AN: I don't own anything. Thoughts are in italics.

Buffy POV

Buffy Summers on the outside was your typical high school girl. She had the friends,the car,the clothes,the title of cheer captain, and the quarterback boyfriend. They all said and thought she had the perfect life. But what goes on behind closed doors, stays behind closed doors.

Her ,her sister Dawn Summers ,their mother Joyce Summers and father Hank Summers had moved to Sunnydale a little over 2 years ago. After "the Incident". That's what her family called what caused them to move to Sunnydale in the first place. Hank had picked up and moved his family because things were getting to hard to hide back in LA. He was a defense lawyer, he was the best in his firm. Always cleared the bad guys name no matter what the crime. Joyce ran the local art gallery. Buffy was in the beginning of her senior year. School had started three weeks ago,and today was Friday. She sat in her car for a minute collecting herself. Time to put on her mask, she looked in the rear view mirror and sighed. 'one day' she thought.

"What are you doing?" asked a familiar voice.

"Nothing, just checking my hair" She lied,this had become part of her. The way she would hide from the world. She got out of her car grabbed her backpack and turned to look at the speaker

"Hey,missed you this weekend."

"Yeah,about that,umm something came up last minuet with the family,sorry" replied her boyfriend,Riley Finn,or fish boy as Xander, one of her best friends liked to call him. Her friends didn't really like Riley. But, they thought he made her happy so they dealt with him.

"We okay?" he asked.

"Yeah it was just one silly weekend,that's all." She said. She knew exactly were he was this weekend and it wasn't any family outing,"oh well"she said to herself. That's what this relationship was, lies on top of more lies. But hey if that's what your life was, everything in it was going to be too.

"So you ready?"

"Yeah lets go."

Riley took her hand and they walkedintoSunndale High to meet the others. On the way Riley droned on about something or other,she just shook her head and said "Yeahs" and "um huhs" here and there .He didn't seem to notice that she wasn't paying any attention. No, her mind was in the place it always was, trying to find a way out.

Angel POV

Liam Angelus O'Connor looked at the school in front of him. There were people everywhere .He hated people they always asked questions. The kind they didn't want answers for but, asked anyway. He let out a sigh and took a look around, he really wished his sister Kathy was here but she had to go to the college or do something equally unimportant. At least she could act as his buffer, keep the people at bay. But he was alone in this, so he set off to find the office. Once inside he was knocked into by some tiny little thing. Blond, petite, and beautiful. He had thought at first that 'maybe' then was side tracked by her voice.

"I'm sorry, I wasn't paying any attention to where I was going." She said.

Her voice rang in his head, it was like nothing he had ever heard before.

"Oh umm, no its okay wasn't paying much attention myself." Angel replied.

"Well it looks like were both to blame for this hallway collision."

"I guess so, should we trade insurance cards?" he smiled. 'what was he doing? he never flirted with girls'

She laughed"No I don't think any damage was done." 'Thank god .Wait, why did he care if he had hurt her?'

"I'm Buffy by the way I don't think we've met." She held out her hand, he took it and said

"Liam, and no you wouldn't have, I just transferred in." The minuet there hands touched he felt a buzz. 'whoa, what the hell?' he though.

"Ooh, a new boy. Well you'll need to be shown the sights of Sunnydale wh-." Just then the bell rang. " Why don't you find me at lunch we'll talk more then. Bye."

"Bye."

And with that she turned and left. ' What was that all about? The feeling he got when he touched her? He could definitely- No, no you can't Liam, just look at your last girlfriend' he thought. He was standing in the hall way thinking about her the whole time while it cleared. When he finally pulled himself out of his thoughts he realized the hall was empty and he had yet to find the office. So as he continued to walk around a certain blond was the only thing he was thinking about. Eventually he stumbled across the office. He took a deep breath and went in. He went up to the front desk and said

"Excuse me."

"Yes." The lady standing there said. She looked like a normal secretary. Hair in a bun, glasses on a chain around her neck. white blouse, black skirt.

"I'm new I need a schedule and locker." She looked up at this and said

"Are you Liam O'Connor?"

"Yes" he replied.

"Wait here please." And with that she was off. A minute later a short man with a bald spot and funny looking face came out and said

"O'Connor. My office." he turned sharply and went back to where he came from. Angel followed right behind him. When he got into the office tiny man was already sitting at his desk. It said Principal Snyder on the door.

"Sit." Snyder barked. Angel sat down thinking sarcastically ' Oh, I bet me and him are gonna get along real well'.

"I have read your file, and it disturbs me. I don't like your kind here. You cause me trouble and headaches. So let it be known that I will be watching you. One wrong move and, your out. Got it O'Connor?"

Angel felt like smirking but decided against it. "Got it." he said instead.

"Good. Now go to the front desk and Marge will give you your class schedule."

Angel got up and left the tiny man in his office alone. He got his classes and a map. He read his first class off the paper in front of him.'History. That should be easy' he thought after all it was his best subject at his old school. He looked at the map and set off for his first class. As he took his first step he said to himself

"Room 212, here I come."

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