A/N: Last chapter before the next story and I apologize to anyone in advance who likes Justin Timberlake because I did insult him a bit in this chapter, I just can't really stand him..
CHAPTER 30: AUGUST 18TH
It was now Thursday, two days after Tracy was supposed to call and Piper was starting to worry. It was only February 26th, but Piper counted on this being her wedding gift for Paige for quite some time now. It was 8:00 in the morning and Piper was making omelets for breakfast. She was just finishing the last omelet as Leo came down the stairs holding Wyatt. "The Little Man woke up and wants breakfast." He explained, walking towards the island stove to kiss his wife.
"What do you want for breakfast today Wyatt?" Piper asked her son. He just giggled and smiled, reaching his arms out towards Piper, wanting to be held by her. "I'm sorry honey but I have to finish making your daddy's breakfast. How about Daddy feeds you this morning?" Wyatt nodded and settled into his father's arms. Leo walked over to the cabinet by the refrigerator and pulled out a box of Wyatt's baby cereal and started to heat it up.
Phoebe came into the kitchen, fully dressed and ready to go for work. She was wearing a plain blue top and faded blue jeans, very unusual for her. "Hey Pheebs, want some breakfast? I made omelets."
"Ooooh, omelets my favorite!"
"You say that about everything."
"Do not!" she argued
"So how about it? American cheese omelet with onion, just the way you like it."
"Oh I hate it when you do that, you know I can't resist and I'm already late. Grrr..you win! I'll have breakfast, now gimme an omelet." Phoebe walked over to another cabinet and grabbed three plates and then grabbed three forks and three knives out of the silverware drawer. "Hey is Paige eating with us today?"
"I don't know, I'll go ask her." Piper walked over to Paige's bedroom door and knocked. "Paige honey, are you eating breakfast with us this morning?"
"Yeah, I'll be up in a second." She responded. Phoebe reopened the cabinets and drawers and grabbed another place setting. She finished setting the table and helped Piper bring four cups of coffee over to the table. Paige emerged from the basement and brought over the plate of omelets. The phone rang and Piper jumped up to get it. "Hello" she greeted.
"Hey, Piper?"
"Yeah, hi!" she responded, knowing it was Tracy, but not being able to say it out loud since Paige was sitting at the table. "So, did you talk to them yet?"
"Yes, and they'd love to do it for you, they'll need to talk with your sister to see what songs she thinks appropriate. I'll keep it touch with you and the guys will probably be calling you this weekend."
"Oooooh thanks sooo much! You are the greatest! You have no idea how excited my sister is going to be! Love ya' bye hun."
"See ya' later Pipe!" Piper hung up the phone and calmly walked over to the kitchen table as if nothing had happened. She knew it was taking all Phoebe had not to scream at her for not telling them what happened but Paige spoke first. "Who was that and why is she the greatest?."
"Well Paige, I will tell you but first I have to tell Leo something so if he could accompany me in the next room, that would be great." Leo knew what was up but followed Piper into the dining room, holding Wyatt who was in the middle of eating. "Is that who I think it was?"
"Yes, that was Tracy, she said the guys would love to play and they'll call us this weekend. Now let's go tell Paige, I can't keep this a secret." Piper ran back into the kitchen and calmly sat down again. "Oh that's right, you wanted to know who was on the phone. Well that was Tracy, Green Day's manager, as mine and Leo's wedding present, Green Day is going to play at your wedding, that is, if you want them to."
"What???!!! You are kidding me right? Green Day is going to play at my wedding? If you are kidding I'm so going to kill you it's not even funny." Leo finally decided to say something, "No Paige we are not kidding. They'll be calling here this weekend to talk to you about the set."
"Oh my God you guys are the best!!!!" Paige jumped up and hugged her big sister and brother-in-law. "I gotta go call Greg! He's gonna be so excited!" Paige grabbed the phone and ran into her bedroom.
"Well, that's not fair, I didn't get my favorite band to play at my wedding from you guys."
"That's because Piper would never have Justin Timberlake sing at her club and besides you had a demonic wedding and that might have been hard to explain."
"Justin Timberlake is not my favorite." Phoebe replied unconvincingly.
"Pheebs honey, I've known you since the day you were born, you suck at lying and we can all hear you blasting that crap he sings."
"Not cool, I never make fun of your favorite music."
"That's cuz mine doesn't suck and Leo doesn't really listen to music. Hey didn't you have to get going?"
"Shoot! I'm late, gotta go bye, kiss the girls for me." Phoebe gave Wyatt a kiss on the top of the head before running out the door. Leo finished feeding Wyatt and then started to feed himself. Wyatt was sitting in his high chair, smiling happily.
"Hey sweetie, it's me, guess what?" Paige said into the phone to Greg.
"What?"
"Well I got a band to play for the reception. Now I know I didn't ask you but I don't think you'll mind."
"Well try me. Who is it?"
"Just a little, underground band called umm….Blue Day? No that's not it, maybe it's Green People? Oh no wait, I know, it's Green Day!"
"No way! How the hell did you get Green Day to play at our wedding?"
"Well they played at P3 and apparently, they were just so nice and loved Piper so much that she kept in touch with them. Their manager, Tracy, just called and said they'd love to and that they're calling this weekend to go over the set. Can you believe it?"
"No, that's amazing, tell your sister I said thank you and that she's the best."
"Will do, so are we still meeting at lunch today to go over the dinner menu?"
"Yes, I will be at your house at 12:00 sharp."
"Okay well I might be a little late, Piper and I are going shopping today so 1:00 might be better. Is that okay?"
"Even better, I have a house to look at at 11:30 and I was worried it would run over. See ya' then sweetie I love you."
"Love you too. Bye."
"Bye." Paige hung up the phone and walked upstairs. Her and Piper were going to the bridal shop in town and looking at wedding dresses. "Hey Pipe. Ready to go yet?"
"Yes! Let's go. Bye Little Man, Mommy loves you." Piper bent down to give her son a kiss on the forehead, "bye Leo, I love you."
"I love you too." He gave Piper a kiss before heading into the bathroom to give Wyatt a bath.
"I'm so excited! I'm gonna pick out my wedding dress today."
"I know, me too! This was my favorite part of Phoebe's wedding. Let's take my car."
"Okay, I got your keys." Paige walked over to the hook by the back door and grabbed Piper's keys before heading out the front door and getting into Piper's car.
Thirty minutes later, Paige was trying on the first of many wedding dresses. She called Piper into the dressing room because she couldn't reach the zipper. Piper stepped out of the dressing room and looked at Paige in the dress. It was an ivory strapless gown but too plain. "Hmmm…..I like the top of the dress but it's a little plain. Also, the ivory makes your skin look funky. Here try the next one." Paige stepped out to look for herself. "Ooh, you're right. Gimme the next one we picked out." Piper handed her youngest sister a pure white gown with spaghetti straps and a beaded design on the the top.
"Yuck! I don't even need you to zipper this one, the straps make me look stupid but I like the color."
"Well at least let me see it." Paige reluctantly stepped out of the dressing room once again. "Yeah, no you're right definitely not. Here is the other one we picked out, I'll look for a couple more while you try those on." Piper handed Paige another gown they had set aside for her to try on. It was pure white and strapless. Piper was looking at a pure white gown, no straps, and a little beaded design that went all around the bottom and up the back of the dress, following the zipper.
Paige came out of the dressing room back in her clothes and saw the dress Piper was holding. "Oh wow Pipe! I love it!"
"Really? Me too! Go try it on. Wait, what happened to the other one you were going to try on?"
"It was okay but too plain, I've always been more of a stand out kinda gal."
"True, go try this one on now!" Paige grabbed the dress from her oldest sister and retreated into the dressing room yet again. The second Paige put the dress on, she knew it was the one she would get married in. She stepped out of the dressing room and Piper gasped. "Oh my God Paige, that's the one."
"Definitely! I love it! I told Pheebs I would wait to make any final decisions but I don't think I can! I love it too much."
"I think she'll understand when she sees it on you. Come on, let's go get you measured for it."
Twenty minutes later Paige and Piper were getting back into the blue Jeep and heading back home. They were discussing Paige's dress. "I'm so happy for you! You found the perfect dress like right away."
"I know, I thought it was gonna take forever, me being so picky. So did you look at any bridesmaid's dresses while I was in there?"
"No, I was looking at dresses for you, besides isn't it up to you to pick out our dresses?"
"Well it's just you and Pheebs so I was thinking same color, any dress you want."
"It's just us really? I thought you were gonna have Maggie's mom as a bridesmaid too?"
"Well I was gonna but she's pregnant now and thinks it would be best if she was just a regular old guest."
"Oh I didn't know she was pregnant. Tell her I said congratulations."
"Will do."
"So have you and Greg made any other decision yet?"
"No, I'm meeting him for lunch and we're going to discuss the dinner menu. I'm meeting him at 1:00 because I thought it would take forever to pick a dress out but it's only 10:00 so what should we do?"
"Umm….I don't know. Why don't we go back home and relax for a little while. I don't remember the last time I got to watch television."
"Good idea but it's 10:00 in the morning, nothing's on."
"True, I hate that. How about we go catch a movie?"
"Yes! I have been dying to see the new Colin Farrell flick, he plays an Irishman, I love that accent and I heard it was really good."
"Yeah, or we could go see that new Brad Pitt movie."
"Wow, you really are out of the loop, that movie's been out for over a month."
"Well you try taking care of a baby, your husband, two sisters, and not to mention being pregnant and giving birth. I think I'm allowed to be outta the loop for a little while."
"Geez, calm down, I was only kidding. Well I already saw that movie with Greg so let's see something else. Do you want comedy or serious?"
"Too much drama and serious stuff in our life, I need funny. Why don't we stop home and get a newspaper."
"Good idea, besides I wanna call Pheebs and tell her I found a dress."
"Kay, we're almost there, couple of minutes. So um, where are you and Greg gonna live, if you don't mind me asking."
"Well, we talked about this a couple of days ago. At first he wanted to get a place of our own, but we just had the basement redone and it's like our own apartment. Besides, just thinking about what happened with Phoebe and Cole, and then when we vanquished Cole, I just don't think I'm ready to live without you guys yet. I don't think it would be wise for me to move out when we've only known each other for such a short amount of time. I mean, unless you guys don't want us living at the manor after we get married."
"You kidding me? I'm relieved. Now I don't hafta be left alone with just Phoebe. Besides, it'd be too weird without you, you've become such an important part of our lives over the last couple of years and I love having you around. Now Greg's a different story……just kidding! I'm so glad that you're marrying him. Not that I didn't like Glen or your other boyfriends, but it just seems like he fits in with all of us."
"Yeah, it does feel like he's been part of the family for as long as I have. And it's weird, I honestly did love Glen and probably would have married him if it weren't for Jessica but I didn't feel like waiting around. I'm really glad I didn't run away with him ever, it would have been a huge mistake. I never would have met you guys or Greg. And the way I feel about Greg is just so different from anything I've ever felt before. It makes what I felt for Glen, look like nothing. When I'm with him, I feel like I've never known what love truly was before him."
"Oh I know what you mean, it's almost too hard to describe." Piper and Paige just sat in silence for a few minutes when Piper pulled her blue jeep into the driveway. Both sisters unbuckled their seat belts, got out of the car and ran up to the door. "I'll get the paper, you can go see your kids." Paige walked into the kitchen where the newspaper was always left in the morning. Piper walked up the stairs in search of her family. She found Leo playing peek a boo with Wyatt on the floor of his bedroom. Toys were scattered all over the floor and Wyatt was only in a plain white t-shirt and a diaper. Clothes were strewn all over his changing table. "Wow, it looks like you two were having fun. We were only gone for two hours, how much havoc did you guys wreak?" Piper asked her husband and son.
"Well, we played with blocks, then we played with his electronic drum, that thing is so cool. We spent quite a while getting changed because our little man over there, didn't like anything I picked out for him."
"So, basically you did nothing but make a big mess?"
"Not true, we rocked Prudence and May to sleep, had Wyatt here a bath, and we even made some lunch for you guys when you got home. So did you find a dress?"
"Yes and it's absolutely gorgeous, we were going to go see a movie and stopped home to look at the newspaper to see what's playing. Would you mind watching the kids for a couple more hours?"
"Not at all, as long as you don't see Seriously, Dude Where's My Car? You're seeing that with me."
"Not a problem, only you would want to see that movie." Leo was about to reply when Paige came walking into the bedroom with the movie listings in her hands.
"There's a 10:30 Seriously Dude Where's My Car but that's about it. Wanna see that?"
"Leo made me promise to see it with him. How about we just rent a movie."
"Cool, what movie?"
"I don't know, how about you pick one out and surprise me? I'll stay here and get us some snacks and stuff."
"Sounds like a plan, be back in 20." Paige walked out of her nephew's bedroom and into the kitchen to get her keys. Once they were in her hands, she walked out the front door towards her lime green VW Bug and to pick out a movie. She knew just the one she wanted, Pirates of the Caribbean, she hadn't gotten around to seeing it and she knew Piper would never say no to Johnny Depp.
Phoebe was supposed to be at work early that day, 7:30 but due to Piper's breakfast, it was nearly 8:30 and she was just arriving. Phoebe slipped into her office, trying to avoid Elise, Jason would be more understanding seeing as she was his girlfriend. No luck. Phoebe no sooner sat down than Jason threw the door open and started yelling. "IT'S ALMOST 8:30, YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO BE HERE BY 7:30, WE HAD AN IMPORTANT STAFF MEETING AND YOU MISSED IT, YOU BETTER HAVE A GOOD EXPLANATION FOR THIS BECAUSE I'M NOT IN THE MOOD FOR ANOTHER ONE OF YOUR FAMILY EMERGENCY STORIES, I WANT A VALID EXPLANATION AND I WANT IT NOW!"
Phoebe had to yell just to get her boss/boyfriend to stop yelling at her, "Listen, I woke up late, so late in fact I just threw this horrible outfit on and then I was going to grab a cup of coffee and walk out the door when my sister made me my favorite breakfast and then she announced that she was getting Green Day to play at my sister's wedding and then she was making fun of me for liking Justin Timberlake and I got so caught up in everything and left as soon as I realized what time it was."
"You like Justin Timberlake?"
"Noo." Phoebe replied unconvincingly
"Well, that's okay, I don't mind all that much. It'll give me something to tease you about now. So do you wanna get lunch at 11:30?"
"Wait, so you're not gonna make me work through lunch for missing the staff meeting."
"If you want to then fine-"
"No no no, that's quite alright. Where do you wanna go?" Phoebe asked, both cutting him off and changing the subject.
"Um, I don't know how about that new Italian place down the road from my apartment?"
"Great, see ya then. I love you."
Jason leaned over Phoebe's desk and met her halfway, as she stood up from her chair, and kissed her quickly before whispering, "I love you too." And walking out. Phoebe just sat back in her desk and licked her lips before returning to her column. Her latest letter read:
Dear Phoebe,
I am 16 years old and for the past two years have been dating someone two years older than me. He is the sweetest man I have ever met and I love him more than anything. He just proposed to me and I really want to say yes. The problem is, my parents won't let me. They've never trusted him when they had no reason to believe he was a bad man. My Dad said he'd throw me out of the house and my Mom said she'd disown me. What should I do?
Sincerely,
Hopelessly In Love
Phoebe thought long and hard about the poor girl's situation. It reminded Phoebe of when she was about 17, her boyfriend was 19 and kind of a rebel. He smoked pot, drank all the time, he had even hit Phoebe once. Despite all of that, they had been dating on and off all throughout her first three years of high school. During Phoebe's senior year, they were really serious and didn't break up once, during her last month of high school, "J" as he liked to be called, proposed to her and Grams wouldn't let her say yes. Looking back on that, it was the best thing Grams could have done for her. She decided to use her personal experience for this one, as she rarely did so. She finished her letter in about an hour and read it over, it read:
Dear Hopelessly In Love,
I can personally tell you that your parents are right. I went through the same thing when I was your age, my mother wouldn't let me marry my boyfriend at the time. When I look back on it, I am so grateful to her for putting her foot down, I was too young and not ready for marriage. I would have missed out on all the great things that come with being single in college and just having fun. Even if you don't get married until after high school, what about college? And the rest of your life? You have your entire adult life to be married, enjoy the rest of your childhood while you can. This letter was extremely personal for me, and I hope that you think long about your situation and do the right thing in the end.
This article made her think about Paige's wedding. It was hard to imagine her baby sister getting married, and especially after only 6 months. Paige always struck Phoebe as a girl who did what her heart told her, no matter what and Phoebe always admired Paige for that. Whenever she did that, it got her in trouble. She decided to busy herself with more letters seeing as it was only 9:30 and she had two hours until lunch and would have preferred not to think about her past mistakes for the whole time.
"Piper!! Leo!!" Paige yelled, walking into the manor and slamming the door hard behind her. Worried, Piper came running down the stairs at super speed and Leo orbed in with all three kids, the twins in his arms and Wyatt clinging to his leg. "What is it Paige? A demon? Did a demon attack you?"
"No! Calm down Piper. Haha, nice look Leo."
Leo just rolled his eyes at the youngest Halliwell and asked her why she was yelling. "Oh, I just wanted to know if both of you were up for Pirates of the Caribbean?"
"Oooooh! Johnny Depp's in that isn't he? I love him!"
"Um hello Piper! Remember me your husband? I'm not going to sit there while you drool over another man."
"Oh relax Leo, it's not like I'd ever leave you for him." Satisfied, Leo turned around and walked back up the stairs. Once Piper thought he was out of earshot, she whispered, "I would never get to meet him." To Paige who giggled and then dragged her eldest sister into the kitchen to make popcorn and get some drinks. "I'll make the popcorn you get the drinks."
"Kay, what do you want?" Piper asked her youngest sister, Paige.
"I'll just have a bottle of water."
"That's it? Okay then. You know, I don't think we've ever done this before."
"Done what?"
"Just hung out and watched a movie. Today has been such a normal day, real sisterly bonding stuff."
"You're right. Well we can bond over Orlando Bloom!" Piper scrunched up her nose and shook her head, "No way! He's too young for me and besides, not really my type."
"Well suit yourself." BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! "Popcorn's done. I'll put it in a bowl, you go start fast forwarding the coming attractions."
"Kay. I got a couple bottles of water." Piper grabbed two bottles of water out of the refrigerator and started to walk into the living room. The coming attractions were almost finished when Paige walked in with a bowl of popcorn and sat down on the couch next to her. "How much longer?"
"Should be done soon. So have you ever seen the movie before?"
"No, so you better not talk for the next two hours."
"Well, I would never do such a thing!" Piper pretended to be deeply hurt by Paige's comment until the movie started and they both stopped talking.
THREE HOURS LATER
Greg picked up Paige at 1:00 at the manor to go out to lunch. They were in the car, on their way to Paige's favorite restaurant for lunch. They had been riding in comfortable silence for a few minutes, until Greg turned to Paige, "Hey sweetie, I know we're going to lunch to discuss the dinner menu but don't you think we should discuss where we're going to have the reception?"
"Oh, yeah, that's right. I don't know really, haven't thought about it. I don't wanna do it at the house though, I want some time in between the ceremony and the reception. So where do you think we should have it?"
"How about P3? I mean, that's where we had our first official date and all?"
"Sounds perfect, maybe we should discuss it with Piper first though."
"Probably, do you wanna double back and ask her about it first? We're only a couple of minutes away."
"Yeah." Five minutes later, Greg was pulling his Dodge Ram into the driveway. Paige unbuckled her seat belt and waited for Greg on her side of the car. He put his hands around her waist and followed her up the stairs to the front door. "Piper, Greg and I need to ask you a question!" Paige yelled. Piper came in from the kitchen, a sandwich in her hand. "Sure, what's up?"
"Well, Greg and I were just talking and we were wondering if we could have the reception at P3?"
"Of course! As long as you're not just doing it for the family discount."
"No actually, as it turns out, my fiancée over here is a hopeless romantic in disguise, and suggested the place of our first date, which was P3."
"Awwww…..how sweet!" Piper gushed.
"Yeah, yeah, just don't tell anyone else. Now, if you'll excuse me, I gotta go ask Leo something." Dan was about to turn around and walk into the kitchen when Leo walked out. He walked over to Piper, Paige, and Greg who were still standing in the foyer of the large house. "Ask me what?" He asked while putting his arms around his wife's waist.
"Well, I was wondering if you'd be my best man at the ceremony."
"I'd be honored." Leo replied, letting go of his wife and reaching out to shake Greg's hand.
"Well with that settled, I'd like to talk to Piper about my maid/matron of honor. I know it's very untraditional, but I would like you to be my matron of honor, since you're married, and for Phoebe to be my maid of honor. I just couldn't decide who I'd like to be my maid of honor so I hope you don't mind sharing the duties."
"Ooooh! I'd love to!" Piper squealed, wrenching free of her husband's grip and hugging her baby sister. "I had both Prue and Phoebe as my maids of honor."
"Okay so now we just need to discuss some things about the reception."
"Come, we'll sit down in the kitchen and talk it over." Piper led the way to the manor's kitchen and made some coffee while Paige, Greg, and Leo sat down at the kitchen table. "So what time do you guys want it to start? How long will it be? I need details."
"Okay well Paige doesn't want it to be right after the ceremony so we were thinking like 6:00. The ceremony should be over by 3:00 so that gives us three hours for pictures and stuff. Is that enough honey?"
"Yeah, I just want some time to relax after the ceremony, and to be alone with you. I don't even know how long it's gonna be, we haven't even talked about who we're going to invite. We have the wedding party, that's let's see…" Paige squinted her eyes and looked up, as if she was remembering something, "…..six people including Greg and I, then there's Victor, Sam, my Aunt and Uncle, Glen, unfortunately probably Jessica, a couple of people I used to work with, Maggie, her mom and dad, people Greg works with. All in all, it should be about 50 people tops, nothing too big. Although, they probably won't be at the ceremony, well they can't be at the ceremony." Piper suddenly jumped up and walked over to the cabinet. She pulled out four coffee mugs and filled each with coffee. She brought them all over to the table and sat back down. Everyone just sipped slowly at their mug and discussed the reception.
"Okay so just get me a menu, anything and everything you guys want. I'll need the menu and guest list by the middle of March though, that's like two weeks, will that be enough time?"
"Yeah, should be plenty. I already have my side planned, how bout you sweetie?"
"Well, it's really just some close friends and people I work with, I don't really have family so shouldn't be a problem. Thanks, again Piper for doing this. It's really great of you."
"Oh, don't worry about it. I'm actually really excited, this is the first wedding at P3. So you guys so have lunch and plan the dinner menu."
"Okay, we should get it back to you in a couple of days."
"Perfect. Now, go have fun!"
"Bye Piper, Leo." Leo just nodded in response, he was immersed daydreaming, and a seemed unaware that he was being spoken to. Piper jumped up and gave her little sister a big hug telling her how excited she was that the reception was going to be held at her club. Paige and Greg left the manor, on their way to lunch and to discuss some more details. Piper and Leo retreated upstairs to lay down while all three of their kids took a nap.
A/N: Wow, sorry this took me so long! I was away for a week and then we had the blackout and it was really long so it took me a while to write. This was the last chapter and the sequel will skip ahead a few months to the wedding. Oh, I know the whole Green Day thing was super cheesy but well, they're my favorite band and I just wanted to mention them.
A/N: I tried to squeeze a lot of stuff into this last chapter but I figured it was getting long enough so I stopped it. The sequel will probably be called WEDDING BELLS and will open up a week before the wedding, most likely. It might not be up for a while but I'll try to get it up ASAP. The wedding will take up the first few chapters but most of it will be about everyone adjusting to having two married couples in the manor. Jason Dean will probably appear quite a bit more and that's all I'm telling anyone for now. Hope you enjoyed the final chapter! Please review, it would rock if I ended with 100 reviews! Okay sorry, that sounded like I was begging for reviews which I don't really like, I just hope that everyone enjoyed it.