Charmed. Cole and Phoebe Guardian series. To know Phoebe is too...

Charmed. To know Phoebe is to... Chapter 5

Part 1:Better to have loved and lost

Chapter 6

After a day of leaving messages for Cole, which were unanswered Phoebe arrived home, calm of mind and determined. Piper sitting in the kitchen, breast feeding Melinda, eyed her sister curiously, as she came in smiling and seemingly happy, asked "Everything okay."

Phoebe put her things on the table and stopped to gently stroke Melinda's forehead. "Everything is fine" she said sweetly "I had a very easy day at work. Elise is in New York, I wrote the column, went to lunch with the fashion staff, finished by six, see I'm home early."

Piper eyed her suspiciously "Heard nothing from Cole', no problems from him" she asked.

"No" Phoebe answered brightly "Not a thing. No problems. Nothing"

Piper who would have liked to have the time to just enjoy her daughter and not worry about her sister eyed Phoebe with irritation. Phoebe bounced out the door to the stairs, a definite spring and purpose in her step "I know you, Phoebe" she muttered "You're up to something".

Phoebe rang Paige from her room and suggested the two have a night out. Paige came home a half an hour later and the two decided to go off to P3 together and check out the talent.

Phoebe dressed in her sexiest and skimpiest new outfit, a skirt that barely covered her hips and a silver and aqua lame tube top that did not cover her breasts and high, high stiletto heels and her hair longer and blond streaked now, Paige was wearing a body hugging red dress with spaghetti straps and a slit to her waist and even higher heels than Phoebe.

Piper put her daughter to bed before her sisters left. She was wearing old track pants, a tee shirt that was still stained after Melinda had thrown,. Her hair was not washed for two days and caught up in a clip just to keep it out of the way, and she was looking forward to a night of ironing baby clothes. She watched her sisters go and felt very old and matronly. She thought about the way her sisters were dressed, tits bouncing around under their clothes ,then became aware of the maternity bra she was wearing and wondered if she would ever feel sexy again.

As Paige and Phoebe left. Leo had orbed in. He too said goodbye to Paige and Phoebe while he stood slightly behind Piper, his fingers gently stroking he arm, as she leaned rather tiredly against him. Phoebe noticing this was almost overwhelmed by a nauseating rush of jealousy for the security of he sister's marriage and guiltily swallowed the thought.

Phoebe and Paige spent the night at P3. Paige managed to pick up 3 guys of various descriptions and physical types and have a pleasant night juggling them encouraging them and making them jealous while claiming she could not go off with them because she could not desert her sister ands somehow forgetting her cell phone number. She said her sister was minding her purse, she would give them the number later. When one pressed suspiciously "Can't you remember your cell phone number" Paige smiled innocently "I never dial myself".

Phoebe danced with a few guys and in between used the time to dial Cole on her cell and leave increasingly annoyed messages on his answering machine at the apartment. Toward midnight, Phoebe was on the sofa in the girls' favourite corner of P3 locked in a clinch with a guy she had danced with. He claimed to be a manager but was probably a clerk. He was a couple of years younger than her, and suitably scruffy and had an interesting little boy lost look and was plainly after sex as the amount of alcohol he was consuming, prompted his interest, and the level of his efforts. Phoebe was aware that all the aching warmth in her loins which had been her constant companion for the last few days died away as his efforts increased. Her mouth felt dirty from the taste of his tongue and her neck felt wet and unclean from the amount of saliva that had been distributed over it. Phoebe felt the nausea growing.