Charmed: The Brothers Path

Chapter 13. Wyatt. A Familiar Dinner.

I walk Kate right to the dining room, there were candles in the middle of the table and mom had put music on the stereo, an old balad she used to hear when she was young.
I move a chair so that Kate can sit, she puts her hair behind her neck, she takes perfect care of it.
"So, where are your parents?" She asks.
"Mom must be in the kitchen, she must have cooked something delicious"
"Why? Special date?"
No, she just doesn't have anything else to do, she spends most of the time helping in our training "No, she just likes to cook a lot" I smile.
"Well, she must cook amazing" she smiles back.
"After you meet my parents, it's my turn to meet yours" I say.
"Well..." She stays quiet.
"What?"
"We'll see" she nods.
Mom enters the room carrying some plates to put on the table, she is wearing a black blouse combined with black leather pants and boots.
"Hi, mom, this is Kate" I indicate her. Mom smiles.
"Hi, Kate, nice to meet you. I'm Piper" she looks at me "Are you guys dating?"
"Sort of" Kate answers.
"Well, I'm glad you stay for dinner" she puts the plates on the table "I will bring dinner and bring your dad" she looks at Chris, who walked in after her "Chris, set the table please"
"No, can we talk please?" He answers.
"Whatever it is, it can wait. Now set the table" she goes to the kitchen again. Why the hurry?
...
Table is set. Dad and mom are sitting on the right side of the table while Kate, Chris and me are sitting on the left side. We are eating pieces of chicken my mom cooked, acompained with spaghetti and a glass of coke.
"I feel like I already know you Kate... Have we met before?" mom asks.
Kate is about to talk but Chris interrupts "Maybe you do"
Kate and mom stare at my Chris, confused. Then they look at eachother "No, I don't think so" Kate smiles.
"Well, it isn't easy to forget such a beautiful person" dad interrupts.
"Thanks but I was out of the city for some time"
"Really? Where?" Mom asks.
"Los Angeles" she starts "It's an amazing city, there a lot of funny things to do there but I was born here so I decided to come back"
"Amazing, what do your parents do?" dad asks this time.
"They are in Los Angeles, they let me come by my own" that's why she seemed so mysterious when I told her it would be my turn to see her parents.
"And how is that going?" Chris asks now.
"Great" she drinks from her coke "I already knew the city very well so I have no problem"
"Really? At my age I am barely learning some places, the ones I like to go to. Why do you already know the city that well?" Why is Chris so into her?
"Well, I always thought I would be here by my own" she smiles.
"Interesting" Chris says. Why is he so suspicious?
"Chris and I will bring the dessert mom" I indicate.
Chris looks at me confused, but after some seconds he stands up "Sure" we enter the kitchen, clean, it looks like my mom never cooked at all, but that's how she is, she likes to have things in perfect control.
"What are you doing?" I ask him.
"What do you mean?"
"Why are you so into her? Do you think she is not good for me? Cause she is hanging with our parents really well" I put my hands in the back of my head.
"No, Wyatt, I don't think that"
"Then what is it?"
He gets something from his pocket, a picture "You see this? This is an old relative!" He shows me the back of it, 'Amelia Halliwell. 16 years old' is written on it.
"And so?" I ask.
He turns the picture so I see the person, a blonde teenage girl, blue eyes, beautiful smile... Kate. I open my mouth and stare at the picture. How is this possible? The picture seems old, how can she still be 16? It has to be just a coincidence, I couldn't have dated a relative.
"How is this possible? I ask.
"That's what I need to find out" he answers "We need"
"What is taking so long?" Mom asks from the dinning room.
I take the dessert and Chris takes some plates.
"Sorry for the wait" I say.
I put the dessert on the table and Wyatt spreads the plates. We both sit down.
"So maybe this could be the time when we talk about old relatives, now that Kate is here, so she can know us better" Chris says looking at everyone.
"If you want to..." Mom says, confused.
"We have a lot of family, Kate" he starts "Some of them are dead already, like our grandma, and our aunt Prue. But there's also a lot of person we don't know, like an aunt of us, Amelia Halliwell" Kate stares at him, she knows we know.
"Hey, you're right! I had forgot her, long story" mom says.
"You had forgot? Here's a picture so you can remember" Chris puts the picture out of his pocket showing it to mom. She stares at the picture, surprised. She looks at Kate and to the picture back again. Kate doesn't seem confused, she knows what is going on.
Mom shows to the picture to dad and everyone stays silent for some seconds.
"I hoped you wouldn't find out" Kate says, looking at the table.
"So why did you come back?" Mom asks.
"I didn't know I was dating a member of this family, I thought the last name was just a coincidence" she looks at mom "When I realized you were Piper, I thought I could go out from this dinner and escape so that you wouldn't find me again"
"Why did mom or our aunts never talked about you?" I look at my parents, angry.
"It's not their fault" Kate is looking at me "I didn't want to have the same destiny that your grandmother had"
"So, you are our aunt?" Chris asks.
"No" mom says "My aunt. When she decided to run away from this family, mom decided to never talk about her, and we never did, we had forgot"
"I will leave by tomorrow" Kate indicates.
"No, Amelia, you can stay" dad says.
"Don't call me that" she stands up "I can't stay, I don't want to be related with magic"
"You can stay the rest of the week, my parents decided to take a break from that till sunday"
Kate stares at my mom, who nods.
"I will stay just until sunday, I really don't have a place to stay, that's what I came"
"You don't?" I ask.
"No, I just arrived to the city today"
"How are you this young?" Chris demands to know.
"I had a chance and I took it"
"That has to be magic related" I say "You decided to run away from it but used it?"
"We can discuss things tomorrow, we all need rest" mom interrupts "I will show you your room, Kate" she walks Kate upstairs. Chris and I stare at eachother, what a week for a break huh?