Title: Summer Love
Author: Nimisha
Rating: PG-15 for swearing
Disclaimer: None of the characters from BtVS or Angel, belong to me in any way, instead only some stupid, freaky minor characters, rather they belong to Joss Whedon, UPN, Fox and probably others too, they are currently being borrowed for some non-money making fun.
Summary: Rewrite of Meteor Garden. Juz the stupid F4 stuff. : þ
Couples: B/A (DUH), S/F, W/O
Timeline: AU
Distribution: Anywhere… juz email me, k?
Dedication: To all B/A fans out there
Feedback: Please? I totally survive on it!! By the way, I would like to thank those who wrote feedback to me. Keep 'em coming in!
P.S. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO REVIEWED, BOTH On BA_Fluff and fanfiction.net … ! I am sooo sorry for typing the wrong thing on my summary!
Confused: I'm sorry if you did not understand… but I cannot really explain what is REALLY going on… I'll try.
Leea: No, there wouldn't be any B/A for the next few parts… (Unfortunately) As it's more of a series, which I'm still deciding to continue. BUT, you will see some B/A later on…
Ginger: I would like to clear this up… this is NOT an adaption of Meteor Rain. It's actually adapted from a TV. Series called Meteor Garden, which both Phoebe and I loved to watch.
Aurora: Actually, both Phoebe's Meteor Rain and my Summer Love are finished. We're just taking our time to post it... J I'll try to post it A.S.A.P… but my exams are coming, so I'm not sure whether I can finish posting it…L
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Buffy sighed tiredly. "So what if I'm screaming at them now? I'm just a coward like them, I didn't even dare to help Ford." She told herself.
"I should get back to class instead." She said and walked away back to class.
***
Buffy and Kendra slowly carried the basket of balls to the other room.
"Are you attending accountancy lessons this semester?" Kendra asked.
"No." Buffy replied.
"You mean you're no taking accountancy lessons any more? Why?"
"It's held in the afternoon, I had to work now."
Kendra didn't answer. She suddenly stopped and Buffy almost bumped into her. She looked at Kendra questioningly and followed the other girl's gaze to the front of them. Four handsome guys were walking towards them as if they owned the school.
'But they do own it.'
Buffy realised that they were the legendary F4.
'WOAH. Hunk Alert! I had no idea that all 4 of them are so… gorge… bad thoughts, Buffy, very bad thoughts! I mean the front one was so sexy... Oh my god, what am I thinking?!! I'm bad, bad Buffy. Naughty Buffy!'
Buffy shook her head, trying to clear her head of those increasingly disturbing thoughts from her head. Of course they were F4, she should hate them. The front sexy and dark guy was Angelus Renaldi, of course. He was the leader of the group after all. At his right was Allan Francis Doyle, the short brown-haired and funny guy. On the other side was Oz or Daniel Osbourne, the one who was always cool and changing his hair colour almost every two days. The one behind was Spike or William McGillian, the only of the group that no one knew about.
As the gang walked up the steps and onto the hallway, someone crashed into Angelus and fell.
"What the…?!" Prof. Flutie spluttered angrily before growing horrified by the second when he saw whom he actually crashed into. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry for crashing into you accidentally. It was most careless of me." The professor started to get up and used his sleeve to wipe away the sweat gathering on Angelus' face.
"Professor," Angel said sarcastically, showing that he had no respect for the professor at all clearly," If it was another student that you crashed into, would you apologize?"
"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." The Prof. mumbled while wiping away the sweat on Angelus' face.
"Professor Flutie, you're stepping on my foot."
"I'm so sorry, I'll polish your shoe." he knelt down and blew on the shoe and wiping it with his sleeve.
Buffy stared at them disbelievingly.
"Professor, if apologizing can solve the problem, what do we need the police for?" Angelus asked, getting annoyed by the minute.
"I know what to do already." Professor hung his head sadly. "You will never see me again in this school from tomorrow. I'll resign immediately."
Angel started to wave his hand as a sign of dismissal. The teacher accidentally thought he was going to hit him so he quickly ducked. Of course, he was so clumsy that he actually rolled to the side and crashed into the basket of balls that was on the ground.
Needless to say, Angelus was getting very irritated. "Whatever you want." was the last thing he threw down at the Prof. before stalking away, in front of all the wide-eyed audience.
Oz and Doyle started to follow him. "Master Angelus is not in a good mood today." Doyle told them before walking away to catch up Angelus.
'I can't believe the world has such proud and haughty people leaving in it.'
Buffy and Kendra craned their necks to watch the leaving group when Buffy noticed that someone just placed the rolling empty basket upright. It was actually Spike. He felt someone looking at him and turned his head. He caught Buffy's stare. Their eyes instantly met. At that moment, a strange feeling rose up in Buffy's heart.
"Geez, Spike, you coming?" Angel yelled at Spike. He walked slowly towards them and they left.
***
"Wow. Is that gang called F4 really that bad?" Willow asked.
"Yup. I tell you, Will, especially the leader who is called Angelus Renaldi. He is the most disgusting of the lot. The school was opened by their parents, because they wanted to educate their heirs there. I swear, my school is no different from hell." Buffy frowned. The two girls were, as usual, at the cake shop that they worked in.
"Well, those F4 guys sounds cool. By the way, what those the F in the F4 means?"
Buffy laughed. "Now that's a better question. F stands for Flowers. They are so proud of their looks that they call themselves flowers. It sounds so sissy-like."
"Well, I don't know. They must be gorgeous. I mean they couldn't be as bad as you thought they are." Willow offered.
"Wrong, Will. They are as BAD as I said." she retorted. Willow noted the apprehensive expression on her best friend's face.
"You're hiding something." she accused her.
"No! I swear, Will, I'm hiding nothing. I mean, well, there was this guy among them who was alright, I guess. He was kind enough to put the basket up right when Angelus kicked it."
"Really? Wow. Buffy, are you having a crush?" Willow said slyly.
Buffy stopped folding the boxes and spluttered indignantly. "Will, what are you talking ?! I just met this guy and he is one of those rich guys who have everything. And he is one of F4!"
"I'm just saying from what I heard." Willow laughed.
"If not for my mom, I wouldn't have gone to that school. I just want to stay invisible for these few years in school and study hard." she informed her friend.
'Like real.' Her heart mocked her. Buffy found her thoughts straying back to Angelus Renaldi.
'Ugh! I gotta focus here. Think other things. Chocolates... yummy. Cookie-dough-fudge-mint-chip...yummy. Angelus' body... yummy too. Ahhh... where did that come from? Focus on work, uh yes, work and school. Homework, lots of tests too.'
Buffy knitted her eyebrows as she worked, trying to focus on thinking everything but that stupid, obnoxious Angelus.
Willow frowned, staring at her best friend. They had known each other since they were in diapers, attended the same schools until college. Buffy had changed since they went to separate universities. They only saw each other when they were working in the cake shop.
"You've changed, Buffy. You were the protector when we were in school together. Remember sixth grade? There was this huge menace who tried to bully me. You were the one who stood up for me when the others would not. You were always the protector of our class, that is why you're so popular. But you're not the strong, determined and protective Buffy that I knew." Willow said sadly.
Buffy stopped wiping the table and looked at her sadly too, without a word.
***
Buffy opened the door and walked up the steps. She opened the house door and walked in. "I'm home." she called.
"Buffy, you're home." Joyce Summers walked out to greet her daughter. "Look at me."
"Mom? Did you dye your hair?" Buffy asked, noticing her mother's hair colour. It was a dark shade of brown from the one she saw when she left home that morning.
"You can notice the difference?" Joyce asked happily. "I did it myself."
"Wow, you looked... different." Buffy was at a loss to say anything.
"Different is good, it's change. You should have a change too, like having a boyfriend. Did you meet any boys in school today?"
"Mom, I go there to study. Does that involve any boys?" Buffy retorted as she put down her bag and walked through the narrow passageway to the dining table in her small house. Joyce followed her as she started nagging again.
"Study? Yes. You must study. The books are so expensive, you should meet someone who is very good so it would make up the fees."
"Mom, you're always like that. You loved to have face, we already have no money already. You have to live in such a large house and send me to such an expensive school." Buffy scolded her mom. She switched on the light and knocked on a door at her right.
"Dad, are you going to the toilet when we're having dinner? It's so disgusting." She goes over to the dining table. "Mom, that school are full of lunatics. They don't even go to school to study. They only think of designer labels like DKNY, Prada, and Chanel. My pocket money is only $200 per month, I really cannot fit in with them."
Buffy stopped for a moment before leaning closer to her mother. "Mom, can I don't go and study at that school? Then, you don't have to pay for the expensive fees like you're doing right now."
"What are you saying?" Joyce cried, strongly opposing to her daughter's suggestion. "That is called upper class society. I was hoping that you would become one of them one day, we could all follow you to enter that society." she trailed off, her eyes glazing, obviously daydreaming about the day they became rich.
"That's why your father and I used all our money, I still owned a lot of favors, to send you into that college. You are now actually saying that you are don't want to study there, you're trying to destroy all your mom's ... you mom's ..." Joyce could not continue as she had difficulty breathing.
Buffy stared at her startled. "Mom, are you all right?" she ran over to her mother's side. "Dad, where's mom's medicine?" Buffy yelled frantically as her mother turned blue from not breathing.
"In the cupboard! " a voice called.
"Okay." Buffy shouted as she went in search of the medicine, leaving Joyce unattended.
Hank Summers walked out of the toilet and saw his wife suffering an asthma attack. "Joyce!" he shouted. Buffy had found the medicine and hurried to Joyce. She handed the tube to her mother and Joyce took it to inhale.
"How? Are you okay now?" Hank asked, concerned. After a few moments, Joyce was fine.
"Destroy all of your mom's hope." she finished. Seeing that her mother was good, Buffy walked to her seat and sat down to continue eating.
"Let's eat, let's eat." Hank said breezily as he took a bowl to load it with rice.
"You've eaten enough." Joyce thundered. "You've already eaten four bowls of rice, you only know how to eat..." The argument slowly escalated into a fight.
Buffy had enough. She knew the reason of her parents' argument was from their frustration that their daughter did not want to study at the school that they spent so many money on sending her in.
"All right, all right, I surrender, I will continue studying, okay? Happy now?" Buffy asked and she stopped eating and walked back to her room. The two immediately stopped and sighed, relieved. They started to behave loving to each other, like newly wedded couples.
***
It was night now. The room was dark, save for a night light. Buffy climbed into her bed and laid her head on the pillow staring at the white little rabbit in front of her. She was wearing orange flannel pajamas.
"What are you looking at me for?" she asked the rabbit. It looked back at her quietly.
"I didn't want to be like that too. I also hated the me now, always pretentious and smiling every moment of the day, a person who couldn't even gather up any courage. I'm just waiting for time to pass quickly, I shouldn't be this kind of person." she sighed. She had been sighing a lot these days. Buffy reached up to dim her lights, even though she knew that she wouldn't be sleeping for a long time.
***
In a nightclub, Oz was playing pool with a girl, Doyle was shooting darts while Spike was sitting at a table, eating and staring at his handphone as if he was waiting for someone. The only one missing was Angelus.
Just then, Angelus arrived. He slapped hands with Spike and greeted Doyle. He walked over to the other seat and sat down. "Hey? Why are we here in this strange place?" Angelus asked.
Doyle grinned. "You finally found out how to spike your hair, huh?" Angelus stared at his head.
He tried to play cool and shrugged. "Roger did it for a whole afternoon, he said something about my hair being something... just something, well, whatever. He almost made me explode."
Doyle laughed with Spike. "Well, why didn't you change it into a better hairstyle?"
"Geez, did I ask you for your opinion?" Angelus asked Doyle, annoyed. He turned to Spike.
"Spike, what do you think?"
Spike didn't answer. He just placed a thumbs-up and turning it down. Doyle stifled his laugh while Angelus glared at Spike. He looked at both of his friends.
"You have no choice even if you don't like it." Angelus frowned unhappily. "It took eight hours for Roger to do it."
"You're happy even if it has to be done for eight hours?" Doyle shook his head. Angelus glared at him in reply.
"Doyle, get some food."
Doyle raised his hand to ask for the waiter. "Waiter."
Spike was still looking at his handphone.
The waiter walked over. "A mousse duck foie gra, please."
"Huh?"
"Never mind, obviously you people don't have it. Well, do you have any 90s' wine?"
"Well, we don't have red wine. Do you want the menu?"
"Forget it, okay." Angelus interrupted rudely. "What are you really here for? They have NOTHING." he asked Spike.
"Oz's new girlfriend is here." he answered simply. They all looked over at the pool table.
Doyle turned his chair over to look at Angelus. He turned his face to Spike and asked Angelus, "Do you really think she will call if he kept staring at the phone?" Angelus shrugged helplessly while Spike glared at them.
Suddenly, a team of people walked into the place. Angelus raised an eyebrow. Doyle noticed and turned. The team walked towards the pool table where Oz and Tam were occupying. She walked up to the leader of the team. "What are you doing here?"
"You played pool pretty well, huh?" the guy ignored the girl. Tam walked towards Oz and was pulled back by the guy roughly.
"You should be gentle to girls." Oz said.
"Do you know who she belongs to?" the guy sneered at Oz. "Did you go and find out?"
"I heard her boyfriend was very lousy so I courted her."
"Do you know who the hell you're talking to? " the guy yelled.
Someone suddenly pulled him around and punched him. "Talk to this."
Angelus turned and started fighting the others. In the scuffle, Doyle also joined in to play with the others. He pushed one of the guys from behind and the guy turned to punch him. Doyle caught him by the neck and the guy punched him without success. Doyle then punched him once, sending him into oblivion. It was obvious that the other team was losing as Angelus and Doyle was fighting very well.
Oz put down his things. "Hey, the next time, please be gentle to girls." he told the guy and kicked him. He turned to Tam, who looked very frightened, "I'll call you tomorrow." before leaving.
Spike, on the other hand, had already walked out to the bar. He took out some money.
"Here's $5000 to pay for the mess." Then, Spike took the glass bottle beside him and smashed it on a guy who was fighting with Doyle. Then, he left. Doyle followed him and the others left too.
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Hmm.. nice introduction to the characters.. you would have to look out for the next part.. HUGE CONFRONTATION coming your WAY!
A/N: Since I had not post anything for the last three days… I will post two parts… SO please JUZ CLICK THE BOX BELOW AND REVIEW!
