AN: By the way i don't think i mentioned this in the first chapter but Buffy was 13 and William was 14 when she moved so now (3 years later) they would be 16 & 17

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3 years later

Buffy and her mother pulled up to their new house, 1630 Revello Drive. As Buffy got out of the car and looked around at her surroundings she sighed. She was back in Sunnydale. Sure she had missed her friends but she had adjusted to living in New York. She hadn't even spoken to one person who lived in Sunnydale in nearly 2 and a half years...Buffy broke out of her thoughts at the sound of her mothers voice.

"Buffy, can you help me get the boxes into the house."

"Oh! Yeah sure." She took a box and headed into the house. She put it down she headed back out to help her mom with the rest of the boxes. Once all the boxes were in the house she sat down on the sofa.

"So you start school tomorrow" Joyce said as she came into the room and sat beside Buffy "I called Mrs. Rosenberg and she said Willow would be glad to show you around the school."

Buffy smiled at the mention of Willow. She was Buffy's best female friend, she really missed her. They used to write each other all the time when Buffy first moved to New York but the distance drifted them apart and they hardly wrote each other anymore. "Thats great!" Buffy told her mom. Maybe being back in Sunnydale wasn't so bad after all.

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The next day Joyce dropped Buffy off at school. She was looking for Willow when she heard a familiar voice behind her. "Well well, if it isn't he Buffster back from New York!" Buffy turned around to find Xander Harris standing there smiling.

"Oh my god Xander!" she said excitedly and hugged him. "I can't believe its you I mean look at you!"

He laughed as he pulled out of the hug "Look at me? What about you..your..wow Buff!...I mean well you know your all womanish now and uh well..."

She smiled at him...Same old Xander "So have you seen Willow? Shes supposed to show me around and stuff"

"No sorry...Shes probably at her locker. Come ill show you where that is!" Buffy nodded and followed Xander down the halls of Sunnydale high. "There she is!" He said pointing to Willow who was putting books into her locker. Willow didn't notice them walk up to her until Xander spoke up. "Hey look what I found!" He said putting his arm around Buffy's Shoulder.

Willow looked up at the sound of Xander's voice and squealed when she saw Buffy. Within no time the two girls were in a tight embrace. "Buffy! Your back!" she said hugging her again.

"Gosh Will Ive missed you so much" Buffy said pulling out of the embrace.

"I missed you to. I'm just so happy your back again!"

"Me to!" Buffy replied "We have so much catching up to do" With that the two girls were walking down the halls talking about everything they could think of thats happened to them the last 3 years.

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Later at lunch Buffy sat with Willow, Xander, Anya, Jesse and Oz. She looked around at her friends talking to each other and smiled. Everything was just like it used to be. Everything except...

"Wheres William?" She asked and the whole table went quiet at that. Everyone looked down not really knowing what to say. Buffy noticed this and was now confused. "Whats going on?"

"Well you see Buff William isn't exactly William anymore" Xander replied not really knowing what else to say. Buffy was even more confused now. She was about to say something when Anya decided to speak up.

"Oh for crying out loud they're all just afraid to tell you that he changed his name to Spike, bleached his hair, and didn't really care when we told him you were moving back"

"Thank you Ahn" Xander told his girlfriend sarcastically "Buffy he had a really hard time when you left and pretty much cut us all out of his life...hes a completely different person now."

"Oh" was all Buffy could manage to say. Right then a bleached blond boy wearing all black entered the cafeteria. She watched him walk over and sit at 'the popular table' with Cordelia Chase, Harmony Kendall, Liam Angelus otherwise known as Angel, Parker Abrams, and Darla. "Is that..." she said while pointing to him.

"Yeah" Willow replied "Thats William"

"And he said he didn't care I was back?" She asked

"Sorry Buffy.."

Buffy felt her eyes fill with tears. How could that be William Giles, the sweet boy she used to be best friends with. Now he was Spike? And he didn't even want to see her again. Anya and Xander's words kept replaying in her head over and over again...

'and he didn't really care when we told him you were moving back'

'hes a completely different person now'

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"Is everything OK?" Joyce asked her daughter later that night "You've been really quiet since you got home from school"

"I'm fine" Buffy replied not even looking at her mother.

"How was school, did you see all your friends again?" Joyce tried.

"Yeah I saw them" She replied quietly, her mind flashing back to Willia- Spike.

Joyce nodded and left the room deciding to try and talk to her again later.

Buffy finally let her tears fall when her mom left the room. She just couldn't believe what was happening. How could William not want to see her? The were best friends! She had to try to talk to him. The William she knew had to still be there somewhere. At least thats what she tried to convince herself as she continued to cry herself to sleep.

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Tbc..