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Chapter Two
"Ugh." Melinda said.
"Your teacher called me, told me you're failing." Piper stated.
"Mhmm." Melinda replied, she didn't particularly care.
"Oh, That's not all. Then you were seen leaving school property before the end of the day."
Melinda was silent.
"I'm disappointed in you, Mel."
"What's new!" Melinda thought.
"Don't you have anything to say for yourself?" Piper asked. Melinda shrugged.
"Sorry, I guess…" She mumbled.
"You're grounded for a week, starting now. Go up to your room and go study. Your teacher is giving you a second chance." Piper said. Melinda's outburst began.
"This isn't fair mom. I studied my ass off for those assessments and it didn't help at all. I'm struggling and you don't even care!" She screamed and ran up the stairs.
Piper stood in the hallway, she didn't bother going after her daughter. Paige walked in from the living room.
"What was all that about?" She asked.
"Mel's failing, and I'm not making it any easier for her." Piper said.
"Don't worry Pipe, she's just going through her teenage years. I'm dreading the day that Sam turned thirteen!" Piper Chuckled.
"I should go pick the kids up." She said.
"No, no. Let me, you go talk to your daughter." Paige said. Piper nodded and gave Paige the keys and began walking up the stairs. She knocked on Melinda's door.
"Go away!" Melinda shouted.
"Mel? Listen, I want to talk to you." Piper said.
"Go AWAY!" Mel screamed. Piper hesitated for a moment, then opened the door. The girl was sitting on her bed. Noticing her teary eyes, Piper sat down on the bed beside her.
"What's up?" She asked.
Melinda glared at her mother.
"Look, I'm sorry for reacting like I did downstairs, you're struggling and I need to help you." Piper explained.
"Oh yes. You understand now that I made it perfectly CLEAR to you!" She shouted. Piper drew back.
"Mel, I can't read your mind. I'm not an empath. That's Phoebes ground." Piper argued. Mel sat in silence for the next few minutes.
"Yeah, It's my ground too." She confessed.
"Excuse me?" Piper asked.
"I got a new power – Empathy" She said. Piper smiled.
"That's so great, sweetie!" She exclaimed.
"NO!" She shouted "It's not! Do you have any idea how hard it is? Being 'Charmed', trying to fit it, having a normal life ASWELL as being flooded with everyone else's emotions?" Piper sighed.
"I'm sorry, I never considered it from your point of view." She said.
"No, I didn't think you would, you never do." Mel said.
"Hey, that's not fair…" Piper argued.
"You know what? That's what being 'Charmed' has taught me. Life is not fair."
"Melinda, calm down."
"No!"
"Ok, That's it. You are going to calm down, and I am going to start dinner." She got up and left the room.
As Piper walked down the stairs the front door open, and in walked Chris and Samantha.
"Hey mom." Said Chris, shutting the door.
"Chris! How was school today?"
"Same old. Boring, boring and… boring." Piper laughed.
"I'm gonna go start homework, call me when dinner is ready?" He asked.
"Of course." She replied. Chris walked off.
"So, How'd it go with Mel?" Paige asked.
"As good as can be expected. She got a new power."
"Really! Oh… let me guess. TK orbing!"
"Haha, no. Empathy." Piper said.
"Oh, well, that's still good. Is she happy?" Paige asked. Piper sighed.
"No, she's not. She can't handle the problems of life aswell as everyone else's." Paige nodded.
"Hey, but when Phoebe first got her Empathy power, she used that potion to numb it down – remember?"
"I completely forgot about that! I'll make some for Mel later, I think it's still in the book! Thanks Paige!"
"Hey, what are little sisters for?" She bragged.
Wyatt stood in the shadows of the forest, not making a sound. He looked upon the demonic market. He knew deep down that he wanted to visit, but couldn't motivate himself to move. He had a hunger deep inside for power. It's all he wanted. But after all, what would his mother say, should she find out that he'd been here? Hah, how pathetic, 16 years of age and still afraid of his mother. Piper was a good mother, no doubt about it. She'd painfully accepted that when that bastard left to be a full-time elder, that she'd have to raise her three children all by herself.
When Wyatt was just a little boy, only six years old, he remember the day that his father had told him that he had to go away, but assured him that he'd always be watching over him, Chris and Mel. However, he'd ignored birthdays and Christmases. Mel had no memories of Leo. Also there were times when Wytta would get into stupid fights with Chris or his mother, and would orb up to the top of the bridge, screaming for his father, but Leo never answered.
Wyatt felt bad for his mother, but proud of her at the same time. He knew that if he was to set foot into demonic ways, that it would break her heart. So he withdrew, the guilt too much for him, and orbed home.