Part 5 of

Phoebe and Cole- Another AU

"Cole! I thought that we didn't have plans."

"No, you said that you couldn't come out. Prue never said that I couldn't come over. So I thought that I would come over and surprise you with Chinese."(Somebody help.... My brother has me thinking like him! Next thing you know, I will hate Charmed... Is that possible?) He held out a plastic bag that he had in his hand. She smiled at him and looked around. "Is something wrong?"

"Ummm... Well, Prue will be really mad that you are here, but oh well. Come on in. Is it raining?"

Cole looked around and noticed that he was soaked. "I guess it is." He walked into the house and Phoebe took off his jacket. After she hng it up, she showed Cole to the kitchen even though he knew where it was from the tour of the house. (Sacred sleeping ground.... Remember?) He took a seat and Phoebe started to gather plates and forks but Cole said, "Oh come on... Let's eat right out of the box with the chop sticks that they gave us. live a little...."

Phoebe looked at him in disbelief, but put the plates away. "I hate when a guy has control over me." She sat down next to him, leaning on to his shoulder as she ate. "He can get me to do things I normally wouldn't do. Like disobey my sisters....."

Cole laughed at her. "You are so cute."

"You are, too."

Cole placed a light kiss on her forehead. "So, Phoebe.... Want to place this or that?"

"Sure, but I go first. Classical or Rock."

"Rock. Vanilla or Chocalate."

"Neither, cookie dough. Black or white."

"Black. Tv or-"

"Black?", she asked cautiously. "Why not white?"

"Well, because black is so much more mysterious."

Phoebe breathed a sigh or relief. She let him continue and answered, "Movies. Light or dark?"

"Hmmm." He pondered his answer because he knew that the last one has been a test. "Dark, better sleeping condidtions." Phoebe laughed at him. "Roses or tulips?"

"Carnations. They were always what you would bye for someone when you didn't have any money. So I have always liked blue carnations."

"Interesting. What's your favorite movie?"

"Kill It Before It Dies.... I've seen it a millon times, without a doubt. Billy Applebee is soooo dreamy. OH don't worry, you're dreamy, too."

"I don't think I've ever been called dreamy before." Come to think of it, he thought. I've never been called anything other then 'Belthazor'. "Have you always lived with your sisters?"

"No... About three and a half years ago, I lived in New York." She grimaced at her past and Cole noticed.

"What happened to make you hate it so much?"

"It just wasn't a good time for me, ok?", she said in an almost mean voice.

"Sorry.... Didn't know it was that bad of a time for you."

Phoebe looked at him in an evil way. "Let's change the subject."

"Oh, so it's really bad for you, then."

"Cole, I really don't want to talk about this. Especially with you." She realized what she said and started apolagizing immediatly. "Oh no, Cole... It's just that it's a really painful part of my life and I did some really stupid things. I dot want you to know even half the stuff I did because you probably would think I was a slut. Even if you don't now."

He kissed her lips and then said, "I would never think you were a slut..."

She sighed and said, "Well... If you really want to know..."

"Which I do."

"Then I'll tell you. You see, I left because my granmother had just died and I wasn't very close with my sisters then. I headed to New York because I was supposdly going to look for my dad but that was just a cover up for getting away from Prue. She was engaged then and her fiance tried to hit on me. When I got to New York, I met a guy...." She started a horrible tale that she thought she would never hear again.