"Hi Andy, it's Prue. I'm returning your call." Prue practiced what she was going to say when she called Andy in her mirror.
"Ooh Andy!" Phoebe said bursting in on Prue.
"Phoebe, you little wench, get out!" Prue shouted at her sister.
"Why? So you can call Andy!" Phoebe sang. Phoebe loved to tease her sister, but at the end of the day through all of the taunting they still got along.
"If you don't leave now I'll...I'll" Prue said trying to find a proper threat, "Tell Grams it was you who broke her dish!"
"You wouldn't!" Phoebe shouted.
"Would I?" Prue asked. Phoebe turned around and slammed the door. Prue picked up the phone and nervously dialed Andy's number. She waited, but there was no answer when the answering machine clicked on Prue hung up. She had lost her nerve. She had such a crush on Andy, and all her friends said that he liked her too. She was one of the most popular freshman, and he was too so it was only right that they should get together, but every other girl in their class wanted Andy too.
"Ugh" Prue fell onto her bed. She hugged one of her stuffed animals. She had always been confident and assertive.She been able to attract the attention of any guy she wanted, but Andy, the one guy she ever really wanted.
"Boy trouble?" Piper asked entering their room and throwing her backpack on the bed.
"Yeah, I guess." Prue said. Piper was very intuitive, and had always been able to read people like a book.
"So what's the problem? You're pretty, popular, and smart. Is this guy gay?" Piper asked unzipping her bag.
"No, he's," Prue struggled to find the correct word. Handsome, nice, cute, desirable, sweet, "Andy" Prue said deciding that he was too good to be summed up in one word.
"I know him. I'm in his math class!" Piper exclaimed happy she finally knew one of the guys Prue liked. All the girls went to the same school except Paige. Paige went to Baker elementary, and Piper, Prue, and Phoebe went to Baker middle & high. Piper, an eighth grader, was in the freshman math class.
"So you know great he is." Prue said looking up at the ceiling.
"Prue everyone but you knows he likes you." Piper sighed shaking her head. Prue was smart, but sometimes she didn't even notice things right under her nose.
"He does?" Prue asked
"He writes your name in the margins of his homework." Piper shook her head. She pulled her maths book from her bag and put it on the table. She didn't have math tomorrow. Besides every guy liked Prue.
"So ask me what I'm doing this weekend?" Phoebe burst into Piper and Prue's room. They hated when she did that, particularly because she had a habit of bad timing. Last week she walked in on Prue changing twice, and Piper writing in her diary once.
"What are you doing this weekend?" Prue asked.
"I have a date!" Phoebe exclaimed. Piper and Prue stood their gawking. Phoebe their little sister, not even twelve yet, dating. She stood their in her pink overalls with a smile plastered to her small vulnerable face.
"What!" Piper said
"Yeah!" Prue said. Phoebe looked back and forth between them confused.
"Huh?" Phoebe said.
"Congratulations, your first date!" Prue said hugging her sister.
"Who is this boy, I want to meet him" Piper said getting protective. She was also a little upset that her little sister would be going on her first date before she did.
"You'll embarrass me!" Phoebe said.
"Leave her alone Piper, I left you alone!" Prue said to Piper.
"I've never been on a date!" Piper says
"Yeah, fourth grade, that Clide kid invited you over to see a movie!" Prue nodded. Piper rolled her eyes- that didn't count.
"Yeah," Phoebe agreed, "His name's Cole"
"Oh Phoebe, what are you going to wear?" Prue asked her.
"I dunno" Phoebe shrugged. She thought she was so mature, but she was so young.
"We'll go shopping this weekend." Prue said.
"Oh and by the way, KNOCK!" Piper said emphasizing knock.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah" Phoebe muttered walking out.
"I'll be back" Piper said picking up her book bag and leaving. Prue opened her bag and pulled out her English homework. She was halfway done when Paige came running in hand over her face screaming.
"Prue!" Paige half screamed half cried. Prue looked up at her and got up immediately. Blood was dripping from Paige's nose, and her upper lip had already began to swell.
"Come on" Prue said lifting her little sister into her arms and taking her to the bathroom. She sat her down on the counter and handed Paige a paper towel.
"It hurts" Paige cried.
"Hold this over your nose and tilt your head back" Prue said to her sister. Paige did so and Prue began to wipe the rest of her face. Once it was clean Prue took a look at Paige's lip. It was about twice it's normal size. Paige put her head forward and removed the towel. Prue threw it away. Her nose had stopped bleeding.
"Paige, what in the word happened?" Prue asked.
"Nothing, just Rugby" Paige said.
"Paige! You know not to play tackle sports." Prue said.
"If Glen and Richard can why can't I?" Paige asked.
"Because they're boys. They are a lot bigger and more tuff than you are." Prue said.
"Anything they can do I can do better!" Paige said jumping off the counter. Prue was really getting sick of her tomboy stage she couldn't wait till the day Paige realized she was a girl.
"Paige don't you dare go back to that park!" Prue yelled at her sister walking down the stairs. Prue went bac into her and Piper's room.
"I'm just going to get a snack. Screw off!" Paige said. Prue sighed, her sisters and her needed to sensor their language around her.
"Piper, Paige just told me to 'screw off'."Prue said to her sister. A ten year old shouldn't talk like that.
"Ha" Piper said.
"We need to watch what we say. The other day she asked me what 'hooking up' was."Prue said.
"Maybe we should take the phone out of her room so she can't listen in my private calls" Piper said. Phoebe had the 'brilliant' idea of giving Paige a phone a few months ago in attempts to get her to start behaving more girly. Prue saw through it as a way to get a phone into the room Phoebe and Paige shared, but Prue thought it might work anyway.
"Don't you dare." Phoebe said coming into their room again.
"What have I told you about knocking?" Piper said to her.
"And what have I told you about listening in?" Prue said.
"Well, if you ask me-" Phoebe began to say
"We didn't."Piper said.
"-try to get her more involved in girl friendly sports" Phoebe ignored Piper
"That's a good idea." Prue acknowledged.
"I know" Phoebe said cockily.
"Don't get to high on yourself." Piper muttered.
"That's exactly what Tina said to Lindsay the other day!" Phoebe said. At only eleven, Phoebe was an excellent gossiper.
"Why?" Piper asked. Tina was in Piper's grade.
"Lindsay kissed a boy." Phoebe filled them in.
"And that makes her popular? Oh, I miss seventh grade." Prue said.
"I sure don't" Piper said.
"Did what?" Paige asked walking in.
"Nothing" Phoebe laughed.
"Have you been listening in?" Piper asked Paige.
"No" Paige clearly lied.
"Paige, go downstairs and watch TV." Piper said.
"Okay, but I'm not quitting rugby" Paige said
"We'll see about that" Prue said quietly. Paige heard and gave her a mean look before leaving the room