'It means you belong to somebody"
Buffy stared at the ring. She could still feel how it felt that day, night actually, how it felt when he said that to her. It was like, it was getting married or at least that was how she imagined that was how it would feel in her head. When she envisioned how it would feel. Was she right? When the right person said it then Buffy wouldn't be thinking how the other person thought. Not the person she thought of would feel but the person she married. Was that all she got?
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Angel looked at the date. So Buffy was 25 today. It was 3 years since the birthday and he was suppose to have gotten on with his life. What about Cordy or Electric Girl or, hell, just about anybody who wasn't Buffy.
To be honest, at one point, he thought he had moved on. She had moved on. Angel had thought he was involved with Cordy that they were in love. So much between the two; the way everything had happened-it had been so easy. How could they have not been in love? Who wouldn't be?
Now, four years later, Angel didn't think that. The chemistry was there, no doubt, there was no disagreement. What he thought now was that Cordy and he had gotten carried away; the way people did. It wasn't a mistake but maybe, just maybe, it was. So many people thought it was right and in some ways he did too. Ways that weren't right. It didn't matter in the end. Cordy had somewhere else to spend her days and he-he had somewhere else too be.
Buffy stared at the ring. She could still feel how it felt that day, night actually, how it felt when he said that to her. It was like, it was getting married or at least that was how she imagined that was how it would feel in her head. When she envisioned how it would feel. Was she right? When the right person said it then Buffy wouldn't be thinking how the other person thought. Not the person she thought of would feel but the person she married. Was that all she got?
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Angel looked at the date. So Buffy was 25 today. It was 3 years since the birthday and he was suppose to have gotten on with his life. What about Cordy or Electric Girl or, hell, just about anybody who wasn't Buffy.
To be honest, at one point, he thought he had moved on. She had moved on. Angel had thought he was involved with Cordy that they were in love. So much between the two; the way everything had happened-it had been so easy. How could they have not been in love? Who wouldn't be?
Now, four years later, Angel didn't think that. The chemistry was there, no doubt, there was no disagreement. What he thought now was that Cordy and he had gotten carried away; the way people did. It wasn't a mistake but maybe, just maybe, it was. So many people thought it was right and in some ways he did too. Ways that weren't right. It didn't matter in the end. Cordy had somewhere else to spend her days and he-he had somewhere else too be.