The Beginning of Everything Else
Buffy Summers was a 15 year old kid from Los Angeles, California. With long blonde hair and cheerleader looks, she could easily have been mistaken for one of the popular girls. But alas those days were gone, May Queen sash and tiara were now sitting in the bottom of a box collecting dust. As for her former friends, they deserted her when she started acting weird, staying out late in cemeteries and skipping cheerleading practice. You see Buffy wasn't like other girls, she was the slayer, someone alone facing demons and the forces of darkness. Keeping this secret identity was killing Buffy, but all she could do was sit and wait and slay, knowing that she could dead before she was old enough to experience real life and that scared her more than the rest of the evil in the world.
Having been kicked out of her high school in LA, Buffy and her mother, Joyce were going to start afresh. Sitting in her bedroom in LA looking around the empty room Buffy wondered where her life had gone and how she came to be so alone. Her dad had moved out following the divorce from her mom a while ago and she only saw him every other weekend. Buffy used to hear her mom and dad fight often over her tardiness and change in attitude so she used to turn the volume on her hi fi up to full blast to drown them out as she cried herself to sleep many nights. Things were better once it just became Buffy and her mom around the house and mother and daughter started to become closer.
Again looking around the empty space Buffy couldn't help but feel responsible for her parents break-up and the reason why they were moving. Although Buffy did not know where she and her mother were going she knew that things would have to change.
Buffy pondered over recent events and she could smell the dead air from the cemetery coming back to her. Then she remembered, as a slayer Buffy had a watcher named Merrick, The Watchers responsibility is to look after the active slayer and guide her into battle. Buffy mind flashed back to weeks ago, the fresh grave just waiting to be disturbed. Buffy had tried desperately to save Merrick but this monster, this vampire was stronger than any she had ever faced and Buffy was thrown forcefully to the ground and looked on helplessly as Merricks life was drained from him. If Buffy had not ran away she may not have been here today but she had also seen her mentor be murdered and she was guilt ridden.
It was then and there that Buffy decided that she was no longer going to be the slayer. Buffy felt weak against the world and without a Watcher Buffy felt useless. Buffy had her mind made up, she willed herself to no longer to be the chosen one. She feared dying alone and helpless like Merrick. Buffy knew that people didn't believe in vampires and demons anyway and would dismiss her as crazy. Yes Buffy had made up her mind and she had decided to block out everything Merrick had told her about the world. Se lay back on her bed looking up at the ceiling letting these thoughts wash over she. She smiled with content, something she hadn't dine in a long time and thought she can go on and have a normal life.
