Summary: Cordelia Chase looses everything and Angel and crew feel bad for her. I don't know how to summarize it just read it. Song is 'RICH GIRL', originally by Hall & Oates, Covered by Me First and The Gimme Gimmes. Ahhh this chapter sucks!!! But I just wanted to update because I haven't had a computer like all summer until about two weeks ago and I wanted to update so I'm sorry if its sucky and choppy and has a lot of grammar mistakes. It's been a while. THNXS to everyone who left reviews during my absence.

You're a rich girl and you're goin' too far
Cause you know it don't matter any way
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money

It's a bitch, girl but it's goin' too far
Cause you know it don't matter any way
Say money, money won't get you too far
Won't you far

Don't you know, whohoh, that it's wrong, yea
To take what he's givin' you
So far gone, ohh, you can get along
You can try to be strong, but you'll never be strong, yeah

You're a rich girl and you're goin' too far
Cause you know it don't matter any way
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money

High and dry, out of the rain
It's so easy to hurt others when you can't feel pain
Don't you know that a love can't grow
Cause it's too much to give cause you'd rather live for the thrill of it all

You're a rich girl and you're goin' too far
Cause you know it don't matter any way
You can rely on the old man's money
You can rely on the old man's money

Say money, money won't get you too far
Say money, money won't get you too far
Won't get you far

Ah, yeah

"What does the history book look like?" Angel questioned, staring into the sea of mostly unused books in his locker. His grades had never been great, not because he was stupid. Because teachers were too stupid for him to even bother listening to. Actually, that was unfair; some of his teachers were cool. But for the most part, they were just ignorant ass-holes who liked bringing kids down. He hated teachers. Buffy reached into his locker and pulled out a thick blue textbook. After shoving the massive book in his bag they began walking towards Buffy's advisory room. Angel bit his lip. He wanted to ask her about college. Where she was going to go. But for some reason he was scared. Probably just scared of what her answer might be. What if she wanted to go away for college? He wouldn't blame her. If he could he'd want to get as far away from Sunnydale as he could. But then he would be all alone. It sounded pitiful but life without Buffy wasn't a life he wanted to think about.

"Buffy..." he started to ask but was cut off by Will who was calling for them from the other end of the hallway. He caught up with them and held up a finger while he caught his breathe.

"You'll never believe what I'm about to say," he told them with a wicked smile. Angel cocked an eyebrow.

"This isn't some more of your 'heard it through the grapevine gossip' is it?" Angel asked.

"No...sort of...but this is true. I seen it with my own eyes. Mr. Chase got arrested last night, for tax evasion or some shit like that. All I know is they repossessed everything, the mansion, the cars, the clothes, Cordelia Chase is poorer then me right now!" he exclaimed. Angel and Buffy looked at each other.

"Are you serious?"

"After school come with me, you can see for yourselves."

After school they drove old Drusilla into the mansion laden rich part of Sunnydale. They slowed down where the Chase mansion was and all three stared out the window. The lawn was covered in boxes and clothes. Cordelia, her little sister, and mother were all sorting through what was left of their belongings and packing it into the boxes. The front door of the house had a big orange flyer on it. Buffy watched and even though she didn't want to, she felt bad for Cordelia. She knew what it was like to have your life fall apart. Angel too was feeling bad for even being there. Like a spectator at some kind of sick animal fight. Before they could leave though Cordelia saw them watching. She stormed over to the car and knocked on the window. It was now they could see the dry tear marks on her cheeks and the bags under her eyes. Angel rolled down the window.

"Look, I get that you want to come here and see me get mine, I get it! Karma's finally getting to the bitch, ok I get it", she was crying and yelling, "But my father is in prison and I'm fucking homeless right now so don't come here and watch me and my sister and mom like some kind of Goddamn spectacle, If you wanna torture me, do it and school but leave them alone", and then she was gone. They watched her collapse next to her mother. Mrs. Chase made no move to comfort her daughter, just stared with a broken expression on her face as her two daughters hugged one another and cried. Buffy felt sick and ashamed as they drove away and Spike muttered

"Oh how the mighty have fallen".

Everyone knew about Cordelia by the next morning at school. In history class a few kids asked the teacher if 'the fall of Cordelia Chase, former dictator of Sunnydale, would be in the newest edition of the textbook'. Angel couldn't even laugh. He wanted to be happy her life was ruined. He wanted to be glad that now she would know what his life was like. But he couldn't. Because he knew how she felt. He knew what it was like to watch your entire world collapse and not be able to stop it. He felt sorry for the poor girl who had to pack up what little clothes she was aloud to keep and leave her childhood behind. Why did he have to have a conscience?

The worst came at lunch. Cordelia was still able to make herself look like she had money, but her old friends were suddenly acting like they had never met her before. There was no room at their table for her, or at anyone else's. Besides her old friends everyone had always hated Cordelia, no one would ever let her sit with them. Buffy, Spike and Angel all knew what they had to do.

"I can't believe I'm going to do this", Buffy announced but got up and walked to the middle of the lunchroom, everyone was staring at Cordelia. Buffy stood in front of her. "You can sit with us Cordelia". Cordelia glanced over at William and Angel and Buffy knew she was biting her tongue so not to say something horrible about them.

"I can't sit there," she hissed. Buffy looked around

"I really don't think your reputation can get any worse right now". Cordelia got tears in her eyes. Buffy sighed, she couldn't let Cordelia cry in front of everyone, and she couldn't let Cordelia fuel their fire.

"Cordelia stop it. Don't cry in front of them; don't let them see you break because they'll tear you apart. Look, we were sorta friends once. We can be friends again if you can change. I know you aren't some meek little poor girl who is gonna let these kids make fun of you. Just come and sit with us". Cordelia held her tears back and followed Buffy over to the table.

The week passed slowly. Angel tiptoed around the subject of college, afraid that Buffy had plans to leave after graduation. Finally, in advisory on Friday he asked her.

"I don't know", she answered. He was confused, "I don't know where I want to go, it's pretty nerve-wracking actually" she explained. "My mom wants me to apply like.... everywhere, which is ok I guess, but I really was thinking of maybe just going to U.C.Sunnydale. Or if I can get into UCLA, I mean I probably won't but...". Listening to Buffy talk about how unsure she was was strange. When it came to school Buffy was usually very sure of everything.

"I'm sure you could get into wherever you want to go" he encouraged. She sighed

"It would help if I knew like...what I wanted to do with myself." Yet again Angel was shocked. She had no idea what she wanted to be, much like himself. He started to laugh

"I'm glad you find my insecurities funny"

"No, its just...all week I've had these crazy scenarios running through my head like you telling me you want to go to school in Australia, then you leaving me and me getting a long-distance phone call in the middle of the night after I get done work at like The Double-meat palace, where you tell me maybe we should take a break cause he met this surfer named Juan who was really hot..." he was babbling and they both started laughing. Buffy leaned over and kissed him.

"You're too cute for your own good, and don't worry no matter where I go I'll still love you.....Juan?", they both started to crack up. Suddenly though everyone rushed into the hallway because a creaming match had started.

"God Cordy, don't be jealous just because our dads aren't criminals", Harmony, Cordelias former lackey and now replacement declared. Buffy thought Cordelia was going to cry. But instead she got fire in her eyes. She held her head up high and marched right into Harmony's personal bubble.

"Look, I will never be jealous of you Harm, your fat ass might be comfortable sitting on my thrown right now, but your still just bad-roots Harmony who kissed my butt for the past six years cause she was too afraid to actually have a thought of her own. You're just a bitch, but I'm the bitch". Harmony looked like someone had just slapped her across the face. Buffy and Angel cracked up and Cordelia pushed through the crowd of people who were staring at her and clapping and made her way over to them.

"God that felt good" she announced. Buffy smiled

"Very impressive". Cordelia smiled at them and then got a serious look on her face

"Look, I still think you guys are weird and just cause I'm hanging out with you now I'm not gonna start like.... wearing spikes and stuff.... but you guys are nice and I'm sorry about the way I was...". Buffy stopped her

"Look when I was making my transformation from Ice Queen to.... human being a certain someone told me that everyone deserved a second chance", she glanced at Angel and smiled. "So don't worry about it". Will walked up at that moment put an arm around Cordelia's shoulder.

"Ya done good kid" he told her. She rolled her eyes and removed his arm.

"Don't touch me freak"

"Gladly snob", he returned. They both looked at one another and cracked up laughing.