Paige woke up early enough for her, after all, she had no job yet, and her interview was still getting hyped up in her juices. It was Monday, waiting to be Thursday for her. In simple, pink cotton cute pajama pants and a somewhat satin pink lacey tank top, she walked from the bedroom into the kitchen, it wasn't hard, it all being on the same floor, anyway.
She liked living at Henry's apartment, she liked being married to him, with him.
"Hey," Henry said, standing in the kitchen, already dressed and looking nice, out on the go with a cup of coffee in his hands. "Tired?" He asked with a smirk, as if he doesn't remember what happened last night. Little perv, Paige thought, taking the cup out of his hands and walking around him, sipping out of it, ooh, it was just the way she liked it as she opened the refrigerator door, Henry came up from behind, giving her a hug from the behind and kissing her on the neck. "I love you," he breathed into her ear, then brushed the hair away before he kissed her again. "Have a good day," he whispered into her ear.
"You two," Paige said and then turned around to kiss Henry on the lips. "I'm going to miss you," she confessed, leaning into his shirt. "While I, the unemployed, am home, alone."
"I'm sorry I have to leave you," Henry said, brushing back her hair.
"After last night, some distance would do us some good," Paige said, leaning back against the fridge door, which was now closed. "But I don't feel like being alone today…"
"Well, then we should work on having us some kids so you wont be so lonely," Henry said, scooting forward, kissing Paige awkwardly, as Paige was silent now.
Phoebe went to work with a smile on her face, and letting her purse sit on her desk, she took her seat and started to boot up her computer and thumb through letters. Absent mindedly, she started to hum to herself. Elise came in to look at her, just standing in the doorway, thinking to herself.
"What's gotten you in such a good mood?" Elise asked, with very little curiousity. "The new husband do everything right, for the first time," she added with bitterness in her voice.
"Yes, actually he is," Phoebe told her with a smile and then cocked her head to the computer. "And not for the first time," she added with a smile.
"Ooh," Elise says with no interest in the matter. "Well, I guess that's why the ratings have spiked up lately," she says and dumps a new pile of letters onto Phoebe's desk. "Good luck," she told her with heavy sarcasm in her voice.
"All that I need," Phoebe muttered under her breath as she started to go through the other letters. Phoebe calmly worked for a while before Coop came into the office, but she didn't notice at first because she was so concentrated that Coop just sat on the couch for a while, and then he stood up and hovered over the desk. After a while of being ignored, he got impatient and picked something up from her desk and then dropped it, making her jump.
"Finally! I've been waiting around here for the past five minutes," he said as he walked back to the door, and then leaned against the wall. "If I hadn't gotten here early, we might just miss the reservation."
"What reservation?" Phoebe asked, confused now.
"Oh, it's this cute little restaurant that has just opened in the downtown area," Coop told her, teasing her as he walked forward. "Owned and managed by our very own, our very lovely Piper Halliwell, who will blow us up if we don't get there on time," and he let his hands plant themselves on her desk and smile at Phoebe, and she smiled back.
"Oh," Phoebe muttered and then stood up, out of her chair and grabbed her coat. "Let's get going before we take this marriage to hell – literally."
The restaurant was doing well for its first day, after all, Piper had four or five tables already filled to the max, all thanks to Phoebe, Paige and Billie. Leo sat at a table with Chris, Wyatt and Billie, right next to the table where Paige, Henry, Phoebe and Coop had gathered, and they had all gathered, and surprisingly, Henry and Coop became really good friends, bonding over sports, as usual, with some quips from Leo about baseball from his table.
It was fun, and normal, something new to them.
"I have to tell you," Leo told Coop and Henry. "Fatherhood… without it, there's really nothing else to live for."
"Ooh, looks like we have to tell Piper something," Paige sang, and smiled wickedly.
"Aw, it's nothing. I sure as hell can't wait for my little kids to come along," Henry said, and gave Paige a smooth glance, but that only made her feel awkward and look away. A look of despair swallowed up Henry's eyes, as if his heart had been broken.
"Well, Phoebe and I are going to get started right away when it comes to our family," Coop said, giving Phoebe's hand a squeeze and smiling sweetly.
"Ew," Paige and Billie said at the same time, and then exchanging disgusting looks on their faces.
"Oh, come on, you know you and Henry are going to have children, you have to," Coop said, causing shivers up Paige's spine.
"Yeah, because what else do we have to do with our lives?" Paige asked nervously and chuckled quickly in that anxious way of hers. "Oh, I need to go to the bathroom." She said before she left, and Phoebe loyally followed behind her. In the bathroom, Paige splashed water in her face, trying to calm herself down.
"You okay, sweet heart?" Phoebe asked with all of her heart as she stepped forward and placed a hand on Paige's arm.
"Ugh, sure. Yeah, yeah, I am," Paige said, trying to convince herself more than Phoebe. "No," she finally said, the truth coming out. "I hate how – that's basically all – I just want to be with him, and not think about the future, because the future is –"
"Too far off," Phoebe said. "I know, and I don't know what I want more, to have the lovey dovey relationship with Coop first or the family. It feels like everything is being rushed, and I don't know if that's good or bad, because I don't want to miss anything. I don't want to miss him."
"Yeah, I just don't want – I have to find myself, the wife. I don't want to have to find the mother in me before I find the wife – it feels like I'm skipping a step, and I could never do that, never miss an episode, or a book, I – I. Oh, this is just so screwed up," she said, her hands covering her face now.
"I know," Phoebe said and took Paige in her arms for a hug. "Trust me, I know how screwed up marriage can get."
"Yeah, you've had the marriage from hell a few times," Paige said with a weak, semi amused smile. "I just – I want to get this right, and I don't want to have to do it a second time."
"So don't take any advice from Grams," Phoebe told her with a smile