Unhappy (Melody/Open)

[Keira Halliwell]

Keira heart blinked outside of Melody's room. She hadn't been to the Manor in a whole week, simply to avoid her mother. It had been that about of time as well since she had talked to her mom. She had avoided her best she could at work. A whole week she reminded herself, with a hollow feeling. Since Lilly and Linda died, every time she felt unhappy there was one person she'd go to- Melody.

She knocked on Melody's bedroom door. "Melody?" she called. It was both her and Felicity's room so Keira wasn't sure who would answer.

[Melody Halliwell]

Melody was laying across her bed reading her book when she heard a voice outside her room. She put the book down and opened the door. "Keira what's up?" Melody asked in a concerned voice. Melody and Keira had been really close for a while since Melody's mom was never around much. She stepped aside to let her into the room.

[Keira Halliwell]

Keira gave her a small smile, but the smile displayed how helpless, sad, and angry she felt. She walked into the room and sat down on Felicity's bed before talking. "I don't know Melody...I feel like my life and my actions are going ahead of me and I just don't have the strength to keep up," she told her. She hadn't voiced aloud her worries to anyone yet, not even to Kaelyn and least of all to her mom. "Did you know about my mom's pregnancy?" she asked tentatively. "And about Natalie and Derek....and Rachelle?" she added.

[Melody Halliwell]

Melody looked at Keira thoughtfully "well I guess I can understand how you feel because I am going through the same thing with my mom and I just don't know what to expect from her anymore." Melody replied. "I have met Natalie once at magic school but I didn't know aunt Phoebe was pregnant." she said in a shocked voice.

[Keira Halliwell]

"I know but it's different..." She knew how Melody was feeling because she had seen it in Kaelyn's eyes as well. Melody hadn't told her mom that she hated her...Keira had. "Well she is, and she didn't even bother to tell me...none of it."

[Melody Halliwell]

"Aww Keira, I'm so sorry. Did you talk to your mom about it and tell her how you feel?" Melody asked. "I know you are really upset but just try to work things out with her. I don't want you and aunt Phoebe to end up like me and mom or Kaelyn and mom. Look what happened to us we barely speak to mom and mom is never around for us and I don't want that to happen to you."

[Keira Halliwell]

"Me either...but I'm just not used to her not telling me things," her voice quavered slightly. "I'm her eldest daughter...when she thought Lilly and Felicity were too young, she used to tell me everything. Now she's just like your mom -no offense- and doesn't have time for me."

[Melody Halliwell]

"Well I know how that is. Mom and I used to be really close but now I feel like aunt Piper is more like a mother to me than my own mother. I mean I love my mom and all but I just don't get her anymore and when I did go talk to her she would push me away so now I barely talk to her."

[Keira Halliwell]

Keira nodded, not wanting to talk. Keira loved her aunt Piper, but she didn't want to go to her and worry her with anything else. She's going through enough right now...having to be the strong one. It was a thought meant for herself but it was accidentally projected to Melody.

[Melody Halliwell]

"I know she is going through a lot and mom's not helping any by neglecting her responsibility to me, Kaelyn and Henry jr." she said. "Aunt Piper means the world to me and I hate to see her so stressed out the way she has been lately."

[Keira Halliwell]

"She'll manage," said Keira, though she to didn't like it in the least bit. Her aunt Piper was strong though...Keira just hoped her mom and Paige would take some of the pressure off of her.

[Paige Matthews]

Alot of things hadn't made much sense to her...ever since Henry died, she'd been kind of in a daze so to speak. She hadn't really been a good sister or mother since Henry died, really and it only got worse after Linda and Lilly were killed. She'd been surpressing her emotions, trying not to get herself too worked up, and upset, which was why she had distanced herself from everyone. She thought once she took care of herself that she'd be able to help her family out, in the way she should, but it had been twenty years since Henry's death and she hadn't come out of it just yet...though she was fighting like hell to do just that. She hadn't known what her problem was, whether it was just because the deaths in the family had especially gotten to her, or if it was something else....but whatever it was she had to deal with it and fast, especially before all hell broke loose again, literally. She had orbed into Melody's room, hoping to at least talk to her, but hadn't expected anyone else to be there, but if she was in the way, she would just leave.

[Melody Halliwell]

Melody looked up as her mother orbed into her room. She was surprised to see her because she expected her to be at magic school especially since that's where she usually is. "Mom what are you doing here? I thought you would be at magic school working." she said the last part with a disgusted look her her face. She hated how her mother had pushed her feelings aside as if they didn't matter and put magic school in front of her.

[Paige Matthews]

She sighed as she looked at her daughter, and had listened to the tone of her voice. "Well I was but like I've explained to the Professors, I'm going to be cutting down the amount of time I spend up there, especially since that's all I've seemed to do, for the last twenty years and it's starting to really get on my nerves." She said rather simply. The truth was, she missed her family and just wanted a second chance with them, but she was sure, if anything, that it wouldn't be that easy. After all, she had missed more than she should have.

[Melody Halliwell]

Melody looked at her mother with a shocked expression on her face. She was surprised her mother was cutting back at magic school to spend more time with them. "Are you serious." she said in a shocked voice as she looked at Keira then back at her mother.