Growing, Epilogue Chapter 8: Meghan ::: Music is the key!, a charmed fanfic

Growing Part 8:
Mags – Music is the key!

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Meghan opened her eyes and looked around, still somewhat sleepily. She noticed she was home and sat up. Slowly the things which happened last night came to her mind and she growled. They had taken her home. She looked at her mom's alarm clock 10am. She slowly peeled herself out of bed. She was mad at her parents, but couldn't wake Anna. With the moving Anna woke up
"Mags? Where's Lily?"
"at the hospital... we're home..."
"I wanna see her..."
"yeah... me too!"
Andy woke from the babbling and turned around to face his daughter's
"I hate you!"
Mags yelled at Andy, seeing he had moved.
"Wha...? Mags!"
Andy yelled after her, since she already was out of the door. Andy sighted and fell back to bed. Anna got up as well and left
"great... she tells me to take them home... and who are they mad at?"
Andy asked...

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After a few minutes he got up and walked downstairs. He found Meghan in the living, playing piano.

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People, have always been singing
To wipe away tears, to ease all the pain (oh)
Music, has always been healing
Some people just sometimes, and others again and again and again
So we hope that today you are ready, to understand

Whenever you're falling down
Hopeless and pushed around
Find your own melody
Trust me that music is the key
It makes you feel proud and strong
Helps you to carry on
If you are down on your knees
You should sing it with me
Music is the key
(sets you free, yes)
Stories, we've always been telling
Its part of our nature to speak with a friend
So we hope that today you are ready, to understand

It's the key to the heart of all people
It can open the door to your soul
It's the key to the world
where the flower of love always grows
don't you know
don't you know

Whenever you're falling down
Hopeless and pushed around
Find your own melody
Trust me that music is the key
Whenever you're losing faith
Just wanna leave the place
Come sing along with me
Trust me that music is the key
Just sing with me loud and strong
Help us to carry on
If you are down on your knees
You should sing it with me
Music is the key
Sets you free
Music is the key

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Andy knew better than to interrupt her when she was playing like that. He sighted and went through to the kitchen, where Anna sat and drew something. He looked at her
"Anna..."
she turned away from him and Andy sighted again.
"Great..."
he mumbled and went to make some coffee. He drank some of his coffee and then started to go for the manor.
"Morning"
"hey... you home?"
"Yeah... and the girls are mad at me for taking them home..."
"well... you'll be mad at Prue... your mom called... Lily's out of surgery and okay... she wanted you guys to sleep some more..."
"I knew she wouldn't call... could you and... Phoebe... maaaaaaybe talk to Anna and Mags?"
"yeah sure..."
"thanks Piper..."
"Phoebe!"
"yes?"
"c'mon... gotta talk to teenagers!"
"nooo!"
"yes! c'mon!"
"why do you always say yes to such kind of things?"
"cause I can't say no"
Piper sang.

"Hey..."
Piper told Anna
"hey"
she answered
"what are you drawing?"
"dad being hurt..."
"you're not that mad, are you?"
"yes..."
"you probably fell asleep... and they just wanted you to rest a little..."
"we told them we wanted to stay there and wait for Lily a million times!"
"you gotta see it like that... you now have gotten some sleep and can stay with your sister the whole day... if you wanna... if they didn't let you guys sleep you'd be completely tired and would probably fall asleep while talking to her"
Piper argued
"I'm not really mad... but... Mags is... and... We agreed... that in such cases we'd all be mad at them... Lily's probably as well."
Piper smiled
"well... don't you think that's a little hard on your father?"
Anna shrugged her shoulders
"okay... c'mon... I make you some breakfast and then you and dad and Mags can go see Lily..."
"can I help?"
"sure..."

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Phoebe carefully sat down on the bench, Mags was sitting on to play and, more scream than sing right about now. she stopped after a few more buttons pushed, finishing what she was singing
"don't even try"
Mags said, as she flipped pages in the book in front of her to search something else she wanted to play
"Meghan..."
Phoebe sighted
"I don't get how they always have to baby me! I'm no baby anymore! I can decide things myself! I'm 16. I'm able to drive! If the state give same this right... why can't he? I don't need him anymore... I hate it... seriously!"
Meghan exploded Phoebe looked down and smiled
"I know... I felt the same"
"you weren't the oldest... and you never wanted to care for your LITTLE sister... so don't tell me you know when you don't! Aunt Phoebe!"
Meghan yelled at her. Phoebe swallowed and left Mags alone again
"no chance..."
Phoebe told Piper

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I know just who I be, I know just what I need
Don't need no sympathy, I just wanna live my life
´Cause life is so beautiful in my eyes
I love the birds and bees all in the summer breeze
Or chillin' at the beach, I love to enjoy my life
Leave your stress and troubles behind

That's the way I am and I don't give a damn
If you really don't understand, cause I'm payin' my own rent
And I never ask for sympathy
All I wanna know's if you're down with me
So don't misunderstand, cause that's just the way I am

I know what's family, I know what's loyalty
I know just how it feels for someone to love you right
Cause life's so beautiful in my eyes
I love expensive things, champagne and diamond rings
But life without these things
Is still a wonderful life, just be thankful you're alive

I'm gonna live the way I live
Enjoy my life, live positive
And help someone who ask
It's time well spend
'Cause that's the way that I am

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Impressed? Yeah. I guessed so. You don't know that face of Meghan Trudeau. You only know the little kid. It seems like everyone only knows that of me. I seriously ask myself when my aunts and parents and everyone else in this, and the other house, will finally understand, I'm not this little kid anymore.
I hated what they did today to me. I can decide myself where I wanna stay, and I told them a billion times, I wanted to stay exactly where I was. They had no right to bring me home.
It May have sounded hard when I told my dad, I hated him, but it's the truth... lately I really do. Everything I do... or want, he thinks, isn't good for me:
Drive... I could make an accident... no not could... will... I will definitely... you know how 'good' it feels to hear that from your own father? Like every day? That your own father doesn't have this much faith in you?
Robbie... Robbie's definitely the devil himself. Ever since I started to meet Robbie, dad tries to handle me like a prisoner in my own home. If it wasn't for mom, Robbie would have already broken up with me again, since I'd never see him.
And now this. I just... this once, I wanted to stay with Lily. Be there for her. She's my baby sister. We need each other. I can't believe dad took me home. Like he did with Anna. I'm not Anna. I'm not a little kid anymore! And I seriously can't believe he send Aunt Phoebe to talk to me...
so? You wanna hear a little bit of my life? What didn't you see already? I grew up in a happy family... okay... that May have sounded a bit too negative than it should... I'm glad mom and dad are still coming along just perfectly. Ashley's parents got a divorce two years ago. It was horrible. Ash's my best friend. She's great. She's often around, since she can't stand her parents... neither of them... anymore.
When Lily was three, mom and dad decided it was time for Lily and Anna to get separated rooms. That's when I got the attic apartment. I love it. I mean... I have my own floor, all for myself. My own bathroom, my own little living... and a room only for my bed. Mom and I talked already about installing some kitchen things for me as well, but dad didn't want to... yes... there he goes again.
the most annoying thing of dad is still that he's my, well our, whitelighter. He can butt in at any moment in any situation… but Anna, Lily and I made up a little spell with the tiny help of mom… she understood, we girls sometimes just need our privacy.
the whole powers thing is anyway something… really cool, I guess. Though my powers are kinda boring.
Me and my sisters have most likely a mixture of mom and dad's powers and then something elementarily. For me that's fire. Well… temperature comes a long with it. Mom once told me, how she had to pick me at kindergarten, cause I set the whole thing on fire. I warm up teas, cool down drinks… I astral orb, like we call the mixture of astral projection and orbing. I have telekinesis, like mom or more likely aunt Paige… and last but not least I'm telempathic, what means, I can move, feelings, thoughts, pictures, memories, anything… from mind to mind. When I was younger I only could transfer it from myself to someone or from someone to myself, nowadays anything goes… so if mom's like mad at dad… I can make dad read her thoughts and solve the problem… technically…
Anna, lily and i… are one set of the new charmed ones… but demons aren't that much in common anymore. Mom and the aunts killed pretty much everything off the radar when we all were still pretty little and so the whole destiny bla bla, isn't this big after all anymore. But still, mom and dad wants us to come along the best we can… she's scared one day there will be again something coming up…something big… but I don't know… why should it?
coming along with your siblings is easier said than done. Seriously…Anna and I are... most likely fighting, since Chris and I hate each other and Chris and her are something like bets friends... so we always get into trouble with each other. But as soon as it comes to girls' things or to boys or family... Anna and me are alright. She's starting to grow to a wonderful woman, I really have to admit that.
Lily is an angel. Who couldn't love her? She's such a sweetheart. But, if I'm honest… I still don't see her as a 10 year old…s he's still the baby of the family and just as innocent as that, what makes it so easy to lover her
I'm still going to school... what else? Mom and dad would kill me, if I'd break up with it. But I have a lot of things going on after school.
Cheerleading for example. I'm not one of those 'typical' cheerleaders. I just am one, because I love to dance. Dancing I also do Thursday night's. Before I went to this course of dancing I made ballet. Now it's more like... dancing like your stars.
On Monday I have band rehearsal. That's how Robbie and I got close and closer... and well... then we were a couple. The rest of the band was kinda shocked. We're all like siblings... and they were afraid, that if we broke up, the band would fall apart. It seriously would be hard to see Robbie like every day, if we weren't together anymore. But that won't happen. Even though dad would seriously support this.
Mom often says, I remind her on herself. Robbie and dad are similar as well, she claims, but that's just her opinion. Robbie's nothing like the jerk, dad has been lately.
Can you see Aunt Piper in the door? She heard I stopped playing... she wants me to go back to talk to dad... but she won't make it... no one will this time. But I always say that and then mom comes...

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"Mags..."
"leave me alone, Aunt Piper, really."
"c'mon... I made some breakfast..."
"I'm not hungry..."
"Meghan... please..."
"damn it I said no! And when I say no, I mean no!"
Mags then astral-orbed to her room. She lay down on her bed and starred at the ceiling which was full of little stars which loaded themselves with light and at night or when it was dark, they'd glow like real stars.

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Mom's so much different... mom's... mom just knows what to say... so I don't react like I just did. Mom handles me, like I'm adult. Not some little kid. She accepted that I'm grown up. Before she decides anything belonging to me, she talks to me. Mom's the best!

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Meghan sighted, got up from her bed and went to her bathroom, took a shower, got dressed again and then astral-orbed to McDonalds she got herself and her mom some breakfast and then astral-orbed back to the hospital.
"Mags? What?"
"dad's a jerk and aunt piper and Phoebe helped him being one..."
Prue smiled
"not so loud... Lily just fell back asleep"
"how's she?"
"she's glad, she doesn't have to do chemo..."
Mags smiled
"I got us breakfast"
"'set' the other bed... I'm there in a sec"
Prue said, freed herself from Lily and covered her up.
"Sooo help your old mother a little out here... why's dad a jerk, once again?"