Ch. 4: A call from an older sister

The phone began to ring just as Paige entered the manor. "Grams, could you get that?"

No answer.

"Grams?" Paige yelled again.

Still no answer.

Paige ran into the kitchen and picked up the phone. "Hello, Halliwell residence."

"Hey, sweetie, it's me!" Prue's voice echoed from the speaker. "How are you?"

Paige smiled at the sound of her older half sister's voice. "Hey Prue! I'm doing fine. How's college though? Are there lots of parties?"

Prue laughed. "Heck yeah! I can barely study with all the noise. But I've been to a few with Andy."

Paige grinned. "Getting lucky?"

Paige heard Prue gasp. "I don't think I like my little sister asking me about my sex life!" she said sarcastically.

Paige giggled. "I thought that's what sisters were supposed to do."

Prue laughed again. "Yeah, but it's supposed to be me asking you about your love life; not the other way around."

Paige smiled. "Yeah, well, when Piper gets home I'll have her call you. When I told Phoebe I'd catch a ride with Kiri she told me about this great plan of hers to get Piper and Leo together based on a premonition."

There was a silence before Prue again spoke. "You guys got your powers too!"

Paige jumped at the burst and laughed. "Yep, we sure did."

Prue sounded very interested. "Okay, well tell me! Who got what?"

Paige smiled at her sister's enthusiasm. "Well, Phoebe was the first one and she got premonitions. Piper was the second one and she got temporal status, the power to freeze time. I was last, as the baby sister, and I got a special power; teleorbing."

She heard the confusion in Prue's voice when she said, "Tele what?"

Paige sighed. "Well, since I'm part Whitelighter my power of telekinesis works so that I can call out for an object and it will orb to me."

Prue sounded astonished. "Wow…so anyway, tell me about this plan."

At that moment Grams walked through the front door.

"Tell ya later," Paige said. "Right now, talk to Grams." And with that she handed the phone to Grams and headed upstairs to start her mountain high pile of homework.

Ch. 5: Date to the Cupids Ball

"So?" Phoebe questioned as she got in the car.

Piper looked at her. "So what?"

Phoebe grinned. "Don't you 'so what' me! I saw Leo and you flirting!"

Piper reddened. "Well, I don't know about flirting…"

"Ha!" Phoebe laughed. "Yeah right! I saw the goo-goo eyes you made at him and I saw him swaying his butt back and forth! Total flirt motions!"

Piper turned a deeper red. "Hmm…You think?"

Phoebe smiled. "Honey, remember who your talking too?"

Piper laughed, then bit her lip. "Yeah, well maybe…it might explain it."

"Explain what?" Phoebe asked devilishly.

Piper grinned. "Explains why…Leo gave me tickets to the homecoming game Friday."

Phoebe gasped with happiness. "What! Leo asked you to the Cupid's Ball!"

Paige appeared in a swirl of blue lights as Phoebe spoke. She looked really uncomfortable for a second but soon adjusted. "Whoa! That was awesome!"

"Did you just orb?" Phoebe exclaimed.

Paige nodded. "Yeah, I did!"

"In public?" Piper questioned in a concerned tone.

Paige squinted. "Uh…yeah. But, it wasn't completely on purpose. I just thought it'd make sense that I could orb if I could teleorb."

Phoebe nodded and smiled. "Okay, whether she risked exposure or not, she can orb! It's awesome!"

Piper shrugged and smiled. "Okay, good point. Just be more careful next time, okay?"

Paige nodded. "Yeah, okay. Now, what's the Cupid's Ball?"

Phoebe smiled.

"It's another name for the homecoming game," Piper said.

Phoebe nodded. "And it's called the Cupid's Ball because if you get asked to the game with someone and you go that means it's your first date of the year. At S.F. High that's a big thing, the first date of the year. You're supposed to go to your senior prom with the person who you went with for the first time."

Paige nodded in awe. "Wow…that's awesome! I wish I could go!"

Piper smiled. "Well who says someone won't ask you?"

Paige sighed. "Are you kidding? I'm the new girl. There's no chance I'm gonna get asked on my freshmen year."

Piper raised and lowered her eyebrows devilishly at Phoebe. "Well, Phoebe did."

Paige shrugged. "Yeah, but Phoebe's the hottest and most popular girl in school. Of course she got asked."

Phoebe smiled. "Why thank you! I am Miss Popular, aren't I?"

Piper nodded. "Yeah, but you should watch it. I over heard a few girls talking in the bathroom today about tar and feathering you at homecoming."

Phoebe nodded. "I know, I already got the premonition."

Piper nodded. "Ah huh, rub it in."

"Rub what in?" Paige asked.

"That Phoebe gets the cooler power," Piper said.

Phoebe gasped. "Oh, come on! You can stop time! Your power is way cooler!"

Piper shook her head. "How?"

Phoebe leaned over and whispered something into Piper ears.

Piper gasped. "Phoebe! How could you? How could I?" Then she squinted. "Do you think I should?"

Phoebe nodded and grinned.

"Hello?" Paige said in an annoyed tone. "Little sister feeling left out here!"

Piper smiled. "Don't worry sweetie, we'll tell you when you're older."

Paige held up her hand. "Oh no, you're not going to be like Grams telling me I'm too young. Freshmen, remember?"

Phoebe nodded and giggled. "Yeah, but still to young to talk about sophomore and senior level stuff!"

Paige sighed grumpily. "No fair."

Piper giggled. "Ah, don't worry. You can know next year. That's the year the older Halliwell sisters pass their knowledge down to the younger ones."

Phoebe nodded. "I happened to me from Piper and Prue and to Piper from Prue. It'll happen to you too."

Paige nodded. "Ah; but wait, how did Prue get her info?"

Piper smiled. "She got it from older friends and they got it from someone else who got it from somewhere else."

"It just goes on and on really," Phoebe added.

Paige nodded. "Okay, but are you sure you can't pass any of that down now? I've got a phone date later."

"Oh, really?" Phoebe asked.

Paige nodded.

"Okay then, spill it," Piper said. "Who is he, what's his name, grade, old girlfriends, his friends, parents, locker, and anything else Phoebe can think of. Go on, let's have it."

Paige looked shocked. "What? Why?"

Phoebe shook her head. "It's the rules of sisterhood. We watch out for the younger ones. Prue watches out for all three of us, Piper for the two of us, and me for you."

Paige squinted. "Who do I look after?"

"You don't," Phoebe said. "You just feed off the tiny morsels of our love life that we happen to throw your way."

Paige gave a sarcastic laugh. "Ha, ha. Are all sophomores this mean?"

Phoebe laughed. "Oh, don't hate me because I'm popular!" she said in a dramatic voice.

Piper laughed. "Well why not? Half of the female student body does."

"Ha, ha, ha!" Phoebe said sarcastically. Then she gasped. "Hey, you never told me if you accepted," she said to Piper.

"Accepted what?" said Paige, turning to Piper and looking as though she was hungry for one of those tiny morsels of love life.

Piper smiled a little but didn't say anything.

"Piper, spill it!" Paige said.

"Yep, spill Piper!" Phoebe joined in. "Don't make me have to get a premonition for the answer!"

Piper gasped. "You wouldn't!"

Phoebe grinned. "You sure you believe that?"

"Come on, Piper!" Paige begged.

Piper sighed. "Leo asked me to the Cupid Ball and…I said…yes."

Phoebe and Paige jumped up and down in the car, screeching with happiness.

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