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"How many?" the waiter asked.
Piper did a quick head count. "Uh…nine including an infant and toddler."
"Right this way," the man led them to their table and handed out menus. Since Prudence was so young, she put her baby carrier in the high chair.
Piper, Leo, and Patience sat on one side of the table, Phoebe and Dex sat on the other side next to Paige and Mitchell. Prudence was positioned in an open space next to Phoebe. Victor sat at the "head" of the table.
"Mm, all this food looks delicious!" Paige cried. Since she had been craving Chinese food, they went to Chang Mui, a new buffet restaurant that had opened up in downtown San Francisco.
Their waiter, who introduced herself as Mai Wan, took their drink order. Piper ordered an ice water with lemon; Paige got chocolate milk ("What? I crave weird things okay?"), Phoebe and Leo ordered Cokes, Victor, Mitchell, and Dex ordered root beer.
"I'm hungry. I'll be at the up there," Paige nodded towards the buffet.
"Me, too," Mitchell got up from the table and followed his wife.
"Save some food for the rest of us!" Piper jokingly called to her baby sister. Paige turned around and made a face.
"Mamma, I need to use da bafroom, Patience said getting out of her seat. Piper noticed she had her legs crossed.
"Can I get you anything?" Leo asked getting up, since Piper was taking Patience to the bathroom.
"No thanks, Hon. We'll get some when we're done," Piper lead her daughter to the bathroom. The rest of their table got up to get food.
When Piper and Patience returned from the bathroom, Paige was digging into her plate. She had filled it with a little of everything. "Mmmm…" Paige moaned. " 'is is sooo good!" she said with her mouth full. The rest of the group was sitting down with their food.
"Come on, let's get some food," Piper before she could get her daughter a plate, she noticed blue and white orbs swirl around the plate and disappear. She turned around and it was in Patience's hands. "Patience!" Piper scolded. "Wait a minute, you can't telekinetically orb!"
"I's hungwry," Patience happily responded. She walked to the row of food. "Wemmy see…Mommy wift me up. I can't see! Patience whined. Piper picked her up and Patience scanned the food. "I want some chicken. Chicken!" Patience held out her plate and the chicken appeared.
"Bad Patience! Very bad Patience!" Piper carried her away to their table.
"Pipe, what's wrong?" Phoebe asked. Since she was an empath, she sensed something was wrong.
"Oh nothing," Piper said through a fake smile. "It just so happens that, not only did my daughter use magic in front of people, but it seems she can telekinetically orb, too!" Piper said through gritted teeth.
"Hey, no fair, Paige pouted. "That's my power." Everyone sat in silence for a moment.
"I think I have an idea. Well, since they girls are the strongest witches to come, maybe she got a power upgrade." Phoebe offered. Just then, Patience held out a chubby hand and called for Phoebe's egg rolls. "Egg wols!" blue and white orbs swirled around it. Patience lifted up her hand, and flung the egg roll at Leo. She giggled.
Piper gasped. "Patience!" she hissed. She looked around to see if anyone saw. It didn't look like it. Prudence found this funny and started laughing to. She held out her small hand, and levitated another egg roll. She also threw it.
"Prudence!" Phoebe exclaimed. Half embarrassed, half excited. Even she couldn't levitate anything but herself.
Patience laughed again. She enjoyed the game she was playing with her cousin. She held out her palm and orbed her chicken. It hit Leo square in the face. Patience and Prudence laughed. Even the adults couldn't contain their laughter.
"Pat…Patience...you're…a…a bad…girl," Piper managed to say in between laughs. Patience liked performing for her audience, and took it a step farther, and orbed the woman close to them's bowl of rice. She made it empty on Paige's head.
"Wha…?" the woman asked. She wondered where her rice went.
Piper got nervous and froze the scene. "Leo, don't you have that special Elder dust?"
Leo got her hint. He sprinkled the memory erasing dust on everyone the room. "Now they'll just forget all the magic that happened. Nothing else."
Piper unfroze the scene and they quickly paid the bill. They wanted to get out of there before the girls did anything else to expose magic.
It was short but cute I think. The story just needed a little bit of time with the whole family. Along with some magic. Things that happened in this chapter will be explained it the next…
