This story is set in a AU where there are no monsters, hell mouth or things that go bump in the night. This is a story about young adults coming to terms with who they are and follows a story and life, love and friendship. Enjoy. I do not own anything, other than a creative imagination.
It was May 23rd and everyone at Sunnydale High School was getting ready for summer vacation. It was the final day of school and everyone was anticipating the final bell to toll the beginning of Summer, students and teachers alike.
In Biology, a redheaded junior - despite the holidays looming - was eager to learn right up until the last moment, with a microscope on the desk in front of her she looked at human skin cells under a slide.
Her name was Willow Rosenberg, she was 17 years old and loved school, especially technology studies and biology. She was dating 'Dingoes Ate My Baby' songwriter and guitarist Daniel 'Oz' Osbourne. At that moment she was sat next to her less enthusiastic lab partner, and best friend Buffy Summers.
Buffy was a 17 year old junior with long blonde hair, who was captain of the Sunnydale High cheer leading team, cheering on the Sunnydale Razorbacks - the school's football team, which happened to feature her all star quarterback boyfriend Liam 'Angel' O'Connell.
Angel was an 18 year old senior, quarterback and captain of the Sunnydale Razorbacks football team and was going to be graduating this summer. He had been accepted to Ohio State University on a football scholarship and was due to leave at the end of June to get settled. His best friend since kindergarten was William 'Spike' Pratt.
Spike was an 18 year old senior, with bleach blonde hair which he gelled back. He didn't enjoy school and had not applied to any colleges. He wore a long leather trench coat - even in the summer - and dressed like his 80's style icon Billy Idol. Though he moved to the states when he was four he still spoke with a cockney British accent. He was sat in music class next to Oz.
Oz was an 18 year old senior, with small stature and auburn hair. He was graduating high school this summer and had been offered a position at UC Sunnydale where he was going to study music. He had lived next to Alexander 'Xander' Harris all his life.
Xander was a 17 year old junior, he had short brown hair and used his witty humour to make up for his own insecurities. He had been best friends with Willow and Buffy since Kindergarten - Buffy broke Willow's yellow crayon and Xander stood up and pushed Buffy over, from that day they were inseparable. He was dating Anya Jenkins.
Anya was a 17 year old junior, she was petite and had shoulder length, curly, blonde hair. Her parents emigrated from Sweden to New York City when she was 4 years old and moved to Sunnydale when she was in ninth grade, enrolling in Sunnydale at the beginning of the freshman year. She had already acquired a summer job at the local cineplex.
These seven high schoolers (The Smart One, The Cheerleader, The Jock, The Punk, The Musician, The Jester and The Transfer Student) banded together to make the most unstoppable clique in Sunnydale high history: The Scoobies.
The Scoobies was started by Willow, Buffy and Xander after the yellow crayon incident when they were Kindergarten, but was initially called the 'We hate Cordelia Club' - named so after mean girl Cordelia Chase. Cordelia had gotten one of the other boys in the class to pull down Xander's trousers and revealed his much loved Aquaman underpants - earning him the nickname Aqua Boy - which humiliated him up until middle school. When the teens entered high school Buffy and Angel began dating which automatically enrolled him into the newly named Scoobies. Angel's best friend Spike was next enrolled into the Scoobies and introduced Willow to Oz. Once Willow and Oz were dating it meant the once group of three had grown to six. Then finally last year when new girl Anya joined the school Xander fell head over heels and they began dating, making Scoobies now a group of the unstoppable seven.
"You do know it's nearly summer, right Will? Buffy asks prodding the dork next to her.
"Yes, which mean 7 weeks of no learning!" Willow replies, averting her attention from the microscope in front of her to Buffy.
"Take a look around, you are the only one doing anything." Buffy says gesturing around the class. "Even Mr. Cox is reading a confiscated magazine!"
Willow peers around the room and sees the excited classroom bustling with life. Two jocks at the front of the classroom are sending paper airplanes across the room, Cordelia is applying makeup using her front facing iphone camera and Mr Cox is leaning back in his chair with his feet up on his desk reading a confiscated magazine. "You're right." Willow admits pushing the microscope back. "What do you want to do?"
Buffy looks back at her best friend in disbelief. "What? Willow, are you okay?" She asks placing the back of her hand on her friends forehead, mimicking her.
"Hey!" Willow replies with hurt in her tone. "I can be fun too." She adds sticking her tongue out at her so called best friend.
"So, what are your plans for the summer?" Buffy asks.
"Nothing really, I'm too old for my regular Jewish summer camp - to my mom's dismay - and we were too late to apply to any others. So my summer is looking pretty boring. How about you, what are you doing?" Willow reposes.
"Me? Well, with Angel going to Ohio at the end of June I want to make the most of the time I get to spend with him before he goes off to college - who knows when we'll get to see each other again." Buffy states solemnly. "You're so lucky Oz is going to college in state."
Willow shrugs. "He's going to be closer for college, but we still aren't going to be able to see each other that often. He's going on tour with the Dingoes during the summer break for nearly two months, so I'm not actually going to be able to spend a lot of time with him."
"I say spend as much time as I can with Angel, but you won't believe what my mom has gone and done. She's booked a holiday to Europe for two weeks at the beginning of June without even getting my consent!" Buffy scoffs. "Did I mentioned Angel is not invited?!"
"Aw, well are you going to go?" Willow queries.
"I kinda have to, she said that if I don't go she'll ban me from cheer leading next year!"
"Oh calamity!" Willow feigns.
"Shut up!" Buffy bites back jokingly. "You know how much it means to me!"
"Say's the person who interrupted my learning…" Willow grates.
"Touche, Willow, Touche." Buffy retorts.
Meanwhile...
Angel, Oz and Spike sit on the bleachers looking across at their old high school. As Sunnydale tradition the last day of senior year was ditch day and today was no different. Angel and Oz came to wait for their respective partners to finish class and Spike tagged along so he could speak to the principle.
"What do you mean you didn't graduate?" Angel replies looking his best friend in the eyes.
"Apparently, I din't pass English language or physical education, which is a load of bloody bullocks if you ask me!"
"The English ponse couldn't pass English…" Angel mocks.
"So, what are you going to do?" Oz asks trying to support his friend.
"He said I would 'av to go summer school or I'll need to redo senior year." Spike replies weighing out his options. "I don't av' any plans for next year or nothin', I might as well hang back another year. Make sure your girl has someone she can rely on and all that."
"What does that mean?" Angel retorts threateningly.
"I don't mean nothin' by it ya moron." Spike replies innocently. "Just sayin', you'll be out the state and I can keep an eye on her. Y'know, make sure she stays faithful."
Angel looks between Spike and Oz. "We love each other, she'll never do anything like that."
"And you? You'll be going off to college, think about all the additional attention you'll get. You don't think you'll stray?" Oz questions.
"No, of course not! My loyalties lay with Buffy!" Angel insists.
"Good answer!" Oz retorts. "That was a test, and you passed!"
From across the field the bell echoes in the distance. Almost immediately flocks of teens come running out of the front doors.
"Saved by the bell." Spike chortles.
From across the field Angel catches eyes with his cheer leading queen. She runs over to him and wraps her legs around his waist and the begin to passionately kiss. In Buffy's tow Willow walks over and offers Oz a quick kiss, not ones for PDA.
"Ew guys, why don't you get a room! Better yet a condom!" A familiar cheery voice calls sarcastically across to Buffy and Angel.
"Xander." Oz greets. "How you doin' man?"
"You know, not too bad except I have completely lost my appetite." He states peering at the two love birds till sticking tongues in each others mouth. "Good god people, do you even breathe?"
"They are just excited for the holidays, sweetie." Anya adds. "I think it's sweet."
"Do you think we should throw some water on them? Anyone got any water?" Xander jokes.
Angel looks at Xander whilst still sucking face with Buffy and sticks his middle finger up at him.
"Love you too, Buddy!" Xander retorts.
"Scoobies, listen up!" Spike announces gaining everyone's attention including Buffy's and Angel's. "Oo's ready to have the most fucking awesome summer ever!"
I hope you enjoyed reading this, as much as I enjoyed writing it. Being a new concept I found it fun to explore. This is intended to be quite a long story so please bare with me. Please review, I'd love to know what you think.
