Chapter 9

September (School trouble)

Early on the first day of school in September, Prue was making lunches, while the others were helping their kids get ready. Wyatt was starting the first grade, Chris was starting kindergarten, Melinda, the twins and P.J. we're starting pre-school.

"Girls stay still" Paige said as she and Henry struggled to get sweaters on the twins.

"Hurry up then, we want to go" Tamora said excitedly.

"Henry's crying, I'll take care of him" Paige said.

Meanwhile, Leo was getting the boys ready.

"Daddy I'm dressed" Wyatt informed.

"Me too" Chris said proudly.

"Good job, Wyatt you can brush your own hair, and Chris I will brush your hair" Leo said.

Wyatt brushed his blonde hair, while Leo brushed Chris's brown hair. Meanwhile Piper got Melinda ready.

"You look beautiful, let's brush your hair" Piper told Melinda who was still half asleep.

Piper brought Melinda over to her mirror, and brushed Melinda's long brown hair. Melinda resembled her mother very much. Meanwhile Phoebe was having trouble with P.J.

"Prue Johnna Halliwell, you beam your cupid butt back here, you can't go to pre-school in just your diaper" Phoebe sternly said.

Coop beamed into the room holding almost one month old Parker. Coop helped Phoebe by beaming P.J. back into her room. Phoebe quickly dressed P.J. in her overall dress, with a red t-shirt underneath. P.J. then beamed out as Phoebe reached for her brush.

"You're going to be a handful too, aren't you" Phoebe said to Parker.

Parker smiled at her mom. Phoebe kissed her daughter and husband, then left the room to find P.J. Meanwhile Paige and Henry were still not having luck with the twins.

"Kat honey, I need to brush your hair" Henry said.

"NO, I like it like this" Kat said.

"Honey it looks like you were in a tornado" Henry said.

"So does yours" Paige told Tamora who had laughed at her father's comment.

Finally at 8:30, Piper dropped off the boys at school.

"Bye Wyatt, have a good day, I love you: Piper said and hugged him.

"Bye mom, love you too, see you at recess Chris" Wyatt said then ran to his friends on the playground.

Piper and Chris approached the kindergarten fenced in play area. A familiar teacher spotted them. It was Wyatt's teacher from junior kindergarten.

"Hello Mrs. Halliwell, nice to see you again, who are you dropping off today" the teacher asked.

"My son Christopher Halliwell" Piper informed her.

"Well it's nice to meet you Christopher, I'm your teacher Mrs. Wellington" the teacher introduced herself.

"Hi call me Chris" Chris told her.

"Ok Chris, are you ready to come in" Mrs. Wellington asked.

Chris nodded and hugged Piper. Mrs. Wellington opened the gate and Chris walked in. Piper watched for a moment then left. Meanwhile Coop and Prue dropped off the girls at pre-school.

"Hi, I'm Mrs. Grace, who are you dropping off" A lady asked.

"I'm Coop Halliwell, I'm dropping off my daughter P.J." Coop informed.

"I'm his sister in law Prue Halliwell, I'm dropping off my nieces Melinda Halliwell, and twins Tamora and Kat Mitchell, their mothers were busy this morning" Prue informed.

"Ok sign here" Mrs. Grace told them handing them the sign in clip board.

At magic school Leo was about to meet a trouble maker.

"Ok class, my name is Leo Halliwell and I'm your white lighter teacher" Leo introduced himself.

Leo turned to the chalk board behind him, and as he was about to write his name, the chalk board orbed away. Then the class started laughing.

"Ok who did that" Leo asked.

"I did" a boy admitted.

"And you are Rusty Grand right" Leo asked checking his class list.

"Yeah, that's right" the boy confirmed.

"How old are you Rusty?"

"12."

"Oh yes, the age where people think they're cool by causing trouble, well guess what, I live with 8 children, three of which are mine, and another is on the way, you're not going to get to me" Leo stated.

"We'll see" Rusty replied.

During free-time at pre-school, the girls got into the craft supplies. The twins got ahold of tubes of glitter and dumped all the glitter on the floor. Melinda and P.J. pulled out the crayon drawer, and dropped it because the bin was too heavy for them. The sound of crayons and the bin hitting the floor caught Mrs. Grace's attention.

"Ok it's is ok girls, I'm sure it was an accident" Mrs. Grace said.

As Mrs. Grace cleaned up the mess, the girls played in the Indore sandbox. P.J. spotted some dump trucks nearby and took them. Each of the girls filled the dump trucks with sand, and dumped it out on the floor. Another teacher spotted it and came over to them.

"Girls, the sand stays in the sandbox ok" the teacher told them.

When the teacher left, Tamora painted her sister with sand. Kat thought this was funny, so she took a handful of sand and dumped it on her sister's head. The four girls then started throwing sand at each other. This got them a two minute time out.

At school it was time for recess. Wyatt made his way to the kindergarten play area and waved at his brother. Chris was about to open the gate to let Wyatt in, when a teacher stopped him.

"It's ok, he's my brother" Chris told his teacher.

"I know, but I'm sorry Wyatt, first graders are not allowed to play with kindergarteners" Mrs. Wellington said.

"But I want to play with my brother" Wyatt whined.

"You can play with him at home" Mrs. Wellington told him.

Wyatt walked away and sat down against the school wall. He stayed there silently crying until the bell rang. Wyatt had many friends such as Kennedy, Dakota, Rachel, Austin and Carter, but Chris was his best friend as well as his brother.

At magic school, Leo was sitting at his desk, while his students were working. Suddenly Leo's chair orbed away which caused him to fall on the ground.

"Rusty office now" Leo ordered trying to remain calm.

Rusty bowed to the class, then orbed to the office. After a stern look from Leo. The other students immediately got back to work. Leo orbed his chair back and seated himself. He made sure to keep a closer eye on his students.

In first grade Wyatt was at his desk doing English work.

"Wyatt how do you spell orange" Dakota asked in a whisper.

" e" Wyatt said glumly.

"Are you ok Wyatt, you sound sad" Dakota pointed out.

"I'm sad, I'm not allowed to play with Chris."

"Why not?"

"His teacher said no" Wyatt answered.

"You should tell your parents" Dakota stated.

"Yeah you're right" Wyatt agreed.

Wyatt raised his hand and asked for permission to use the bathroom. In the bathroom, after making sure he was alone, Wyatt orbed to the manor.

"Wyatt honey, why are you not at school" Prue asked.

"Is mommy home, I need to talk to her" Wyatt said.

"She's in the kitchen" Prue informed him.

Wyatt found Piper sitting at the table in the kitchen.

"Mom, I need to talk to you, it won't take long" Wyatt said.

"Did anyone see you orb here" Piper asked.

"No."

"Ok have a seat" Piper said.

"Chris's teacher said I'm not allowed to play with him, because I'm in grade one now" Wyatt explained.

"Tell you what, I'll talk with your principal tomorrow, and see what I can do" Piper offered.

Wyatt nodded, hugged his mom, and then orbed back to school. Meanwhile at pre-school the girls were painting.

"I want to be that color" Kat told Tamora pointing to her picture.

Tamora lifted her paintbrush that was soaking with green paint, and painted Kat's face.

"There you go, now do me, this one" Tamora said pointing to the blue paint.

Kat dumped the blue paint into her hands, then used them to paint Tamora's arms.

"My turn, this one" Melinda said.

Tamora dumped the purple paint in her hands and painted Melinda's face and arms. P.J. then dumped the pink paint into her own hands and painted her own face and arms and parts of her hair. Only then did Mrs. Grace notice the girls painting on each other.

"Oh no, no girls, ok let's get you girls washed up" Mrs. Grace said while taking away their paint brushes.

Mrs. Grace washed up the girls in the bathroom. Afterwards the girls got another time out. The teachers were starting to figure out the girls were not just innocent two year olds, and that they were instead just trouble makers.

At the end of the day, when Phoebe, Paige and Piper picked up the girls from pre-school, the girls were very dirty.

"Wow what happen to you" Piper asked Melinda who was covered in sand and stickers.

"I don't know" Melinda lied.

"P.J. why is there blue paint in your hair" Phoebe asked her daughter.

"Don't know" P.J. lied.

"And why do you two have play do in your hair and stickers all over your clothes" Paige asked the twins.

"We didn't do it" The twins lied.

"I don't believe that" Paige responded.

The next day after dropping off Wyatt and Chris at school, Piper and Leo walked into the school office to talk with the principal, while Paige covered for Leo at magic school. They entered the principal's office and seated themselves.

"Principal George, my husband and I want to talk to you about our sons not being allowed to play together" Piper explained.

"Yes, that would be six year old Wyatt and almost 5 year old Chris right" George said.

"That's right" Leo said.

"We understand the rule, not allowing Children to play with kindergarteners once they reach grade 1, but we would like it if our boys could play together" Piper said.

"Maybe we can have an exception since they're brothers" Leo added.

"I'm sorry Mr. and Mrs. Halliwell, but there are many kindergarteners with older siblings, if we let your boys play together the other will want the same with their older siblings" George stated.

"Well how about if Chris plays with Wyatt on the playground" Leo suggested

"Mr. Halliwell, are you really suggesting we let your four year old son play on the playground where there is no fence to stop him from running away, and not many teachers supervising" George said.

"Well Wyatt can protect his brother" Leo stated.

"So you're going to leave your sons safety in the hands of a 6 year old" George asked.

Piper swung her hands forward and froze the principal.

"Ok we sound like bad parents, we can't tell him Wyatt has an orb shield that can protect Chris" Piper pointed out.

"You're right, any other ideas" Leo asked.

"How about we take the boys out for recess and lunch, that way they can play together" Piper suggested.

"Good idea" Leo agreed.

Piper took a deep breath then unfroze the principal.

"Ok you're right, stupid idea, here's a good idea, I'm willing to take my sons out for lunch and recess every day and bring them back on time" Piper stated.

"If that's what you want, although you would be preventing the boys from socializing and making friends with other children" George pointed out.

"They can do that during free time" Piper stated and walked out of the office.

"Looks like we're done here, thank you for your time" Leo said then followed Piper out.