A.N.: This chapter is dedicated to pitaC89 for being the first to review last chapter. I would like to give special thanks to Petites sorcieres for reviewing to every chapter. And again, I'm sorry for the long wait, I've been really busy lately.

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters that will be mentioned here.

Summary: "On the bright side, he's only one. He's not going to remember it." One birthday party leads into another, which leads into his family missing everything. Now that he's sixteen, Chris is feeling the pain…and letting it out the only way he can.

pitaC89: No, I don't think Prue could orb Piper into a thermal vent at the bottom of the ocean, sorry.

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Kitty-Witty-Kate: Yes, Piper is very mean.

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Nikki4u: Kill Piper? Hmmm…maybe…

Didaskaleinophobia: Yes, Prue is Chris's whitelighter, there's more on her in this chapter. And thanks, a lot.

Just Y: Actually, I never really like Prue much either, but she fits well in here, so she stays.

maliaphire: Piper doesn't want Chris to have powers, she wants Chris to be mortal, almost like he wasn't her son.

PrudencePiperHalliwell: Thanks Nik!

Allen Pitt: As I've said before, Piper is the matriarch of the family, for most things, whatever she says goes. And the sisters and Leo didn't go along with the power striping potion, Piper gave it to Chris as juice. And Piper doesn't put Chris up for adoption because Leo won't let her. And yeah, it really is a good thing that the teacher hadn't seen the stab wound.

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Salcyra: They're mean to Chris because Piper doesn't like him. You'll find out more as the story continues.

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Forgotten Birthdays

Being Older Means You're Smarter

(Chris's POV)

I'm now sixteen. It's been ten years since the day I met Prue. Ten Years since the day I found myself. Wyatt told me after that Prue was our aunt and had died about four years before I was even born. He told me that she could orb, so that meant she was our whitelighter.

One day, when I was by myself in the house, Prue came to visit me. She told me about herself. She said that she was my aunt. She was older than my mom and Aunt Phoebe and Aunt Paige, but she had died before they all knew that Paige was even alive. A demon named Shax had killed her. Her death made my mother go into a fury, literally. She said that she hadn't been made a whitelighter until I was born. So, Wyatt was right in most of what he said. There was just one exception: Prue was my whitelighter, not Wyatt's.

There's something else though. Something else I haven't mentioned. I haven't spoken a word since that day. It haunts me still, me being stabbed by a demon and my mother willing to watch me die. I called out for her that day, but she didn't help me, Prue came, she helped me. So, I haven't spoken. Not even to Prue, the person who has helped me the most in the world.

I had mentioned before that I had a friend named James, well, after I stopped talking, he joined the popular crowd. You know, the one that makes fun of the people like me. I did make another friend, a girl named Melanie, although, she would kill anyone who called her that. Everyone had to call her Mel. We became best friends the second she moved into the house across the street when we were eight. That did mean that I had about two years of torture from my family, but Mel made it worth it. Even though I wouldn't talk, she always seemed to know what I was thinking and feeling. We have been in all the same classes and everything for two reasons. One: She was the only one who could tell what I was thinking and answer the teachers' questions when they called me. Two: If we weren't put in the same classes together, we would end up playing pranks and getting in massive amounts of trouble until they put us in the classes together.

Now, about my home life. I went from sharing a room with Wyatt to the basement. I'm not indicating that the basement is a bad place, it just gets cold and drafty sometimes. When it does, I just sneak out of the house and go to Mel's house. Her parents understand especially after Mel explained to them what had happened to me. (I had written it down one time and she read it. She cried not even a few sentences in.) Her parents treat me like I'm their own son. Wyatt is graduating from high school this at the end of this year. I don't even want to think about what will happen when he goes away to college. My mom, Piper as I like to call her now, doesn't even know I won't speak. After the thing with Aunt Prue, she's ignored me. She hasn't even spared me a glance when I interrupt their dinner.

Yesterday at school, a friend of Wyatt's said that he was going to beat me up at school today. Even if I somehow got Wyatt to know this, he wouldn't care. Mel knows, she begged me not to go to school today. She said that Piper would never notice and I could stay at her house for the day. But I have to face my fears. I never told Mel about me being a witch at one point in my life, I think that she might have freaked if I told her, but if I get hurt Aunt Prue will help me. She's not technically supposed to be my whitelighter because I technically don't have any powers, but the Elders said I had to be protected. Aunt Prue won't tell me any more than that.

So, I went to school. And yes, Wyatt's friend did try to hurt me. But I did worse to him. He went to the Nurse with a broken jaw, a bleeding nose, and a broken wrist. Wyatt did confront me after school.

"Why the hell did you beat up Ray?" He pushed me against the wall and held my shoulders pinned there.

I looked him right in the eye and didn't say anything. Mel looked like she was trying to intervene, but I gave her a look that said if-you-even-dare-get-in-the-middle-I-will-never-forgive-myself. "Huh, answer me?"

Mel gave me a puppy-dog eye look that I can never say no to and said to Wyatt, "He doesn't talk. You should know that. And he only beat up your friend because your friend was going to hurt Chris."

"Mel, can you do us both a favor and stay out of this?" As much time as I spend over at Mel's house, she probably spends more at mine. She told me once that it was to make sure that I never got hurt like I had before and to make sure that my family was nice to me.

She put her angry face on and shoved Wyatt off me and screamed, "No, I won't let you hurt him! You and your bitch of a mother have hurt him more than I can allow."

Wyatt touched her lightly on the arm and whispered quietly, "You're a witch. Why did you never tell us?"

Mel looked at me sadly and said, "Chris, I'm so sorry for not telling you! The Elders and Prue thought-"

I didn't wait for her explanation, I ran. My best friend, the one I trusted more than anyone else in the world had betrayed me. And the Elders and Prue had been in on it too. There's something that they're not telling me, and I bet it's something that's going to kill me.

A.N.: Sorry for the long wait, I haven't been able to get on the computer for ages. It had sucked. Anyway, can you please review to tell me how you liked the chapter?