A/N Here we go, chapter eight. Wow, I never thought I'd get this far in a
story. This is a first for me.
Orchid6297, fuioq, sandy-eco, and skye-lark913, I would like to thank you for reviewing, so.... Thank you!
Disclaimer: Um... I dun own it, I dun get sued!
Summary: Buffy's just a normal girl who's lost her way in the world, but what happens when another lost soul captures her heart, and refuses to give it back?
Last Chapter Summary: Willow met Oz, Angel denied Xander the use of his car to impress Cordy, and Buffy asked Angel out. Oh, and we met Spike, pretty eventful chapter, no?
But It Feels So Right
"So Angel, you going to point this Buffy girl out to me?" Spike asked, as he and Angel arrived at school.
"No, you'll just annoy her to death." Angel replied, parking his car.
He and Spike hopped out and made their way into the building. Spike pretty much just followed Angel around when he came to school. He wasn't required to be here while he was out of England. So he figured bothering Angel at school would be something to do. And he could check out some of the American girls while he was there.
"So.... What do you guys do for fun around here?"
Angel looked at him funny, "What do you mean?"
"Well, you can't just go to your classes without having any fun, can you?"
"I'm not sure if I'm understanding your use of words here Will- Spike. Fun?"
"Yeah, skip some classes, play with the girls, you know, normal guy stuff."
"No, I don't have 'fun' in between classes, I try not to get in trouble." Angel said, approaching his locker.
"Your no fun.... Hey, who's that?" Spike asked as a raven-haired girl walked by. She winked at him, and Spike smirked.
"That's Dru, she's crazy, and you might want to avoid her." Angel said, grabbing his books, and closing his locker.
"Right, I'll take your word for it, but only until I get a look at this Buffy chick that called last night."
"You are going to leave Buffy alone." Angel snapped, as they walked into homeroom.
"Aw.... Will you look at that, someone's a little over protective of a girl who isn't his girlfriend." Spike said, pulling an extra chair over to Angel's desk, and sitting down next to him. "So is she here yet?"
"No." Angel lied as he watched Buffy enter the room, talking happily with Willow. She looked over at him, and flashed him a quick smile, he smiled back, but wasn't sure if she caught it.
"Oh, the blonde chick, got it. You always did have a thing for blondes." Spike said smirking at Angel, and Angel growled at him.
"Shut up Spike."
Spike only rolled his eyes, "What ever, you can have her, she looks a bit to frail for my liking anyway."
Angel hit his cousin over the head, "I told you to shut up."
"Alright peaches, I'll be quiet, for now anyway."
The teacher walked into the room, and began roll call, but none of the students were listening, so he just counted heads to make sure everyone was there.
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Buffy looked around for Willow as she walked into the schoolyard. She spotted her immediately, noticing that her red hair stuck out in the crowd. She almost walked over, but then she noticed that Will was talking to someone, and that someone just happened to be Oz.
She smiled to herself, and waited until the two had finished talking before she walked over to her friend.
"Hey Will, what's with you and Oz?" She asked.
"Nothing, he just wanted to talk about the play, because they're posting the try-out results today, and he said he was hoping I got the part I tried out for." Willow explained as she and Buffy walked up the front steps of the school.
"And why did he want you to get the part exactly?"
"Because he got the part opposite of that one!" Willow said, and Buffy could see she was extremely excited about this. "I mean, he actually said that's why he wanted it. It was really cool!"
"I be it was cool Willow, so, do we think he likes you, or do we know he likes you?" Buffy asked as they approached homeroom after going to their lockers.
"Well, it could be just because the other girls there were really bad, or it could be because he likes me." Willow said, "And I think I like the second one better...."
"Well then, we'll go with the first one." Buffy and Willow entered the classroom, and Buffy looked around for Angel. When she saw him she smiled, and she wasn't sure if she got a smile back, or if he was laughing at something the kid next to him was saying.
Wait. Who was that kid?
Buffy looked back to where Angel was sitting, and saw a handsome, platinum blonde boy sitting next to him. She wondered if the school had a new student, or maybe.... It was Angel's cousin. They didn't look much alike, so Buffy wasn't sure, she would ask later.
"Hello, earth to Buffy? What are you looking at?"
"New guy I think," She said turning back to Willow as they made their way back to their seats.
"New guy, I didn't hear anything about a new guy, maybe just a visitor?" Willow wondered aloud.
"Willow, Buffy, what are you two up to this fine morning?" Xander asked, taking his normal seat in front of Buffy.
"New guy." They stated, and Buffy nodded in Spike's direction.
"Oh, that's not a new guy. That's Angel's cousin." Xander told them, "He's a real pain in the ass."
"That's William?" Buffy asked in disbelief, "He sure doesn't look like a William, more like some kind of gang member, with a really weird nick name."
"Well, he likes to be called Spike." Xander said, earning a confused look from both Buffy and Willow.
"Do we even want to know why?" Willow asked, exchanging glances with Buffy.
"Not really.... So anyway, what are we doing tonight? Group dance down at the bronze sound good?"
"Actually, I'm kind of busy tonight Xander, sorry." Buffy apologized.
"What could you be doing that's more important then hanging with me and Will?"
"Well, I'm kind of going to the Bronze with Angel tonight, as like a 'just the two of us' thing." Buffy explained, "Or at least I think it's a 'just the two of us' thing, I wasn't to sure about that...."
"I'm sure it is, Angel's not going to bring his friends with he, is he?" Willow asked.
"I don't know, I didn't ask, should I have asked."
"Calm down Buffy. I'll talk to Angel for you, make sure he doesn't bring any of his friends along with him, ok?" Xander said, reassuringly to Buffy.
She sighed, "Thank you Xander, I so owe you one."
"I'll remember that, there will come a time where I may need a favor." Xander said, "Oh, and speaking of that favor you owe me Buffy, you don't happen to have a car, do you?"
"No, I don't, why?"
"Oh, no reason, I was just wondering."
"Hey Whelp, Peaches over there wouldn't introduce me to his friends, so I figured I'd come over here and let you do it for him." Spike said, sitting on top of Xander's desk.
Xander sighed in annoyance, "Willow, Buffy, this is Will-"
"Spike."
"Right, Spike. Spike this is Willow and Buffy."
Willow half smiled at him, and Buffy looked up at him curiously, "So you're the guy who answered the phone last night, huh?"
"Yep, that was me". Spike answered, "And you must be the girl that's got Angel all nervous over tonight."
Buffy raised an eyebrow, "Wait, he's what?"
"A nervous wreck, pet." Spike said, "It was hilarious. He was all huffy about what he was going to wear, like a bloody woman or something." Buffy and Willow glared at him. "Oh, no offense."
Willow elbowed Buffy in the gut, and Buffy looked at her.
"See, he wouldn't be so nervous if he didn't like you." She whispered, so that no one but Buffy heard.
"Maybe you're right Will." Buffy whispered back, "So, what isn't Angel over here right now?
"Oh, he was very worried I'd embarrass him or something. Don't know why, I don't seem to be embarrassing anyone right now."
The bell rang, and the class got up, including Buffy, Willow and Xander.
"I guess we'll see you around then Spike." Buffy said, giving him a friendly smile.
"And I guess I'll be seeing you around too, pet." He replied, hopping off the desk and going back over to Angel, who was looking really ticked off at his cousin.
Buffy and Willow headed toward math class once they got into the hallway, the opposite way of Xander, Angel and Spike, who were headed to English.
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Buffy yawned, and laid her head down on her math book. This class could really not get any worse, well, actually it could. She could get detention for sleeping during class, not fun. Or she could not get detention, by looking up at what the teacher was doing.
Sighing, she lifted her head up off the desk. Buffy was mostly bored because this one the one class that Willow refused to talk to her in. Something about how it was one of the classes she really had to concentrate in.
Yeah right.
Willow was good at everything that involved being smart. She was the school's very own genius, and another thing Willow was good at. Making Buffy do things.
Buffy probably never would have called Angel lat night if it hadn't been for Willow bugging the hell out of her during their study session, and in class, and between classes, and before school. Apparently Willow had a real problem about Angel and Buffy not being together, though Buffy couldn't figure out what it was.
Oh well, she could bug Willow about it later. Right now, she had to concentrate. There was a math quiz in a week, and Buffy had her mind set on passing, even though she figured it would be impossible.
"Miss Summers?"
"Yes Mr. Lydon?"
"Would you care to come up to the board and solve this problem for the class?" He asked, holding out a piece of chalk for her to take.
"Sure, I guess so." Buffy said, taking the chalk.
One thing Buffy was not good at, getting up in front of the class and trying to do something that wasn't exactly her strong point. Then again, the problem on the board wasn't that hard. Except for the fact that Buffy had only a small idea of what to do.
"Ok, Buffy, you can do think, you and Willow went over this yesterday." She whispered to herself, and started the problem.
When she finished, she turned around, and looked at the teacher.
"Good job miss Summers, that is correct, please take your seat."
Buffy smiled, and sat down, 'Ok, that's one problem down, now there's only one more to go....' She said to herself, thinking about what was going to happen at seven o'clock that night.
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"Good job in class Buffy, I knew you could conquer Pythagorean theorem." Willow said as they left the classroom for Art.
"I'd agree with you Will, if I knew what that was." Buffy joked, "Oh wait, you mean that thing with the triangles?"
"Yeah, that's one way tot put it I guess."
"So what are we doing in art today, listening to a lecture, watching a movie, or are we actually doing something today?" Buffy asked.
So far in art class they had done nothing that had anything to do with art. It was either watching some movie on textures, or listening to the teacher rant on about how no one appreciates art. Buffy figured the class would appreciate it more, if they actually got to do something.
"Um, I think we are experimenting with paints today, should be fun."
"Experimenting with, or looking at?" Buffy asked.
"I guess we're just going to have to find out."
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"I believe that if society was more appreciative of art, the world would be a better place..."
"Oh will you shut up already!"
The class all turned to look at Spike, who was now standing next to his cousin.
"All you talk about is letting the world have art, and be 'one' with art, then why don't you let us do something? I don't know, play with the paints or something more than listen to you talk about how our world is in desperate need of art. Well, let's make some!"
Spike finished his outburst, and looked around at the students who were all staring at him like he was crazy. Angel looked especially perturbed, it was his cousin after all, and he would be lucky if he didn't get suspended.
"Mr. O'Connor, if your cousin is done, I would see it fit that you and he remove yourselves from my classroom, as of immediately." The teacher practically yelled at Angel, who stood up, and quickly pushed Spike out of the room.
They didn't get to the door, before a hand shot up, "Excuse Ms. Mark?"
"Yes, Miss Summers?"
"Not to be rude or anything, But I believe Spi- er.... William has a point, all you ever do is talk, and we never get to do anything that even has anything to do with art in anyway."
"Miss Summers, would you like to be excused from my class as well?"
Buffy didn't say anything for a second, "As a matter of fact, sitting in the hallway would be better than sitting through your class." She said, standing up, and walking to the door where Angel and Spike stood.
"Well then, see that you don't come back to my classroom this semester."
Buffy looked at Willow, who was looking up at her horrified at what she was doing. Buffy merely smiled at her, and walked out of the room.
Spike turned to Angel as the two of them followed Buffy out of the room, "I think I know why you like this girl, mate." He said, smirking.
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Angel just stared at Buffy when the classroom door slammed behind them. (Courtesy of Spike). And she just looked straight back at him.
"What?"
He blinked, "What were you thinking?"
"What do you mean?" She asked, innocently.
"I mean, standing up for my cousin, or whatever you were doing in there, it was crazy, stupid, an-"
"Bloody brilliant! You sure told her off Summers, I'm beginning to learn why Angel here likes you." Spike interrupted, beaming at Buffy. "You got spunk, pet."
But Buffy didn't hear all of what Spike had said. She had stopped listening when he said that Angel liked her. Was it true? Was Spike telling the truth? Well, he had to be, because Angel looked just a little but shocked at Spike's outburst. If anything, he looked like he was ready to strangle the guy.
"Thanks, I think." Buffy said, smiling, "To bad that's going to land me a lot of detention...."
"Yeah but still, it was awesome, couldn't have done a better job myself."
"Again, thanks Spike." She said, but she was looking at Angel, wondering about what Spike had said. Oh well, she would know later that night for sure.
A/N hehehe How was that for an update? Did I do good? Am I being really annoying? Do you all hate me for not putting the date in this chapter? Well, I figured as much. Anyway, keep the reviews coming! I sort of only begin to type after I get them....
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Orchid6297, fuioq, sandy-eco, and skye-lark913, I would like to thank you for reviewing, so.... Thank you!
Disclaimer: Um... I dun own it, I dun get sued!
Summary: Buffy's just a normal girl who's lost her way in the world, but what happens when another lost soul captures her heart, and refuses to give it back?
Last Chapter Summary: Willow met Oz, Angel denied Xander the use of his car to impress Cordy, and Buffy asked Angel out. Oh, and we met Spike, pretty eventful chapter, no?
But It Feels So Right
"So Angel, you going to point this Buffy girl out to me?" Spike asked, as he and Angel arrived at school.
"No, you'll just annoy her to death." Angel replied, parking his car.
He and Spike hopped out and made their way into the building. Spike pretty much just followed Angel around when he came to school. He wasn't required to be here while he was out of England. So he figured bothering Angel at school would be something to do. And he could check out some of the American girls while he was there.
"So.... What do you guys do for fun around here?"
Angel looked at him funny, "What do you mean?"
"Well, you can't just go to your classes without having any fun, can you?"
"I'm not sure if I'm understanding your use of words here Will- Spike. Fun?"
"Yeah, skip some classes, play with the girls, you know, normal guy stuff."
"No, I don't have 'fun' in between classes, I try not to get in trouble." Angel said, approaching his locker.
"Your no fun.... Hey, who's that?" Spike asked as a raven-haired girl walked by. She winked at him, and Spike smirked.
"That's Dru, she's crazy, and you might want to avoid her." Angel said, grabbing his books, and closing his locker.
"Right, I'll take your word for it, but only until I get a look at this Buffy chick that called last night."
"You are going to leave Buffy alone." Angel snapped, as they walked into homeroom.
"Aw.... Will you look at that, someone's a little over protective of a girl who isn't his girlfriend." Spike said, pulling an extra chair over to Angel's desk, and sitting down next to him. "So is she here yet?"
"No." Angel lied as he watched Buffy enter the room, talking happily with Willow. She looked over at him, and flashed him a quick smile, he smiled back, but wasn't sure if she caught it.
"Oh, the blonde chick, got it. You always did have a thing for blondes." Spike said smirking at Angel, and Angel growled at him.
"Shut up Spike."
Spike only rolled his eyes, "What ever, you can have her, she looks a bit to frail for my liking anyway."
Angel hit his cousin over the head, "I told you to shut up."
"Alright peaches, I'll be quiet, for now anyway."
The teacher walked into the room, and began roll call, but none of the students were listening, so he just counted heads to make sure everyone was there.
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Buffy looked around for Willow as she walked into the schoolyard. She spotted her immediately, noticing that her red hair stuck out in the crowd. She almost walked over, but then she noticed that Will was talking to someone, and that someone just happened to be Oz.
She smiled to herself, and waited until the two had finished talking before she walked over to her friend.
"Hey Will, what's with you and Oz?" She asked.
"Nothing, he just wanted to talk about the play, because they're posting the try-out results today, and he said he was hoping I got the part I tried out for." Willow explained as she and Buffy walked up the front steps of the school.
"And why did he want you to get the part exactly?"
"Because he got the part opposite of that one!" Willow said, and Buffy could see she was extremely excited about this. "I mean, he actually said that's why he wanted it. It was really cool!"
"I be it was cool Willow, so, do we think he likes you, or do we know he likes you?" Buffy asked as they approached homeroom after going to their lockers.
"Well, it could be just because the other girls there were really bad, or it could be because he likes me." Willow said, "And I think I like the second one better...."
"Well then, we'll go with the first one." Buffy and Willow entered the classroom, and Buffy looked around for Angel. When she saw him she smiled, and she wasn't sure if she got a smile back, or if he was laughing at something the kid next to him was saying.
Wait. Who was that kid?
Buffy looked back to where Angel was sitting, and saw a handsome, platinum blonde boy sitting next to him. She wondered if the school had a new student, or maybe.... It was Angel's cousin. They didn't look much alike, so Buffy wasn't sure, she would ask later.
"Hello, earth to Buffy? What are you looking at?"
"New guy I think," She said turning back to Willow as they made their way back to their seats.
"New guy, I didn't hear anything about a new guy, maybe just a visitor?" Willow wondered aloud.
"Willow, Buffy, what are you two up to this fine morning?" Xander asked, taking his normal seat in front of Buffy.
"New guy." They stated, and Buffy nodded in Spike's direction.
"Oh, that's not a new guy. That's Angel's cousin." Xander told them, "He's a real pain in the ass."
"That's William?" Buffy asked in disbelief, "He sure doesn't look like a William, more like some kind of gang member, with a really weird nick name."
"Well, he likes to be called Spike." Xander said, earning a confused look from both Buffy and Willow.
"Do we even want to know why?" Willow asked, exchanging glances with Buffy.
"Not really.... So anyway, what are we doing tonight? Group dance down at the bronze sound good?"
"Actually, I'm kind of busy tonight Xander, sorry." Buffy apologized.
"What could you be doing that's more important then hanging with me and Will?"
"Well, I'm kind of going to the Bronze with Angel tonight, as like a 'just the two of us' thing." Buffy explained, "Or at least I think it's a 'just the two of us' thing, I wasn't to sure about that...."
"I'm sure it is, Angel's not going to bring his friends with he, is he?" Willow asked.
"I don't know, I didn't ask, should I have asked."
"Calm down Buffy. I'll talk to Angel for you, make sure he doesn't bring any of his friends along with him, ok?" Xander said, reassuringly to Buffy.
She sighed, "Thank you Xander, I so owe you one."
"I'll remember that, there will come a time where I may need a favor." Xander said, "Oh, and speaking of that favor you owe me Buffy, you don't happen to have a car, do you?"
"No, I don't, why?"
"Oh, no reason, I was just wondering."
"Hey Whelp, Peaches over there wouldn't introduce me to his friends, so I figured I'd come over here and let you do it for him." Spike said, sitting on top of Xander's desk.
Xander sighed in annoyance, "Willow, Buffy, this is Will-"
"Spike."
"Right, Spike. Spike this is Willow and Buffy."
Willow half smiled at him, and Buffy looked up at him curiously, "So you're the guy who answered the phone last night, huh?"
"Yep, that was me". Spike answered, "And you must be the girl that's got Angel all nervous over tonight."
Buffy raised an eyebrow, "Wait, he's what?"
"A nervous wreck, pet." Spike said, "It was hilarious. He was all huffy about what he was going to wear, like a bloody woman or something." Buffy and Willow glared at him. "Oh, no offense."
Willow elbowed Buffy in the gut, and Buffy looked at her.
"See, he wouldn't be so nervous if he didn't like you." She whispered, so that no one but Buffy heard.
"Maybe you're right Will." Buffy whispered back, "So, what isn't Angel over here right now?
"Oh, he was very worried I'd embarrass him or something. Don't know why, I don't seem to be embarrassing anyone right now."
The bell rang, and the class got up, including Buffy, Willow and Xander.
"I guess we'll see you around then Spike." Buffy said, giving him a friendly smile.
"And I guess I'll be seeing you around too, pet." He replied, hopping off the desk and going back over to Angel, who was looking really ticked off at his cousin.
Buffy and Willow headed toward math class once they got into the hallway, the opposite way of Xander, Angel and Spike, who were headed to English.
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Buffy yawned, and laid her head down on her math book. This class could really not get any worse, well, actually it could. She could get detention for sleeping during class, not fun. Or she could not get detention, by looking up at what the teacher was doing.
Sighing, she lifted her head up off the desk. Buffy was mostly bored because this one the one class that Willow refused to talk to her in. Something about how it was one of the classes she really had to concentrate in.
Yeah right.
Willow was good at everything that involved being smart. She was the school's very own genius, and another thing Willow was good at. Making Buffy do things.
Buffy probably never would have called Angel lat night if it hadn't been for Willow bugging the hell out of her during their study session, and in class, and between classes, and before school. Apparently Willow had a real problem about Angel and Buffy not being together, though Buffy couldn't figure out what it was.
Oh well, she could bug Willow about it later. Right now, she had to concentrate. There was a math quiz in a week, and Buffy had her mind set on passing, even though she figured it would be impossible.
"Miss Summers?"
"Yes Mr. Lydon?"
"Would you care to come up to the board and solve this problem for the class?" He asked, holding out a piece of chalk for her to take.
"Sure, I guess so." Buffy said, taking the chalk.
One thing Buffy was not good at, getting up in front of the class and trying to do something that wasn't exactly her strong point. Then again, the problem on the board wasn't that hard. Except for the fact that Buffy had only a small idea of what to do.
"Ok, Buffy, you can do think, you and Willow went over this yesterday." She whispered to herself, and started the problem.
When she finished, she turned around, and looked at the teacher.
"Good job miss Summers, that is correct, please take your seat."
Buffy smiled, and sat down, 'Ok, that's one problem down, now there's only one more to go....' She said to herself, thinking about what was going to happen at seven o'clock that night.
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"Good job in class Buffy, I knew you could conquer Pythagorean theorem." Willow said as they left the classroom for Art.
"I'd agree with you Will, if I knew what that was." Buffy joked, "Oh wait, you mean that thing with the triangles?"
"Yeah, that's one way tot put it I guess."
"So what are we doing in art today, listening to a lecture, watching a movie, or are we actually doing something today?" Buffy asked.
So far in art class they had done nothing that had anything to do with art. It was either watching some movie on textures, or listening to the teacher rant on about how no one appreciates art. Buffy figured the class would appreciate it more, if they actually got to do something.
"Um, I think we are experimenting with paints today, should be fun."
"Experimenting with, or looking at?" Buffy asked.
"I guess we're just going to have to find out."
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"I believe that if society was more appreciative of art, the world would be a better place..."
"Oh will you shut up already!"
The class all turned to look at Spike, who was now standing next to his cousin.
"All you talk about is letting the world have art, and be 'one' with art, then why don't you let us do something? I don't know, play with the paints or something more than listen to you talk about how our world is in desperate need of art. Well, let's make some!"
Spike finished his outburst, and looked around at the students who were all staring at him like he was crazy. Angel looked especially perturbed, it was his cousin after all, and he would be lucky if he didn't get suspended.
"Mr. O'Connor, if your cousin is done, I would see it fit that you and he remove yourselves from my classroom, as of immediately." The teacher practically yelled at Angel, who stood up, and quickly pushed Spike out of the room.
They didn't get to the door, before a hand shot up, "Excuse Ms. Mark?"
"Yes, Miss Summers?"
"Not to be rude or anything, But I believe Spi- er.... William has a point, all you ever do is talk, and we never get to do anything that even has anything to do with art in anyway."
"Miss Summers, would you like to be excused from my class as well?"
Buffy didn't say anything for a second, "As a matter of fact, sitting in the hallway would be better than sitting through your class." She said, standing up, and walking to the door where Angel and Spike stood.
"Well then, see that you don't come back to my classroom this semester."
Buffy looked at Willow, who was looking up at her horrified at what she was doing. Buffy merely smiled at her, and walked out of the room.
Spike turned to Angel as the two of them followed Buffy out of the room, "I think I know why you like this girl, mate." He said, smirking.
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Angel just stared at Buffy when the classroom door slammed behind them. (Courtesy of Spike). And she just looked straight back at him.
"What?"
He blinked, "What were you thinking?"
"What do you mean?" She asked, innocently.
"I mean, standing up for my cousin, or whatever you were doing in there, it was crazy, stupid, an-"
"Bloody brilliant! You sure told her off Summers, I'm beginning to learn why Angel here likes you." Spike interrupted, beaming at Buffy. "You got spunk, pet."
But Buffy didn't hear all of what Spike had said. She had stopped listening when he said that Angel liked her. Was it true? Was Spike telling the truth? Well, he had to be, because Angel looked just a little but shocked at Spike's outburst. If anything, he looked like he was ready to strangle the guy.
"Thanks, I think." Buffy said, smiling, "To bad that's going to land me a lot of detention...."
"Yeah but still, it was awesome, couldn't have done a better job myself."
"Again, thanks Spike." She said, but she was looking at Angel, wondering about what Spike had said. Oh well, she would know later that night for sure.
A/N hehehe How was that for an update? Did I do good? Am I being really annoying? Do you all hate me for not putting the date in this chapter? Well, I figured as much. Anyway, keep the reviews coming! I sort of only begin to type after I get them....
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