I worry that I won't recognize Glen as I step out from the deserted alley that I orbed into.
As I enter the crowd of people waiting to get into the theater I spot Glen. He sticks out like a red thumb. Amongst a crowd of black leather and corsets there he is in his button down striped shirt and jeans. Granted I'm wearing jeans and a shirt too, but I was smart enough to wear all black.
"Oh my God." he says as he spots me and comes over. We hug for ten minutes atleast before letting go.
"You look exactly the same." I say to him.
"You got paler." He laughs, and I hit him playfully. Just like old times. He hands me a ticket, and I slide it in my pocket.
"Get ready for a really odd show." I say pulling him through the theater door once they're open and clear. We choose seats in the middle, and watch the show begin. A large screen in the front of the theater has the movie playing and actors running all around the theater also play along.
It's odd, but you can't seem to stop watching. It's a spectacle.
"Don't fall asleep." I whisper in Glen's ear as I see his eye lids getting droopy.
"Why?" He asks obviously exhausted.
"It's just not a good idea here." I laugh. I've heard they play mean jokes on you if you fall asleep. We manage to stay awake untill the show is over. We walk out of the theater laughing.
"It's still dark out." I notice.
"It's four." Glen says half asleep.
"How about we just go to my place for breakfast." I say too tired to actually go anywhere. I wonder what would be open now anyway.
"Yeah, I'll drive." He says, andI follow him to the car. We talk about our jobs and his trips for a bit. I debate wether to mention magic or not.
"So, Remember when you ask what was new?" I say timidly.
"Yeah," he says
"I didn't tell you everything." I say slowly.
"Your pregnant." he says looking over at me. I shake my head. Why is that the conclusion people always draw?
"I'm a witch." I say waiting for him to freak out. Instead he just laughs.
"No, really. Glen!" I say annoyed.
"Okay, believe whatever you want to. Pray to the devil for all I care." he says finally.
"No, like magical." I say as he pulls up to the manor where I've directed him too.
"Paige, it's four in the morning. Your not making sense." he says.
"Take my hand." I say putting out my palm. He puts his in mine and I orb him into my room. When we reapear he falls onto my bed. He seems to be asleep so I take the oportunity to put on pajamas. Once I have my pajama bottoms on, and my shirt off I hear a scream.
Soon my sisters have barged in looking tired and annoyed that a demon would attack in the early morning. Even Leo and Cole have come in. Oh joy. Glen on my bed screaming and me topless. Phoebe covers her mouth so no one can see her stifling her laughter. Cole is standing behind her with his arms over her neck and looking like he's sleep walking.
Piper looks pissed, and Leo is next to her shaking his head.
I put my shirt on as soon as the shock has worn off and I can. I become horribly embarrassed.
"Wow, Paige" Glen says looking around shocked.
"Paige, please." Piper says putting her hands on her hips.
"Sorry," I say as they slowly leave. Phoebe points at me and laughs as she leaves. How mature.
"That was what I was trying to explain." I say.
"I don't believe it." he says
"Yeah, well." I say
"I-I..." He starts not knowing what to say.
"Need some sleep?" I say with a laugh.
"Yeah," he says pushing the magc into the back of his head like everything he doesn't understand. I know he won't ever want to talk about it, and the ordeal of telling him is over.
He still works the same as he did when we were kids.
I look over at him, but he's sound asleep on top of the covers on my bed. I smile and lie next to him.
I wake up freazing, and look around. No Glen. I get up and put on a sweatshirt. Then I go downstairs. Glen's at the table laughing with my family.
They all laugh as they see me. I probobly look rediculous.
"Glen was just telling us about Colby Kosner." Phoebe laughs. I turn beat red. My fifth grade crush. The one I left notes for in his locker for a week. He saw me putting one in one day, and confronted me. He told me he didn't like me, and I told him I was delivering the notes from Glen.
"I guess you've always been a reject." Phoebe laughs sticking her tongue out at me. I always feel like a ten year old with her, but I love it.
"I bet he left out the part where Colby's dad called Glen's dad and told him." I say sitting down. I pull a pancake off of Glen's plate and eat it with my hands as everyone laughs and Glen goes red.
"I told them about your bus incident, and the field trip." Glen says as I take his juice.
"Please, I was like six." I say un embarrassed.
"Besides I have worse of you." I say.
"Little Paige must have been so cute sobbing at Sea World be-" Piper starts.
"Don't even." I stop her.
"Come on," Glen says nudging me.
"If you want to see cute I could break out the photo albums where Glen was a girl for Haloween." I say with a smile. It's a favorite photo of mine.
"Thank God you guys no nothing of my past." Cole says with a chuckle. Leo nods.
"I have some great Phoebe stories." Piper laughs.
"Do you remeber yourself in highschool, Piper?" Phoebe teases. They share a look that screams truse. I would be smart to make one with Glen before he humiliates me. Not that I couldn't do the same to him, but I still have to live here.
"Do you remeber the time at Wild Rivers when you made the class bus wait three hours for you because you lot your baithingsuit top on a ride, and wouldn't get out of the water." Glen laughs
"Thanks for that." I say embarrassent now burning inside of me. I was just fourteen, and it was absolutely humiliating.
"Aww" Phoebe says with a huge grin. Damn her for taking pleasure in my pain.
"It's nice to hear some light hearted stories from when you were a kid." Piper say. Phoebe nods.
"Well, it looks like Glen's just full of them." I mutter
"Got any more?" Phoebe asks.
"Once at a pep rally. She was doing a chear and she was supposed to run up and down the bleachers-" Glen starts.
"You were a cheerleader?" Piper aks surprised.
"It was for extra credit in gym." I say trying to justify.
"She got to the top, and it was her turn to yell 'Go Lions', and she starts and everyone's looking at her and she trips down the bleachers." He laughs.
"Glen was also a cheerleader." I say. Cole shakes his head with a laugh.
"I also needed extra credit in gym." Glen mutters.
"He split his cheer pants once." I say with a laugh. Phoebe spits her juice out from laughing.
"Paige peed in class once." Glen says going for revenge. They all look at me as they burst out laughing.
"Cheap shot. It was first grade." I say still embarrassed.
"Oh," Phoebe says scrawling something to a piece of paper.
"Taking notes?" I ask.
"Grocery list. Your turn has come, milk-finisher." she says throwing me the paper. At the bottom she scrawled in 'depends for Paige'.
"Funny" I say wth an eye roll.
"Let me see that." Glen says taking it from my hands. He reads it with a laugh.
"I have another great one." Glen says with his eyes lighting up. They all lean in.
"In seventh grade, Paige-" Glen starts. I grab his shirt and pull him up.
"Hey," They all shout.
"He's coming with me grocery shopping. Sorry, no time for this story." I saw with a smile.
"Your still in pajamas" Glen points out.
"Whatever," I say pulling him outside. I grab my bag as I shove him out the door.
"That was a funny story you interupted." Glen says mock annoyed as he gets in my car.
"I was there." I say turning red all over again. I seemed to embarrass myself a lot, and Glen has countless stories that I hoped no one in my adult life would ever find out.
"Jesus this is a huge store." Glen says stepping out of the car.
"I didn't take you to just any ordinary grocery store my friend." I say throwing him the list, and grabbing a cart. I fight the urge to hop inside it, and insist that he push me.
"So potatos." I say looking at the first thing.
"I think we'd all like potato chips better." I say grabbing a bag off of a display next to where I'm standing.
"Apples," I read off the next thing. I actually get those because well, mainly it's me who eats them.
"Don't you hate grocery shopping?" Glen asks remembering how in college I would go at most every three months. There would never be anything fresh in my room.
"Yeah," I ask scanning through the list. I'm tempted to mess things up so I won't be asked to do them again. Like get whole milk instead of skim, but they could just make me go back instead. I decide to take the risk.
I notice Phoebe was nice enough so scrawl condoms on the list. I fall into temptation to buy the extra small ones, she deserves it after laughing at me all morning. I choose word of the day toilet paper just for some variety.
"Paige," Glen laughs looking at all the random suff I've thrown in. Squirt guns, and pop tarts.
"We need this stuff." I say with a smile.
I decide to take hand sanitizer instead of soap. I figure it's more fun. I finish off the list, and formulate some sort of plan. I feel like a kid again with him.
"Do me a favor and go pay for this." I say handing him my credit card.
"Where are you going? Why?" He asks as I walk away
"I really have to go to the bathroom." I lie. Really I just know Glen the kind of guy who gets embarrassed by just buying toilet paper so this could be fun.
I sit on the other side of the register a little ways away and watch with amusement. I catch up to Glen a moment later once he's payed. He's red as a rose.
"Something wrong?" I ask innocently as he hands me back my credit card.
"It's the look that little seventeen year old gave me as he wrang me up for tampons and extra small condoms." He says a little bitter.
"I know." I say with a laugh as I let him carry the groceries to the car. We get home and I dump them on the counter.
"Goat's milk?" Phoebe asks me as she's helping put away the groceries. What can I say.
"You bought goat's milk!" Piper says coming over.
"All you said was milk." I say
"And is this your idea of yogurt?" she asks pulling two pints of ice cream out of the bags.
"And look at the lovely potatos and avocados she picked out." Cole says grabbing the guacamole and potato chips.
"Don't look so upset. I got these for you, big guy." I say tossing him condoms. He looks embarrassed as Leo looks at what I threw over Cole's shoulder and laughs.
"Thanks for the chapstick." Leo says picking up the hot pink smackers lip gloss I chose. There's even flowers around the tube, "and the vitamins" he says picking up the bottle of laxatives. I'm mildly scared that those will end up in my coffee for messing up the groceries.
"We should leave the shopping up to you more often." Piper says sarcastically holding the water balloons and twinkies.
"I guess I'll go back. I mean if we ever want a decent meal." Pheobe says picking up the frozen chicken nuggets I got instead of raw chicken breasts.
"You didn't really thnik I'd buy raw meat." I say.
Piper rolls her eyes at me.
"Just go get that." Piper says as the phone rings. I rush into the other room to pick up the phone.
"Paige, it's Daryl." Daryl says
"Hey, how are you?" I answer.
"I'm fine, but there's a problem here that we could use on of your sister's help on. It's been going on for about two months with no advances." He says.
"I have to be at work in an hour, but Ill ask Phoebe to come by." I say
"Thanks a lot." he says hanging up before I even say bye. Must be a bad case.