No Prue and Andy for a while. A little Paige though, we can't forget her… I'm gonna think of some plots while I'm away. I've really not decided what way Mary's gonna go. But I promise you, it'll be a chapter all about Mary even if she isn't a witch, Halliwell, or anything like it. I'm gonna be away for three days now. So, see you guys all in 2004 Happy New Year!
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"Daddy!" Paige yelled as she ran to her father and jumped in his arms. "Munchkin." Sam laughed while he twirled his little girl around. "How was school?" He asked. Paige waved Lizzie goodbye before she answered. "Miss Brachett said that I drew good." She said proudly at her father. "Has she just discovered that now?" Paige giggled. "I've missed you." Sam sighed as he looked at the girl, he missed her too. "That's why I'm here now, isn't it?" The girl nodded. "Let's go home and get ready for our date, shall we." Paige chuckled. "It's not a date, silly." She told her father as she got in the car. "I'm taking my chance before all your boyfriends come knocking on the door." Paige put out her tongue at him. "Boys are stupid." We'll talk again in a year or two." Sam started the engine.
"Dad?" Paige had doubted for a moment, but decided she wanted an answer to her question. "Honey?" "Why don't you have euh." Sam looked at her, wondering. "Why don't I have what?" "A girlfriend?" Sam had to do his best holding on to the wheel. "Why do you want to know?" It wasn't every day your eleven-year-old asked you why you had no particular love life. "Victor has lots of girlfriends and Prue and Piper chase them away." Sam laughed. "I know they do. But I'm not alloud to have girlfriends, you know that." Paige knew that far too well. Her parents had told her more than once how much trouble they had gotten when she'd been born because it was against the rules. "I know." "How are your sisters?" Sam asked his daughter, to get her off the subject. "They're gonna scare away Victor's new girlfriend tonight." Maybe the subject wasn't exactly over yet. "Are they? I guess that means they're good." Paige shrugged her shoulders. "I think so." "Say hi to them from me, and your mom too." "Okay." Paige answered before it became silent.
"Dad! Guess who's home!" Prue was the first one inside and found it important to alert her father to their presence. "Girls! So nice to see you again." Victor appeared out of the living room and kissed his daughters. When he came to Phoebe, he whispered, "Your mother called, we'll talk later, but don't think you'll get off unpunished." Again Phoebe bowed her head. She hadn't said a word during the rest of the ride. "So dad." Piper said as soon as he was standing before them again. "Who came with the car that's parked on our spot?" Victor sighed, he knew his daughters weren't exactly fond of his girlfriends and he was afraid they'd find away to chase this one away again. "Her name is Joanna, and I want you guys to be civil with her." "We are always civil father." Prue said, mockingly. "You know what I mean." "Maybe it's not us, maybe all your girlfriends just already have a problem." Phoebe was back in business. Prue and Piper laughed. "We'll behave dad, I promise." "It's not you I worry about Piper and you know it." She did know it, but that didn't mean she couldn't get nasty.
"Hi mister Bennet." Mary said, when she noticed that she hadn't been noticed." "Mary, hi, what are you doing here?" "We're going to help her get ready for a party." Prue answered her father. "Yeah, she's gonna save Prue's reputation." Victor looked at his daughter, not understanding. "Don't ask." Piper added. "I won't." "Are you ever going to introduce me?" All four girls looked at the woman now standing in the doorway. She was pretty, they had to admit it, one of the better. The woman looked like Patty, different, but they had some stuff that were scary alike. Piper knew those eyes, this really was scary. "Girls, this is Joanna." "Joanna, These are Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Piper's friend Mary." Victor introduced them by pointing at them. "Nice to meet you guys, finally, Victor's told me all about you." "I bet." Prue said under her breath. "Prue." Piper bit back. "We'll be disappearing in our rooms for a while. See ya." Prue said as she pulled her sisters and Mary upstairs. "Girls!" Victor yelled, but they were already running upstairs. "Sorry," he apologized his daughters to Joanna. "It's okay, they probably have important stuff to get to anyway. So do we." She smiled and kissed him.
"She seems nice." Piper said as soon as they got upstairs. "She looked like mom." Phoebe actually liked her, but she always liked them, in the beginning anyway. "We'll see at dinner." Prue said harsh. She was not very optimistic about her father's girlfriends, ever. "So Mary, when was the last time you actually wore any make up?" Mary frowned as she stared at Prue. "Carnaval make up as a kid?" Prue rolled her eyes. "You're serious?" "No, she's also a cheerleader." "Thanks for the clearification, Piper." Prue bit back. "We'll do clothes first, then that's over yet." Prue said as she opened her closet and took out her dresses to lay them on the bed. "They're not my best, but it's all this house has of my clothes." Mary's jaw dropped. "I have to wear something of yours?" "Don't worry, they're not that new. What about this one?" She held up a red dress. "Prue, that's not a dress, that's a piece of fabric." Piper sighed, didn't her sister have any normal clothes?
"What about this one." Piper had found a dress, it was a blue one, it would come just above Mary's knees and the neck was just not to open. "So, closed." Typical Prue, Phoebe thought to herself. "It's great." Mary took the dress and put it on. "You look great." Piper said, and even Prue had to admit her sister had chosen a beautiful dress. "Let's start that make-up and hair." Mary looked quite frightened when she saw Prue coming with her make-up back and her brushes. "I'm gonna die." "You're gonna get a make over, with my sister, I wish you luck." "Famous last words." Phoebe added to Piper's encouraging words. Then the make over began…