Wyatt had finished telling his mother his great news of the day finally. Piper had wanted to hear every detail about his new position on the football team but at the same time she had been getting things from all over the place in the kitchen for him as she tried to keep herself grounded for her oldest son. It was all she could do to not go down to Chris and find out what exactly was so wrong with him.

Wyatt didn't complain about her half attentions paid to him as he relinquished the tale of his grandeur over her. His mother always seemed like she had fresh baked cookie around ready to be handed out for any accomplishment and her just being around for a few minutes to hear him out was enough for him at the moment. Piper quickly brought a freshly made oatmeal cookie out of the cookie jar and gave it to him. Then, she passed him a bottle of chocolate milk to drink with it just the way he liked it.

Piper tried to keep herself busy asking a few more questions about his new role as head quarterback of the team. She really knew nothing about football and she had never been really into it, but since Wyatt was she guessed she could give it a try. At the same time as her paying attention to Wyatt's answers, the way Chris was acting was nagging her in the back of her mind.

She didn't get why he would be acting this way. He was just being so weird all of a sudden. Which in this family could mean anything from having a bad day at school to being possessed by some unseen force of evil.

Piper had a feeling that this time it was a demonic possession that had got Chris down. She had an assumption for why Chris was behaving the way he was.

He had finally- after being without a new power in two years- been given a new power. Of course, this power was useless in his mind and he didn't want it. She understood why. Phoebe had felt the same way with that power. The power of premonition could only take you so far and was useless in a fight between the forces of good and evil.

Piper could only imagine how angry Chris was to finally to have received a new power after all of this time to be let down so hard at finding out what it was. Especially, when Wyatt was always around the house getting new powers in what seemed like a pattern of every other month and then there was poor Chris waiting for his. She had tried to tell him sometimes he had to wait. She had even tried to tell him that one day his brother wouldn't have any new powers coming and Chris would be in the spotlight with each new one that he received.

Of course Chris had been annoyed by it all. He had something back to her along the terms of 'yeah, so I'll get a new power then. Of course, Wyatt will have every one in the book by then. So what's the point?"

It was times like these that Piper wished that Phoebe were closer to home. Of course, Phoebe wasn't though. If anyone knew what it was like to be the baby of the family as well as the only one with the least effective powers it would be Phoebe. Sure, Piper had had her days of hating her life with her power of freezing. At the time all she was good for was the occasional freeze for the sisters. Phoebe had had the awesome gift in her own point of view since by Phoebe seeing everything she set the ball in motion to save innocents.

Of course, it seemed that no one with that power ever seemed to feel that way.

Piper sighed as she watched Wyatt gulp down a batch of oatmeal cookies feeling like a horrible mother. She couldn't even pay attention to one son let alone raise the others feelings. Wyatt just looked over at his mother and nodded. He always knew what she felt. Sure, he didn't have that empathic ability yet, but he always seemed to know.

"Go on. I have the great news and Chris is having one of his regular I hate my life days. Just go see what's up with him or something." He told her.

"But you haven't told me everything about being a quarter back." She replied with a gentle smile trying to not let it seem like she had been waiting for that very moment to run to her youngest son and see if she could help him.

It wasn't anything to do with favoritism either. It was just the fact that Wyatt was wonder boy. He got the good grades and he did well in everything he did. All he had to do was try something and he was already the star in it. Chris, on the other hand, seemed to be taking after her more and more everyday. He already wasn't that popular in high school and he resented the popular crowd with a passion.

Hell, if he came home with drawings on his jeans like she had as a teenager then hell she would know for sure he was joining her on the path of loserville. She hoped not though. She hoped he'd figure out a better way to enjoy high school and not become the biggest loser there like she had once been.

"Mom, you're no good to me worrying about Chris. So go and bug him. While you do that I think I am going to sneak out. Have a victory celebration at Noelle's and then I'll be back later." He told his mother with a sneaky smile as he stretched.

"Oh, you. Alright, go have your fun. But be back by ten. It's a school night." She reminded him.

"Yes!" he shrieked as if he didn't think she was going to let him go at all and then he ran for the back door before she could even think of why he shouldn't go out.

Of course, it could be because he had come in past curfew the night before. Oh well, she was too late anyways.

Piper turned to the basement and called down seeing if Chris would come out of the hole he called his room, "Chris?"

When he didn't answer she rolled her dark brown eyes. She was just about to go down into the basement when the doorbell rang. Piper quickly reverted back and stepped through the hallway to the familiar stained glass doorway. She had no idea who would be here. She wasn't expecting anyone and with the mood Chris was in she didn't think he expected anyone either.

She quickly opened the heavy wooden door to reveal a pretty dark haired girl standing there in the breeze. She wore all black and her books were in her arms as she smiled in welcoming to Piper. Her hair was long and black but the red streaks gleamed in the sunlight as she stood at the doorway with a slightly worried look over her face.

"Oh, hi. How can I help you?" Piper asked the stranger curiously.

She had to be around Chris or Wyatt's age. She had never seen her before though. Maybe, Wyatt had decided to have a study date or something and had left her out in the cold instead. Or maybe Chris had a girlfriend.

Stranger things had happened.

The girl smiled brighter and then nodded. "Actually, I was wondering if I could speak with Chris."

"Oh, so you know Chris?" PIper asked.

Hopefully, this girl could change Chris's views on the world. Maybe she could get him out of his whole neurotic depression and into happiness again.

Maybe Chris had gotten somewhere today after all and he just hadn't realized it. A girl at the doorstep? It would be a first for him. Of course then there was also the possibility that this was another reason he wasn't happy with his life at the moment.

"Well, no not really. However, I choose to change that fact. You must be his mother. Hi, I'm Jade." She replied and stretched her silver bracelet banged hand out to Piper's to shake her hand.

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Hmmm. So what do you think?

a.) should chris pretend he's sick just to avoid her?

b.) should piper and jade have a talk and piper somehow make chris go on a date with jade?

c.) should wyatt come back and he and jade get together?

hmmm. intersting ideas... now it's your turn to vote