"Paige!" I hear Piper shriek from downstairs. I jump up from my bed.
"Get down here now!" I hear another yell this time from Phoebe. I rush downstairs only half awake to see my sisters fighting a demon.
"Lamp" I yell directing a lamp into his head. It connects, and he shimmers out.
"He'll be back." I hear a male voice from behind me. I turn around slowly to come eye to eye with Cole.
"I forgot you were here," I say now awake, and totally embarrassed. Could I maybe have thrown on some pants before coming down? I pull my shirt down trying to cover up, and I'm sure I'm turning beat red.
"Well I'm back for good." He says walking over to Phoebe. It's weird to see him walk and not shimmer.
"Power stripped as of yesterday afternoon." Phoebe says with a huge smile. I guess he's an innocent now, and Phoebe's finally got her man.
"I'm going to go," I say orbing to my room.
"Personal gain!" Piper shouts up at me. Whatever.
I change into some day clothes, and head back downstairs where Piper is cooking something that smells rancid, and Phoebe's reading from the book.
"Let's go." Piper says throwing me a vial of the stuff she was just stirring. I thank god that that was a potion and not breakfast.
"I'm coming," Cole, says, Piper opens her mouth to object, but Phoebe shoots her a look.
Cole, Phoebe, and Piper all touch me as I orb us off to where Phoebe had a marker on the map.
We land in a deserted section of a park. There's a young girl on a swing. She's got her back to us, and her long blonde hair is flying in the wind. Then I see the demon closing in on her.
I spot the demon before my sisters do, and he's too distracted to notice us. Perfect opportunity to throw the potion, but what the demon is looking at catches me so off guard that I drop the potion.
Hearing the shatter the demon turns his focus to us, but I orb the potion over to him before he can do a thing.
"Nice job," Phoebe says, and I orb us off before the girl can turn around to see us.
"Good thing he was so focused on the girl," Piper says, but that wasn't what he was focused on. He was focused on Cole.
When we arrive back in the manor I head up to my room. I hear two sets of steps following me. I turn around to see Piper and Phoebe.
"Yeah?" I ask
"What happened when you were seventeen ?" Phoebe asks
"A lot," I laugh. It was a full year.
"No, I mean Prue wrote about you again." Phoebe says throwing me Prue's little black diary.
I carried her crying back to her house. I put her in her bed, and Leo came down to give her a potion so she wouldn't remember seeing me, but I couldn't let him. I asked if I could talk to her first. Leo left, and I comforted the crying girl, when she wiped her tears my heart fluttered. I haven't seen her in a few years, and she's grown up to much. It's sad that I can only see her at times like these, but, selfishly, seeing her makes me happy.
"I don't remember talking to her at all." I say sadly. I just remember waking up, and not knowing how I got home.
"You do remember what happened though?" Piper asks.
"Come sit down." I say motioning for them to join me on my bed. Time for another story.
"It was my seventeenth birthday, and my friends Jeremy Krime and Deliah Harris took me to a club." I start slowly.
"Fake ID's?" Phoebe asks
"Yeah, but turns out they didn't even check." I say. This was the bar I went back to after my parents died.
"Glen wanted to take me out to dinner, but I told him we'd do it the next night cause I had never been to a club." I say.
"Well, we drank, a lot. It was the first time I ever got totally trashed. Then we danced until the buzz wore off, and we were just wasted." I continue.
"It was around two in the morning when we finally decided it was time to go home." I say
"You didn't drive did you?" Phoebe asks concerned.
"No, we actually didn't. We walked instead." I say
"Then what happened?" Piper asks. I give her a look letting her know that I'd get there if they'd stop interrupting.
"We were walking and doing something or other that at the time we thought was the funniest shit we'd ever done." I say starting to get to the point where it's hazy. I'm not sure if it was because I was so drunk, because my brain's trying to block out the bad memories, or because of the potion that I can't remember it all now.
"Well,Deliah thought it would be funny to streak home. So she started running and pulling off her top. Then I saw the bright white lights. They were blinding, and I screamed like bloody murder. Jeremy grabbed me and pushed me to the sidewalk, but Laura had her shirt over her face and she couldn't see what we were yelling at."
"Oh no," Phoebe says putting her arm around me. I start to cry softly.
"She got hit by a car, but that wasn't the worst part." I say shaking, " She wasn't dead. The driver called an ambulance."
"It only took a few minutes to get there, but it seemed like hours. The whole time she was moaning and screaming and gasping and there was nothing we could do but watch. Then we heard the chokes just as the ambulance pulled up, but it was too late." I say now full on convulsing with tears. She was my best friend. If only I'd just have gone to dinner with Glen.