Sorry, I didn't have a lot of time to write on vacation, but here's already a chapter, I'll try to write some more when I've got time…
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Phoebe didn't understand it, how could teachers make math so boring? She just couldn't believe it was really as boring as the teacher made it sound, which was like, impossible! And everyone thought the same. But then again, even Piper didn't like math, so something was wrong with the course, if even she didn't like it anymore! When they got into the hallway, which was bustling with life, she started to complain to Julie, she knew her friend would listen. "If I can, I'm quitting that class." Julie nodded. "He's like, so boring and he totally can't stand us!" "Jules, I was just thinking the same think, he hates us." Maybe I should use a spell on him Phoebe thought to herself. But at the same time, she knew she wouldn't, because the penalty for personal gain was not only bad with the elders, but her mother and grandmother would never let her out of the house, ever again.
Like her sister, Phoebe noticed Prue's following. She however couldn't wait for her to be as popular as her older sister. Next year she was going to try-out for the Cheerleading squad and get a huge following of her own. But for now, she could just make fun of her sister. "Look at all those Prue fans" She told Julie, more to brag about her popular sister than something else. "Yep, you've got one popular sister!" Julie answered, to please Phoebe; they'd had that conversation a million times before. Still, the girl couldn't help but noticing Phoebe's other sister, who was laughing with her friend on the other side of the hall. "Piper seems to be having a good time as well." Phoebe looked at Piper who was now going outside, like Prue, who had scared away her groupies. Mary was with her, like always, those two were inseparable. Phoebe liked her, and Mary was the only friend of the family who knew about their powers, which made their bond a bit tighter. Some part of her was immensely jealous of Piper that she actually could tell her best friend about her witchcraft, but there was no way discussing it with her mother, she'd never give in.
"We've got study with the whole grade so nobody will even notice if we're gone. Any ideas where to go?" Phoebe awoke from her dream and shrugged her shoulders. "The mall?" It was quite a silly question; they always went to the mall. They'd only gotten caught once and thanks to some major sucking up to the principal there parents had never found out. Nor Phoebe, nor Julie was even thinking about the consequences if someone would see them this afternoon. They still had two lessons to go, because before lunch there was no way to get out unnoticed. So as the bell rang again and the students went inside, they joined the rest.
Paige had no clue what her sisters were doing, and even if she had, she was more interested in her own life. She was not in high school, which meant that the playground was in fact a play ground. Children were playing games, running around screaming. Paige and some girls of her class were rope skipping. The class had read the book 'The Secret Garden' recently, and a song written in that book had been their new tune for jumping, they even made a little game around it. The girls who were waiting or holding the skipping ropes sang the first two lines and the jumper answered with the two others and a little dance. It was Paige's turn. "Mistress Mary, quite contrary, how does your garden grow?" Paige turned around, clapped her hands and sang. "With silver bells, and cockle shells, and marigolds all in a row." And then she jumped out as another girl jumped in.
This was however, a game that boys found girlie and they preferred to play soccer. However, today nobody had thought of bringing a ball and they were forced to do something else. They had played 'catch me if you can' but then one of them had run into a first year and the teachers had told them to play something more quiet. So now they were just standing against the wall, looking at the girls. Of course Paige, and her friend Elisabeth, short way Lizzie, had noticed that. "Are you jealous?" Paige yelled, looking at Ben. The girls giggled. "Like I would want to play with girls." Ben bit back. Lizzie frowned "Bet you can't even jump in a rope!" The girl's game stopped now as well and both the girls and the boys went to stand in a circle around Paige, Elisabeth and Ben. Well, two half circles really, in the middle of the playground. But as they were not fighting the teachers weren't paying attention. "I do to! Better than you anyway!" Paige noticed he still seemed quite uncomfortably in his pants… "Oh yeah, then show it." The boy doubted for a minute, if he wouldn't, he'd be the laughing stock of the class, if it didn't work, he was as well. "Okay." Paige and Lizzie took the rope and started to turn the rope. Ben went forward and jumped in, well he tried. His foot stayed behind a rope and he was lucky not to fall. The children started laughing even Ben's friends. He looked at them angry and ran away to the toilets.
Paige had won again. She almost felt sorry for the boy, but it hardly lasted long when she thought of previous events. The group shattered and the girls went back to their game. Ben had come out of the toilets again and after some well put ones of his friends they had found another way to entertain them.
It was time to go inside again and soon the playground was silent except for some whispering children who stood in line as they waited for their teachers. Paige was already looking forward to the finding of the underpants…