***April 12***

Giles got here today. I was expecting everything to be different, awkward. But it wasn't. He just hugged me and told me it would be all right, that we would figure something out. I believed him. The entire gang spent the afternoon at my house just hanging out, filling Giles in on all that had been happening the last year or so.

Spike just stood in the corner. He won't talk to me. I guess he's still trying to adjust to having his soul back. To hear Angel tell it, he didn't have a very good soul to begin with, but he seems much better than the soulless demon we all had known.

After everyone went home tonight and I got Giles and Dawn to bed I finally called Angel. I had to dial at least three times before I finally let the call go through.

Cordilia answered the phone and I choked out that I needed to talk to Angel. When he got on the phone he knew immediately that something was wrong.

"Buffy, what is it?" he asked, sounding more worried than I had ever heard him.

"Angel… I… I need you. I need you to come," I told him, breaking down. I guess I figured he deserved to be told in person.

"I'll be there in an hour. You hang on, ok Buffy?"

"Ok. See ya soon" I answered. But he had already hung up, anxious to come to my aid. My knight in shinning armor through and through.