Disclaimer: I do not own charmed bla, bla, bla, we all know that. Man, I wish my dad was the owner so I could say, I do not own it but my dad does…wouldn't it be cool? Anyway, the song below is not mine either, it is called "Change the World" by Eric Clapton.

Chapter 6

"Homecoming dates, night plans"

"A woman had drowned. She was put in a black bag by two men with impenetrable faces and took away. And there she was, her eight-year-old daughter trying not to cry. Holding tears of pain because she wouldn't be able to put herself back together if she cried. Prue Halliwell used to cry a lot before that…but after that day, she knew she would not cry again…because crying meant being weak. Prue Halliwell hated herself because she wasn't strong enough to help her mother…if she had only been a couple of years older she could have swum to her mother and held her…but no, she was an eight-year-old Prue Halliwell with no mother."

"Prue…Prue" Someone called. Prue slowly got up. Her neck and her back hurt. She quickly realized that she had fallen asleep in class. She looked up to Andy who had a funny expression on his face. "You fell asleep"

"You think?" Prue joked. "Did the teacher notice something?

"Does he ever do?" Andy smiled. Not that Prue didn't enjoy the class but the teacher was this kind of guy whose voice tone is monotone, it wouldn't matter to him to be telling the most exciting epic novel or a random morning story. He would always use the same 'boring-turtle' tone. He always got to put Andy to sleep…not Prue.

"Hey, how come you didn't fall asleep?" Prue asked acting as if she was annoyed. Andy looked in her eyes before answering and then said. "Because you looked so adorable that I couldn't stop looking at you. And, you were drooling"

"I wasn't drooling!" Prue whispered-yelled. Andy had to hide his head so the teacher wouldn't see him laugh.

"Of course not. Miss Perfect does not drool." Andy joked.

"That's right. Good job honey" Prue smiled fixing her hair. Andy looked at her sweetly but then his expression changed. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing" Andy said. "I was wondering if you could come meet me at the football field after school. I have to talk to you about something really important"

"Which is?" Prue asked him a little scared. For a second she thought he was breaking up with her. "Are you breaking up with me?"

"GOD NO!" Andy yelled and everyone in the class looked at him. "I mean… GOD NO, how could they write it in Courier New when they were supposed to write it in Times New Roman?" Andy rapidly made up, since they were in journalism class. Everyone laughed.

"Good eye Mister Trudeau" The teacher congratulated him while the class cracked up again. "You all should learn from Mister Trudeau"

"Yeah people. I am the man!" Andy joked.

"No, you are my man" Prue laughed and so did the entire class. Everyone would have thought that they were two arrogant teenagers, which they were in many ways, but everyone knew them. In fact, they were the most popular couple in the school.

Everybody thought they were funny. Even thought were they were not.

"Will you come?" Andy asked her in a whisper.

"Always" Prue answered.

At the same time, Phoebe was in her PE class dealing with a teacher that would not let her breathe until she run the twenty minutes she was supposed to. She was tired and her quads hurt a lot. She thought her legs were going to blow up (N/A; Personal experience. I hate running) She felt kind of useless because everyone was running good but her…Well, not everyone. Of course the 'fat people' weren't running as good, but she was expected to run fast. Yet, Phoebe knew better, to have a good physic does not mean that you are good at sports. Well, Phoebe wasn't. Phoebe Halliwell hated sports…although, there was a sport that she just could not stand; football. Guys beating each other up running after a ball in tight pants. Actually, tight pants were the only good part. She looked at her watch a million times before she heard her teacher yell, "You can stop Phoebe"

"Good!" Phoebe said dropping herself on the ground. She hated running so much. She tried not to think how stupid she must looked like that. She hadn't ran that much, it was just that she couldn't take it no matter how hard she tried. If something was true about Phoebe Halliwell, it was that she was a whiner. Suddenly she felt like two eyes were staring at her. She looked back and saw Cole Turner. Jock Cole Turner. He was wearing PE clothes which didn't hide the wonderfully toned body he had. He was wearing dark green shorts and a white T-shirt. He looked at her with a funny expression and started laughing.

"What is so funny?" Phoebe asked trying not to sound angry nor let Cole know that she was embarrassed.

"You are Prue's sister aren't ya?" Cole asked walking towards her. "You kind of look like her" he lied. Prue and Phoebe did not look alike. "I am..."

"I know who you are" Phoebe cut her off with a smile. "So what do you want? Just laugh at me?"

"Maybe I want to ask you out" Cole said just like if he was talking about the weather.

"Prue would get mad, I'm sure, but you know what, Andy asked me to bring a date so we could all go together, like a double date or something and I have seen you staring at me at lunch so what the hell…Do you want to come with me or I have to ask your other friend?"

Phoebe looked at him amused. She was puzzled. He wasn't just asking her out, he wasn't nervous at all. He didn't doubt that she would say yes, it was almost like if he knew that she had a crush on him. It was freaky, something inside told her not to get close to Cole Turner, but the other one said that she should give it a chance. Someone inside her that had control over reason or even, maturity. Phoebe glazed at him, like checking him out but she already knew her answer and so did he.

"Fine" Phoebe smiled. "When do you pick me up?"

"How about…?"Cole started to say. "How about if you ask Prue when is Andy picking her up so we can all go together? Here is my number…call me when you know something. Or I'll call you"

"You have my number?"

"Oh yeah. I stole it from Andy's phone book just in case I wouldn't see you today…"

Prue walked in to the football field a little annoyed. Andy wasn't there, nor anymore. Would be Andy playing a really bad joke on her? She hoped not because she didn't wanted to kick her soulmate's butt, yet she would do it if the entire 'meet me at the field' was one of Andy's joke. All of the sudden Prue heard something, it was like music…Some familiar music that she didn't get to recognize. It kept getting louder and louder until she knew what it was. She started laughing, for a second she had thought that it was some demonic thing. It was the school's fight song. She looked everywhere and, effectively, the band guys were there playing. She wondered how came that she didn't notice them from the beginning. Still, she couldn't find Andy.

"Hey gorgeous!" Andy's voice called her. He was coming from the locker room with a huge smile on his face, balloons in one hand and flowers in the other. Prue started laughing even harder. She didn't remember Andy did that for her…she was sure he didn't because she could never possibly forget that. "You were getting mad weren't you?"

"A little" Prue confessed trying not to jump in his arms. The band stopped playing and stared at them. "So, how much have you paid this kids to do this?"

"Not much," Andy smiled. He started counting with his fingers like a little kid "A ride home, tickets for the homecoming game, twenty bucks each, which is my paycheck for this month…It is going to cost me more than two hundred dollars. Damn Prue, you are an expensive girlfriend!" Andy joked. Prue had stopped laughing, she couldn't believe he was doing all that for her, just for her. She felt terribly bad because she never appreciated those simple details that Andy kept having with her…Then she thought that he only had around ten more years to live…She tried to hide the tears.

"Are you crying Mss. Made-of-stone.?" Andy asked smiling. Prue punched him playfully.

"You are such and idiot you know?"

"Odd. That is what most people say!" Andy laughed. Then, he handed Prue the balloons. "Pop them up" Prue, obediently, got her keys out and popped all the balloons. Inside the last one, she found a little note. Prue looked at Andy who smiled very proud of himself. On the note was written (obviously by Andy's awful hand writing) "Prue, will you be my homecoming queen?" Prue started laughing again, she couldn't believe that she was being asked to homecoming in her thirties.

"Wait a sec. What does your laugh mean? Is it like a 'you idiot I wouldn't go with you even if you were the last man alive' or 'yes but I don't know what to say'?" Andy asked.

"More like a 'You better pick me up on time Mr. Trudeau'" Prue smiled and kissed him.

"Hey, last time I was just half hour late give me a break!" Andy defended himself. Then he remembered Freshman year, they were like an hour and a half late because he had fallen asleep…Prue got really mad. Really, really mad. "Wait, is that a yes, yes?"

"Of course it is, you didn't have to ask!"

"There is my Prue Halliwell. Always launching romanticism! Band people, did you hear that. She said yes! YES" Andy yelled and the band started playing again. "I'm glad you said yes because it took me like a week to plan this whole thing…" Prue kissed him again but Andy pulled apart. "I gotta go"

"Why?" Prue whined. Andy put a good-boy face and said, "Because I promised the guys a ride home and if I don't start now I am going to be busy until Christmas Break!"

The night beat all of Prue's expectations to be magic. She didn't even care about Phoebe going out with Cole…she didn't care that she left Piper alone for one night taking care of Paige. She didn't care that she was dead. She didn't even care about Ethan coming along and ruining the night. Everything had been so perfect….Andy and Cole picked them up at five and took them to dinner to an Italian restaurant. Prue had never seen Phoebe as nervous before, they both had spent the entire day getting ready, doing each other's make up and, of course, standing Phoebe's theories of how much of a disaster the night was going to be. In the end, everything was alright, things were a little awkward during dinner but as soon as the lights of the school gym were turned off, the magic started. Prue stopped caring about everything but Andy's green eyes that trapped her in a world she had dreamed of for so long. The music faded out whenever Andy kissed her and got their hearts beating faster and faster as one. The night was perfect, the songs were perfect. It was just like the entire universe had conspired for Prue to get her perfect night. The music was getting lost within Prue's ears.

"If I can reach the stars, Pull one down for you, Shine it on my heart So you could see the truth: That this love I have inside Is everything it seems. But for now I find It's only in my dreams."

There was only one difference. The night was real, Andy was real. Her love was real. "And I can change the world, I will be the sunlight in your universe. You would think my love was really something good, Baby if I could change the world." She had never felt so connected to a song before. That was her story; she was there to change the world. Andy kissed her softly and whispered in her ear.

"Happy birthday Prue"

Prue looked at him a little confused in the beginning, and then she remembered. Of course. How could she have forgotten her own birthday? With all the emotion, she deserved some peace after all she had been through. Prue Halliwell remembered; She just turned eighteen, again. Prue smiled and then, they kissed again.

However, far away from the Homecoming Dance, there was one Halliwell who was not nearly having as much fun as her two sisters. Piper Halliwell was alone at home, well, not alone, she was with Paige who had fallen asleep a long time ago while they were watching "Heathers" Piper had to admit that the movie wasn't that bad, but of course Paige hadn't gotten half of the jokes and Piper had to pause the movie to explain her. Sometimes Piper wondered how came that Paige was that innocent. Maybe because Prue was especially overprotective with the youngest of the Halliwells. Piper was checking the time, wondering when her sisters were going to be back to tell her the details of a life she wished she had. She knew she should feel good for her sisters, they both had two great boyfriends. Even Paige would probably have one soon…but not her. Sixteen-year-old Piper Halliwell was a geek within the geeks themselves. The mad geek everyone wanted to avoid. It was the story of her life, avoid the commons at lunch and go to the library, then, sit always close to the teacher so no one would play jokes on her again…Always alone while their sisters went on dates…She was sick of it. While Prue hanged out with the cool people and was the head cheerleader, vice-class president and perfect, and Phoebe was the new freshmen sensation, dating one of the new most popular kids in the market, and Paige, boy. Even Paige had her little exclusive gang and Glen, who Piper was sure, had an interest in Paige, yet, she was just Piper Halliwell. The closest thing to a boyfriend she had ever had it was Andy who drove her to school when nobody else could, that was all about Piper's life. Nevertheless, that was about to change…

It was already midnight when she checked the time again, she decided that she was going to bed. She doubted Phoebe was going to come home anytime soon and Prue…well, she probably wouldn't come home at all. Luckily Patty was sleeping her hang over so she wasn't worried about her mom getting up and making a scene. She got up from the couch and turned the TV off. All of the sudden, she heard a big noise, as if someone had fallen from somewhere. She figured it was her mom that had fallen off her bed and even though she knew it wouldn't be prudent to go check on her she felt like she had too. Who knows, maybe she wasn't that different from Prue after all. Piper went to her mothers bed room and saw that her mother hadn't moved from where she was. Confused and curious, she went to Paige's room and she found the same; Paige sleeping peacefully in her bed, not on the floor. This time, she got scared. Maybe it was a thief…maybe it was someone coming to get her…She froze. There was light coming out of Prue's bedroom. "Go Piper, go" a voice inside her head said. Again, she knew she shouldn't go but she did. What in the beginning was a simple idle curiosity had turned in to an almost desperate desire to know. She opened the door gradually and saw something that got her puzzled. It was boy, probably a little bit older than Prue. In the beginning she thought it was Andy but then she realized that Andy didn't have long hair, and besides, Andy didn't look half as good as the guy did. She thought about calling the police but he didn't seem dangerous. Piper thought he might be one of Prue's fans from school. Probably one of those guys who dreamed with the wrong Halliwell's heart.

"Are you okay?" Piper asked softly without moving from the door. The guy rose his head and Piper saw that his mouth was bleeding. He had a cut across his nose, which was bleeding too. "Oh my God! What happened to you?"

Piper ran towards the guy forgetting all about he being dangerous. She saw he didn't want her to get closer to him but he was too weak to move.

"I need Prue," he said. He had beautiful green eyes…full of pain.

"Everyone does" Piper said angrily trying to get the boy to Prue's bed. "I'm sorry you got the wrong Halliwell. Prue is out. Are you one of his friends?" Piper saw how the guy's expression changed, he looked surprised that Prue was out. "Homecoming, remember?"

Ethan wanted to ask what homecoming was but he knew he didn't have time. None of the Halliwells did. He had to get out of there, get Prue.

"I don't have time" Ethan said desperately. "I gotta go"

"Yeah, to the hospital" Piper said keeping him from getting up.

"Fuck don't you get it" Ethan yelled. " I have to leave!" Ethan coughed blood and Piper got really scared.

"Who are you? How do you know Prue?"

"She is one of my best friends alright?" Ethan said, hey, at least it was the truth. "Piper let me go," he begged.

"Nope. You stay here, I am going to get an ambulance" Piper said. She doubted Ethan could move so she went downstairs to get something to clean him up and, went she got back upstairs. He was gone. "How the heck...?"

Piper went to the window and saw him, laid on the road. She wondered how he had gotten that far in about two minutes but she was too worried. It was the way she was, she was worried for everybody. She was a lost neurotic. She didn't even lock the house, and when she got to him, he had almost passed out, if not away. She felt like breaking into tears but it wasn't the right moment.

"Get back to the house!" Ethan yelled as loud as he could. "Get back to the damn house! Don't you hear me?" Piper was paralyzed. He was trying to get up, to get back in the house but he couldn't. He knew that his leg was broken, and some ribs too. Everything hurt so much that he thought he was going to cry. "Crying is not bad" Prue's voice said within his mind. Ethan broke into tears and fell in a memory he wish he could forget.

It was him, he was around thirteen years old and running from Logan who wanted to 'teach him' some manners to behave. To behave like a normal person not the leftover he was. He was running and running in the Elder's house where he had lived since he had memory. Always beautiful, always perfect, always alone. He couldn't take it anymore, all he wanted it was a mother a father, family. Not just an old Elder who was too severe with him. He had always been good, he had always learned all they wanted him to learn without a word. He had behaved in front of guests, he had been smart, clean and respected everyone. Why was he such a threaten that he could never go to school? Have friends…? He wished he had friends… He wondered why the elder hadn't come after him yet, he hid under his bed, begging to god or whoever was in chief not to be found by Logan, because it would be bad. He tried not to cry, because boys don't cry, that is a girl thing. He was the manliest of the mans, he thought. Although, his tears won his over and he started to cry his heart out, is not like he hadn't done it before but that time was different. Somehow he felt embarrassed. He heard someone entering the room and figured it was Logan. Logan was the only person he really knew. He had seen dead people and elders but none of them were close to him. Not like Logan anyway. However, it didn't sound like Logan, it sound like someone thinner than the elder. Curious, he came out drying his years and saw what he knew it was a woman. She had seen women before, yet he had never been that close to any of them. Her skin was pale and her eyes were some color in between gray, blue and green. He couldn't quite defined it well. Her hair was black but not as dark as his and she was defiantly shorter and smaller than the elder. He tried to look fine and hide his tears but he didn't do a good job. The woman looked at him like no one had before. He could read the sorrow in her eyes, and the guilt. She felt actually sorry for him but not as sorry as he felt himself. The most beautiful woman he had ever seen had just died and she probably didn't even know.

"Hey buddy" She said in a similar tone that the one a mother should use to call her children. His eyes were filled with tears again. "What's your name?"

"Ethan" he answered trying to look tough. The woman walked towards him and stood on her knees so they could look in each other's eyes. He looked away and she smiled and hugged him. He wished he could feel her heart but he knew it didn't beat anymore. "I'm Prue" He didn't say anything but, deep inside he smile. Maybe his own mother looked like Prue.

"Crying is not bad Ethan. It doesn't make you weaker"

Ethan fainted, defeated by his own memories. Knowing it was too late for the fourth of the Charmed Ones. Prue wasn't there and he couldn't get to the house.

Hi! I know I have left you hanging there…I'm sorry but I'll explained what happened to Paige in the next chapter, and, as some of you have request, a little truth about Patty's alcoholism. I wish I could do it now but I am running out of time…Thanks for the Reviews, I'll be answering next chapter I promise! I hope you enjoyed.