Chapter 3: Mishaps In The Attic
"Piper!" Paige yelled for her sister. "Piper where is your dress?" Paige was searching through Piper's closet and with no help from her sister, decided to stop. Paige made her way to Piper's bedroom door and thought she would try yelling for her sister just once more. "Piper are you home?"
"She went out to lunch with Leo sweetie!" Phoebe yelled in response, from her room, to Paige's question. Paige took a deep breath to calm herself, and then marched over to Phoebe's bedroom door.
I have a date with Nate tonight! I don't have time for this! She thought to herself. I am going to tell him that I am a witch and I need that dress! Paige knocked on Phoebe's bedroom door when she finally reached it.
"Come in." Phoebe said almost immediately to the knock.
Paige opened the door and asked, "Did you say the Piper, our sister, went out to lunch with Leo, her husband?" Paige asked in a that-can't-be-true tone.
"Yeah, that's why I am watching Wyatt." Phoebe said as she tickled her nephew's stomach. He was laid out on her bed, giggling. "I guess it is because I said something today about her and Leo not doing so well lately…" Phoebe said after she saw Paige's shocked face and knew exactly what her younger sister was thinking. "If it is important you could call her, she has her cell."
"I just might do that!" Paige said and shut Phoebe's door. Paige pulled out her own cell phone and started to dial Piper's number.
"Hello." Piper said at the other end of the phone. Page could tell that Piper was laughing and that put a smile on her own face to know that her sister was having a great time with her husband.
"Uh, Piper, I have a date tonight with Nate and I am going to tell him that I am a witch and I really need that black dress of yours." Paige said with a sigh. There was a silence on the phone. "Um, Piper are you there?"
"Yes I am her! I'm thinking." There was another long pause and finally Piper said, "Is it the one with the open back?"
"YES! That is the one!" Paige said with a smile and an excited look on her face.
"Oh honey I am sorry, I am wearing that one right now." Piper said as Paige's excited look, turned into a disappointed one. "But there is that one that shows some cleavage. I think that will be perfect for telling him that little secret of yours. I out-grew it when I was pregnant with Wyatt and you can use it tonight."
"Okay, thanks Piper…um, where might that dress be?" Paige asked her sister.
"Oh it should be on the top shelf in my closet." Piper said
"Okay…have fun with Leo!" Paige said and then clicked off the phone. She walked back into Piper's closet and was looking on the top shelf. Without any luck she looked over her shoulders, held out her hands and then said, "Dress."
There was a dress on the top shelf in Piper's closet with a shoebox on top of it. The dress, as soon as Paige called for it, was swimming with white and blue orbs and disappeared from its original resting place, and landed in Paige's arms. As Paige turned around to walk away, she heard something hit the floor behind her.
"What the hell?" She asked herself. As she quickly turned around to see what the noise was. The shoebox that lay perfectly on top of the dress had now fallen on the floor revealing many pictures. Most of the pictures were old ones of Grams and Patty, The Charmed Ones' mother, and Prue. As Paige was going through the pictures of Grams and Patty she let out a sideways smile. But then when she fell upon Prue's pictures, she had a sad look on her face.
Paige took a deep breath and scooped all the pictures up and put them back into the box. She made her way out of Piper's closet, out of Piper's room, and to the bottom of the stairs that led to the attic. She took another deep breath and began her way up the stairs. Paige marched right through the doorway and to the stand that held The Book Of Shadows.
Paige took another deep breath and started flipping through the pages. After a few minutes she stopped, looked up from the book and walked over to the trunk that held all of the magical equipment that The Charmed Ones had to use for spells and potions. Paige got out five white candles and a lighter and then shut the trunk.
This has got to work! Paige thought to herself as she set down the candles in a circle. It just has to! Paige lit the candles and walked over to the book.
"This is going to work!" she reassured herself. Then she took another deep breath and recited the spell that was on the page that lay in front of her.
"Hear these words,
Hear the cry,
Spirit from the other side,
Come to me I summon thee,
Cross now the great divide."
White orbs began to circle the inside of the five white candles.
"It's working!" Paige said with a big smile on her face. Then the orbs broke out of the circle of the five white candles and began to circle around Paige. After a few seconds the orbs disappeared. "Oh, that can't be good." Paige said with a worried look on her face.