Chapter 20!

8:00 the next morning, surprisingly all of us were ready, including me. I'm so proud of myself.

"You all packed Dawnie?" Angel asked

She nodded at him and grabbed her bags to head downstairs.

Everyone had their bags in the trunks and was downstairs in the common room drinking coffee or hot coco in Dawns case. She argued about it but as always, I won.

"Hey is she staying with us for the rest of the year or is your dad coming to pick her up?" Angel asked me.

"I think she's staying with us and going to our school because hell would freeze over before my dad would come all the way to Sunnydale just to pick one of us up, he'd make mom do it and we both know she's to busy to do that."

Angel shrugged and headed downstairs to everyone else.

"Are we going to go mini-puttin?" Dawn asked excitedly.

Angel shrugged "yeah sure."

Mini-Putt wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, I mean everyone else was having a fun time, but it was mostly just me and Tom together and my god is he dull! I never noticed. He usually talks a lot when it's me, him, Angel and Dawn but when it's just the two of us he's not that much fun. He seemed like he was deep in thought most of the time. I did notice how much attention Angel was giving Dawn though. I think he's trying to ignore Cordelia but not doing to well of a job on how she keeps trying to touch him. I accidently giggled out loud at the look of Angel turning Cordelia down, Tom gave me a weird look at giggling at nothing though, probably thinks I'm a nut.

"Ahh the dreaded coo coo clock, so many have come, so few have conquered." Xander said dropping his golf ball on the ground. (A/N: Sorry if I got that line wrong, but I was to lazy to check.)

Xander of course was one of the many that came and not one of the few that conquered.

It was about 10:30 when we were walking out of the Mini-Putt place.

My arm really itched as I was walking to the van too.

"Buffy what are you doing?" Angel asked, he must have noticed me itching away like crazy.

"My arm itches really bad, have you ever had something itch but it's like you can't find it, no matter where you scratch it?" asked still scratching

"Buffy no one cares." Cordelia said and jumped in the van, Angel laughed though.

We all decided to skip the go-carts and just keep heading home. Even though no one admitted it I could tell we were all getting homesick. I slept in the car a lot. Ride backs are never near as fun as the rides there.

This was our second day on coming home, we were almost there but no one wanted to drive anymore and Angel wouldn't let me drive so here we are at yet another hotel.

"Ow." I said out loud, I was by myself heading back to my hotel room after getting a little candy from the candy machinefor the road tomorrow I had ran my hand against a wooden railing. Oh shit! I have a splinter! I hate splinters! They hurt so bad. Ohhh.. I hate to be a baby, but splinters are just one of those things.

I whined coming in the room, where everyone else was too. They probably wanted to come and have all of us together for a while, for some unexplained reason but that was the best reason I had.

"What's the matter Buffy?" Willow called when I was in the bathroom.

I came out and sat on the bed holding my hand to my leg. "I got a splinter." I whined more. I saw Tom starting to get up to help but Angel was here sitting next to me in two seconds flat.

"How the hell did you get a splinter in a hotel?" Angel asked holding my hand with a gentleness. I shivered a little when he started to caress my hand to try and get the splinter out. I loved the feeling of his hand on mine, woah where did that come from?

" I was running my hand down a rail which are suppose to be safe! Ow ow ow! Angel that hurts."

Angel started to pinch my skin, trying to find it.

"Stop being such a baby." Angel said

"I am not being a baby!" I said getting more irritated every second.

"It's out."

"It's out?" I asked surprised. It didn't hurt. How does he do that? He aways makes things better.

"Yeah when you get mad, you don't notice much." he smiled

"haha very funny." I gave him a fake grin.

"Buffy what are you doing?" Angel asked the next morning. He was watching tv on the bed with Cordelia curled up on him. Dawn was watching tv from the other bed.

"I'm using this new hand stuff. It really works!" I said excitedly.

"My god Buffy you sound like a tv salesman, 'It really works!'" Dawn said

"What is it?" Cordelia asked now sitting up.

"Some Marie Kay stuff." I said

"Oooh I want some." Cordelia jumped off the bed "I love this stuff!" she said grabbing a bottle. Maybe if I let her use this then she won't watch me and Angel's every move cause really that's getting annoying.

I walked over to Angel. "See Angel, nice soft hands." I rubbed my hands across his cheek.

"Yeah yeah yeah real soft." he said My god her hands really are soft! They feel so good, and they smell good too. "You guys ready to go?"

We all nodded silently and headed downstairs to the cars.

The car ride was still mostly boring, me and Tom talked a bit but I mostly slept. I could hear Cordelia up there jabbering about nothing, and Angel just nodding his head or saying yes or no.

A couple hours later, we were finally home! Well at Angel's house anyways. Once we pulled in everyone got in their own cars and drove home. Angel even managed to get Cordelia to go home, leaving me, Dawn, and Angel. I quickly went inside threw my suitcase in my room, I'll put everything away later. It was about 9:30 PM and I just wanted to lay down on the couch and watch tv. Dawn came down a few minutes after me and laid on the couch with me.

"You guys want anything to eat?" Angel asked coming downstairs

"Whatcha fixin?" I asked leaning up a bit.

"I think I'm just going to make a bagel with cream cheese and ham."

"Yeah I want one." I said laying back down.

"Me too." Dawn said.

"Hey Buffy can you go see if we have any mail?" Angel called from in the kitchen.

I groaned "yeah"

It was kind of cold when I first walked outside. For being gone only like 5 days they sure have a lot of mail. I looked through the mail seeing if anything there was good. Bill bill bill billl... "oh no...no no no no." I mumbled walking back into the house. "Angel." I called walking faster to the kitchen. I saw Dawn leaning up from the couch in the corner of my eye.

"Hmmm?" Angel turned his head while putting on the cream cheese to our bagels.

"Look." I shoved the envelope below his face.

"Oh no." Angel groaned taking the bright red envelope. For us red envelopes only meant one thing...family gatherings.

"What are you guys 'oh noing' about?" Dawn asked just walking in.

Angel held up the red envelope for her to see.

"Oh no." Dawn groaned "but why! It's the middle of September!"

"I know! No ones birthday is for a while so I wonder what it is for" I said

" Well it might not be in September, remember last year we got one of these like 2 months ahead of time." Angel said

"yeah, your Aunt Gene is a nut." I said

"So is your Aunt Jan." Angel shot back at me.

"Yeah remember when we got those two drunk together that one year?" Dawn said giggling.

Me and Angel both chuckled

"Go ahead and open it Angel, get it over with." I sighed

Angel sighed and opened it.

Dear Angelus, Buffy, and Dawn,

Hey kids! Mellisa and Joyce told me to write you a letter reminding you that we're going to have a family get together on Septer 24. Angelus your mom will most likely be home before then but Buffy and Dawn your mom will have to stay longer. She will be at my house on the 24 though, she just had a bit more business to do. I know you kids are probably busy with school and friends but we all haven't seen you guys for so long, it would be real nice to see you. We'll have dinner and card games. It'll be a lot of fun. Hope to see you soon.

Love Aunt Gene

"September 24! That's this Saturday!" I complained

"why couldn't we have been gone just a couple more days? Why?" Angel asked more to himself.

"Since your mom's coming home, I doubt we'll have anyway to get out of it." Dawn sighed

"unless one of us tragically dies." Angel said looking at me.

"Hey!"

"Nahh that wouldn't work." Dawn said

"uhh hello standing right here!" I said. Dawn ignored me and continued to think.

Angel smiled at me and put his hand on my shoulder. "It's ok Buff."

"Do you think Tom and his mom are coming?" I asked. Angel practically ripped his hand off my shoulder.

"yeah I'm bettin, they are family." Angel said irritated. Don't know why, it was just a simple question.

We all didn't talk a whole lot more that night. I'm just so glad tomorrow is Friday but then again I wish it wasn't cause I'm now dreading Saturday. At least Angel will be there. It usually can be fun if Angel will actually hang around me this time. Sometimes he doesn't, he'll just go out in his car by himself or with Tom or something. Oh Tom! He'll be there and he'll definitely be with me, I am his girlfriend after all. I wonder what our family will think of that.

Angel handed both me and Dawn our bagels and we ate silently watching tv. All three of us went to bed after we ate since we actually had to go to school tomorrow.

The next morning I woke up at about 6:30. I quickly took a shower and wrapped a towel around me. What to wear...what to wear...I was digging through my stuff because when I packed I basically packed everything and I mean everything. I figured since I was staying a year, I need everything so I just simply took every piece of clothing I owned when I came here. I want to wear something that I usually don't wear. I looked in the closet where I hung the clothes I usually wear but I was looking on the bottom of the closet where I put the stuff I usually don't wear, usually for good reasons too. I found my pair of red leather pants that I use to wear but they were to baggy. I wonder how they fit now. I slowly started to pull them on and I actually had to pull because they were tight. I looked in the mirror. They were tight all right, skin tight, but they looked good. Really good. They clung on to every curve I had. Showed off my ass too. I dug around looking for a top when I found a black tank top with a red beaded skull on it. I wonder when the hell I got this. I put it on and noticed it had gotten tighter too but once again it looked really good. You could see a bit of my black bra straps on my back but that's ok.

I went into the bathroom, my hair was dry now and since I had it dry by itself, it was curly but it fit really nice with my outfit so I decided to just put some hair spray and stuff in it to put down the stray hair. I usually don't wear makeup but for some reason today I felt like putting on a bit so I put on bright red lipstick. I looked like I could kick ass in this outfit. I decided to finish it off by putting on a silver cross. I don't know why I was feeling so skimpy today because I also had on a pushup bra so that made my tank top look ten times better by having some of my breasts showing. I wonder what Tom will think of my outfit? I wonder what Angel will think! I got more excited. I came out of the bathroom and looking in the long mirror by the door when I heard a soft tap on my door. Angel slowly pushed the door open. I was still rubbing my hands up and down my sides seeing if it looked ok. I turned my head and saw Angel's mouth literallly open. I smiled up at him.

"Did you want something?" I asked raising my eyebrows. No matter what he says about my outfit, his first reaction told me all I needed to know.

"Ummm I...uhh." Angel's eyes were still on me and his eyebrows furrowed like he was thinking very intensly.

"Hey Buff-woah." Dawn stopped in her tracks "This is different from your everyday clothes."

Dawn was shocked to see my in something the least bit revealing since I usually wore stuff like sweatshirts and baggy pants, sometimes skirts, I don't always wear baggy pants but sometimes.

I smiled and turned back to Angel who was still mouth opened and muttering something. "Angel did you want something."

He looked and me and then had a look of confusion on his face."umm I can't remember..." he quickly turned around and left.

Dawn looked at me and giggled.

I can't believe Buffy is wearing something like that! Wonder what got into her. I thought as I walked downstairs. I've seen her in that bikini, but this is somehow more arousing, if that's possible.The thing I liked most about her surprisingly this morning was her smile. She looked so happy and her eyes were sparkling. I love it when she has that look on her face, more than I do what she's wearing. She could be covered in garbage for all I cared and she'd still be beautiful. I wonder if Tom has anything to do with the glowing look on her face? I bet not, she always looks bored with him, like they don't know what to talk about. Suckers (I silently laughed). Oh god what am I saying, that's a bad thing, I want those two to get together. Right? Yeah I should want my best friend and my favorite cousin to get together...then why do I feel this way? I feel almost...almost jealous. No, I'm probably just jealous that Tom has a hotter girlfriend than me. Yeah! I'm probably just attracted to Buffy is all. Glad I have all this figured out.(I turned around and saw Buffy at the top of the stairs turned around saying something to Dawn. I shake my head silently and softly chuckle) I'm an idiot, that's not it, I mean I am attracted to Buffy who wouldn't be? but it's something more than that...(I glance back up the stairs to see Buffy smiling and laughing.) Oh God...I'm in love with her.

A/N: Ok so how did you guys like this chapter? I finally had Angel admit his feelings. Long wait huh? I've been waiting for this for a while and I really want those two to get together and soon!lol. I have no more writers block either! Yah! I already have chapter 21 wrote out so you shouldn't have to wait to long. I know how some of you said my last chapter was a little long and pointless at the end but I did that because I thought they've been waiting for the stupid amusement park thing forever so I just decided to make it longer and I did want a longer chapter too.;) Tell me if I do that again though. Just be warned the next chapter is going to contain a major cliff hanger. Please review! even if you don't like the chapter or story...Review!

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