I own nothing, Joss owns all. Damn the Jossverse…he makes my spikey cry.

"But Mommy! I don't wanna go to kinder'arten!" Buffy protested for the third time that morning. Joyce just shook her head as she continued to drive down the congested California highway, headed for Kinder Kare school building. "Honey, I know you really don't want to go to kindergarten but your old enough now that you need to." Joyce said as she patted Buffy's small, tan hand. Buffy sparkling green eyes welled up with tears as her blonde pigtails bounced up and down to signify that "Yes Mom I understand." Joyce smiled and continued to drive. Buffy leaned her small frame against the passenger door as the palm trees and houses whizzed by. What am I going to do? Buffy thought as she felt tears falling down her cheeks.

At that exact moment a tall brown haired woman was ushering a tiny boy through the doors of the same Kinder Kare building. "But Mom! I don't wanna go to this sodden school!" the boy whined. "I think you'll enjoy kindergarten." The woman said in a smooth British accent. "Don't bet on it." The boy said under his breath as his mother led him down the white corridor and into a classroom.

"Welcome to Kinder Kare Kindergarten!" the school teacher said in a happy voice that would have charmed baby birds out of their nest. Buffy stood slumping against one wall as the other school children ran around the square classroom. Slowly, her eyes drifted and locked on every child in the room. There, in one corner she saw a brown haired boy and red haired girl, sitting on the "clock" rug, playing trucks. Another little girl was playing with a toy cash register as a third little girl was coloring in a thick, torn coloring book.

As Buffy's gaze passed the teacher who was now talking to a brown haired elegant woman, her eyes fell on a little boy who instantly attracted her interest. This little boy had brown hair and sparkling blue eyes. Who is that? Buffy thought.

Okay short I know but it's my first! Pleez r&r!