I wake up the next morning and rush to get ready for school. I want to see if Glen will talk to me. These past days without him talking to me have been horrible.
"Hurry" I say to Prue who's sitting at the table drinking coffee. Where is Piper and Pheobe? They better not be late today!
"You're up early" Pheobe says coming down the stairs.
"Yeah well, let's get a move on" I say. Then I notice she is still in pajamas.
"Get dressed!" I say trying to spead things up.
"No" she says. I pick up my bag off the floor and head towards the door. Prue gets up and follows me with Pheebs. I guess Piper is sick today.
"Move it, I need a ride." I say
"Just orb yourself for god sakes. I'm relaxing today" Prue says
"I'm never using magic again." I say
"But its so convienient" Pheobe says
"It only gets us into trouble, and you know what, sometimes being a witch sucks!" I say walking faster and opening the door.
"Wicca PMS?" Pheobe says to Prue.
"I heard that!" I yell
"Fine, where do you want me to take you?" Prue says coming outside.
"School, duh!" I say
"Paige, it's spring break!" Pheobe says shaking her head at me. I sigh and go back inside. I sit sulenly at the table across from Prue and Pheobe. I could have atleast got a few more hours of sleep.
"Paige, look happy thats a full week off" Pheobe says
"Thats a full week I go without talking to Glen" I say banging my head against the table. Prue laughs.
"What?" I say looking up. I want to thank them for making a joke out of my total nightmare.
"Paige remember a while back when Glen first asked you out?" Prue asks
"Yeah" I say. Saying yes was the best decision of my life.
"You didn't even want to go out with him, and you never wore make up or skirts. You are like the total opposite now" Prue shakes her head. Pheobe chuckles.
"Great, I've become exactly what I resented" I say.Who'd a thought? Me? This isn't me. I shouldn't be upset by Glen, I should finally be happy.
"I'm going to go play soccer with my old friends in the park" I say. Thats something I used to do every weekend. Get dirty and Grimy with the neighbor hood boys. It will be fun! Then I'll stuff myself with cookies and candy like I used too. It'll be fun.
"Can I get in?" I ask all the boys stop. Today there playing football.
"Paige?" David asks. We used to be the biggest rivals, and now he barely notices me.
"Paige!" They all croud around surprised to see me.
"My how you've changed" Nick says giving me the once over. I cross my arms over my chest. I don't like the way they are all looking at me. Nick and I used to always be the team captains. I miss doing this. I wonder whyI stopped.
"Not that much has changed, I can still whoop your ass"I say taking the ball and running.
"They all run after me, but I'm still faster than all of them, except David. He is catching up. I run towards the goal. I am about to reach it when he tackles me. I slam on my stomach into the ground. My chest hurts and i begin to have trouble breathing. I sit up and catch my breath. Its been a long time since I had a fall like that. I stand up.
"You okay Halliwell? This too intense for a girl?" A boy a recognize as Thomas says coming over.
"No" I say pretending everything is fine. We play for a while and I avoid being tackled. Finally the two teams are tied, and I haven't been this out of breath since that demon grabbed me in the bathroom.
"Captain of the loser's teambuys me pizza" I say
"Were so loosing!" Nick says to his team
"Winner, sorry" I say. Both teams tackle and run, and play their hearts out. I'm not sure if I should feel good or bad about them liking me so much.
"Paige!" Someone calls as the ball flies through tha air. I catch it and start to run. I get tackled again. This time worse than the first. My nose bleads but I wipe it off with my shirt like I used to. I just ruined my shirt, No, I don't care about clothes, I keep telling myself.
"We win!" David yells finally. He lifts me up and hugs me really tightly.
"Being the good sport you are you'll let the loosing captain come" Nick says joining us.
"You're paying" David says. Nick shrugs and we walk to the pizza place together. I remember going here every saturday. That seems like so long ago. Me and the boys, Glen too. Don't think about him.
"What ever happened to Glen?" Nick asks. Lovely.
"We go to the same school." I say
"Tell him to come by. We miss you guys." David says.
"What do you want?" Nick asks. I would usually order vegetable pizza, but I dont care today.
"Whatever you order" I say.
"Okay" he nodds.
"I'd like three slices of extra meat pizza, a large coke and chilli cheese fries" He says
"I'll take the same" David says
"Me too" I say trying not to add the calories in my head.
"I challenge yout to a food eating contest" David says
"Sure" I accept. This is something I haven't done sinceI was ten.
"All the food, everything. Lick the grease from your plates and the ice from your soda. Loser buys dessert" David says
"More food?" I say stunned.
"Can you not handle it?" Nick says
"Of coarse I can" I lie.
"Ready-set-go!" David yells. I stuff all the food into my mouth. I chew as fast as I can then I chug soda. Still I lose, and I don't know how boys eat that fast. Good thing I wore sweet pants today because i can feel my stomach expanding.
"You buy dessert!" Nick laughs. I don't think I could eat another bite, but I don't want them to think I'm weak. Once they boys don't respect me Ive fully become well a girly girl. And if they wont hang out with me I'll have to stay with my sisters all break.
"I'll have a scoop of vanilla" I say to the man at the front. Nick lookes at me like I'm crazy.
"And a scoop of chocolate" I say. He still is looking at me
"And a scoop of mint" I say. Who knows what I'm getting myself into.
"Same" Nick says
"Three chocolate" david says. They walk me home as I eat.
"This was fun boys" I sy once we get to my house.
"Come again. We missed you" They say
"Okay, bye" I say rushing inside just before I feel like I'm going to puke. As soon as I get inside I run into the kitchen and throw away my ice cream. Then I stumble into living room and colapse on the couch.
"Eew, your all sweaty, go shower!" Pheobe says
"If I could make it upstairs I would" I say clutching my stomach.
"Whats wrong?" she asks prying her eyes away from the Oprah show to notice the look of pain on my face.
"I just inhaled three weeks worth of food!" I say
"Why?" she says laughing. I'm not sure if its at me or Oprah.
"I was with the guys" I say. She actually shuts off the tv and laughs at me. Wow, she turned off Oprah for me.
"Right, trying to spite us?" she says finally containing herslef.
"No, I still like that stuff." I say. I stand up but my leg hurts. Great I must have hurt something playing football.
"Pull a muscle?" Pheobe says
"No, just a sports injury" I say
"Face it. You're now a total girl. we've squandered every last bit of tomboy in you. Face it you don't fit in with them anymoe." Pheobe says
"Do too" I say, but I think she's right. Lovely, now I don't fit in with my old friends but my new friends think I'm the anti-crist.
"Okay then" Pheobe says seeing right through me.
"Help me upstairs?" I ask.
"Fine" she says trying to lift me.
"I can't lift you anymore!" she exclaims. I've waited for this day all my life! Finally I'm not that little runt, but then again it could just be the ten pounds of food I inhaled.
"Yes!" I say
"Ugh" Pheobe says poking me in the stomach.
"Oww!" I yell.
"Jeez, just orb yourself" she says.
"Never!" I say starting to climb the stairs myself. I'm hunched over going a stair a nminute, and Pheobe is cracking up behind me, but at least I'm not using that stupid power again.
"Pheobe told me you hung out with the boys" Prue says coming into my room when I'm done with my shower.
"Yeah, it was great." I say. I put the towel around my waist and put on a shirt.
"You have bruises all over your back" Pue says. I put on a shirt and turn around.
"I can feel them" I say. I finish changing and sit on my bed across from Prue. My les hurt from running. My ribs hurt from being slammed in the ground, and my stomach hurts from eating so much food. Today was a complete failure.
"I'll bring you some advil" Prue says standing up. The phone rings and I grab it. It's Glen! Halleluya!
"Hi" I say
"Leo told me" He says
"Are you okay with it?" I ask
"I don't know, can we talk in person?" He asks
"Anything you want." I say. I miss him so much.
"The coffee place in ten" He says hanging up. Prue comes back in.
"Were out I'll run to the store" she says
"Okay, but I'm going to meet Glen" I say
"Are you sure you should be going? Do you feel okay?" Prue asks.
"Fine" I say Half of it is phsycological. I will just keep telling myself I'm okay.
"Okay" Prue shrugs.
As I walk tothe coffee shop my stomach churns, I'm not sure if I'm nervous or if it's all the pizza. It must be nerves.
"Hi" I say seing Glen at a table. I sit next to him.
"Paige, I'm going to cut to the chase" Glen says
"What?" I ask. I am so nervousI feel my stomach turning upside down and my palms getting sweaty.
"I think we should take a break" He says. I am so shocked I try to say something, but i lean foreward and puke all over his shoes. He just sits there in shock. I've screwed everthing up. I get up and run home. Now he'll never talk to me again.
