A.N. New chappy. :D Sorry it took so long, I've been kinda busy. Anyway, thanks to all who've reviewed. to Falcon-Rider, yeah I totally guessed on his weight & height. let's just say spike bigger than James, lol... & to SilviB, she has recognized him but she doesn't know he's been turned human, so she doesn't think its possible that it is him. & thanks to everyone else who likes the story. hope you all like this chapter & plz keep reviewing, i luff reviews :)
Ch 7. Stories
"Do you wanna do something tonight? We can go to a movie or something…" asks Buffy.
"I have plans tonight." Dawn replies.
"What plans?"
"I'm going out with Sunny."
"This wouldn't happen to be the same Sunny who stood you up last week, would it?"
"Yeah, but he had a good reason."
Buffy raises her eyebrow. "He did." says Dawn. "Please don't judge, I really like this guy."
"Alright." she sighs, "I guess I'll go to the hospital, then."
"The hospital? Why?"
"I gonna go see this guy I met."
"You met a guy, and you didn't tell me!"
"It's not what you think, he's a patient at the hospital. I accidentally walked into his room by mistake & left my purse there. When I went back to get it we talked for a little bit and he's nice."
"So what's he look like?" Dawn asks eagerly.
He looks like Spike. "Like any other guy." she answers.
"Is he cute?"
"Yeah, I guess."
"What's his name?"
"David Sh…", a car honk interrupts her. Dawn runs to the window. "That's Sunny, I have to go. But tell me all the details when I get back."
"Fine. Don't stay out too late." Buffy says, as she watches her smitten sister runs out the door.
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An hour later, Buffy's at the hospital. She softly taps on the door & walks in. "David?"
He looks over at her and sits up. "Hey you came."
"Yeah, I told you I would."
"I'm glad you did." he says.
"So…what's up?"
"Nothing really, I'm having surgery tomorrow."
"That's nothing?"
"Well I'm asleep through it, so yeah." She laughs quietly. "So how's your sister?"
"She's better. She actually on a date tonight. With a sleazebag."
"How do you know that?"
"They all are." She says all-knowingly.
"Hey, I'm not!"
"Yeah, we'll see." She smiles at him. Wait a minute, am I flirting with him? No, of course not!
"So like, do you take care of your sister?"
"Yeah. Our mom passed away two years ago, and well we never really hear from our dad."
He lowers his voice, "Oh, I'm sorry to hear that."
"It's okay."
"I expect you being a legal guardian of someone else at a young age must be pretty hard."
"Yeah." Like you have no idea. "It can be overwhelming sometimes, but I'm getting better."
Meanwhile at a burger joint on the other side of town…
"I'm glad you decided to give me another chance. After I left ya hangin' last time, I didn't expect you to ever speak to me again. At least not for a whole week. " says Sunny.
"Yeah…lets just forget about that. So what's up?" says Dawn.
"Uh, I convinced Ms. Cook not to fail me again. So that pulls my average up to a D+." he says proudly.
"That's great."
The waitress comes up to their table and brings them their orders. "That'll be $23.70."
He turns to Dawn, "Hey I left my wallet in my other pants... do you think you could pay for the meal?"
"I guess." she says tensely. She pulls out her purse & pays the waitress, turns and looks down at her food. Ugh! Burgers. Like I don't get enough burgers with Buffy working at Doublemeat. And I have to pay for it? This sucks. He couldn't have at least taken me to taco joint?
"So anyways, you missed one hell of a party at Gia's last week…"
Because of you.
"One of her friends hired a male stripper who was such a fag! Me &some of the guys started beating him up."
Dawn just sits there & pretends to looks interested. Buffy's right, why am I even dating this guy.
"And someone brought some beer, so half the people their were wasted. So when Gia was blowing out her candles, this drunk guy tripped on her & her hair caught on fire!" he starts laughing, "It was funny."
I think I may know why...
"It got real loud, & I heard the police showed up. But I wasn't there, I left early."
"You did?"
"Yeah, it wasn't much fun without you." he flashes her a smile.
…because he's soooooooo cute!
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"…And then Oz left, and she stayed with Tara."
"Poor guy. He must've been heartbroken. But then he shouldn't have expected everything to have remained to same while he was gone."
"Yeah." she nods. She had spent the last few hours telling him most of the details of her life & her friends' excluding the slayer & supernatural stuff, of course. It wasn't something she would've ever normally done, but she found him so easy to talk to.
"So is Willow still with Tara?"
"Um… no. They broke up, then got back together. Then Tara died."
"Are you serious? How?" he says, shocked.
"She uh… was in a car accident."
"That's awful. Poor Willow, how did she take it?"
"Not so well." she says. Understatement of the century...
"I wanna meet these friends of yours. Xander, Willow, Anya, and Giles. Oh and especially Dawn. With everything you've told me about them I feel like I know them."
"Yeah sure. Except Willow & Giles are currently in London taking care of some stuff. But the others I'll definitely bring them over sometime. Anyway, I've been telling you all about me, now you tell me about you."
"Um, okay. My name is David Schroeder. I'm twenty-nine, and an only child. My parents are Edward and Kelly Schroeder. I was born in Yorkshire, England and moved to California when I was 5. When I was 17 my dad died of lung cancer and then when I was 24 my mom died also."
"That's all?"
"Yeah."
"That can't be all. You must have some stories."
He thinks for a minute, "When I was eleven I fell out of a tree."
She looks at him for awhile, then out the window. "Wow, it's dark already. I didn't even notice. I have to go. I'll be back on Wednesday. And when I do you better have some stories to tell me about yourself, alright?
"Okay, I will. Bye." He watches her leave the room, then leans back on the bed & sighs.
Great, now what am I gonna do?