Ten minutes later after Piper had explained the whole situation to her Kelly stood there angry tears filling her eyes. She couldn't believe this was happening. She was going to become uncharmed forever, just a powerless witch for all of eternity. "Wait a minute," Kelly demanded, a thought coming back to her. "What did Chris say about her sleeping in my room?"
"Sweetie, it's the only place, you know there's not enough room for Paige, Kyle, and Kira in their apartment, so we-" Kelly cut her mom off. "Then I'm not sleeping there. I don't even want to live in this house anymore!" To her surprise her words didn't seem to be making Piper angry as she had expected. Instead Kelly watched as her mom's eyes filled with tears. Piper quickly brushed them away as she nodded sadly. "OK," she said quietly her voice quavering. "If you really feel that way you can stay at magic school, just for a little while, maybe a week or two." The anger suddenly disappeared from Kelly's face. She couldn't believe herself as the words 'I'd be happy to' spilled out of her mouth. She watched as more tears filled Piper's eyes, she knew how much this must be hurting her.
"Let's go then." To Kelly's surprise a door opened over the stairs. "Magic school is just on the other side of that door. If you ever want to come back for a snack or anything-" Piper's voice trailed off as Kelly gave her a confused look. "I'm sorry Kelly. I should have told you that there was an easy way to magic school instead of making you think it was really far away. I was just always afraid that you'd try to run away and hide there. Wyatt and Chris know, I made them promise not to tell you." Kelly just looked at her mom. "So all this time…" Piper nodded. Anger started to burn inside Kelly. She wanted to yell at Piper, she wanted to let her know that because everyday she had to get orbed to school by her older brother she was made fun of because she didn't have powers. If she had just known- Kelly opened her mouth to say something but quickly shut it. Piper looked miserable enough already.
The door opened and Kelly and Piper stepped through. "You can sleep in the library Kel," Piper said slowly. "I'll conjure up a bed." Following her mom down the hallway Kelly listened to the echoes her footsteps made. Magic school had never seemed so lonely and empty. Piper flicked on the library lights.
"Hmm lets see…. A journey long has been started and from which the home has parted. Even the greatest need to be sheltered and fed; give this witch some food and a bed." It was a simple spell but it worked, a small bed and a table with a bowl of fruit appeared in the corner of the library. "Well I'll be in the manor if you need me. Sweet dreams." Piper turned to leave the library a look of sadness on her face. "I love you mom," Kelly whispered.
