"Dad?" Parker said walking into her house. "Dad?"
A pink heart appeared in front of her. "Hi cupcake, what do you need?" Coop asked his middle daughter.
"Advice" Parker exasperated as she sunk into a chair.
"Ok advice on what?" Coop asked sitting beside her.
"I want to help Mel, but I don't know how. She just is so miserable Dad" Parker explained.
"Honey, Mel just had something terrible happen to her. She needs time to heal. She needs to do this on her own" Coop explained.
"That's not good enough for me. If I have powers of both a witch and a cupid, why can't I magically heal her heart? What good is any of it if I can't help the ones I love" Parker asked as she started to cry.
"Sweetie, it's okay" Coop said as he put his arm around his daughter. "It's not that easy. Love is complicated; it's not something that you can fix with a spell. Mel has to mend her heart herself" Coop tried to explain to his upset daughter.
"But it's not fair. She doesn't deserve this" Parker exclaimed as the tears rolled down her cheek.
"Listen Parker, if you really want to help Mel make her remember why she loved being in love. Get her out of the house, inspire her to start designing again, get her to love herself first" Coop said to Parker.
"Thanks dad. I'll just have to start small and hope that will start helping her. I just can't stand to see her sad like this, her feelings hurt me" Parker said.
"I know it's tough cupcake, but you will see that by helping Mel you will help yourself too" Coop said. "Are you alright?"
"Yea dad, I think I'm going to go rally the troops and start brainstorming" Parker said as she wiped away a few stray tears and standing up.
"Good luck sweetie" Coop said as his daughter hearted out of the room.
Parker appeared in the attic. "Alright people let's go Operation: Help Mel is underway."
Chris appeared in a flurry of orbs followed shortly by Henry Jr., Hope, and Wyatt. Finally a pink heart appeared leaving behind Peyton.
"Where are Portia and Faith?" Parker asked.
"I don't know, haven't seen them all day" Hope replied.
"Well we can at least get started and fill them in later" Parker started. "We need to start getting Mel out of this funk. She needs to start getting back into a routine and she needs to start living life again."
"Ok, how do you propose we start doing this?" Bianca asked.
"We need to start small, get her mind off of things. Getting her out of bed would be a start. What would excite her enough to at least get dressed?" Parker asked.
"A birthday party" Wyatt said.
"And that would work except we don't have any birthday parties to plan right now" H.J. replied.
"Yes, but we could make one up" Wyatt said.
"Let's put that idea on the back burner. What else could we do?" Parker asked.
"Portia had said there is a school dance tonight at Magic School, we could ask Uncle Leo if he could make Mel chaperone?" Peyton suggested.
"I think magic needs to stay out of this first time outing. Magic is sort of what put her here" Wyatt said.
"What if we just tell her we all want to go out for dinner or drinks or coffee?" Chris proposed.
"She would know we are just trying to make her feel better. Come on people how difficult is it to get someone out of bed?" Parker questioned.
"Let's just pour a box of kittens on her. She will either be happy because they are cute, or the tiny scratches will force her out of bed" H.J. joked.
"Come on H.J. we need to be serious about this" Peyton said.
"Fine, let me handle this one. I'll get her up and about; you guys get some camping equipment ready. We're getting out of here for a bit" H.J. said as he walked towards the stairs.
"Camping… he wants to take Mel camping, he wants to take me camping?" Peyton said.
"Well I guess we're going camping, let's go get some stuff" Parker said with a smile as she hearted out of the attic.
"No seriously, you want me to go camping?" Peyton questioned again as she walked out the door to the stairs.
Wyatt and Chris were in the shed in the back yard of the Manor.
"Ok I know Dad has some tents in here somewhere" Chris said going through the clutter.
"They are like real tents right? Not World War II pup tents" Wyatt asked.
"No. I'm looking for the ones that we used in boy scouts" Chris replied.
"Well that's 2 tents, we might need to track down a couple more" Wyatt added.
"Uncle Henry has a couple we could borrow. Hope and Faith can look for them. We should have Portia get some camping food, and Parker said she would look for some lanterns and flashlights… and work on convincing Peyton to go camping" Chris informed his brother.
"I mostly just want to see Peyton away from electricity. So why exactly do you think H.J. thinks we all need to go camping?" Wyatt asked.
"Please you just said you wanted to see Peyton away from electricity, don't you think Mel would like to see the same thing" Chris said as he pulled two tents down from the rafters.
H.J. walked into Mel's room and pulled the covers off of his cousin.
"Up and at 'em Mel!" H.J. said.
"Get out H.J." Mel said as she orbed the covers back onto her bed. As she waited to feel the comforting warmth of the duvet she realized that the covers were still on the ground.
"Why didn't that work?" Mel said perking up a little bit.
"Because, I did a counter spell to keep you from doing exactly that. Now get out of bed, we are going camping, you need to get out of here for a while" H.J. explained.
"Camping? You expect me to be out in the wilderness with no shower, no hair dryer and no bathroom? You have got to be kidding me" Mel said with distain.
"We used to go camping all the time, even a little bit in high school. Now get your ass out of bed, stop this pity party all woe is me crap and let's get going" H.J. said sternly.
"You're going to have to be more convincing than that H.J." Mel deadpanned.
"Peyton is coming" H.J. replied with a smirk.
Mel's eyes went wide for a moment and then she crawled out of bed "I have got to see this."
Hours later, and after tracking down Faith and Portia who had been at magic school, the gang met outside of the Halliwell Manor and loaded up Wyatt's pickup and H.J.'s Range Rover.
"Alright do you remember that camp ground we used to go to as kids?" H.J. asked Wyatt.
"Yea Mount Diablo?" Wyatt asked.
"That's it, I think that should be far enough away from the city for a while" H.J. commented.
"Whoa wait, how long are we going to be 'roughing it'" Peyton asked.
"A few days' tops, unless we just don't want to come back for a while, then we can spend the whole week out there, if not longer" H.J. replied.
"I'm thinking a few days will be long enough" Peyton said as she crossed her arms.
"Ok do we have everything?" H.J. asked. The group collected nodded their heads, "All right then, lets head out."