Chapter 26!
Back at the house I was still sitting at the table eating pickles and thinking. I had gotten nowhere with my thinking.
"Buffy what are you doing up here all by yourself?" Jan asked me. She was acting like she didn't hear anything.
"Just thinking." I said.
"Well we'll leave you and Tom in the basement by yourself." she smiled at me and went back downstairs. Minutes later everyone came piling up.
"Basements all yours hun." George said
"Thanks." I said and walked downstairs with my bowl of pickles. Tom was curled up on the couch still watching tv. "Want to watch a movie?" I asked him
He nodded his head yes. I just picked some random chick flick I could find and put it in.
I walked over to the couch and curled up with Tom.
About half hour into the movie I looked outside and noticed how dark it was. I wonder what they're doing? I sighed. I've been thinking of going to the lake for the past half hour. I couldn't really get into the movie. Tom noticed my sigh and kissed the top of my head and started to kiss my cheek and then my mouth. Pretty soon we were making out.
"Tom?" I asked once I caught my breath.
"Hmm?" he asked me.
"Do you want to go to the lake?" I asked. Tom pulled away from me.
"Is that whats been distracting you?" he asked almost irritated.
"Well I kind of want to go." I decided to go. I thought I'd act my age and sneak out. I mean I'm 17 and I should be out braking the rules a little! What kind of teenager doesn't get in trouble every now and then?
"How are you going to get out there?" he asked
"there's a scooter out in the garage." I said innocently.
"ok fine." he completely let go of me now.
"Aren't you coming?" I asked him. I didn't really care if he went or not just as long as I got out of the house and fast.
"No I told you before I don't want to get caught."
"Tom we're not going to get caught."
"You guys always get caught here." he said
I shrugged. " Well I'm going." I said and walked out the basement door. Tom shook his head as he saw me walking outside from the window.
It didn't take me to long to get there. Probably about 20 minutes. It was really hard going up the hills on a scooter. I saw the lake. The lake was really beautiful at this time of night. The moon was shining down on the lake and making it have this pretty glimmer to it. I could barely see everybody under the tree but I heard them all laughing and I saw a little bit of movement.
"Hey guys." I said walking up towards them
"oh hey Buffy, we didn't even see you." Willow said "I thought you said you weren't coming?"
"I wasn't but I changed my mind." I said
"how did you get up here?" Angel asked. Cordelia was curled up in his arms. As was all the other girls in their boyfriends except Doyle wasn't here. Damn it's going to be real awkward for me here without a boyfriend to curl up on.
"I rode that scooter." I said a little ashamed. Angel laughed at me.
"I was just joking when I said that" he laughed
"yeah but how else was I suppose to get out here?" I asked
"why didn't you just call me, I would have picked you up."
"Call you?" I felt so stupid! I totally forgot about Angel having a cell phone. I groaned.
Everybody started to laugh.
"So what were you and Tom doing?" Anya asked raising her eyebrows
"nothing just watching a movie." I said
"typical." she sighed.
"God it's hot out here." Faith complained.
I felt stupid for telling them I was just watching a movie. They always acted like I was so boring and didn't do anything! They were probably right. But then that nagging thought occured in my head again. Does Angel think I'm boring and cautious? I sighed. God it is hot out here! I unzipped my jacket a bit and felt a cool breeze against my skin. Man I wish I could go swimming. And Almost on cue Faith said
"hey you guys you know what we should do?" Faith asked
We all looked at her.
"Skinny dip!" she laughed and got up. "Come on Spike." Faith grabbed Spikes hand and they ran down to the lake.
We all laughed at them as they jumped in naked. I'm just glad it was to dark to see Spike.
"Come on you guys! It feels really good in here!" Faith yelled. Before I knew it they all got up and ran towards the lake. I didn't know if I was comfortable enough to do that or not. I tried to get a glimpse of Angel but it was to far away and dark. They were all splashing around in there.
"Come on B, it's to dark to really see anything!" I stepped to the edge of the deck.
"Come on Buffy just get in." Willow said.
"Come on B, live a little! Your 17! Act like the teenager you are!" Faith laughed.
"She won't do it." Cordelia laughed. I saw how Angel was grinning at her. Sometimes I wish Buffy would act her age a little more and not so mature.
I sighed no way is queen C going to say that! I took off my shoes and socks until I was only in my bra and underwear.
"Woo B!" Faith laughed. I glared at her. I looked down at myself, she was right it was to dark to see anything really, but the moon was enough lighting. I saw Angel looking at me and I got very nervous. I just shrugged and took the rest of my clothes off and jumped in. I couldn't see, but Angel's eyes were wide. Wow I didn't think she would actually do it. I wish I could have gotten a better look though. Angel thought evilly
I don't know how long we were in there but it was quite awhile. My hands were all pruning when we finally got out. I had gotten real comfortable in the lake with them, that I wasn't to shy anymore. I tried not to look at any of my friends to much. I was afraid I'd be scard(sp?) for life. Angel was in his boxers before I could see anything. I was real disappointed there. I quickly got into my bra and underwear.
"Ahh!" Faith yelled. "My foot just took a dive in some mud."
Spike laughed
"oh you think it's funny do you?" Faith asked and she threw a chunk of mud at Spike. It had rained earlier and now there were big puddles of mud.
I heard Cordelia go "ew" when she saw them covered in mud. They started to throw mud everywhere and eventually we were all sitting in a giant mud puddle except Cordelia who wouldn't touch it.
"Ahh my bra and underwear are ruined!" I whined
"oh quit your complaining Buffy." Angel laughed
"Yeah but these were my good purple lacy stuff."
"Oh that was purple?" Angel asked and fell backwards laughing.
"Shut up Angel!" I glared at him. It just made him laugh harder on the ground. How could he look so cute covered in mud?
"Oh shit you guys!" Faith said "it's 2:30!"
"Ahh we're toast!" Xander said getting up out of the mud. "Sorry guys gotta go!" Xander grabbed Anya and ran.
Faith and Spike took off right after them.
"my parents don't care." Oz shrugged. "But I'm going to go anyway."
"Hey Buffy I'm going to go to Oz's house ok?" Willow looked at me and raised her eyebrows.
"Ok bye Wills." I smiled at her.
"Angel do you want to come to my house?" Cordelia asked
"Sorry Cordelia but I have to go back. My mom would be pissed if I went back home." Angel told her.
"Fine." Cordelia huffed and walked to her own car.
"Do you think they noticed we were gone?" I asked
"Nahh I don't think they pay enough attention" Angel said
"hey what about your car?" I asked "We're all muddy."
"I'll just clean it out sometime. I was going to wash it anyway." he said
"what?" I asked when I noticed Angel was staring at me in the car. Angel broke into laughter. "What!"
"Your face." he laughed
I looked into the mirrior and my face was all muddy. "You should see yours" I laughed back at him.
"What are you doing?" Angel asked me a couple minutes later when he heard me giggle at nothing.
"drawing pictures from the mud on my stomach." I laughed. "it tickles."
Me and Angel were joking and laughing almost all the way back. I haven't had that much fun for a while.
"Shh."Angel told me when he was peering in the window to see if anybody was down in the basement. We quietly went through the basement doors.
"Finally you guys are back." Dawn came from around the corner.
"Dawn! Why are you still up?" I whispered.
"Mom isn't very happy with you." Dawn grinned at me
"you didn't! Did you?" I was still whispering. I didn't want my mom to find us any sooner than she had to.
"No! She came down when you were suppose to be with Tom and he just said you had to go out for a minute." Dawn said "he covered up as good as he could." Dawn then started to look me up and down.
"Buffy are you naked!" she asked
"what? Oh no. my bra and stuff is just covered in mud." I told her. Dawn looked back at Angel but you could easily see he had boxers on.
"Woah." Tom walked in. "Buffy are you naked?" he asked wide eyed. I heard Angel snicker and I slapped him on the chest. "What have you two been doing?" he asked his voice full of jealousy.
"Oh nothing like that!" I said. Angel started laughing again. I slapped him playfully on the chest a bit harder this time
"Come on Tom! It's Buffy." Angel laughed. I glared at him.
"Tom you just can't see my bra and stuff because I'm to covered in mud." I told him.
"Dawn is that Buffy?" Joyce called from upstairs.
"Yeah she's home!" Dawn called back.
"Dawn!" I said
"hey you wouldn't let me come." she smiled and went off. Tom followed her. I looked over at Angel terrified.
"I wonder how long we'll be grounded." I muttered to him
"Buffy!" Joyce came down in her pajama s and her robe.
"Angelus!" Mellisa came down in her pajamas and robe too.
They both were silent for a minute as they looked us both down from head to toe
"What in the hell have you two been doing?" Joyce asked her voice full of anger.
"You guys didn't? Well didn't.." Joyce started
"You know how well me and Angelus get along, so what do you think?" I said.
Joyce nodded "why don't you guys go upstairs and take a shower, and then get to bed it's late." Joyce said.
"we'll talk about your guys punishments tomorrow." Mellisa said and with that her and Joyce were gone.
"Pheww not as bad as I thought it would be." I said
"you know I'm 18, officially an adult you'd think that my mom couldn't ground me." Angel said.
"Well you know she'd just tell you that if your still living under her roof then you have to listen to her...or something like that." I said
Angel shrugged.
About a half an hour later, me and Angel were both cleaned up and in our pajamas. Me, Angel, Tom, and Dawn had to sleep down in the basement on the floor because Gene didn't have any more spare bedroom with all of us here.
"I told you guys that you'd get caught." Tom said when me and Angel went downstairs.
"Oh shut up Tom at least we live a little instead of staying at home and rotting away." Angel said
"you guys stop, I'm tired and just want to go to bed." I layed my blankets on the ground. Tom scooted over and put his arm around me. I laid my head on his chest. It took me a while to fall asleep. I just couldn't fall asleep in his arms like I could Angels. I waited until Tom was asleep when I unwrapped myself from his arms and laid on my pillow and I quickly went to sleep.
The next morning I was the first to wake up, so I hurried up and took a shower before anyone else got in. When I got out Angel was already up and watching tv. After he took a shower me and him just sat down to watch some tv. Dawn and Tom were still sleeping.
"My god it's 9:30 and their still not up?" Angel asked
I shrugged. I was to busy thinking how my mom was going to punish me. She never exactly said she was going to ground me.
"Stop worrying Buffy, it won't be that bad." Angel told me like he read my mind.
"How do you know?" I asked worriedly
"Well I don't but even if we are grounded you still have to stay at my house so we'll keep each other company." Angel smiled at me. God he was so cute. He always made things better. "Let's go get some breakfast." he dragged me off the couch and took me upstairs.
Angel's grandpa Dan was sitting at the table. When he saw me and Angel come upstairs and sit down at the kitchen table he put down his newspaper and stared at us for a second. Gene was up making French toast.
"Skinny dipping eh?" Dan smiled at us. Me and Angel looked over at Gene who didn't hear a word.
"How did you know we went-" Angel was cut off
"Oh come on you two came back muddy and barely dressed there's only one place that is somewhat secluded and that's the lake." Dan had a far away look on his face. "I had some good times at that lake." he smiled
"really?" I asked
"yeah was always a nice place to go skinny dipping." he laughed
"oh so you..." I started
"yeah...but that's also where your grandma got pregnant." he nodded at Angel.
"Oh thanks for that info." Angel muttered
"yeah so I wouldn't mention that to your mom." he laughed
"you guys want some french toast?" Gene asked
we all nodded and took some. Joyce and Mellisa then strode in.
"Uh oh they've banned together." Angel whispered in my ear. I couldn't help but smirk a little.
"Buffy wipe that smirk off your face, you two are being punished." Joyce told me. I glared over at Angel who I could tell wanted to smile at me.
"Now just for the record we know exactly what you two did at the lake." Mellisa said
"and we're very disappointed in you two." Joyce said. "One of you could have drowned!"
"Mom we know how to swim." I said irritated. Angel lightly kicked me telling me to shut up.
"We're real sorry mom, we promise we won't do it again." Angel said sweetly.
"Sorry's not enough this time Angelus." Mellisa said
"There is also another thing we wanted to talk to you about." Joyce said "We have had countless calls this year already from your school telling us that you've stolen the cheerleaders paint, stolen frogs, disruptive by yelling in the halls."
We all turned when we heard Dan chuckle but his face was hidden by his newspaper.
Me and Angel shared a glance and we both knew we were in deep shit now.
"So how long are we going to be grounded?" Angel asked gloomily.
"Oh we're not going to ground you two." Mellisa said
"really?" I asked hopefully
Mellisa looked down at the ground "Buffy I'm really sorry for doing this but it's for the best."
Joyce cut in and looked at her daughter "Buffy we're sending you back to L.A. with your father to finish the remainding of your school year."
Me and Angel looked at each other terrified.
A/N: ok so here's chapter 26. I just didn't like this chapter butI don't know if you guys will or not. I wanted them to act there age and have a bit of teenage fun. Oh and sorry about the whole waste/waist thing. lol. That was really embarrasing but I typed that fast and my spell checker doesn't catch those things so sorry if thereis anything else like that.lol.AndI messed up in the last chapter, I still mean for no one to call him Angel except for Buffy and Cordelia(you know because she's jealous that Buffy's the only one that calls him Angel)I might accidently mess up on that because I'm use to Angel and not Angelus. So sorry for the confusion on that. Please Review!