Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters from Charmed. But I do own Aurora, Haley, Charisma, and any other characters you don't recognize.
AN: Well here's Chapter Two.
"Nothing like vanquishing a demon at the crack of dawn." Paige said sarcastically, as her sisters and herself watched the demon become a pile of ashes. "I think we should start getting the kids to do this. I'm sure Wyatt, and Chris wouldn't mind."
"Of course they wouldn't." Phoebe added. "Oh and speaking of Chris, I got a phone call last night from someone who just moved into town."
Piper looked at Phoebe questionably, "And it has to do with Chris how?"
"Well first she asked if I could watch her younger sister after school for a little while, until she gets home because their dad had to go on a last minute business trip. When I said sure, she asked what my name was, I told her Phoebe Halliwell, and she told me that she had met Chris."
"So she didn't know who you were before asking you to watch her younger sister?" Piper questioned.
"She asked me if I was Patsy and Porter's mom. I guess her sister had become friends with them."
"What's the kid's name?" Paige asked Phoebe.
"Charisma Cantora." Phoebe replied.
"Preston and Drew were telling me about her. Said she was real nice." Paige mused.
"Why does the last name Cantora ring a bell?" Piper questioned.
"I don't know." Phoebe replied. "But we should really get going. Got to wake the kids up."
Piper and Paige nodded in agreement. Paige took both of her sister's hands and orbed them both home, before orbing herself back to her own place.
"Christopher Perry Halliwell get out of bed right now!" Piper yelled up the stairs. Walking into the kitchen Piper looked at her daughter, "Melinda can you please orb into Chris's room and get him up for me?"
"Can I hit him really hard with a pillow?"
"Why not. Let's just hope it wakes him up."
"OK." Melinda replied smiling before she orbed up to her brother's room.
"Chris still not awake?" Wyatt, Piper's oldest, questioned her.
"He's being stubborn today. Breakfast is on the table. You have about an hour until you have to get ready for work."
"Yea I know." Wyatt replied sitting down at the table.
Wyatt was just about to start eating when Melinda orbed back into the kitchen and hid behind Piper. "What did you do?" Piper questioned immediately.
"Well I-" Melinda was cut off when Chris orbed into the kitchen. "Chris I'm sorry."
"You owe me a new I-pod Melinda." Chris said calmly.
"I do not." Melinda replied still behind Piper. It's not my fault you had a glass of water beside it that I didn't see when I went to wake you up."
"Mom. Melinda destroyed my I-pod. Tell her she has to get me a new one."
"You're the one who had a glass of water beside it on your night stand." Melinda shot back.
"Well it's not like I knew someone was going to try to hit me in the head with a pillow, and miss by a millimeter and hit the glass of water."
"Both of you stop it. Chris I sent her upstairs to wake you up so it's not her fault. It wouldn't of happened in the first place if you would of woken up when I told you to. And what would you of done if a demon attacked? Just sleep?" Piper almost yelled, over her children's voices.
"Sorry mom." Chris mumbled.
"Uh huh. That's what I thought. Now hurry up, eat and get dressed or you're going to be walking to school."
"Chris, who's that?" Piper questioned as she pulled up in front of the high school.
"Who?" Chris questioned in response.
"The girl that just got out of the car."
"Her?" That's Aurora. Started yesterday. Why?"
"She looks familiar that's all. Well have a good day at school."
"Yea...right. See ya mom." Chris said getting out of the vehicle.
"Bye Chris. Bye Melinda."
"Bye mom." Melinda smiled getting out. Before she closed the door she said, "I don't have rehearsal after school today."
"OK. I'll make sure I tell Wyatt he's picking up both you and Chris, as well as your cousins today."
"Thanks mom. Love ya."
"Love you too." Piper replied as Melinda closed the door.
"Hey Aurora." Chris said as he walked pass her in the hall on the way to his locker.
"Hey Halliwell. How are you today?"
"I'm good. You?" Chris said halting his walk to his locker.
"Pissed off and stressed."
"What or who are you pissed off at?"
"My dad." Aurora replied putting one of her books on the top shelf in her locker.
"Oh. Mind if I ask why?"
"My dad kinda left on a last minute business trip yesterday. Leaving me and my older sister in charge of our younger one, and we weren't expecting him to." Aurora said before slamming her locker shut with anger that she was clearly trying to keep hidden. Before Chris could say anything, she turned and walked away.
"That's one strange girl." Eric, one fo Chris's friends said walking up to him. "She's stranger than you."
Chris looked at Eric, "Wasn't it you who said, and let me quote you, 'I don't think it's possible for anyone to be as weird as you Chris.' Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was you who said that."
"Yea, well, she proved me wrong."
"Do you understand any of this?" Chris questioned Aurora, looking down at the textbook that sat in front of him.
"Yea...this is grade ten stuff. I don't really see why the go over it."
"Think you could explain it a bit better for me?"
"In the first quadrant sin, cos, and tan all equal a positive number. In the second quadrant sin equals a positive number while cos and tan equal a negative." Before Aurora could continue the bell rang. "Look I got to go talk to Mr. Hobbes about something. So if you still need help with this, even though it is quite easy, just come over to my place or something." Aurora quickly scribbled down her address on a piece of paper, and disappeared out the classroom door.
"OK..." Chris trailed off watching her leave.
"I bet you feel stupid now." Adam, another friend of Chris', laughed.
"Why would he feel stupid?" Kelsey, Eric's girlfriend, questioned as she sat down beside Eric.
"Well he asked the new chick a question in math. A question that makes him seem really stupid, 'cause it was something we learnt last year." Eric replied.
"That's nothing to feel stupid about. I forget things I learnt last year all the time, and I'm a straight A student. Oh and speaking of Aurora, that's the new girl if you forgot Eric, I asked her to come sit with us. Hope you guys don't mind." Kelsey smiled.
"Not a problem." Adam replied for the three of them.
"Here she comes. Move down a bit Eric." Kelsey said pushing Eric over a little. As Aurora glanced around the table and sat down Kelsey asked, "What, no lunch?"
"Forgot mine at home." Aurora replied.
"Well you're going to have to eat something." Kelsey stated. Chris, Eric, and Adam shared a knowing look. Kelsey hated it when someone she knew didn't eat three meals a day, it drove her insane, mostly because of her older sister.
"I'm not that hungry."
"I don't care. You're going to eat something. Here," Kelsey said handing Aurora an apple." "Eat this."
"It's really ok."
"Take it." Kelsey almost growled.
"OK." Aurora said taking the apple, and rubbing her left temple at the same time.
"You ok?" Chris questioned.
"Fine." Aurora smiled. "Just a small headache."
"Probably because you haven't eaten any lunch yet." Kelsey mused, taking a bite of her sandwich.
Aurora took a bite of the apple. "Happy?" she asked Kelsey
"A little." Kelsey smiled. "So how do you like it here in San Francisco?"
"It's the same as it was eight years ago."
"You use to live here?" Kelsey questioned.
"No. My mom use to bring me and my sisters here to visit our grandma. The last time we were here was for my grandma's funeral."
"I'm so sorry." Kelsey said sympathetically.
"It happened eight years ago. It's ok."
"I'm still sorry."
"You know Kelsey you're too nice for your own good." Aurora laughed.
"So I've been old." Kelsey sighed.
"Look I'll be right back." Aurora smiled glancing around the cafeteria.
"Kay." Kelsey replied.
As Aurora got up and walked away Chris got up and looked at his friends. "I gotta go...do something."
Chris quickly left the table and went in search of Aurora. After a couple minutes he found her at her locker talking on her cell phone. He hid around the corner and listened the best he could.
"Haley, I'm sorry to be bugging you at work... It's just...its getting worse"
"What's getting worse?"
"I can't make sense of my own emotions."
"I see."
"Do you know how hard that is?"
"I don't know how hard it is sis, but it'll be ok."
"I wish mom was here so bad. It would of been so much easier if she was here."
"Everything would be so much easier with her here. But look Aurora I gotta go."
"Yea, I'll let you go...sorry for bugging you. I guess I'll see you at home. And we'll deal with this then."
"Bye Aurora. Love you."
"Bye... Love ya too sis..."
Chris wanted to go and ask Aurora what was going on, but he decided against it, and headed back towards the cafeteria.
Chris spotted Wyatt's car and headed towards it. On his way he saw Aurora walking in the direction of her house, he called after her, "Aurora want a ride?"
He saw Aurora stop and turn around. "You know I think I'll take you up on that offer today Halliwell."
"Then come this way." Chris replied showing her the way to the car. When they go to the car Chris said, "Looks like you get to meet part of my family."
"Should I be scared?"
"Only of my sister and cousins." Chris opened the car door and said, "Hey Wy do you think we could give Aurora a ride home?"
"Sure." Wyatt replied. "She's just going to have to squeeze in the back with Melinda, Peyton and Patience."
"Actually could you drop me off at your guys' Aunt Phoebe's place?"
"Why do you need to go to our place?" Patience questioned gesturing from herself, to Peyton, her older sister.
"Well you're mom is watching my younger sister for me."
"Oh." Patience smiled.
"Nice to meet you." Melinda said sliding over on the seat so that Aurora could sit down.
Silence filled the car, and it stayed silent until it pulled up the drive way. Everyone filled out of the car and Chris turned to Aurora, "Just follow Peyton and Patience. Their place is only two houses away from here."
"Kay. See ya later. Thanks for the ride Wyatt. Nice meeting you Melinda."
"You too Aurora." Melinda smiled
"No prob." Wyatt replied before disappearing into the house.
"Bye. Talk to you later." Chris aid watching her walk off with Patience and Peyton.
"So I take it your guys' family is really close." Aurora commented as they walked into the house.
"You could say that." Peyton smiled. "Mom we're home!"
"OK!"
"Aurora's here to pickup her sister!" Patience yelled.
"I'll be right there." Phoebe soon showed up in the doorway of the kitchen. "It's good to meet you."
"Same to you." Aurora replied. "Hope Charisma wasn't a problem."
"Are you kidding? She's been an angel."
"That's great." At the same moment Aurora's cell phone rang. "Speak." she said pressing the talk button. "Hey Haley... I'm picking her up right now. Don't worry... Don't worry sis everything'll be fine... Love ya. Bye." Aurora smiled at Phoebe. "Sorry about that my older sister worries about everything. She can get annoying sometimes."
"I know what you mean."
Aurora smiled as she saw Charisma run down the stairs. "Hey kiddo. Lets get going."
"Do I have to Aurora? Cant' I stay longer?"
"I don't know."
"I've only been here for a half hour."
"And you'll be coming here for the next little while."
"Please Aurora!" Charisma pleaded.
Aurora sighed. "Fine if Phoebe says it's ok you can stay, but you have to call me in an hour."
"Kay. Phoebe can I stay?"
"Of course."
"Thank you!" Charisma exclaimed running up the stairs.
"That girl is crazy something." Aurora laughed. "Me and Haley never got that hyper when we were her age."
"Ok. Maybe Haley, but not me. I never really got the chance to be a little kid hyped up on sugar."
"Why not?"
"My mom died when I was eight years old. And my dad's business trips go t more frequent. I had to grow up fast, so did Haley. We've been working really hard on making sure Charisma has an actual childhood."
"Oh, honey I'm so sorry." Phoebe said sympathetically, giving Aurora a hug.
"There's nothing to be sorry about. It's not like you had a say in her dying."
"Why don't you and your sisters eat supper over here tonight?" Phoebe suggested.
"How about a rain check?"
"Ok. Friday. You and your sisters can come with us to my sister Piper's house for supper."
"I don't know."
"You're coming. Consider it a 'Welcome to the neighborhood' dinner."
"I guess I don't have any other choice do I?" Aurora questioned.
"Nope." Phoebe replied. "Sorry."
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