San Francisco
As Paige stomped down the stairs she could see Piper's annoyance wash over her face. "Sorry." She uttered.
"Don't say sorry to me! Say sorry to your nephews. They want to spend time with their favorite Aunt." Just looking at the kids Paige knew they'd rather be elsewhere.
Picking up Chris, Paige said, "Seems like mommy needs some alone time."
Ignoring Paige's comment, Piper kissed her boys goodbye. "Be good."
Grandview
Skimming through her newspaper, Melinda enjoyed her usual cup of mocha.
"Long time no see."
"Ned!" She said twirling around in her seat.
Ned, Melinda's best friend's son sat across from her. Now that he was in college, Melinda rarely saw him, or heard from him for that matter.
"So how's school?"
"Pretty great." Several minutes went by, "actually, I was hoping to run into you."
"Really?"
"Yeah, Mom's birthday is coming up and I thought we could do something. Ya know something kind of special."
Melinda thought about all the possibilities. All her thoughts swarmed though her head. She decided to think about it later when she had the time. For now she wanted to listen to Ned's ideas. "What did you have in mind?"
"A surprise party, but I don't know where. That's where you come in."
"You want to have the party at my place?"
"That would be awesome!" His watch started beeping, annoying the people around them, "Hey, I have to go, but I'll email you soon." He gathered up his laptop and hoodie and left.
San Francisco
"Don't touch that!" Paige exclaimed swatting at Wyatt's hand.
"I want it!"
She shook her head. "Personally buddy, I'd love to spoil you rotten, but the last time I bought you candy your mommy had a hissy fit!"
Wyatt cringed at the thought. "Exactly!"
Paige thought the boys would have liked to go to the library and look at picture books. If she thought the boys were going to be angels, she was terribly mistaken, they were loud and obnoxious. Soon they were kicked out of the library, so Paige came up with a different plan. She drove to the nearest toy store, why, she had no idea. But, here the boys could yell and scream all they want. Somehow, Wyatt and Chris both talked her into buying Lincoln Logs, and a ball.
"Sweet! Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots!" Not paying any attention to Wyatt or Chris, Paige played with one of her childhood toy.
After about ten minutes Paige remembered why it wasn't one of her favorite toys, the stupid heads wouldn't stay down! Giving up, she turned around noticing the boys were nowhere in sight.
"Crap." She said under her breath.
Frantically she ran to the next aisle, hoping they were there. But, of course she only saw Chris, play with a Barbie. "There you are!"
She scooped up Chris and hastily put him in the cart. Now, to find Wyatt. Aisle, after aisle she searched but he was nowhere to be found. Before she could search the whole store, her feet started to tire. C'mon! She thought, I can outrun demons but I can't walk around a whole store!
On her way into the store she noticed a pair of benches right inside of the store. Good, she thought, I'll sit there for a couple of minutes.
As she sat on the bench she played though all the situations in her head. Kidnapped? No. she thought, force field, duh! As Paige sat there thinking about all the possibilities, someone tapped her on the shoulder, startled she turned around. "Excuse me, but I found this little boy wandering around by himself. I can't find his mother and…"
Before he could finish, Wyatt ran into Paige's lap. Paige hugged him and never wanted to let him out of her sight again. After she finished smothering the poor boy, she thanked the man. The very handsome man. They both talked for five to ten minutes. Paige found out that he was an EMT in town for a convention, and his name was Jim Clancy. Damn! She thought, he's one of those perfect people!
Headed for the manor, she turned out of the parking lot. The car came out of nowhere, Paige knew it was too late to get out of the way. Paige ordered Wyatt to orb him and his brother out of the car. Wyatt hesitated, "NOW!" This time he did as his aunt asked. Unfortunately, Paige wasn't as lucky.