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Rating: PG-13
Authors Note: Buffy Summers is your typical sixteen year old with a happy family and the attention of her crush. What will happen when Buffy finds out that she may not be the girl she thought she was.
Authors Note: This idea comes from the 'The Face on the Milk Carton' Books by Caroline B. Cooney( a wonderful author, and I would recommend every single one of her books!!). There are times I may use ideas from the book or movie version, but most of the time I am going to try to just use the basic idea.
Authors Note 2: This idea is one of the many ideas that have been playing around in my head for a while and I finally have the time to work on it.
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Title: Where Do I Belong? 9/?
Author: TK
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Part 9
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"Emily, Elizabeth, time to get up!" hollered Mrs. Summers knocking on the girls' door the next morning.
Rolling around in her bed Buffy opened her eyes with a yawn. It took her a few moments to place where she was. This wasn't her room, it wasn't her mother's voice telling her to get up. When she spotted Emily getting out of her bed with a grumble, she suddenly remembered where she was.
"Hey, Sleep Head." Emily teased, making her bed. "Mom has an art show today, and the whole family is going." she explained excited about this particular charity event.
Buffy stood up and stretched, "Is she an artists?" directed Buffy grabbing her fluffy baby blue towel.
"She owns her own gallery." Emily explained, "Today's show is a charity show for the Children's hospital. We go every year, and it turns out to be a lot of fun."
"What do you usually wear?" inquired Buffy opening the closet with her clothing.
"A simple, yet nice dress or pants outfit." answered Emily pulling out a blue and white knee length dress.
"Girls, can I come in?" asked Mrs. Summers opening the door.
"Yeah," replied Emily smiling.
"I'm going to take a shower." Buffy informed them, taking a red dress out of her clothing hanging up. "Good-morning, Mrs. Summers." she greeted heading towards the bathroom.
"Good-morning, Elizabeth." replied Mrs. Summers once again thankful for her baby being home once more.
Shutting the door behind her, Buffy began her shower, all the while, thinking about the coming month. Would she make it? Telling herself the answer was 'yes', after all she was independent and stubborn. Traits that had been commented on her whole life, especially by Faith. A month was no big deal, and in the end she would get to go home. With new found strength and faith, Buffy finished her shower, then got ready for the day a head.
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"Elizabeth, don't you look lovely." complemented Mrs. Summers upon seeing Buffy and Emily walking down the stairs. Her two eldest girls looked so much like the sisters they were. Joyce couldn't wait to show Elizabeth around. "As do you, Emily." she added when the two girls reached the bottom of the stairs.
"Thanks, Mom." Emily replied. "Will Mrs. Gunn and Mr. Gunn be there?" She asked, referring to her mother's assistant manger Shy Anne Gunn's family.
"Yes, she will be." replied Mrs. Summers as the rest of the family met in the hall. "They have a daughter your age, Elizabeth." she informed Buffy who at the moment was paying attention to Dawn telling her all about the art their mother dealt with.
"Really?" asked Buffy averting her attention back to Mrs. Summers.
"Yeah, her name is Lona," explained Mr. Summers ushering the children out the door. "I am glad you are able to be with us today, Sweetie." she praised when all but her and Buffy were outside.
"Me too." Buffy said, giving her biological mother a nod. "I hope I can live up to whatever it is you expect." she added walking out the door.
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"Hi, Elizabet.," greeted two young girls about her age the minute her sister dragged her away from the painting she was looking at.
"Hello." Buffy replied to the tall brunt and short dark hair girl.
"Buffy, this is Cordelia Chase and Winifred Burkle, Fred and Cordy for short." Emily said, making introductions. "They're your age. Cordelia's best friend Charisma is my best friend."
"Very nice to meet you." Buffy said, plastering a smile on her face. Two hours had past since her new family had arrived, and she had yet to have five minutes alone. It was like everyone came to see her and not the paintings, which, if she did say so herself, were lovely.
"Elizabeth, I'm having a party this weekend," invited Cordelia, "you are more then welcome to come. It'll be at the Country Club my Daddy owns." she bragged flipping her short layer hair behind her.
"Thanks," accepted Buffy, the way Cordelia had just acted reminded her so much of Darla it was sickening. 'I really hope she's not as bad as Darla' she thought following the two girls and her big sister over to a table.
"So, Elizabeth, you have any nicknames you would rather be called?" asked Fred sweetly. The shy dark hair girl seemed to be more pleasant to talk to then Cordelia.
"I either go by Elizabeth or Buffy." Buffy put forth, and thanked the waiter for the cup of water he had placed in front of her. "It looks like Mrs. Summers show is going well." she indicated, watching a long line of people pick out paintings and sculptures to buy.
"It usually does." admitted Emily, sighing when Elizabeth called their mother Mrs. Summers instead of Mom. Getting used to them was going to take some time, and she knew that, but was Elizabeth even trying? "The Children's Hospital most years receives a check of $500,000 each year. Mom, does other fun raisers, but this one and the one she does for the kidnapping program brings in a lot." Buffy looked over at the twenty-one year old.
"She does one for kidnapping?" Buffy asked, impressed. Mrs. Summers was a very kind heart person to do all this stuff, she was someone Buffy was sure she would be proud to have as a mother had she grown up with the Summers.
"Ever since you were taken, Mom, has been dead set on doing what she could to help the program that specializes in bring children home." Spike informed her as he and a tall African American young man came up beside the girls. "Elizabeth, this is my best friend Charles Gunn, Gunn this is my little sister Elizabeth." he introduced them, stealing a drink of Emily's pop.
"Hey," complained Emily, swatting Spike's arm, "get your own."
Buffy laughed, causing everyone to look at her, "I'm sorry," she said once she stopped laughing," it's just that the way you two were behaving reminds of Hope and Faith."
"Who's Hope and Faith?" snooped Cordelia, "are they friends of yours from back in Sunnydale?"
"They're my sisters." answered Buffy ignoring the look Emily gave her. "So what's the best places to shop here?" she changed the subject, even though she already knew the best places to shop in LA, Faith, her friends, and herself had been to LA plenty of times for her to know.
"72nd Street and 24th Street." Cordelia told her quickly, ready to talk about her favorite subject, money and shopping.
"Elizabeth, can you come here a second?" interrupted Mr. Summers seeing the girls and boys rolled their eyes at Cordelia's excitement about the topic.
"Of course." agreed Buffy, getting off her chair. "I'll talk to you guys later."
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"Elizabeth, I hope you are having a nice time." Mr. Summers said when Buffy and he reached the terrace outside the main room where all the selling was going on.
"I am," replied Buffy quickly, "the work inside is lovely, and it's such a worth cause." she went on. "You must be so proud of Mrs. Summers for doing this, and the other charities she does."
Mr. Summers beamed when he spoke, "I am really proud of Joyce, and of all that she does. It was her hope that one day her children would grow to love art as much as she does. Emily has taken to it greatly, she is studying to be an artist herself. Dawn is more dead set on playing softball for now, and Spike, well your brother doesn't know what he wants yet, however, he is working on his bachelors degree in business, so…" he trailed off.
"Sounds like everyone has at least some idea of what they might want to be, except Dawn, but she has a lot of time." commented Buffy, sitting down on one of the white flower benches.
"What do you want to be, Elizabeth?" he asked. Hank Summers wanted to know Elizabeth as he knew his other children's hopes and dreams. He may not always be home, but Emily, Dawn, and Spike always knew he loved them and understood were they were coming from. Joyce and he needed Elizabeth to see that as well.
"I have been in dance for ten years, cheerleading for seven, and gymnastics for nine." e Buffy told him, looking out at the view. "I hope to go to Julliard for dancing and maybe open up my own dance studio." she finished replacing her focus.
"That sounds like a really wonderful dream." Mr. Summers was impressed. His young daughter seemed so passionate when she spoke of dancing and going to Julliard that he had no doubt she would work hard to complete her dream.
"Dad, Elizabeth, Mom is giving her speech now." Dawn said breaking up the moment.
"We're coming." laughed Mr. Summers as his youngest grabbed his and Elizabeth's hand and pulled them inside.
As Buffy sat and listened to Mrs. Summers talk she couldn't help but admitted that today hadn't been so bad, so why did she feel guilty about it? That's when the thoughts of her family back in Sunnydale hit her. While she had been having an okay time with this new family, they were probably at home missing her like she missed them. 'One month,' she told herself, 'one month.
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