I don't want to tell you how the kids are doing just yet… it's time to go in a different direction, the direction of romance… this is were Jonathan comes into play.  I rewrote some of the text from one book I read. It's not identical just enough to help me out. Enjoy! Chapter 13

        Piper sat at one of the corner booths at P3 on Monday afternoon with her checkbook, accounting logs, and about a thousand receipts and bills spread out on the surface of the smooth table in front of her.  She hated the financial part of her job with a passion, but just couldn't seem to get up the guts to let it go to some faceless accountant.  Still, whenever she sat down to do the books, she found herself considering it all over again.  Especially when the splitting headache started to set in.

          "Ugh!  There has to be a better way!"  Piper exclaimed to the empty club, pulling her glasses off and tossing them down on the table.  She pinched the bridge of her nose and closed her eyes, "Why did I have to be born such a control freak?"

          At that moment, Paige came running down the stairs into the club and jumped the last few steps, landing on the floor with a thump, "Have you heard from any of the kids?"  She asked.

          "No I haven't, but what are you doing here in the middle of the day?"  Piper asked as Paige quickly crossed the room.  Paige plopped onto the soft bench surrounding Piper's table, and Piper bounced up from the force of it.

          "What I can't see my favorite sister on my lunch break?"  Paige asked, wrapping one arm around Piper.  "So… tell me all about it," Piper said turning toward Paige and resting her elbow on the back of the bench.  "Sorry about leaving so early this morning… I couldn't get that much sleep… just thinking about what our kids are doing now makes my stomach turn.  We really shouldn't have let them go by there selves… what were we thinking?"

          "I know what your talking about I spent a long time reading the book of shadows." Paige said.  "But Piper, last night was so unbelievably amazing!  He took me to this incredible restaurant and we ate the most delicious food and then we went and visited one of the orphanages he runs and then we went dancing…."

          "Wow.  What time did you get home?"  Piper interrupted.  "About an hour before I had to get up for work," Paige admitted with a laugh.  "But it was so worth it.  He's incredible.  He's so caring and funny and polite and, well, I'm not proud to admit, but he pretty much turns me to mush."

          "That sounds like one heck of a first date," Piper said, resting her cheek in her hand.  "My first dates usually ended with me hovering over a box of tissues wondering where it all went wrong."

          Paige laughed.  "Well… now you have Leo," She said, looking wistfully across the room towards the dance floor.  "And I have Jonathan."  A little red flag suddenly popped up in Piper's mind.  There was something about the far-off look in Paige's eyes that was just… unnatural-almost blank.  And the fact that Paige was already comparing her and Jonathan with Piper and Leo-two people who'd known each other for years and had been married for months- was a bit much.

          "Uh…. Your not thinking of running off to Vegas or anything, are you?" Piper asked only half-kidding.  "No!" Paige exclaimed, whacking Piper's knee as she snapped out of her little trance.  "But he is taking me out again tonight.  He wants to show me his place."

          Red flag number two.  "His place?" Piper asked, sitting up straight.  "You guys just met two days ago.  Isn't it a little early for him to be showing you his…. Place?"  "Please, Piper!  This is the twenty-first century!" Paige said, laughing again.  "And besides, I'm not going to do anything crazy.  And Jonathan's been a perfect gentleman.  He just told me he lives in some amazing mansion up in the hills and I said I'd love to see it and so… I'm going to see it."

          "I don't know Paige.  I mean… are you sure you want to put yourself in that position?"  Piper asked, squirming a bit at the parental tone of her own voice.  "I mean, alone with a guy in this huge old mansion, which, by the way, how does he afford?  Do you have any idea where his money comes from or…"  "I don't believe this!"  Paige exclaimed suddenly, her face the picture of indignation.  "I meet a completely perfect guy and all you and Phoebe can do is try to find the flaws!"

          "Paige, I…" "What's next?  Are you going to accuse him of being evil?"  Paige asked, pushing herself out of the booth.  "No!  In fact, from what Leo told me, Jonathan is an amazing person!"  Piper said.  "I just want you to be careful, that's all."  "Great!  So now you're asking questions about Jonathan behind my back," Paige said grabbing her bag off the bench.  "I know Phoebe said she had a vision of something bad about Jonathan, but you know that not all her visions come true!"

          Paige stalked across the room, and Piper slid along the bench and out of the booth.  "Paige!  Paige, come on!  I was only looking out for you!"  "Yea well don't bother!"  Paige said as she tramped up the stairs.  She never paused or looked back.  Piper sighed in frustration and raised one hand to her head, which was now pounding even more painfully.  She could actually feel a vein throbbing in her forehead.  Slowly she lowered herself down onto the bench again and took a deep breath.  "What's wrong with me?" she asked herself under her breath, "I wonder how the kids are doing."

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