"What do you mean of course you know my brother, you just met him." Willow said.
"No I mean I've met him before we were actually really good friends." Buffy replied.
" Ok if you were friends why did he ask who you were." Willow asked.
" Well it's been awhile since I've seen him. We met at a camp for kids who have lost parents. I met him my first time there when I was seven. We were paired up together for arts and crafts, but he went by William then. I only recognize him by his eyes." Buffy explained.
" Oh I remember him going to that camp, I think it's called um, Camp Hope or something. But I don't remember him talking about any Buffy, the only person he talked about was Lizzy."
Willow said, thinking about every summer when he came home from camp, he was always talking about Lizzy and how much fun she was and he would be so excited when a letter from her came in the mail.
" He was the only one who called me that. Everyone else called me Beth but when I got older I changed it to Buffy to sound less stuffy. I can't believe he didn't recognize me, it hasn't been that long since I've seen him and I haven't changed that much." Buffy said troubled by the fact that her old childhood friend didn't recognize her.
" He probably wasn't paying that much attention to us. He got into a fight with his girlfriend Dru earlier and was most likely thinking up ways to make up with her." Willow reassured her after hearing her new friends distress.
" Yeah probably."
" Here we are The Bronze." Willow announced as they neared a building with the name light up.
" Oh my friends are over there." Willow said as she pointed to a table with a teenage boy with brown hair talking to a blonde hair girl.
" Hey Xander this is Buffy my new neighbor, Buffy this is Xander, I've known him since we were in diapers and this is Tara, I've known her sicnce last year when we had English together, guys this is Buffy she just moved heere from L. A right." Willow asked.
" Yeah it's nice to meet you." " So Buff what brings you to our small town?" Xander asked
" My dad has a client down here and our apartment got to small after he got married." Buffy explained
" So do you have any siblings." Tara asked so quietly she could barely hear her.
" Yeah I have a brother named Oz and a step sister named Dawn." said Buffy
" Guess what guys this is Lizzy, Spikes old camp friend, oh sorry I didn't even ask if I could tell." Willow blurtes out.
" No it's ok the were going to find out anyways". Buffy replied. She honestly didn't mind that Willow told.
" You're Lizzy. Spike would talk non stop about you when he got back." Xander exclaimed.
" Yeah well he didn't even recognize me when we stopped by the Espresso Pump earlier." Buffy said with a twinge of hurt in her voice.
" Well he's supposed to come by and meet us here later. You could always tell him then." Tara suggested.
" I kind of don;t want to tell him. I want him to figure it out." Buffy replied.
" Oh we could always bring up the camp and then you could like I don't know tell about a little boy named William who was your bestest friend." offered Xander.
"Oh you could tell a story about him too." suggested Willow
" You know what I like the sound of that." Buffy said.
And so they started discussing how to play it out. About an hour later the man of the hour came waltzing up totally innocent.
" Hey guys whats up." He asked.
" Oh we were just talking about a camp Buffy went to when she was a kid. It sounds interesting." Willow said
"Yeah she was just telling us about an old friend from there." Tara said.
" So as I was saying they paired us up with a member of the opposite sex for arts and crafts time so we wouldn't stick with our bunk mates. I was paired up with this cute little boy named Will. He was a bit of a trouble maker. Oh this one time they closed off one of the lakes up there because it had leeches in it. So Will being the rebel he was decided that during our arts and crafts time we would sneak out and he would jump in the lake. It sounds really stupid but they didn't tell us it was contaminated with leeches just that we weren't supposed to go in there."
Buffy told the story they talked about earlier. During her story Spikes face went as white as a ghost and he had a look of shock on his face.
" So we snuck out and he pulled off his clothes because he had his bathing suite underneath and he jump of the dock. He swam around for a couple of minutes before anyone noticed we were gone so they came running out and yelled at him to get out. Not wanting to get into anymore trouble he did and he had about 15 leeches on him. He started screaming and was yanking them off with the help of the councilors when they thought they had them all off he got really paled face and looked down at his trunks." buffy stopped there from laughing so hard.
Through strained breaths of air Xander managed to get out " What happened?"
" Well have you ever seen Stand By Me?" that made the group laugh harder considering the scene she was talking about had Gordie with a leech on his um... member. " LIZZY!!!" Yelled Spike
" Took you long enough Willy" Buffy said as he pulled her into a hug.
