I am sooooooooo sorry this chapter's late. I've been so busy plus I just couldn't write, I tried to but ... nothing. Nothing was happening. I think I was suffering from writers block but while i had a case of writers block I had been writing another story... Yay me but I'm going to finish it before putting it up otherwise I'll never finish my other fics. Thank you all for your great reviews, they are great, they keep me writing and well I just love reading them. You all must think I hate Cordelia by the way I write about her but I really don't. I actually liked her, well on Buffy I did anyway but then on Angel it was like... Why couldn't they just remain really good friends? They were great really good friends and then there's Riley well I just don't like him full stop, he's alright but he's my least favorite and besides he suits a bad guy :) Rightyy hooo anyway...

Chapter 26

Saturday. The day most people in High school wish would come around faster but not Buffy. Saturday was the day that she could finally have peace from Angel's annoying cockiness, his constant smirking, so why did she just want to sleep the weekend away.

"Pull yourself together Buffy" She told herself as she got ready to meet Willow for a morning gossip session.

Taking a pair of flat shoes out, jeans and a grey hoody with Mickey mouse on the front Buffy laid them all flat on her bed before she went into the bathroom too wash and clean her teeth.

The bathroom was always cold in the morning so Buffy made sure she took her dressing gown with her to protect her from the morning air. It was funny how only a few days ago the sun was shining like it would always be there and now it was nowhere to be seen, now it really felt like winter.

When Buffy emerged onto the landing fully clothed and freshly washed Dawn was standing there grinning like an idiot at her

"Where you going?" She asked, sweeping her long dark hair behind her ears

"Out" Buffy replied not even giving her sister a second glance as she jogged down the stairs, shoes in hand

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The coffee shop was swarming with people but it wasn't hard picking Willow out of the crowd. She had on her black sweater with rainbows knitted on. While others would have said something horrible about her fashion sense, Buffy admired it. She was unique and besides some of the things she wore were cute.

Buffy pushed the pram over to where Willow was sitting drinking from a white round mug

"Hey" Willow smiled as Buffy took a seat opposite her

"Hey, sorry I'm late" Buffy apologised shuffling the chair closer to the table

"Oh don't worry, I only just got here. This stupid baby project is doing my head in. Did I tell you I was at the mall with Oz last night and these old people kept giving us looks, I nearly shouted something back at them"

Buffy smiled a little. She had never seen Willow loose her temper and when she finally did she wanted to make sure that she was there to see the show

"Where is it now?" Buffy asked, looking at her doll in the pram next to her

"Oz has it. He's going to make a great father" Although Willow didn't realize she had a dreamy smile on her face, Buffy did

"You and Oz seem to be getting close..."

"Yeah we are"

"So..." Buffy pressed

"So what?" Willow giggled nervously

"What's happening between you? When's the first date? Or was the party the first date and if it was when's the second date. There is going to be a second date isn't there??"

Again Willow gave a girlish giggle. It was usually her that was asking about how Buffy's dates went and hearing Buffy ask her the same questions that she asked was unusually good.

"I... I don't really know. He's coming over tonight though to help with the project"

Buffy raised her eye brows as a small grin appeared on her face

"To help with the project... Right"

Willow's cheeks went a bright crimson colour, just a little darker then her hair

"Enough about me, what about you?"

"Me? Nothing going on with me, I'm just boring ol' Buffy"

"Riley. Angel. Angel. Riley... which one is it?" Willow laughed as Buffy went the same colour as her

"I don't know Will, they're both so different" Buffy sighed before continuing "Riley's sweet and caring and then there's Angel who's arrogant, self obsessed, thinks' he's gods gift and he's so annoying its like everywhere I go he's there oh and did I tell you he asked me to the dance"

Willow's eyes widened

"That's great"

"No, you haven't heard the rest of it. He was telling me that me him and Cordelia could go together I was like... Could anyone get anymore vain if they tried"

Willow listened carefully, nodding as Buffy spoke almost absorbing the information before finally speaking

"At least you know who Angel is" She said. Buffy looked at her confused "Well Angel's honest about it isn't he? He doesn't hide the fact that he's an arrogant b-a-s-t-a-r-d" She spelt out

"I don't get your point"

"Well he can't get any worse can he? And yeah Riley might seem sweet and caring but he could be a jerk. I could be wrong mind you but I'm just saying that Angel doesn't try to be someone he's not"

"Mmmh" Buffy nodded. Willow was right, she didn't know Riley but then again she didn't exactly know Angel either. She remembered what he said about all his secrets being bared to the world... or something like that anyway and wondered what he was talking about. It was true though, about his secrets. He didn't have any. Everyone knew what he got up too but no one said anything about it, it was one rule for him and different one for everyone else.

Maybe that's why Buffy disliked him so much; because he could get away with things that he shouldn't be but that's how things at Sunnydale High went. Snyder would always make up excuses if any of the cheerleaders, swimmers, footballers did anything wrong. If they fell behind then he would get someone to copy up for them. It was ridiculous.

Willow looked at her watch and squirmed in her seat

"...Uh Buffy" She began

"Yeah?"

"The thing is... well its... the..."

"Spit it out Will"

"I sort of promised Xander that I would come by and help him with his history assignment" Willow said so quickly that Buffy had trouble understanding

Buffy frowned. She was hoping that the argument she and Xander had on Friday had been forgotten about, obviously not. God how she hated men. They were all so stubborn. Maybe she should just flee to a convent she thought

"It's fine" Buffy lied. Willow looked at her hastily "Really it is, go" She didn't really want Willow to go but she didn't want her not to go because of her

"Call you later?" Willow gathered up her stuff and downed the rest of her coffee before getting up

"Yeah" Buffy muttered making Willow frown. She watched as her friend pushed opened the glass door then looked down at her coffee trying to decide what to do know. "I knew I should have made friends with more then two people" Buffy told herself, then an idea came to her head.

The phone lit up as Buffy pressed the unlock button, then she scanned her contacts. It didn't take long as there weren't many there but it didn't matter, she only needed one.

There were three rings before a voice came on the other line

"Uh hey, it's Buffy, Buffy Summers" She said unsure of herself "What you doing later?"

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Angel sat on the bar stool in his grand kitchen. His parents were still there, so was Spike which made it even more difficult especially since Spike was supposed to be in Europe somewhere. The blond still hadn't told him why he had come back, not the truth anyway. Kathy was up in her bedroom trying to avoid the woman that gave birth to her and the man whose name was on her birth certificate. They were strangers; only around a few times a year and when they were around that's all she would get was abuse. Her mother telling her how much weight she's gained. They didn't know, they didn't know anything, what she'd been through, none of it, they didn't care.

"Katherine!" Clarissa called "You can't stay up there all day! Come on, a bit of sun light will do wonders to your skin"

Angel rolled his eyes. His parents really didn't have a clue when it came to they're children. Kathy hated being called Katherine and she hated leaving the house unless someone was with her. When it was clear Kathy wasn't going to be coming down any time soon Clarissa turned to Spike, asking the question he knew was coming

"William, what brings you back to Sunnydale? Does your mother know your here? Because I spoke to her a few weeks ago and when I asked about you she said you were in Milan"

William looked from up from the counter. Why must family always call you by your first name? He wondered. William, what kind of gay name was William? Now, William the Bloody, that was an alright name. It was a nickname he had picked up from Ireland when he was taking a poetry class. The name was actually for his bloody awful poetry but if anyone asked he wasn't going to tell them that.

His favourite name was Spike. That was a better name. He had picked up the name from stabbing a man with a rail road spike in his gang days. The man pressed charges but just a week later all charges were mysteriously dropped. Well, when your father owns a Law Firm it's what you can expect

"I missed seeing your beautiful art work" Spike said. Clarissa laughed; it was a fake laugh, one of those posh laughs

Angel rolled his head, his cousin could charm anyone.

"Do you still keep in contact with Darla, William? Such a lovely girl, I keep telling Angel to bring her by to meet Cordelia, they would get along like a house on fire"

Spike looked at Angel who was bowing his head and smirked. Yeah, there would definitely be fire involved with the two of them but getting along, no some how he didn't think so.

"Yes, I do. As I matter of fact I saw her the other day, so did Angel" Spike replied. Angel gave him a look as if to say shut the hell up before I set you on fire

"Oh he did, did he? Why didn't you say anything Angel? You know how much I liked that girl, wonderful girl she was." She turned back to Spike "I kept telling Angel that he should ask her out but he never listened "

"He did ask her out" Spike chuckled trying to re live the memory, it was one of best he had

"Oh did he really?" Clarissa's eyes locked onto Angel then to Spike telling him to tell her more

"Yes, he did. It was very amusing"

"What happened then? I don't remember her and Angel dating"

"No they didn't, Darla liked to... mmh how can put it... She liked to...keep her options open"

"No!" Clarissa gasped "I though she was such a lovely young girl, I would never have thought she was like that"

Spike smiled while shaking his head. He could tell Angel was blushing even though his face was buried deep within his arms