Chapter 5.2 – Friendly Interrogation
Andy looked at Cole, who still stood in the doorway, an amused look on his face as he remembered the problems cooking had caused them the day before. Now, that it was over and everyone was no longer mad, he could look at it with amusement, even though just the day before it had caused so much trouble and had almost been the last straw that would've caused sister to permanently reject sister.
Cole saw Andy looking at him with amusement. Though he didn't know for sure, he could imagine that Andy's thoughts were on the same incident from yesterday that his were. After all, it was pretty much the only experience that the two had in common that would cause amusement. Well, other than Andy pouring water over his head yesterday, but Cole didn't really think that was funny. He walked around the table to where Phoebe was and took the chair two over from Piper, so that Phoebe could sit next to her sister, as he knew she would want.
Piper turned around in her seat and hugged her baby sister. "Oh, I know that, Phoebs. Believe me, I know that." She looked across the table at where Prue was sitting down, between Andy on her right and Leo at the head of the table to Prue's left. "I have the best sisters in the whole world."
"So does that mean that I have the best half-sisters in the whole world?" Paige queried with a quirky smile. "After all I know I have the best parents in the whole world."
Prue looked at her feeling uneasy. She was getting to like Paige and wanted her as a friend, but the whole half-sister thing was still just too weird.
Phoebe sank down into the chair immediately to Piper's left. She looked over Cole, to where Paige sat at the head of the table opposite Leo. She liked Paige, too, but she was slightly more receptive to the idea of Paige as her half-sister, now that she knew that Paige wouldn't try to usurp her as the baby of the family. She grinned as she nodded. "Yep. That most certainly does mean you have the best half-sisters in the whole world."
"Sisters," Piper stated firmly. "Half-sisters sounds like some one cut us into pieces."
Paige laughed. "Well, we can't have that."
"It's certainly a new concept," Piper admitted, "but it is all or nothing, and I see no point in denying it if we are to be friends." She grinned. "And considering you are my husband's charges now, I should hope we shall be friends."
Paige looked at her for a moment before nodding. "Agreed."
Phoebe grinned happily, but Prue kept her silence. The others were so wrapped up in their conversation they didn't notice, although both Andy and Leo did.
"So I would like to hear about you three," Piper told the Matthewses. "What do you do for a living? Do you live here in San Francisco or in one of the surrounding towns? Do you . . ?"
Leo put his hand on his wife's arm. "Slow down, Piper. They can only one question at a time."
Piper gave him a sheepish look. "I guess I am just very curious. For two and a half decades it's just been the three of us and suddenly we have learned that we actually have another sister. She has her own family, but I want her to be part of ours, too. To top that off, they are all to be your charges, so I am curious." She looked over at John, Mary, and Paige. "Do you mind telling us a bit about yourselves?"