Wow, a chapter up in less than a week!
Thanks for the reviews for last chapter.
Just to state for the sake of one review I got. I decided to do a sequel because I enjoyed writing Terrible Teens not just because someone asked me to. And I don't really know how you can be disappointed in someone you don't even know. Or at least you shouldn't assume what they are doing.
Anyway…
A few things to know- Piper and the sisters keep in contact now, they have her apartment phone number and call quite often.
This is about two months later
And the sisters have had their birthdays, except Prue. So Piper is 17, Phoebe 16 and Paige 15.
Chapter 21
Biology, Bleeding and Brothers
"Paige?" Prue did a double take at seeing her youngest sister where she least expected.
Paige's jaw dropped open in horror at seeing Prue stand next to her, without realising it she clung tightly to Kyle's hand. He in turn equally as surprised gave it a reassuring squeeze. "Em, Prue what are you doing here?" She asked trying desperately to keep her voice even.
Before Prue could answer a sudden scream interrupted, Paige looked over Prue's shoulder to see Lindsay Taylor lying on a bed, not having a particularly pleasant time. "You're with her?" Paige exclaimed in surprise.
Prue weakly nodded, "It's a long story," She stated simply with a slight sigh. "What's you story, you're not hurt are you?" Prue was suddenly reminded of the fact Paige was standing in the hospital also. She gave her a look of concern.
A doctor walked up to Paige and spoke without noticing she was speaking to someone else at the time. "Well Miss Halliwell your test results are back and you'll be happy to know that you and the baby are both healthy but I must warn you, no more stress and you must take care of yourself properly." He offered her a genuine smile and spoke with a stern but kind voice.
"Baby?" Prue gasped her eyes wide with shock.
Paige only gulped, feeling suddenly faint, the sound of Lindsay screaming in pain again drowning out anything she could possibly think of saying anyway.
A few hours earlier
"Okay so mitosis is…?" Kyle quizzed Paige as he read out questions from his textbook for an exam they had the next day. There was no answer from Paige. He glanced up from his book to where she sat on the end of her bed, her face blank as she stared dreamily into space obviously deep in thought but he was willing to be everything that it was not anything to do with mitosis. "Paige?" He waved his hand in front of her face in attempt to wake her up. She snapped out of it and looked at him expectantly. "Do you know?"
"I think Glen knows," She said, her brow creasing in worry.
"We're not talking about biology anymore are we?" He closed his eyes in attempt to keep sane. "Paige you've been saying he knows for the last two months now, don't you think he would have said something to you by now if he did?" He reasoned a tight smile on his face.
"Yeah but he was looking at me a lot today," She pointed out, twirling her hair with her fingers absentmindedly.
"Maybe he just misses you," Kyle offered gently a sympathetic smile replacing the tight one he had moments before.
"I wish," Paige mumbled. Glen barely spoke to her now and she missed her best friend.
Kyle nodded in an understanding way, a small pang of jealousy hitting him but he shook it off and carefully thought about his next choice of words, "You know if you just told people you were pr…"
"Shh!" She suddenly jumped up off the bed and darted to her bedroom door peering down the corridor before securely closing the door behind her. "Anyone could've heard you!"
"Paige there is no one else in the house," Kyle stated with a slight roll of his eyes at her over the top behaviour.
"Oh yeah," She blushed slightly, "Well anyway it was a good distraction, I didn't like where that conversation was going,"
"Paige come on, I don't know if I can handle anymore of your paranoia all the time. If everyone knew you wouldn't have to worry about them finding out. Plus don't you think it would be better you told them before they figure it out…I mean you're starting to show…"
"Hey I am so not paranoid! Wait…you think everyone else has noticed…" She gulped feeling awkward and looked down to her slight bump.
Kyle sighed and rolled his eyes, "No I don't think so…but this is what I mean about the paranoia!"
She glared at him before sitting back down on the bed, burying her face in her hands, "I'm just not ready Kyle," She mumbled turning very serious.
"I know but you're going to have to be ready one of these days and that day is going to come really soon," Was all he said in an expressionless tone before sighing and getting on with studying.
Paige suddenly stood up, "Oh God!" Was all she said before darting to the bathroom, her hand covering her mouth.
Kyle remained seated, he knew all too well what was going to happen and he didn't really feel the urge to see it again.
A few minutes later Paige came back into the bedroom, her face was beyond pale and she was shaking uncontrollably.
"Paige?" Kyle prompted knowing something was wrong, his face had turned pale just by the look of hers. He got to his feet and moved towards her already feeling himself start to panic.
"I'm…I'm bleeding," She whispered, a few scared tears fell down her face.
Prue shut her car door behind her, carrying three bags of groceries in her hands. She started up the manor steps to her surprise to see Glen standing outside the door.
"Glen, hi," He whipped round at the sound of her voice and smiled slightly awkwardly.
"Em…hi is Paige in?" He asked scratching the back of his head.
"Yeah, she's upstairs with Kyle, studying, you want to come in?" Prue moved past him opening the door and then turned back to him, she smiled kindly.
"Kyle," Glen repeated quietly, tensing up slightly, "Em you know I have to be somewhere, I'll see her later, I guess," he turned to leave.
"They're really just friends," Prue stated in a soft voice.
He turned back to her expressionless, "Yeah, so were me and Paige," He muttered gruffly and offered a weak smile to Prue to be polite, "Thanks anyway…bye,"
"Yeah bye," She feeling sorry for the guy as she watched him walk away, his shoulders hunched up and his hands stuffed right down in his jean pockets.
She sighed and closed the manor door. "Paige…I'm home," She shouted while making her way into the kitchen.
Upstairs Paige and Kyle heard her return and both shared a look of sheer panic.
Paige started to find it hard to breath, "Oh my god, oh my God, oh my God! What the hell do we do?" She demanded hoping Kyle would have an answer.
"Em…okay, okay, okay, right stay calm, don't panic, everything going to be okay," Kyle reassured her but he was more talking to himself.
"Kyle how the hell can it be okay?" She ran her hands through her hair as tears of desperation ran down her face.
"I don't know," He mumbled feeling his own eyes sting with tears. "I think we have to tell Prue,"
Paige too scared to argue just nodded. There was no other choice. Was there?
Prue was unpacking the groceries when she heard a phone ring. She didn't recognise the ring tone though. She walked into the living room in search of the source of the noise and found Andy's cell lying on the table. She laughed to herself and went over to answer it. She stopped herself though when she read the caller ID.
She shook her head and felt anger bubble inside. Why the hell was Lindsay Taylor calling her fiancé? Just out of curiosity she answered, "What do you want?" She demanded getting straight to the point and making no attempt to sound kind.
There was no answer for a moment just the sound of heavy breathing, "Is…Andy…there?" Lindsay asked breathlessly.
"No but if he was he wouldn't want to talk to you anyway," Prue replied coldly.
Suddenly Prue had to remove the phone from her hear as Lindsay screamed. Prue bit her lip and forgot all about being bitchy as she suddenly felt quite concerned, "Are you okay, what's wrong?" She asked.
"No!" It was a loud shriek that answered, "I…think I'm having a baby like…now!" She cried out wincing in pain again. "And I don't know what to do…I'm alone," She sounded so scared and desperate.
Prue couldn't help but feel sorry for her, she took a deep breath, "Lindsay…"
"Yeah?" Came the small vulnerable voice on the other side.
Prue closed her eyes hardly believing she was doing this, "Right stay calm, I'm coming over," With that she hung up before waiting for an answer. She took another deep breath and held the phone tightly in her hand. "Okay Prue this is not about you, it's about a little baby and its mother who needs you right now. Pull it together, you can do this," She told herself. With that she stood up trying with all her might to put all Lindsay hate to the back of her mind which was going to take more effort than she first thought, but she could do it, couldn't she?
But she'd already left the house before she could answer her own question, she just hoped she'd be able to do the right thing.
Back upstairs Paige and Kyle heard the manor door slam again. "She's gone," Paige croaked out in a small voice, she had begun to shake again.
"We have to get to the hospital now!" Kyle suddenly said loudly realising they were wasting so much time.
"I'm scared," Paige whispered while she nodded in agreement with Kyle.
"Don't be," But he couldn't help but feel a little scared himself. He didn't need to be a brain surgeon to know bleeding was not a good sign.
Leo walked quickly down the sidewalk of a bust street carrying two full and heavy shopping bags. They were starting to make his fingers go purple but he didn't really seem to notice his mind was on all the other stuff he had to do that morning before work. Since Piper had got herself a job too in a local restaurant as a waitress he was now having to help out with the shopping and other things like that also.
Another boy suddenly walked round the corner at a fast pace, completely not seeing Leo and so they both crashed into each other. The shopping bags fell and the contents fell out all over the sidewalk.
"Sorry!" They both said at the same time.
"Oh my God, Leo!" The other boy exclaimed with surprise.
Leo looked up from his sprawled out shopping to the boy, "Cole!" He was equally as surprised.
"Wow I can't believe its really you man, I was beginning to think I'd never see you again," He joked but there was some truth to it. "Its not been the same without you,"
"I'm sorry for just leaving like that and not getting in touch…but I was beginning to wonder how you'd react if I did get in touch," Leo admitted slightly guiltily.
"Its okay" Cole smiled genuinely, "So how are things?" He asked with interest. He had been wondering how his step brother was coping by himself.
"Well why don't you come up to the apartment and we'll talk," Leo couldn't help but smirk at the look on Cole's face.
"Apartment? As in your own? Wow sweet!" He exclaimed.
"Yep, sure is," Leo looked down to the spilt shopping, "But first…do you mind?"
Cole smirked, "Sure," They both bent down to start picking up the shopping. Leo suddenly came to the conclusion that today was going to be much better than he originally thought.
"Okay miss Halliwell, the bleeding has stopped…"
"So I'm okay, I can go home?" Paige interrupted the doctor who had just walked back into the small room where she was currently lying in a bed, Kyle sat on a wooden chair beside her.
"Well, we need to run some tests find out the cause of the bleed and whether it could happen again…is there any family we can call for you?"
"No!" Paige said quickly. "I mean no thank you, really I'm fine,"
"Em, okay, well I'll be back shortly to run the tests," He informed casting a slightly suspicious look to them both before leaving the room.
"Thank God for that," Kyle let out a sigh of relief and smiled at Paige.
"I know I was starting to really worry," She admitted biting her lip.
"Starting to? I was already really worried," He said seriously, "I'm just glad you're okay…and the baby,"
Paige nodded, "You know its weird but back then I was scared but not just for myself…for the baby too," She admitted in a soft voice.
Kyle smiled, "Does that mean you're rethinking the adoption…"
"No," She answered quickly, "Just that I need to take better care of myself for this baby," Her hand absentmindedly had wandered to her stomach, resting there almost protectively.
His smile faded but was quickly retrieved, "You make sure you do, you are not putting me through that again," He warned her but in a soft voice.
She nodded in agreement, "Thanks Kyle, you really are becoming my hero," She sighed feeling tired and lay her head down on her pillow.
Kyle beamed. She had called him that on more than one occasion now and he really didn't have any objections to being called it. Although he did wish it wasn't such a serious situation that he had to save her from each time.
"Lindsay," Prue called out as soon as she walked into her house.
"In here," Lindsay answered in between breaths.
Prue followed the sound of her voice into the living room where she found Lindsay lying on the floor beside the couch, clutching her stomach in pain. Prue was suddenly reminded of the time when she went into labour not too long ago. Sweat was glistening from her forehead as she sat up and looked at Prue, her whole body looking exhausted.
Prue suddenly felt awkward, not really knowing what to say. All she had ever said to Lindsay were insults, how was she supposed to help her?
As soon as another piercing scream left Lindsay's mouth Prue didn't have to worry about that problem anymore. On instinct she moved closer to Lindsay and knelt beside her. Lindsay smiled weakly at her through her tearstained face and it was strange but at that moment Prue couldn't think of insulting her at all.
"Okay we need to get you to hospital, I'll call an ambulance," Prue informed her taking charge of the situation. She took out her cell and called, straight after she knelt by Lindsay again, "Okay you're contractions are really close together, it won't be long," Prue gulped as she hoped the ambulance would hurry, otherwise she didn't know what she was going to do.
Another contraction hit Lindsay and she grabbed Prue's hand squeezing it tightly. Prue looked down at her hand and felt weird having Lindsay need her. She didn't pull away though, instead she offered an encouraging smile. "Breathe, okay good, you're doing great, the ambulance will be here soon, don't worry,"
Lindsay nodded, "I'm scared," She admitted in a quiet voice barely above a whisper.
"I know its scary I've done this before remember but everything will be okay, just try and stay calm." Prue reassured her gently then started to get to her feet.
"No don't leave me!" Lindsay suddenly shouted in panic.
"Oh no I'm not. I'm just going to check if I can see the ambulance coming yet," Prue explained causing Lindsay to blush slightly. Prue would normally love to have that power over Lindsay but not at that moment. She glanced out the window. "Oh, wait I see it," She announced with relief.
She moved away from the window over to Lindsay and helped her to her feet and slowly led her outside just as the ambulance pulled up in the driveway.
A paramedic got out and carefully helped Lindsay into the ambulance. He then turned to Prue, "Are you coming?"
Prue hesitated. Part of her wanted to shout 'Hell no!' But the other part was telling her she should go and be the better person.
"Please come, I can't do this alone," Lindsay pleaded.
Prue nodded weakly and got into the ambulance too as they drove to the hospital.
"Piper," Leo called out his girlfriend's name as he entered their apartment with Cole, "There's someone here I want you to meet," He couldn't help but grin at Cole.
"Be right there," They heard Piper shout from their bedroom.
"So what do you think?" Leo asked Cole as he made his way into their kitchen area and helped himself to a glass of water.
"Its great!" Cole exclaimed, "You're doing all right for yourselves,"
Leo nodded and beamed proudly, "Yeah, it was hard at first, living in a run down motel we were almost set to come home but well then things picked up,"
Piper then walked out of their bedroom; her mouth hung open as she saw Cole, "Oh my God, Cole!" She squealed excitedly running over and hugging him tightly.
"Nice to see you too Piper," He laughed at her excitement.
"Wow, how did you get here?" She glanced over at Leo, a questioning look on her face.
"We bumped into each other today, what a coincidence huh?" Leo explained still grinning while handing Cole a glass of water, "Sorry we only have water,"
"No problem, thanks,"
"Well come on sit, we have so much to catch up on!" Piper exclaimed moving to the couch urging them both to join her.
They grinned at each other, "Honestly Piper I haven't seen you this excited since we moved here," Leo laughed.
"Well its contact with the outside world, someone we actually know! Not just a random person from work or something!" Piper said then turned to Cole, "So how's life?" She asked with enthusiasm.
"Well…its okay," Cole shrugged.
Piper raised her eyebrows, "Is that all you're going to say?"
Leo laughed and interrupted Piper's grilling, "How's mum and dad?" He asked.
"Well they're fine, pretty upset when you left but they've calmed down now," Cole answered with a smile. "They miss you though…so do I," He scratched the back of his head as he felt slightly embarrassed from admitting that.
A smiled tugged at the corners of Leo's mouth, "I miss them too and…you too of course," They avoided each other's eyes feeling awkward at how mushy they were getting.
Piper grinned at the scene, "So Cole, how have you been though, got a girlfriend?" She inquired nosily.
He smiled at her, "Em…yeah her name's Lisa, we started dating a couple of weeks ago," He replied without much enthusiasm at all.
"Oh what's she like?" Piper asked.
"Em she's nice enough," Cole shrugged.
"Nice enough?" Piper pressed with raised eyebrows.
Cole sighed and looked away.
"She misses you too," Piper said quietly.
Cole looked back round and smiled weakly, "Yeah…no one seems to come close to her,"
"I know what you mean," Leo agreed and kissed Piper's head.
"Yeah," Cole sighed sadly as he watched the two.
"Okay Paige are you sure you feel okay?" Kyle asked with concern as they walked down the hospital corridor.
"Yes! I'm fine, now will you quit worrying, I'm just walking to the toilet,"
He nodded, "Okay, if you are sure,"
She nodded firmly and went into the toilets. He waited outside and watched curiously as an ambulance pulled up outside and the paramedics wheeled out a someone he was sure he'd seen before at school, he was pondering over it when Paige came out of the toilets.
"What are you looking at?" She asked noticing his attention was elsewhere.
"Oh nothing just…"
"Paige?" Prue did a double take at seeing her youngest sister where she least expected.
Paige's jaw dropped open in horror at seeing Prue stand next to her, without realising it she clung tightly to Kyle's hand. He in turn equally as surprised gave it a reassuring squeeze. "Em, Prue what are you doing here?" She asked trying desperately to keep her voice even.
Before Prue could answer a sudden scream interrupted, Paige looked over Prue's shoulder to see Lindsay Taylor lying on a bed, not having a particularly pleasant time. "You're with her?" Paige exclaimed in surprise.
Prue weakly nodded, "It's a long story," She stated simply with a slight sigh. "What's you story, you're not hurt are you?" Prue was suddenly reminded of the fact Paige was standing in the hospital also. She gave her a look of concern.
A doctor walked up to Paige and spoke without noticing she was speaking to someone else at the time. "Well Miss Halliwell your test results are back and you'll be happy to know that you and the baby are both healthy but I must warn you, no more stress and you must take care of yourself properly." He offered her a genuine smile and spoke with a stern but kind voice.
"Baby?" Prue gasped her eyes wide with shock.
Paige only gulped, feeling suddenly faint, the sound of Lindsay screaming in pain again drowning out anything she could possibly think of saying anyway.
So Prue finally knows, what will she do now? Will she tell Grams? Will Phoebe find out? Or Glen? What will happen with Lindsay? And what will be said between Phoebe and Cole when she phones for Piper but he answers instead?
Oh so many questions, all will be answered next chapter though!
Please review and maybe I'll get a chapter up in less than a week again!