Piper drove her and Phoebe round town in a desperate search for Paige. Piper kicked herself for not paying more attention to Paige, she'd been too wrapped up in her own perfect little world that she hadn't noticed how much pain her littlest sister had been in. She wanted to cry, she'd never seen Paige like that before. It scared her. Piper knew she had to stay strong and find her sister before she did something stupid.
Phoebe sat quietly in the car with Piper. She scanned the streets as they drove past. There was no sign of Paige at all. Phoebe kind of understood what Paige had been going through, not the not eating thing, the no-one understanding thing. It was hard to talk about something that hurt you. Phoebe sighed and Piper said,
"Everything okay?"
"No. Where is she?"
"I'm not actually talking about Paige honey, I'm talking about you. You've been acting odd recently, and as we've just learnt, you should tell us if something's bothering you…" Piper said kindly. Phoebe didn't really know what to say. Half of her wanted to tell her everything but the other half felt that she couldn't.
"There's one thing…"
"Go on…"
"You remember Alec?"
"Uh yeah, that creep"
"Well the other week. At the park. He… He started calling me all these names… He said some really nasty stuff…" She couldn't do it. She chickened out. She wished so much she could tell Piper, anyone; but she couldn't. Piper nodded and said,
"He's just angry that he let such a beautiful girl get away. Don't worry sweetie, don't take any notice of people like that; they're a waste of your time. You remember before Leo all the names I used to be called? Some of those really hurt but you've just got to remember you're better than that. It worked for me" she said smiling. Phoebe nodded. Piper was so sweet and she felt bad for not telling her the truth, but she just couldn't face re-living it all over again…
"Shall we get out and look for her?" Phoebe said, changing the conversation
"Good idea"
They walked around a few blocks, not saying much. Phoebe noticed Piper kept playing with something on her left hand. Phoebe looked a little closer and saw she was wearing a beautiful diamond ring.
"Piper…"
"Have you seen her?" Piper said suddenly, Phoebe shook her head sadly
"No, sorry, I just wanted to ask… About that ring" Piper hid her hand quick. "Is that on your wedding finger?"
"Maybe" Piper said bashfully, trying not to smile. Phoebe managed to smile, she was happy that her sister had found happiness.
"Wow, you're engaged?"
"Well… Yeah… I didn't want you to find out like this though… Don't tell anyone?"
"I won't! Promise!" Phoebe said hugging her sister.
"C'mon – we've got a sister to find!" Piper said, determined.
Didn't really like this one either LOL… Almost sisterly bonding! Nothing like real life! Next chapters better, promise! One of my favourite characters features ;)