Chapter 21!
"Your actually wearing that?" Angel asked as me and Dawn came down the stairs.
"yeah...why does it look that bad?" I asked now worried
"no it looks fine." Angel smiled "I was just surprised is all." I decided I'm going to try to act as normal as possible, I mean I am dating Cordelia and she's dating Tom, I couldn't do that to him. And not to mention our reputations at school we have to maintain...and I'm afraid she doesn't feel the same way, so I'm just going to act normal and be mean to her like normal. She won't notice a thing.
Angel's acting kind of strange. I've noticed it since he left my bedroom a couple minutes ago. He got quieter. Oh well he'll most likely get over it, whatever it is, he always does.
"Can we go now?" Dawn asked wanting to get to school.
"Yeah yeah yeah." I said grabbing my bag and heading towards Angel's car. "I hope these pants don't make any farting noises or anything when I get up." I laughed at Angel.
He rolled his eyes at me and got into the car.
I sat quietly in the passengers seat starring out the window, oblivious to Angel's every 2 second glance. Dawn noticed though and gave a heavy sigh and leaned back into the backseat of the car.
"What's the matter Dawnie? Ya nervous?" I asked noticing her sigh.
"No it's not that." she replied. I shrugged and continued to stare out the window.
"Angel what's up with you? You haven't talked much." I said looking at him. Dawn rolled her eyes from the back seat.
Angel shrugged " I don't know, not really in a talking mood this morning I guess."
"Oh, well you haven't even insulted me yet this morning." I smiled at him.
He smiled back at me " you're an idiot."
"That the best you could do?" I asked surprised
"Isn't anything to insult ya with this morning." he protested.
I shrugged again and turned around facing Dawn. "Now remember, don't mention anything about our family and Angels, as far as anyone knows me and Angel hate each other. Got it?"
"Yeah yeah I went through this last night with the two of you remember?" Dawn said in an irritated voice.
"Oh yeah." Why do I always sound so stupid, even to my own sister. But not as stupid as I usually sound with Angel.
Angel pulled in the school parking lot and got out quickly. He got out before me and Dawn even grabbed our bags.
"What's up with him?" I asked Dawn who shrugged.
"Hey Angelus." Xander and the rest of the gang greeted him. They were all standing by their usual tree.
"You ok?" Willow asked him. "Your face is all red."
"Yeah I'm fine." Angel sighed
"oh my god..." Spike said patting for Xander to look. Everyone turned their heads to what Spike and Xander were looking at with mouths open. They all turned around to see me walking towards them.
"Hey you guys." I said
"holy shit B." Faith said "I like your outfit."
"You know I think that's the first time I've ever heard you say that." I laughed at her.
Willow just stared at me with wide eyes. She all the sudden noticed something and stared and me and then smiled and Angel. I didn't notice this of course. Willow turned to Oz and looked at me, Angel, and then back at Oz and raised her eyebrows at him until Oz noticed too. Angel was still red and staring at me. Willow was still smiling and her eyes caught Angel's for a minute, but he quickly looked away.
"Come on Cordelia." Angel said and grabbed Cordelia's hand. He kept pulling her away from the group.
"Where are we going?" Cordelia asked
"Utility closet where else?"
"Oh." Cordelia all the sudden smiled.
Angel pulled Cordelia into the utility closet and shut the door. He started to kiss her.
"I can't believe Buffy would dress like that." Cordelia said braking off their kiss. "I did like her clothes though"
"Enough talk about Buffy." Angel said and kissed Cordelia furiously. Yes enough talking about Buffy. Enough thinking about Buffy! Anything to get my mind off of her.
"Where did Angel go?" I asked Faith while walking to my class.(her class was on the way to mine)
"I don't know, him and Queen C went somewhere together." she shrugged
"ahh so probably a utility closet." I said
"yeah." Faith laughed
"See you later at lunch." I said going into my science class.
"Bye." Faith waved walking on.
Science was boring and frustrating mainly because I saw Riley's eyes keep traveling up and down my body which gave me the creeps. Specially after what he said to me. By second period a lot of gossip had gone around. Everyone was shocked when they heard I was dating Tom. They wouldn't have been shocked but since it was Angel's cousin and all they thought that either me or Tom would be dead by now.
"Buffy are you really dating Angelus's cousin?" a girl named Tosha asked in the girls locker room.
"Yeah." I said. The girl raised her eyebrows and went back to her friends. A lot of girls were jealous because they either wanted to go out with Angel, who almost all of the girls wanted to go out with, which is understandable I mean he is gorgeous. Or they wanted to go out with Tom, who wasn't as gorgeous but still one of the better looking ones. Most girls were happy if they were dating someone from Angel's group. They all thought if you dated someone out of that group you were a step closer to Angel. What's so great about him anyway?
A lot of girls were surprised at me today. I heard one girl whisper to another that they couldn't believe I could be so beautiful and I also heard some a lot of guys whistle at me today and some grab my ass and attempt to grab my breasts but even if those are bad things at least I know that I can be attractive if I want to.
"Hey Angel." I sat next to him on the benches during P.E. We were waiting for the first 5 min. lecture.
"Hey Buff."
Me and Angel both started to look around at the surprised faces. People couldn't believe they haven't heard yelling yet when me and Angel were in reaching distance.
"I think we're drawing attention." Angel said giving me a look.
I sighed "ok ok I'm moving." I mumbled
I must have satisfied people because they stopped staring.
"Ok everybody!" Mr Clarkson yelled to everybody on the benches. " Today, since it's Friday we're just going to play a simple game of tag, and then we'll finish it off by dodge ball. Now we're going to play tunnel tag so if you get tagged make sure you make a good arch for you tunnel so people can crawl under. Peters, Bogner and Erfly, you're it."
We all just sat there. "Go NOW!" Mr. Clarkson yelled making us all jump up and start to run. I hated this game. I just stood there until someone came after me. I didn't see the point of running unless I had to. I started to run as Bill Peters came after me, he was one of the faster guys. He smiled at me as he tagged me. I gave a fake grin and made a stupid tunnel. I always feel like an idiot just sitting here making a fucking tunnel. Oh god. I thought as I saw Jeramy Carls running my way. He was a fat guy with real dark sort of long hair. I tried to make my tunnel bigger. I nearly puked as I smelt him. He tried to fit under me but I got lifted up in the process. I sat on the floor when he got through.
"Thanks." I muttered as he ran off.
"Buffy you ok?" Amanda asked me. I'm sort of friends with her.
"Yeah." I coughed a bit.
"What happened?" Angel came up behind Amanda. I saw Amanda blush big time.
"Nothing just that Jeramy Carls needs to learn what deoderant is." I said still sitting on the ground. Angel laughed at me and held out his hand to help me up. Amanda just stood there. She looked at me and then Angel not sure what she was suppose to do with catching me and Angel in a good moment which few got the chance to see. Angel smiled at Amanda and then she turned around running back to her friends. Angel gave me a look like 'ok whatever' and ran off in a different direction. I noticed that Angel got tagged a lot but mainly because he was talking to a group of girls and got tagged from the back. The guys felt good because they tagged the great Angelus, he's very good in sports and very rarely loses, hints why he's so popular, well most of the reasons anyway, he's also very good looking too, and I guess can be sweet when he wants to. The girls weren't complaining either that Angel got tagged, mainly cause they actually have an excuse for being under him this time. I noticed how long it took them to go under him too.
I heard some girls talking in the locker room after we got done with P.E. they were all wondering when Angel was going to start cheating on Cordelia. Angel's been known to cheat on his girfriends and all the girls were hoping they were going to be the one he's cheating on her with.
"Angel you got some runner ups on who your going to be cheating on Cordelia with." I said while me and Angel were walking to lunch.
"What are you talking about?" he asked
"I heard some girls in the locker room saying they hope that your going to have an affair with them on Cordelia and some of them think it's a possibility since you were 'flirting' with them in P.E." I said getting in line for lunch.
"What makes them think I'm going to cheat on Cordelia?" Angel asked
"well maybe because you do it on all your girlfriends."
"Yeah that could be it." Angel nodded "I did have that Amanda girl in mind." he smirked
"Angel!" I playfully slapped him on the arm.
"Hey we both know me and Cordy won't work out, she's to uptight and annoying, the faster I brake up with her the better."
"Then just dump her." I moved up in line.
"Nahh that's to easy."
I shook my head at him.
"Oh and by the way, people are starting to talk about you and me so you better find some little trick to do." I smiled at him and took my tray. I started to walk away just as Angel stuck out his foot just nearly tripping me with my tray but luckily I stayed on my feet and just made a loud noise with my shoes. I should have seen that one coming.
"You ok there Buff?" Angel asked sarcastically appearing beside me. "I think that satisfied people enough." Angel whispered in my ear and I looked around to see people giggling. I was very tempted to throw my mashed potatoes at his back but I held that urge, I'll save it for later.
(This is no ones POV really)
Later on that day Willow was talking to Angelus in the hallways heading to class
"Earth to Angelus!" Willow said stopping in front on a classroom
"huh?" Angel asked
"weren't you listening to me?" Willow asked
"uhh sorry. Say it again." he asked. Willow looked around and found what Angel was so distracted by...Buffy. Buffy was standing down the hall in front of her locker talking to Tom and we saw her giggling at him about something. You could almost see Angel getting madder.
"Hey Willow, Angelus." Miss Calender came out of her classroom.
"Hey Miss Calender." Willow said. Angel just muttered hi
"So did you guys have fun on your guy's little trip?" Miss Calender asked
"yeah we had fun." Willow said
Angel just once again muttered an "uh huh."
Miss Calender and Willow shared a glance.
"Uh excuse me." Angel said and walked away.
"What's up with him?" Miss Calender asked "he seemed a little distracted
"he is." Willow said and Miss Calender gave her a look until Willow looked at Buffy.
That was the only sign Willow had to show.
"Why don't they just get together? They've had their eyes on each other for what it seems like forever." Miss Calender said. Willow looked shocked that Miss Calender knew. "Now don't give me that look Willow, you and I both know that those two are a perfect couple."
Willow sighed "I just never thought I'd see the day, but yeah they are a perfect couple."
"Yeah I only wish they would realize it." Miss Calender said
"yeah well Angelus would do anything for Buffy, I think she's got him on a little string and doesn't even realize it." Willow said watching Angel now talking with Tom and Buffy. Only Buffy had a bright smile on her face now and was laughing at something Angel said, not giggle, but laugh. Angel started to walk away and Buffy started to follow but almost like she forgot about Tom she backed up a bit and said something and kissed him on the cheek and ran to catch up with Angel.
"And few girls got Angelus on a string." Miss Calender chuckled
"Very few" Willow smiled "Well I have to get to class. Talk to you later."
"Bye."
(Back to Buffy's POV)
At the end of the day I had to go to Miss Calenders class to finish up a computer assignment I had to do.
"Hey Buffy, nice to see you guys back at school. Did you have fun?" Miss Calender asked
"yeah we had a lot of fun." I said sitting down at a computer. A couple minutes later Dawn bursts in.
"Buffy! Hey!" Dawn said coming in.
"Hey Dawnie." I muttered getting irritated cause I needed to get this finished and Dawn was just sitting in the chair next to me, annoying me. Dawn must have noticed I was getting irritated cause she just shut up for a couple of minutes until...
"Buffy! Dawn! I've been looking everywhere for you." Angel came in. I didn't say anything. Dawn mouthed 'cranky' to Angel behind my back. Angel shrugged.
"Hey Miss Calender." he said "hello Angelus." she replied
"Dawn stop." I said seeing her in the corner of my eye doing something.
Angel walked over to me. Dawn kept shaking her head no, thinking I was going to snap any moment.
"Hey Buff lighten up!" Angel sat putting his two hands on my shoulders. I leaned back and glared at him."Come on it's Friday." Angel made sure he breathed enough to blow in my ear when he said this.
I giggle a bit because it tickled. "Angel stop." I laughed and started to log out of my computer.
Dawn walked back to Miss Calenders desk (she had her in a class)
"how can he always make her in a better mood no matter what?" Dawn asked her irritated. Miss Calender just shrugged and smiled.
"Ok let's go Dawnie." Angel said grabbing her hand. "Bye miss Calender." Angel yelled walking out.
"I'm just going to drop you guys off at my house because I'm going to go over to Oz's to help him with his van, he's needed it fixed for a while." Angel told us on the way to his house
"Willow going to be there?" I asked
"yeah."
"Ok, See you later." me and Dawn called out when we got out. Angel waved back.
"Angelus? Buffy? Dawn?" we heard someone call out. "Oh you guys are back!" Mellisa ran into the living room. She gave me and Dawn a big hug. "Where's Angelus?" she asked
"oh he went to help Oz with his car." I said sitting on the couch
"oh ok well I'm going to go fix some dinner." Mellisa turned around back into the kitchen just as the doorbell rang.
"I'll get it." I called to her. I opened the door to see Cordelia, Doyle, Xander, Anya, Spike, and Faith with some very shocked looks on their faces. "Oh shit." was the only thing I could muster out.
A/N: I finally had all of them find out! Don't know if this was the cliff hanger you were expecting but aren't you happy they found out? I should be updating pretty soon since I have chapter 22 all written out but the evil part of me wants to make you guys wait to see the gangs reactions. Please Review! The more reviews I get the faster I'll update!
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