Chapter 1
Piper was sitting on the steps, her hands gripping a mug of hot coffee.
Her eyes, looking down at the dark liquid, then at the sky, seeing the tide of red and a wave of gold. Causing both of them to clash together, and mixing the two to form a bright orange, which blended beautifully into the blue sky, as the sun was beginning to rise.
She was clearly deep in thought; she had done this so many times. Getting up early, watching the sun as it was beginning to rise.
She had been like this in the pass month, or so that it became like a ritual to her. It was the only time she got to herself without any demon fighting or breaking the arguments between her stubborn sisters.
Seeing the sky and already feeling the gentle breeze, she knew it was going to be another hot summer's day.
Once again closing her eyes as she took in the scene, thinking back to a time that she thought, at last, this was her chance to be happy, to be normal like any other couple, who were in love;
Only to have it crushed like a paper cup, once again. Why was it always like this for her? Why everytime she falls for a guy it starts perfectly, then begins to show sign of strain, then finally ends dramatically?
So deep in thought, she didn't hear the front door opening or the steps that was approaching towards her. She didn't even register what had just been said to her. Until suddenly like a snap of the fingers she heard something. "Huh?"
"A penny for them?.... Your thoughts a penny for them?" As Pheobe sat down beside her. "It's not worth investing in." Piper replied back, facing her and giving a little smile. "It is, if it will take the weight of your shoulders and make that smile of yours last longer." Piper had to smile at that it was one of many reasons that she loved her little sister as she could brighten any dark moment with just a couple of sentences voicing concern or sometimes it would just take only a few words.
"Nothing really, just deep in thought...thinking...reminiscing... that kind of stuff you know!" Piper said, facing once again the sky, watching it as it begins to get lighter and brighter. Pheobe nodded "You've been doing a lot of that lately...Not, to mention distancing yourself from both, Prue and I. Is it something we've done?"
"No, nothing that either you or Prue had done."
"Then what? Care to share?" Silence fell between the two sisters, Pheobe knowing to let Piper speak in her own time and not to push her. Piper battling whether or not to tell her sister was going in that head of hers. She looked at her sister and saw the concern look and love it held for her. Wanting desperately to make her pain go away.
She sighed, taking a deep breath, this was going to be hard for her, but knew, that if she didn't say what's on her mind it will eat her up, and she wouldn't get any closure on the matter. She will never move on.
"I was just thinking about pass boyfriends on how everything seems rosy in the beginning, then ends in crap. Take high school for instance, all my boyfriends ended up being yours at the end of the day." Piper looked at Pheobe seeing her blush and mirroring a little guilt "I'm sorry, but it wasn't my fault that I blossomed quicker then most." Piper gave a little laugh on how true that was. Out of all three of them Pheobe was the one that developed the quickest even quicker then Prue, who she taught how to French kiss a guy. "Yeah, I know I'm over that really, I am. It's the recent ones like Jeremy who was there for me when grams died, then turns he was a warlock and was planning to kill us. Not one of the best relationships I ever had...Then, Mark who was everything I wanted in a man. He cooked, was considerate... kind...."
"Dead?..." Pheobe finished, Piper just glared at her "A ghost would be putting it mildly..." Pheobe just gave a sheepish look "Sorry." She apologised. "Well, at least I got some decent recipes out of that, and I am now the best at cooking Peking duck in San Francisco." Piper stated proudly. "Piper!" Pheobe said in disbelief. "What? It's the truth; and if he wasn't a ghost he would have been the perfect guy for me."
Pheobe felt sorry for her sister as she truly liked Mark and who knows what would have happened if they meet in different circumstances. They could have ended up owning their own restaurant, which was Piper's dream job.
"Then..." Piper took a deep paused "Then...There's Leo, who's already dead, and is our whitelighter, he doesn't grow old and is forbidden for us date one another." Pheobe braced herself for she knew what was to come. It was the only time Piper would unleash her anger and it would scare both her and Prue. "I mean why is it such a bad thing to date one another. What harm would it do?"
"I don'..." Pheobe started but got cut off. "I mean we could of made it work..."
"I know you cou..."
"...We should have been given a chance, shouldn't we?"
"Yes, I arge..."
"I mean let us decide for ourselves whether it was going to work or not." Even before she opened her mouth Piper began to cut her off. So, Pheobe call it quits and let Piper do the talking whist she listened.
"We should have had that chance..." She continued solemnly "...If we did have that chance, then Leo wouldn't get his wings clipped and I wouldn't have meet Dan..."
'Dan...' That sound of that name brought some bad memories back, Piper hadn't really said much on what happened between them all she said was that it could of ended with either of them in hospital.
Both Prue and she had seen the way Dan would start having a go at her even right in front of them, but not really know the situations, she remembered the time when Piper had finally finished with him and cut all ties with him. That she started to act differently going out all night and return home the next morning, whilst Prue shouts at her, saying she's behaving like a disobedient teenager. Then again Piper never did rebel as a teen not to the extreme as either Prue or herself had done. ' I guess she was making it up for it.'
As she paid full attention to Piper she was finally going to learn what went on between them and the effects it had caused.
"Can you believe it's been over a year since me and him parted? How I finally been given the chance to have some normality in my life. It also goes wrong, the Dan I fallen in love with and the Dan I went out with were two different people. It turn out that Dan was like the size of his penis...He was a little prick." She stated bitterly, Pheobe had to hold her laugh, in as she loved the way Piper talks when she gets pissed.
Piper then suddenly put the cup of coffee down and put her head in her hands finally after a year of holding everything in, she let it all out as Pheobe held her close, Piper began to tell Pheobe everything....
Piper was sitting on the steps, her hands gripping a mug of hot coffee.
Her eyes, looking down at the dark liquid, then at the sky, seeing the tide of red and a wave of gold. Causing both of them to clash together, and mixing the two to form a bright orange, which blended beautifully into the blue sky, as the sun was beginning to rise.
She was clearly deep in thought; she had done this so many times. Getting up early, watching the sun as it was beginning to rise.
She had been like this in the pass month, or so that it became like a ritual to her. It was the only time she got to herself without any demon fighting or breaking the arguments between her stubborn sisters.
Seeing the sky and already feeling the gentle breeze, she knew it was going to be another hot summer's day.
Once again closing her eyes as she took in the scene, thinking back to a time that she thought, at last, this was her chance to be happy, to be normal like any other couple, who were in love;
Only to have it crushed like a paper cup, once again. Why was it always like this for her? Why everytime she falls for a guy it starts perfectly, then begins to show sign of strain, then finally ends dramatically?
So deep in thought, she didn't hear the front door opening or the steps that was approaching towards her. She didn't even register what had just been said to her. Until suddenly like a snap of the fingers she heard something. "Huh?"
"A penny for them?.... Your thoughts a penny for them?" As Pheobe sat down beside her. "It's not worth investing in." Piper replied back, facing her and giving a little smile. "It is, if it will take the weight of your shoulders and make that smile of yours last longer." Piper had to smile at that it was one of many reasons that she loved her little sister as she could brighten any dark moment with just a couple of sentences voicing concern or sometimes it would just take only a few words.
"Nothing really, just deep in thought...thinking...reminiscing... that kind of stuff you know!" Piper said, facing once again the sky, watching it as it begins to get lighter and brighter. Pheobe nodded "You've been doing a lot of that lately...Not, to mention distancing yourself from both, Prue and I. Is it something we've done?"
"No, nothing that either you or Prue had done."
"Then what? Care to share?" Silence fell between the two sisters, Pheobe knowing to let Piper speak in her own time and not to push her. Piper battling whether or not to tell her sister was going in that head of hers. She looked at her sister and saw the concern look and love it held for her. Wanting desperately to make her pain go away.
She sighed, taking a deep breath, this was going to be hard for her, but knew, that if she didn't say what's on her mind it will eat her up, and she wouldn't get any closure on the matter. She will never move on.
"I was just thinking about pass boyfriends on how everything seems rosy in the beginning, then ends in crap. Take high school for instance, all my boyfriends ended up being yours at the end of the day." Piper looked at Pheobe seeing her blush and mirroring a little guilt "I'm sorry, but it wasn't my fault that I blossomed quicker then most." Piper gave a little laugh on how true that was. Out of all three of them Pheobe was the one that developed the quickest even quicker then Prue, who she taught how to French kiss a guy. "Yeah, I know I'm over that really, I am. It's the recent ones like Jeremy who was there for me when grams died, then turns he was a warlock and was planning to kill us. Not one of the best relationships I ever had...Then, Mark who was everything I wanted in a man. He cooked, was considerate... kind...."
"Dead?..." Pheobe finished, Piper just glared at her "A ghost would be putting it mildly..." Pheobe just gave a sheepish look "Sorry." She apologised. "Well, at least I got some decent recipes out of that, and I am now the best at cooking Peking duck in San Francisco." Piper stated proudly. "Piper!" Pheobe said in disbelief. "What? It's the truth; and if he wasn't a ghost he would have been the perfect guy for me."
Pheobe felt sorry for her sister as she truly liked Mark and who knows what would have happened if they meet in different circumstances. They could have ended up owning their own restaurant, which was Piper's dream job.
"Then..." Piper took a deep paused "Then...There's Leo, who's already dead, and is our whitelighter, he doesn't grow old and is forbidden for us date one another." Pheobe braced herself for she knew what was to come. It was the only time Piper would unleash her anger and it would scare both her and Prue. "I mean why is it such a bad thing to date one another. What harm would it do?"
"I don'..." Pheobe started but got cut off. "I mean we could of made it work..."
"I know you cou..."
"...We should have been given a chance, shouldn't we?"
"Yes, I arge..."
"I mean let us decide for ourselves whether it was going to work or not." Even before she opened her mouth Piper began to cut her off. So, Pheobe call it quits and let Piper do the talking whist she listened.
"We should have had that chance..." She continued solemnly "...If we did have that chance, then Leo wouldn't get his wings clipped and I wouldn't have meet Dan..."
'Dan...' That sound of that name brought some bad memories back, Piper hadn't really said much on what happened between them all she said was that it could of ended with either of them in hospital.
Both Prue and she had seen the way Dan would start having a go at her even right in front of them, but not really know the situations, she remembered the time when Piper had finally finished with him and cut all ties with him. That she started to act differently going out all night and return home the next morning, whilst Prue shouts at her, saying she's behaving like a disobedient teenager. Then again Piper never did rebel as a teen not to the extreme as either Prue or herself had done. ' I guess she was making it up for it.'
As she paid full attention to Piper she was finally going to learn what went on between them and the effects it had caused.
"Can you believe it's been over a year since me and him parted? How I finally been given the chance to have some normality in my life. It also goes wrong, the Dan I fallen in love with and the Dan I went out with were two different people. It turn out that Dan was like the size of his penis...He was a little prick." She stated bitterly, Pheobe had to hold her laugh, in as she loved the way Piper talks when she gets pissed.
Piper then suddenly put the cup of coffee down and put her head in her hands finally after a year of holding everything in, she let it all out as Pheobe held her close, Piper began to tell Pheobe everything....
