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Chapter 13: Breathing

Piper walked into school with Leo's jacket on and her head down. It was hard to hide four months of pregnancy when your as little as she was. She could feel the eyes on the back of her. The colors that where once part of her wardrobe, were exchanged for Blacks and greys. Her long hair always hid her face. The once approachable girl, was now shunned and ignored.

She walked to her locker, or at least tried to before she had to run into the nearest bathroom stall. Yanking off leo's jacket so she could put her head on her arms she listened to what they were saying.

Piper walked into her classroom twenty minutes late, never lifting her head, never mumbling an excuse. Her hair creating a shroud of darkness around her face so that no one could see the tears that hadn't stopped. The sleeves of her sweater were sticking to her arms from the blood that she had thought stopped.

She sat all the way in the back two rows away from the rest of the students. She was already way ahead of her classmates so it didn't matter if she payed attention to what her teacher was saying anyway. She pulled out her sketch pad and started to draw. Not really paying attention to what she was doing, she watched as lines, curves and shapes turned into a baby with horns in the womb. As class progressed so did her picture. She watched with morbid fascination the one who was carrying the Devilish child slowly came out to be she. Stopping to look at the creepy picture, She jumped when her teacher put his hand on her shoulder.

"What happened?" confusion colored Piper's face until she noticed what her teacher was looking at, her wrist.

"I must have scratched it on my tablet" shaking her head, she noticed that Leo had walked up to her. He noticed her eyes were slightly puffy.

"Piper are you okay?" Leo watched her nod before she stood up.

"Are we going?" and with that she walked out of the room.

"Miss Halliwell, just to warn you, your going to feel a slight pressure as the needle goes in. It might also sting."

Piper stared at the wall on the other side of the monitor. She wasn't feeling her best. She could feel the sleeve of her sweater chafing her new wounds. It really was an unhealthy habit, The way she slashed at her skin to feel anything but sadness.

Sighing she checked her watch. She hated the looks she got from the women in the waiting room as she walked out of the ultrasound rooms or the doctor's office. Many of times she wanted to yell at them, To tell them they willingly got pregnant, but the once bawdy girl was no more.

With her inner voice muted, she no longer had a reason to let her outer voice excel.

Piper pulled her shirt over her head to take it off. The ugly red welts on her arms were throbbing, which was a first for her. Wounds were deeper than usual. She was going to have to stop for a while or at least until her wound properly heal. A cold chill ran through her heart. She looked around her room before her eyes rested on the door. Leo's face was livid from the puffy red skin on her arms.

AN: Sorry I haven't updated in a while, I haven't had the time or inspiration to write, damn Algebra 2, which I still don't get 5 or six weeks into the school year. Then I'm doing district for choir and joining Psyche Club and Computer Club. I now have a full plate. So the chapters will be farther and farther apart. And while I'm on the topic of chapters, this is a filler chapter to put out there I will try to update next weekend cuz I have auditions for regions in a week or two and I don't full/comfortably know my music. YAY I made District!!!