"Wow, your place is...wow." Phoebe finished lamely, after the five girls walked into Sydney's huge mansion.
"And empty," Sydney muttered. Piper noticed but decided not to mention it yet. "So, what first? Manicure or massages?"
"Either," Paige said, as much in a daze as Phoebe was at the house.
Sydney smiled and led the girls into a sun room just off the foyer. "This is Ella and Elise, they are the masseuses, and Ling, Julia, and Kate are the manicurists. Take your pick." Phoebe and Francie immediately volunteered for the massage, causing a few giggles from the others.
"Are you sure this is alright?" Paige asked, hesitatingly sitting down in the comfortable lounge chair so Julia could do her nails.
Sydney nodded, "Yeah, they're paid by the day, not the hour. So they have nothing else to do." She turned to Kate and said, "I think we'll go with red today." Kate nodded and started to buff Sydney's nails.
"You are really spoiled," Piper observed, after Ling began work on her nails. Sydney shrugged, "It's this or some kind of money to go to the mall and pay for the same services. So I figure I may as well be in my own home than in a loud crowded mall. My Dad thinks that this stuff keeps me happy. He doesn't understand that I'd rather have just one dinner without work interrupting with him, than all this crap."
"Yep, that sounds just about right," Paige said, settling into the chair and letting herself be pampered. Sydney and Piper giggled.
"Miss, what movie would you like me to put on?" Sydney's butler asked her.
Sydney bit her lip and turned to Piper, "What do you want?"
Piper shrugged, "Anything's fine."
"Anything with a hot guy," Francie yelled from the other room.
"I second that," Phoebe added, from the other room as well.
Sydney tried not to laugh and said to the butler, "Scary movie 3 will be fine." The butler nodded and left the room to fetch the movie. A couple minutes later, the movie was playing on the large screen TV in the room.
"That's what I'm talking about," Paige said, turning into her usual TV zombie mood.
"Paige likes these kinds of movies," Piper whispered to Sydney.
About forty-five minutes into the movie, Francie and Phoebe appeared looking very relaxed. "I am definitely coming back here." Phoebe said, plopping into one of the free chairs and holding out her hand for Kate to start work on. Francie did the same, only so Ling did her nails.
"I guess we'll go get the massages," Sydney said.
Piper followed her into the other room. Laying face first on the massage tables, both girls removed their bras and Ella and Elise began to knead the knots out. "Sorry, Phoebe invited herself back here." Piper said, turning her head towards Sydney.
"That's fine, I was going to invite you guys again next week anyway. Guess I don't have to ask now." Sydney answered.
"You do this every week?"
"Yep," Sydney answered calmly, "I told you that my Dad was trying to buy my love. And just between you and me, I'm glad there's people other than just Francie coming. I think she's only friends with me because I let her get free massages and manicures."
Piper laughed, "I'm sure there's more to it."
"Yeah, my Dad's credit card," Sydney laughed as well. "So I saw you talking to Leo today. What ever did the two of you talk about?"
Piper thought about seriously hurting Sydney for her prying but then she realized that it was because she actually cared and they were friends now. Sure, they had known each other for one day but nonetheless friends, "He wanted to borrow my notes for history, no big deal."
Sydney smiled a wicked smile, "He wanted to borrow your notes?" She repeated and Piper nodded, "He so likes you."
"No guy like me," Piper said, quietly.
Sydney's teasing manner disappeared, replaced by concern, "Why? I mean your pretty and smart and nice, how can no guy not like you?"
Piper hesitated, would Sydney still want to be her friend after hearing about what her life had been like in San Francisco? Well there was only one way to find out, "In my last school I was the geek, the nobody. No guy would ever talk to me, much less like me."
Sydney's eyes took on a hard look, "Then those guys are morons. If they can't see what a great person you are, then don't even deserve to be in your presence."
"You're just saying that."
Sydney sat up, and waved Ella and Elise out of the room, "No, I'm not. I don't 'just say' things to make people feel better. Piper, every woman is a goddess, and you have to start acting like it." Piper sat up as well and nodded. Sydney suddenly thought of something and jumped off the table, "Come on," She said, grabbing Piper's hand and pulling her upstairs.
Sydney crossed over to her closet, opening the door and disappearing into the walk-in closet. She came out a couple minutes later, arms stuffed full of clothes, "These don't fit anymore and I think they'll fit you." She dumped the bundle into Piper's arms and steered her towards the bathroom, "Now go try them on and you will come out after every outfit and I will judge how it looks."
"Why can't I judge?" Piper asked, walking into the bathroom and closing the door behind her.
"Because no woman can accurately judge how they look in new clothes." Sydney answered through the door. Piper laughed faintly though the solidness of the door.
"Hey, where are Sydney and Piper?" Phoebe asked, suddenly realizing they weren't in the room even though they had been gone for well over an hour.
Francie shrugged, "They were here."
"An hour ago," Paige mumbled, hearing the two talk. The movie had ended and Francie and Phoebe had taken over the TV, watching some E! True Hollywood story. This of course bored Paige but she had nothing else to do. She had both her fingers and toes done and already gotten a massage. "How about we watch something else?"
"No!" Francie and Phoebe yelled.
"Fine," Paige muttered, leaning back in the chair and closing her eyes. Sometimes Phoebe was so superficial and now that she an equally superficial friend, things were just going to go downhill. Sighing, she opened her eyes and gazed out the window. It took her a moment to realize that Sydney had a large swimming pool in her backyard. "Hey, would Sydney mind if I went for a swim?" Francie shook her head and Paige headed outside. She realized after she was outside that she didn't have her swim suit. Shrugging, she sat by the edge of the pool, dipping her feet in.
Sydney glanced out her bedroom window, waiting for Piper to come out in a different outfit, and saw Paige there. Opening the window, she yelled out, "Hey Paige, why don't you come up here and help me make over Piper. Another woman's opinion won't hurt."
Paige looked up and nodded, "Alright. I'm coming." She pulled her feet out of the warm pool water and ran up the stairs to Sydney's room just as Piper was coming out of the bathroom in Sydney's latest outfit choice. It was kind of loose jeans, and a semi-tight light blue tank top, both showed off her natural curves perfectly. "Wow, Piper you look great."
"I do?" Piper questioned looking at herself in Sydney's full length mirror. Both Sydney and Paige nodded furiously. Piper smiled, "Alright, I admit it. I look good."
"Smoking's a better word," Sydney said, causing Piper to laugh. "You wear that tomorrow and I promise that every guy will be begging at your feet."
"Except for Vaughn?" Piper asked, hinting.
Sydney just laughed, "Except for Vaughn, but I do know that a certain guardianangel will be drooling over you in that outfit."
"Definitely," Paige said, "He won't be able to look away from you all day."
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A/N: Oh, just to make you all beg for more, I'm telling you that the next chapter will be the infamous Paige/Glen chapter that people have been begging me for. Just now you all know there will be lots and lots of Paige/Glen-ness.
Reponse to reviews:
lil-whitelighter111488- You know, you're always the first one(or close to that) to review a chapter. It makes me feel special. And I shall keep writing!
xTInkerbell07- Thank you thank, I won't keep you waiting too long.
LeoPiper24/7- I'm assuming that the "he" in your review is referring to Michael Vartan, so yes, he is very hot, in my opinion anyway but then again I'm a sucker for most anything male with green eyes under the age of 40. Obviously, I've been ranting about owning Chris and Vaughn, they both have green eyes. And Alias is supposed to be in reruns on ABC but they ain't showing any. But the first two seasons are out on DVD, if that helps any. Piper/Leo-ness is coming soon!
p3charmed4eva- Normally I would be offended that you didn't want to read it because of the Alias characters but I'm not because you called my story awesome. It's amazing how mellow I am.
evilpiper- Okay, I think you meant to write "good" not "god" because i'm pretty sure my story doesn't have any power over anyone. So thank you and I will go on!
Charmed-angel4- Yeah, I thought about making Vaughn's screen name "guardianangel" but I needed something for Leo and couldn't think of anything else but whitelighter, or something along those lines, and then he would have had to explain that he guided witches and that would have gotten complicated. And as so Sydney's, it is in the third season that they call her the Chosen one. I'm going off of like the one episode I can remember where they call her the chosen one, I don't know if they do that anymore. More is coming!
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charmed eva- Okay, I offer spoilers to people who email me with the questions they want answered. otherwise, all I am going to say is some people are in for a big surprise. Interperate that as you wish.
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