Chapter 1 (Meet the Characters)
The bell rang signaling lunch, and everyone headed to the cafeteria. Buffy plopped her tray down on
the table where her best friends were sitting. They were considered the "geeky freaks" of the school, mostly
because they were not geeky enough to be considered losers, and everyone hated them because they had
very strong opinions about everything, and for that they were called freaks.
Buffy looked like your average California girl: long blonde hair, green eyes, tanned and toned body. But
everyone knew that she was not. She was quick-witted, hot tempered and not someone you would want to
mess with.
Buffy looked at her friends and smiled. They began to talk about the day, classes, and the night's plans.
Willow Rosenberg is a very shy girl with flame-red hair and a friendly expression. She was very smart,
and had been accepted at many top colleges. She and Buffy formed the core of the group, for they were best
friends since they were in daycare.
Tara McClay had been the next addition to the group. She is also very quiet and smart, with blue eyes
and light brown hair. She is currently dating one of her best friends, Amy Madison, who is also a member of the
group.
Amy joined the group when she began to date Tara. Black hair and brown eyes, she likes to study the
occult and works part-time at a bookstore where the girls hang out. She also has a weird obsession with cheese.
Fred Burkle joined the group on her first day of school her sophomore year. She was a transfer from
some foreign country where she had been living with a foster family. She is a very shy girl with brown hair and
glasses, who likes to spend most of her time reading.
And then there is Anya Jenkins. She joined the group last year. She was a transfer from Los Angeles.
She doesn't know her natural hair color due to the fact that she changes it all the time. She is also very blunt.
The girls continued to eat their lunch, while a few tables over Spike sat down with a loud thump.
Spike sat down at the table with his friends. Spike was known as the school bad boy: bleached hair,
black clothes, English accent, and a leather duster which he wore every second of the day. He began
school at Sunnydale a year ago. Most students didn't know anything about him except rumors. He
skipped most of his classes and was known to pick a lot of fights. He is also a member of the band,
Dingoes Ate My Baby, in which he sings and sometimes plays guitar.
Spike greeted his friends, the only people who had bothered to talk to him his first day of school, and
also members of the Dingoes. He noticed the boy from Ms. Addams' office. He introduced himself and
everyone began to talk about their upcoming gig at the Bronze.
Xander Harris is the quirkiest of the group. He often makes jokes that only he and Jesse laugh at. He
plays guitar for the Dingoes. Daniel Osbourne, known as Oz, also plays guitar for the Dingoes. He is very
stoic, and his hair has been every color of the rainbow at least once.
The guys looked up as they heard a loud crash.
The freshman fell to the ground as he was tripped. He heard laughing as he looked up at Angel and
his friends. He quickly gathered his things and ran, already embarrassed and not looking forward to a beating.
Angel O'Connor is the most popular guy in school. The guys want to be as popular as he is and the girls
wish they could get with him. He spends most of his time tormenting the less fortunate. Laughing, he turned to
go to his table and sat down.
Riley Finn, a farm boy from Iowa, is only popular because he happens to be on the football team with Angel.
His father is in the military, so he often talks in military code. Parker Abrams is also on the football team. His
hobby is getting girls to sleep with him and then leaving them the next morning, never speaking to them again.
And then there is Charles Gunn, known as Gunn. Also on the football team, he enjoys taking the geeks to the
bathroom and beating them senseless.
Angel sat down at the "popular" table just as three girls entered the room.
Dawn, Harmony, and Cordelia walked into the room. They spotted Angel at the popular table and went to
sit down at the table next to it. All sophomores, the girls were among the most popular girls in school.
Dawn is Buffy's sister, although neither one admits it. She's had her eye on Angel since she saw him her
freshman year. Cordelia, a very tactless girl with jet black hair, is a walking fashion magazine. She only wears
the best names in fashion and dates the most popular guys. She and Dawn have been best friends since they
were little. Harmony is the epitome of a valley girl. Blonde hair and tanned body, she lacks common sense
and has the lowest gpa in the sophomore class.
Lunch continued on, with everyone chatting. The bell rang signaling the end of lunch, and the students
reluctantly get up, and head for their next class.