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Chapter 3 – Will's jealousy
"Will, come on!" Phoebe yelled as she ran down the stairs of the Halliwell Manor. "Will, it didn't mean anything!"
Just before he reached the door, Will angrily spun around. "What did you just say?" he yelled.
"I said that it didn't mean anything." Phoebe said, but this time calmer.
"I don't believe this!" Will yelled again. "You invited me into your house to tell me that you kissed the guy who's already seducing you and that it didn't mean anything! Are you out of your freakin' mind or somethin'?"
"No, I'm not!" Phoebe screamed back at her boyfriend. "And you're so wrong if you think I'm gonna beg you on my knees to forgive me."
"Oh, and you won't?" Will yelled as he pretended to be surprised.
"Newsflash, Will!" Phoebe yelled. "I don't love you! I never did! And do you know why? Because you're all just the same! You and every guy on this planet! When the guy who gets more attention than you comes near you, you get all jealous and overprotective! I thought you were different, but you're obviously not!"
"And Turner is?"
"Well, at least he's got his dose of originality! Something that you miss so much!" Phoebe snapped. In fact, she was lying. She was using Cole as a tool to make Will as angry as she was.
"Well, at least I have a heart!" Will furiously screamed and turned to open the door.
"That's it, Will! Run away when things get too hot for you!" Phoebe yelled. "Just run away!"
"SHUT UP, PHOEBE HALLIWELL!" Will yelled as she spun around again.
Phoebe grabbed his shirt and slapped him over the face. "No one tells me to shut up, do you understand?"
"Well, this will shut you up!" Will yelled. He wanted to slam her against the wall, but accidentally hit her in attempt to grab her shoulders. "Oh, God…" he whispered slowly as he saw Phoebe's cheekbone get red.
Phoebe looked at Will with fury he never saw before. "Come on, William!" Phoebe yelled. "Hit me again, if you think that that proves how strong you are! Come on!"
"I didn't wanna hit you, I'm sorry…" Will started in normal tone of voice.
"Why don't you hit me again, ha?" Phoebe yelled. "Don't worry, I'm not gonna cry! You're not worth it!"
"I'll call you when you get back to normal again." Will said and left the Manor as quickly as he could.
"Coward!" Phoebe screamed at the door and than leaned against the wall. She was breathing heavily. Her cheekbone was hurting. "Damn you…" she whispered.
"Oh, my God, Phoebe!" Piper yelled as she entered the hall and saw her sister. "What happened to you? I heard you and Will yell, but this…"
"He didn't do it on purpose." Phoebe said. "We both lost control. I hit him as well."
Piper shook her head. "If a guy truly loves the girl he's with, he would rather die than hit her. He's probably not your true love."
"Duh, Piper." Phoebe said with the smile. "You're just way too romantic to notice that I don't love Will. I'm not even close to it."
Piper stared at her and than smiled again. "How about Turner?"
Phoebe suddenly stood up from the anger that filled her chest. "Don't mention him." she snapped.
"What? Why not?"
"Because I just realized that he's the cause of this. He's the cause of my pain. He's the cause of this fight. He's the cause of EVERYTHING!" Phoebe yelled.
"Well, at least he's not like the other guys…" Piper tried to justify herself for mentioning Cole.
"No?" Phoebe asked with raised eyebrows.
"Well, you said it when you were arguing with Will…"
"Piper, that was just a pretext. I didn't really mean it; I only wanted to make Will jealous."
"But, Turner really is different. I mean, how many new guys got to kiss you in just four days they spent in our university?"
"It was a cold afternoon…" Phoebe joked, but than got serious again. "Look, I only wanted to prove to him that I don't feel anything for him with that kiss. And I proved it."
"Are you sure?" Piper asked hopefully.
"A hundred percent sure." Phoebe answered.
Piper sighed heavily. "Pheebs, you're not even looking for your Mr. Right. You know, the one that will take your breath away and swoop you off your feet…"
"Pipe, c'mon." Phoebe rolled her eyes. "All I'm looking for is the way to have a good fun, so that my school time passes by as quick as possible. When winter vacations come, I'm going to our farm. I miss all the nature, I miss the sound of roosters waking me up. And I miss Storm."
Piper chuckled. "You miss your horse more than the guy of your dreams you're supposed to meet?"
Phoebe nodded. "Yup. Could you please come to kitchen with me now, I'm starving."
"Do you want me to get some ice for that bruise of yours? It looks pretty bad. Does it hurt?"
"Not really." Phoebe replied. She was used to pain, since she spent all her holidays at the farm. She was taming wild horses out there. "Come on, let's eat."
"Okay, if you say so…" Piper said with raised eyebrows and followed her sister to the kitchen…
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At Friday, Phoebe appeared at school a whole hour earlier. She had to think about all those things that were bothering her in past week. Ever since Cole appeared, everything in her life turned upside down and she hated him for it. She hated him for kissing her and she hated him for the fight she had with Will Yesterday. As she walked towards the school entrance, she ran onto Melinda who was walking in the arms of tall guy with the blonde hair. She was pretty sure that his name was John.
"Pheebs!" Melinda surprisedly yelled and rushed to greet her friend. Than she saw the bruise on Phoebe's face. "Oh, God, what's that?" she asked.
Phoebe looked at John annoyingly and than turned to Mel. "We'll talk about in somewhere more private. Who's the guy?" she whispered.
"Oh! Phoebe, this is John, my boyfriend. John... well, I think that the whole San Francisco knows who Phoebe Halliwell is."
John nodded. "Uh, Mel, I gotta go to get my schoolbag from home." he explained and kissed her for goodbye. Phoebe just rolled her eyes and John smiled when he saw that. "Hey, I didn't roll my eyes when you and Turner kissed in the middle of the street." he said.
Phoebe immediately shot an angry glare at him. "We weren't kissing in the middle of the street and I only kissed him to prove that he's a jerk." she snapped.
John raised his arms in self defense and grinned. "Hey, you don't have to explain anything about that kiss... unless it didn't mean something to you."
"What makes you think it meant something to me? It's a stupid thing to say. No guy has ever meant anything to me, 'cuz you're all such an idiots."
"Well, the way you kissed him so didn't look like you. You know… you closed your eyes, you hugged him and you let him kiss you the way that he wanted." John kept provoking Phoebe and she glared at him furiously. Melinda raised her eyebrows when she heard what her boyfriend said, since Phoebe didn't give her any details about that kiss.
"Well, at least he knows how to kiss, unlike some of us here." Phoebe replied. "He didn't look like he was shoving his tongue down my throat."
Now it was John's turn to roll his eyes. "Well, I see you're not in the mood. Bye, Mel. See ya around."
"Okay." Mel replied. When John left, she turned to Phoebe. "What the hell has gotten into you?" she asked.
"I hate when some idiot tries to give me lectures, and especially when it's about Cole Turner. I have this bruise thanks to him and I had a fight with Will thanks to him."
"You told Will?" Melinda asked.
Phoebe nodded. "Well, he would find it out sooner or later, cause I have to let the whole school know that Turner's staying today. I wanted for Will to hear it from me and not from somebody else." she explained.
"What did he say?"
Phoebe sighed heavily and pointed at her bruise.
"NO!" Melinda yelled. "He didn't hit you, did he?"
"He didn't do it on purpose…" Phoebe tried to justify her boyfriend.
"Oh, come on, Phoebe, don't give me that crap!" Mel got really furious. "No matter what you told him, he had no right to hit you! You're a girl, for God's sake!"
"You know, now you sound like my sister." Phoebe said with small smile. "C'mon, let's go inside, I'm freezing."
"Yeah… but Will is so dead when he comes."
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What neither Mel nor Phoebe expected was for Will not to show up at school when their classes began. Phoebe decided to tell everything that happened at the Manor yesterday night to Ryan, Kim and Max at Math. Unluckily for her, the teacher saw them and smirked evilly at the five of them.
"Miss Halliwell" she called out and Phoebe looked in her direction. "How about you explain the rest of the theory I was talking about from the beginning of the class?"
"What should I? I mean, your job is to teach, right?" Phoebe replied. She was so not in the mood that day, and this stupid teacher really drove her nuts. "You get paid for it, not me."
"That is correct, Miss. Halliwell. But, it's your job to listen to what I'm saying instead of having a little chit-chat with your friends over there. You can chat with them after class."
"I don't have the time after class. Besides, rain's pourin' everyday. I don't wanna catch cold." Phoebe explained coldly.
"Oh, but you do have a time to kiss with that guy from the senior year on the rain? Weren't you thinking about catching cold then?" the teacher smirked evilly.
"Will is my boyfriend, it's a normal thing to kiss him after school."
Teacher smirked again. "No, my dear. I wasn't talking about William Hill. I was talking about that new Turner guy."
Phoebe jumped up from her chair. "Oh, so you couldn't wait for me to come to your class, so you would hear the rumor from me personally, ha?"she yelled. "Well, I'm so sorry to disappoint you." she grabbed her schoolbag, turned on her heel and left the classroom.
She leaned onto a corridor wall and took a deep breath to come down. Than she heard footsteps coming from her right. She turned her head around and met Cole's deep blue eyes. At once, all the fury she felt for him ran into her head. "Come any closer and I don't respond." she snapped.
But, Cole didn't smile, as usual. He stared at her. "Phoebe, look at me." he said quickly.
"No." Phoebe replied and kept staring in front of her.
"Look at me." Cole repeated.
"No." Phoebe replied again.
Cole sighed heavily. He walked over to her and put his hand under her chin, forcing her to look at him. His look settled on the bruise on her left cheekbone. "Who did that?" he asked angrily.
"Nobody." Phoebe replied coldly. "And if you don't let me go…"
"Who did that?" Cole cut her off and repeated his question again.
"I said nobody! I hit the post while walking home from school yesterday." Phoebe lied.
"Phoebe, you were going home with taxi yesterday." Cole said annoyed. "Please, tell me who did that to you. Who hurt you?"
"For your information, this bruise is your fault. Everything that happened to me in past week is your fault." Phoebe said in desperate attempt to escape Cole's grasp. She failed, though.
"Phoebe, please tell me what bastard had the heart to do this to you? I swear, I'll…"
"You won't lay one finger on Will!" Phoebe yelled and bit her lip when she realized what she said.
Cole's eyes widened. "So, that son of a bitch dared to him you just because we kissed. Ah, so now I get it why he didn't appear at school today. Well, he'll have to show up sooner or later…"
Phoebe grabbed Cole's hands and looked deep into his eyes. "Cole, please, don't hurt him. He didn't mean to hit me, it was an accident. Please, don't hurt him."
Cole just stared back at Phoebe. He felt an unbearable desire to hug her and to tell her that she'll be safe with him forever. He wanted to let her know just how much he cared about her. So, he slowly wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed the top of her head gently. Phoebe smiled lightly and closed her eyes. She really missed someone being so gentle to her.
At that moment, Will walked in the corridor that Phoebe and Cole were in. He saw them hugging and his blood began to boil. But, what hurt him the most was the expression on Phoebe's face. She seemed calm and completely in peace with Turner's arms around her. "Wow, I can clearly see how much you missed me, Phoebe." he snapped and Phoebe shot her eyes open and looked at her boyfriend. "And I was stupid enough to come and look for you to apologize…"
"No, Will…" Phoebe started.
"So, you think that the apologize can make that bruise go away?" Cole asked and let go of Phoebe. Him and Will were staring into each other's eyes furiously.
"Well, your stupid hug certainly can't, either." Will replied in the same tone as Cole.
"Just for your information, bastard, Phoebe is a girl. And a guy who had at least a little bit of respect for that girl would NEVER hit her. Never!"
"So, you already told him everything, didn't you?" Will looked at Phoebe angrily.
"Will, please, listen to me…" Phoebe tried to talk to her boyfriend.
"And you ran into his arms on the spot." Will continued. "Of course, I forgot how original he is."
"I repeat, Phoebe is a girl and she needs for someone to treat her right and to be gentle to her. No matter how strong you might think she is, she needs to feel safe once in a while." Cole said. "Gentleness and safety is, sadly, something that you can't offer her."
"And you can?" Will yelled.
"Better than you, certainly." Cole replied.
Phoebe watched the scene and became more and more aware that, in spite of the fact that she was the main cause of this fight, she could do absolutely nothing to stop Will and Cole from fighting.
At one moment, the guys were glaring at each other furiously and in the next, they started fighting. Phoebe's eyes widened as she ran to where they were fighting and grabbed both of them by arm. "Listen to me, you idiots!" she yelled. "If you two don't stop fighting like NOW, you have no idea how short you're gonna remain in this school!"
Though she thought it wont, her threat worked. Will and Cole broke apart. Will seemed pretty much okay, and Cole's bottom lip was was bleeding. They had killing glances in their eyes.
Phoebe turned to Will. "Now, you're gonna listen to me, William!" she started furiously. "First of all, I didn't tell any part of the discussion we had to Turner, he guessed it on his own. Second of all, you have no right to get angry at me, 'cause right now I have the huge bruise on my face because of you. Third of all, I do need a guy that's gonna be gentle to me once in a while!"
Will looked at his girlfriend softly. "Phoebe, I'm so sorry, I…" he started.
"I'll think about it." Phoebe cut him off. "Now get out of here, I so sick and tired of you for today." she said and turned around.
Cole finally took his gaze off of Will and back to the girl he loved that was glaring at him furiously.
"Phoebe, if this bastard…" Will started before he left.
"OUT, WILL!" Phoebe screamed.
In that moment, the Math teacher got out of her classroom and saw something very unusual (from where she was standing). Furious Phoebe was standing between Cole (whose bottom lip was bleeding) and Will who both had the killing look on their faces. She cleared her throat.
"Miss Halliwell, be so kind and explain what was that screaming and yelling all about." she said.
"That is something private between Will, Cole and me." Phoebe replied.
"Well, you can either explain, or go visit the headmaster…"
"Don't threaten her!" Will and Cole yelled at the teacher in the same time. Poor woman just crossed her arms with the look of angry child and marched back into her classroom (without forgetting to slam the door behind her).
"Go, Will." Phoebe said. "Go back home, before somebody sees you here. Tomorrow, you can say that you were sick."
Will nodded at Phoebe, shot another killing glance at Cole and left the corridor.
"Phoebe…" Cole started to break the silence between them.
"You shut up, as well." Phoebe snapped. "You're not any better than him. And whatever you had to say… save it."
"I was gonna ask you if you have a tissue." Cole said simply.
Phoebe looked at him and realized that his bottom lip was bleeding more and more with each second. She walked over to him and took a cottonwool out of her pocket. She gently pressed it against Cole's lip.
Cole closed his eyes when he felt Phoebe's warm fingers on his lips. Than he opened them again and lost himself in his eyes that were studying him closely. "Where did you get that?" he asked.
Phoebe realized that Cole was talking about the cottonwool. "Huh… It's not like you're the first guy that had the fight with the other one because of me." Phoebe explained.
"May I ask you a question?" Cole asked. "But you have to answer to me truthfully."
"I'll do my best.
"What did you feel when Will and I just had a fight?" Cole asked. "I mean, while we were fighting… what did you feel exactly?"
"I wasn't glad, if that's what you mean." Phoebe replied. "I was pretty annoyed and… well, I didn't wanna see Will hurt."
Cole nodded and looked at her a bit disappointedly.
"I didn't wanna see you hurt, either." Phoebe said to cheer Cole up. "Really. I never wish for anyone to be hurt. I'm not that evil."
Cole gently touched her cheek, but Phoebe pushed his hand aside. "You're not evil at all. You're just afraid to feel."
Phoebe shook her head. "No, I'm not. The fact that I don't feel anything for you doesn't mean I'm afraid to feel."
"Oh, but you are afraid to feel." Cole insisted. But, don't worry – I'm gonna help you find your way through that fear. You're gonna fall for me, Phoebe. Sooner or later."
Phoebe smirked ironically. "I seriously doubt that." she said.
Cole's smile grew wider.
"What?" Phoebe asked when she saw Cole smiling.
"Well, when I told you on Monday that you'll be in love with me, you said something like 'no way'. Now, you said 'I doubt that'. I think I'm getting warmer."
Phoebe rolled her eyes. She wasn't sharing Cole's opinion at all. She still wasn't feeling a single thing for him. "Well, I think you're getting colder." she said.
"We'll see, Phoebe." Cole said. "We'll see…"
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