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Halliwell's Episology (Year 2/1/2)
As my school bus approached nearer to the familiar sight of an old Victorian house, there at the front poach right on the few flight of stairs sat a little figure. Since school reopened for me and Piper, she has been doing that when the time came for our bus to arrive at that very spot. Not that she knows when, but Grams let her out all the time. Sometimes, she would sit with her, otherwise she would be in the manor finishing up with her chores so that she could go off to work with an easier mind. Things seemed to have changed a little, I mean since mummy was gone. I no longer move things just by looking at them and Piper could not make them stop in the air. I asked Grams and she said that was meant to be a little game for us created by mummy, but then she was gone so she thought of keeping it away forever. I never said anything, sort of agreeing with her, cause it hurts so much not to see her around and why should I play a game created by her and yet laughter was not being shared. She saw me, stood up in her little legs with a teddy bear hugged close to herself and as I walked nearer, she called out softly, "Prue."
"Hi Pheebs."
I went up to her and pulled her into me, something I have been doing for so many times in a day for the past half a year. Likewise, she wrapped one arm around my waist not wanting to let go of the bear.
"Prue, why you take so long to come back? I wait and wait but I cannot see you."
She forgot that she asked me the umpteen times already.
"The bus has to let off the other kids first Pheebs, have you taken your lunch?"
"Yes but I don't like aunty bread. Not nice."
She showed me a satisfying look not. So Grams wasn't at home, Aunty Gail was. She was Grams best friend and since that time, she has been around with us nearly everyday, helping to take care of us while Grams worked. She's nice, friendly and lovingly, just like Grams but not an ace when it comes to cooking. Still, it was tolerable, only that my littlest sister seemed to think otherwise.
"Phoebe, its not that bad at all." I have to smile at her cute protesting face.
"No! It is not nice!" My sister is determined in her baby's voice.
"Ok, next time I'll ask Aunty Gail to give you only milk and fruit loops or biscuits."
"I want mummy bread." She winced with her innocent brown eyes. I wasn't caught off-guarded, she still asked for mummy, at least once a day. I guessed she couldn't comprehend the whole issue of lost yet. Nevertheless, the rest of us decided to try and accommodate with her, in our very own way.
"Ok, I'll ask Grams to make some of mummy's bread for you, so can you smile now?"
"Ya, I can smile now."
And there, I was awarded with a sunshine smile of the manor.
"Where is Piper? I wait and wait but she did not come and play with me. I find the whole house but no Piper." She asked with an innocent face. Setting her down on the stairs beside me, I put my hand around her shoulder and pulled her close to me.
"Pheebs, you forgot, we told you yesterday. Piper has gone to the zoo with her class. She will be back only later."
"I want to go too." She repeated the night's before events, the insistence of going with Piper. The latter too, had insisted on not going in the first place but Grams had given her consent and sent off her despite her pouting face. I knew Piper had wanted to come home to be with Phoebe, since she is always earlier than me and she dislikes the idea of letting our youngest sister sat all alone on the stairs. Especially at the beginning when she cried knowing that we have to leave her to go to school for half the day. I remembered she used to tell me.
"Prue, Phoebe sat at the stairs again. She has been crying, she looked so frightened, she wants to cry when she saw me but she didn't."
"Because she saw you like you said. She's happy that you're home."
"But she's still sad, she didn't want to let go of my pants, she even stand outside the bathroom when I'm using it."
I knew Piper was not complaining, more like she was as equally upset as little Phoebe. The latter was missing us and feeling so alone, so scare and the former was feeling so guilty, so helpless as she has to go to school. Despite promising mummy to take care of them, I have to let the two of them experienced each other's pain before I even got home. That's why I always try to perk things up, made up games to take away their mind and free their hearts. And I knew by just doing all that, Grams is proud of me. At times, she would come to me before bed, telling me how responsible I am, how mummy would be smiling knowing that I take great care of my sisters. Grams never knew about my secret though. How many nights I cried silently to sleep just thinking about mummy.
"Pheebs, let's go inside before aunty Gail call. You can sit with me doing your coloring while I finish my schoolwork. Then we can play dolls and wait for Piper. And when she comes home, we can take our baths together, ok?"
"Ok. Prue wants to do school work?" inquired the usual little mind of curiosity.
"Yes. My teacher will scold if I don't do it. You don't want me to get scolding right?"
"No, I don't want Prue to get scolding."
She still tends to repeat what people said but we always like the way she speaks. Forever so real and ever so cute.
"Come, let me take your hand."
We stood up, she eagerly put her small hand into my bigger one and we stepped into the manor.
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For the next few hours, I did my homework on the living room table. Little Phoebe sat beside in her little chair doing what she is best in at her age, coloring. Watching her as she clamped the pencil within all her little fingers, I smiled in amusement as she tried to get control of how it moved. Instead of coloring, I believed she's simply interested in the uneven lines she's drawing and the many colors she could choose from the box, cause she kept changing colors. At times, she would turn to me distracting me from my work asking, "See Prue? Nice?"
I would smile and nodded my head saying, "Very nice Pheebs, very nice drawing. Do more for Prue."
At least that did the trick and she busies herself on her artistic work till I completed my work. Normally, Piper will play with her while I watched and worked at the same time.
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Soon, we heard a bus honking, Piper's bus.
"Piper's home Pheebs."
She looked up at me, dazed from much drawing. Then a smile broke out on her face. She stood up and ran in quick little steps to the door yelling, "Piper! Piper! You are home! You come home!"
As I sat there still doing my work, I heard Aunty Gail opened the door and Phoebe's squealing.
"Piper, Piper! Why you so late? I wait so long and you haven't come back. Piper, you go where?" I chuckled knowing that my littlest sister forgot again.
"Pheebs, I went to the zoo with my class today."
"Oh, you go to the zoo."
"Ya and wow Pheebs, you should see all the animals there! So big! So small! SO many and sooooo cute!"
And to think she didn't want to go in the first place.
"I wanna go! I wanna go! I wanna go to the zoo Piper! Take me!"
"I can't, I just went."
I think Phoebe must have shown her displeasure cause Aunty Gail began coaxing her next. Soon, both sisters came walking around the corner, Piper holding Phoebe's hand, a broad smile on the former's face and not a broad one on the other sister. She came running to me, pouting her mouth.
"Prue, I wanna go to zoo. I wanna see elephant, and err zebra, and err lion, and err horses, and err..."
"Ok Pheebs, I'll ask Grams to take us there this Sunday, but you must be a good girl. Are you a good girl?"
I asked holding both her hands, looking at her serious face.
"Ya, I good girl. But I want to go zoo."
I had to laugh at her and so did Piper.
"We will Phoebe, we will. Now give me a kiss."
Gladly, she threw her little arms around my neck and planted a small lip kiss on my face. Looking at me, she smiled so sweetly and I couldn't resist having to kiss her too.
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That night, we had a private sisterly bath. The three of us sat in the tub, Piper rubbing Phoebe's back and me rubbing on hers. We were talking sisterly talk and were laughing sisterly jokes, in the sense that we made fun of Phoebe and when she laughed, we laughed. Then we switched position. Piper kneeling in the tub to give my back a rub, while little Phoebe standing in the tub pouring water over Piper's back. Not for very long though, I heard Piper's giggling scream and Phoebe's laughter behind. Turning around, I saw to a cute scene, Phoebe scooping water in the cup given to her and she was pouring it over Piper's head. The latter squealed and laughed, teasing more from the youngest one. The next thing I knew, she started hurling the water at us and seeing us trying to duck and hide from the splashing while screaming in joy, she burst into uncontrollable laughing and kept the water coming at us. We screamed and laughed and then the door opened. Grams stood there.
"Oh my girls! What are you three doing? I thought you are suppose to take a quick bath together, not to tell me its time to wash this bathroom. Look around you, who is going to clean up the water?"
Grams has her hands to her hips, looking not really angry with us. We looked from the wet floor to Grams, then at one another, not uttering a word. Then Phoebe pointed a little finger at the wet floor, "Gram, I throw the water."
"Why did you throw it honey?"
"I bath Piper and Prue."
"By throwing the water?"
Phoebe nodded her head. "Because they are too faraway, so I throw the water."
She didn't really lie, when she started throwing, Piper and I did move further away from her.
Grams wasn't totally angry, probably she was exhausted from a day's work and then she has to clean up a bathroom after us.
"Grams," I was about to offer to help her but...
"Prue, take your sisters out of the tub, go to your room and put on your pajamas. Make sure you dry your hair before lying on the bed."
"Ok." Phoebe knew she shouldn't fool around anymore, so quietly still holding the cup, she allowed me to carry her out of the tub. After Grams wrapped her in a towel and so had Piper and me, I took her hand and led her to the room.
Along the way, she whispered, "Prue."
I looked down at her small face.
"Gram angry already.? I smiled, partly because her English always sounds funny and partly because she looked so innocent.
"No Pheebs, Grams not angry with us."
"Ok."
"We can sleep together tonight." quipped Piper.
"I want! I want to sleep together tonight. I want Prue." Followed the youngest one.
"Ok, we will sleep together, but you must be good, sleep and don't talk. Promise?"
"I promise." No hesitation but I knew what it really would be like. She would talk and ask lots of things before she gets tired and finally dozed off herself. It happened all the time.
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(20/1/2 years later, Halliwell's manor. Night has fallen. In a same room on a same bed, two figures laid and they were not sleeping and yet not talking. Most likely, they were listening. Suddenly, laughter was heard again next room and one of them bolted up and anchored herself on her elbows, looking straight ahead as if penetrating through the walls. The other one simply laid sideway balanced on one arm looking not at the same direction but at her sister, kinda amused at her frustrating face.)
"Phoebe."

"Its not fair! They have been like this for over an hour already, aren't they tired?"
"N Pheebs, you don't get tired over this kind of thing. Oh come on, you know it."
"Well excuse me, I really don't know cause I never bring one back. I really don't know you can make that much noise in your own house on your own bed. I chuckled as she emphasized each every word.
"Oh, where is this place with no such privilege?"
"Mmmmm, in the car? college cafeteria? An empty auditorium? One quiet corner of the library..."
"Phoebe! You did not do all that!"
I sat up and towered over her demanding to know the truth.
"Of course I did it all but not! I couldn't risk a backache can I? But why couldn't they keep it down a little, how can she forget that there is two other sisters wanting desperately to get some sleep here!"
She meant to say it out loud and I quickly clamped my hand over her mouth.
"Phoebe, you're embarrassing them."
She didn't answer me, simply looking back at me. Then she pointed to her mouth.
"Oh," I quickly moved my hand away. "Sorry, you want to say something? Don't shout ok?"
"Prue, our sister is the one embarrassing us and she is the loud one here." She hissed back at me.
At the next room, laugher rang out yet again.
"See? I can't help but wonder why is it so funny to have sex? You think the neighbors can hear them?"
"Come on Pheebs, they are loud but not enough to send the neighbors to our front pouch waiting to catch a live show." She chuckled, and then turned seriously.
"Do you think demons and warlocks are repulsive against such a sight? Why they didn't make an attack when they have nothing on but just inside each other?"
"Phoebe!" I slapped her nicely on her head and was awarded an ouch from her. "What?!!"
"You're disgusting to have been fantasizing about our other sister having sex with her husband!"
Well, I got her this time and she looked cheekily at me.
"I wasn't really thinking that much."
"Oh Pheebs!"
"Ok ok, I am only imagining it. I know what Piper looks like when she's naked, we bath together all the time.">
"That was long ago sweetie."
"Ya but she hasn't changed much has she?"
"Wait till she hears about it."
"Whatever but I can never figure out what Leo looks like when he's naked."

"Thanks god you can't but why are you drooling?"

"Oh, it comes with the package for fantasizing." We laughed. Then I pulled her down on the bed.
"Let's go to sleep, its coming to one already."
I pulled the covers around her nicely, then Piper squealed out loudly again.
My littlest sister was about to get up again when I literally turned her sideway, slammed a pillow on her head covering her ear, then laid down beside her looking into her wide and annoyed eyes. I smiled and put a finger to my lips. Seconds later, she smiled back at me. I mouthed a word, sleep and she closed her eyes, but not before she snuggled warmly to me. That night, we did sleep without further disturbances. But maybe because we practically had a pillow on top of our heads to help us so.