Starbucks
At Starbucks I ordered a coffee with plenty of cinnamon, sugar, and ginger. Everyone else ordered gingerbread mocha. I took my laptop out from my bag and plugged it in. "Are you allowed to do that?" Willow asked. "Of course I am, I'm their best customer." The employee behind the counter winked at me and I smiled. "Why don't you go out with that guy?" I turned red as a beet, and said "I don't believe in love." Then I added thoughtfully "The people who belong together never end up together." I smirked at Angel and Buffy, then she kicked me in the shin under the table. I swore a few words that would get a bar of soap in my mouth if my mother heard. They looked at each other in surprise, then Buffy said wryly "I never would have done that if I knew she would swear like that." I glowered at her for a moment, then put youtube on. I plugged in my headphones and listened to Paramore: Brick by Boring Brick. I loved Paramore.
I read some fanfiction stories while Willow looked up the latest demon stuff, and some stuff on magic. She liked the idea, but hadn't experienced what it was like. I was reading a story about a slayer and demons. They have no idea how close this person came to the real thing, I thought. I yelped in surprise when Buffy stood behind me, and was reading over my shoulder. "You know I hate it when you do that!" I said. She just read the stuff instead, until I looked at my youtube tab. "That stuff was really close to the real thing, I wonder who wrote it?" She looked at me pointedly. "Wasn't me! And I'm not telling you who wrote it." I checked some email as everyone talked absentmindedly. I was lost in thought, and listening to Swing Life Away: Rise Against. Then Giles walked in. "Hello Giles," I said. I was still lost in my own little world, then Giles said something that yanked me out, leaving me breathless. "We've been assigned a mission."
We all groaned simultaneously. There went our extended spring break, they were looking for a principal, and we got 3 weeks left. At least we got to travel to places. He continued "A vampire coven of 7 is in Forks Washington, and we're being sent to observe them to see if they're a threat to the people living there." "Why should we have to observe? Vampires are empty shells with demons occupying them." Dawn said. Buffy nodded, she had taught her sister a few things here and there. He cleared his throat nervously "Actually, these ones have souls. They are much the same as they were in their human lives, except their faster, stronger, have venom, and are beautifuler than they were when human." "But that sounds like the ones in Maya's book. How would she know about them?" They looked at me, and they grew shocked as Giles said "She wrote that book, and she encountered them before. She's even made deals with demons of other sorts." My face grew murderous as I said "You looked in the book." He wiped his brow with a napkin, and nervously pushed his glasses up his nose. "You left it lying around, and I read the description of how they look, but your mother intervened before I could read more." Then he paused "But I did learn her friend from school is a vampire, and that the friends cousin is a shadowhunter." I had been putting my stuff in my bag when he spoke and everyone had their attention on him. By the time they looked at me I was already at the door.
They saw me race out and into my car, it was a suburban. I drove as quickly as I could home. As soon as I got there, I shoved my book into the wood paneling of the bookshelf in the living room. I called a hello to my mother in the kitchen. She was leaving to Southern California today to join my little 13 year old sister at my mom's house, (a.n. we call our grandma mom because she raised us until we moved to Vegas) they'd be there for 3 weeks. My dad was on a business trip, and we were all going to meet at mom's house on the seventeenth, we'd stay there until Saturday. Then we'd come back. I watched some TV, I only got 5 minutes when I heard them "MAYA!" Shit. I slowly turned around to face my friends.
