A/N: I apologize for the long wait, my summer has been fairly busy. Though to make up for it this chapter has over 2,000 words! Last chapter there was one review.

Sammy Ocean: Yeah but you'll see how she deals with it this chapter! Thanks I hope you think this chapter is great also!


"Paige it isn't that simple," Prue said.

"It seems simple enough to me," I replied.

"Well it isn't. You're a bit too young to understand," she said calmly.

"Too young? Both my parents are dead! Grams just died! One of my best friends is clear across the country and the other I can't talk to, I don't want to talk to! I'm not the sixteen year old from May. I'm not that kid anymore. Compared to what has all happened, calling Phoebe is probably one of the easiest things to do! Why is it such a huge deal?"

"Why? Why is it a big deal? Phoebe went after my fiancé!"

"Haven't you been listening to me? Phoebe didn't do that? Why would you think she would do that? Phoebe may have been a brat at times but she would never, ever do that to her sister," I said.

"Stop saying that! Paige she hit on Roger," Prue said grabbing hold of me.

"Forget it," I said, "Just go. I want to be alone."

"Paige," she said her voice gentle and caring.

"Just don't," I said avoiding eye contact.

"Why don't we go out for ice cream Saturday after dinner?" she asked.

"Ice cream doesn't fix everything Prue. It's not like I'm just getting over a guy," I said.

"That's right Paige. You're dealing with a lot, I know. With Grams, Phoebe, Glen, and your dad," she said. Not only did everyone seem to have left but they left when I needed them the most. Magic, I couldn't do it alone, at least I had Leo. Ice cream wouldn't fix my problems but magic might. I had to get them out of the house so I could work on potions.

"Maybe a little might help," I said, "Could I stay home from school tomorrow?"

"Sure, you'll be home by yourself though," she said.

"I'll be fine," I said.

"Okay, I'll bring some food up to you in a couple hours," she said leaving. I waited till she went downstairs and went to the attic. I flipped through the book and found the truth spell. I couldn't cast spells though. I flipped through the book for over an hour and I found no truth potion. Grams might have a book though with special potions, I'd have to look tomorrow. I orbed back to my room Justas someone was knocking on my door. I threw some paper and books on my bed and lied down on my stomach.

"Come in," I said. Piper brought in some homemade pizza. She sat the plate on my nightstand with some water.

"Thanks," I said flipping through the first chapter of Introduction of Latin though it was written in Latin so it really said, Introductio ad Latine.

"Homework already?" she asked.

"Yeah, it's not so bad though," I said writing down something.

"If you're not going to school tomorrow why are you doing your homework now?" she asked.

"I like to get ahead," I said.

"Will you be in the school choir this year or art club?"

"Don't know yet, I'm not sure about choir," I said.

"You have a great voice Paige," she said.

"It's not that great, besides I'm busy," I said.

"What are you busy with? School just started, you don't have a job, or your temporary license yet," she asked. I was busy fighting demons and finding out about magic has kept me busy. They can't have just thought that I was lazy all summer.

"Stuff, I have to finish this Latin homework," I said looking back down at my book.

"Okay, well I'll see you tomorrow morning for breakfast," she said, "Don't stay up too late."

"Kay," I said as she closed my door. I ate the piece of pizza as I flipped through my textbook. I knew the basics. I learned a bit at the library over the summer. I knew some vocabulary too. The first chapter I basically knew but I wrote notes down anyway for the teacher. I worked on my other homework and took my empty plate and cup downstairs around eleven. I passed Prue's room and heard her and Prue talking.

"She's hiding something," Piper said.

"I want to know what it is," Prue said, "She was like this in the summer too. That explosion wasn't caused by a candle."

"We know her and Glen had a fight. It's a possibility they made up though," Piper said.

"From what she said to me earlier it seems like they had another fight. Maybe I should stay home tomorrow. To keep an eye on her," she said.

"I think she needs time alone, I think she's near an edge,"Piper replied.

"The edge of what?"

"I don't know really but whatever it is I don't think we want to push her over."

"I want to find out what she's hiding," Prue said, "And she wants me to talk to Phoebe,"

"She wants us to be a family again," Piper said, "She just lost her dad, she lost Glen, Phoebe is clear across the country. It makes sense that she wants to bring the last of her family together."

"But we're here for her," Prue said.

"Are we really though? Think about what happened the other night. When she left for her dad's she may have thought she lost you, she didn't want to be in the fight that you and Phoebe are in. I'm not exactly home a lot. Hell, over the summer we don't exactly know what she was doing over the summer. She had a fight with Glen and flew to New York instead of coming to us. Why wouldn't she come to us? She could have talked to us and called Phoebe."

"Paige has always been a bit of an independent though, do you think it's because she's our half- sister?" Prue asked. I went downstairs after that, I didn't want to hear the rest. I was independent before I found out about my dad. Now I'm more so because I'm the only one that knows, well accepts that I'm a witch. I rinsed my dishes off and put them in the dishwasher. I walked back upstairs and they were still talking. I caught just one more line.

"I don't want push her over the ledge Piper but we need to find out what she's hiding, there are no secrets in this family." I went to my room and put my pajamas on and grabbed a book about magical creatures, I had gotten from the library. There was a more information about different angels in here than I had expected. Yet there was nothing about the Angel of Death. There was a knock on my door. I closed my book turned off my lamp and lied down, pretending I was asleep.

"Paige are you awake?" Prue asked opening the door turning on the light, "Guess not. Sweet dreams." She turned off the light and closed the door.


I woke up around eight and went downstairs.

"We called the school about an hour ago," Prue said as Piper placed some chocolate chip pancakes in front of me.

"Thanks," I said to both of them and I took a bite. Piper knew this was my favorite breakfast.

"We'll be heading off to work soon. Are you sure you'll be okay here by yourself?" Prue asked.

"I'll be fine," I said.

"Are you sure because Piper and I could stay home and we could have a family day," Prue said. I had finished my pancakes.

"It wouldn't be the same," I said.

"I know you miss Grams Paige, we all do," Prue said.

"I wasn't talking about Grams Prue. I was talking about Phoebe," I said, "I'm going to take a shower." I left the table and Prue didn't utter a word. By the time I was done they had left and I slipped on jeans and a white shirt with a black jacket.

I started rummaging through the organized trunk. When I had found it, Grams hadn't organized it well. I'm pretty sure Gram has a book of spells or potions. She probably used it to keep us in line when we were younger. She did mutter sometimes when Prue and Phoebe were fighting. There was still nothing.

I closed the trunk and checked her potions cabinet. I found a small book that was bound in dark brown leather. I carefully read every spell and potion through the morning. I found several spells about how to stop sibling rivalry. None of them though helped my situation. Then again I couldn't cast spells, I could only make potions.

I heard Piper call my name, entering the Manor. I orbed to my room.

"Yeah?" I asked going downstairs.

"Have you had lunch yet? I took an hour lunch break today and I thought we could go out," she said.

"No but I'm not very hungry," I lied.

"What have you been doing all morning?" she asked.

"Reading," I said truthfully.

"We can eat light, but it's been about four hours since you ate," she said.

"I'll eat when I'm hungry. I'll still eat dinner," I said.

"Alright," she said, "I'll eat something quick then we can hang out for the rest of my hour."

"Okay," I said. We had a short conversation about school and then we moved on to the topic of what I wanted to do after high school. I would dedicate myself to witchcraft, maybe have some charges. I wanted to protect the innocent.

"I want to help people," I said.

"Help people, in what way? Do you want to be a teacher? Social worker? Police officer?"

"Maybe a teacher," I said. There probably was a school of magic, like in Harry Potter. There were students my age, maybe even younger studying the craft. I didn't want to go to Baker High anymore. I had to talk to Leo.

"What subject?" Piper asked. I stopped daydreaming.

"Oh, I don't know," I said, "Chemistry maybe or language arts." Chemistry helped with potion making and language arts well I'm sure they taught normal subjects at a school for witches. There curriculum was a lot different, I would think.

"You took chemistry last year right?" she asked.

"Yeah, A's and B'

s on everything," I said.

"Chemistry was probably my favorite subject," she said.

"It was probably the closest thing to cooking besides Home Ec.," I said. She laughed.

"Not a lot of restaurants are hiring at the moment, I'm going to check in the beginning of September though," she said.

"I should look for a job," I said. It would help pay for potion ingredients and a car. Maybe a VW beetle.

"You should, it'll help you get a car and save for college. Do you want to take your temps test this Friday?" she asked.

"Sure," I said. I had read the book cover to cover when Phoebe was practicing and I recent;y read the book a few weeks before I turned sixteen. Grams didn't want me to get my temps till I was sixteen. I was going to ask her if I could get my temps this summer. Then again I had orbing, but that was under the personal gain category.

"They still have driver's education at Baker luckily," Piper said.

"Yeah," I said, "Glen took it last spring." Then I stopped. Was it only yesterday morning that he picked me up for school? He didn't ask me any questions in the car but he met me in the hall after second period. Then I told him I didn't want friends at the time.

"Paige what happened between you and Glen over the summer? And just recently?" she asked.

"We had a huge fight, we made up though. Then yesterday he came up to me after second period and I got really upset and told him I thought we should take a break. I don't want any comfort. Friendships sometimes fail, no matter how close."

"But you grew up together Paige," she said.

"He'll be leaving after this year anyway. Probably to Europe, I may only see him once every few years," I said, "It's been an hour shouldn't you be getting back to work?" She glanced at the clock, cussed softly, said goodbye and left.

I didn't have much practice with potions and I didn't want to make one without knowing if it worked. Practicing on myself was my only option and if it worked I didn't want to be around Prue or Piper. If it worked I'd slip it to Roger and tell Prue to ask him what really happened. Or I could threaten him with my potions that could blow stuff up but Leo would probably disapprove. Leo! I needed to ask him about the school.

"Leo!" I called from the attic. He orbed in.

"Is there a school for witches like me or whitelighters I guess?" I asked.

"Yeah, Magic School, Gideon, an Elder, is headmaster. You want to go don't you?"

"Of course! What type of classes are there?"

"Standard school subjects but they're more geared toward magical situations in a sense. Then you also have classes that deal with magic, powers, potions. There are classes specifically geared toward a witches power. Then you have Spells and classes about Amulets, languages."

"When can I start?" I asked.

"You'd have to talk to Gideon, it'll be difficult considering your sisters don't know about magic," he said.

"That reminds me, is there such thing as a truth potion?" I asked,

"Not that I know of but you could create one but you don't know about the side effects or how long it will last," he said.

"Could I test it on myself? Like spend a day with you asking me questions? It have to be away from my sisters of course."

"You should talk to the Potions professor about this first Paige. Potions can be messy," he said.

"Yeah, I've been thrown backwards because of it," I said.

"I'll set up an appointment with Gideon for you."

"Thank you," I said hugging him.

"Until then, stay out of trouble. Have you had any progress with your sisters?"

"No, they know I'm hiding something though."

"You should tell them Paige."

"My gut says to wait till Phoebe arrives. Or I could have Phoebe tell her and even though I'd get in trouble then maybe Phoebe would move back!" I said.

"Paige you don't want to ruin your sisters' trust in you though."

"But if I use a truth potion on Roger, I'll tell Prue later and I know I'll get in trouble," I said.

"The question is though, which will hurt your sister the most?"

"That Roger lied or that I kept a secret," I said, "Keeping a secret and having Phoebe tell I guess would be worse. Maybe I should tell but I still want to wait."

"It's your choice, I'm only here to help and guide you," he said.

"Leo all you've helped with is make me see what the consequences would be! But thank you for helping me those other times." He nodded and orbed out when he heard Prue's voice.

"Paige!" she called. I orbed to the stairs and started downward.

"Piper called and said you weren't hungry when she came for lunch, i'm on my break now. Are you hungry?"

"Yeah, I am." She fixed us some leftovers from the night before.

"So what have you been doing the last hour?"

"Looking at schools," I said.

"Any good ones?"

"Yeah, I need to tell you something Prue."

"What is it?" she asked concerned. This was it, I was going to tell her.

"I'm-," I said taking a deep breath.


A/N: That's it for this chapter! If you want me to update soon please review! The more reviews the quicker I'll update. For my Summoning Prue readers, I apologize for the wait but my brain is being annoying and I'm having some trouble with the chapter, but it'll be around 2 to 3 thousand words!