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Psycho

                Courtney walked quickly away from the bathroom door and into her geometry class, she saw Piper's empty seat… and thought to herself I know all about you… I know she walked over to her group of friends and sat down in the middle of them, a young dark haired girl waved and opened her mouth the speak,

                "Hey…" she began but Courtney held up her hand and everyone began silent,

                "I have huge news!" she said excitedly, "But I'm not sure if I should say… it might hurt a lot of people if I spread this gossip around, well actually it will only hurt four-eyes!" she giggled and looked around at the group as they awaited the "gossip"

                "Go on Courtney, tell us," chirped one of the girls that surrounded her,

                "Ok, you dragged it out of me," she said then leant in closer so only a select few people could hear her, "Piper is a psycho," she began but stopped when she heard a small mousy looking girl laugh,

                "We all know this Courtney!" she exclaimed. Courtney glared at her,

                "Well then I guess you all know that she was sitting the toilets a couple of seconds ago trying to slit her wrists!" she smiled, the whole groups eye widened!

                "You must be kidding," said a guy to the right of Courtney,

                "Nope, Piper is completely mental! She was talking to Prue about being depressed and stuff and was trying to slit her wrists and stuff…" she saw the excited looks that spread across the faces of the people, "Now what should we do with this… valuable information?" she asked, and looked round at her group. A few of them shrugged their shoulders,

                "I've got an idea," said the guy on her right,

                "Yeah," he leaned in and whispered something in Courtney's ear,

                "How will you pull that off?" she asked,

                "I'm on the year book committee," he paused and looked at his watch them was about to talk when he saw Piper enter, "give me an hour," Courtney nodded and then turned to face the front. She watched as Piper sat down in front of her, a smile spread across her face.

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                Meanwhile on the other side of the school building Prue was standing with a telephone head set pressed to her ear. She could hear the ringing on the other end of the line and waited for Grams to answer,

                "Come on Grams… please be there," she pleaded with the telephone, then she heard the answering machine click on, "Hi Grams, its Prue… listen something really bad is going on. Piper and I really need to talk to you once we get home and I think that it would be better if Phoebe wasn't around so could you get her to go to one of her friends house or something… and don't worry about things, I'm fine and  Piper's going to be. So just don't worry, and be calm when we get in… and for Piper's sake. Pretend you haven't heard this message… see you at four-ish. Love you." She placed the phone down and headed to her next class… it was geography…she really couldn't be bothered with it so she turned and headed for the library. She went in and spread her English books over the table and rested her head on them and began to think about things, she nodded off and only found herself waking when the end of period bell rang. She quickly gathered her stuff and headed out of the library to her next class… she walked past Ricky Walker, he was carrying a huge poster board and had a smile spread from ear to ear. On any other day she wouldn't have thought anything of it, but she stopped and watched him running down the corridor. He met with Courtney at the end of the corridor and handed her the poster board, she glanced at it and smiled then kissed him on the cheek. She then headed into her class, it was mathematics… she was in that class with Piper. Prue began walking to the class, but stopped as she saw Piper enter. She stopped dead in her tracks and heard books fall to the floor, and heard people chanting something but it was indistinct, and then she saw Piper running out of the room, her footsteps echoing down the hallway. Prue sped up and ran to the class room; she grabbed the doorframe and pulled herself in. She stopped when she was just in the door and heard what everyone was chanting "Take the hint, take the hint," she looked at the front of the classroom, Courtney was standing smiling at her just in front of a large poster of Piper. It was her picture for the year book… with two differences. It had a line of deep red poster paint smeared across the neck and the words "take the hint" written at the bottom.