Piper wakes up and realizes she only has ten minutes to get ready before Prue leaves without her.

"Oh, damn it Prue!"

She hurries out of bed and pulls a random outfit out of the closet and quickly gets dressed and brushes her hair. She runs down the stairs while putting her shoes on and grabs her books off the kitchen table. Grams waves her hand and a Pop-Tart flies into Piper's mouth. She takes a bite and scrambles out the door.

"Thanx Grams!"

She shuts the door behind her and sees Prue, Phoebe, and Paige driving down the street towards school.

"Damn it!"

She walks back in and sits down at the breakfast table next to Grams.

"You could always catch the bus."

"Yes, and be annoyed by preppie little freshman boys who think I'm so hot just because I'm older."

"Well the call for Leo. He can orb you to school."

"You know Grams, that's not a bad idea. LEO!"

Leo promptly orbs in at the sound of Piper's voice.

"What's wrong?"

Piper stands up and grabs his hand.

"You're taking me to school."

"Um, ok."

He waves goodbye to Grams and orbs away.

Piper finds herself in Andy's and Leo's apartment.

"Why are we here?"

"Well, I can't go to school without my books. And we can't just orb there, so we're taking my car."

"You have a car?"

"Yeah, you've just never seen it because I always orb to you guys."

He grabs his backpack, takes Piper's hand again, and orbs down to his car. He puts the keys in the ignition and starts the engine. Piper looks around.

"Pretty nice."

"Andy helped pay for it, so therefore it his half his."

"So he owns one and a half cars. That makes a lot of sense."

"That's Andy for ya."

"Yup. He and Prue are truly meant to be together."

Leo nods as they pull out of the parking lot and head towards the school.

Leo follows Piper to her locker.

"You are like a lost puppy."

"Puppies are cute, so therefore I am cute."

"No, you are annoying."

Leo clutches a hand to his chest and pretends like it really hurt him. Piper laughs until she sees a sign taped to her locker that reads 'Slut'. She rips it off and opens her locker only to find someone had stuck a bunch of condoms in it. She cleared them out of her locker and tried to hide her face as tears started streaming down her cheeks. Leo sees Piper crying and hears Dan and a bunch of guys laughing down the hall. He drops his backpack to the floor, walks up to Dan and punches him square in the jaw, knocking him to the floor. Some of the guys hold Leo back as others help Dan up off the floor.

"You think that's funny! You think it's funny to make a girl cry after you screwed her like that! You horny little bastard!"

Leo breaks free of the guys' grips and he and Dan start fighting. Students start crowding around and teachers try to squeeze through to break it up, but Piper just stands back at her locker watching. A few teachers finally break through the crowd and pull Dan and Leo off of each other. One teacher takes Dan to the nurse while the other takes Leo to the Principal's Office. As Leo passes Piper, he looks her in the eyes and mouths the words 'Are you okay?' She nods her head and watches him continue down the hall. Paige runs up to her in confusion.

"Piper, what the hell happened? What did I miss?"

"Leo, he…he stuck up for me."

"Wow, he must really like you."

"Yeah, I'm just…I'm gonna go down to see the principal."

"Ok. I'll see you later then."

Paige walks to her first class and leaves Piper at her locker. She shoves her books in and shuts it. She then picks Leo's backpack up and slings it over her shoulder to take it back to him. When she reaches the main office, she sits down in a chair in front of the principal's office.

Leo is sitting in a very uncomfortable chair in front of the principal's desk.

"Leo, what in God's name possessed you to attack Dan Gordon like that?"

"He hurt one of my friends."

"So? That is no reason to start a fight. I'm sorry, but I'll have to suspend you for ten days and you are hereby no longer a player on the football team."

"But Principal Martin…"

"And that's final. Now, who's you're legal guardian?"

"My brother. He's at the police academy right now. You might not be able to reach him."

"Well, that won't stop me from trying."

The principal picked up the phone and instructed Leo to dial the number to reach Andy. Someone picked up on the other line.

"Hello, is a Andy…"

He looked at Leo.

"Trudeau."

"Is Andy Trudeau there?…May I speak to him?…Thank you…Yes, Mr. Trudeau, I'm Principal Martin, and your brother Leo Wyatt has just been suspended for starting a fight…I know, I was shocked too, however, he will need to be escorted home immediately…15 minutes? That's good enough. He'll be waiting here in the main office…Goodbye."

He hangs up the phone and points towards the door.

"Sit out there until your brother comes to sign you out."

Leo gets up and leaves the room. When he shuts the door Piper walks up to him and hands him his backpack.

"You left this in the hall. Didn't want one of Dan's friends to steal all those books and have you have to pay for them."

Leo smiles slightly.

"Thanks."

"So, how long?"

"Ten days."

Piper walks past him and into the principal's office.

"Mr. Martin?"

"Miss Halliwell! Always a pleasure to see one of my best and brightest students. How can I help you?"

She shuts the door behind her, but Leo sits in a chair close by so he can hear what is going on.

"It's about Leo."

"Oh. I've already made my decision."

"I know, but I think you may have judged a little too quickly. Dan did something really horrible to me, and it really hurt. I was crying. Leo was only defending me."

"How horrible are we talking?"

"So horrible, I would rather not talk about it."

"Well, then, I will suspend both Dan and Leo for only five days, but Leo is still kicked off the football team."

"Thank you, Mr. Martin."

"You can get a pass to your class from the secretary on your way out."

She nods and leaves the office. Leo grabs her hand as she walks by, pulling her back. He reaches in his pocket, pulls out his car keys, and hands them to her.

"Take it. Andy won't let me drive after this."

"Leo, I can't…"

He puts the keys in her palm and folds her fingers over them.

"Just for a few days."

She nods and the walks up to the secretary, who gives her a pass to her next class. As she walks out of the office, Andy walks in with an angry look on his face. As he signs Leo out at the front desk, Leo gets up and walks over to him.

"You don't know the whole story."

"I don't need to. All I know is that by getting suspended you've pretty much ruined every chance at getting a scholarship to college."

"Andy…"

"No. I won't hear it. Come on."

As they leave the office, Leo gets one last look at Piper before he leaves the building with Andy. As Piper watches them leave, she feels a tug at her heart.

'He knew he would get suspended and kicked off the team…he can't play college football like he had always dreamed…he gave it up just to protect me…'

She goes back to her locker, gets her books, and heads off for her next class.

Piper's sitting alone eating lunch, when Prue, Phoebe, and Paige walk up and sit next to her. They notice she has a stack of papers on the table next to her books. Paige looks at her oddly.

"I knew you were a nerd, but you didn't have to ask your teachers for extra homework."

"It's not mine. I went to all of Leo's teachers and got all the work he would miss."

Prue goes through the pile of papers.

"I have all of these teachers. They would never get make-up work for a suspended student."

"I told them why he got suspended. They gladly gave it to me."

There's a moment of silence before Phoebe feels Piper's forehead.

"Are you ok? You don't look so good."

"I'm fine. I've just been thinking…No guy would do that for a girl he just likes."

She pulls his car keys out of her pocket and sets them on the table. Paige looks at them curiously.

"Who's are those?"

"Leo's. He drove me to school this morning, and after the fight he gave me the keys."

Prue's eyes widen.

"Piper, he's falling for you!"

"I know…and I'm starting to fall for him."

She gets up and throws her trash away, then walks back and grabs the stack of papers and her books.

"I've still got a couple of his teachers to see. I'll see you guys later."

She walks out of the cafeteria, leaving her sisters to talk about the possibilities for her and Leo.

A/N: OOH! I'm so excited! I already have the next chapter planned out, so it will be up very, very soon. Like, probably tomorrow or the day after!