Part 3

Prue was home alone. Grams was at the mall with Piper, searching for some clothes. She was happy to have the manor for herself. Not only because she enjoyed being alone and turning the music up once in a while, but now she had a chance to look through Phoebe's stuff more carefully.

Prue opened the door that gave entrance to Phoebe's room. A cold air fell on her. This had always been the coldest room. She looked around an somehow she expected to find Phoebe lying on the bed with her legs up and quickly shoving something under pillow. But there was no Phoebe, only the typical Phoebe mess and the smell of old burned cigarettes. Prue sighed and opened the window. A little breeze came in and blew a bunch of papers from her desk. Prue closed the window fast and began to collect them. All the sudden, her eyes fell on one of the sheets. It was a quickly scribbled note.

"Jordan is the killer." Prue read it out loud. Somehow the sound echoed in the room. She didn't know what it meant, but it must have something to do with Phoebe's death.

"Prue?" A head was sticking out the door.

"Piper! You're home early." She quickly put the note in the pocket of her trousers.

"Yeah, grams got a backache again." Piper sighed. "Like that I'll never get new clothes. And I can't go shopping online. I did it once and you know what I bought." She remembered the purple jeans. It had cost way to much and she never wore it.

Prue went to Piper and put an arm around her. "You and I should go shopping together once."

Piper's face turned into a smile that resembled to a smile of a child that just got a lolli-pop. "What were you actually doing?"

"Oh, nothing much."

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The man was sitting on a bank in the Golden Gate Park. He looked like a typical lawyer spending his lunch break. He seemed highly interested in the Washington Post he was reading. The paper was covering his entire face. A jogger pasted by. The man didn't pay attention to it. There were as many sportive souls in this place as trees. The jogger turned though and went sitting next to the man.

"You know we have to be careful." Said the jogger. He pretended to be tiding his shoelaces. "The incident with the girl was so unprofessional. The boss won't be pleased."

"I wasn't the one who blew it, remember. We just don't tell him, okay?" They didn't face each other, they were busy with looking like common people.

"But what if he finds out?"

"He won't, okay?" This time he looked him straight in the eyes. "And if he does, then your sorry amateurish ass will be killed twice and it won't be pleasant."

The jogger mumbled something and then got up. He ran away and continued his jog just like every other jogger in the park. A few moments later the man stood up and walked away.

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"Nah. Try this." Prue reached a top to Piper who was standing in fitting cabin. It was Saturday afternoon and the two sisters were out at the mall, looking for some nice clothes for Piper. Prue was actually in a quite good mood. Besides eating ice-cream, shopping was a good way to put her mind on relax.

"So what do you think of this?" Piper opened the curtain. The black top with quite deep cleavage fitted her perfectly. It was obvious that she thought it like that too.

"Wow, Pipe, it looks great!" Prue was used to other outfits, but a change is never bad. "Why don't you give me the top, so I can go queuing up to pay. There's a huge line."

Piper got changed rather quickly and soon Prue was waiting in the row. While she was just standing there, she grabbed some clothes around her, took a look at them and hang them back. Soon Prue was thinking about Phoebe again. Phoebe wouldn't just queue up, she'd go to a fitting cabin, wear the top, put a sweater over and just walk out the store. Prue had often worried about her, but she had faith in it that everything would turn out the right way. Phoebe had a strong will. She sighed. Dearest Phoebe, she had so much miles before her on the road of life. Suddenly Prue got shocked up out of her thoughts.

"Oh, I'm so sorry." The handsome looking guy, Prue took him to be around the twenty, had walked into her. "I'm so so so sorry."

Prue smiled. "It's okay." She liked the way he was so concerned about her. You just could tell that he was one of rare nice men out there. There are appeared a little frown on her head when she thought about Andy. But she shook the though off. It was over between Andy and her. They were just friends, not more, not less.

The hottie went with his hand through his short hair. It was very dark, just like his eyes. "I'm Darragh." He smiled too now and showed his bright white teeth. Just like he came right out a toothpaste commercial.

"Prue." She could just melt away when she saw his smile. Andy did not have a smile like that. Prue sighed and forced herself to stop comparing him to her ex-boyfriend.

In the main time Piper was coming to stand next to her. She said hi to the men Prue was talking to. She could see on the tension between those two persons. Knowing that she shouldn't come between it, she said to Prue that she was going to the counter to pay it. Piper went away again and waited in a queue a bit further.

"Look, I probably won't see you again if I don't do something." Darragh said. He was quite nervous, although you couldn't tell. "Would you like to go out on date with me?"

Prue hesitated for a minute. She loved to say yes, but right now she wasn't really feeling to start a relationship with someone. Even though, it was just getting off the ground.

Darragh saw that Prue was doubting. He tried not to feel hurt "If you don't want to, I'm alright with it."

His voice sounded a bit hurt and disappointed. "It's not you, not at all. It's just that I'm going through a harsh period and I don't know if I should start dating right now."

Piper was back again. She was wearing a little plastic bag. She had heard what Prue just had said. "Prue why don't you get your mind off the whole situation, it'll do you good." Piper nodded to Prue.

"You think so?" Piper was actually right, but she still was doubting. She threw another glance at Darragh. A smile appeared on her face. "Okay then."