Chapter two

It was three in the afternoon on Wyatt's birthday. Piper was at the restaurant she owns called the Halliwells. She was in the kitchen preparing the meal for her son's birthday. It was hard to believe her baby boy was fifteen. In her mind she recalled him orbing her around the world in her sleep when he was only a toddler.

Wyatt was sitting at pick nick table in the park with his friends and Chris. Darryl Junior was a year older than Wyatt so was Claire. Dakota, Kennedy, Austin and Carter would be turning fifteen in the following months. They enjoyed hanging out together at the park, they had loved this since they were in kindergarten.

"Let's play truth or dare, Chris you're up first" Claire suggested.

"Truth"

"Who do you have a crush on?"

"Susan Black, she's in my grade" Chris replied with a twinkle in his eyes.

At the manor Passion was bossing around the other two year olds using her power. First she made Penny steal ice cream from the freezer which got Penny a time out. Next she made Aria orb away the living room TV Henry Jr. was watching a movie on. It took twenty minutes for Prue and Andy to figure out it was their daughter causing all the trouble. Once they were aware Passion was put on a two minute time out in the magic proof room.

Melinda and P.J. were in the kitchen completing their homework. P.J. was doing it all by herself like she usually did. Melinda on the other hand was having help from her father, she was working on Math: a subject she struggled with. The rest of the school kids had already finished their homework, except for Tamora and Parker who had refused to do it.

Tamora and Kat were in their room playing Barbie's with Parker. Being her usual selfish self Tamora wouldn't allow her cousin to have any of the clothing. Kat knew this would start a fight and she was right. Parker threw the Barbie at her and stormed out of the room. Tamora chased her down the hall yelling choice words. As she was about to hit Parker Belle came out of nowhere and jumped in-front of Parker knocking down Tamora. This gave Parker just enough time to orb away and find an adult.

Payton was outside building a snowman, one of her favourite winter hobbies. Every time she'd turn her back her sneaky little brother would orb away the snow man's head then orb back into the house so she wouldn't see him. From the kitchen window he watched and laughed as Payton grew more frustrated every time she had to remake the head. Preston loved to mess with the other children.

Patty was in her room rambling on about kindergarten. She didn't realize Paris wasn't paying any attention to what she was saying. Paris was going around their bedroom dumping out all their toys, books and clothes.

"My teacher is so funny and the kids are nice. I've known most of them since pre-school. We don't have nap time but that's ok. We even have our own play area during recess. You're going to love school next year Paris. Paris? Paris what are you doing?"

"Looking for Teddy"

"Oh he's on your bed" Patty pointed out then went back to talking.

Around five the parents except Piper rounded up the children who were home and packed them into the cars. When they arrived at the Halliwells they found Wyatt, Chris and their friends at a table talking. They joined them as Piper's waiters started bringing over the food. Eventually Piper came and joined them as well. Christy had offered to take over the shift so Piper could celebrate Wyatt's birthday at the same time as the others.

Chris was on his best behavior since he didn't want his friends to see how he acted out like a child at times. Melinda was enjoying her meal while he talked with P.J. and Kat. Tamora and Parker argued nonstop since both were still angry about the Barbie situation. Henry Jr. was eating in silence. Payton, Patty and Paris were behaving as well. Preston was cranky so his parents kept a close eye on him. For once Passion, Aria, Penny and Kenzie were eating nicely and not stealing each other's food, but anything could change that in a second. The adults were choosing to ignore Tamora and Parker, it wasn't the place or time to make a scene by scolding them.

The Valentine's Day dance was coming up and brave little Melinda knew who she wanted to ask. She approached Hudson, a boy in her class, and asked him trying to sound calm and confident. He smiled and accepted the offer politely, even gave her a quick hug. Melinda walked back to Alyssa feeling quite proud and excited. Meanwhile Chris also knew who he was going to ask, Susan Black. He walked up to her and straight out asked. She happily accepted the offer and spent the rest of recess telling how much she had liked him the past two years.

After school that day Chris brought Susan home to meet the family, Susan's idea. Piper and Leo seemed to like her. That was until Wyatt told them more about her. Susan was a bully to other girls. He also told this to Chris who didn't care. He had her stay for supper and the entire family hated her by the time Chris walked her home.

"Chris your family is so big, some people just don't know how to stop having kids" Susan commented as they approached her front porch.

"They're not all my brothers and sisters, most of them are my cousins" Chris cleared it up.

"Well anyways I had a great time, see you at the dance next week" Susan said, kissed Chris' cheek and walked into her house.

On Valentine's Day P.J. and Parker stayed home like they had for the past few years. They told their little sister what would happen but Patty wanted to take her chances, she liked school. As soon as she was dropped off three boys started chasing her around the play area trying to kiss her. Patty thought it was just a fun game and sometimes let them catch her.

The bell rang and Patty followed her classmates and teacher into the classroom. The morning routine was that the children would sit on the carpet and go over the date. The three little boys were fighting each other because they all wanted to sit beside Patty. She became very annoyed when they fell on her. It didn't end there, they were always trying to do everything for her and it was getting on her nerves. By first recess Patty called home to be picked up.

During recess Melinda was playing with PJ, Onia and Alyssa by the swings. Hudson came up to her stating he needed to tell her something. She hoped he wanted to tell her they should be a couple but that wasn't the case. Hudson cancelled their plans to go to the dance together because he liked another girl. Melinda cried as he walked away, the other three girls tried to comfort her. She spent the rest of the say sad and confused on why she wasn't good enough.

When she got home she ran up to her room in tears. Piper asked what had happened and P.J. told her. Wyatt was furious at Hudson and devastated his sister was hurt. He knocked on her door, let himself in and sat down beside his crying sister taking her into his arms.

"Am I beautiful" Melinda asked sobbing.

"Of course you are"

"Am I nice and kind?"

"Yes"

"Then why am I not good enough for him?"

"He's a looser, any guy would be lucky to have you. Now get in that lovely dress you bought and go to the dance to show him what he missed out on" Wyatt stated.

"I don't want to go alone any my friends have dates"

"Then I'll go with you, how cool would it be to go with a high schooler" Wyatt offered.

"I'll be the most popular kid in the fifth grade, thanks Wyatt" Melinda smiled giving her big brother a hug.

Chris walked the three blocks to pick up Susan. When she answered the door Chris couldn't believe how beautiful she looked. He took her arm and helped her into her parent's car, they were driving them to the dance. When they arrived Susan spotted Melinda and Wyatt dancing together.

"Are you really so pathetic you had to bring your brother to the dance" Susan teased.

"Hey that's my sister you leave her alone" Chris stated.

"Fine, let's go dance" Susan stated pulling Chris to the middle of the dance floor.

At the manor Victor and Christy were looking after the children who had stayed home, the toddlers and children under the age of nine. Prue and Andy were having a moon light pick nick in France. Piper and Leo were out on a movie date. Phoebe and Coop were having a pick nick on the moon. Paige and Henry were taking a walk along the beach.

Getting Parker and Payton into bed was easy. The challenge was getting Preston to sleep in his own room and getting the toddlers to bed. They managed to get Passion into bed and Penny went to sleep in her own room for the first time, when her parents weren't home she didn't try to get her own way. Mackenzie and Aria were harder but after three bedtime stories and two lullaby's they went down. Preston was the hardest it took two hours to get him into bed. As he fell asleep the parents and other children started returning home.