Thank you again to MsWeirdo, Katie farmer, charmed4eva1990, Alyssa Halliwell, nicole812us, and elenor (by the way, Phoebe will find out who did it to her, don't worry.) I am very sorry for not updating sooner but I was having trouble figuring out how Phoebe's encounter with Paige should go. I hope that I did it alright. So please read and as always review at the end! Thanks!
Disclaimer- I do not own Charmed or any of its characters. They are all owned by Aaron Spelling but I do own those characters which you don't recognize.
Three days later
3-7-90
Well…I have to say that today was very interesting. I don't think I've ever had a day like it and to tell you the truth I hope I'll have another day like it. Today was the best it's been in a long time and I think that's interesting. My life is never good to me. There's always someone who's trying to ruin my day. There's also always someone trying to ruin my life in other words Prue if you haven't already figured that out. I still don't get why she hates me.
Ok, that was very off topic and I am definitely not going to let Prue the poo ruin my perfectly good day. She's a bitch and let her stay that way.
So anyways, I went to school this morning and I completely forgot that today was the day that we were going to go to Baker Middle School to get together with our partner for the community service junk. While going to the school, that was a problem. But once we got there and I met Paige, it wasn't so bad. It turned out to be very fun…
Flashback:
Phoebe's POV:
"Good morning class," said Ms. Petrone adjusting her glasses. She glared at the class, causing us to burst out in laughter since she was wearing this bright pink hat that made her look like a vulture.
"I hope you all remembered that today we're going to Baker Middle School." The whole class groaned. "Now as responsible ninth graders, I hope that each and every one of you will set a fine example for the seventh graders you will be paired up with." She surveyed the class with narrow eyes and said, "Ms. Chaky says that her students are very excited about this and I trust that none of you will ruin this." She picked her hand bag up from her desk and said, "We'll be walking there, come along."
Great, I love walking, don't you? At least I won't have to walk alone. Seriously, I could care less about all the people in my class. They don't talk to me so I don't talk to them. It would take about fifteen minutes to get there, so I decided to walk with this guy named Eric who was walking with Terry, out of all people. Terry is in most of my classes. I think the teachers know that we hate each other so they put us in the same classes on purpose.
"Hey, babe!" said Eric as I stepped in place next to him.
"Hey yourself," I responded. I looked over at Terry who rolled his eyes.
"What's up?" Eric asked.
"The usual…people are bitches to me so I bitch at them."
Eric laughed and said, "The same old Phoebe. I was getting worried about you for a while. You've seemed off lately."
I shrugged. I wasn't about to let the incident interfere with my normal life.
"I thought that it was good that you seemed…off," said Terry glaring at me. "People were left at peace for once."
"Go to hell, Terry," I snapped. God, he makes me angry. I like to tease him but he's just plain annoying otherwise.
"Make me," he replied his light blue eyes flashing in anger.
I stopped and stared at him for a second. "What is your problem, Andrews?"
Terry also stopped and said, "You make me sick, you know. You treat people like dirt and no one appreciates that."
I glared at him and I guess I did something else because Terry took a few steps backwards. "I treat people how they treat me. It's what they deserve. People judge me without even knowing me so if they don't give me a chance, then why should I give them one?"
Terry stared at me like I was crazy.
"Uh, Phoebe, Terry, the rest of the class is already kind of far ahead, do you think you could postpone your little argument for later?"
I looked at Eric then back at Terry and smiled. "What, Terry? Nothing to say? And here I thought you were actually getting a backbone." With that, I walked away from Terry who was still staring at me and Eric who was trying to hide his laughter.
Needless to say, I didn't talk to anyone the whole way there.
Once we got there, Ms. Petrone introduced us to Ms. Chaky who was a very petite sort of person who was also wearing a pink hat identical to Ms. Petrone's. It was disgusting. Apparently the seventh graders thought so also because they were laughing at the teachers also.
"So," said Ms. Petrone, "since you all know who your partners are, get to work." Then she and Ms. Chaky walked out of the room.
Ms. Chaky stuck her head back in the room to look at her class. Then she said, "Before this period ends, I want a half a page written on what you're planning to do for the community service, is that clear?" Everyone groaned as Ms. Chaky left the classroom.
I looked around and saw that most of my classmates seemed to know who their partners were. As I was looking around, I saw Terry go up to a boy who gave him a high five. Before long they were in deep conversation and for some weird reason kept glaring at me.
Now who was Paige? I scanned the classroom and I saw the person whom I think was Paige. She was a little shorter than me, had brownish eyes, brown hair that was a similar color to Prue's, and extremely red lips. I walked up to her and stuck out my hand. "Phoebe Halliwell…are you Paige?"
She slowly took my hand and said, "Yeah, I'm Paige." She looked like she was waiting for me to say something and when I didn't, she said, "Are you really a bitch to people?"
"Excuse me?"
"Well, I've heard people say that you're a bitch to everyone even people you don't know."
I rolled my eyes and sat down next to her. "And who told you that?"
Paige nodded at the boy next to Terry and said, "George, he tells us everything that goes on at the high school." Paige saw him looking at her at flashed him a smile showing all her teeth and he quickly looked away. "He was bragging for days that he got his cousin to do the project with."
My eyes widened. No wonder the two of them were glaring at me. "Yeah, well Terry and I don't exactly get along well."
"Me and George don't either. All my friends think he's super hot though," said Paige rolling her eyes. She pointed at a girl with blond hair, who was flirting with Eric and said, "That's my best friend Lily…she flirts with anything she can get her hands on."
I rolled my eyes and said, "She reminds me of my sister, Prue."
Paige sat up and said, "Do you think anyone in here is hot?"
I smiled and said, "No, you?"
Paige looked down a little and said, "Well…when you guys first came in here, I thought that…Terry was kind of hot." I raised an eyebrow and looked at Terry. If I didn't hate him so much, I guess he would be good looking. "He's kind of tall, light brown hair, light blue eyes," she said ticking them off one by one on her fingers.
"Yeah, count his hostility towards popular people and you've got the perfect guy!" I said with a laugh.
Paige shrugged and said, "I kind of thought of that too when I realized that he was George's cousin." Paige looked around and saw that many people were busy writing. "So what do you want to do for the community service?"
I leaned back and said, "I have no idea. It's not something that I normally do."
Paige's eyes lit up. "My Mom volunteers at charity events sometimes. I could ask her if we could do something."
"That would be good," I said as Paige got out a sheet of paper and quickly wrote it all down. "So…I guess this is kind of an awkward question but are you…adopted?"
Paige smiled at me and said, "Don't know how you know about that, but I am. My parents adopted me from a church though."
"I'm sorry." Sometimes I feel really bad when I hear about people being adopted because they never got to know their real parents. But I never push it further than that because I'm pretty sure that most adopted people don't want your pity if they're happy where they are.
"Don't be. I love my parents very much and they'll be my family forever."
"I wish I could say the same about my family," I said.
"Why?" asked Paige frowning. "What's wrong with your family?"
"It's a long story," I replied running my fingers through my hair.
"We have a lot of time, besides, I love stories," said Paige.
I knew right then that Paige was going to become a very good friend of mine.
End Flashback
So, as you can see, today was very productive. I loved it. I should invite Paige over sometimes. I think she'd like it here. Hell, I'd like if she came over. I wish I had a sister like her who adored every single thing I said. One can only dream… oh, and did I mention that yesterday, I caught Piper and Leo making out in her room? It was highly disturbing but I'm happy for Piper. She needs a guy like Leo. As for me…I think that this is in fact the longest I've ever gone without a boyfriend. I don't exactly need one right now. Correction, want one. It still seems a little hurtful…not that that makes any sense but whatever.
I feel dead so I'll write later. Maybe next week. As it says on the back of Grams's flower power mirror, Peace out.
Phoebe