Disclaimer: I do not own charmed (Yada yada yada...)

Hey everyone, this is another charmed fic of mine that I hope you will all enjoy, cause I have great plans for it. It is rated PG-13, just so there won't be any misunderstandings.

Summery: Piper is a twenty seven year old woman who's life is going downhill until she meets a man who changes her life, and there is nothing she can do when true love is involved... A yet another PiperLeo story. (No magic).

Here it goes... Please R&R.

Chapter 1

One Gloomy Day

Piper Halliwell was flung on her peach color couch with Ronald, a little black dog she found on her doorstep a few days previously.

Elvis Costello was singing "She" in the background for what was probably the twentieth time that evening.

As the song came to end, she once again pressed "Play", and "She" started all over again.

Piper was finishing her third beer when her younger sister Phoebe came in -once again, whithout knocking- and appeared infront of her.

"Oh no..." Phoebe frowned.

"What?" Piper asked innocently.

"Not that song again! It is the third time in six months I hear it! What was it this time?" Phoebe asked as she squeezed herself next to Piper on the couch, making Piper shift a little.

"Why do you just assume that something happened?" Piper asked, annoyed.

"Because every time Elvis is singing "She" in your apartment it means that you either got fired, or got dumped by your boyfriend." Phoebe said.

Hell, she was right.

"I scored didn't I? So which one is it?" She asked.

"Both." Piper muttered.

"That's a new one." Phoebe said, looking taken aback.

"Yeah, well, that's what happens when you date your boss."

There was a silense while Elvis was singing the last phenomenal "She!..." in the song and Phoebe angrily pressed 'Off' on the CD player.

"What did you do that for?" Piper exclaimed.

"I used to like that song you know, you are giving Elvis a bad reputation."

"I don't care. I listen to that when I am dpressed-"

"I noticed..."

"-and I feel like he is saying all those great things about me." Piper said defensively.

"Right, whatever. So what happned? Did what's his name leave you high and dry?"

"Nathan dumped me in a resturant. A PUBLIC place! How pathatic is that?? Just so I won't be able to make a fuss out of it." Piper said angrily. "Want a beer?"

"No. So what was his exuse?"

"No sex."

"How long have you been dating?" Pheobe asked, looking suddenly very interested.

"A little over a month. I don't know, I just didn't feel like it."

"So he left you because you didn't sleep with him?" Phoebe asked the obvious.

"Pretty much."

"Bastard. It's a good thing it's over, he is no good."

"Too true. Only now I am jobless, which means no money, and no money means I can't pay my bills, and that means I can't pay for this apartment," Piper complaind, and would have continued if Phoebe wouldn't have stopped her.

"What is so good about this apartment? You live in the sixth floor and the elevator is freeking out of order!"

"So? A little sport here and there never hurt anybody. And you still live in the manor." Piper said in defence, popping another beer.

"I think you've had enough." Phoebe said, grabbing the beer from Piper.

"You don't even know how much I've had!" Piper protested, trying to fish her beer back from Phoebe.

"Doesn't matter, I know it is enough." Pheobe put the bottle on the table infront of them away from Piper. "And I don't like you cracking up like that, you are supposed to be the sensible one out of us three sisters."

"And where was I when you decided that?"

"Good Question." Phoebe said, and then her eyes drifted off to Ronald, who was hiding from Phoebe on Piper's other side.

"I cannot believe you still have that rat in here!" Phoebe exclaimed.

"I thought you liked dogs."

"I did, until I met Mister 'I need a shower and now' here. He looks like you found him in a garbage can."

"He does not! And his name is Ronald, and for your knowledge- he does not like people insulting him." Piper steted, then looked down at Ronald who was looking angrily at Phoebe. "See?" Piper said, pointing at the dog.

"You are cracking up." Phoebe said, looking suddenly concerned at Piper.

"No, I am not. I just have a shitty life."

"Oh, stop it Piper. That's it, me you and Prue are having a gils' night out tomorrow."

"Ok." That couldn't hurt...

"And we find you a new date." Phoebe continued.

"Don't push it Phoebe. I am still recovering from Nathen. He just dumped me today, remember?"

"So? It's not like you actually care about him. You are upset because you don't have a job anymore."

Phoebe was right, Piper realized. It's the job she is grieving about. Which is ridiculous.

"Remind me to never, under any circumstances, go out with my boss. Ever." Piper said.

"Deal."

"Unless it's Elvis Costello."

After Phoebe left, Piper took a long shower, letting the hot water wash over all the bad mamories of how Nathan said-

"You just don't put enough effort into this relationship... I think I am the only one working here..."

Right, Piper thought, working on getting her into bed.

Looser.

Bastard.

She needed Elvis.

Piper got out of the shower, and after getting into her pj's she got into her warm bed, pressed 'Play', and with the song she started thinking of her life.

"She may be the face I can't forget
The trace of pleasure or regret
May be my treasure or the price I have to pay
She may be the song that summer sings
May be the chill that autumn brings
May be a hundred different things
Within the measure of a day....."

Piper felt something soft next to her, and saw Ronald cluching into a ball and getting comfertable against her stomach.

"You'd never leave me, will you? Ronald?"

Ronald moand, and Piper took that as a no.

"Of course you won't. You are a loyal dog, not like all the men I have been dating..." Piper started babbling, then realized she is talking to a dog who probably doesn't give a damn, and stopped.

She decided that tomorrow she is finding a job, (preferably on where her boss is a woman, rather then a man), and start getting somewhere in life.

She was hitting twently eight, close to thirty, and had no life what so ever.

Prue, her older sister, has been married for six years now, has an adorible five year old son, and lives with her wonderfull husbend (a little geeky, but that's besides the point...) in a NORMAL house, and not some lousy apartment.

Even Phoebe has had a stable boyfriend for a year now.

Piper needed to do something with her life, and fast. She still wanted kids in the future, and the clock is ticking.

That's it, tomorrow, her life is about to change, Piper decided.

But she didn't know how much...

AN: Well? What do you think? Like it? Hate it? Either way, please review. And if any of you are worried about Leo not appearing in this chapter, I can promise you he will in the next one...