Chapter 8

Playdate gone wrong

To celebrate her eighth birthday Parker didn't want a party, she only wanted a sleepover playdate with her friend Callie. This worked out since Darryl and Sheila had to work and Billie's kids weren't feeling well. Parker was nervous about having her mortal friend spend the night in her magical house, she didn't want Callie to find out about magic.

Callie arrived at the manor around four p.m. on Parker's birthday. Parker greeted her with a big welcoming hug and quickly introduced her to the family. The plan to avoid magic was to keep Callie in her room as much as she could.

"Want to meet my dog Belle" Parker asked entering her room.

"Yes I love dogs" Callie replied.

Inside the room Parker shared with her sister P.J. Belle was lying across one of the beds. Callie smiled and went to pet her. Belle was so used to attention she didn't even budge and licked Callie's hand. Afterwards the girls decided to play school in the magic proof room.

"Can I play too" Payton asked as the girls entered the room.

"Ok but no magic understand" Parker whispered to her, Payton nodded.

The trio spent around an hour playing school. Parker was the teacher and the other two were the students. At around five Piper called all everyone to supper so they made their way to the table with the others. This when things started to go downhill.

Parker was keeping her eye on the babies and little kids watching out for signs they were about to use magic. As Aria orb stole Kenzie's food Parker shouted out "Callie look outside there's a rainbow." Callie looked outside but was confused when she didn't see a rainbow. Then as Kenzie used her magic to get revenge Parker knocked her glass of milk on the floor so Callie would only pay attention that, it worked.

"Callie look at Belle" Parker shouted as Melinda used her power of levitation to bring forth the plate of stake.

"Callie look at that huge tree" Parker stated as Patty beamed milk into her sippy cup.

"Callie look at the bug on the window" Parker said as Penny orbed away her food since she wasn't hungry anymore.

While they ate Parker had to distract Callie every few minutes to avoid her seeing magic. Even some of the older kids who knew better, like Melinda, were using their magic. Eventually she got fed up and tried bringing Callie back up to her room.

"I'm not done eating Parker" Callie stated.

"You ate enough" Parker argued.

"Parker don't be rude let the girl finish" Phoebe stated.

"You can eat in my room" Parker told her friend.

"I don't think so young lady" Piper stated.

Piper looked at Parker and saw a look of worry on her face, this told her why Parker was acting weird. She froze the room so Callie wouldn't hear what she said next, she unfroze the cupids and white-lighters though. She made it very clear to the children they were not allowed to use magic while Callie was present. Most of them accepted this but others argued, not that it helped.

The rest of supper was magic free, afterwards all the kids were sent outside. Every day, if the weather was behaving, the children were sent outside after supper for half an hour to an hour. This is when magic proof became extinct.

First Parker physically turned Callie's body around so she wouldn't see Payton using her telekinesis with Melinda to play soccer. Next Parker pushed Callie down so she wouldn't see Preston using his project power to watch TV in mid-air. While Callie was on the ground Parker used her beaming power to beam Preston inside the tree house.

"Parker why did you push me" Callie asked feeling sad.

"It was an accident I'm sorry" Parker apologised.

After a few minutes of no magic Parker and Callie started a game of tag. They made the mistake of letting the other children play. When Parker saw Paris orb she knew what was coming next. She covered Callie's eyes with her hands just as Paris orbed right in-front of them.

"Tag you're it" Paris laughed touching Callie.

"Parker you made me loose, you're not being very nice" Callie stated almost in tears.

"I'm sorry, I was just trying to help Paris since she's so little" Parker lied.

"Why didn't you just let your cousin touch you then?"

"I can never catch anyone so it would be too boring running from me" Parker lied again.

"Oh Ok I understand now.

After an hour of dodging magic Parker was allowed to go back into the house with Callie. They went up to Parker's room and started playing house. When the other kids wanted to join Parker wouldn't let them, she wasn't going to risk anymore magic happening.

After a magic free evening it was time for the children to go off to bed. P.J. had volunteered to sleep on the living room couch so Callie wouldn't have to sleep on the floor in a sleep bag or share the bed with Parker. As the laid down in the beds Callie made a shocking confession.

"You don't have to hide magic from me I'm a witch!"

"You're what? Why didn't you tell me?"

"It was too much funny watching you go all crazy trying to stop me from finding out you're a witch"

"You little brat, and by the way I'm a cupid witch."

"Oh and just so you know the reason your family was using magic no stop was because they knew I was magical and we teamed up to drive you mad!"

At that moment parker burst out laughing at her own stupidity and craziness. Callie soon joined in as did the other kids as they came into the room one by one. It was almost midnight before they all managed to settle down enough to sleep. Parker had learned a lesson that day, always know who you're bringing home.

(Didn't have the time to edit so I'm sorry for any mistakes, I wrote this at school during my short lunch break. Also please start commenting again, that's how you can tell that people are reading your stories. I'm very interested in getting your ideas for future chapters and your review on chapters I've already posted. I have the next few years all planned out but I'd still love to hear your ideas.)