"Phoebe? What? Didn't trust me?"
"No, of course I did, you just forgot something very important that is in the van."
"Oh, right. Um, Chad, I'll see you at school tomorrow."
"Is something wrong?"
"No, not at all."
Chad gave Nancy a kiss and a hug, said goodbye to Phoebe and was on his way.
"Nancy, what was that all about?"
"I'm not ready for him to see those things."
She said as Phoebe pulled out her leg braces, clipping them onto the back of Nancy's chair.
"He's going to find out about them sooner or later."
"I know, I just prefer it's later. You know I don't have my hopes up about them yet, so why put his hope up. Let's just go in and get this over with"
The rest of the week went by really fast. On Friday night, after P3 closed, Prue, Piper, Phoebe and Nancy were all at the club getting things ready for the next day.
"Prue, maybe you should take Nancy home. I mean, it is 2:30 in the morning."
"I would, but she wants to stay and help. I think we should let her. Today was the last day of school, so it won't hurt."
"Alright Prue why don't you start behind the bar. Box up ever bottle, but you need to mark them with a black magic marker first. Just draw a line where each bottle is at right now. I'll be at the door of the storage room checking things off as they enter the room."
Prue headed off behind the bar, marker in hand and began her task.
"Phoebe I want you to help clear the stage. The DJ need's to pack up all his supplies. The cords needed to be packed away, and the stage sweep clean so Kid Power can set up their stuff tomorrow."
"Cool, I'm a roadie."
Phoebe said with enthusiasm as she headed toward the stage ready to work.
"What about me Piper?"
"Nancy, I want you to work on cleaning down all the table's and chairs. The bucket's and sponges are over there. As you get each table cleaned, some of the guys will push them off to the side, the way the prom committee wants them set up."
"Not glamorous, but I'm on it."
She replied as she pulled rubber gloves on and took off to the bucket's and sponges. The four of them got to work. Once all the liquor was in the storage room, Piper took one more look behind the bar to make sure they didn't miss anything. She then put a chain and lock on the door, and went to go help with the rest of the night's clean up.
The girls worked for over two hours before they even got a chance to talk to each other again. Sitting down at the bar for a moment Piper pulled out her checklist of projects and looked around the bar to see what tasks were already done, or almost done.
"Well I think we're just about done for the night. The crew just needs to finished hanging that sign. I think I should start sending people home. What time is it?"
"Almost 4:30, have any of you seen Nancy?"
"Not in the last hour or so."
Prue got up off her stool and started walking around the bar calling Nancy's name. She approached several of the staff members questions them as to Nancy's whereabouts.
"Piper I've sent Tom and James home, they were finished with the tables. Julie is finishing up with the kitchen then she's going home. Rob and Benny are finishing the last sign, then I think we're finished."
After John, Piper's assistant finished reading off his list he looked up at Piper who wasn't paying attention.
"Piper? Anything wrong?"
"What? Oh no not really. Prue's just looking for Nancy, we haven't seen her in a while."
"Follow me."
He said as he led them to the alcove where they saw Nancy sound asleep on the couch. Prue breathed a sigh of relief as she tried to wake Nancy up, with no success, she was dead to the world.
"I'm going to take her home, Pheebs can you bring her chair home in the van."
"Why don't you just load her in it?"
"She's not going to wake up, she's exhausted. I'll just carry her to my car. See you guys in the morning."
Prue replied as she picked up Nancy and carried her to the car.
The next morning Piper woke up at 9:00 and went to Prue and Phoebe's rooms to wake them up. None of them really wanted to be up this early, but they had to, the kids were going to be at P3 by 10:00 to finish decorating for the Prom. Prue went in and woke Nancy.
"Nancy, it's time to wake up."
"HUH, how did I get here?"
"You fell asleep at the club last night. Come on, get up and get dressed. Phoebe is going to take you to therapy and then bring you to the club to help."
Nancy did as she was told, this was not a day to cause any trouble.
At 11:30, Nancy and Phoebe got to the club. The group of kids had gotten a lot done in a short amount of time, but there was still a lot to do. They all got to work, and by 2:00 p.m. everything was done. The kids all started to clear out, Chad walked over to Nancy,
"Ready to go?"
"Where are you two going?"
"Well, we, um..."
"Come on, spill. You two have been disappearing all week and not telling any of us where you were going."
"Please, just hold out until tonight. You'll find out then."
"Alright, but be home by 5 p.m. so you can start getting ready. We are all going home to take a nap."
"Thanks. Bye."
Prue, Piper and Phoebe left P3 and headed home. If they were going to make it through the night, they had to get some rest.
At almost 5:00 p.m., Nancy got home. The girls were all still sleeping. She decided to let them sleep a little longer, and went and took a shower.
About a half hour later she came out of the bathroom and realized the girls were still out like a light. She decided to put on her dress before waking the girls to do her make-up and hair.
Twenty minutes later Prue woke up when she heard someone scream. She jumped out of bed and ran to the hall. The scream came from Nancy's room.
"Nancy, are you alright?"
She yelled as she entered Nancy's room and saw tears in Nancy's eyes as she was looking at her dress. There was a large rip in the dress.
"I got dressed and was coming in to wake you guys up, and it got caught in the wheel and ripped. It's ruined."
Phoebe and Piper came in,
"What happened?"
They asked in unison. Piper saw the rip and went to look at it,
"You know what? I can fix this. Phoebe, go and get my sewing kit."
"Are you sure you can fix it? I knew this would happen…"
"Nancy calm down, Piper is excellent. If she says she can fix it, then she can fix it.
Nancy smiled as Piper helped her out of the dress and put her in a bathrobe. Prue started to work on Nancy's hair. When Prue was done, Phoebe went to work on her make-up. Phoebe had just the right touch. Nancy looked in the mirror when the two were finished and smiled,
"WOW, is that me?"
"Sure is, but we didn't do much, you're already a beautiful, young lady."
Prue said as Piper walked in carrying Nancy dress.
"Here we go..."
She said, as her and Prue carefully put the dress over her head so they would not mess her makeup or hair.
"Now, I'm going to make a few adjustments on the bottom so you won't have to worry about that again."
"Thanks, Piper."
Nancy said with a smile. Piper took out some pins and started hemming the dress up a little more than the seamstress had.
"OUCH"
Nancy screamed as her leg flew forward and hit Piper in the shoulder.
"Piper, I'm sorry..."
Prue, Piper and Phoebe all looked at each other.
"Nancy, stop! Do you realize what you just did?"
"Yes, but I didn't mean to Mom. I swear, it's just that Piper pricked me. I didn't mean to ki...ck. I FELT THAT, AND I KICKED PIPER!"
"You sure did."
Piper said, as she got up off the floor. Nancy smiled as they all hugged her. She had a tear in her eye.
"I did it."
She whispered as they pulled away. Phoebe bent down in front of Nancy and wiped away the single tear that was running down her cheek.
"Oh, don't cry. Your make-up will run."
Nancy looked around the room and said,
"Right, no crying. Could you guys to do me a huge favor."
"Anything."
After Nancy explained what she wanted them to do, Piper finished fixing the dress and they all headed downstairs.