She looked at the handset in her hand and made the choice. Slowly she
dialed the numbers and listened to the person on the other end speak.
"Hello... hello... Anyone there?" She bit her lip and said "hey". The other
person went silent and then said "Buffy is that you?" Buffy smiled and said
"Yeah" "Oh my god where are you, where have you been, we were so worried,
when are you coming back?" Buffy smiled at her friend and said into the
phone "I'm here and I don't know" She heard Willow sigh and say "God Buff
what happened, please come back we need you". Buffy hitched her breath at
how sad willow sounded and wanted to cry but she couldn't instead she said
"I just wanted to tell you I am alright ok, please don't be sad, I'll call
you regularly and talk to you, you're my best friend, I I just need time."
She heard Willow sniff and then say "But why can't you come back what
happened?" She shook her head even though Willow couldn't see and said "I
can't tell you please don't push, don't tell anyone I called please. I'll
talk to you soon." "Please Buffy don't go". "I love you Will?" Buffy hung
the phone up and looked back at the piece of paper the doctor had given
her. She was going to go home today after her doctor visit and her trip to
hell but now how could she?
The pieces of paper in her hand made her want to cry and weep for joy at the same time. It was so hard to imagine it happening to anyone let alone her but now she was faced with this reality. She was faced with being not only a runaway but a runaway single mom.
She touched her belly gingerly and shoved the paper back in her bag and headed off to find a new job and place to stay.
Finding a place wasn't that hard she still had enough to pay for a small very small place so she managed. The job front she felt desperate. She had applied to all the fast food places when walking past a gym inspiration hit. She walked up to the counter and asked if they had any instructor jobs available. The person looked at her and asked "What can you teach?" She smiled and said "Name it and I can do it". She looked her up and down and said "tell you what if you can take down our top instructor or at least give him a work out your on. I'm Katrina by the way; Freddie and I own the place." She put her hand out and said "B Anne". They shaked hands and Katrina walked her to a spacious room which had a very dark haired man showing a class karate moves. Katrina walked up to him stopping his demonstration and whispered something in his ear. He turned and looked at her and smiled and turned back to his class and said "Class meet Buffy, she thinks she can take me down, care for a demonstration." The class looked at her and some giggled and other smirked but most just watched with interest. She threw her bag to the corner and went into fighting stance.
He smiled again and also went into a similar stance. She watched as he decided to make the move, she saw his shoulder drop and knew he was going for her right shoulder. She ducked and swung her leg but he jumped and tried to kick which she immediately jumped over him. On her jump over she grabbed his neck and held him in a choke hold but he flipped her over him. She decided to up her strength a little and kicked him in the stomach which stunned him enough for her to sweep his legs out from him causing him to land flat on his back.
She offered her hand which he took and seeing his face was bright red she decided not to give him a hard time. The same couldn't be said about his class who were snickering and trying not to laugh at their instructor being brought down by a tiny fragile looking girl. He nodded at Katrina who motioned for Buffy to follow.
Buffy gave him a smile and then turned to follow her.
She got the job after a lot of praise at taking the guy down who she found out was named David and was usually a jerk. The pay was good and they let her design her own classes and work her schedule, as long as it brought in money they didn't really care.
She hadn't told them she was pregnant because she figured it would be easier once they had gotten to know one another first. So now here she was about to start her first class and in near panic. She could face demons by the gallons but put her in front of 50 people and she was panicking. 50 people she couldn't get over, in one little room she had 50 people.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to see Katrina smiling at her nodding her on. She stepped up and took a deep breathe and began.
She split the group up into five nights. Ten a group, although she had 5 on a Monday and 15 on a Friday. She said that the most she could take is 15 so they worked it out. Once she had a smaller class she felt more relaxed and was able to actually think about what to do. She easily showed moves and techniques which were relevant to the class and she felt more confident with the results.
So now she had a job, she had a small apartment and she was beginning to make friends. Now the problem she had wasn't money, wasn't shelter, wasn't even her health, the problem she had was her conscience. She was plagued with nightmares of that night, from Kendra's death, to her mom kicking her out and the biggest one of the murder of Angel at her hand. Yes she defiantly blamed herself, she could have waited longer, distracted him until the spell had taken action but no she didn't and it was too late. It didn't matter that she didn't know Willow was performing the spell, in her brain she could have stopped him.
**************************************************************************** ********* Author note: Ok so review if you like and I have actually finished this story so I will be putting chapters up as long as you review. If don't like that's life it is just a story!!
The pieces of paper in her hand made her want to cry and weep for joy at the same time. It was so hard to imagine it happening to anyone let alone her but now she was faced with this reality. She was faced with being not only a runaway but a runaway single mom.
She touched her belly gingerly and shoved the paper back in her bag and headed off to find a new job and place to stay.
Finding a place wasn't that hard she still had enough to pay for a small very small place so she managed. The job front she felt desperate. She had applied to all the fast food places when walking past a gym inspiration hit. She walked up to the counter and asked if they had any instructor jobs available. The person looked at her and asked "What can you teach?" She smiled and said "Name it and I can do it". She looked her up and down and said "tell you what if you can take down our top instructor or at least give him a work out your on. I'm Katrina by the way; Freddie and I own the place." She put her hand out and said "B Anne". They shaked hands and Katrina walked her to a spacious room which had a very dark haired man showing a class karate moves. Katrina walked up to him stopping his demonstration and whispered something in his ear. He turned and looked at her and smiled and turned back to his class and said "Class meet Buffy, she thinks she can take me down, care for a demonstration." The class looked at her and some giggled and other smirked but most just watched with interest. She threw her bag to the corner and went into fighting stance.
He smiled again and also went into a similar stance. She watched as he decided to make the move, she saw his shoulder drop and knew he was going for her right shoulder. She ducked and swung her leg but he jumped and tried to kick which she immediately jumped over him. On her jump over she grabbed his neck and held him in a choke hold but he flipped her over him. She decided to up her strength a little and kicked him in the stomach which stunned him enough for her to sweep his legs out from him causing him to land flat on his back.
She offered her hand which he took and seeing his face was bright red she decided not to give him a hard time. The same couldn't be said about his class who were snickering and trying not to laugh at their instructor being brought down by a tiny fragile looking girl. He nodded at Katrina who motioned for Buffy to follow.
Buffy gave him a smile and then turned to follow her.
She got the job after a lot of praise at taking the guy down who she found out was named David and was usually a jerk. The pay was good and they let her design her own classes and work her schedule, as long as it brought in money they didn't really care.
She hadn't told them she was pregnant because she figured it would be easier once they had gotten to know one another first. So now here she was about to start her first class and in near panic. She could face demons by the gallons but put her in front of 50 people and she was panicking. 50 people she couldn't get over, in one little room she had 50 people.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and turned to see Katrina smiling at her nodding her on. She stepped up and took a deep breathe and began.
She split the group up into five nights. Ten a group, although she had 5 on a Monday and 15 on a Friday. She said that the most she could take is 15 so they worked it out. Once she had a smaller class she felt more relaxed and was able to actually think about what to do. She easily showed moves and techniques which were relevant to the class and she felt more confident with the results.
So now she had a job, she had a small apartment and she was beginning to make friends. Now the problem she had wasn't money, wasn't shelter, wasn't even her health, the problem she had was her conscience. She was plagued with nightmares of that night, from Kendra's death, to her mom kicking her out and the biggest one of the murder of Angel at her hand. Yes she defiantly blamed herself, she could have waited longer, distracted him until the spell had taken action but no she didn't and it was too late. It didn't matter that she didn't know Willow was performing the spell, in her brain she could have stopped him.
**************************************************************************** ********* Author note: Ok so review if you like and I have actually finished this story so I will be putting chapters up as long as you review. If don't like that's life it is just a story!!
