Hey Chapter 3 Hope you like.

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"Mother? Father?" Buffy called as she entered their mansion. "Hello?"

"Buffy!"

She spun around and smiled widely. "Faith! You're here! I've missed you so much!"

Faith smiled back and they hugged. Faith was Buffy's cousin and only friend. She lived in America with her family. They'd known each other since they were about 7 years old. Faith had dark brown hair with matching dark eyes. She always had a wilder way to do everything. She lived for adventure. She and Buffy had grown up together and became quick friends. But faith moved away a few years ago. She still visited every once in a while but not as often as they would like.

"I've missed you too." She pulled away and whispered as if she had a great secret, "I've gotten you a gift."

Buffy smiled with excitement as faith pulled her to the guest room she was staying in. Faith opened her closet and pulled out a beautiful silk dress. Buffy's eyes were wide with amazement as Faith laid the dress down on her bed. It was a dark blue and light sky blue with green and red flower designs at the bottom.

Buffy gasped, "Beautiful. And it's for me?"

Faith smiled, a 'duh' look on her face, "Of course, Silly. Like it'd fit on Dawn."

Buffy glared at her, "Well you don't have to be peevish about it. Come. Let's talk more in the garden." Buffy looked around for a second and mumbled, "That is if I could find it..."

Faith , having heard her comment, laughed and said, "I've spent most of the morning here. It's down the hall."

Buffy smiled, "Yeah I knew that."

Faith laughed again

Buffy grabbed her hand and dragged her down the hall. She gasped she saw the garden. It was beautiful and filled with all different flowers of different colors. A certain purple red and yellow flower caught her attention and she walked over to it and held it to her nose. She closed her eyes and sighed. It smelled heavenly.

Faith sat down on a cement bench and streighted out her skirt. Buffy sat down next to her and started wringing her hands nervously. She looked up at her and said, "I met a couple friends in town today. They invited me to a pub called the Bronze with them. I was wondering maybe you'd like to come with me. I'm sure they won't mind."

Faith smiled and replied, "Of course I'll come. I'm always up for some fun."

Buffy squealed in a very unladylike manner and hugged Faith tightly. She smiled brightly and pulled Faith into the mansion. Buffy dragged faith up the stairs and into a bed room. She smiled, " Oh I like this room."

Faith tugged on a strand of her hair then said, "So let's get all dressed and pretty."

Buffy smiled. They spent the next two hours getting ready. **** Buffy looked over at Faith to see her struggling to get her corkscrew curls to pile on her head. She got up and walked over to her.

Buffy frowned in mock shame as she scolded, "You're almost seventeen years of age and you still can't do your own hair."

Faith glared at her a grateful smile on her lips. She was wearing a scarlet dress. With a velvet over coat. Buffy was wearing the dress Faith had given her. She looked like an angel in it. Amy, one of their maids came in and said, "Eh, Miss Rosenberg is present. She awaits you in the lobby."

"thank you. Please tell her we'll be down soon" Buffy said as she straightened her dress. She fingered her hair nervously. Faith stood and smiled encouraging.

They walked down the stairs and Buffy noticed that Willow had a friend with her. She was a little taller than Buffy, but than again Buffy was pretty short. She had dark dirty blonde hair. It was almost a light brown color but not exactly. She was really pretty too. She wore a long green dress and had a beautiful green gem necklace. Buffy also noticed that Xander wasn't there.

Willow saw her and smiled, "Buffy, you look beautiful. This is my friend Tara Maclay. She moved here last year from France."

Tara smiled shyly at Buffy and Buffy smiled back and replied, "I've been to France before. If I remember correctly it was actually quite lovely. What part were you from?"

Tara stumbled over her words as she answer, "Eh, Versailles."

Buffy smiled again, "We went through there on our way to Paris. It was nice, homey."

Tara's smile widened as she heard that, "Oui, homey. Um so Willow said you two had a ...eh mésaventures?"

Tara looked down sheepishly. She was still having trouble with her English. She tries really hard to pick up some of the words but it was very hard for her. At times it got really embarrassing because some people didn't speak French and didn't know what she was saying.

Buffy smiled. "Yes we did actually. Fortunately no one was hurt.

"Yeah and fortunately for me it was Buffy I ran into and not some one like Cecily or Harmony." Willow added with a grateful smile.

Buffy realized something and turned to Faith who'd been quiet through the whole exchange, "Oh yes. This is my cousin Faith Burling. I hope you don't mind if she comes along."

Willow smiled brightly at faith and said, "No. Not at all. The more the merrier I say."

Faith glanced around at them impatiently, "C'mon I need a little fun. Can we go now?"

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Hey. Sorry it took so long to update. My parents are sooo annoying that they can't leave me alone for at least a few minutes at a time. Also no matter how badly I hated Faith, in every one of my stories she's either Buffy's best friend or one of her friends. I don't think I could ever make Buffy really hate her. - Punked out B*tch