Disclaimer: I don't own Charmed or any thing to do with it.
Piper was true to her word and returned to Leo quickly.
He informed her they should have a clean run to the mannor and insisted on kissing her before starting off to the mannor.
"So you will stay with me, right?" He asked for the hundredth time.
"Yes." She confirmed, laughing. "I will."
"You're so beautiful when you laugh." He commented absently.
She laughed some more blushing beet red.
"Stop it." She said. "I hate it when you make me blush."
"Uh-oh." Leo pointed to the pavement out side the mannor. "Prue looks pretty mad."
He was right, Prue was standing there smoke pouring out of her ear bright red with rage.
"Yhea," She agreed pulling over. "Ready for some fire works?"
Prue opened the door as Phoebe scooted around to the other side of the car and climbed in.
"Morning Piper!" Phoebe said brightly. "Hey Leo."
"Where the hell have you been?" Prue demeaned.
"Good morning Piper." Piper said sarcastically killing the engine. "How are you? Thank you so much for helping me out. Oh that's alright Prue, any time, you just have to ask. I am fine."
"I stick with my original question." Prue snapped.
"I was stuck in traffic." Piper said.
"There was some big pile up." Leo offered as Prue gave him a withering glare. "Or at least that's what the radio said."
"Why aren't we moving?" Prue demanded even more indignantly. "Why are we just sitting here?"
"What's bitten her?" Leo asked Phoebe.
"She's Prue." Phoebe shrugged. "She doesn't need a reason to be mad."
"You know I don't have to do this." Piper said. "I'm not your personal chauffer you know. I have a life to go live."
"You mean like that sparkler on your finger?" Phoebe asked pointing at Piper's left hand.
Piper reached her hand into the back of her people carrier to let her little sister get a closer look at the so called sparkler.
"Or like explaining to Grams why that sparkler is on your finger." Prue said. "Now drive." Then curiosity got the better of her and she felt a sudden need to cheek the reliability of her source Cassandra Harris. "Why is it there?"
"Because Leo asked me to marry him," Piper began.
"And Piper said yes." Leo finished.
"Aw," Phoebe said. "That is so cute the way you guys finish each others sentences."
"Yes." Prue said. "And it's really good new that Grams will murder you for but can we please drive now, so my professor doesn't murder me too."
"Okay." Piper agreed as Prue had softened so much. "But you'll need to tell Phoebe to give me my hand back."
"Phoebe." Prue snarled.
Phoebe let go of Piper's hand instantly.
"There you go." Prue said. "We can drive now."
Piper laughed happily starting up the engine and begging to drive.
"So what do you think of the rock Prue?" Leo asked as she visibly relaxed.
"I think you have good taste in five year olds who have mothers with the best taste in the world." Prue replied. "I like it a lot."
"Well I think it's the coolest" Phoebe said. "I'm going to be the only girl in my year with a brother-in-law."
"And I love it." Piper beamed. "And I'm glad you girls are happy."
"Hey lady!" Prue gestured dramatically towards the wind screen. "Eye off of the rock and on to the road thank you very much. I for one will not be happy if you drive us all to our deaths because of that ring."
"I know Grams is going to murder you and all," Phoebe said. "But can I be a bridesmaid?"
"Well if we don't die at the hands of Grams and I don't die at the hands of my tutor," Piper said. "I'm sure we'll be able to work some thing out."
"Yay!" Phoebe said. "I think Grams is going to die when she sees that ring. Please say I can be in the room when you tell her."
"I think I might break it to her gently down the phone." Piper informed her. "I kinda like the idea of living until my wedding day and having Leo live too."
"This is mega cool," Phoebe babbled. "This is like the best day of my life. I'm going to be so late for school. I have a free period after lunch. And my big sister's engaged. You're not pregnant too our you?"
That hit a nerve with Piper.
She almost swerved in to another car.
"Are you?" Prue asked.
Piper's mind kept flashing back to the closed draw in the bathroom last night and her activities before she put Cassy to bed.
"You're not, are you Piper?" Leo asked.
His voice grounded Piper and she made sure she gained complete control of the car before she answered the question.
"Baby," He spoke when she didn't answer straight away. "Are you?"
"Of course I'm not pregnant Phoebes." Piper replied fully regaining her wits although she couldn't get that pregnancy test out of her mind, the one she had done to set her mind at ease and not looked at. "What makes you think I would be?"
"I don't know," Phoebe shrugged. "I just thought it would be kind of cool, that's all. It's what you read about in glossy teen magazines all the time. It looks kinda glamorous. It's would be like the coolest typical teen wedding if you were."
"There is nothing cool or glamorous about teenage pregnancy Phoebe." Prue said sternly. "We're going to have to get Grams to have a look at what you're reading young lady. And of course Piper's not pregnant. She's not stupid."
A lump rose in Piper's thought.
If I'm pregnant, she thought in a panic, that means I'm stupid.
How could I be so stupid as not to look at the test.
What if I'm pregnant?
Then I'm stupid, a voice in side her head screamed, it means I'm stupid.
"Then what's with the car swerving sis?" Phoebe asked intently enough.
"You hit a never that's all sweetie." Piper answered truthfully it was the next part that was a lie. "Cassy just asked the question the yesterday."
"The sex question?" Leo asked.
"No." Piper laughed. "She's too young for that. The sex question will come when she's eight or nine." Piper knew this, one of the course she was studying was child development and another was child psychology. She study so many course. She was set to get more qualifications than she would have got if she stayed in school by the end of the year. At high school she would still have had a full year of studying before she could apply for college. She was going to have triple the amount Prue had archived and that Leo was going to achieve the time he did. "Am I going the right way Prue?"
"Yup." Prue confirmed. "You're going the right way. What question did she ask?"
"The where do babies come from question." Piper said. "You just gave me the worst flash back Phoebs." That wasn't a lie. The bathroom draw still filled her mind. "Just don't ask me how I answered it or I will really crash this car."
"Okay." Phoebe said. "I won't."