Chapter II

"I can't believe we've made it this far." Phoebe giggles like a schoolgirl as Cole nibbling on her earlobes, soon moved towards her neck. Phoebe gave out a soft moan encouraging Cole to continue with his work.

"See, all you need is a little bit of faith." Cole said moving up to her lips. "I love you, Phoebe."

"I love you too, Cole." Phoebe said lovingly between kisses. She deepened the kiss and slipped her tongue into Cole's exploring it hungrily. He pulled Phoebe as close to him as possible, and holds her tightly, as if he was almost afraid something might take her away from him, again. He loosened his left hand grip, and brought it up to Phoebe's face. He took the back of his hand and gently swept a strand of hair that was blocking her sweet angel face. He then let his hand fell off to her shoulder and then slide back to her waist.

Phoebe rubbed her hands against Cole's chest, through his shirt, and lifted it off of him.

"Cole, make love to me." Phoebe said huskily with passion flaming in her toasty almond eyes. She crawled her hands all over his body as he quivered at her touch. He stooped himself to meet her lips; blazing desire for each other was at the peak. They hungrily kissed one another like they haven't been intimate for quite sometime…which was partly true.

Shimmer in every night, and out every morning. It's true when they say, "history repeats itself". It was impossible for them to be together when the Source was on his tail…but now her sisters? How was she going to deal with it? The Source she could fight off, but her sisters…

Things are just getting more complicated everyday in the Halliwell manor. She had been ignoring and dismissing her sisters in the past several of months. She had been making up excuses to get out of going to dinner or club so she can spend time alone with Cole. Her Cole. She knew her sisters had been having some suspicions, but they decided to let it be. They knew getting into her business only get her irritated and driven her away. She needed some space.

A thumping sound pounded against the wall, it continuously pounded. The exasperating sound was unbearable.

In the next room, Piper stirred irritably covering her ears, shutting her eyes tightly, and let out a grunt. The noise stopped all of the sudden; Piper popped her eyes opened and took a look around. Found nothing, she closed her eyes and go back to sleep.

Sleeping peacefully in each other's arms, snuggling up next to each other's warm body, suddenly interrupted by a horrible crash from downstairs.

"Umm," Phoebe moaned, half asleep. "Cole, what time is it?"

"Huh?"

"Urg!" Phoebe sleepily climbed on top of Cole to look at the clock. "Oh, God! It's 8:30! You gotta go!"

Cole abruptly jumped out of bed, and threw on his clothes, and rushed over to give Phoebe a quick kiss.

"I love you." With that, he shimmered away.

"I love you, too." She falls back into bed, and then sat back up. She bend over to the side of the bed to picked up her clothes, and quickly put them on. Leisurely walked to the bathroom, she bumped into Piper, who was coming out of the bathroom.

"Morning, sleepy head." Piper greeted.

"Hey." She greeted back halfheartedly, and walked to the bathroom.

"Oh, hey, did you hear some weird, strange thumping noise last night?" Piper suddenly recalled.

"Um, no, no. Why?" Phoebe replied nervously, she was hoping Piper didn't come into her room earlier that morning.

"Nothing, I could've sworn I hear a pounding noise last night." Piper walked off mumbling.

Phoebe made her way into the bathroom, walked over to the sink and brushed her teeth. She then washed her face. Looking up at the mirror, staring at her reflect, she then smiled. She was happy… happy because she was with a man she truly loved. She doesn't know what she did to deserve a man such as Cole, but whatever it is, she surely will keep it up. Her life now was perfect, well, almost. She was no long in pain or agony. She's in love.

The only thing that's still keeping her from fulfilling her perfect life were her sisters.

How could she ever tell them Cole's back? They wouldn't understand. They hated him, especially Paige. She doesn't want to have to choose between the love of her life and her sisters again. Once was enough. She let out a long sigh and thought,
"Only if they would understand." She then turned away from the mirror, and exited the bathroom.

"Phoebe!" Piper hollered, "Your breakfast is getting old, get your butt down here."

"I'll be down in a minute." Phoebe hollered back, while picking out her outfit for the day. She pulled out a pair of blue jean denim hip huggers, and a crimson midriff. She quickly put them on and hopped down the stairs happily.

"Well you certainly happy today. What happened to moppy Phoebe?" Paige jokingly said.

"Why shouldn't I be happy?" Phoebe plainly asked.

"Don't get me wrong, you should be happy. What I meant was that for the passed four months you just seemed to be so happy, considering you were all depressed and moping around the house before." Paige explained. "Now, you just seem full of joy. I'm just really happy to see you up and about again."

"Well, you're gonna see a lot more of this me from now on." Phoebe cheerfully declared. Paige smiled to herself and walked upstairs. She was thrilled to see her sister happy. But what she don't understand was that, why was she all in high spirits all of the sudden. Well, that's another mystery waiting to be solved.