A/N: This story takes place after season 8 and unfortunately it won't have much of Piper or the girls or Leo for that matter, in it. It's mainly focused on Chris and Charlie and their friendship and how it evolves into something else. Enjoy and feel free to tell me your own opinion on it.

1. Girls can't hit

Holding her mother's firm hand, a 9-year-old girl glanced through the park, trying to find something fun to do. It was a beautiful March afternoon and San Francisco's park was filled with kids and laughter.

"Have you decided what you want to do honey?" her mother asked the little girl and the girl turned her attention to her. Her mother was a beautiful woman, with middle length blonde hair, loving blue eyes and she had a wide smile upon her face sensing her daughter's indecision.

"No mommy. I want to make some friends but what if we move again? I don't want to stop seeing them like I did with Anna and Mina. I want to have a best friend forever mommy." The little girl said pouting and her mother couldn't help but feel sorry for her. She bent down so that she could look her daughter in the eyes and caressing her cheek she answered her softly "No honey, don't worry. We're not moving anymore. Your father and I have discussed this and we agreed that it's best to settle down so we choose San Francisco. It's a nice and quite city and you can make new friends here without worrying about us leaving again."

"Really? We're staying?" she asked and her eyes filled with hope. She wanted nothing more then to have friends, stable friends and going to school without wondering when they're gonna move again.

"Yes, really. Now go on and make some new friends. Go on." Her mother encouraged her smiling. The little girl only nodded her head and she cheerfully ran to the playing ground.

She was heading towards the swing when suddenly a ball stopped at her feet. She looked around and seeing as no one came to reclaim it she picked it up.

"Hey! That's my ball. Give it back." She heard a boy's voice coming from behind. She slowly turned around and came face to face with a boy that seemed to be around her age with shaggy brown hair and sparkling green eyes. He didn't seem pleased at all and stopping in front of her he placed his hands on his hips like he was waiting for something.

"Hi." The girl greeted cheerfully with her big brown eyes sparkling. The boy took in her appearance and took a moment to study her featured. Her hair had an interesting color, it was black but in the sun it appeared to be brown, with soft curls that reached her back, she had a broad smile but her lips were full nevertheless and she had a dimple near her left cheek but the thing he found the most interesting were her eyes…her big brown chocolate eyes with long lashes, eyes that were watching expectantly.

"So is this your ball?" she asked seeing as the boy won't say anything. She still had that smile on her face.

"Yeah so give it back." He said sounding more harshly then he would've wanted to. The little girl's smile washed away and it was replaced by frown. When he tried to reach to grab the ball she held it away giving him a glare in return.

"Give me back my ball!" he said getting angry.

"No. I'll give it back if you let me play soccer with you." She said grinning.

"What? No. Football's not for girls. You should be building castles made up from your fantasies where you can live with your prince or you should play with dolls, dressing them in those ugly dresses and brushing their hair all day long." He said glaring at her. "Just give me the ball." He said like he was about to fight with her over a ball and even though his mom always told him not to hit girls he found it hard to control himself.

"No! I wanna play football too." She said stubbornly. "Why don't you let me play? Are you afraid that I might beat you?" she said smirking at him and he frowned. He was about to say something when another boy, this time older, came up to them.

"Hey Chris is there a problem here?" he asked looking from Chris to the girl who was holding the ball tightly.

"Yeah. This girl here wont give me my ball back." He said glaring at her once again.

"That's not true! I told you I'd give it back if you let me play too but you're just afraid that I'm gonna beat you." She said giving him a smirk. The other boy moved between them so that he can control things out incase they wanted to have a fight.

"Okay, I think we can solve this out. Let her play too Chris so this way she'll give you the ball back and we can continue our game, okay?" he said looking at him.

"But Wyatt-"Chris started complaining.

"No. Listen to me. Now…" he started looking at the girl again. "What's your name? I'm Wyatt by the way, and this is my brother, Chris." The blond boy with blue eyes introduced himself politely, unlike his brother.

"My name's Charlotte but I like to be called Charlie." She said back smiling.

"Okay then Charlie…would you like to come and play with us?" he asked while Chris was glaring at him.

"Yes, I would love to." She answered happy that she was invited. She threw the ball to Chris who caught it, frowning upon seeing her triumphant smile.

She and Wyatt started heading towards the court while Chris stayed like this, not moving, just glaring at the girl called Charlie.

"Well come on dummy, you don't want to be left outside, do you?" she asked as she turned around to look at Chris, a smile playing on her lips. Groaning, Chris rolled his eyes and joined the rest of the group.


"Charlie! Hey Charlie!" Chris waved calling her as he approached her.

"Hey Chris." She said running towards him aswell. She was smiling at him and he was smiling back.

"So…you wanna play football?" he asked shyly.

"Yeah." She accepted and he started heading towards the court when she stopped him.

"Hey Chris?" she said her face serious now.

"Yeah?" he turned at her, gazing into her brown eyes.

"Do you…do you wanna be my friend?" she asked not looking at him to see him smile.

"Of course Charlie." He agreed and she quickly turned to look at him to see if he's serious.

"Really?" she asked unsure.

"Yeah." He said reassuring her with a smile.

"What about 'boys stay with boys and girls with girls'?" she asked remembering what he said about 2 weeks ago when she met him for the first time.

"Yeah, well you are cool for a girl. And you can play football so…" he said shrugging.

"So girls can't hit, huh?" she asked teasing him.

"Yeah, girls can't hit…but Charlie sure can." He said grinning and Charlie blushed a bit. "Now let's play some football." Chris suggested turning serious now.

"Race ya." Charlie said laughing as she started heading towards the court, leaving Chris behind.

"Hey! That's not fair, come back here." He said frowning but still began running towards the court himself.


Heading towards the living room, where his mom called him, Chris frowned as he saw his best friend, Charlie and her mother, sitting on the couch. Upon seeing him, Charlie smiled and Chris couldn't help but smile back at her.

"Hello Mrs. Ward. Hey Charlie." He greeted politely and took a seat near his mother on the couch in front of Charlie and her mother. They had been friends for 3 months now and Chris could actually say they're best friends right now, since they saw eachother every day and they shared everything.

"Chris honey, you know that school's about to start." His mother started and he nodded confused as to why was she telling him this.

"Well…my husband and I decided that since you and Charlie are so close and she refers to you as her best friend, we thought it was best that Charlotte here, went to the same school as you do." She said glancing for a second at her daughter who smiled in happiness and looked at Chris.

"So…are you saying that Charlie's gonna be in the same class I am?" he asked hoping that was true.

'Yeah. I am. Aren't you happy? We're gonna see eachother everyday." Charlie said excited.

"Yeah, of course I am. This is great!" Chris said and smiled himself.

"Well then…how would you like to spend the night here Charlie?" Piper asked looking at the 9-year-old in front of her. Charlie quickly looked at her mother and when her mother only nodded her head, Charlie jumped off the couch in happiness. The fact was that due to all the moving, Charlie never got the chance to make friends and keep them too. Her father was an architect and he was building his own business, his own firm so they had to move a lot.

"Oh and don't worry about anything. I'll take her home tomorrow night." Piper said as Charlie's mother, Gabriella stood up.

"Okay, I really appreciate Piper, thank you very much." She said smiling.

"Oh, it's nothing, don't worry about it. Your daughter's such and angel. She's adorable." Piper said as she was grinning at Charlie who blushed a bit.

"Yes, I'm sure she is. They all are in our eyes, aren't they?" Gabriella said smirking. "I have to go. Be good honey." She said bending down to place a kiss on her daughter's forehead.

"I will mommy." The girl said back, hugging her mother while Chris rolled his eyes.

As Piper went to say goodbye to Gabriella, leading her to the front door, Charlie looked curiously at Chris.

"What?" he asked confused.

"Why did you rolled your eyes when I hugged my mommy?" she asked suspiciously.

"Because that's such a girlie thing to do." He answered, rolling his eyes like he did before.

"Well wouldn't you hug your mommy if you weren't gonna see her for a day?" Charlie asked in astonishment.

"No! Boys don't do that." He said quickly, like he was offended.

"Oh! Well I am a girl." Charlie stated.

"Yeah? Well I haven't noticed that." He said grinning and she stuck up her tongue at him, making him to roll his eyes at her.