Vaughn skated towards the net, hitting the puck back and forth. Weiss stood firmly in the goal waiting for Vaughn to take the shot. They had been playing for over an hour and already Vaughn had managed to get the puck past him on several occasions. Either he was losing his touch, or Michael was much better than he said he was. Vaughn took the shot, successfully hitting another puck past his friend.
Smiling triumphantly Vaughn stopped on the ice, leaning on his hockey stick and wiping his forehead with the sleeve if his top. "What's the score now Eric?" Vaughn joked, knowing quite well that Weiss wasn't impressed with his winning streak.
"Yeah, yeah very funny." Weiss replied as he retrieved the puck from its new home at the back of the net. He hit it back to his friend watching as Vaughn quickly stopped it with his hockey stick.
"So, are you not gonna tell me about the party last night?" Weiss asked, skating around in a small circle infront of the goal. He smoothly glided over the ice, evidence that he had been skating for many years.
"What do you wanna know?" Vaughn replied skating away with the puck, as he prepared to make another shot at the net.
"I'd really like to know why you've been skating around all night looking like you slept with a coat hanger in your mouth..." Weiss waited eagerly for details about why he was so happy.
"It was a great party. And FYI, I have not been walking around like I have a coat hanger in my mouth." Vaughn corrected him, and swiftly hit the puck towards Eric, but Weiss stopped it before it could reach the net.
"Come on, if there was a sun in here, your teeth would be sunburnt. Now spill." Vaughn could see no way out of getting out of this. What am I supposed to say, 'oh yeah the reason I'm so happy is because I spent the night with Syd in my arms, and today she's breaking up with her boyfriend and there could be a chance that we could go out!'
"Ok, Weiss jokes like that...they're not good!" Vaughn laughed at Weiss's attempt of making a joke, whilst Weiss did his best to keep a hurt look on his face. "It was a great party! That's all." Vaughn figured that he wasn't lying to him, he was just keeping a few details from his for a while.
"Yeah right Vaughn. Like I'm gonna believe that. I've only known you for a little while, but I can tell that you're not telling me the truth. Now why are you so happy?" The rink was beginning to fill up with people, so both guys skated towards the benches to take their boots off. Vaughn decided that he would just tell Weiss the truth and see what he said.
"Ok, but Weiss you do not tell a soul this. Ok?" Weiss nodded, so Vaughn continued. "At the party last night, Syd got a bit upset about this whole Danny thing, so we went outside so that she could calm down. The short version, we talked for a little while and then we nearly kissed..."
"You what?" Eric interrupted him, a huge smile spread across his face.
"Eric, I said nearly. These drunken guys came out an interrupted us." Weiss calmed down, ready to hear the rest of the story. "I had a great time hanging out with her and her friends, and then I walked her home and she invited me inside. It was way too late for me to go home so she said that I could sleep on the couch. And then a couple of minutes later she came down and lay on the couch too so we fell asleep together!" Vaughn finished his story feeling as happy as he had when he woke up that morning.
"You don't waste any time do you." Weiss joked, not meaning a word of what he said. "But you do know that she has a boyfriend right? You know Danny - that big guy who already doesn't like you and would probably, no wait, definitely beat you up for doing that."
"I'm not stupid Eric. Sydney's breaking up with him, she said that things aren't working out for them. He came over this morning and saw me there and lets just say he kinda got the wrong impression." Vaughn walked over to the exit followed by Eric.
"I can imagine he did!" Vaughn shot him a glare but didn't say anything to him. "So you wanna go and catch a movie or something?" Weiss asked changing the subject. He was quite tired after the game, and an afternoon sitting infront of a giant screen, watching an action film and pigging out on a huge bucket of popcorn sounded like heaven to him.
"Sounds good!" Vaughn admitted.
Phoebe walked quickly into her sister's room. She was meant to meet Cole in a couple of minutes and she still wasn't ready. "Sis, can I lend your blue top please?" She asked, looking around the room for the top so that she could make a simple grab and run.
Prue was sat at her dressing table applying make up. Last night had been her first night back at the Manor and already she had emptied her suitcases and put her clothes in the usual places. But that as Prue, always organised and responsible. She had to be she was the older sister. "I haven't been back for five minutes and already you're raiding my wardrobe!" She joked, turning around to see a not so amused face on her younger sister. "I'm just kidding. It's over there." She pointed towards the wardrobe and continued to get ready. "I've miss this when I'm in San Francisco. You taking my clothes, me searching frantically for them only to find that you've gone out wearing them." She smiled into the mirror at Phoebe.
"Yes, it's not the same around here without you. Sure Paige, Piper and I have a lot of fun together, but it would be great if it was the 4 of us." Phoebe loved all of her sisters, she just wished that they all lived in the same city.
"Yeah, I really wanna get to know Paige better. You know, she came into our lives and then a little while later I moved away with dad. I just feel like you and Piper have got to bond with her more than I have. But hopefully I'm gonna change that, after she's my sister too right!" Prue took one last look in the mirror checking that she looked ok, and then grabbed her jacket ready to leave. "What did you need the top for anyways?" She asked as the two Halliwells walked towards her bedroom door.
"I'm having lunch with Cole!"
"Nice! Is everything going ok with you two?" Prue asked.
"It's going great." Phoebe replied a huge smiled spread across her face. The same thing happened everytime she gushed about her boyfriend, or even just thought about him. "Where are you going?"
Prue hesitated. She wasn't quite sure what she was going to do when she got there, she thought she would just figure it all out as she went along. "I'm going to see Andy. I miss him you know, so I'm just gonna go an see what happens!"
Phoebe gave her sister a side hug, kissing her on the side of the head. "Go get him!" She smiled as Prue walked away from her leaving her to get ready for her own date.
Sydney had been lazing around the house ever since Danny had left. She was bored and didn't know what to do with herself. Vaughn was off playing hockey with Weiss, Piper was probably still at Leo's, Francie had mentioned something about going shopping with Will and she had no idea where her other friends where. I still haven't told anybody about Danny and me. What if he's already told them? Sydney pushed all the negative thoughts out of her head and decided that she would go for a walk in the park, after all it was a nice sunny day.
She grabbed her keys and headed towards the near by park.
"Weiss why are we walking through the park?" Vaughn was totally confused, he thought that they were going to see a movie but right now they were strolling through the crowded park. The hot weather had obviously attracted them, but what he couldn't quite figure out was what had attracted him and Weiss to the park.
Weiss started laughing hysterically at Vaughn who remained confused. "You haven't lived in LA for long so I suppose I can let you off!" Weiss chuckled. "We're taking a short cut. Trust me you don't want to be walking down the streets of LA on a Sunday afternoon, especially when the weather's like this! Besides walking through the park is much nicer than walking along the busy streets." Weiss informed him.
Vaughn continued to observe the people around him, but then his thoughts turned to Sydney, and he started to wish that she was there walking through the park with him, holding his hand sharing meaningless chit chat. His daydream was interrupted by the sound of Weiss screaming as he was chased by this small, barking sausage dog.
Sydney slowly strolled through the park, looking around at all the people. It was a lovely day to be in the park, which is why she wasn't surprised that there were a lot of people there. It kinda made her wish that she was walking through the park with someone, obviously not Danny, and judging from what happened that morning she doubted whether or not he would ever speak to her again. Then her thoughts drifted to Vaughn. She could imagine his playing hockey looking incredibly hot in his hockey shirt with Weiss by his side cracking sarcastic jokes. She was drawn away from her thoughts by the sound of someone screaming, sounding as though they were in danger. She looked around but she couldn't see anybody who looked like they were in danger, but several people were looking around searching for the mystery screamer.
This is ridiculous! Prue silently cursed herself as she walked around the block for the third time. She had walked up to Andy's house about half an hour ago, but she couldn't quite bring herself to knock. What am I supposed to say: 'hey Andy remember me? Your ex-girlfriend who broke up with you because she moved away. Well guess what I'm back so do you wanna go on a date or something?' Sighing as she passed his house yet again, Prue laughed at how stupid she was being. It wasn't like they had ended on bad terms, and they still spoke on the phone every now and again. So why was she making such a big deal out of it?
She walked quickly around the block this time determined that this would be the time that she walked up to the front door.
Taking a deep breath, Prue headed up the driveway. There was a car parked near to the garage, evidence that at least somebody was home. Wishing that the lump in her throat would disappear, she knocked twice on the front door, and then took a seat on the porch swing while she waited for somebody to answer.
After what seemed like minutes, somebody came out. "Prue?" Prue looked towards the door to see Andy standing in the doorway smiling warningly at her.
"Hey Andy!" She stood up and smiled back at him, her nerves suddenly going away.
He walked towards her and embraced her in a hug. He had missed her so much when she left not just as a girlfriend but as a friend. "It's great to see you again!" He said into her hair.
Standing with her arms wrapped around him, all of her feelings for him came rushing back, making her wonder how she could have possibly left. "Yeah it's great seeing you again too."
Vaughn couldn't contain his laughter anymore. The sight of Weiss running all over the park screaming his head off was just too much to handle. Leaning on a tree Vaughn doubled over, trying his hardest to stop laughing so that he could breathe. He looked over at Weiss to see him hiding behind another tree as the dog's owner came and retrieved the Eric's new canine friend. Once the dog was a far distance away from him, Weiss came out from behind the tree and headed over to Vaughn.
"Thanks for helping me man!" He said harshly to his friend, who was still having fits of laughter.
"I have to ask, why were you screaming at a dog? I thought you were a dog person...haven't you got a dog called Alan or something?" Michael asked as his laughter died down.
They carried on walking through the park as Weiss answered Vaughn's question. "Yes I have a dog. It's just that little dog's they scare me, they always seem to chase after me, like you've just seen." Weiss's heart was pounding in his chest as he relived the experience. Vaughn laughed again and then patted him on the back.
Looking infront of him, Vaughn saw somebody that he thought he recognised. Wait, that can't be Sydney can it? He wondered to himself. "Is that Sydney?" Weiss followed his gaze and confirmed that it was Syd.
"Hey!" Vaughn said as they caught up to her. Looking like she was deep in thought it took her a minute to respond. "Oh hey you guys!" She smiled at them both and she couldn't help but notice how cute Vaughn looked. But what she didn't know was that Vaughn was thinking the exact same think about her. "Did you guys have fun playing hockey?" She asked, playing with the bracelet on her wrist.
"Yeah it was great!"
"Yeah it was fun, but the best part has got to be when the sausage dog started chasing Weiss!"
Weiss chose to ignore his comment as his eyes focused on an ice cream truck that had pulled over in the park. "Oooooo ice-cream!" His eyes lit up at the thought of a cone filled with chocolate ice cream. "You guys want?" He asked as he started to walk towards the truck, not quite caring about their answers.
"He got chased by a dog?" Sydney asked feeling disappointed that she had missed that.
"Yeah and then he started screaming and running about to get away from it. I've never laughed so much in my life!" Sydney felt as though her heart skipped a beat as she glanced at his smile. God his smile is perfect!
"Did everything go ok with Danny this morning?" They started to walk towards Weiss who was standing in the ice cream queue like a five-year-old.
"Yeah I guess, it wasn't exactly the world's easiest break up but it's over now. Time for me to move on!" She smiled at him. "But thanks for sticking up for me this morning."
He wrapped his arm around her shoulders and hugged her. "Anytime!" They smiled at each other as Eric walked over to them carrying a huge ice cream cone.
"So Sydney what you doing this afternoon?" Weiss asked in-between bites of his ice cream.
"Nothing much really. I was bored sitting around the house so I thought I'd come for a walk to clear my head." She was watching Weiss eat his way through the ice cream, each bite bringing a smile to his face.
"Hey, why don't you come the cinema with us. Weiss will have his food for company, and I'm guessing it would be difficult to try and get between them..." Weiss glared at Vaughn but then turned his attention back to the frozen heaven that he had in his hands.
"Sure why not!" She smiled at them both, and then they walked towards the cinema as Vaughn filled Syd in on the whole dog fiasco.
