A month later.

"Buffy get up!!" Willow yelled in the ex-slayer's ear.

"Wh- what?" Buffy said rubbing her eyes sleepily.

"Just look at you!"

"Huh what about me?"

"Since you broke up with Riley you've been sleeping for most of the day, you only get out of this room if you're hungry or need to go to the bathroom, so what's wrong?"

"I'm just relaxing before my tour through America starts. Because then I won't have much free time."

Willow glared at her, not believing her.

"What?"

"Oh come on. I know that's not the real reason. I'm not that much of an idiot."

Buffy sighed deeply knowing she had to somehow spill it out to Willow. "I..well.it's just now I've broke up with Riley.I don't know what to do."

"You mean as in not knowing how to contact Angel?"

"Yeah that's what I was trying to say."

"Oh Buffy...why don't you just call him??"

"Call him?? Like: "Hey Angel remember me? I'm your ex, who you haven't seen or spoken to in five years. I don't think so Will!"

"No you're right, but I don't think you have to worry about that anymore.."

"What do you mean??"

Willow held a few magazines in front of her nose. Buffy took them from her and read the big headlines about her.

'Buffy still in love with ex', she read. 'Boyfriend gets dumped', 'Buffy used ex', 'New song refers to ex' Buffy gasped..Riley had sold his story to the media.

"So you see, I think he'll know by now" Willow chuckled, but then got serious again. "But I don't see how Riley could do this to you?"

"Oh. My. God!." Buffy said slowly getting out of her shock. "That little weasel! He sold his story to the media. Oh he'll pay for this alright."

"Buffy calm down a bit.."

"How can I calm down Will? He made me look like a bitch towards the world only to get money!"

*****

Angel groaned inwardendly. Why the Hell did he let Cordelia convince him to go shopping with her? This was worse than the tortures he had to endure in Hell. Here he was, walking on the streets of LA with five shopping bags in each hand and a shopcrazy girl walking beside him.

"Come on Angel. I still want to buy that new Versace dress!!"

Angel wasn't listening to her, he just saw the headlines of a few magazines. He stopped walking and just stared at them. Buffy. They talked about Buffy.

"Hello! Earth to tall, brooding ex-vampire!!"

"What? Oh and don't say that aloud"

"You weren't listening to a word I was saying!" Cordelia said, ignoring his comment. Then she saw the reason why he wasn't listening to her. "Oh my god! That's Buffy!", she grabbed a magazine, opened it and flipped it through until she found the right article. She read it aloud.

"Buffy Summers appears not to be the sweet and kind girl we thought she was after all, if we should believe her now ex-boyfriend Riley Finn."

"Buffy Summers is a type of person I saw myself growing old with, or so I thought. Then she lays her past on me about her ex-boyfriend Angel. She told me about there intimate relationship and how hard their breakup was. At first I didn't think much of it because I figured she just wanted to get it out to take away the pain. I never expected her to go back to him." Riley says

"Wow..Buffy finally dumped the stupid guy!!", Cordy chuckled while she quickly read the article through. "Oh here's another interesting sentence!"

"Basically she just used me to get over him, but now she found out it's not working and she leaves me behind with a broken heart."

'That little...', Angel thought angrily, 'How could he do this to Buffy? How dares he talking about her like that. If I get my hands on him....' Then another thought hit him. 'She broke up with him, because of me.'

"I wonder how much he got for his story", Cordy looked at Angel and saw that he was brooding once again. She hit him hard on the arm. "Hey snap out of it Broody!!"

"What?!", he said annoyed.

"Why don't you just go to her and reunite in a way only you two can, instead of brooding about it?"

Ignoring her last comment, Angel gave her a confused look. "What do you mean with 'reunite like only you two can'?"

"Oh you know what I mean." First you just stare at each other for a few minutes, thinking how gorgeous the other looks, then you talk and get a little argument. But suddenly everything is forgotten and you jump each other desperately and eventually land on the bed making sweet love all night. And you two live happily ever after. The End."

"Uh thank you Cordy. That's and interesting theory you have there.", Angel said sarcastically. "But I can't just go back there, it's been five years since the last time we've seen each other."

"So? I don't get your point. She made it perfectly clear that she still wants you through that sappy song of hers and now she even dumped her boyfriend and you dumped your girlfriend. So there is nothing standing between you two."

"But"

"No buts, you and me are going to Sunnydale ASAP. And besides, I want to see my family again" And with that Cordy walked away in search of the desired Versace dress, leaving a flabbergasted Angel behind.