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Chapter 7
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
May 18th 2015
Lara
Now I look back, I guess that mom was to quiet in the car on the way back to the flat from Gymnastics. I just didn't realize it then; my excitement about my new drowned out her silence. I guess I was just happy that for the first time I was happy in this city.
We got back and I had a shower and got changed. When I came out of my bedroom, she was sitting motionless on the settee. She looked up like she'd been waiting for me and told me she had to tell me something. She looked nervous about what she had to say. I sat opposite her, on the chair. It took a while before she spoke.
"What I am about to tell you," she looked at me directly, "I want you to listen until I've finished. I know it'll be hard, but know that every word of it is the truth and please never forget how much I love you."
Although I knew it wasn't a question, I nodded anyway. I was scared about what she was going to say-she didn't get this nervous very often. And then she told me. The words don't5 matter- I can't remember them anyway. She told me about the one thing she'd neglected to talk about for 10 years, her life before me.
When she was just over 2 years old, her mom, patty, died-leaving behind 3 daughters. This means that my Mom has another sister-Piper. At least now I know where my middle name came from. She's three years younger than Prue and two years older than mom. Their grams raised the 3 of them after their dad left. Mom began to grow apart from her sisters, and when their grams died 17 years ago, mom went to New York to track down their Dad. That left Prue and Piper here: in San Francisco.
What came next is the hardest part to believe and understand. At first I wondered if mom was making it up; if it was one of her stories about good witches who fought all kinds of evil beings that she used to tell me hen I was little. But the look on her face, and what she had told me earlier, both assured and scared me at the same time. Everything she was telling me now was the truth, and all those stories were real too: accounts of what she and her sisters had done together.
Six months after leaving, she returned to San Francisco. One thing led to another and she found an old book in the attic. It was 'The Book of Shadows'; A magic book. She read the incantation (as she called it) on the front page. It gave her and her sisters their powers. They are good witches called The Charmed Ones. Mom can levitate and have Premonitions; Prue could move things with her mind and could...what did she call it?...Astral projection-be in two places at once; and Piper can freeze time and blow stuff up. Maybe even more now. I wondered what this meant about me-but I didn't ask. I couldn't talk- I'd forgotten how. She told me anyway, I'm a witch too, but she bound my powers at birth, to protect me. I didn't understand what she meant at first-surely I would be able to protect myself better if I had powers? Then she told me the rest, and the reason why she left.
For 3 years the 3 of them vanquished hundreds of demons and they became the strongest force of good. During that time they also found out that their Mom had been killed by a water demon, instead of just drowning like they'd always believed. Then one day, 14 years ago yesterday actually, Prue and Piper got caught on TV vanquishing a demon. There was a media frenzy and Piper was shot-she died. They made a deal with a time demon and time was reversed. But when the demon attacked this time, Prue was killed. And mom left. She left Piper alone and grieving the loss of two sisters instead of one. She said she did it because she couldn't handle staying where she had so many good memories of the three of them together; something that could never happen again. She said she couldn't handle the pain and loss. She said she had to go. She could say as much as she liked but I still don't understand. Everything has changed and screwed up. I don't know what to deal with first. How come this morning I was a normal kid with a mother as my only family, and now...now I'm a stupid witch with an aunt and maybe even cousins out there. Oh god!! Is that who Melinda is from the beach and Maths...my cousin?!?
x
Phoebe
She is so confused. She doesn't know what to deal with first. She's just found out that she's a witch, and, at the same time, that I've been lying to her for her entire life. Well, I didn't exactly say that I only ever had one sister and I was just a normal person-but I knew she believed that and I never corrected her. Isn't that the same thing as lying?
-- She just came into my room. As soon as I told her she just got up and went to her bedroom, and I don't blame her at all. But now she wants to see Piper. She won't even talk to me about what I told her.
"I want to see her" that was all she said. Her voice was low and flat and her eyes showed betrayal. How is this ever going to work out?
--
I just phoned the manor. I need to write down the conversation. I don't know how I'm supposed to deal with it or how I'm supposed to react.
"Hello" an unfamiliar voice answered the phone, "How can I help?"
"Hi...is Piper there please" I was thrown by the voice, but she didn't seem to realize.
"Sure. She'll be here in a minute." She walked with the phone and I could hear kids laughing in the background and then the woman told Piper that it was for her.
"Hi!" her voice was light- a world away from what it was about to become.
"Hi. It's me, Phoebe."
"Oh. Okay, hi" her voice became flatter. I carried on.
"I was wondering if Lara, my daughter, could come over tomorrow. She really wants to meet you."
"Yeah, that'd be great. Bring her over at about 10.30, would that be okay?"
"Yeah. That'd be fine." There was an awkward silence so I decided to ask what I'd been desperate too.
"Piper, who was it that answered the phone?"
"Can you hold on for a second please?" He voice sounded different. I'd caught her off guard. There were blurred whispers on her side of the line before she came back.
"I don't really know how to tell you this, so I'll just come out with it. The woman who answered the Phone was Paige. Our sister."
A/N: Lyrics- ironic by Alanis Morissete. Please review...thanks a million!
Chapter 7
Well life has a funny way of sneaking up on you
When you think everything's okay and everything's going right
And life has a funny way of helping you out when
You think everything's gone wrong and everything blows up
In your face
May 18th 2015
Lara
Now I look back, I guess that mom was to quiet in the car on the way back to the flat from Gymnastics. I just didn't realize it then; my excitement about my new drowned out her silence. I guess I was just happy that for the first time I was happy in this city.
We got back and I had a shower and got changed. When I came out of my bedroom, she was sitting motionless on the settee. She looked up like she'd been waiting for me and told me she had to tell me something. She looked nervous about what she had to say. I sat opposite her, on the chair. It took a while before she spoke.
"What I am about to tell you," she looked at me directly, "I want you to listen until I've finished. I know it'll be hard, but know that every word of it is the truth and please never forget how much I love you."
Although I knew it wasn't a question, I nodded anyway. I was scared about what she was going to say-she didn't get this nervous very often. And then she told me. The words don't5 matter- I can't remember them anyway. She told me about the one thing she'd neglected to talk about for 10 years, her life before me.
When she was just over 2 years old, her mom, patty, died-leaving behind 3 daughters. This means that my Mom has another sister-Piper. At least now I know where my middle name came from. She's three years younger than Prue and two years older than mom. Their grams raised the 3 of them after their dad left. Mom began to grow apart from her sisters, and when their grams died 17 years ago, mom went to New York to track down their Dad. That left Prue and Piper here: in San Francisco.
What came next is the hardest part to believe and understand. At first I wondered if mom was making it up; if it was one of her stories about good witches who fought all kinds of evil beings that she used to tell me hen I was little. But the look on her face, and what she had told me earlier, both assured and scared me at the same time. Everything she was telling me now was the truth, and all those stories were real too: accounts of what she and her sisters had done together.
Six months after leaving, she returned to San Francisco. One thing led to another and she found an old book in the attic. It was 'The Book of Shadows'; A magic book. She read the incantation (as she called it) on the front page. It gave her and her sisters their powers. They are good witches called The Charmed Ones. Mom can levitate and have Premonitions; Prue could move things with her mind and could...what did she call it?...Astral projection-be in two places at once; and Piper can freeze time and blow stuff up. Maybe even more now. I wondered what this meant about me-but I didn't ask. I couldn't talk- I'd forgotten how. She told me anyway, I'm a witch too, but she bound my powers at birth, to protect me. I didn't understand what she meant at first-surely I would be able to protect myself better if I had powers? Then she told me the rest, and the reason why she left.
For 3 years the 3 of them vanquished hundreds of demons and they became the strongest force of good. During that time they also found out that their Mom had been killed by a water demon, instead of just drowning like they'd always believed. Then one day, 14 years ago yesterday actually, Prue and Piper got caught on TV vanquishing a demon. There was a media frenzy and Piper was shot-she died. They made a deal with a time demon and time was reversed. But when the demon attacked this time, Prue was killed. And mom left. She left Piper alone and grieving the loss of two sisters instead of one. She said she did it because she couldn't handle staying where she had so many good memories of the three of them together; something that could never happen again. She said she couldn't handle the pain and loss. She said she had to go. She could say as much as she liked but I still don't understand. Everything has changed and screwed up. I don't know what to deal with first. How come this morning I was a normal kid with a mother as my only family, and now...now I'm a stupid witch with an aunt and maybe even cousins out there. Oh god!! Is that who Melinda is from the beach and Maths...my cousin?!?
x
Phoebe
She is so confused. She doesn't know what to deal with first. She's just found out that she's a witch, and, at the same time, that I've been lying to her for her entire life. Well, I didn't exactly say that I only ever had one sister and I was just a normal person-but I knew she believed that and I never corrected her. Isn't that the same thing as lying?
-- She just came into my room. As soon as I told her she just got up and went to her bedroom, and I don't blame her at all. But now she wants to see Piper. She won't even talk to me about what I told her.
"I want to see her" that was all she said. Her voice was low and flat and her eyes showed betrayal. How is this ever going to work out?
--
I just phoned the manor. I need to write down the conversation. I don't know how I'm supposed to deal with it or how I'm supposed to react.
"Hello" an unfamiliar voice answered the phone, "How can I help?"
"Hi...is Piper there please" I was thrown by the voice, but she didn't seem to realize.
"Sure. She'll be here in a minute." She walked with the phone and I could hear kids laughing in the background and then the woman told Piper that it was for her.
"Hi!" her voice was light- a world away from what it was about to become.
"Hi. It's me, Phoebe."
"Oh. Okay, hi" her voice became flatter. I carried on.
"I was wondering if Lara, my daughter, could come over tomorrow. She really wants to meet you."
"Yeah, that'd be great. Bring her over at about 10.30, would that be okay?"
"Yeah. That'd be fine." There was an awkward silence so I decided to ask what I'd been desperate too.
"Piper, who was it that answered the phone?"
"Can you hold on for a second please?" He voice sounded different. I'd caught her off guard. There were blurred whispers on her side of the line before she came back.
"I don't really know how to tell you this, so I'll just come out with it. The woman who answered the Phone was Paige. Our sister."
A/N: Lyrics- ironic by Alanis Morissete. Please review...thanks a million!