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To Look Again – Feelings Unveiled
Prue stood staring at her sister, who sat on the bed staring back at her. Their eyes were locked onto each other, Piper looked hurt and so did Prue, slowly Piper moved off the bed and walked over to her sister, she reached out for Prue and grabbed the diary from her hands. Prue jumped as she felt the diary being pulled from her hand with great force. Piper started panting heavily and waited for Prue to talk before she dared say a word, after a few moments Piper spoke up,
"What the hell are you playing at Prue?" she yelled throwing the diary onto the bed, furiously, she marched closer to Prue, "What were you doing Prue?" demanded Piper,
"Nothing," said Prue quietly,
"Nothing? I saw you! You were reading my journal! How dare you!" yelled Piper,
"What?" replied Prue, "How can you possibly yell at me?"
"How can you even ask that? That was my personal diary and you were reading my personal thoughts!" shouted Piper,
"Is your brain on a mental defunct! Do you even remember what you wrote?" asked Prue, tears welling up behind her eyes – but they were not tears of pain they were of anger.
"What does that matter," smirked Piper, "You shouldn't have been reading it in the first place! How could you invade my privacy like that?" yelled Piper,
"You don't want me here!" yelled Prue marching towards the doorway,
"Yes I do!" Piper yelled back, "It will just take a little while to adjust to the fact that your home, but I do want you here. I always have,"
"Then why would you write those things?" questioned Prue storming out of the bedroom and marching down the hallway,
"Because I was scared Prue!" yelled Piper,
"What did you have to be scared of?" demanded Prue,
"You have no idea do you?" yelled Piper, losing control of what she was saying, "You have no idea what this family has been through since you've been in that place. You just have no idea!"
"Then tell me! What have I done?"
"You've pulled us apart!" yelled Piper, "Grams is trying so hard to deal with everything that's happening to you that Phoebe is always late for school and her homework is never done, we haven't had a proper family meal in weeks. Phoebe is messing up at school, Grams is messing up at work, I'm messing up… everyone is messing up! And even when you weren't in that place, didn't you see what has happened to this family. We're all detached; no one knows what's going on with any one else. We're barely even a family any more!" Piper paused and Prue opened her mouth to speak but Piper just continued,
"How can you not see what you've done to me? Prue, even when you weren't in that place I sat up late at nights, waiting until I was sure you weren't going to wake up to try again, I listened until I could hear the crickets to see if you were crying, even if your cries were muffled I could hear them. I knew everything that went on in this house yet I didn't speak up! I just kept quiet, because it was in the best interests of the family!"
"Piper, I don't know what to say," replied Prue, shocked at what her sister was telling her,
"There's nothing you can say. The damage has been done," yelled Piper as she marched towards the stairs in a bid to escape from Prue, Prue followed her. "How could you have been so blind?" questioned Piper as she wiped away the tears that had formed in her eyes, she turned to walk away from Prue and go down the stairs,
"Piper please," pleaded Prue, reaching out to grab Piper's arm. She got hold of her elbow but Piper pulled away, "Piper,"
"No, Prue, no!" yelled Piper, as she spun round to face Prue, "Don't! Just let me be!" she turned to continue down the stairs but lost her footing. Her ankle twisted and caused her to lose her balance. She began to fall to the ground, Prue watched in horror as she saw Piper's body plummet to the bottom of the stairs.
"Piper!" she yelled as Piper let out a scream, her body bounced from the wall, and ricocheted back into the banister with her rib cage. Piper let out another scream as she hit the ground; her head gave a thump as it hit off the foyer's hard wooden floors.
"No!" yelled Prue as she stood still, she wanted to run, she wanted to run to Piper's aid but she found herself completely paralysed by fear and guilt. At that moment Grams and Phoebe walked into the foyer, they both stopped dead in their tracks,
"Prudence? What happened?" said Grams shell-shocked as she looked down at her helpless Granddaughter only this time it wasn't Prue that needed her help.