Chapter 39

Jack dropped Irina at home later that night. She kissed him goodbye and walked into the house, expecting to find it a state. But she got a huge shock when she walked through the door. The house was spotless, almost as though there hadn't been a large group of teenagers partying the night away. Irina smiled to herself, knowing that Sydney had lived up to her part of the deal, proving that Irina could trust her.

She walked up the stairs and saw that Sydney's light was off, so she decided that she would talk to her in the morning.

The next morning, Irina woke up with a smile on her face. Everything was going right in her life. Her love life was now back on track and her relationship with Sydney was better then ever. After showering and dressing, she started to put her make-up on when the doorbell rang. She ran down the stairs to find Jack standing on her doorstep, with a white food bag in his hand.

"Good morning." He greeted her with a smile. "I bought breakfast!" He held the bag up and she stepped aside, allowing him to enter the house. He planted a kiss on her cheek as he walked into the kitchen, Irina following him closely behind.

"You didn't have to do all this!" Irina told him, as he removed the bagels out of the bag.

He laughed and threw the empty bag in the bin. "It was no trouble. I just picked these up on my way over!" He shrugged and smiled at her. "Is Sydney awake yet?"

"Erm…I'm not sure. I'll just go check!" She took a bite of her bagel and then walked up the stairs to Sydney's room.

Without knocking, she entered Sydney's room and nearly choked on what she was eating. Sydney and Michael were lying in each other's arms, fast asleep. Irina stood shocked in the doorway, convinced that she was just imagining what she was seeing. But after a couple of seconds they were still lying there, so she charged into the room and shook Sydney's foot violently, waking her up.

"Sydney! Get up now!" She told her harshly, watching as they both sat up, looking slightly disorientated.

"Mom? What are you doing?" Sydney asked, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Vaughn sat silently on the bed, his face a bright shade of red. Please don't let Jack be downstairs.

Sydney looked at her mother and noticed the anger that was visible in her eyes. She glanced at Michael and threw him a reassuring look, and then tried to speak to her mom, but the minute she opened her mouth her mother cut her off.

"Save it Sydney. Both of you, downstairs now." She pointed to the doorway and folded her arms across her chest. Sighing, Sydney stood up and put her dressing gown around her pyjamas and left her room, closely followed by Michael.

Jack was still in the kitchen when he heard footsteps coming down the stairs. He walked out into the hall to see an angry looking Irina talking to an embarrassed Sydney and Michael. Michael?

Sydney noticed her dad walking towards them and sighed. She looked at him, waiting for him to start yelling, but to her surprise he smiled.

"Morning Michael. I didn't hear you knock…"

"He didn't." Irina replied angrily, her eyes glaring at her daughter's boyfriend.

"Oh, you have a key?" Sydney would have laughed if she weren't in so much trouble.

"No he doesn't have a key." Sydney replied quietly.

"Your daughter decided to let him spend the night." Irina looked at Jack. "In her bed!"

Sydney watched as Jack's face reddened and his jaw clenched. She felt Michael tense up beside her as her father's gaze focused on him. She hadn't seen her father this angry since the time she threw a tennis ball through the living room window.

"What do you have to say for yourself Sydney?"

Sydney stared blankly at her father. "Nothing." She shrugged. She didn't see why they were making such a big deal about it when all they did was sleep in the same bed.

Oh no, he's gonna yell. Vaughn watched the expression on Jack's face change, and although it didn't seem physically possible, he got even angrier.

"Michael please leave. We need to have a word with our daughter." Irina told him sternly, opening up the front door before he even had a chance to reply. Without saying anything he left the house, the door slamming shut behind him.

Sydney remained in the hallway, her parents eyes still fixed on her. She was waiting for all the shouting to start and was glad that Vaughn was now out of the house, so he didn't have to hear any of it.

"Sydney, what did you think you were doing?" Her mother asked. Sydney could hear the disappointment in her voice, although she wasn't entirely sure what Irina was disappointed about.

"It was late when the party ended! I thought it would make sense if he just spent the night here!" She tried to reason with them, but it was useless; they just didn't want to listen.

"In your bed?" Jack shouted.

Sydney just rolled her eyes and remained silent. She didn't know what else she could say to them to make them see that it wasn't a big deal.

"Did you sleep with him?" Irina asked, dreading the answer.

Sydney was sick of playing games. "Yes! You saw us yourself mom, we were fast asleep!" She replied cockily, regretting it the minute she's said it.

"That is not what I meant Sydney and you know it." Irina scolded her. "And you can loose the attitude right now." Sydney stared at the floor, wondering how much longer this was going to go on for. "Did you have sex with him?"

Sydney raised her eyes and looked at her mother. "What!" She couldn't believe that she was hearing these words coming out of her mother's mouth and especially with her father standing right next to them. Jack looked as if he were actually going to punch something; probably Vaughn if he had the chance.

"You know what, that has nothing to do with you!" Sydney shouted back before running up the stairs to get changed, leaving a shocked Jack and Irina in the hallway.

She quickly threw on some clothes and stormed out of the house, not bothering to say another word to her parents. She couldn't believe her mother's reaction and she dreaded to think what her father would say when he next saw her. She decided to walk to the Halliwell's; she was too embarrassed to go and see Michael and she knew that she definitely didn't want to go home.

"I need to talk to you!" Vaughn knocked on Eric's bedroom door. Weiss's mom had let Vaughn in and told him that Weiss was in his room, getting ready for a date with Paige.

"Come in." Vaughn walked into the room to see Weiss lying on the floor with his head stuck under the bed.

"Dude, what are you doing?"

Weiss was silent for a couple of minutes while he rummaged under the bed. "Just finding my shoe!" He held the shoe up and smiled shyly at Vaughn. "So what's up."

"I spent the night at Sydney's." Vaughn blurted out, watching as Weiss's shy expression was replaced with a smirk

"Oh…" He raised his eyebrows suggestively at Vaughn who launched the nearest pillow at his head.

"Nothing happened, well except for her mom catching up this morning."

Weiss had to hold in his laughter. He could just imagine Irina Derevko's face when she caught Vaughn lying next to her daughter. "What did she say?"

"She yelled at us to get up and go downstairs!"

Weiss sighed. "That doesn't seem to bad…"

"Jack was downstairs." Vaughn told him, his voice barely above a whisper.

This time Weiss couldn't help but laugh. There were times when Vaughn's life was like something out of a soap opera, and this was definitely one of those times. "Why are you still alive if Jack was there?" Weiss questioned.

"Irina made me leave before he had a chance. I don't know what they said to Syd though." He hadn't wanted to leave her in the house, but he had no other choice. He knew that not leaving the house would have been a pretty stupid move, considering the amount of trouble that they were in.

"So what are you gonna do?"

"Avoid Sydney's parents and her house for like the next year and a half!" Vaughn replied jokingly, although he meant every word.

Sydney knocked on the front door and waited anxiously for someone to answer. A couple of seconds later, Piper came to the door.

"Hey!" She was shocked to see Sydney standing on her doorstep this early in the morning. But the look on her friend's face told her that something was wrong. "Syd what's up?"

"I'm sorry. I didn't know where else to go!" Sydney apologised for just turning up unannounced.

"It's ok. Come in." Sydney followed Piper into the living room and took a seat on the couch. Phoebe and Paige had been watching the TV but they turned it off the minute Sydney sat down.

"Honey what's wrong?" Piper sat beside her on the couch, her arm around her shoulder.

"Last night after the party, I asked Michael to stay over. And then this morning my mom walked into my room and saw us in the bed together and started shouting."

Phoebe looked at her understandingly. "Because he stayed over?"

Sydney shook her head and sighed. "No, because she thinks I slept with him." Sydney watched the expressions on each of their faces change. "It wouldn't have been that bad if my dad hadn't of been there!" She rolled her eyes. "You should have seen his face when she asked me if I'd had sex with him."

"She actually asked you that infront of your father?" Paige asked, totally amazed.

"Yes!" Sydney cringed again, her head resting in her hands. Sydney kept reliving the past hour over and over in her head, and each time it just got more embarrassing. Her and her father had always been close, but that was one thing that she didn't ever want him to know about.

"Well what did you say to her?"

"I told her it was none of her business, which technically it isn't."

The room fell silent for a couple of minutes before Piper spoke again. "Did anything happen last night?"

Sydney shook her head and looked at her. "No it didn't. That's what makes me even angrier about my mom's reaction. It wasn't like we were doing or have done anything wrong."

"Wait, you can Michael haven't…you know…" Paige asked and Sydney slowly shook her head. "But you and Danny have, right?"

Sydney shook her head again and Paige and Phoebe stared back at her in shock, but Piper remained silent, as she already knew what Sydney was going to say. "He tried it on, believe me. But I just never wanted to with him, you know!" She shrugged as she thought back to all the times that Danny had tried something with her. "It just didn't feel right with him, and I wanted to wait for the right guy."

"That guy being Michael…." Piper suggested and Sydney nodded.

"Yeah but judging by what happened this morning, I'd say it's gonna be a long time

before we head down that road." She sighed at the mess that had become her life. Yesterday everything in her life was perfect; today she just wanted to run as far away from her own life as possible.