03-26-05 Dear Diary,

Oh wow. I can't think of a part of my body that is not sore. Parts of my body that I didn't know I had are sore. Writing this is painful. Slayer training started today. I figured we would just have one of those first day kind of classes, where the teacher just tells you about what the class is going to be like and what they expect for our behavior.we didn't. After about ten minutes of talking, Miss Summers went right into demonstration. And of course since she thinks I'm all important now that my fate is linked to her lover boy's, she decided that I would be a great volunteer. She told me to come at her so that she could just block my moves, her way of blocking is not very nice. Then she decided that she needed a better example than me, since I wasn't much of an opponent to the seasoned warrior, so she had Spike come down and then two of them sparred in front of us for a while.

After she showed us some basic striking and blocking moves we split into groups of two to practice. It has since occurred to me that sparring is an excellent time to work with someone you can't stand, for example Demi, I however was dumb enough to pair with Stacey. It was going well at first, I started with the striking while she practiced blocking. Then we switched, that's when it went downhill. She came at me with a jab punch and I tried to use a forearm block, but it didn't work and she smashed her fist right into my eye. Now I have a black eye, it's so very sexy, really. Miss Summers was going to let me sit out but Spike was all "No, she needs to learn to be tough, besides she's got slayer healing." I could have smacked him, I really could. I have to say though, fighting was rather fun. I'm one kick ass little chica.

Then, after all my fellow slayers got to run off and got soak in bath tubs or collapse on couches, I had to stay after with Spike and Buffy for extra training. Just for kicks, all the fight instructors came to help out; there was no pressure on me, really. Okay, there's a lot of fighting instructors at our school so bear with me while I try to remember who. There's Miss Summers, Spike is one now I guess, Mr. Giles, Mr. and Mrs. Wood, that Kennedy girl who I didn't know, a really gorgeous guy that I can't believe I didn't notice before: The Groosalug., Groo for short, and Mr. And Mrs. Finn. Plus Peaches, who is still here for some reason, and Mrs. Rosenberg were there too. I don't know why, but Angel got really mad when I called him Peaches today even though that's what Spike always calls him. Well, at least I didn't really have to do any more fighting. They were teaching me how to use different weapons. It was wicked cool. I got to use a crossbow and a sword and a giant axe like thingy which has a proper name but hell if I can remember it. It was really cool but I really didn't need all those people there so after a while most of them scurried off.

I was really getting the hang of throwing knife's at a bull's-eye when I saw a big huge man fly across the room. It was Mr. Finn. Spike stood in the corner with a satisfied smirk on his face and Angel, who was helping to move the bull's-eye around for more of a challenge was trying to hide a smile. I thought it was pretty funny to see this six foot something dude go flying through the air so I was busting up laughing and Miss Summers got all mad at the three of us. Mrs. Finn wasn't around so Miss Summers went over to help Mr. Finn up and I could have sworn I heard both vampires growl. Can vampires growl? If so add that to the list of things that are wicked cool about sexy vampires! Well anyways it was this whole big thing. And I think I saw Mr. Finn look at Miss Summers with some lust in his eyes. Oh my god if they were an item too I'm just going to drop dead! How many of this woman's ex-boyfriends can be in the same room at once. What was it a festival or something? Of course judging from what I saw yesterday, Spike might not be so much of an ex, but who am I to judge?

Anyways, Mr. Finn was pretty sore from the impact of hitting the wall and then sliding to the floor, so Miss Summers had to take him up to see Mr. Johnson. Spike decided it would be a good idea for us to spar, even though Angel told him not to, more than once. But I don't think Spike cares much what Angel says. So Spike told me to attack him and he would just block me. I did not like the sound of that, wasn't that the same thing Miss Summers said earlier which led to my pain? But I couldn't resist his gorgeous blue sexy vamp eyes so I did it and he adjusted to being just the right opponent for me. I really got into it and it was so freaking exhilarating, although I must say exhausting as well. I didn't feel overly week either like I would expect to against a vampire, and it felt like this was what I was supposed to be doing. I think I'm really starting to feel like a slayer. Plus I started feeling some of those tingles Mrs. Wood told me about. Well, I think the tingles were my slayer senses, they might have been my teenage hormones. Anyways it was really great, but then Miss Summers came in and yelled at Spike. She said I was not ready to fight him, but I defended him before he could defend himself saying that it was my fault. He looked surprised at first and then looked like 'why the hell would that kid?' Oh well, Miss Summers got off his case at least. We decided that would be enough for my first night. Spike said, "Nice job Luv." And I almost fainted I swear. He called me Luv! Have I died and gone to heaven?! I think so.

Well anyways, it's safe to say I am thoroughly exhausted. But it was worth it, I'm really glad I was called as a slayer, I think it's right for me. I'll have to thank Spike sometime, and Miss Summers and Miss Rosenberg too for making it so it's not this whole lonely gig. I've also decided that I deserve to skip my homework tonight due to my profuse exhaustedness, heheh.

~Abby: A vampire Slayer~