A/N: I don't own charmed.
About a month after Piper and Leo went to Florida to see Leo's parents, his parents moved to San Francisco. It was now the beginning of September, and the night before Laura's first day of kindergarten.
" Mommy, I want to go now." Laura said, as Piper tucked her into her blankets to go to sleep.
" Tomorrow morning will come soon enough." Piper said. " Just close your eyes, and it'll be morning before you know it."
" Mommy, can you tell daddy to come here?" Laura asked her. " I wanna say good night to him."
" Sure." Piper said. She bent down, kissed Laura's forehead, and then left the room.
" She wants to say good night to you." She told Leo, as she walked into their bedroom. He was sitting in bed reading a book. " She wont go to sleep, she's so excited.
" I don't blame her." Leo said, putting his book to the side. " It's an exciting day for her tomorrow. I'll be right back." He got out of bed, and left the room, making his way to Laura's bedroom.
" Hey, Princess." He said, as he walked into her room. She was sitting up in her bed, obviously waiting for him.
" Hi, Daddy." She said, as Leo sat down on her bed. He pulled her blankets off of her, and pulled her onto his lap. She made herself comfortable, and rested her head against his chest.
" Mommy told me you can't fall asleep, because you're so excited about kindergarten tomorrow." He said, smoothing her hair out.
" I want to go now." Laura said.
" Well, tomorrow you can go." Leo told her. " School isn't open right now. You need to sleep right now so that you can be wide awake tomorrow for school."
" You'll wake me up as soon as tomorrow comes, right?" she said, looking at him.
Leo nodded. " Of course." He said. " Now go to sleep."
" Okay." She said. " Night, daddy." Leo placed her back onto her bed, and pulled the covers back over her.
" Night sweet heart." He said, and kissed her forehead.
He turned out her lamp, and the room was dark. He carefully made his way to the door, and left the room, closing the door behind him.
" She's asleep." He told Piper, as he walked into their bedroom. She was now in her pajamas, and getting into bed.
" Thank you." Piper said, as Leo got into bed next to her. " She just can't wait to go."
" Well, she's asleep." Leo said. " So now we can talk."
" About…."
" Very soon is our second anniversary." He said.
" It is." Piper smiled. " It seems like yesterday that it was our first."
Leo nodded. " Well, I was thinking we could go to the Jersey Shore for a few days…alone. My parents offered to take the kids."
" When do we leave?" Piper said, excitedly. A few days alone with Leo would be great.
" Well I set everything up with my parents already." Leo said. " And we leave two days after our anniversary. On a Friday, so we have Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday."
" That sounds absolutely perfect."
" Good, because I think so, too." Leo smiled at her, and leaned in to kiss her.
" I love you." She said.
" Love you, too."
Leo leaned over, and turned out the light from the lamp that was lighting the room. They both fell asleep within the next few minutes.
The next morning, Leo woke up at seven thirty. He looked beside him to see that Piper had already gotten up. Deciding he should too, he got out of bed. First he checked on Laura, and she was still sleeping. She would be up in the next fifteen minutes, Leo knew.
Next he went down stairs to find Piper sitting at the table drinking a cup of coffee. Tyler was next to her in his highchair, drinking a bottle. He was wearing a light blue shirt and dark blue pans. The shirt had a dark blue train on the front.
" Morning." He said, as he walked in.
" Morning." Piper said, smiling at him.
" Dada!" Tyler cried. " Dada!"
" Hi, buddy." Leo said, going up to Tyler. " You get a good night sleep."
He lifted Tyler out of his high chair, and sat down next to Piper. Tyler continued to drink from his bottle.
" Laura will be up soon." Leo said to Piper. " You want me to get her ready?"
" I'll do that." Piper aid. " Just make sure her lunch is all together for school."
" No problem." Leo said.
" Thanks." Piper said, and went to start to get Laura ready for her first day of school.
" I've got to make your sister's lunch." Leo said to Tyler. " So I'm going to put you back in your high chair."
Tyler nodded, and Leo put him back into the highchair. Leo then went to go make Laura's lunch. He made her favorite, which was ham and cheese on a roll. Leo figured he'd make her favorite lunch so she'd have an even better first day of school. He put the sandwich, a juice box, and a pack of cookies into Laura's Barbie lunch box to complete the lunch. After he finished, he put it the lunchbox into her backpack that was next to the kitchen table.
Soon Laura came down with Piper all dressed up, and ready to go to school.
" How do I look, Daddy?" Laura asked Leo, as she twirled around in her new blue denim dress. Her pigtails swirled around as she turned.
" You look beautiful." Leo told her. " So pretty."
" I picked it out." She informed him.
" Great choice." Leo said. " Are you all ready to go to school?"
" Yep." Laura said, picking up her backpack from beside the table.
" Good, because I made your lunch." Leo told her. " It's ham and cheese on a roll and it's in your backpack."
" Thank you, daddy." Laura said.
" The bus should be here soon." Piper said to Laura." Daddy and I are going to walk you to the bus stop now, okay?"
" Is Tyler going to come?" Laura asked.
" He sure is." Leo said, taking Tyler out of his highchair. " Let's go."
They left, and walked down the street to the bus stop.
" I want you to meet lots of new friends, sweetie." Piper told Laura, as they waited for the bus to come. " And I'll be right here to get you with Daddy and Tyler after school."
For the kindergarteners, school was only until twelve for the first three days, so the kids could get used to going to regular school, and not just pre-school.
" Remember, sweetie." Leo said. " You're on blue bus." Laura's school had color busses for kindergarteners instead of the numbers they gave to the rest of the grades. Each bus had a number and a color.
" I remember, Daddy." Laura said.
Just then, the bus came around the corner.
" There's the bus!" Laura said, excitedly. The bus stopped in front of them, and the doors opened. " Bye Mommy, Daddy, and Tyler."
" Bye, sweetie." Piper and Leo said, as Laura climbed onto the bus. Tyler waved his arm at her.
" Bye Tyler." Laura said, before going further onto the bus to find a seat.
" I feel like she's going off to college." Piper said, leaning her head against Leo's shoulder as they walked home. Leo was holding Tyler as they walked.
" Honey, we've got quite a lot of years before she goes off to college." Leo reminded her. " She's five."
" Yeah, and she was just three." Piper said, as they walked up the front path of their house. "Now she's five. I'll blink and she'll be fifteen."
" I know." Leo said, opening the front door for her. She walked in, and he walked in behind her.
" Before I know it, Tyler will be in school."
" Well, lets take it a day at a time." Leo said. " He's a year old."
" Good plan." Piper said.
" Listen, I was thinking maybe I could take Laura to the park later, and you and Tyler can spend some time together." Leo said. " Laura would like that, because we haven't been to the park in a while just the two of us."
" Sounds good." Piper said. " Right now, I have to go grocery shopping. You want to come and help?"
" I'd be happy to help." Leo said.
They left, and went to Stop and Shop.
" I'm going to go get milk and eggs." Piper told Leo when they got a cart. " Can you get cereal and get a big box along with individual little boxes to give to your parents for Laura when we go away?"
" Okay." Leo said. He had Tyler in the cart in front of him.
" Also snacks for after school." Piper added.
Leo nodded, and went in search of the cereal aisle. He finally found it, and went down the aisle. As he got closer to the cereal, he saw someone he knew.
" Hi, Phoebes." He said. It was Piper's sister Phoebe.
" Hi, Leo." She said. " Here with Piper?"
Leo nodded. " Yeah." He said.
" I'm here with Paige." Phoebe said. " She's going on a trip with her friends this weekend, so we're shopping. She's getting stuff for tacos right now, and I'm getting cereal."
" She and Piper will probably run into each other in the produce section." Leo said.
" When Paige gets sour cream or cheese."
" So how're you doing?" Phoebe asked him.
" Fine." Leo said. " Why?"
" Leo…" Phoebe said. " Your little girl just went off to kindergarten today."
Leo sighed. " I'm doing okay." He said. " It's hard, but I'll be okay. Piper was upset this morning, but she's okay too."
" Fee Fee." Tyler babbled from the kiddie seat of the cart.
" Well, hello there Tyler." Phoebe smiled at her nephew. "You miss your sister, too?"
" Yeah, he does." Leo said. " He even waved to her when she got onto the bus."
" That's adorable."
" Look who I found." Piper's voice came from behind them. They turned around to see Piper walking towards them, with Paige behind her.
" Look who I found, too." Leo said.
" Well, hello there." Piper said to Phoebe. She took Tyler out of the cart, and put him onto one of her hips.
" So Leo's parents are taking the kids in two weeks." Paige said. " And you two are going to the Jersey Shore alone?"
" That's right." Leo said. Phoebe and Paige smiled.
" Leo and I need some time together." Piper told them." Alone just the two of us so we can reconnect."
Phoebe smirked. " Well we've got to go." She said. " Paige has got to get ready for her trip."
" Yeah, that's me." Paige said. " I wait until the last minute. I still have to get all the food I bought from today and yesterday together."
" Well, we'll let you get to that." Piper said. " I'll call you guys later, okay?"
" See ya." Paige said, and they left.
Soon Piper and Leo were finished getting everything they needed, and went home. By the time they got home, it was ten fifteen.
At twelve, Piper and Leo went down to the bus stop with Tyler to wait for Laura's bus. Fifteen minutes later, the bus came around the corner, and stopped in front of them. Laura came down the steps of the bus first out of all the kids.
" Mommy!" she cried, running towards them. " Daddy!"
" Princess." Leo said, lifting her into his arms. Tyler giggled from Piper's arms. " How was kindergarten?"
" It was great, daddy." She told him. " I even made a new friend. Her name is Megan."
" That's great sweetheart." Piper said, as they started to walk home.
" My teacher's name is Miss Keynan." Laura went on to tell them. " She gave this to me so she could remember my name." She pointed to a nametag that was pinned to her dress. It read ' Laura Wyatt'. It also had blue and pink butterflies on it.
" How pretty." Piper said. " So what did you do today?"
" Well first we sat in a circle and told everyone our name. Then we told everyone something about ourselves."
They got up to their house, and went inside. Laura threw her backpack on the couch from Leo's arms, as they walked into the living room.
" Megan dances just like me."
" How nice." Piper said. " I'm glad you made a new friend."
" So, Laura." Leo said. "I was thinking that maybe we could go to the park, you know like we used to?"
" Yay!" Laura cried. " Let's go!"
" Piper will you be okay if we go now?" Leo said, looking at his wife.
Piper nodded. " Go to lunch, too." She said. " Tyler and I are going to go to the restaurant."
" Well, okay then." Leo said. " Have a nice afternoon."
Leo leaned in, and gave her a kiss.
" Bye." Piper said, with a smile.
Once Leo left, Piper looked at Tyler, who was still in her arms.
" Momma's got a lot to do at the restaurant." She told him, as if he could really understand. " But we'll have fun."
When Piper entered the restaurant, her head manger, Bailey, was sitting by the bar, writing something down on a pad of paper.
" Hey Bailey." Piper said, surprised to see her there. "I didn't know you were going to come in today."
" I wasn't supposed to." Bailey said. " But I decided to come in. When I got here there were two boxes by the door."
" Okay." Piper said. She looked at the floor by the bar to see two boxes. "Those are probably the new wine glasses."
" I think they are." Bailey said. " Listen, I'll be fine here alone."
" Are you sure?" Piper said.
" Yeah." Bailey said. " You were here all day yesterday with shipment on top of shipment. Spend some time with your family."
" Maybe I'll take Tyler home and we can spend some time together." Piper said. " Leo and Laura went to the park and to lunch together."
" Didn't she go to her first day of school today?" Bailey said, and looked at her watch. " It's only quarter to one."
Piper nodded. "The first three days of school are half days for kindergarteners." She said. " So Leo figured he'd spend some time with her."
" That's so nice." Bailey said. " Well, go home and spend some time with the little guy."
Piper smiled. " Thanks, Bailey." She said.
" No problem."
Piper went home with Tyler, and took him into the playroom.
" What do you wanna play with, Ty?" she said, sitting down on the floor with him in front of her.
Tyler pointed to a book that was on the floor next to them. Piper looked at it to see that it was the Farm Animals book.
"Animals" Piper said. " Good choice." She opened the book, and Tyler rested against her ready to listen.
The first page had a cow on it.
" This is Carla." Piper read from the book. " She's a cow. She says ' Moo'."
Piper turned the page, and they saw a duck.
" That's Danny." Piper said. " He's a duck, and he says ' quack."
Tyler smiled, and pointed to the book.
" Wanna see who's next?" she said.
Tyler nodded. Piper turned the page to see a puppy.
" That's Penny the beagle." Piper told him. " She's a doggy. See her tail? She says 'ruff ruff'."
Piper went on to read the book with Tyler until he was so relaxed that he fell asleep. It was right around his naptime, anyway. When Piper saw that he fell asleep, she carried him up to his bedroom, and put him into his crib to take his nap.
" Sweet dreams, angel." Piper said, kissing his forehead. She turned out the lights, leaving his night light on, and left the room.
Even though the day had been somewhat tough with Laura and school, it wasn't as tough as she had thought it would be.
A/N: please review. I will update a.s.a.p.
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