Epilogue- Separation
A Few Days Later
Piper sat on the steps of the manor, staring into space.
Grams was gone. They had just come back from her funeral.
It was unreal. Grams had been the glue that held them together. Now she was gone.
"Hey." Prue said as she joined her. "How are you feeling?"
"I don't know." Piper told her. "It's just all happening so fast... I don't know how I'm supposed to deal with this, Prue. I mean, not just losing her, it's the funeral arrangements and the doctors and the lawyers... and there's nobody left to help us."
"For what it's worth, the service today was really beautiful." Prue said quietly. "Grams would have liked it."
Piper began to cry. "She would've liked what you said." She told her big sister.
"Thanks." Prue said, tears in her own eyes. "I know that this is gonna sound strange but... do you think that she heard?"
"I think she did." Piper told her reassuringly.
"Did what?" Phoebe asked, joining them.
"I was just telling Prue that I think Grams was watching today." Piper told her.
"I think she was." Phoebe agreed sadly.
Piper sighed. "It made me think. About our futures, where do we go from here? I mean Grams was the glue that was holding us all together."
"She was." Prue agreed.
Phoebe looked down at her hands. "I don't know about the two of you, but... I'm leaving."
"What do you mean?" Piper asked.
"Cole's being transformed back to New York." Phoebe explained. "He asked me to go with him. I wasn't sure, but... Now, IÕve decided to."
"Phoebe." Prue said quietly.
"Don't." Phoebe told her. "I know you don't approve of Cole and I don't care. I love him. I lost Grams, I'm not losing Cole to. Besides, Grams always said that we all had a purpose, a destiny. Maybe I'll find mine in New York. I don't know, all I know is that I'm pretty sure it's with Cole."
Piper was silent. She knew that her sister had made up her mind and while it was sudden, she had suspected it was coming. She also knew that Phoebe had already made her decision and that there would be no talking her out of it.
"What about school?" She asked, honestly concerned. Phoebe was so close to graduating, it would be a shame for her to blow it now.
Phoebe smiled. "I've made arrangements for me to complete my second term in New York. Cole and I talked about it. He agreed that my education was important."
Piper nodded, knowing that was that.
"When do you leave?" She asked finally, finding it a little unreal that her baby sister was going away.
"In a few days." Phoebe told her.
Piper nodded.
So that was that. This was the end.
Grams was gone, Phoebe was going to New York, Prue was getting married.
She would be on her own.
Piper looked at her sisters and wondered if this was the end for them or if someday things would be different.
She just didn't know.
The End
Sweet Surrender Book Two: Secrets and Lies, coming soon
