Lovin' You Chapter 3-
"Parker, go to work or something." Piper told her daughter. Ever since she quit school she'd been bugging the hell out of everybody.
"I'm not scheduled to work until around 3 and I have nothing else to do. The kids are at school and Dillon's at work." Parker complained, setting up on the counter of the Halliwell Manor Kitchen.
Piper felt extremely guilty. She had made Parker quit school and now she didn't know what to do with herself anymore. She turned around to face her daughter and walked over to her, placing her hands on the counter on each side of her. "Why don't we go find something to do? Get out of the house?" she suggested, hoping that she'd except so she could take it as a sign that she wasn't mad at her for what she said.
Parker shrugged. She wasn't mad at her persay. She just couldn't help but blame her mother for doing this. "What would we do?"
"Well we're in San Francisco, there's hundreds of things to do." Piper said wishing Parker would look her in the eye.
Parker shrugged, "OK, We'll go find something to do."
Piper smiled at her and stepped back, givine her enough room to jump off the counter. They grabbed jackets and purses and headed out the door.
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Piper and Parker set down at a table at the food court of the mall. They sat the food treys down on the table and their shopping bags down on the floor.
"Jeezes, this place is crowded today." Piper remarked, pushing a peice of graying brown hair behind her ear.
"Well it is Friday." Parker stated taking out her food and starting to eat.
Piper sighed, knowing that conversation wasn't going to happen. They finished their food and headed out of the mall, going back to the manor.
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Parker finished signing the papers and waited for the twins to come out of the classroom. 'It's the end of the day, why do we have to sign them out anyway?' she questioned herself.
"Mommy!" she heard two voices shout behind her. She smiled and turned around to see the twins running toward her full speed. Potter's blonde hair was blowing to the side of his face and Phoenix's brunette curls were down and flying behind her.
Parker smiled and hugged them as they got to her. When they pulled back, she smiled and kissed Potter's forehead that was showing from his run and she combed his hair back the way it was suposed to be with her fingers. She stood up to her full height again before taking their hands and leading them out ot the car. Once everybody was bucketed in, she turned to look at them through her rear view mirrow. "So, how was school?"
"Good." "Fine." she heard at the same time. She automatically knew what was coming.
"It was good!" Phoenix insisted.
"It was fine!" Potter retorted.
"OK you two, that's enough. Phoenix, what made yours so special?" Parker asked, she usually just said fine and that was it.
"She gotta see her boyfriend." Potter teased his sister.
"What boyfriend?" Patker asked smirking.
"He's just a friend." Phoenix said glaring at Potter.
"Then why'd you kiss him?" he asked as Parker started helping him out of his car seat.
Parker stopped what she was doing and looked at Phoenix curiously, she wasn't sure if she liked this or not anymore. "I didn't kiss him, he kissed me on the cheek." Phoenix said crossing her arms over her chest.
"We'll talk about this later." Parker said quickly, opening the door to their apartment and walking inside.
The twins went into the living room and turned on cartoons, Parker went into her bedroom and started putting away the clothes she bought. When she was done, she changed into her work clothes and pulled her hair into a loose pony tail and walking into the living room. "OK, time to go to grandma's for a little while."
"Why?" Phoenix asked, she was kind of scared about how quickly she changed the subject.
Parker smiled at her and bent down to her level. "Mommy's gotta go to work butterfly. Daddy's gonna get you in a little while when he gets off work."
"OK." Phoenix said a little releived that her mommy wasn't mad at her.
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A few days later it was Sunday, which in some families was church days, but in the wiccan heritage of Parker Halliwell's family Sunday is same gender day. Same gender day is when the parents spend quality time with the child of the same gender. Parker created same gender day a week after Dillon moved in. So, as usual, Dillon took Potter out and Parker was home with Phoenix.
Parker was in the kitchen cooking lunch and Phoenix was sitting at the table coloring in a coloring book.
"Mommy?" Phoenix said, sitting her crayon down and looking at mom.
"Yes?" Parker asked, looking at Phoenix from the stove.
"Are you gonna hate me forever?"
Parker looked at her shocked. "I don't hate you."
"You should." Phoenix claimed going back to her coloring.
"And why is that?" Parker questioned going over and bending down next to her daughter and pushing a peice of brown hair behind her ear.
"Cause I made you quit school." Phoenix said matter-of-factly, not looking up from her picture.
"Hey, look at me." Parker requested sliding Phoenix sideways in the chair to face her. Phoenix put the crayon down on top of the picture and looked at her mom. "That was not your fault. It was mine. I couldn't balance my time out between you guys and school so finally I just had to choose. I chose you because you are more important. I can go back to school if the time ever gets right but its not right now. I made the right decision. I know I did and I don't want you blaming yourself for something that is nobodys fault. You got me?"
Phoenix nodded, "Gotcha mommy." she said before wrapping her small arms around Parker's neck tightly. Parker hugged her closely back and kissed her on the head a few times before they pulled away from the embrace.
"Ok. You finish that picture, I'll finish lunch. Deal?" Parker reasoned.
"Deal." Phoenix repeated smiling and turning back to her coloring.
Parker sighed watching her a second before running her fingers through her daughter's hair gently before going back to her cooking.
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A/N:I'm so sorry it took so long for the update. I was just wrapped up in trying to get my other story up and going that I sort of, kind of, maybe, possibly forgot about this one. bows head I hope none of you guys hate me or anything. I'm out of school for summer now so I should be updating more.
Also, sorry its so short, I've had most of it written for a while now, I've just been to lazy to type it. I've been racking my brain (however small it may be) for a while now trying to figure out what to add to this chapter but I couldnt think of anything so i'm just gonna post it as is. If you think of anything you'd like me to add i'll try to add it into another chapter whenever appropriate. Thank you,
Katie:)
