Chapter 38!

It was now Wednesday, a day before Ford would get here. I was so excited. I haven't talked to Jen or any of them a lot but I did a bit. I wasn't that good of friends with them to really keep contact.

I hadn't told Willow or anybody about Ford yet. I wanted it to be a surprise. Well of course Angel knew though.

"So Ford coming tomorrow?" Angel asked me this morning.

"Yeah." I nodded

That was basically our conversation in the morning. We were to tired to make an actual conversation.

"Do you understand History?" I asked Angel later that day walking down the hall with him. People were already looking at us since we haven't done anything to each other but it doesn't really bother me because this is one of those weird times that me and Angel are walking down the hall. Usually doesn't happen.

"yeah. why? You need help." Angel asked stopping at the pop machine "Said you wanted Coke right?"

I nodded. Angel handed me my coke.

"Yeah, I need help real bad, I think I'm getting a C in that class. On the verge of a D." I said.

"I'll help you tonight." Angel said just as I opened my Coke.

I let out a little shriek as my coke squirted all over me. Angel looked strait faced at me. I heard people laughing. I think that's what they were waiting for.

"Jeeze Buff, that's a classic. I thought you'd know better than that." Angel patted my shoulder and walked off.

"I can't believe I fell for that." I mumbled to myself and walked off. I'll just put on my sweatshirt over it.

"So are you doing anything today?" Willow asked walking to my locker.

"Uhh I don't know." I shrugged. Angel came up behind me. "Angel we doing anything today?" I asked

"Not that I know of." Angel shrugged.

"Bye Angelus." Amanda said as she walked pass my locker. Angel gave a little wave. I looked at him and raised my eyebrows. "I'm not cheating on Cordelia." Angel said

I nodded my head.

"Oh shit." Angel all the sudden said.

"Hmm?" I asked

"My mom asked me a couple of days ago to pack all of our family pictures and tapes and crap." Angel groaned.

"Why?" I asked. I mean I don't think Angel or his mom have touched those for years.

"I don't know something about Aunt Jan wanting to make copies of the pictures and tapes. Don't know why. I swear they're all lunatics.

"Oh that'll be fun!" Willow said. "We can go through them all!" Willow got excited. "You do know I'm coming over right?"

Angel glanced at me.

"Fine." I groaned.

Later that evening me, Angel and Willow were sitting in front of the tv with a box in front of us.

"So are we going through pictures first?" Willow asked already grabbing a box.

"Yeah." Angel said grabbing a box.

"Holy shit is that your mom Buffy?" she asked and showed me a picture of my mom with really weird hair.

"Yeah..." I mumbled.

"Have your guys moms always been friends?" Willow asked a couple minutes later.

"Yeah." I said and looked at the picture Willow was holding. It was one of my mom and Angel's mom arm in arm and smiling.

"Where are you and Angelus's pictures?" Willow asked.

"Here." Angel said digging through another box.

"Well those were the ones I wanted to see." Willow smiled and came around sitting next to Angel. She started to laugh. "You guys were in Romeo and Juliet? I don't remember that."

"You wouldn't" Angel mumbled.

"We didn't tell anyone." I laughed

"who was who?" Willow asked us.

"I was Juliet." I said

"And Romeo?" Willow asked

"Me." Angel chuckled.

Willow was really enjoying looking through all these pictures. A lot of the kid pictures were ones of just me and Angel with an occasional Tom and Dawn but me and Angel were always together.

"Aww how sweet." Willow smiled

"hmm?" Angel asked.

Willow showed a picture of me curled up in Angel's lap at the kitchen table of his Aunt Jan's house, we were all playing cards except me.

Angel quickly took it away and put it back. I smiled at Willow.

"The 24th?" Willow asked all the sudden after picking up another picture.

"What?" I asked not looking at her but looking at another picture.

"This was taken not to long ago." Willow said putting the picture in front of me. I was snuggled up against Angel in bed.

"Dawns there to ya know." I said getting red.

"Why were you guys in Angelus's bed?" she raised her eyebrows at me. Now she had Angels attention and he took the picture out of my hand.

"Ahh why must my mom take pictures of everything?" he asked more to himself. "Buffy and Dawn got scared because they watched a scary movie, the exorcist I think."

Willow nodded but gave me and Angel a look.

"You want to watch a few tapes?" I asked Angel who quickly nodded.

"I want to watch one when Angel was 16." Willow said. Angel glared at her and she grinned.

"Ok how about this one?" I asked holding up one that just said a visit to Aunt Jan's house. Angel put it in. There was a few boring parts so we just fast forwarded through the beginning until we got to Jan's house.I was sitting at a table eating some cheese and crackers. I saw some people behind me in the kitchen but it was basically focused on me. I gave the camera a quick glance but then quickly looked away. I sighed and looked back at the camera. "Dawn get that camera out of my face!"

Angel chose this time to walk in. "Woah Buff calm down a bit." he grinned.

In this video I noticed how much Angel has grown. He kind of had a boyish look to his face at 16.

Wow Buffy's really grown up since she was 15. Angel thought to himself.

"What do you want Angel?" I sneered at him.

"You wanna come outside for a bit?" he asked me.

I shrugged "ok but Dawn go away!" I turned my attention to the camera.

"Come on Buffy let me come!" We couldn't see Dawn but we automatically knew it was her by her high squeaky voice.

"She'll be fine." Angel said to me and we headed outside. The camera was jiggling a bit but since Dawn was working we didn't really care.

"What are we doing?" I asked Angel.

"I just got this motorcycle." Angel grinned.

"Isn't it illegal for you to be driving?" I asked

"nahh I'm 16 aren't I?" he laughed.

I grinned at him.

"You want to try and drive it?" he asked me.

"No! What are you crazy I can't even drive a car!" I said backing away.

"It'll be fine. Here I'll show you." Angel said gently and I got on the motorcycle.

We couldn't hear what Angel was saying but it looked like he was explaining how to use it. Dawn was sort of far back. We heard the breeze, it was real windy out. I could see my hair blowing everywhere.

"Ok Dawn lets see how she does." Angel grinned when he went back towards Dawn, then the camera turned back to me. They were still kind of far back.

"Oh shit." Angel said and took off after me once I started but somehow the motorcycle had went off without me and left me. I fell backwards and the motorcycle went on. Dawn came running to me and you could see me laughing.

"I told you I couldn't do it!" I laughed at Angel who was laughing himself to tears. Angel went up and picked up the motorcycle.

"Here come with me." Angel said patting the seat behind him.

I nodded and hopped on behind me. "Dawn do you want a ride after Buffy?" Angel asked

"nope." Dawn said simply and me and Angel were off.

I think I heard Dawn mumbled 'idiots' before we turned off the tv.

"Well that's enough of that." I said grabbing the video. "I don't think I want to watch anymore." I knew I was red, I could feel my face getting hot. Angel and Willow were laughing. "Ok. Haha laugh at Buffy falling on her ass." I grumbled.

"Ok let's just pack up all these things and tape em up." Angel said still laughing.

"Shut up Angel." I gently shoved him.

Willow left later on that day and me and Angel spent time watching some more videos. We just didn't want Willow to see us at our worst moments anymore.

Finally it was about 10:30 and I decided to go to bed. I was getting real excited since Ford was going to show up at school tomorrow. I can't wait!

The next morning Angel was a bit quiet but then again I wasn't miss chatty either. I got to school and looked around hoping I would see Ford.

"Ford!" I called when I saw him at his new locker.

"Buffy!" he said just as I jumped in his arms and gave him a big kiss.

"I'm so glad you're here!" I said

"so am I." he mumbled kissing me deeper now.

"I have to get to class but maybe I'll have some classes with you?" I asked backing away slowly.

"yeah maybe." he said. "Do you know where the English room is?"

"Down there." I pointed to it and gave him another kiss before I left.

"Buffy, what's up with you? Your glowing?" Willow asked at lunch.

I grinned at her.

"Yeah B, your all happy." Faith said.

"Well..." I decided to tell them all about Ford. They were genuinely curious. They couldn't believe Ford would come here for me. "Yeah he's nice and just a great boyfriend." I grinned from ear to ear.

"That's great B. Bout time you got yourself a boyfriend." Faith said.

"shh here he comes now." I said just as I saw Ford walking towards me. "Hey how is your first day?" I asked. He took a seat right next to me.

He shrugged "As good as it could be."

I introduced him to Willow and Faith and everyone else once they got there. Cordelia looked happy now and this is when I actually liked her. When she knew nothing was threatening her. She acted like normal, like before she dated Angel.

3 weeks later. School was going great. Me and Cordelia are getting along again, just like before. Everyone got to know Ford and he's now popular. Him and Angel still don't get along but I couldn't expect anything more. Angel's never liked any of my boyfriends. Angel still is the most popular guy cause even if Ford's in the room all the girls run to Angel, as always. I don't know why Ford isn't the most popular guy, he's nicer than Angel. Then again Angel's only mean to me. I think girls like Angel because he's funny. I had to admit Angel always did have me laughing. I have him laughing a lot though too. I haven't laughed at all with Ford. He's mainly serious and when he is joking, I never know. I also heard girls talking and saying how sweet Angel is so maybe he's just mean to me. I don't really know. I do know I'm still in love with Angel though. No matter how close I've gotten to Ford, I always notice myself wanting it to be Angel holding me. Not Ford.Angel has been acting weird lately though. We haven't talked a whole lot but even if we do we're usually arguing or something. He's been snapping at me a lot lately. I don't know what his problem is. I don't really care though cause I'm really trying to make my relationship with Ford work, so as long as Angel's being an asshole to me the better off I am at just doing that. People at school are even noticing the difference between me and Angel. How we've gotten a little meaner to each other. Teachers even notice this stuff. Miss Calender who knows about me and Angel a little better than most teachers even asked me if everything between us is ok. I do really miss having a normal conversation with Angel though. Angel and me can carry a conversation forever...literally too. Lately all I've had to talk to was Ford. Me and Ford sometimes have that awkward silence when we talk. I hate that. Me and Willow have been talking, but I need someone besides Willow all the time, and besides Willow won't talk about Angel at all. She gets off the subject. I think she might not be telling me something but oh well, probably not that important. I only know one thing and that's that Ford really cares for me. I can't keep hoping for Angel forever. I think ever since Ford...I finally gave up on Angel.

It was Wednesday and we were all sitting at the lunch table.

"Angel." I said looking over at him who had Cordelia sitting on his lap whispering something in his ear.

"Hmm?" he looked up at me.

"Can you help me with my History tonight?" I asked. I'm getting a D in that class now and need the help.

"I don't know, I was planning on doing something with Cordelia." Angel said glanced back at Cordelia.

"What the Bronze?" I asked and Angel glared at me. "Can't that wait just a bit?"

"No." Angel snapped. "Have Ford help you."

What's that suppose to mean? I silently asked myself. "Fine." I snapped back at Angel.

I glanced at Ford who whispered "I can help."

I nodded and said "thanks."

On our way home me and Angel weren't saying anything. Dawn kept looking back and forth from the backseat. She just thought we had been fighting over something a little longer than usual.

She also no longer thinks that I like Angel. She thinks that Willow was just teasing her or something. I glanced over at Angel but once again didn't say anything. I just sighed and looked out the window. I looked back at him and noticed he had been looking at me but he quickly turned away when I turned around. Now I know something is really bothering him. But what?

A/N: Hey! Sorry it took me so long to update but this chapter was hard to write, but stick around because B/A is on its way! For this chapterI just had to write random things soI could finally get Ford here! So sorry if it sucked.Thanks to all my reviews. I couldn't believe how many I got for my last chapter. Well keep on reviewing!