A/N: Okay, I know that I haven't been updating this story as often as I used to. It's just that I'm having writer's block issues and it's taking me longer to write chapters for this than it used to. So what I'm trying to say is, that there will still be updates for this, hopefully every few days, they just won't be like everyday unless I get a burst of inspiration.

"Paige! Phoebe! Come on, we're not gonna make it out of this town before rush hour if you two don't get your butts out here." Piper yelled, again. Paige and Phoebe were just not morning people. Even Paige, who seemed to like getting up early on school days, dragged her feet on weekends.

"Yeah, yeah, we're coming." Paige yelled back, making an appearance at the front door of the mansion, and pulling her suitcase behind her. Phoebe followed, half asleep, with a suitcase as well.

"They seem chipper." Sydney commented, from her spot leaning against the hood of the car.

Piper laughed, and leaned against the car as well next to Sydney. "Yeah, they're morning people at heart."

"You're evil, you know that?" Phoebe pointed a lazy finger at Piper, stopping in front of her to stretch and yawn. "It's way too early to be up. The sun isn't even up yet." Phoebe moved her pointing finger from Piper to the sky.

"Yes it is, you just can't see it cause your eyes are closed." Piper answered, taking the suitcase from Phoebe and stuffing it into the trunk. She offered to do the same for Paige, who declined and tossed it in there herself.

Phoebe made a face at Piper before stumbling into the backseat. She immediately closed her eyes expecting sleep. But fate was not kind to her for her cell phone started beeping. She groaned and reached into her jacket for the offending object. Lazily, she opened one eye to read the caller ID. Instantly, she shot awake and opened the text message, squealing with joy.

"What got into you?" Paige wondered, staring at her sister and her over reaction to a text message.

"It's Cole. He's wishing me a good time in San Francisco this weekend. Isn't that sweet?" Phoebe answered, happily typing away at a reply to Cole.

"Yeah, sure, whatever, just keep the love fest down. Some of us want to sleep." Paige answered, grumpily and laying her head back on the seat. It didn't take her long to fall asleep again.

"Okay then, are we leaving or what?" Sydney asked, buckling the passenger side seat belt. Phoebe had bickered about wanting the shot gun seat but with her new found love of the wonders of text messaging, it was safe to assume she wouldn't want the seat anymore.

"Yeah," Piper answered, turning over the engine and speeding down the street.

()

"Are we there yet?"

Piper let out a slow breath before answering, "No Paige, we're not there yet. We haven't even reached San Francisco yet."

Paige scoffed, disappointed, and nodded, "Okay. But I'm bored."

"I know, Paige, me too." Piper answered. Both Phoebe and Sydney were sleeping. They had fallen asleep soon after Paige woke up.

"How about a game?" Paige offered.

"What kind of game?" Piper asked, adjusting the speed on the cruise control. "Um, twenty questions?"

Piper sighed, "Sure."

Paige almost squealed for joy because Piper never played that game. She had to be incredibly bored. "Okay, I'll go first."

"Can they read?" Piper asked, automatically.

"Yes."

"Are they female?"

"No."

"Is the person you're thinking of Orlando Bloom?"

Paige's jaw dropped, "How'd you know?"

"Cause you have the biggest crush on him ever." Piper answered.

Paige leaned back, moodily, no longer in the mood to play. Piper smiled to herself and kept driving.

()

"Paige, that sucker is getting very annoying." Piper said, through clenched teeth.

Paige defiantly slurped on the sucker and pulled if out of her mouth with a loud "pop". "How?"

"You know how." Piper answered, and added, "And it's going to rot your teeth."

"They're my teeth to rot thank you very much." Paige replied, sticking the sucker back in her mouth.

"Hey, can I get in on the teeth rotting thing?" Sydney asked, finally waking from her slumber. Phoebe showed no signs of stirring. Apparently after talking to Cole with text messages for about twenty minutes, she became very sleepy again and fell asleep.

"Sure," Paige reached into her purse and pulled out another sucker for Sydney. After Sydney took it, she added, "You talk in your sleep ya know."

"I do?" Sydney questioned and both Piper and Paige nodded, "What did I say?"

"'Don't frost the pie!'" Piper and Paige answered at the same time.

"It seemed really important." Piper added.

Sydney smiled and stuck the sucker in her mouth, "Yeah, well it was at the time."

"Huh?" Paige asked.

"My Dad decided to make a pie for Christmas a few years ago. Only it was like a Shepard's pie and he was going to put chocolate frosting on it." Sydney explained. Both Paige and Piper burst out laughing.

Phoebe made a groaning noise and slowly started to open her eyes hearing the noisy laughter. "What is so funny?"

"It wakes," Paige mumbled, sarcastically. Phoebe caught it and stuck her tongue out at Paige. "You wouldn't get it." Paige added, louder.

"Try me." Phoebe answered.

"Are we there yet?" Paige asked, changing the subject.

"Subtle, Paige, real subtle." Phoebe muttered, angry that Paige wouldn't tell her what was so funny that they had to laugh and wake her up.

Piper smiled, "About fifteen minutes, Paige."

()

"So, this is the infamous manor?" Sydney wondered, after Piper had unlocked the front door and let everyone in. The manor was clean for once but then again no one had been inside it for over two months.

"Yep, this is the manor." Piper answered, as Paige and Phoebe rushed past them and up the stairs. "And those two blurs were Paige and Phoebe."

Sydney laughed, "So where do I sleep?"

"There's an extra bed in my room. I used to share a room with Prue, you can sleep there."

Sydney noted the saddened look on Piper's face when she talked about her older sister, "Have you talked to her lately?"

"Prue?" Sydney nodded. "About two weeks ago. It's hard, ya know, becoming the oldest sister when you're used to being the middle."

Sydney nodded, then changing her mind, shook her head, "No I don't know, only child."

"Well, you're lucky."

Sydney shrugged, "I guess."

"Alright, let's go drop off our stuff and then we can go shopping."

Sydney smiled, "I like the sound of that."

()

Paige sighed when she fell back on her bed. It felt good to be home, very, very good. With the exception that her room was practically empty for all her stuff was in L.A., her room seemed to be the way she had left it.

"Knock, knock." Phoebe said, leaning in the doorway.

Paige looked up, "What do you want?"

Phoebe took a deep breath, "Well, I was going to the salon and thought you might want to come along." Paige started to shake her head, so Phoebe added, "Come on, I know how much you hate the hairdresser in L.A. It'll be good to see Fernando again." Fernando was the hairdresser the girls had gone to when they lived in San Francisco.

Paige nodded and stood up, "Alright. So what do you have in mind?" Meaning, what kind of style Phoebe wanted done.

"You'll see." Phoebe answered, mysteriously.

"Okay, different question, how are we going to get there? Piper and Sydney took the car."

Phoebe pulled out her cell phone and said, "We'll call a cab."

"And how are we going to pay for it?"

"You ask too many questions, Paige." Phoebe sighed, and dialed the number. "And haven't you ever heard of something called daddy's credit cards?" She added, waiting for the cab service to pick up.

"You stole Dad's credit cards?" Paige asked, staring at Phoebe.

"Only one and yeah, now shush." Phoebe placed a finger over Paige's lips to keep her from saying anymore when the cab service picked up.

()

"This place is awesome!" Sydney exclaimed, running into another booth at the outdoor market, conveniently located beachside, so patrons got a view of the ocean while shopping.

Piper laughed and followed her into the booth, "Yeah, we used to come here all the time."

"We?" Sydney questioned, holding up a turquoise necklace to inspect it.

"Mostly my Grams and I. She loved this booth." Piper looked around. It was one of those gypsy looking booths covered in all that new age stuff.

"Well, your Grams had good taste cause this place rocks." Sydney picked up another necklace and added it to her growing pile of things to purchase.

Piper managed to get Sydney out of the booth before she spent all of her money and the two girls proceeded to stroll down the boardwalk.

"Okay, since we just spent a bunch of time in the freaky deaky booth, wanna hear something strange?"

Piper laughed. Sydney had named the booth 'the freaky deaky booth' after hearing that Piper's Grams liked the booth. "Sure."

"Okay, last week, I went for a run, right and I stopped at this bench to stretch. And on the bench was a letter, addressed to me."

"Did you open it?" Piper asked.

"No, not yet." Sydney admitted.

"Why not?" Piper noticed that Sydney had suddenly frozen, her eyes staring wide-eyed at something. "Syd? You okay?" Sydney continued to stare, so Piper looked to where she was staring. She didn't see anything out of the ordinary. "Syd?"

"I just saw my mother." Sydney said, suddenly.
syad yniar- hehe, glad you like Syd's prank. I had so much fun writing it. Yay! you love Sydney now! And yeah, I was liking the Aliasness too, I just was like, I need to have more Charmedness going or I'm gonna have to move this story over to the Alias section. hehe, I love going out in the rain too. I just try to cover up my arms and hands when I do so my writing doesn't wash off. You can't live in the middle of nowhere, cause that's where I live. Wait, where do you live? Oh and thanks for wishing me a happy birthday. who cares if it's one day late, at least you said it unlike some of my friends who are no longer my friends.

Lost Darkness- One of my friends is like and entire head taller than me and she likes to come up behind me and rest her head on top of mine. Needless to say, it's strange. No creepy is a better word. Thanks for wishing me a happy birthday! I love people who do that!

x3Tinkerbell07- Have fun on your vacation unlike me when I went on mine. It just sucked. Anway, I think you do know what the secret is, cause it's really kinda obvious.

charmedeva- ya know, when I read your review and you were like "you're not that weird" and then something about tampons, I was starting laughing. I think that just proved that I am wierd. hehe, yeah, I'm weird! probably something I shouldn't be proud of but strangely I am.

Klutz101- I'll try not to keep you waiting too long. Really, I will.

Charmed-angel4- Yeah, a flying bus or walking on water? I take it that you don't live in the US. And I'm sure that there's a flying bus somewhere in the world, and if not, I'll blackmail some scientist into making one. Yeah, that's what I'll do. Blackmail is a very powerful weapon.

p3charmed4eva- Yeah, Glen/Paige/Richard triangle. hehe! I think both are good for her, she just needs a man that will stick around for more than half a season. It sucks that that's all Paige gets is a half season boyfriend while Phoebe and Piper and even Prue got men for at least a season.

Princess Pinky- Yes, Sydney is evil, which they commented on several times and I could kinda see Leo doing the smelly jersey thing to Piper cause yeah, he is a teenage boy and they tend to do things like that. I'll try to incorperate more P/L. And it does seem like Leo is already a whitelighter, doesn't it? hmmm, can't say for sure. hehe, it's a secret! I keep saying that but it's true.

Chub- So is your vacation a "yay! vacation!" kinda thing or is it a "it's not really a vacation if you're forced to go" kinda thing? Cause mine was the latter one. Well, anyway, hope you have fun and I will be anxiously waiting your return so I can have a review. hehe, just kidding, sorta.