Piper's face broke into a gigantic smile and she spun around in a circle. "It's negative! Prue!! I'm not pregnant!" She practically shrieked.
"Oh my god!" Prue's face turned from anxiousness to relief in two seconds flat. She pulled Piper into a bear hug that was more like a death grip. "I just have to say...that has to be the best news I've heard all week. I wouldn't want that kind of responsibility and stress prayed on you. You deserve better." She kissed Piper on the forehead and released her from her grip, spotting tears in her little sister's eyes. "Awww honey." She mumbled. "Are you really relieved?"
"Yes" Piper nodded enthusiastically. "It's not just that I'm completely unprepared and inexperienced for a kid, but, I don't think I could handle having Jimmy as the father. Everything about him is getting to me. Whether it's just that I'm ill and cranky, I don't know, but I just...I can't face him. When I think of him I break out in goose pimples and feel like there's something or...someone watching me.... am I weird?" She added after a moment's hesitation.
"No." Prue replied with a small laugh. "You're not weird...but you're definitely rambling!"
"HEY!!" Piper joked, lightly punching Prue on the arm. Now that she knew she didn't have the whole kid thing to worry about, she felt like she could try and be herself again.
"Ok...sorry." Prue mumbled. "But anyway. I just have to say that I'm so happy for you. Now, go take a shower, doll yourself up and tonight my lucky, amazing little sister, we are going out for dinner, and a fabulous movie." She wrapped her arm around Piper's shoulders and gave them a squeeze. "So...what do ya say?"
"I say....... last one to have a shower drives and pays for movie tickets." Piper shouted. Both of them turned around and darted for the door but Piper made it in first, giggling. "Ha ha!!" She said from the inside. "Not to rub your face in it or anything but do you think we can take the scenic route there?"
Prue pulled a face at the door and smiled. "Sure, whatever you say sis!" She said in a high-pitched, childish voice.
Now that Piper was in the bathroom alone, she didn't have to put on a front. Now that she knew the test was negative, she didn't want to have to be all sad and gloomy around her sisters, she wanted to act like she was over it. But inside, something was tearing her up. There was something at the back of her mind that was getting to her, but she couldn't put her finger on it.
She slowly stood up off of the floor and turned on the shower, willing back the tears that were forming in her eyes. She brushed her teeth and took off her make-up from the day before, trying to forget what was playing on her mind.
An hour later and both girls were ready. Piper had thrown on a simple black skirt and a red halterneck and had, as always, put on the teeniest bit of make-up to make her eyes look big and bright. It was something her Aunt had taught her before she had moved away. Not only did it make the eyes prettier and the most beautiful feature, but it also highlighted the cheekbones, something that every Halliwell woman was proud of.
"Wow Piper!" Prue said, giggling as Piper did a twirl and struck a model pose. "You would never have known you were worried about being pregnant this morning."
Grams chose that exact moment to walk in. "Who was worried about being pregnant this morning?"
Prue went a slight shade of red and Piper had to save her from the embarrassment...along with herself. "Oh my God Grams...you wouldn't believe it! Prue was telling me about how her friend was so worried this morning..she had to run out of class and was like, physically sick because she was so worried...it's awful." Piper put a lot of emotion into the last word and put on a concerned face.
Grams just shook her head and wandered past. "teenage girls" she muttered. "what will they get up to next."
Piper chuckled at how well she'd covered up and turned to Prue. "You are so pathetic...do you know that. If I wasn't here you would have just landed me in it!"
"I'm sorry!" Prue insisted and pouted like a little child for all of two seconds. Then she returned to her chirpy self. "So...how comes you don't look like someone that was worried about being pregnant this morning?"
"Because I'm over it...I'm over everything and tonight I just want to go out and have a good time with you. I'm fed up of worrying, I'm fed up of caring. I just want to be me and grow up and be a 'teenage girl', like Grams said, in my own time, not when everyone else is pushing me to." She rambled, looking up at Prue and smiling.
"Who pushes you too?" Prue said, pulling Piper onto the bed and talking to her seriously.
"Just....people. Jimmy obviously. He doesn't actually force me, but he hints at what he wants and I feel like I have to do it. Sometimes I feel like if something happens between us then I'll never find someone else, and I don't want to be all alone." She said, shaking her head. "But then there's my friends like Carrie and Jo that are always talking about what they've done and how 'amazingly cool' it is. And I just think that it can't be that bad...then I regret it straight after and feel like some slut Jimmy is just using."
"Honey...Jimmy loves you, he told you that. But, I'm telling you this as a sister and a friend. You need to do what is right for you...not for him. You can't take responsibility for his love life and your own. If you don't feel right with Jimmy, then leave him, you'll find somebody else, and leave it to him to sort his problems out. You don't need to drag him along behind because you're worried of what he'll do to you." Prue whispered to her, stroking her hair.
Piper looked up at her, confused, and questions her. "I never said I was worried about what he'd do to me."
"No...I know you didn't." Prue replied. "But I know you inside out..and I think that's what's had you worried and sick. Ok? So do me a favour...and decide what you want and bring back the Piper I'm used to having as a sister...soon ok?" She asked, lifting Piper's chin up and looking at her.
Piper managed a smile and suddenly felt a lot better. "Yeah...thanks Prue." At that moment the telephone rang and Piper grumbled "That might be Jimmy"
Prue looked at her. "Then go do whatever it is you gotta do to be happy again, sis." Prue crossed her legs and picked a magazine up off of the floor, flicking through it.
"Hello?" Piper said into the receiver.
"Hey Piper, it's me." Jimmy said in his deep, sexy voice. "Why weren't you at school today?"
"Oh...I wasn't feeling so good." She replied. When Prue looked up, Piper mouthed the word Jimmy to her and pretended to cut her throat.
"Piper...we arranged to have lunch today! You can't just blow me off like that. I thought we were a couple." He said, his voice getting throaty with anger and irritation.
She found herself getting frustrated with him always thinking about himself. If he could think about himself all the time, it was time for her to do it to. "Listen Jimmy." She mumbled. "I don't think things are working. I think...I think we need to take a break for a while and see how we go because my hearts not in this relationship anymore, and I don't think you're willing to put in the effort."
"What?" he chuckled. "Are you breaking up with me?!?"
"I'm sorry Jimmy...I really am." She mumbled. She slowly pulled the phone away from her ear, switched it off and held it in her lap, looking at it.
Prue scooted over to her and cuddled her, stroking her hair. "You did the right thing honey, you know you did."
Piper looked up at her and smiled, hugging against Prue's shoulder and breathing a sigh of relief.
On the other side of town, Jimmy lowered the phone back into it's cradle and rested his head in his hands, a single tear rolling down his cheek. Piper meant everything to him, sometimes he didn't show it, but that was because he felt that teenage boys wanted to act like a man and not show that kind of emotion. He threw himself back onto his bed and picked up a picture of the two of them. He'd never been that sad, and had never felt the need to cry, but now he knew what it felt like to be heartbroken.
AN: Ok...I know that people are probably getting slightly annoyed for the lack of Leo in a Piper/Leo fic (how does that work!?!?!) but I can now say that next chapter there will be a new character in the form of a tall, blond, sweet, funny, hunky male (wow....omg I so need a life. I'm craving 37 year old men!! :S)