze whipping around my body in a playful manner. By the time I had passed the sign that informed me I had arrived at San Francisco's military base 2b and had reached my house my feet were starting to ache from the stress of school and the amount of energy it took to help Chris pulls pranks on Wyatt. I let out a sigh of relief as I stumbled through the doorway and onto the sofa, I knew my mom wouldn't be home until another half hour from work so I got changed and put on a film; falling asleep about half-way through. I woke up due to a huge explosion, I sat up and looked at the TV to find that the explosion was coming from the TV, sighing I turned off storm breaker and looked at the clock: 8:02pm. Knowing my mom should be home I got up and walked into the hallway.

"Mom? You home?" I called. I peered into the kitchen, nothing except for silence, dead silence. As I walked back into the hallway I heard shuffling coming from upstairs so I decided to check it out. Walking carefully up the stairs the shuffling became louder and it could be heard from my mom's room, as I put my hand on the door handle the shuffling stopped, opening the door I saw a sight that I never wanted to see again. My mother's body was splayed out across the bed with walls and bed cover soaked with her blood, I did all that I could do, I screamed at the sight of my mother's dead body.

I jolted upright screaming and covered in sweat, I was sweating so much that my duvet was damp; once I had recovered my breath I looked to the clock and saw that it was 6:39 AM. I rubbed my eyes and got out of bed, knowing that I wouldn't be able to get back to sleep.

"Nightmares again?" a soft girlish voice came from my left. I sighed and looked over at Prue who was sitting on her bed with her legs crossed, looking at me with sympathetic eyes.

"Yeah, sorry I woke you Prue, you should go back to sleep." I apologised whilst grabbing two towels.

"No point now, after all we have a busy day ahead of us... I think." she cocked her head to the side. "I hope we do anyway, it is the summer holidays after all, Ohh we could go shopping for Spain! Mom and dad are giving us extra money considering we don't have to pay for flight tickets and we've been saving up" Just the thought of shopping had her jumping up and down on her bed. I laughed at the sight and left her too it, once in the bathroom I dumped the towels on the towel rack and stepped into the shower.

I had been living with the Halliwells for nine years now, when my mom died they handed me over to my godmother, Piper, for temporary care until my dad got home from the war. However two weeks later we got a letter saying that my dad was MIA and had been presumed dead, so with that Piper took full time care over me and nine years later still no sign of my dad. I didn't really mind now though, I had a family with all of the Halliwells, somewhere that I was welcome and could call home. With the help from piper and Leo my powers had improved over the years.

I got out of the shower and changed into my black skinny's, red top (the one Elena wore in the first episode of TVD) with my blue and purple fluffy socks over the top and made my way downstairs and into the kitchen as saw the most normal sight; Chris was making breakfast with piper whilst Wyatt was looking through his college brochure with Prue. If only our lives were really as normal as they seemed.

"Hey short stuff, what you girls got planned for today then?" Wyatt asked, looking up from the brochure.

"Well me and Prue need some new clothes for Spain so we're going to spend the day out, any you guys need anything?" I asked as I took over Pipers job of cooking, who was trying to iron at the same time; earning a thankful smile from her.

"I'm spending the day with Vicky as she heads to Alaska in 3 days so if I need anything I'll get it with her" Wyatt stoop up and stretched, looking up at the wall clock "damn I should be getting ready" Vicky Alum was Wyatt's long term girlfriend, They had been going out for 2 years now and it was as if she was a part of the family, her and Billie were the only two people I could talk to about anything. I could talk to piper, Aunt Paige and Aunt Phoebe but sometimes I felt uncomfortable and needed someone closer to my age, well saying that Billie was 27, but she never really grew up.

"I need to get some new clothes, mind if I tag along?" Chris' voice came from the fridge with his butt sticking out; I bit my lip and wiggled my eyes at Prue. We grabbed a piece of fruit, mine being an orange and hers an apple, silently counted to three then chucked it at his butt and ran away laughing our heads off.