Chapter 4: Feelings

Prue just got home from her "date" with Sherman, and she was sneaking in the manor knowing if she's caught by her sisters she would be question bomb-barded. Although she's gauged very carefully but she didn't get through the middle Charmed One who was in the kitchen and heard the door closed. "Prue? Where'd you just go?" she asked.

"Sorry, but is it any of your business because I think I'm an adult now and I have my own permission to go anywhere I want." Prue snapped back, wanting to get that over with so she started to act rudely.

"What the…Prue I only care for you! You didn't even tell me that you won't have dinner at home!" Piper said, still keep her voice calm. There was silence for a few minutes before she started again, "By the way Andy called."

"When?" Prue caught it immediately, afraid that he still wanted to see her after what just happened.

"Later this evening, just after you left." Prue let out a sigh of relief, he didn't know yet about her with Sherman when he called. "What did he say?"

"Well nothing much…he only asked me why you told him to meet you at 7PM. He sounded really hurt, Prue. I'm seriously thinking that you should stop hurting the both of you by starting to see him again."

"I can't anymore, he saw me kissing another guy." Prue let it slipped out her mouth and it was too late before she could realize what she's just said.

"WHAT? It's just me or you've just said that you were kissing a guy other than Andy?" Piper repeated in shock. Prue only nodded.

"Wait a minute. I don't get it how could you possibly get over him so fast? Let's see…it's just only about 50 hours since we vanquished Rodriguez and you've got a date already? So that's why you're out this evening. And if I'm right, you arranged him to catch you guys making out there! I don't blame you about having a boyfriend, but you want your ex to see it? Didn't you think what kind of pain he would suffer? What the hell is in your mind?" Piper yelled, uncontrollable.

"Piper, first I know Andy will be hurt, but as far as I know, his ex-wife still in San Francisco and I'm positive that she can help him through this. Second, it's the only way to make him think that I've already move on and more, I did it fast, so he'll think that he's nothing in my heart and he'll soon give up seeing me again. Is that clear?" Prue retort, still regretted that she slipped out about her date.

"Alright, so you mean…you're playing with his emotions?"

"I'm not!"

"Yes you are Prue." Suddenly a voice came from upstairs. Immediately both sisters looked up. It was Phoebe who had been woken up from the noise. "You think that you could make Andy forget you, but you're wrong. Love is a very powerful thing that even us - the Charmed Ones - can't change it. He loves you, and you love him too. And usually our hearts guide us better than our mind, so…" the youngest said, but Prue interrupted.

"But not in my case. I don't deny that I still love Andy, but as long as he still sees me, he'll be in harm no matter what I do. And remember the times that we broke up and yeah? He was safe, perfectly!"

"Okay, stop that right there. This is about Andy's feelings, he needs to know. We can't just sit there and control him like a puppet! I'm gonna tell him." Piper said as she grabbed her coat and hurried out of the house. Surprised, Prue wasn't fast enough to catch her and before she knew what happened, she was gone. "Shit!" was the only word she said before stormed in her bedroom, like everybody says, to have sometimes alone.

Andy's apartment.

Andy was sitting at the edge of his bed, his hands holding a picture of Prue and him together. Prue got another one of it and he noticed she put it on her desk at Buckland. It was captured not longer after their 'first date' and they were just began their new relationship. It reminded him how perfect couple they once were, and the feelings the image had brought over were larger Andy thought it would be, and he thought it was impossible to think more about it, so he turned on the radio, just to destroy the silence, coldness and loneliness in the house.

Nothing to lose by Michael Learns to Rock

The rhythm of the song began, and, opposite with what Andy wanted it to be, it started to make the emotions became more intense and it just made Andy suffer more and more.

There are times
When you make me laugh
There are moments when you drive me mad
There are seconds when I see the light
Though many times you made me cry

Those were true. Thinking of Prue made him had so many emotions. Happiness, love, and even pain.

There's something you don't understand
I want to be you man.

'Why she always runs away from me? Why she's trying to leave me? Doesn't she understand that I'd do anything to be her man?', Andy thought.

Nothing to lose, your love to win
Hoping so bad, that you'll let me in

'Why she just can't understand that I don't mind she's a witch? That I don't mind facing with demons and warlocks everyday to be with her?'

I'm at your feet, waiting for you
I've got time and nothing to lose

There are times
When I believe in you
These moments when I feel close to you
There are times I think that I am yours
Though many times I feel unsure

Those were the times that Prue hid him that she's a witch. She always had those 'family emergency' and they always interrupt their dates, but Andy trusted her that someday she will tell him. But finally he found out it himself. Right now he didn't think he could be able to set confidence on her again.

There's something you don't understand
I want to be your man.

Nothing to lose, your love to win
Hoping so bad that you'll let me in
I'm at your feet waiting for you
I've got time and nothing to lose

But anyway, those thoughts are useless, it's too late for him to do anything to change the truth that Prue had already moved on him.

I'll always be around you
Keep an eye on you
Cos' my patience is strong and I won't let you run
Cos' you're my only one

The image of her kissing another man appeared again in his head, brought a few tears rolling down his cheek. If at the beginning, he told her that he accepts the truth that Prue's a witch, if he wasn't selfish and only think about his dream having a house with white fence and normal screaming kids everywhere, if he realized the truth that he couldn't live without Prue, maybe right now she was lying beside him, and they were making love – Andy appeared a slightly smile to himself with that thought. There were times after they broke up he started to think about seeing his ex-wife, Susan, again, but after all, he had nothing called love with her, and she was nothing compare to Prue either, so that thought was soon deleted from his mind.

Nothing to lose, your love to win
Hoping so bad, that you'll let me in
I'm at your feet, waiting for you
I've got time, and nothing to lose.

Everything had just gone so far for Andy to change, he thought. But whatever happened, he would always be there for Prue, maybe not as a boyfriend, but friend. Suddenly his thoughts were interrupted by the doorbell ringing. Quickly turned off the radio and snapped out of the feelings still remain, he got up and answered the door. Standing outside was Piper. Surprised, Andy asked, "Piper? What are you doing here?" as he let her in.

"Andy, it's about Prue. About earlier…" Piper was about to say, Andy cut her off.

"She wants to apologize, right? Am I right? If that's what she wants to say, then reply to her that she's just gonna kiss someone then tell me that she's sorry about it? Oh c'mon she has to be kidding me!" Andy yelled, uncontrollable his angriness. There was too much to handle at once, even he had already cleared his mind that he won't be angry at her, but still.

"Calm down, Andy. I know it's hurt, but that's not what I was planning to say. And as I was saying, about earlier, it wasn't Prue kissing that guy on her purpose. It's just that she wants you to think that she's moved on and you'll stay away from her. But the truth is she still loves you, and yeah. What do you think?" Piper said, trying to keep her voice as normal as possible, 'cause she was still angry at her older sister for making Andy – the person who she always respect all those years like a brother – this miserable. She can see it in his eyes, the pain he was suffering.

"If those are the truth, why do you want to tell me? I thought if that's Prue's plan, she must have done anything to stop you doing this?" Andy said, a bit calmed down, and his heart feel like, let's say a big weight had been lifted away from it, since he trusted Piper and trusted that Prue didn't mean it when she kissed the guy in the restaurant.

"Well when Prue was arguing with Phoebe about this after telling me, I took the chance and came here before she could catch me. After all, you're the one who mainly involved in this, and you deserve to know."

Andy stunned for a moment before his cellphone rang. After answering it, he returned to the conversation, "Thanks for the info, Pipe. But I think I gotta go right now, you know, police business. I promise I'll think about it, and call Prue, of course if she allows me to." He lied, he didn't really have any business, but he was stuck and he didn't wanna get into it further. Andy grinned, as said goodbye to the middle Charmed One. Leaning against the door and thinking about what Piper had just told him, he smiled with himself, happy that she did all those things just because of his safety. But he had to do something when there still a chance for them, he thought, as picking up the phone and dialed Prue's number. "Prue? It's me Andy." Prue was about to tell him that she already had a boyfriend, but he cut off, "I need to talk to you, just once last time. Please." He practically begged her, and Prue was convinced. "Our spot, 9 o'clock, is it okay? Thanks. See you there." Andy put the phone down and sighed. Hope everything will be okay, he thought.