Time of My Life: When You Call Him your Friend (1/?)

Author: Doc

Disclaimer: Not Mine! Just playing with them for a bit.

Dedication: Akay, Marchelle, Edel for the wonderful feedback! love you gals!

Rating: G, for now

AN: This is AU. I just kinda got the idea and its been sticking w/ me and it has been the most prominent fic idea so I figured Id jot it down and see what you guys think

Backstory/Summary: Buffy and Angel have been friends since the first day of Kindergarten. Theyve grown up living three houses down from each other in the very small town of Sunnydale. Buffys been on and off in love w/ Angel for as long as she can remember but shes never said anything about it. They are in High School now and theyre friends with Xander and Willow. Buffy has an adopted sister, Faith. They live with their parents Joyce and Giles (hes Buffys step-dad and Faiths father), who works as the SHS librarian. Its the gangs senior year.

Character Pairings: B/A

Feedback: YES PLEASE!!

Buffy lay on the floor of her room, chin on her favorite banana shaped pillow, flipping through the latest Cosmo. Her radio was on, playing oldies softly. She hummed along to "I've Had The Time of My Life."
"If only," she mumbled.
She read through the various articles and heard a soft knock on the door.
"Yeah?"
"Buffy, may I come in?"
"Oh yeah, hey Giles."
"What are you up to? Shouldn't you be out with your friends?"
"Giles, if you wanted some alone time with mom, you know all you have to do is ask."
"Uh...er, I mean, no, that's not what I meant. You just haven't been going out lately. I was just wondering if something was wrong between you and Angel or any of your friends."
"No. He's out on a date."
"Oh, I see. Well, I'll leave you alone now. Me and your mom are watching a movie if you want to join us."
"That's ok. You guys have your adult fun. I'll just stay up here and read."
"Alright. Love you."
"Love you too, Giles."
Giles started to close the door and she called him, "Wait. Hey, is Faith back yet?"
"Oh, no. She's staying the night at Anna's."
"Ok. Thanks. Night."
"Goodnight Buffy."
She went back to flipping through her magazine. She looked up at her clock, 11:45.
"Man, I didn't realize what time it was."
She sighed and went back to looking at her magazine. She closed it after a few minutes and lay down on her pillow, thinking about how crazy her life was at the moment. Her eyelids started to get heavy and she closed her eyes. The next thing she knew she felt someone shaking her slightly. "Buffy. Buffy, wake up."
She mumbled and opened her eyes, groggily. She looked up to find her best friend standing over her.
"Angel?"
"Hey sleepy head. I thought you were gonna come meet me at 12:30. I got worried."
She sat up and rubbed the sleep away from her eyes and blinked a couple of times. He looked gorgeous in black leather pants, a dark blue shirt and his long black jacket. She looked up at his face. He smiled at her.
"Oh, yeah, right. I fell asleep. How was your date with Jill?"
His smile faded and he looked down at the floor.
"Eh, it was ok I guess. She's so boring. She just drones on about herself all the time. I think I'm just gonna tell her that we can't see each other any more. She's just so boring!"
"Well, then just don't go out with her any more. Look, I'm tired. I'll see you in the morning." "Oh, that reminds me, can you pick me up for school on Monday? My mom needs to use my car."
She sighed. "Yea, I'll be there at 8. Don't be late or you're walking to school."
"Thanks Bunny."
"I told you to quit calling me that."
"Yea yea yea," he kissed her on the cheek and climbed out the window.
"8 o'clock," she yelled after him.
He flashed her an "okay" sign and ran down the street and climbed in his window. She watched his window until his light went out around 1:45. She didn't know why she kept torturing herself. She knew that no matter what, they could never be together. Things would happen and then their friendship would be ruined. She didn't know what she would do if she lost Angel. He was the only thing in her life that made sense. Ever since the first day of Kindergarten when he had come up to her on the playground and called her "Bunny" and pulled her pig tale and ran back to the swings. But that was all she was to him, Bunny. She closed her window and climbed into bed and went back to sleep.