Different Paths Part 42:
1987

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Prue didn't have time to come to all these conclusions. After the fogs cleared again she was pulled into a new scene. She still wasn't anywhere near the end of her quest

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Prue stood at her locker getting books and putting others back. She put herself a new message with a magnet onto the inside of her locker. She always did that with all her homework, dates of tests and simple notes she wrote to ehrself to remember everythingshe still had to do. After school had finished she'd get all the little notes which were important for that day, take them home and there they'd help her to plan the rest of her day.
"Prue..."
Piper whined, walking up to her sister
"what is it?"
Prue asked, turning immediately
"we have to write an essay about our best holiday..."
Prue sighted they never actually had been to a holiday
"true or imagined?"
"I didn't really ask..."
"Who gave you that homework?"
"Mrs. Collins..."
"I'll talk to her... don't worry"
she said smiling. Andy ran up to them
"Prue... why did you disappear so fast after class?"
"Hi Andy"
"hey"
"I'm gonna go... and you sure will ask, right?"
Piper asked
"yes don't worry... go already"
Prue said again
"bye"
Andy said as Piper left them again
"sooo?"
Andy asked
"bathroom emergency"
Prue answered
"ooh..."
"otherwise I thought you and Amanda had a pretty good talk..."
"Hey... you jealous?"
"No! Why should I? I mean... just because it seems like you have a new best friend..."
"Pruedence Halliwell... you should slowly know that no one can replace your role as my best friend."
"If you say so..."
Prue said. She was still somewhat mad at him. The last days she felt as if Andy was hiding something or ignoring her. At least when Amanda was there.
"What ya say, if I pick you later today up and we go to the park to drive a bit with our roller skates?"
Prue's face finally softened
"okay"
she answered him with a smile
"alright... then let's go... you know Mr. Davis is getting moody when we're late..."
"nah... go already... I still have to talk to Mrs. Collins for a second."
"Okay... laters"
Prue nodded and closed her locker, starting to head the other way

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"Goddess! What is this? The worst days of my life?"

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"worst... days of... life"
"what? You heard that?"
"so it really has something to do with bad events in Prue's life, which just... like that are... without any meaning... happening every four years?"
"I don't think so..."
Cole said lowly
"what do you mean?"

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Prue suddenly froze. The first thing she saw...
"mom and grams talked about some curse... 4 years... 6th August... curse... this..."
now things were getting clearer to her as well
"okay... 16... Then the next is 20... The accident... with 24... I yeah... Rodger and me had that terrible fight..."
she couldn't quite believe it.

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Prue checked her watch and saw it had been too late to talk to Mrs. Collins. She'd never make it to Mr. Davis' class in time and that meant trouble. Big trouble. She turned around and went straight for Mr. Davis' classroom she just walked around the corner when she saw Andy. He stood with Amanda in front of the class, but something just seemed wrong. She stopped and watched. She looked them over and then saw how Andy held her hand. Andy looked up
"Prue'll be so late"
he told her, not seeing Prue stood there.
"Well... then we better should go inside... so we won't be late as well..."
"Yeah... let's go..."
he said smiling and then kissed her. Prue swallowed hard. It gave her heart a squeeze to see that. Prue at that moment still thought, this was because Andy lied to her. But the truth was she wanted what Amanda had. She wanted Andy.

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Prue sighted. She was shocked by her new knowledge and so just continued to look at it as the scene changed.

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Prue now sat on her desk writing on an essay for her literature class, but she seemed not to get forward at all. Her thoughts kept replaying the scene she saw
"he lied to me!"
she somewhat yelled and pushed herself back in her chair
"who did?"
Phoebe asked, coming into the room, without even a knock
"ever heard about knocking, Phoebe?"
she asked in a harsh tone. Phoebe shrugged back and left Prue's room again. Prue looked at her calendar. It had been black white pictures of couples. 6th August. The day Andy betrayed her.
"Argh!"
she made and grabbed her calendar and threw it into her trash can. Just as she did she heard a knock on the door. Prue shook her head. It probably was Andy. She grabbed her pen again and tried to look busy "yeah" she said and indeed Andy entered
"hey... you ready?"
"No... I didn't finish literature yet... can't come along... sorry"
she said, scribbling some words down.
"You can also finish it later, now can you? C'mon Prue..."
"damn it Andy, I said no!"
she told him in an almost the same harsh voice she had used before on Phoebe
"okay... what's wrong? What did I do now again?"
"Nothing... I'm just busy"
"no you're not..."
"Why don't you go bug Amanda?"
"Cause I have a date with you... and not her... and like I said in school already... you're my bets friend. Not her"
"but she's your girlfriend, right?"
Andy froze and swallowed hard
"where..."
"I saw you and her before class..."
"Prue... I... wanted to tell you today... I swear..."
"I don't care! You lied to me! And now please Andy... get out. I need to work this through, alright?"
"sure..."
Andy whispered
"bye"
he said at the door and waited for a response. Prue completely ignored him. Andy nodded and left.

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Prue smiled a little "if you had stayed a bit longer... would have come a bit closer... I probably had told you, that I love you..."