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Piper's face lit up, the prospect of hiding the truth from her son not a good one, but glad that her son had agreed to let it go. She kissed his cheek, having to go on tip-toes to do so, and grabbed her keys. "Tell them I'm on my way." Piper said to her sister as she stole one last glance at her sons before leaving.
Chris orbed to his room, feeling lazy and his brother followed him.
"You're just dropping it?" Wyatt asked incredulously, once they were alone. Chris turned to his brother, a smirk on his lips. "I think you know me better than that."
Chapter 3
"You two are up to something." A girl's voice announced quietly from the open doorway.
Chris and Wyatt span around from their position on the youngest brother's bed to stare at their cousin Melinda.
"Don't you have homework to do?" Chris asked irritated. Melinda put her hands on her hips and walked into the room.
"No actually." She said curtly, and turned to Wyatt. "What's going on? Mom wouldn't tell me anything."
"Take the hint." Wyatt said, his tone gentle and a smile on his face.
"Not likely." Chris said, and Melinda could see he was in a foul mood.
"Well see now I know something's up, I haven't seen you like this since you got caught sneaking into the house at 1am."
Chris glared, proving her point.
"So?" She pressed and Wyatt growled, seeing no other way.
"Chris has a girlfriend-"
Melinda stared. This wasn't something new, and though Chris didn't exactly have a new girlfriend every week he had had them, his green eyes and dark hair ensured that. One of the main reasons she didn't have her friends over, other than magic, was their constant (and in her mind sick) drabbles about how good looking her cousin was. Something entirely lost on her.
"-And she's a demon."
The sudden shock at the finished sentence, the look on Chris and Wyatt's faces and the urge to laugh came at her all at once, causing her to choke.
"No way!"
"Yes, way." Wyatt said, mocking her girly tone, lifting his arms to his head, spreading his fingers out and waving his hands around him.
"Why?" She asked, frowning at the impression, as she rounded on Chris, who looked up at her with a surprised glance.
"What do you mean?" He asked her.
"Well why a demon?"
"I'm not going out with her because she's a demon! I lo-." And he stopped himself, standing up off of the bed and crossing the room in a second, about to leave.
"You what her?" Wyatt asked, and Chris ignored him, staring at the door knob and how close his hand was too it, how easily he could orb away. Melinda merely stood there, her mouth open as her jaw fell to the floor. She hadn't missed the word, even though Chris hadn't finished it.
"No way!" She squealed in giggles, excited. Chris growled and swung open the door, and not entirely sure where to go seeing as he had left his own room he stormed off to Wyatt's, rummaging through the older boy's CD's, busying himself in a faked search of some good tunes.
"Nice going, Mel."
"I didn't meant it to come out like that." She scowled.
"Just, wait here." Wyatt told her, leaving the room to follow his brother, who he found in his own room.
"Chris," He said as he entered, closing the door.
"What?" The younger brother snapped before his shoulders slumped and he apologized.
"She's so annoying!"
"You don't normally get annoyed." He observed and Chris shrugged.
"I'm a tad more irritable today, Wy." He replied sarcastically.
"And you have every reason to be, but come on, it's not her fault."
"I know, I know."
"So come on, we still haven't explained it to her, she at least deserves that with the way you've been treating her recently."
"Yeah as in the last few minutes." He said, rolling his eyes and making his way back across the landing.
"They don't want Chris to go out with her." Wyatt explained, picking up where he left off once he saw Chris sit on the edge of his bed.
"They might have a point."
"Oh don't tell me you're on their side too!" Chris shouted, standing up for a moment.
"Well why not? You're not exactly encouraging me to stay!"
"Guys, guys!" Wyatt cried, seeing them both lean in, and taking the spot between them. "This is ridiculous. You-," He said rounding on Chris, "Calm down, you're not helping," he put his hand on his brothers shoulder and steered him back down to the bed, and then turned to Melinda, "and you, you stop stirring."
"But-"
"No but's."
"It's just she's a demon, Chris." Melinda said, ignoring Wyatt once more.
"I know, but you don't understand, she isn't like that anymore."
Melinda nodded, though not possessing complete faith in the man's words.
"But they were totally unreasonable, not telling us why, talking about a blonde tyrant and Chris being dead."
"What?"
"A different Chris apparently." He said, recalling his mother's words.
"So what exactly are we going to do?" Melinda asked.
"We? You're kidding right."
"Oh come on, I'm fourteen stop treating me like a child!"
"Stop acting like one then." Chris said calmly.
"I will if you will!" Melinda screeched.
"How mature."
"Guys." Wyatt's warning came.
"Ugh fine!" Chris grunted in Melinda's direction.
"Well I'm gonna go ahead and assume it's a spell we're after." Melinda said, but none of them spoke, all waiting for an obvious answer that wasn't going to come. The silence was a waste of time, and Chris hated it.
"Any ideas?" He asked the two, who turned to him in surprise.
"Get grounded and corrupt Mel on the way, sure, why not?" Wyatt muttered under his breath.
"Hey you're the spell writer."
"She's right, bro, you are pretty good, and wouldn't want to risk messing this up, so-" Wyatt grabbed a pen and paper off of his brother's desk. "Let's get on with it."
Chris took the stationary items, crossing his legs on the bed and Melinda sat in front of him on the floor while Wyatt remained standing, finding it easier to concentrate when pacing.
Lord knows, they needed to concentrate. They had to get this right.
I think I got a little carried away with the dialogue..
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