A/N: I finally figured out how I'm gonna put Chris in this and Dixon too. I'm so proud of myself. : ) In case you haven't figured, I put my reponse to reviews at the end of the chapter because I'm different and like to do things that way.
"Cole, over here!" Phoebe called, finally spotting Cole after waiting around for him for a good twenty minutes. Cole heard her and waved, making his way through the small crowd of students to her.
"Sorry, I'm late. Something came up." He apologized.
Phoebe, blinded by how cute he was, just shook her head dumbly, "It's fine. I wasn't waiting long." So she told a small lie, look at those eyes.
"Come on," He said, gently brushing her arm with his hand, leading her towards a table in the center of the room. Phoebe shivered lightly when he touched her. "Hey guys, this is-"
The entire table looked up, stopping the conversation that had been going on, "Phoebe?" Piper asked, stunned to see her sister.
"Piper?" Phoebe echoed the same surprise.
"You two know each other?" Cole asked.
"She's my sister," Piper and Phoebe answered at the same time.
Cole just nodded, "Okay, then, Phoebe, that's Sydney, Francie, Will, and Leo."
"Hey," The four greeted her. Phoebe smiled and said a "hey" back. Cole gestured for her to sit and she did, next to Piper because that was the only spot left. The round table only sat six people.
"So, this is one of your sisters?" Will asked Piper and Francie hit him again. "Seriously, stop with the hitting thing."
"Stop with the creepy guy thing," Francie replied, hand still raised to hit him.
"Did I miss something?" Phoebe asked.
"You don't wanna know," Piper said.
"Francie and me are going to the mall tonight, you both wanna come?" Sydney seemed to snap out of her mood with the arrival of new people at the table.
"Can't," Phoebe answered, but didn't explain leaving Piper to do so.
"We have to have dinner with our Dad tonight. Sort of a sorry-you-have-to- come-live-with-me-because-you-had-no-where-else-to-go thing."
Sydney nodded, "I remember those. Soon, you get the sorry-I-missed-yet- another-holiday-and-or-birthday-because-I-was-working dinners."
"Great," Piper mumbled, "Pheebs, have you seen Paige today?"
Phoebe shrugged, "Nope, she's probably still at home sleeping."
"You said she had left already," Piper countered.
"No," Phoebe said, "I said that I thought she had already left. I didn't know for sure."
"Ooh, that's bad." Piper mumbled. Phoebe nodded, and grabbed half of Piper's sandwich to eat.
"Why?" Francie asked.
"Paige is fourteen and can't drive yet and we live about two miles away." Phoebe said, before taking a bite of the sandwich.
"And thirty minutes if you run." Piper and Phoebe grimaced and looked up, seeing a very angry Paige standing behind them. "Thanks for leaving me."
"I thought you had left already," Phoebe said in her defense, downing another bite of the stolen sandwich. "Sorry."
"Yeah, don't be so elusive and you won't get left behind," Piper said, glaring at Phoebe for taking her food. Phoebe pretended not to notice.
"Yeah, whatever, just try not to leave me tomorrow." Paige said, walking off to find Glen.
"Try to wake up earlier," Phoebe yelled after her. Paige waved her hand over her shoulder and kept walking.
"So that's your other sister?" Will asked, breaking the silence.
Before Francie could hit him again, Leo spoke up, "Will, I left my algebra book in your locker. Can you come with me to go get it?"
"Yeah, sure," Will said, standing up and following Leo out of the cafeteria.
"So, I feel weird at table of four girls," Cole said, standing up, "I'll leave you to your girl talk." He left pretty quickly in Phoebe's mind but she chose to just let it go.
"How about tomorrow? Movie, my place, spa treatment?" Sydney asked. "Paige can come too," She added.
"Paige'll be fine, and what is this spa treatment?" Phoebe asked, interested in anything pampering.
"My Dad tries to buy my love with manicurists and masseuses." Sydney explained.
"Sounds great and we'll ask Paige if she wants to come," Piper said, throwing a glance at Phoebe. Phoebe always wanted to leave their younger sister behind because she just that, their younger sister.
"Okay," Sydney said with a smile.
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Glen looked up when Paige stormed over, looking very angry, "Did you wreak revenge against you sisters without me?"
Paige laughed and sat next to him, "Yeah, sorry. They'll do it again next week, so you can help then."
"It's a date," Glen replied. He noticed Paige's look at his friend and added, "That's Richard by the way."
"Hi," Paige said, with a smile. This Richard was kind of cute but then again, so was Glen. Man, this was hard.
"Hi," Richard mumbled, returning the smile. His eyes met hers and Paige had the sudden want to lean over the table and kiss him. She shook her head, breaking the eye contact and tried to listen to what Glen was saying. Every once and while, she glanced back at Richard to find him staring back at her.
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(A/N: the conversation between Vaughn and Eric overlaps a bit, going back to before Leo leaves the cafeteria. okay?)
"Her name's Piper." Vaughn said to Eric, sitting back down next to him. "And I think Leo's making the move on her."
Eric glanced over at the table, seeing Piper and Leo in a conversation and Piper giggling and blushing whenever Leo said something. "Should've known he's move in first." He mumbled.
Vaughn shook his head wearily, "Dude that was three years ago." Three years ago, Eric and Leo had liked the same girl but Leo had gotten to her first because Eric waited to long to ask her out. The girl moved away soon after because her dad's company had transferred him across the Pacific. Leo seemed to forget the entire thing, Eric however, did not.
"So, it still happened. He always gets the girl first." Eric took on a sullen mood and Vaughn decided to ignore it.
"There you are, darling," Lauren said with a wide smile, sitting down on Vaughn's lap and giving him a quick peck. "I missed you over the weekend. What were you doing?"
Vaughn sighed heavily, "I was helping my aunt move into her apartment. I told you that." Okay, so that was a lie. He was with Sydney and her group of friends down at the beach all weekend. What Lauren didn't know wouldn't kill her.
Lauren froze, trying to remember if he had told her that. She didn't think he had told her that. Quickly recovering, she laughed lightly, "Oh, that's right. Must have slipped my mind." She had the feeling he had been with that Sydney girl again. It was no secret to her that he liked Sydney but she knew he was too honor-bound to ever cheat on her with Sydney, so she had very little to worry about. "Listen, darling, Daddy wants to have some father/daughter time and he's taking me out of school early so we can go shopping. So, I won't be seeing you this afternoon."
Vaughn hid the quick smile he felt coming on, "That's okay, you go have fun with your father."
Lauren threw her arms around his neck and kissed him again, "You're the best, darling." Seeing the time on her watch, she jumped up, "Oh, I have to go. I was supposed to meet Daddy five minutes ago. Bye."
"Bye," Vaughn said after her as she ran from the cafeteria.
"Dude, you are so lucky," Eric said, watching the whole thing.
Vaughn nodded absentmindedly, looking over at Sydney's table, frowning when he saw that she wasn't there anymore, "Uh-huh."
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Lauren tapped her foot impatiently on the asphalt, and looked around her. He was late, again. Finally a black convertible screeched up beside her and she smiled. "You're late."
He glanced up at her, "I know. I was busy." He motioned to the seat next to him, "Get in." She did and he kissed her on the check, "What'd did you tell him?"
"I told Michael that I was going out with my father for the afternoon. Something about father/daughter time." She answered, casually, putting on her sunglasses.
He laughed, "That's one of your better excuses."
She turned to him and kissed him on the lips, "Where are we going?"
"You'll see," He answered, speeding out of the school parking lot.
Sydney and Piper looked on to the whole thing. Sydney had offered to show Piper around the school, and leaving Phoebe and Francie to their gossip. Sydney swore under her breath and turned away from the parking lot.
"Wasn't that Vaughn's girlfriend?" Piper asked, following her.
"Yeah," Sydney answered, "She's cheating on him with Sark."
"Who?"
"He's home schooled, for the most part. He has to show up here every once and a while for a class." Sydney swore again, "Everyone knows that she and Sark are having a fling, except maybe Vaughn. He is so blind sometimes."
Piper studied her new found friend, "You like him."
Instead of protesting like she usually did, Sydney sighed heavily, "Even if I did, Vaughn's too nice to ever cheat on that bitch, and he won't break up with her just because I like him." She shook off the uncharacteristic mood and turned to Piper. "So, what about you? See any guys you like?"
Piper blushed, "No."
"Liar, you and Leo were having a very flirty conversation back there." Sydney smiled, devilishly, "He obviously likes you."
"He does not," Piper protested, "He was just being nice."
"Um-hmmm," Sydney said, not believing Piper, "Nice cause he likes you."
"Shut up," Piper said, getting annoyed.
"Do you like him?"
Piper stared at Sydney to see if she was serious. She was. "Maybe," She admitted, quietly.
Sydney squealed, "I knew it. So if he asked you out would you say 'yes'?"
Piper shrugged, "I don't know, maybe."
"I can ask if he likes you."
Piper's eyes widened, "Don't you dare."
Sydney covered her ears, "I'm sorry what was that? Did you say go ask him? Okay," She said in a sing song voice. Piper started to protest, "Yes, go ask him, alright."
Piper pulled on Sydney's arm, pulling her hand of her ear. "Don't you dare." Sydney smiled and it was then that Piper realized that she was kidding. "You suck."
Sydney laughed, "I know but not for free."
Piper hit Sydney's arm, and wrinkled her nose, "Ewww, that's just wrong." Sydney just laughed more.
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Response to reviews:
lil-whitelighter111488- I think everyone hated Nate and yes, the Piper/Leo-ness has finally gone under way. Everything is right with the world.
Janarose- Yea, I like how Leo was all "no one can be prettier than you" it made me all warm and fuzzy and I'm writing the thing. Alias is supposed to be on TV but stupid ABC isn't showing any reruns and making me very very mad. oh well, I have the first two seasons on DVD, so I'll just watch those more.
xjelliepotatoex- Yes, there is the Piper/Leo. There'll be more but I want to build a friendship with the girls before we shove the men in there, which will happen. I predict cat-fights and nasty words exchanged. Sydney's in denial just as she was for a whole freakin' season! Anywho, I swear there will be lots more Piper/Leo-ness on the way!
Charmed-angel4- Okay, I was going to put Paige and Glen together anyway, though it may not seem like it in the next chapter or so. But they will be together.