Chapter 17-Telling The Truth To Mom.

Parker woke up to Potter and Phoenix's giggles coming from the nursery. She smiles and gets out of bed and walks to the door, out into the hall, and over to the scene of the cheerfulness. She peeks in and smiles when she sees Potter and Phoenix sitting in Phoenix's crib playing together with some toys that they had odviously orbed from their toybox. Phoenix looks over at her and smiles and reaches a tiny hand up toward Parker telling her to come join the fun. Parker walks over to the crib, "Hey babies. How did you get in here?" she asks indicating Potter, who just looks up at her, smiles, and offers her a toy block that he was playing with. She smiles and ruffles his blonde curls, "No that's OK baby. You can play with it."

She looks over and sees Phoenix chewing on her bottom lip, "Aww, Hungry sweetheart?" she asks picking her up. She then gets startled as she sees another pair of hands reach in to pick up Potter. She looks over to see her mother holding her son up in the air and making funny faces at him as he giggles innocently at her.

Parker smiles and waits for Piper to rest Potter on her hip before she set out for the kitchen. "So, how are you this morning?" Piper asks as she puts Potter in his high-chair and straps him in.

"Good, better then I was yesturday." Parker says as she makes a bottle for Phoenix and hands it to her. "What did you do yesturday?"

"Well..." Piper started. She described the details of her babysitting job yesturday with Potter and Phoenix. "What did you do yesturday?"

Parker visibly stiffened. She couldn't tell her mom that she had gotten high and cut herself. "Just went to a friends' house." Not a lie, Jake is a friend, not a very good influencial friend but a friend none-the-less.

"Parker..." Piper said in a warning tone. She knew Parker was leaving something important out of the story. "Sweetie, If you want me to help you, you have to be honest with me. I know you well enough to know that your leaving out just a tid bit. I want you to tell me what happened yesturday." At Parker's worried look she adds, "Sweetie, I love you. You can tell me anything."

"Your gonna be so disappointed with me." Parker tells her not being able to look into her mother's eyes.

"Tell me what happened Parker. I need to know."

"I went to a friends house and..." She stopped when her mom stood up and took her hand and lead her into the dining room.

"OK, I don't know what you did at that friends house but i could tell by the tone in your voice that it wasn't something the children needed to hear." Piper said firmly taking a seat across from Parker at the dining room table. "OK, continue."

"I just visited an old friend who helped me forget my problems." Parker says shrugging her shoulders.

"Parker, What did you do?" Piper asks suspiciously.

"He helped me get high OK?" she screams and runs up to her room before her mom can say anything else.

Piper sat in shock, her eyes wide, and mouth hanging slitely open, trying to process what her daughter just yelled at her. High? Parker got high. That's not my Parker. That's not the way I raised her. she thought. Then, Potter started crying and it snapped Piper out of her trance-like state. She slowly got up and walked into the kitchen and bent down to their level. "Umm...Can you two orb yourselves to your room and play with your toys?" They orbed up to the nursery and Piper started up to Parker's room to talk to her.

Sorry about the really short chapter. I'm having a sort of writers block on this story. Thanks Jess for the help.