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"I figured you'd want to be there to watch them make up," said Paige. "Its not often we get to set things straight without having to fight demons."

"Normally I would," said Phoebe. "But I had something else I had to take care of. My meeting with Stephen showed me how stupid my fight with Cole was. I need to make it up to him."

"Yeah, I guess I need to apologize to him, too," said Piper. "I just assumed he'd left the seat up. I guess maybe I need to be more careful in the future."

"Well it did seem to be that way," Paige said.

"Things are rarely as they appear," said Leo.

"As we've learned so well," said Phoebe. "Well, when Cole gets home send him up to our room, will you? I still have a couple of things to finish for my apology."

"Anything you'd care to share?" Paige asked.

"Well, it is Valentine's day," said Phoebe coyly. "Just a little something to celebrate the universal day of love, that's all."

"I don't want to know anymore," said Piper.

Phoebe headed to her room leaving the others in the living room.

Phoebe met Cole outside their room. She had heard him come in the front door. After chatting with the others for a few minutes he had come immediately upstairs.

"How'd it go?" Phoebe asked standing outside their room.

"Just like you thought," said Cole. "Everything went beautifully. They were able to make up and get things settled between them. Marie was surprised when he showed up but I think she was more happy to see him than anything."

"Good. I'm glad everything worked out for them. Now, about our argument. I think I owe you an apology. Piper and I were wrong to just accuse you like we did. I guess we jumped to conclusions."

"Well, I can't disagree with that. And I guess I kind of over reacted. If it's okay what say we just forget about it and start over?"

"Speaking of which," said Phoebe as she opened the door to their room.

Cole looked inside and couldn't believe what he saw. The entire room was filled with lit candles. A table was set up in the middle of the room and a small meal sat on the table. The largest bouquet of roses Cole had ever seen sat in a vase next to the table. Rose petals were scattered across the bed and a large, heart-shaped box of candy rested on the pillows. A bottle of champagne sat on the nightstand, with a bowl of strawberries in a bowl of ice next to it. Cole was speechless.

"I thought we should start over properly," Phoebe whispered, wrapping her arms around Cole and slowly dragging him into the room. "Piper helped me prepare the meal. And she helped me pick out the champagne. I remember you once told me it was your favorite."

"I'm impressed," said Cole kissing her lightly. "I must admit I never expected any of this."

"Well, if we're going to make up there's no sense in doing it half-way," said Phoebe. "Now, Piper is going to make sure we aren't disturbed. I think it's time we got started on making up."

Cole kissed her passionately as she used her foot to push the door shut.

The End

(Author's endnote: This story was written as a challenge on a website. Part of the challenge included a limitation on the size of the story, limiting the story to a maximum of 5,000 words. That's why the story seemed to be "rushed" at points as the challenge did no allow for an "extended" story as we would have wished.)

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