CHAPTER III:
Our conversation went something like this:
-"Hey, Chris. What's going on with you? Your dad told me they can't make your fever go down and it's mainly because it's psychosomatic?"
-"That's what they say, grandpa."
-"Chris, is the reason for this what I think it is?"
-"Yes, grandpa. I think so, I just don't know what to do."
I just wanted to cry, my voice was breaking. But my dad and Wyatt were still in my bedroom and I couldn't let them see me like that! One would think they would let me have a conversation on my own but apparently not! Well, it's not like I don't already know how they are by now.
-"Poor boy! I feel terrible but I can't go there right now. I can go tomorrow morning, we'll talk about it and decide what the best course of action is. What do you think?"
-"Ok, grandpa" I whispered. I didn't want to wait till tomorrow morning but I know my grandpa. If he says he can't, it's because he really can't.
-"Promise me you'll try to relax now and get better, ok? We'll find a solution tomorrow, everything it's going to be fine Champ. Ok?"
-"Ok, grandpa. I promise."
-"That's my boy, will you be fine?"
-"Yeah. Bye, see you tomorrow."
-"Bye, Chris. I love you."
-" Yeah, I know… Grandpa?"
-"Yeah?"
-" Please, come as soon as you can."
-"I will. I promise I will, champ. Just relax."
My grandpa is so awesome. He has always been awesome, even in my other life. I have the best conversations with him. I can be myself with my grandpa, really myself. I mean, my grandpa treats me like an adult and he doesn't overprotect me. So, I don't feel the need to pretend I am strong all the time. Since, grandpa is not from the magic world he doesn't see Wyatt as the double blessed or us as these powerful witches, he just sees us as his grandsons. For one reason or the other, I don't feel the constant need to prove myself in front of my grandpa, like I do around almost anybody else.
Wyatt looked at me betrayed. Thank god dad saved me this time!
-"Go to the kitchen and help your mom," he ordered.
-"But…" my brother started to complain.
-"Go to the kitchen and help your mother, Wyatt."
-"DAD!" he pleaded.
-"Wyatt, don't make me tell you a third time!"
Wyatt left sullenly, muttering something. I kind of love when Dad or Mom boss Wyatt around. I know… I am horrible! I mean, I don't like it when they really yell at him or something like that but Wyatt is so huge and almighty. I admit it, I have a little inferiority complex. So, it's kind of funny when mom forces him to do something because Wyatt is like twice mom's size.
-"So, Victor is coming?" Dad asked me once he was gone.
-"Tomorrow morning."
-"And you think he might help you?"
-"I hope so."
-"That's good buddy!" My dad smiled at me shuffling my hair, "Cuz we are pretty worried about you. I don't know what I would do if something were to happen to you!"
I guess Wyatt had to inherit his corniness from somewhere! One would think my mom would be the corny one, being a girl and all… Then, my dad is the whitelighter so I guess the 'all peace and love' comes with the job description, or something.
I just smiled at him and muttered something like everything is going to be fine, Dad. I think, I also asked him something like 'if I could go outside for a while to practice some new tricks I picked up from school.' But he ignored my question so abysmally that I started doubting if I ever really articulated it.
-"Go to bed son, rest." He tucked me in and kissed my forehead. I cringed a little trying to avoid his kiss, mainly cuz I didn't want him to feel my temperature. I don't know if he thought I was being all 'teenager' on him or he realized the actual reason. Being that my mom and dad can always read me or Wyatt as a book, he probably knew. I liked that from my trip to the past, I could hide anything from them and they wouldn't know. Now, I can't even past one over them.
-"I love you, buddy." EWW! What is it with me being sick that gets all the male members of my family all mushy-mushy? I love you all guys too but come on, enough is enough! I guess my dad read my mind, as usual, because he said, "Ok, Ok… you know what is the worst part of this? That I know for a fact that you won't get any better when you grow up!" I smirked. "Ok, I'll leave you alone but gotta go to sleep ok?" He left.
Of course, I didn't sleep! They were guarding my sleep for a reason! I orbed my diary to me and here I am writing. Now, I gotta go cuz Wyatt just came in, telling me that Emma came to visit me… COOL!
Emma is my best friend. We have been best friends since we met, at magic school's nursery, when we were like three. I still don't understand why Emma remains my best friend. I mean, Emma it's probably one of the prettiest, nicest and more popular girls at school. I know most of the guys there have a crush on her and everybody wants to hang out with her. But she rather hang out with me than with anyone else! Why would she rather hang out with a freak like me? Beats me, but I am not going to complain cuz she might start thinking about that!
So, Emma and Wyatt are my access to the cool people at school. Since, they are both super popular but they both love hanging out with me. Again, I don't understand why! It's pretty simple, if you wanna hang out with Emma or Wyatt you'll get stuck hanging out with me too. They aren't the type of popular people that care what everybody else says. I can imagine their reaction if someone were to tell them, 'You shouldn't hang out with him cuz he's a freak!' They would be so like, 'You are the FREAK! If you don't want to hang out with me there's the door, dude! No one is forcing you to stay.'
I can only imagine what they are saying at school about me, right now. Probably, I am agonizing with some incurable black magic disease, or something. I mean, I am a freak at school and people wouldn't normally care about me. But when you are the son of a charmed one, the nephew of the school headmistress, the brother of the double blessed, the dude that came to the past to save the future of the world, died in the past, and bequeathed your baby self with all your memories. You kind of can't avoid being in the spot all the time.
And when you are in the spot all the time you can either become super popular, like Wyatt or Paige's twins or a FREAK like me. The only one that avoided that fate was Prue, Phoebe's daughter. (A/N: I know, the story line it's not the same but I had to bring the three girls, we all love them!) Who is so quiet and shy that she manages to almost pass unnoticed, most of the time.
Anyway, Emma is too bright to fall for the stupid school gossip. Emma has the coolest power; turning herself and anything she touches invisible. The other day, we went to play laser tag at this birthday party and she grabbed me, turned me invisible, and said I couldn't really play. Since, I couldn't have a gun because people would freak out if they saw a gun floating in the air. Of course, she could have made the gun invisible too, but she was all, 'Dude! What would be the fun of that?' I tell you, the girl is hilarious. As long as, she doesn't play her practical jokes on me.
-"Wassup, Chris?" she asked. "Hey, Wy! I heard you skipped school, again," she told him sarcastically.
-"And I bet you missed me so much, Sweetheart," he answered in the same way.
-"Yeah, I couldn't stop crying all day long," Emma continued sarcasm. I was almost going to scream I was the sarcastic one in the house. But this conversation was kind of… funny. "Now, shoo! You had your brother all day, now it's my turn!"
Don't get it wrong, Wyatt and Emma are really good friends. Emma really likes Wyatt. That is aside from fearing one day Wyatt might really loose it, become a royal nutcase and the rule of all evil but then… we all fear that. Anyway, Wyatt likes Emma, of course. I mean, everybody likes Emma. And we all just love teasing each other once in a while.
-"Considering, he was awake for like five minutes, that's not much. But well, I'll let you two catch up. By now, I know better than to actually want to hear your endless babbling." He smirked and she stuck her tongue at him. Emma talks a lot sometimes, it's true. Then, very few people know that she is actually an even better listener. "Be nice to my baby brother, he has a headache!"
-"I AM NOT A BABY, WY!" I yelled at him while he was leaving.
I love talking to Emma. She is another one of those people I can truly be myself with and knew me since forever. She is also one of the few people at school that doesn't treat me any different. Even if I happen to be mom's son, Wyatt's brother, and even the freak that came from the future and died in the past. Most importantly, she isn't always worrying and over protecting me like my family does. She is actually the first one to tag along whenever I am planning something a little mischievous.
Still, I couldn't really tell her what was going on either. It was still like telling anyone else; you never know what consequence it could have. The other me told grandpa because, well… my story with grandpa in my other life time is pretty something. And I am kind glad he did.
But Emma is different cuz she understood right away, and didn't ask me anything I didn't want to answer. She told me funny stories, and made me laugh. It was the first time in days I was feeling a little better.
After like an hour and a half my mom came to spoil my fun, of course! She was all, 'Thank you, Emma. We really appreciate you coming and all but Chris needs to rest.' That was the first time I noticed, Emma was also really worried. She didn't complain at all, she just came to me and hugged me unusually tight.
-"Get better, Chris." Her smile was full of sadness and concern as she kissed my cheek.
-"Hey, I am FINE! Ok? And I am tired of the long faces, capisce?"
My mom and Emma automatically faked a happy face for me.
-"Gee! If you guys were ever planning on pursuing an acting career, I would strongly advice you not to."
Emma left while Mom looked at me really weird, like quizzically yet knowingly.
-"What?" I asked
-"Your dad told me your grandpa is coming tomorrow morning." She was acting all mysterious, it was freaking me out.
-"Yeah, so?" I answered her, wondering why that was a big thing. I mean, grandpa came to visit us all the time. Everybody was so distressed about me being sick that the manor seemed more like a mortuary. So, of course grandpa was going to come and visit!
-"And he said you're hoping your grandpa can help you with the decision."
I didn't really answer. I was already all freaked out wondering why my mom was acting this way. It was the way she acted when she was interrogating a demon she needed to get some information from. It looked like she was putting all the information together.
-"So, your grandfather knows something that we don't. And he can help you." She said, more like thinking out loud, than really talking to me.
-"Mom, why am I starting to freak out over here?"
-"Don't worry honey, I am just thinking." That was the problem. My mom is a lot smarter than she looks most of the time. I was fearing her mind was racing on the right track and pretty close to the finishing line.
-"So THAT is what's going on!" she said sure. "Of course that is! Knowing you, that's the only thing that could make you sick."
-"What?" I was scared. Mom was the only one that knew, I had told my grandfather about her death. I just hoped this wasn't one of the times she put two and two together amazingly brightly.
phoebe turner :THANKS!! I hope you liked this chapter too, thank you for your reviews, please keep on letting me know how you like it!
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Gomay: Heheh I think a lot f us love Chris to death :)… but u oughtta love him! He is so cute! That is the cool thing about writing this story, I can write what he says, all tough and cold and how he thinks all these weird stuff and he is actually so cute and funny with what he thinks :). I hope you liked this chapter too. Thanks for your review!
foxhana : Yeah! Chris, Wyatt and Grandpa are like my favorite characters, (Ok more like Chris, chris, chris .. fourteen more Chris and then Wyatt and Grandpa) but still, whenever I can bring them…I just take advantage of the opportunity. I hope you liked this chappie too.
Inversnaid: I am so glad you liked my store. I hope you liked this chappier too. I still don't know what is going to happen with Piper, but I am a big softy… so I usually hate killing my characters unless is like super important for the plot. Tks for the review, please keep them coming.