Hey, you know, I had this chapter ready to go and I thought I posted it but I just realized I didn't! I am so sorry!
meenyrocks: I'm not sure how Dan is gonna react. I think maybe he'll go stark-raving mad. I went stark-raving mad when my boyfriend cheated on me. I think Dan should, too.
GeminiPiper: I love all your stories, too. I've read all of them, except...maybe...a few chapters of Woman, but the ending made me cry! Made my friend cry, too! On my part, Home Sweet Home is pretty good, I think. I might rewrite it someday and put it back up with minor changes. That's what I'm doing to Houses. And you're losing your mind, too? My mom told me I was crazy and I told her "Crazy doesn't even begin to cover it!" It's a good line. I took it from something...Don't remember what...lol
piper+leo4eva: What, no rambling? No ranting? No repeating yourself? Wow. lol, j/k
scullymulder: That's good. Update Good. Better than soon. Because you can wait a long time for something good, but it's harder to wait a short time for crap. That's good!
LeoPiper-Forever: lol, sucker Dan. Funny.
Samantha R: I know, I was going to make Ally Leo's...But I thought to myself, 'a lot of people do that in their fics where Piper cheats on Dan. i'm gonna be different.' So I am! But don't worry, I'll take care of them. Thanks, btw, I do love the little chicks. We named one Beaver and one Runt, but the others are all nameless.
livingwyatt: thanks!
CharmedGurlie: I think I broke some sort of wall in this fic. I will probably be able to write it easier. I've got a whole plan for it now.
Sandy: Okay, so I forgot a line! I'll try to go back and fix it, lol. Thanks for pointing it out!
Piper xox Leo: Actually, I did forget about it, but then I remembered and I...finished the chapter...and I...posted it...and I'm losing my train of thought...wow, this is weird...Huh.
CHAPTER NINE - RATTED OUT
Piper lay on Leo's chest, both of them breathing heavily, when she started laughing. It was soft at first, while her head rested under his chin but then she couldn't stop, and she rolled off of him, taking the sheet with her. She dug her face into the pillow and laughed uncontrollably.
When her breathing slowed, she turned her face to one side, resting the side of her head on the pillow, and her brown eyes, teary from laughing, met Leo's hazel ones, and all she was curiosity.
She giggled.
"What?" he asked, pulling her back onto him as he lay on his back again.
Piper hugged his neck as tight as she could. She pulled back, kissed him, and smiled. "I just love you."
He smiled. "Well, I love you too, but I don't just love you…" He rolled her onto her back and raised himself above her. "I love you more than I loved my Uncle Tom's Camaro," he said.
Piper laughed. "Good to know. I know you loved that car."
"I need three more boxes of swizzle sticks!" Piper yelled across the empty P3 at one of her workers. He nodded and went outside to the loading truck that had just dropped off a shipment.
Leo came inside from the back door. Piper didn't notice him until he came up from behind her and put his arms around her, kissing her neck. She fell back into him and let him turn her around to kiss him.
They pulled away slowly and Piper smiled and licked her lips.
"You'd better get back to work," Leo said.
"I'd better? You'd better—Or else I'll fire you."
"You wouldn't," Leo said, pulling Piper back to him.
She smiled when he moved closer to her face. "Mmm…You're right…I wouldn't." They kissed. "Still…You should go. I'm not done with inventory. You've still got a job to do."
"Ha, so do you."
Piper thought about his words for a moment, not sure how to take them. She gave up, kissed him, and pushed him away.
The door to the back office opened and Amanda, the assistant manager, came out carrying boxes. Piper jumped around to look at her and when she turned back around Leo was gone, probably outside to watch over the loading truck.
For a moment Piper was scared that Amanda had seen her kiss Leo, but Amanda went outside with a smile and a short hello to Piper, so she wasn't too worried. She couldn't have seen anything, could see?
When Piper got home that night, Dan was waiting for her.
"Hey, Honey. Where's Ally?"
"At Prue's house."
"Oh. Okay." She hung up her coat and walked into the kitchen, where she set her purse down on the counter.
"How were things at work today?" Dan asked, moving up behind her.
Piper shrugged. "Fine." Something in his voice sounded different. Like he knew something that she didn't…Wait…No, he couldn't…She turned around to see him standing right in front of her, his face hovering just above hers.
"I got a call from your new manager…Amanda, is it?"
Piper swallowed and nodded. "Dan…"
He was staring into her eyes.
He knew.
"…You did! You kissed him!"
Piper slid away from the counter and stood in the middle of the kitchen. "Dan, wait. I—I can explain!"
"Then by all means, Piper! Explain! Are you sleeping with him, too?"
Fire Amanda! Fire Amanda! Fire Amanda!
She gulped.
"You are? Oh my God, Piper! You little bitch! What the hell got into you? This is why you're never 'in the mood', isn't it? 'Cause you already got screwed for the day!"
"Dan—"
"What, am I not being a good husband? Am I not being a good enough father?" Something clicked in Dan's head. "That was where you were that night, then? When you came home late and turned around and left? You went to Leo's house, didn't you? That's where you keep sneaking off to! You've been lying to me, to everyone!"
He'd been advancing on her and she'd been backing out of the kitchen toward the foyer.
"Dan, I—"
"Who else knows, Piper?"
"P—Prue and Phoebe know."
"You're sisters know?"
She nodded and backed toward the door.
"How long, then?"
"A...A month..."
"A month? You've been having an affair for a month behind my back?"
The sarcasm slipped out of her mouth before she could stop herself. "Well it was behind your back because I wasn't gonna tell you," she muttered, then clamped a hand over her mouth to shut herself up.
"Who else are you screwin' around with? Do you lead some two-dollar whore life that I don't know about?"
"No! I—We didn't plan it or anything, Dan! We just…It just happened! I love him!" Piper defended herself.
"You can't have two men, Piper! You've been cheating! That's adultery!"
She grabbed her coat and put her hand on the door handle. "If I can only have one of you then I choose him!" She opened the door and slipped out, slamming it closed behind her.
Great.
It was raining.
Eyes blurred with tears, she grabbed her keys from her pocket and ran to her car. When she was safely away from her home, she took out her cell phone and called Leo.
"He knows, Leo," was the first thing she said when he answered.
"Huh?"
"Dan. He—Earlier today, at P3, Amanda saw us together and she told Dan!"
"What?"
"We just had a fight," Piper said as she parked her car on the side of the road,tears starting to fall now. She sobbed quietly. "Dan said Ally is with Prue, so I want to leave her there overnight, okay?" she managed to say as she ran through the rain up the sidewalk to a house.
"Where are you?"
"At your front door."
Okay, probably not the best ending, but it's kinda a cliffy, right? Right?
Again, I'm really sorry I forgot about this chapter! I'm all messed up and disoriented right now, planning a party, doing SPRING BREAK HOMEWORK! OMG! Also, I'm trying to get a new computer, so I've got to put all my files on disk, so I might lost a thing or two (which is absolutely terrifyingto me).
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