Pairing: Really not sure yet and I don't want to spoiler, possible candidates are Willow, Buffy, Cordelia, Faith
Rating: M, will contain femslash so if you don't like that you should stop reading.
Div: This is my first fanfic and since I'm not a native English speaker I'd appreciate any help I could get on typos and grammar errors. (Seriously I don't mind being corrected at all =)
In front of the steps leading up to the school
"Try not to get kicked out!" Joyce said with a somewhat forced smile as she dropped her daughter off to her first day at the new school. Smiling in return Buffy made her way up the stairs, feeling uneasy and dreading the moment when everyone found out about her past and thus reducing her social life to zilch. 'Or my present' she mentally added 'It's not like I don't have a sharp wooden poky thing in my bag at any given moment'.
Her mind babble came to a halt when she heard someone crashing into .. something behind her and the blondes first reaction was to keep on going to avoid anyone noticing her but she was never good at listening to any advice, even if it was her own. She turned around and saw a goofy looking guy sprawled on his back looking up at a short redhead while babbling something about a willow tree and math.
She went down a few stairs and held out a hand to help him up since the redhead seemed unfazed by the whole thing as if the guy did stuff like this all the time. "Hey are you alright? That sounded like it hurt." "Yeah sure I'm al-" he paused mid-sentence as Buffy easily pulled him up "-mighty ghost of Zeus you're strong!"
"Uh .. yeah I work out a lot." Buffy replied mentally kicking herself all the while. 'Great work slayer, already freaking out the local populous.. *sighs* I said populous, I really should stop reading up on all this demon stuff.'
"That's cool.. cool um.. Hi! I'm Xander and this is Willow, who might you be except maybe a Xena double?" Xander quipped feeling proud of himself because he came up with something related to Buffy's uncommon body strength.
"Xena wasn't blond you dufus, but the actress is .. well sometimes.. I like her more with the blond hair.. um .. yeah .. I'll just .. stop .. Hi! I'm Willow." She extended her hand quickly to interrupt her rather embarrassing flow of words.
"Of course you are." Buffy smiled and went on while her smile slowly turned into a smirk. "Xander here just said so."
Blubbering incoherently and turning all shades of red Willow started to hide behind her hair and would have most likely been swallowed up by the very earth below her feet if Xander had not jumped in. "Yeah well maybe not Xena then, but it was a good joke right?"
"Right.."
"See Willow, I'll never loose my touch, I'm touchtasticly funny." This seemed to calm down the redhead as she started to giggle and roll her eyes.
"Yes Xander, umm.. so .. you're new here right? Want to get a quick tour before your classes start?" The boy immediately piped in, interrupting Willow.
"Oh yeah, I'd really love to give you a tour.. of the school.. uh huh." A small fist appeared out of nowhere, well maybe Willows direction, and punched Xander in the arm.
"Hey! Ouch much! You can't hit a man right in front of a .. of a .. lady." POW "Hey! Stop that!"
"I'm sorry guys, but I have to head to the principal straight away, but we could meet up during the first break."
"First day at school and already to the principal huh ? You must be a nau.." POW POW "Hey stop it already!" Willow rolled her eyes yet again and looked apologetically at Buffy.
"Sorry he's not always like this .. well actually he is but he is totally harmless." "Hey I'm standing right here Willow, could you please.." Xander tried to interject but Willow would have none of it. "..how about we meet you at the big stone bench later? It's hard to miss."
"Yeah sure, sounds great." Waving her goodbye Buffy skipped up the stairs taking two steps at a time. "Damn she's sporty.." POW "Cut it out! Oh hey wait.. YOU THERE.. umm .. SPORTY GIRL, WHAT'S YOUR NAME?" Xander yelled after her, causing quite a few heads to turn. Buffy mumbled something quietly and quickly left the scene, not wanting to get any more attention than necessary.
POW
"What was that for?" Xander yelped in an increasingly unmanly voice as he kept getting hit in the same spot.
POW POW "Ugh my hand is starting to hurt.." Willow rubbed her right hand as she watched Buffy flee into the crowd. "That was for being the untouchtasticl.. whatever you said earlier .. guy in the universe."
Scrunching up his face Xander stared at her. "What? Well never mind, what's gotten into you by the way? First you are all Willow like with the blushing and then you start getting all bold asking her out on a tour and all that, and the punching I didn't like the punching at all."
Willow shrugged "S-she just seemed nice and she's new, i-i was just being nice and you totally deserved every little punch. Thanks for that by the way, it was a really good distraction, I don't think I could have talked with her like that if it hadn't been for you acting like you did."
"Aeh.. right .. sure Willow, no problem, you're acting weird today." Xander picked up his skateboard and followed an unwillowy Willow up the stairs.
In front of the principals office
"This is so unfair." Cordelia grumbled as she stood at the copy machine near the principal's office.
"Yeah right? We didn't do anything to deserve this! It's like slave labor!" Cordelia was about to disagree with the blond girl standing next to her but thought better of it.
'We totally deserve this, it wasn't nice what we did to Willow the other day, ugh, why do I keep getting pulled into this.. right Queen Cordelia has to keep her kingdom in check.. and now she's talking about herself in the third person.'
Cordelia lets out a big sigh that Harmony took as a sign of agreement with her statement. "Let's get this over with quickly so we don't miss our next class and get into even more trouble."
In front of the principals office
'Those two seemed nice. Well the guy was a bit over the top.. maybe he's gay and tries to cover it up?' Shrugging to herself Buffy kept following the signs towards the principals office.
'The girl was cute tho .. and funny! With the hitting and all.' Grinning to herself she recalled the whole scene again. 'Looks like i already found someone to hang out with, this is great..now for the hard part tho.. he is bound to know about what happened at my old school and will probably lecture me for hours.'
"Ah there you are, you must be Buffy I'm Principal Flutie but you can call me Bob." He extended his hand towards Buffy while a tall brunette rolled her eyes in the background 'Who's that ?' Buffy wondered before being led into the office by the weird principal.
In front of the principals office
"Clean slate..." "..all about here.." "..even if.." "Burned down GYM?!"
"Hey Cor what did he just say ?" "Shh!" Cordelia leaned back against the door, trying to pick up the conversation again. 'So the new girl is a troublemaker huh ? And what's with the name ? Buffy ? That doesn't sound normal.'
"Hey Cor com on, what did he say ?" "Nothing Harmony, just boring stuff, lets get out of here." 'No need to get her into trouble just yet, but it's always good to have ammunition just in case she wants to stir up trouble with Queen Cordelia.' She waggled her eyebrows and grinned proud about herself before realising she talked about herself in third person again.. while babbling to herself .. in her head.
Inside the principals office
Buffys ears wiggled ever so slightly. Slayerhearing mode activated.
'Oh god, that long legged brunette out there is listening to us, i'm so dead.' Letting out a sigh Buffy concentrated on Bob again.
"Now now, there is no need to give up just yet Buffy, work hard and don't repeat .. that.." he gestured towards the torn up and retaped file in front of him. ".. and everything will be fine." He smiled a rather awkward smiled at her, shook her hand and ushered her out of the door.
'What an odd little man.' Buffy quickly glanced around trying to spot the brunette again and low and behold there she stood in all her glory with a smug grin on her lips as she watched Buffys hopes crumble to dust. Darting for the nearest corridor Buffy fled the scene. Cordelia immediately felt sorry for the blond, she already stopped herself from starting the rumor mill by telling Harmony about Buffy so why did she have to tease her like that? 'Cause it's fun to see her squirm that's for sure' Cordelia smirked and followed Buffy who was headed to the same class Cordelia had to take.
History Class
'Aww hell .. you've got to be kidding me' After being introduced the teacher told her to sit over there.. over there being the only free seat which happened to be right next to one Cordelia Chase whom Buffy had met earlier.
As Buffy approached she could see the grin on Cordelias face broadening to dangerous levels. 'Aww hell..'
"Hello there Buffy, I'm Cordelia, nice to meet you .. again" Corderlia kept her eye right at Buffy the whole time, who in turn tried her best not to look directly at Cordelia, rather mumbled something like "Hi." and slumped down next to her. "Now now, no need to be rude Buffy, wouldn't want to get on my cranky side now would you?" she winked at the blond who looked at her in alarm, but the brunette started to pity her a little bit and decided to cut her some slack. "Sorry Buffy, that's just to much fun, i'll behave from now on ok? See i'll even let you look in my book since you obviously forgot to get yours." Mumbling a "Thanks" Buffy scooted over a bit to get a better look at the book.
'This is going to be so much fun!' Cordelia thought while planing out how she was going to make the little blond squirm.
Stone Bench
All but fleeing from the classroom Buffy beelined for the stone bench she saw earlier and was glad to see Willow sitting there.. with Xander. 'Oh well, he ist kinda funny if you don't take him serious'. She plumped down with Willow between her and Xander and was about to start talking with them when Cordelia strolled by and winked playfully at Buffy. Groaning Buffy buried her head in her hands wishing that teleportation or invisibility were slayertraits.
"What the .. what was that?" Xander tried to wiggle around Willow to poke the slayer but Willow blocked his attempts. "Hey cut it out will you, it's obvious that Queen C found a new victim for her sick little games. It's alright .. umm .. s-sporty girl she does that to everyone."
"My name is Buffy." The girl mumbled through a mess of hair, arms and hands before inhaling deeply and sitting up straight. "And yes it seems like she does enjoy stuff like that a little bit to much."
"No no that doesn't make sense, why would she wink at you, i mean wink wink that's like .. you are one of her Cordettes or something. Hey wait a second you are a Cordyspy!" POW "Cut it out Xander, if she were a spy why would she act like that .. a-and whats there to spy about? Cordelia was able to pick on us for years now without any help." Willow regretted saying that as soon as it came out of her mouth. 'Now she knows just what kind of geeks we are, well done Rosenburg, way to go.'
Observing the whole scene Buffy couldn't help bit smile at this silly display. "I'm no Cordette and i'm no spy, Cordelia simply teased me a bit but it could have been a lot worse so i don't think she really means any harm." 'Yeah she could've told everyone about me..'
"No harm, yeah right she's like harmqueen of the year with all the harming she does." Willow rolled her eye at Xanders outburst. "Well he kinda has a point, Cordelia has a certain reputation to uphold so i were careful if i were y-you, which is a weird thought.. being all sporty and blond and stuff.."
"You're cute when you babble." Buffy smiled at Willow when she said that but quickly got a confused look on her face when she saw the reaction her compliment had on the other occupants of the bench. Willow turned into a human sized strawberry and Xander said "Yeah i know i do." smiling proudly at the compliment.
"Since i'm so cute how about you take me out for coffee later, or em .. maybe i should take you out for coffee being the manly man i am and all." Xander grinned feeling so damn confident because this girl was totally into him.
Meanwhile the strawberry did her best to hide her face and avoid any inappropriate noises .. like a whimper or squeek. Yep a squeak would certainly blow Willows cover and ensure that Xander got wind of what was actually going on, or Buffy for that matter.
"Umm no thanks, i'm not really .. you know .. looking for anyone at the moment. How about friendly coffee thou ? Friendly is good, right Willow?" Buffy tried her best to let the whole thing blow over and prayed the boy would take it in stride.
The strawberry squeaked, which the slayer took as approval and Xander grinned his trademark grin. "Yeah sure, i didn't honestly think i had a chance anyway. You know me always goofing around." He rubbed his head sheepishly. "Well you don't know me.. yet! But hey, you get what i mean?" He chuckled and turned around to shuffle away as smoothly as he could.
"Oh boy.. that was weird." Buffy said half to herself before sitting down next to Willow. "Hey, sorry about that, i couldn't help but notice how you went all quiet and mumbly when i said .. that. I really didn't mean anything by it and i wasn't trying to hit on him at all. You know .. in case you are interested in him, i wouldn't do stuff like that. Possible future boyfriend stealing ist a total no no for me ok?" 'Now lets hope she didn't see that i was talking to her when i said that.'
'Hey! Thats great! Thats a way out of this!' Willow mentally high fived her higher brain functions and morphed back into her notstrawberry form. "Umm.. ok y-you had me worried there for a second. But hes not my boyfriend and won't ever be again i guess."
"Again?" The slayer piqued up, interested in what this was about and glad that she got away with saying .. that to Willow.
"Yep, he stole my Barbie and that was a dealbreaker for me, i really like b-barbies LIKED Barbies yeah."
Not really getting what the last part was about Buffy simply asked "Huh?" "We were five.." Willow replied sheepishly "Ohh.." Both started laughing and that was it. Buffy thinking she got away with telling Willow she looked cute and Willow with getting away with acting as if Buffy had said ..that.. to her instead of Xander, which she did but Willow doesn't know that. 'I'm such a dork, of course she said it to Xander' Both girls laughed, maybe a little bit too much, but hey they were both happy everything was back to normal again.
A little bit out of sight a broad grin kept getting bigger and slowly swaggered away from the scene she had just witnessed. "Oh so much fun indeed!" whispered a sultry voice to herself.
Later in
Buffys Bedroom:
'That was one hell of a first day, so much could've gone really wrong .. but it didn't! And i kinda have Cordelia to thank for that, even tho she made me pay for it in her own way. Willow totally misunderstood what i said, which is good and Xander is .. well Xander, he is a total goofball and really most likely gay. The principal didn't seem all to happy when he realized what happened in my old school but that could've gone worse as well. All in all it seems I'm off to a good start. Ugh and the slayerstuff .. i think i'll not dwell on all that, i'd rather only think about the somewhat normal stuff in my life. Giles seemed kinda nice tho.' Nodding to herself and snuggling up to Mr. Gordo, her favorite plush toy, she started to doze off.
Willows Bedroom:
'Oh .. my .. god. Oh my god.. oh my god.. oh ... my.. god...'
Xander's Bedroom:
'I shouldn't have told Jesse about the thing with Buffy and Willow, he couldn't stop laughing.. he does have a cute laugh tho.. erm yeah no'.
Cordelias Bedroom:
Maniacal laughter crept out of Cordelias window and into the dark night, whirling as if possessed by a demon.. or a really fiendish head cheerleader.
OOC clarification and such:
1. Buffy is gay from the get go but tries to hide it for obvious reasons (people being stupid and shallow that is).
2. Buffy meant Willow is cute not Xander, I tried to make it clear in the text but I'm not sure how well I translated what I meant to say.
3. The whole setting seems really playful and i guess ill keep it like that for a while because it's tons of fun writing this silly stuff but please don't be surprised when i start a more serious tone once stuff gets .. well serious. Like someone finding out who's interested in who and such.
4. I will not write slayer related stuff, or at least ill try to avoid it as best as i can, my stories are focused on the interaction and drama between the main chars because i personally don't really care for 50% of the plot being about some thought up big evil monster thingie that threatens the world.