"I have a surprise." Xander smiled as he met Cordy and Angel later that afternoon. "I bought one of your paintings to remember Italy by. It's the Cathedral just over there." Xander opened the butcher paper to show off the painting.
"Ah, Xander that's the Arno River, not a Church." Cordy smiled.
Xander turned the painting around to see it. "I can't believe our paintings got switched. Man that woman is going to be so mad. I'll have to take it back tomorrow."
"Well let's drop it off at La Bella before we go out." Cordy suggested.
"Great I'll take it." Angel said.
"Hey I bought it. Okay maybe not this painting, but I was the one who bought a painting at the same time and got them switched. I'll take it." While the two boys struggled the painting slipped out of their hands and fell into the fountain they were standing by.
"Oh no," Cordy cried as she watched her work floating in the water.
It wasn't until they got back to La Bella Florence that Xander noticed another painting under Cordy's painting. "What's this?" He asked her.
"Oh we sometimes use old paintings for the backings to our new paintings." Cordy shrugged. "Probably some stupid attempt at a fruit basket."
"Actually it's a picture of a little boy and its signed Lippe." Xander told her. "Hey isn't that the name of the art shop?"
"Yes, because it's the name of Florence's most famous artist Fillipo Lippe." Cordy exclaimed looking at the painting. "It's Lippe's Young Prince." She gasped.
"But it was still hanging in class today." Angel looked over at her. "It's just a good copy."
"Angel, this is the best copy I've ever seen. This looks so genuine." Cordy argued. "Xander, would it be okay if I took this painting to a friend of mine."
"Sure," Xander agreed. "I mean I couldn't take it back to the shop in that condition anyway. Just make me a new one and we'll call it even."
"Thanks" Cordy smiled. "And I hate to leave you two boys alone, but I have to see someone about this painting immediately."