Moments that Make You: The Hero and The Princess

by myheadsgonenumb

When Francis Doyle discovers his demon half his whole life spirals downward. Meanwhile Cordelia Chase is just setting out on her mission to become Queen Bee of her local high school. It seems impossible that 2 people so far apart in age, distance and fashion sense could ever find each other and build something special. But they do. A series of Cordy/Doyle short stories & drabbles.

28. Have a Nice Summer

Have a Nice Summer

The year was almost out - her first year of high school, she couldn't believe it. A quarter of the way done through the best years of her life.

Classes were pretty loose in the final week of the semester, The Seniors were way too boisterous preparing for graduation for anybody to really get anything done. All end of term papers and tests had been finished, even for the lower classes, and it was now just a matter of waiting on report cards.

And signing yearbooks. That was a big business. Every break, every free period and even sometimes in classes themselves, year books were passed around to be signed. John Lee handed her his book to sign in French. 'It's been a lot of fun, good luck making varsity next year - love C,' she wrote inside a big heart.

Jesse gave her his book to sign in the hallway. 'I put my phone number in yours,' he told her with a wink as they swapped back. She just walked off without saying anything, leaving him standing in the hallway reading her own message to him: 'in your dreams.'

She and Harmony spent the whole lunch break doodling over each other's and writing cute messages on each of the pages, and funny things under the photos of some of the dorks. 'We rocked this year, next year we are gonna reign!' Cordy wrote under her own picture.

She swapped year books with Willow Rosenberg outside the computer lab. 'I don't know why you like this class - but I guess computers are fun if you're not into cool stuff. Happy typing or whatever,' she scribbled onto the pages at the front.

Some guy she barely knew, Ethan, handed her his book in homeroom. That was literally all she knew about him, they shared homeroom together. She shrugged, biting the top of her pen as she thought what to say. 'Homeroom was fun - let's hope next year we get someone cooler than Mr. Spiegler,' she signed it off with a couple of xs and os.

A girl she'd never even seen before handed her her own book to sign, over by the water fountain. Cordelia barely glanced at the girl as she leafed through to find a place to write. The name in the book said this girl was called 'Marcie'. Cordelia didn't know any 'Marcie' - had never even heard of one. She just jotted down a quick message because she couldn't think of anything else to say to a total stranger: 'Have a nice summer.'