A little bit of Buffy/Angel drama in this chapter, don't worry- this fic is still going to be light and fluffy.
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Chapter 3: Where Is Angel?
"Where is Angel?" Buffy asked walking through the door joining her hotel room with her boyfriends parents.
"He isn't with you?" Lydia asked getting her bathing suit out of her suit case and sitting on the bed.
Buffy shook her head. "He left hours ago, said he had to do something with his dad."
Jim lifted his hand slowly. "His dad is here."
"Well where did he go?" Buffy asked confused. Angel had been acting weird all day, they had gone to Rockefeller Center, He would hold her hand while they were walking but looked like he was in his own little world. It worried her, the longer they were in New York City the weirder Angel got. They had been there for 3 days, she was scared what he would be like by the end of the trip. He had told her that they went to New York City a lot, maybe he had a girl there. She didn't want to believe that, they had the perfect relationship but it was a fear of hers that she would lose him. "Does he have… a friend here he could have gone to see?"
"Of course he has friends here." Lydia told Buffy. "I just don't know why he would tell you that he was going to be with Jim. It is very odd."
Buffy bit her lip nervously. "Your tellin' me."
"Did you kids decide what you wanted to do tomorrow?" Joyce asked her daughter as she walked through the door Buffy had just came through. "Where is Angel?"
Buffy shrugged and walked back into her room that she shared with Angel, shutting the door.
"Did I miss something?" Joyce asked Lydia and Jim.
Jim took a deep breath. "She doesn't know where Angel is."
Joyce looked at the closed door with a confused look. "Don't they spend every second together? How could she not know where he is?"
"He told her he had something he had to do with me." Jim shrugged. "Which as you can see, isn't true."
"Do you think they are spending to much time together?" Joyce wondered. She had no idea why Angel would lie about where he was going to be.
The original plan was to go back to the hotel for a while because Dawn was getting cranky, it was a lot of excitement for a 7 year old and she was getting tired early since they got to New York. Dawn was going to take a nap, then they were all going to go swimming and get some dinner at the restaurant in the hotel. They had waited almost a half hour for Angel to get back, when he didn't come Dawn started to get impatient. Joyce, Lydia and Jim took Dawn to go swimming. Buffy wasn't in the mood anymore, she couldn't help but think of all the million places Angel could be and why he would lie about it. When Dawn's skin got all pruney they took her back to the hotel room to get ready for dinner. Angel still wasn't back.
"Are you coming to dinner, Sweetie?" Joyce asked her oldest daughter.
Buffy was sitting on the bed with her back to her mother. She looked down at the floor and whispered. "I'm not really hungry right now."
"Okay." Joyce left but made a mental note to bring something back to the room for her daughter.
45 minutes later Angel walked in to the hotel room he shared with Buffy, glancing up he saw her looking out the window to the pool area. "Ready to go swimming?"
"They already went." Buffy said softly not moving to look at him.
"Oh." Angel shrugged carefully laying his leather jacket on the bed. "Dinner then?"
"They already went." She repeated.
Angel looked at her oddly, she was acting weird. "… What did you have?" When she didn't answer him he shrugged again and walked up behind her. "I already ate anyway." He said as he wrapped his arms around her waist.
Buffy looked down at his hands on her stomach.
"What's wrong, Baby?" He asked her giving her a soft kiss on her shoulder.
Buffy took a deep breath and looked back out the window. "If your going to lie to me then you should really make sure the right people are in on it."
"What?" He asked her slightly confused.
"You told me you had something you had to do with your dad…" Buffy said a little louder. "Your dad was still here."
"Oh, that."
Buffy let out a short bitter laugh. "That is all I get? 'Oh that'? Are you kidding me?" she turned around and pushed at his chest so he took a step back.
"What is going on?" Angel asked, not sure what was going on. "Are we having our first fight?"
"Ya think?" Buffy shouted.
"Can you at least fill me in on what it is about?" He asked looked around confused, like his surroundings would give him any kind of clue.
"You lied to me!" Buffy said annoyed.
"One little lie!" Angel said holding up his pointer finger. "ONE. I have never lied to you before."
Buffy shrugged. "So why start now?"
"I just had somewhere I needed to be. Okay?" Angel's facial expression almost broke her heart. He looked like he was truly sorry, like he hadn't meant for it to hurt her.
"Then where were you?"
Angel dropped his hands in defeat. "I will tell you, just… not right now. Okay?"
Dropping down to sit on the bed Buffy wiped a single tear off her face. People lie when they have something to hide.
"Hey, Baby. Don't cry." Angel whispered, knelling down in front of her. "It's nothing bad, I promise."
"Then why won't you tell me?" She whispered back. "There must be a reason…"
Lifting her hand to his lips he kissed the back of it. "I just met up with a friend and I had to do something."
Buffy took a deep breath, he had met up with someone… she wasn't so sure she wanted to know who it was.
"We got invited to a party tonight." Angel told her with a small smile, hoping it would make her feel better.
"We?"
Angel nodded. "Yeah, you and me. Do you want to go?"
"I'm not really in the mood." She told him.
"Oh come on!" He said lightly tugging on her hand. "I want you to meet my friend."
Looking up at him confused she asked "What?"
"I want you to meet him friend." He repeated. "They are thinking about moving to California so you will be seeing a lot more of them. Come with me tonight."
"But it's Christmas Eve, I always spend Christmas Eve with my mom and Dawn." Buffy said not sure of how she could get out of this.
"We still can." Angel smiled. "We don't have to show up at the party as soon as it starts. It will be fun."
"I…"
"No." Angel interrupted her. "Don't you dare say no. It is going to be a lot of fun. I promise!"
"Sweetie.." Joyce called as she walked in from her hotel room. "I know you said you didn't want anything but… oh, Angel. I didn't know you were back. Well here, Buffy." She put a doggie bag on the desk in the room. "Are you hungry, Angel? I could run back down for you?"
"No, but thanks." He gave his girlfriends mother a small smile. Once Joyce shut the door behind her, he looked at to Buffy. "I thought you already ate."
"I said they went to dinner." Buffy told him. "I didn't say I did."
"Why didn't you go?" He wondered.
"Because my boyfriend was MIA for like 4 hours."
Angel stood up and sat on the bed next to her. "Sorry, I guess I should have called."
"Ya think?" Buffy ask him with a 'Duh' look on her face.
"Is our first fight over with now because I don't like this." He said taking a deep breath and exhaling.
Buffy pouted. "Me either."
"Good." Angel said laying down on the bed and pulling her with him. "You will eat, we will have our make up sex because I hear that is the best kind, we will hang out with the family and then go to my friends party. Sound good?"
"Up until the party part."
"Come." Angel whispered as he kissed her neck. "For me."
Buffy let out a small moan. "Always, for you."
"Mmm." Angel kissed down her neck to the top of her shirt. "I love you."
"Love you too."
Buffy didn't get to eat until a little later but she was okay with that, making up with Angel was better then food. She still wasn't so sure if anything was even resolved, she didn't know who this friend was or what they were doing. All she knew was Angel was gone for four hours so she pretty much knew nothing. Angel still seemed to smooth things over though and make her feel like everything was okay. It was one of the things she normally loved about him, he could always make her feel better but in this case she wanted answers. What had he been doing? Is this friend he was with a girl? Why would he invite her to a party if his girl friend was going to be there. She was so confused but she was pleasantly numb at the same time, that was another thing she loved about him.
To be continued….
What do you think? Is something going on or is Buffy paranoid?
