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On the East Coast
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Emma walked down the street, unable to slow down, meander, and think, as she would have preferred. But her class was in fifteen minutes, she still had five blocks to go, and ambling on the sidewalks of New York was not considered a bright idea; people were in a great hurry and would jostle her into the streets and cars would certainly not stop for her. So along she hurried, constantly checking her watch, wanting to get to history class early, for once. She turned the corner and glanced around again. Her growing feeling of unease nipped at her New York-y confidence and threatened to bite a large chunk out of it. So Emma sped up all the more and stepped onto campus.
Her feeling of unease disappeared as Dan Burke came within her sights. "Dan!" She shouted and waved an arm, quickly dropping it back to her side, aware at how dorky she looked.
Dan grinned, ignoring - or perhaps appreciating - her overeager gesture. "Hey!" He waved similarly and jogged over to Emma. "How's it going?" Dan grabbed her history text and balanced it on top of his own. "I got that." Emma smiled.
"It's going good. My roommate arrived."
"How is she?"
"She's fine." Emma realized that unwittingly she had omitted the very large detail that her roommate happened to be a guy. We're not officially dating yet. If we date, I'll tell. Emma told herself.
"Well, that's good, bad roommates suck." Dan nodded.
The connection that was there yesterday is pretty much gone. Emma realized. Something happened.

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On the West Coast
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"What do you mean, good and evil battling all around her? Like, demons and other beings of good?" Piper asked.
"No, like there's this dark cloud and this white cloud swirling all around her. It's like she has this big emotional conflict right in front of me."
"I can explain that." Leo glanced sheepishly at the floor. "The Elders decided to put Emma and Wyatt into the same room so that Wyatt could watch over Emma."
"Why didn't you tell me that?" Wyatt threw up his hands in the air. "Now it makes sense. I gotta get back. I'll see you later mom. Bye dad!" Wyatt hugged them before orbing off to New York again.