Chapter 18

Alone, Apartment and Answering

A month has passed since the last chapter.

"Paige?" Prue poked her head through the gap in the bathroom door and saw Paige crouched by the toilet as pale as ever.

"Mmn," Paige mumbled in reply as she managed to sit up and look at Prue a weak smile placed on her face.

"You okay sweetie?" Prue asked concerned as she went over and knelt down beside Paige stroking her back comfortingly for her.

Paige forced a bigger smile and nodded, Yeah I'll be fine,"

"This is strange didn't you like just have this bug like a month ago?" Prue asked feeling sorry for Paige getting it twice in such a short space of time.

"No I'm not sick!" Paige protested at once taking Prue back a little with her force, she then realised what she'd done and smirked, "You know I think it was the shepherds pie last night, I guess it didn't really agree with me,"

Prue looked sceptical but smiled, "Well if you're sure you'll be okay…"

Paige nodded as enthusiastically as she could muster.

"Well then I guess you'd better get ready for school, if you're sure you're not sick, you'll still have to go," Prue grinned.

Paige smiled, "Oh well then,"

Prue raised her eyebrows, "Times have changed, I mean before you would do anything to get off school for the day, now your arguing with me that you feel fine when I'm offering you a day off, strange," Prue shook her head grinning at Paige.

"Times really have changed," Paige agreed sighing slightly but Prue didn't seem to notice, "Well scram I have to get ready for school,"

Prue smiled and gave Paige a quick hug before standing up and leaving the bathroom. Paige watched her go and immediately let herself fall back and lie on the bathroom floor, she found herself staring at the ceiling deep in thought, "Sometimes change isn't that good," She whispered.

"Hey Andy!" Andy swiftly turned around as he walked down the school corridor with Darryl to see one of the football players calling after him. He smiled as the guy caught up and patted him on the shoulder. "I just heard, is it true? You and Prue are engaged."

Andy nodded beaming happily; "Yeah it's true alright,"

"Wow, well congratulations," He shook Andy's hand while Andy said thanks and then walked off.

"Where has he been?" Darryl asked with raised eyebrows the minute the guy was gone, "I mean you two have been engaged for like two months now,"

"Has it been that long already?" Andy asked in disbelief.

"Yes it has and you know you haven't even mentioned anything about it, not even the important stuff like…oh say who your bestman is going to be," Darryl gave an innocent smile as he looked at Andy.

Andy laughed at Darryl's hinting and shook his head, "Come on we're going to be late for class,"

Darryl opened his mouth to speak but Andy was already off down the corridor.

"Did you hear that?" Lindsay asked stepping out from where she, Miranda and Karen had been eavesdropping.

Miranda and Karen rolled their eyes and groaned knowing this could only lead to another Andy based discussion.

"I can't let them get married," Lindsay mumbled almost as if to herself her brain in hypo drive trying to figure out a plan.

"Lindsay stop it please!" Miranda shouted losing her patience, Lindsay looked startled but remained quiet while Miranda continued in a quieter voice, "All you have done is go on about Andy!"

"I so have not!" Lindsay argued.

Karen shook her head and gave a hollow laugh. Miranda bit her lip to stop herself losing it.

"But I mean why does he want to get married so young anyway and especially to that Prue Halliwell…."

Miranda and Karen just started at her and sighed, "See what we mean?"

"I was just asking a question," Lindsay defended.

"About Andy," Karen added with a roll of her eyes.

"Look if you guys were my real friends you'd be helping me with this problem right now instead of moaning about it," Lindsay huffed folding her arms across her chest.

"You think this is your problem, the fact that Andy is marrying Prue? I think you need to rethink some stuff if you do,"

"Yeah Lindsay don't you think you should be focusing on the fact that you're pregnant, there's no dad around, your parents aren't speaking to you and what you're going to do when the baby is born because you have absolutely no idea how to raise a baby," Karen pointed out emphasising it but Lindsay just looked blankly at her.

"You know if you're both going to be like this then maybe you should go," Lindsay ordered feeling herself get rather annoyed she was the boss of the group not them.

"Lindsay don't you think you've lost enough already to lose us too? Andy left you because you lied, your parents have disowned you, everyone at school knows what you have done so they all aren't talking to you, you've been kicked off the squad, Chris left you and you know he actually cared about you but you drove him and the rest away all because of your obsession with Andy," Karen shouted not being bale to stop herself once she started.

Lindsay looked at her shocked at the way she was speaking to her but she didn't say anything.

"And I can't take it anymore," Karen added quieter.

"Me neither," Miranda agreed sadly avoiding Lindsay's eye.

"What are you saying?" Lindsay asked confused.

"You're on your own," Miranda replied firmly meeting Lindsay's gaze.

Lindsay's mouth opened in shock and she looked over to Karen who just silently nodded in agreement with Miranda.

Miranda sighed at the look on Lindsay's face, "You made us do this," She told her softly before Karen linked arms with her and the two walked off down the corridor together leaving Lindsay Taylor really alone.

"Leo where are you taking me?" Piper asked curiosity taking over her as Leo had her eyes covered with a blindfold and was carefully leading her forwards to where she had no idea.

"You'll see in a sec," Leo promised and she couldn't see but he had a huge grin on his face.

After a few more steps he stopped, "Okay we're here," He announced opening a door and leading Piper inside. She squealed with excitement as Leo took off her blindfold, "Okay look,"

She adjusted her eyes to the light again and scanned about her, "Leo where are we?" She asked puzzled as to why they were standing in some apartment.

"We're home," Leo declared grinning broadly.

"What?" Piper asked in disbelief as she took in the smallish living room equipped with a three-seater couch

and a small television set. It had an adjoining kitchen with a worktop and cooker and a breakfast bar with two stools underneath it. Piper looked back at Leo stunned, "Leo…how…why…when?"

"Does that mean you like it?" Leo asked hopeful not being able to hide his smile.

Piper changed form looking stunned to delighted in a matter of seconds and hugged him tightly, "Leo I love it!" She came away from him and looked at him more serious, "How did you afford it though?"

"You leave that to me, its all taken carer of," He assured her still smiling. She looked like she was going to say something but he cut her off, "Come on I'll show you around,"

She immediately forgot what she was going to say and happily followed him into the kitchen area, "I know its quite small but there's only two of us so I figured it's big enough,"

"Its perfect," Piper corrected smiling at him.

He nodded, "And there's one bathroom which made need a bit of work and we can put some little touches to the living room and kitchen too…"

Piper cut him off by locking his lips in a loving kiss, "I absolutely love it and I love you for making this happen,"

He smiled softly, "I love you too," He replied and pulled her close to him then captured her lips in a more tender kiss, he then whispered in her ear, "There's one room I haven't shown you yet," He smirked as he lead her through to their new bedroom.

"Funny how we keep bumping into each other here,"

Paige surprised at the sound of a voice glanced over her shoulder to see Kyle smirking while leaning casually on one of the trees. "Well I told you I come here to think," She replied a smile forming on her face.

"Right so what would you be thinking about right now then?" He asked moving closer and sitting beside her on the grass just before the river.

"Well now that's private," She answered still smiling though.

"So I guess that means its about you and Glen," Kyle guessed a grin appearing on his face.

Paige smiled at the grin on his face but didn't answer; she looked away in the other direction for a moment.

"So I was right then," Kyle smirked giving her a slight nudge.

Paige sighed and rolled her eyes, "No you're not right, okay," She replied giving him a harder nudge in a playful way though. "I'd rather not talk about my problems anyway," She then looked at him curiously, "So what brings you down here?"

"Same as you," He replied casually shrugging his shoulders.

"Oh so what did you need to think about?" She asked grinning.

"Hey you didn't tell me," He pointed out nudging her again.

Paige opened her mouth to reply when her phone started ringing, she read the caller ID and sighed before clicking it off, "Its my Grams, probably telling me dinners ready," She looked back at Kyle, "Just aswell since your not going to tell me anyway," She smiled.

"No I'm not," Kyle agreed smiling.

Paige sighed as she started to stand up, "Well I guess I'll leave you alone with your thoughts," She smirked but as soon as she got to her feet she fell back again luckily Kyle was quick and caught her in his arms. "You okay?" He asked concerned once she'd come to again.

"Yeah, just a bit dizzy for a minute that's all," She answered then suddenly became aware she was still in his arms, came away form him smiling slightly.

Kyle looked uncertainly at her, "You sure?"

She nodded reassuringly, "Seriously I feel fine now," She smiled, "Thanks," She suddenly felt quite awkward.

Kyle nodded, "You better go or your Grams won't be happy," He slightly smiled at her.

She nodded too, "Yeah," She started to walk away before stopping and looking back at Kyle who had sat back down and was throwing stones into the river. A smile tugged at her lips before she practically forced herself to look away and move.

For a few moments of being with Kyle there she had forgotten about everything and it felt good.

Sorry for the long wait and I know it was a shorter chapter than usual but I've been really busy lately! I'm on holiday as of today though so I'll definitely be updating quicker! Please review, I love reading what you all think of the story plus it definitely makes me update faster! So please review!