Chapter 4- you can't make me choose!

The rest of the week Piper had pretty much steered clear of Dan and Jeremy, even Jenny was staying away from Piper, which wasn't a bad thing. But Piper couldn't stop thinking about what Jeremy had told her that night; It's either him or me. That was just such an unfair thing to say, it barley even made sense! Sure, it did, but it didn't…Jeremy was her friend and Leo was her boyfriend.

"He only said it because he doesn't want to make Dan mad." Prue told her, she was sitting on Piper's bed. Piper had a cold so decided to home from school.

"Yea, but still, we've been best friends since we were like 6, how can he ask me to choose?" Piper wined.

"Maybe because he knows deep down in his heart that you won't." Prue replied as she got up and left for school.

Maybe," Piper muttered. She coughed and flipped over so she was looking out the window, a few minutes later.

About two hours after school had ended Piper awoke to a knock at her door.

"Come in," Piper answered groggily.

The door slowly opened and Leo walked in, carrying a bag and something behind his back.

"Hey," Leo greeted as he sat down at the edge of the bed.

"Hi, better not get too close, I'm contagious." Piper warned.

"Eh, I wouldn't mind missing a few days of school." Leo joked.

"I really wish you hadn't come, I look horrible." Piper moaned. Her nose was red, her hair was a mess, she looked pale and tired, and she sounded congested.

"I think you look beautiful," Leo replied.

"Ok, now I know you're either too good to be true or a really good liar." Piper quipped as she sat up. "So what do you have there?" She pointed to the bag.

"Oh," He took out a small container and a spoon. "My mom sent over some chicken noodle soup, but since you're a vegetarian there's no chicken, so it's basically just noodles and water, it's crap, I'll take it back." Leo joked and started to re-bag it but Piper took it.

"Tell your mom I said thanks." Piper said as she placed the bowl on her nightstand. "Hey, what's that behind your back?"

"It's gonna seem pointless now, but when I was walking home I bought you these." He said as he pulled out a small bouquet of different flowers. Piper took them.

"Thank you Leo!" Piper beamed. "I'll smell them as soon as I get that sense back."

Leo grinned and nodded. "I would kiss you but you know."

"I guess I should get home." Leo stood up. Piper looked disappointed.

"You don't want to hang out?"

"Sure, I just thought you might be tired, so…" Leo sat back down.

"Leo, I've been asleep all day, trust me, if I yawn it's only because I'm bored."

"Which isn't going to happen." Leo said as he sat next to Piper and leaned up against the headboard. "Hey, here's an idea, you give me your cold and we can hang out together as long as we want!" Leo said semi-seriously.

"You don't want this, you'd be miserable." Piper stated as she put her head on his shoulder.

"I've been here long enough, chances are I've already caught it."

"So, anything interesting happen at school today?" Piper asked.

"Yea! At lunch Missy was carrying her tray and Phoebe stuck out her leg…"

"Omigod!" Piper sat up and covered her mouth in disbelief.

Leo nodded. "Macaroni, pudding, and corn all over her top and face!"

"Did she cry?" Piper questioned.

"I'm not sure, but I think I saw some steam come out of her ears when everyone started laughing at her!"

Both of them started laughing.

"Ah, how come nothing like that ever happens when I'm there?"

"Just make a request with Phoebe, she'll probably do it."

Just then there was another knock at the door.

"It's open!" Piper called. The door open and Jeremy walked in but stopped as soon as he saw Leo.

"Oh, Piper I just came to drop off your homework, something Leo wasn't even kind enough to do." Jeremy said coldly as he set some books down on Piper's desk loudly.

Leo lowered his eyes.

"Jeremy that's not nice, besides, Leo brought me soup and flowers."

"Whatever, can I talk to you alone?"

Piper sighed and got up out of bed and put on her robe. "I'll be back,"

Leo just nodded his arms crossed.

Piper closed the door behind her.

"So?"

"So what?" Piper asked, confused.

"Who'd you choose? Him or me?"

Jeremy," Piper started.

"Seriously Piper! I don't like him, I hate his guts, so choose, who's more important to you?" Jeremy ordered as he crossed his arms.

Piper looked up and shook her head lightly. "Jeremy that's not fair! I care about both of you! Just not in the same way…"

Dan looked away briefly, suddenly a lightbulb went off in Piper's head.

"Wait a minute, you don't hate Leo because you want me to be with Dan! You hate Leo because you're jealous of him!" Piper almost laughed.

"That's a load of…"

Piper looked at him.

"Ok, fine, but can you blame me? We've known each other practically our whole lives, and we have more in common than anyone else I know." He took one of Piper's hands, which was shaking.

"Jeremy, I love you, you know I do, I just don't like you in that way. I'm sorry,"

Jeremy looked hurt. "Well then I guess you made your decision." He said quietly and walked down the stairs.

"Jeremy!" Piper called as loud as she could, which wasn't loud. She thought about chasing after him but she just didn't have the energy. She cursed silently and walked back into her room and slammed the door.

"I'm sorry," Leo spoke up as Piper climbed back into bed.

"I just don't get it," Piper stared blankly at the wall, her voice shaking. "He's never acted like this before, why now?" She started crying. "I don't know what I'm going to do without my best friend in my life."

Leo looked at her sadly and wrapped his arms around her. He knew what he had to do, whether he liked it or not.

The next day Leo didn't come by, Piper decided to call him, but before she could Phoebe handed her a piece of paper.

"It's from Leo," Phoebe said simply and walked away. Piper didn't like her tone of voice. She quickly opened the note.

Piper, I'm sorry I couldn't tell you this in person, but I figured that this would be best.

My parents told me that I could go stay at my grandparent's farm over in Texas for the rest of the year. At first I said no because I didn't want to leave you, but then after seeing you so hurt yesterday because of Jeremy I decided that I should probably go. I don't want you to lose your best friend because of me that's selfish. I'm going to miss you so much Piper and I'll write every chance I get, promise. So now everything can be back to normal. Well that's it; I should pack my bus leaves at 9.

Leo,

Piper couldn't believe what she had just read. Was Leo breaking up with her? He thought it was his fault that she and Jeremy were fighting. "He must not have heard him say that he liked me last night." She muttered. She had to stop him from leaving. Piper glance at the clock, it was 15 till 9, she would never make it in time. But she had to, she couldn't bear to lose Leo.

TBC…

Ah, I liked that. So, will Piper be able to stop Leo before he leaves? Review and maybe I'll tell you!