Teach Me How To Love

My new fic! It's a school fic about (OF COURSE!) Phoebe and Cole. Cole came from NYC and has been transferred to Phoebe's school. But, she is popular, unreachable and... cold. Can he change that and make her feel something for him, or he'll have to give up and move on without her?

Disclaimer: I don't owe Charmed or any of its characters... blah, blah, blah...

Now, the characters:

Phoebe Halliwell: the most popular girl in school. She's a sophomore. She has the group of her friends that don't leave her for a second and one very protective boyfriend. She's cold and unreachable for (almost) everyone.

Cole Turner: new guy at school that will soon become popular for his looks, but not as popular as he wants to in order to win the heart of the girl that seduced him from the very first moment he saw her. Surrounded by few close friends and a bunch of boring, stalking girls. Senior year.

William Thompson: Phoebe's very protective boyfriend. Senior year. He's popular mostly because of his girlfriend, but also because of his somewhat good looks.

David Hill: Cole's best friend who has come from NYC to SF with him. Also Senior year. Loves all kinds of parties and is never alone.

Ryan Potter: One of Phoebe's popular friends that always sticks around with her. He is the only one that is always cold headed in everything and has the good way of thinking. Sophomore year.

Melinda Carter: Also the part of Phoebe's "dream team" and one of her closest friends. She's the party type and is most somewhere having fun with her friends. She's at sophomore year and in the same class as Pheebs.

Kimberly Green: Also in "dream team". She's always a peacemaker and an optimist, but a lot shyer than the rest of her friends. She's a sophomore. Has the biggest crush on Max that lasts since the very beginning of their freshman year.

Max Rodman: Phoebe's closest male friend. He's totally 'in peace' with everything and doesn't bother himself about the things that don't really matter in the life. He's at sophomore year.

-There are a few more important characters, but u'll get 2 know them through the story.

Phoebe and Cole DO have powers, but I won't mention them in first few chappies. Cole is a half demon, but doesn't use his powers for evil causes, since he escaped from the Source's dungeons when he was twelve and the Source couldn't track him down, since he decided not to use his powers ever again.

By the way, I'm gonna need a loooooot of help about these American school years and stuff. We don't have all those complicated names for the years (freshman, sophomore...) and I don't know how old are u when u go 2 (for example) freshman year. If somebody knows, SPEAK UP! Do u people go to school and stay there until holidays (with sleeping n' everything), or u go home at weekends, or u go home every day? What's a major? I just really don't know anything, I'm from Europe! Bare with me! And help me! The most important information I need is this one: do you guys have school all day (with the lunch brake), or you just go to school from the morning 'till the afternoon (or from the afternoon 'till the evening)? HELP!

Chapter 1 – Survival Bet

The story I'm gonna tell you is about a boy and a girl who were born to be enemies as soon as they lay their eyes on another. It speaks about loss and pain. But mostly, it speaks about love and courage of two hearts that were meant to beat the odds and be united… but will the destiny split them apart…?

It was September the 1st. Cole Turner and David Hill stood in front of the big San Francisco University and eyed it slowly. David had a skeptic expression on his face. "What do you think, Cole?" David asked.

Cole took a deep breath. "I think that we're gonna have to do our best to survive in here. San Francisco is defiantly not like New York, Dave."

"Yeah…" David sarcastically uttered. "I can see what you mean."

With those words, David and Cole entered the university and headed towards their first class, Geography.

It took them some time to find their classroom. When they did, they walked towards it and entered without any fear. Than they realized that all of the eyes were settled on them. The big fat teacher that looked like she just came out of bed gazed evilly at them and smirked. "You two are late. Five minutes late, actually. That would be detention. Get out, now."

"Well, we're new to this university and didn't know how to find the classroom, since the place is so organized that there are no signs or anything to show us which way to go." Cole snapped. He could sense that this woman will bring nothing but trouble to him and David.

"Fine." Woman snapped back. "Would you be so kind to sit? There are two empty places next to Maria." She said and pointed at the girl with curly dark hair who eyed them slowly.

Cole nodded and went to sit along with David. In the moment they sat, woman spoke again.

"And would you tell us your names now?" she asked in cold voice.

"Would you tell us yours?" Cole asked back.

The woman shot a piercing look at him and jumped from her chair. "Who do you think you are to talk to me like that?" she yelled in frustration.

"I'm Cole Turner, why?" Cole asked coldly and yawned.

"Mr. Turner, detention! Now!" she screamed.

"Okay, okay, hold your fire." Cole said and grabbed his schoolbag.

"Mr. Nolan, walk him to detention room and make sure he gets inside." The teacher said as she turned to the boy that was obviously very busy with girl next to him.

"Why me?" the boy asked. "I don't want him to go to detention, when I think he's right."

"PETER!" frustrated teacher yelled again.

"Oh, alright." He said and walked out of the classroom with Cole. They walked thought the corridor in silence and Cole noticed that many of the students aren't in their classrooms. "The timetable is different for everyone, you know." Peter said as he saw Cole's curious expression.

"Yeah, I know that." Cole said. "But in New York, everybody has the first class."

"Ah, so you're from the big city." Peter concluded. "Well, that explains the attitude. You're everything but shy and nice."

After their small conversation, they kept walking in silence again. As they walked through one corridor on the left, Cole noticed the group of boys and girls sitting on the floor and laughing about something. "Sophomores." He said in a low voice. "Don't look if you want to keep your heart in one piece for the rest of this year."

"Huh?" Cole asked, but too late. He spotted her. He spotted the most popular girl in school. Her long golden hair slid down around her shoulders to her chest. She was wearing a tight shirt and dark blue jeans. He stopped walking and stared at her. After a few seconds, he could swear that she looked at him for a moment, but she didn't look like she did. She obviously hasn't even noticed him standing there. What brought him back to earth was Peter's voice.

"I told you, man." Peter said in voice just above the whisper. "You don't wanna look at Phoebe. If you do it once, you're meant to be heartbroken. Now c'mon!" he said and pulled him out of the corridor.

"Who's the beauty?" Cole asked breathless as he leaned onto a corridor wall. There was something about her that made him feel vulnerable.

"Phoebe Halliwell." Peter said slowly. "She's the most popular girl in the school. The list of her admirers is bigger than the planet Earth. And that was her group of friends. If you wanna talk to her, you're gonna have to make an appointment and I strongly recommend for you to do it soon, cause right now, you'll only wait for eight months."

"Oh, come on!" Cole mocked. "No one can be that popular!"

Peter raised his eyebrows. "Wanna bet?" he asked and Cole's jaw dropped. "She's a genuine beauty. That's what makes her that popular. Well, that and her 'I'm the best' attitude."

"Well, I'm gonna make her change." Cole said as the light smile lingered on his lips.

To his surprise, Peter smirked ironically and shook his head. "It's almost painful to see every guy in the school say the very same thing about her and be left heartbroken for like two months. She has a boyfriend, man."

"What?" Cole whispered with the feeling like someone slapped him. But than he realized that it was completely impossible for the girl like that to be single. "Do I know him?" Cole asked.

Peter nodded. "Well, you probably had a chance to see him. He's in our class. That guy with dark eyes and brown hair. His name is Will."

Cole nodded, too. "Yeah, I saw him." he said. "He was stuck in his cell phone while that crone screamed at me."

"I guess he was." Peter said. "He's always stuck in that phone. He writes messages to Phoebe, what else would he do? Now, c'mon. I gotta take you to detention…"

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Phoebe sat in her chair on the biology class and yawned loudly as the teacher repeated the theory of evolution for the thousandth time. Than the girl next to her passed her a note. Phoebe turned to her right to find out from who it was and saw Melinda waving at her. She smiled and read the note. "Did you check out that tall hottie this morning?"

At once, Phoebe sunk deep into her own thoughts. Just for a moment she caught the eye of this boy. All she noticed in those eyes was that he was different, though she couldn't quite figure out how. But than she brought her head back to normal and realized that he was just like anybody else. He's gonna try to make her feel something for him and when he realizes that it's impossible, he would go and find himself some other girl to try to forget her. She grabbed her pencil, turned the not around and wrote on the back of it: "He is really nothing special, Mel. You can do better than him, girl." And than she sent it back to her. She smiled genuinely and lay back in her chair to patiently wait for the end of the class.

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At the lunch break, Phoebe plopped herself in the chair at the table with six places. Mel, Max, Ryan and Will sat at the table, too. She gazed around the dining room. She was the only one that wasn't eating anything.

"Where's Kim?" Melinda asked.

"Oh, she told us to wait for her here. She had to go and use the school phone."

"Doesn't she have a cell?" Phoebe asked.

"She lost it yesterday." Ryan answered.

"Honey, why don't you get yourself something to eat?" Will suggested.

Phoebe just shook her head. "I'm not hungry." She said. Than she spotted that the bunch of girls cornered somebody at the very end of the dining room. "What's all the commotion about? New Barbie doll on sale or something?" she asked and rolled her eyes. The fact that she thought that she's the best in the world was truly amazing.

Suddenly, they saw Kimberly making her way through the crowd and rushing to their table. "Okay, he is so not that hot!" she yelled as she plopped herself in the chair next to Phoebe's.

"What do you mean, he?" Phoebe asked. "And what do you mean, hot?"

"The new guy, Turner." Kim explained.

"Don't mention him." Will snapped.

"Why, cause he's hotter than you, so he's more popular?" asked the voice behind him and Will angrily spun around to find himself face-to-face with David.

"Who the hell are you?" Max asked.

"The name's David." He said slowly. "Nice to meet you, if you can call it that. I'm new as well as Cole, but I realized pretty fast how the things work around here. The six of you think that you are popular and unreachable and everyone looks at you like Gods because of that attitude. Well, we won't."

"We?" Phoebe asked with great desire to slap the guy over the face.

"Yes, we." she heard the voice behind her, but she didn't turn around. Something told her to wait for the voice to finish the sentence before she does. "David and me." the voice continued.

She quickly spun around and met the piercing blue eyes from the guy that she already spotted in the hall that morning. "And who in the world are you?" she asked in cold tone of voice "The new guy thinking to be the best in school?" she mocked and than turned around to Melinda "What do you think?" she asked.

Melinda gazed at Cole and smiled in very ironical way. "Twenty on kicking out." she said and threw twenty dollars on the table.

Max looked at the money with smirk and shook his head. "Not this time. I give thirty on overdose."

"Again?" Melinda asked.

David and Cole didn't realize what the situation was all about, so they just stood there and watched the bet.

"Well, if you look at the situation from Max's point, he's got a good point." Phoebe explained. "But, I give thirty on leaving heartbroken." she said and turned to look at Cole again. "You're still here? Can't you read the 'conversation-is-over' signs or what? Bye!"

Cole grinned at her and crouched next to the chair on which Phoebe was sitting. "You like bets?" he whispered in her ear.

"Only the ones that have to do with kicking the new and egocentric guys out of here." Phoebe replied coldly.

"You'll like this one." Cole said and she raised her eyebrows. He took it as a sign to continue.

"Well, here's the deal: if I don't get to kiss you on the lips till the end of this week, David and I shall leave this University and all of you in peace. What do you say?"

Phoebe stared at him suspiciously. "How do I know you'll keep your word?"

Cole smiled and hoped she'll smile back. "You can tell the whole school that we had this bet, so they'll all know I'm the biggest liar in this school if I stay."

Phoebe's evil smile grew wider. He just gave her a weapon with which she can blow him out of the school. "Deal." she said and turned her back to him as she got up from the chair.

Cole watched Phoebe and the rest of her friends leave the cafeteria and the small smile lingered on his lips.

"Are you crazy?" David asked. "Do you know what you just did?"

"Yes. I gave her the weapon that she can use against me. What she doesn't know is that the weapon I gave to her usually fires backwards…"

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Hey, I published a new fic, guys! I hope u'll all reward me with your reviews just like before. I hope I'll get enough reviews to inspire me to write the next chapter. If I don't get enough reviews, I'll delete this fic and try another one.

As u all can see, Phoebe is very cold in this chapter. Just 4 the information, that's not her mask. It's who she is. Right now, she doesn't feel absolutely anything 4 Cole, since she doesn't know what the word feeling means. But, can Cole change that?

I have a good idea bout where 2 go with this fic, but feedback is always more than welcome.

A/N: People, I'm going on winter vacation to ski for seven days. I'm going on 01.07.2006. and I'm returning on 01.14.2006. That means that I won't update anything 4 a week. I'm expecting a lot of reviews when I come back. I already wrote chapter 2 for this fic, and I'll update it as soon as I come back. So, expect a new chappie on 01.14. I want reviews! Plz! If I don't get about 10 reviews, I'll try to write some other fic that u guys will like more. Thank u in advance!