Baker high
The students casually left the school, leaving it empty and deserted, only the odd monitor could be seen. The rest of its inhabitants where now littering the field, all that could be seen where little groups of people, each a different type, different year. Some seniors, some freshmen, but there was one group of seniors that where missing. The popular senior girls, they on the other hand where round the front of the school, passing their fags around, as they waited.
"Are you sure he said today?" one girl asked another, although none of them really wanted to be there they where, not out of choice but out of precious reputations.
The girl she asked just rolled her eyes, that had been the 15th time the other girl Mary had asked her that question. "Yer…. Look you don't have to be here you know." Piper replied, the fact was true, but she knew just like the others Mary wouldn't go no matter how much she wished she was watching her boyfriend Dave muck around with the other lads.
They where there, simply because Piper was there, she was the most popular girl in her year, much like her other two sisters where, and Prue had been.
And they where scared, scared for there reputations, if they left now, if they left Piper. What would people say, what would Piper say, would she ditch them as friends? But most would there reputations be crushed, and them sentenced to being 'outcasts'. A sentence none wanted, as to a teenage high school student it was worse than death. So they stayed and waited.
"Hay!" a voice called at Piper a few minutes later, as a girl ran towards her. As soon as she arrived the two girls hugged, while the others looked with horrified faces.
It wasn't that they disliked her; no they loved her more than Piper. It was just they where jealous, not of her boyfriend, clothes or even money, as she had none of these. But because she was simply 'Tiffany.' No more and definitely no less, she could have it all and to some she did. She was popular, and for no reason more than she was truly herself.
But that wasn't the main reason for them resenting her so much. Tiffany and Piper, had been best friends since they where born. They had even meet in the hospital. There was only a day between their births, and now was no different. They where all jealous of the closeness of the two girls, how no matter what happened to them, they would be there for each other.
"Can I have a word?" Piper asked as her and Tiff, (she was the only person allowed to cal Tiffany that,) walked over to another corner. Leaving the rest keeping a look out for their visitor.
As soon as they where out of earshot Piper begun again; "have you noticed something…. Off, with Dan?"
Tiffany bit her lip; she had noticed they all had noticed, you would have to be blind not to notice. But how could she say it, how do you tell you best friend that the guy that they thought they might be falling in love with, you thought might be two timing them? That was the real question, or at least for Tiff it was. She didn't know what to say, Dan and Piper seemed perfect for each other. But lately, something was…. Different. They seemed distant, secretive, well at least Dan was.
On more than one occasion, Tiff had heard rumours, saying that Dan had another girl on the side. But she had just brushed them of as idol gossip, and decided not to bother Piper with it. But now it seemed that maybe she should tell her, especially if even she had noticed the change in his behaviour around her.
Tiffany just stood quietly, not sure of what to say.
Pipers P.O.V:
Oh god, she had to know something, cause otherwise she would of already said something. What if she is just trying to think of a nice way to say, 'he doesn't like you anymore,' or 'he's got someone else'. Oh god, no wait I'm probably just being paranoid, but why hasn't she said anything. Oh common Tiff, PLEASE. Just say something!
Tiff looked at Piper's eyes, she looked so worried but also scared.
What was she going to say, how could she say it? She would have to say something soon; she looked as though she was about to wet herself. 'God forgive me,' she said to herself before laying her friends mind at rest; "its…. He's probably just got a lot on his mind, that's all." She then starred into Piper's eyes; waiting for relief to fill them but it didn't come.
Piper knew she was lying, but about what she was unsure. It was the way she said it that had done it for her, she sounded nervous and quiet. Unlike her usual self, which was confident and loud, in Piper's opinion she was worse than Phoebe and that was saying something. But then again why would she lye? She didn't even like Dan, so why would she lye for him?
She couldn't believe it; she had just lied for Dan. She didn't even like him and she had lied for him, how could she? And then it hit he, she hadn't lied for him but for Piper. She had had for her, and that was what made it worse.
Prue drove pass her old high school, 'Baker high.'
She saw a group of girls, about Piper's age hanging around the gates. 'Probably waiting for someone,' she thought, and knowing the size of the crowd her sister would of been of there. That was one thing she was dreading when she got home, she knew that her Grams would be at work, she was working days that week.
But her sisters they would be home soon, and wanting answers. They would want to know why she was there, and not at work? Although she would say something like 'oh I wasn't feeling well,' like she had done to her boss to get her out of work. She knew it wouldn't work on Piper, she knew her to well. She knew she would know the truth.
The truth was why she had gone, why she had lied to leave work, the truth was ROGER. He would be there, at work. That had been how they had meet, and although Prue had 'got over him.' She couldn't face him, his smug smile, with the thought of him knowing how much he had hurt her.
That he had made her feel, useless, venerable but most of all the way he had so easily manipulate her sister, it made her feel sick. It truly did. And she never wanted to feel that way, ever again.