Things had been going
so well. So
incredibly well. Well, except for the
weird and
deadly board
game Isabel had found. (And, okay, except for flailing when
Savannah came to him for sex advice.)
Then on Friday night, as Parents Weekend began, he and Chris had
gone out for pizza so they wouldn't mope about not having parents there. And two suspiciously-acting cousins had shown up. They were so suspicious that Chris had called Bridge to
check them out. And then they learned the truth: the "cousins" were really their parents in disguise -- the parents they thought had been dead for the past decade and a half.
It was too much to process. He'd gone to
Isabel's room and spent the night there, needing to hold on to someone he could believe in. In the morning, he'd gone to get Chris, only to find him with
Lana (despite earlier
insistance that there was nothing going on between them, wtf). They'd gone to talk to
Prue only to find out
she knew that their parents had been alive, too.
Isabel and Prue (and maybe Lana, too, he didn't know) had encouraged them to talk to their parents and find out why they had faked their deaths and left them to be raised by their grandfather.
Isabel had come with him to the Devil's Nest to
confront Piper and Leo. He was still struggling to understand, but he was feeling less angry.
But for now he was lying on a blanket in a clearing in the preserves, his arm around Isabel, watching the
Perseid meteor shower. This was the surprise she'd mentioned, and he was more than happy to forget about the past two days and just lie there with her and count the shooting stars until the sun rose.