She lightly knocked on the door, which held Phoebe and Paige's shared room.
She then waited patiently as snivels and sniffles came out, followed by a weak. "What?"
Piper wasn't quiet sure what to say, she wasn't even sure what was going on. "Honey, its me can I come in?" There was silence, and then the door slowly opened. As Piper stepped in her younger sister reburied her head under her pillow. "Honey what's wrong?" Piper asked as she took a seat on the end of the bed.
"It's Cole," Piper heard her sister mumble from under the pillow.
"Cole," Piper repeated. "What about him?" Piper knew her sister liked him, but he would never hurt her. Would he?
"It's nothing," Phoebe replied as she wiped the tears from her red ring marked eyes.
"Honey? " Piper asked as she pulled her little sister into a hug.
Finally Phoebe broke down, and she told Piper the truth. "It started at that party, his party…. He was being all nice to me, I thought he liked me I really did." Piper had heard this story a thousand times before. From girls Cole had so easily broken the hearts of, but never before had she been so enraged with him.
"Well we where talking, and he started to compliment me, and well then after a while he kissed me." At that point Phoebe burst out in tears again, leaning her head onto Piper's shoulder.
Piper could feel her fists clench, she knew Cole that well. She knew when he kissed a girl it was nothing, but to Phoebe, he had been nice complimented her. To Phoebe he was probably like some knight in shinning aurma.
"Well honey you know what Cole is like he kisses girls all the time, it doesn't mean anything." Although it was cruel to tell her little sister this, that Cole probably saw her just as anther piece of meat. She had to she had to make her see, it wasn't her fault so she could move on.
"But it wasn't that," Phoebe managed though snivels, "I know that, and that's what I thought….but then he…. He…." She burst into tears once again.
"There, there its all right Pheebs." Piper said trying to calm her sister down.
"He said…. He said he really liked me…. He loved me." She finally blurted out. Even Piper was surprised, Cole had never told anyone he loved them in his whole life. So why Phoebe? Sorely he wouldn't have done it just to get into bed?
"Well honey what…. well then what happened?" Piper finally asked.
"Well…. You had your thing, and we went outside and well he went weird…. Like a brother on me."
"Well he probably was just trying to look out for you," Piper wasn't sure what else to say. What do you say when a guy goes from snogging your face off to acting like your sibling?
"But it's not just that, he was all lovely with Tiff."
"Well you know how close they are, and I… em well just talk to him about it tonight yer?"
"Yer…. I guess I was just being daft…. So what are you going to do about your mystery man? Don't you think Dan will get jealous?"
Piper hadn't thought about this, "why would Dan get jealous?"
"Em, let me see…." Phoebe pretended to think, "I've seen the way Leo looks at you he sooooo fancies you." Phoebe said with a slight giggle.
"Leo," Piper repeated, his name was Leo and she sat thinking about it in a daze.
Although when she realised Phoebe was watching her she quickly snapped back to life, "look I don't even know him, and anyway he probably won't even turn up" and with that she left before her sisters questions continued.
Piper varied at school still slightly dazed by his name, 'Leo.' She kept saying it in her head; it was like a song she couldn't forget. 'Leo,' it was like a angels name, her hero Leo, her angel Leo. No now stop this, she told her self furiously. She couldn't think like this. She had Dan, he was her boyfriend, Leo well he was just a lad who she kept bumping into, but he kept saving her.
No now stop, she told her self again, I can't believe this I'm falling for a gye I don't even know.
She sighed as she stepped though the gates of the school and over to Dan. This was where she belonged, with Dan here. She tried to convince herself as she pulled his arm around her tighter. But no matter how hard she tried she couldn't stop thinking about those eyes, those beautiful eyes. The way they had looked at her the first time they had meet.
Then suddenly she felt something reach her cheek. As it pulled away, she looked over to it and realised it had been Dan kissing her goodbye before leaving for homeroom. He was perfect; he was good to her, friendly, liked her sisters even if they weren't so keen on him, smart, popular, kind of good-looking all though he did need a new hairdo. But except for that he was practically perfect, and yet she couldn't stop thinking about him, about Leo.
She walked along the corridor to her own homeroom, without a word. A few people said hi and waved, but she to be honest couldn't be bothered. She took her seat at the back as usual, along in the far corner next to Tiff, and for once they where quiet as their teacher did register. Even he was shocked and asked her if they wanted to visit the sick bay, as he though she was ill. But when she said she was all right, he looked as though he was about to have a heart attack before returning to his own desk.
Tiff looked at her best friend as Mr. Fitzpatrick, retook his seat. There was something different about her; she didn't know what it was though. It hadn't been the party because except for a major hangover the next morning, and vowing never to drink again nothing else had changed since.
She seemed to be in her own world, isolated from this one. Whatever it was it scared Tiff, she had never seen her like this, ever. Had something happened, had her and Dan split up, or something to her Grams? But when she asked, Piper just shrugged it of as if it was truly nothing.
She was like that for the rest of the day, some people noticed and asked her if she was o.k? And that but most didn't notice anything, to wrapped up into the own worlds, including Dan. He didn't even notice at lunch, or in any lesson not even when he said goodbye at the end of he day.
That was when she got her alone; finally Tiff could truly interrogate her about this sudden change. In away that could only be achieved is when its done by a true friend, and when you're alone.
"So what is it?" she asked Piper for the hundredth time that day.
"I've told you nothing" Piper replied as he walked down an old ally, they where making a detour from their usual route home. Piper needed to pick something up for dinner that night, now she knew she was having guests.