The Dawnmeister Chronicles
Chapter Three: Angel

Buffy kept her boyfriend in her room all day! And I didn't even have to read her diary to find that out! She snuck him in last night. Mom was asleep, but I needed to pee and I saw her. He was totally hot and he slept on her floor.

Buffy gets all the luck. Not that I want a boyfriend. Boys are stupid. But this guy… He was kinda cute.

Anyway, I got home early, because I wanted to see if he was still there. Mom was working late at the gallery and Buffy stopped coming home straight after school when she was about 14. So it was just me in the house. I went straight upstairs and he must've thought it was Buffy because he peeked out of her bedroom, but went back in. Puh-lease. Like I didn't see him.

I went into her room and he was hiding behind her bed. I wanted to laugh, but I was totally cool. I walked round her bed, saw him crouching there and said "Hi." See? That's cool.

"Hey," he said and got up. He had such a deep voice. Wow.

"I'm Dawn," I told him and held out my hand, all polite like Dad taught me. He looked at me weird, so then I said, "I'm Mom's better daughter." He laughed then, not much, I don't think he's a big laugher. But he shook my hand. Oh yeah, check me out. Down with the cool guy.

"Angel," he said. "My name. It's Angel."

I might have laughed, but, like I said, I was being cool.

"Is that your real name?" I asked. 'Cause come on, Angel? On a guy?

He smiled and shook his head. But then I heard Mom come in, shouting about whether I'd seen her address book because she needed it and was Buffy back yet because she had to get back to the gallery and didn't like leaving me on my own. I already knew that he had no idea about hiding, so I grabbed his sleeve and told him to get in the closet because Mom was back. I also told him to watch out for Buffy's shoes because if he trod on them, I'd be in trouble and Buffy would dump him. I remember some guy back in LA dropped ice cream on her suede boots and she dumped him like that.

So, I helped Buffy out and I can't even tell her. I saw her kissing him after though, they were playing serious tonsil hockey. But then his face got all bumpy and he made a weird growly noise. It was really freaky. Then Buffy screamed and I ran back to my room as he jumped out the window.

Does Buffy know how to pick 'em or what?