Chapter 10
*Some time during the middle of the year
"Okay ladies and gentlemen. As you all may know, today is challenge Friday. This is the only challenge Friday for this year. You may challenge one of your peers to fight and to prove yourself. I strongly encourage that all of you participate in this challenge. This will not only prove me of how much your skill has improved but will allow me to see if you have any sort of leadership abilities. You do not have to participate at all. You can even challenge to fight against the opposite sex, boy vs. girl if both sides are willingly. Any volunteers?"
Angel immediately started, "Buffy Summers. I challenge her to fight me. If she has enough balls to do so." Replied Angel with a grin.
"Is that a challenge?" Buffy replied harshly.
"Yea, I think so. Unless your too much of a wimp or to scared to fight me, you know. You might get totally pummelled or you might break a nail or something. Won't hold it against you."
"Oh, your so on jackass. I'll make sure I'll whip your ass real good."
"We'll see who's pleading to stop from pain."
"Bring it!"
Giles finally responded to break up the pre-bullying. "Okay enough you too. Why is it that there is so much tension against you too. I guess you guys fighting will let it all out. Okay. Both of you guys ready?
"Yup" said Angel.
"Oh yea" said Buffy.
"Take your positions. and FIGHT!"
Angel came attacking with force by trying to trip Buffy but Buffy retaliated by using her quick reflexes by jumping over the leg while kicking him straight on at his face. Angel regained his balanced and had to go to defence mode as Buffy punched her way towards Angel, and Angel blocking each punch and then successfully tripped Buffy only Buffy was quick enough to kick him on his chest making him fall backwards completely. With one swift move, she pounced on Angel like her prey and secured him between her legs on his thighs while using her hands to push him down onto the ground. Buffy successfully beat Angel.
"Beat cha." Buffy said.
"Well done Buffy as I may do say so myself. Well, well Angel. For once you actually lost. To the new girl as well. My, my, I can certainly say there's a good prospect for you in the future Buffy. Your reflexes are quite excellent and your speed. I haven't seen anything like it in a very long time well done Buffy!"
"Thanks Mr. Giles. I appreciate that. Hehe. how sweet is that? Aww. poor Angel. Did I just mess up your streak? I'm not as easy to beat am I hmm? I hope that teaches your little inflated ego a lesson. "Buffy swiftly got off of Angel and started walking away towards her dormitory.
Angel yelled back, "Oh don't worry Buffy. You just got lucky this time. Don't think you're the queen of this school because you just got lucky today. I'll get you when you back is turned!"
"I'm hoping for it lover." Buffy yelled as reached the door onwards to her room.
Giles pondered to himself. He knew that both of them didn't have much competition during their classes against their partners. He suddenly had a perfect idea. He hoped his idea will not only improve them but will hopefully bond them together. Yes. he would tell them tomorrow.
Just then the whole room was buzzing of what just happened. Angel, beaten! Now that was something that never happened. And to a girl, a girl he loathe, but yet was attracted to so severely it scared him. He never admitted to anyone how much he wanted her. not to his friends, not even to Doyle or Gunn, his closest buddies which shared everything between them. She wasn't the typical girl he ever knew, or what his friends knew of. She was different. she wasn't an airhead; she wasn't a girl who he would use and dump the next day. She was everything he ever dreamed of but knew he could never have. Just having her on top of him, being allowed to smell her just intoxicated him. Man. he had it bad.
Just then, Gunn and Doyle came up to Angel. "Yo man. that chick is tough. Hahaha. she whooped your ass real good ya know?" Gunned replied.
"Hahaha. for real. Man. don't you feel dry. Your record broken, to the one and only Buffy who YOU challenged yourself. What happened man? I could have sworn you held back or something. The only thing you tried to do was tripped her, you didn't throw in any punches or those complicated moves you usually make. What's the deal?"
"Didn't wanna punch her. Hey, I may have challenged her, but I'm not gonna punch a girl, that's just way to rough for my style. I'm an old fashion kind of guy. I don't think its right to punch a girl. So I stayed on the down low and just tried to trip her, not really hurt her. Even for Buffy, I wouldn't go to the extremes."
"Then why did you challenge her? If you knew you could possibly lose your record?"
"Record doesn't matter to me. Every single guy is still terrified of me, and if not, hey they can go challenge me whatever they want and I'll beat there ass down. I challenged Buffy to provoke her, see if she had the guts to come out and play and plus, I wanted to see what she was made of. I wanted to see what she was capable of ya know."
"And? How is she. Fighting wise."
"For her size and shape, damn she has power. Not bad for a spoiled lil' brat she is."
"Oh come on, you don't thinks she's a sexy number?"
"BUFFY? Are you insane? I think she's attractive? Yea right. What do you take me for???" Although Angel very well knew he was lying through his teeth, he didn't want out rightly show how much respect he had for Buffy, or how much he admired her.
Xander, Gunn and Doyle all looked at each other and started cracking up hysterically. "That's the biggest piece of bull I've heard from your mouth. You know you want her. Too bad she's not gonna be given to you on a platter with easy access." Gunn replied.
*At the same moment.
Willow, Faith and Cordy ran towards Buffy, trying to catch up with her and to talk with her on what's just happened.
"Hey Buffy! Hold up will ya?" Willow panted.
"Yea B. why are you in such a rush?"
"Sorry Faith, Willow, Cordy. Didn't see you guys. ARGH!! I'm so pissed off now."
"Why?" Cordy replied, "You just beat the one and only hunky Angel McKillean! No GUY or GIRL has ever beaten him on his turf and own game. You should be proud of yourself girl. I just hope you haven't bruised him too much. Maybe I'll tend to his wounds."
Buffy immediately cut Cordy off, "Yea why don't you do that. Considering what that jackass did. God. why didn't I see it sooner??"
Willow confused asked, "See what Buffy?"
"See the fact that he was holding out. The fact that he didn't even look like he was trying. the FACT that he allowed me to win when he didn't put his all in the match. What an asshole. I don't understand him; he CHALLENGES me first of all, and then barely hits me, lets me pummel him and allows himself to lose his all time record. What is up with that? I just feel so retarded knowing the fact that I only beat him because he was holding out. ARGH!"
"Yo B, are you sure? It did look like an intense match. Are you sure he was holding back?"
"Yea. positive. Did you see him try to punch me or use his usual Ohh look at me... I know how to use this really complicated move on me? NO!"
"Yea. now that I think of it that is strange. Whats up with that?" Cordy pondered.
"Well I ain't gonna that crap or his pity or whatever you call it he's trying to throw at me. I'm gonna settle this once and for all with Angel and demand a friggin' explanation from his stupid ass."
"Ohh... wouldn't wanna see that." Willow thought.
*Next day*
Buffy couldn't help but keep staring at Angel's direction when he wasn't looking. She was confused on what happened yesterday at the challenged. Why did he hold back? After all of those cocky words he threw at her he made a really bad attempt of proving himself that they had meaning. She knew he was capable of more since he was the top of their class and she even admitted to herself he would have been a challenged if he put the effort in. This was really pissing her off now. She wanted answers, and wanted them today. She would confront him at lunch.
As lunch vastly approach, she headed towards her lunch table and already saw that he was there, talking to the gang. She walked, directly tapped him and politely replied, "Angel? Can I have a word with you?"
Angel curious to why she asked to nicely simply replied, "Uh yea sure. Let's walk around the campus." He didn't feel like provoking her today.
As they walked out, the girls were informing the guys on what Buffy said yesterday.
"Oh boy" Xander said. He started chuckling, "I hope he can keep his head today."
As they were walking, they headed outside and quietly walked around the campus. The quietness was making Angel nervous. They hadn't bickered at all today and it was scaring him. Out of the blue Buffy turned to face him and slammed him against the wall.
"Is there a problem M'am?" Angel said surprisingly.
"Yea. There is. Why did you hold back? Did you think I couldn't handle you? Was that some petty attempt to give me a courtesy by trying to act like a gentlemen or something? I mean, you WERE the one challenging ME and you were the one who said I couldn't handle you. What the fuck is up with that?"
"What are you talking about? I gave you my all." Angel tried to say convincingly. "I guess you got the better of me THAT time. but don't count on it sweet cheeks that it'll happen again."
"No. Don't fuck with me. I know your bullshiting. Why did you do it? You didn't even punch me? I don't need you to pretend that you weren't holding back. I've seen you fight. You barely even tried a decent attack on me. I wanna settle this once and for all."
Buffy stood back, threw her jacket off to the floor and placed up a fighting stance in front of Angel.
"Are you asking me to fight you?"
"Yea? What gonna be a chicken about it now lover? Come on, I know you've wanted to kick my ass for a long time now. You can't tell me the bickering and my insults don't piss you off do they? I know they do. I can see it in your eyes. Now goddamn FIGHT ME you jackass!"
"No. You know what? This is insane. I'm not gonna fight you. I've already fought you. You beat me fair and square. I'll give you credit for that. Now I'm getting hungry, let's go inside and eat."
"No. I want the truth dammit. I'm starting fighting you regardless so you better tell me now."
You wanna know? You honestly wanna know? It was because I wanted to see how strong you are. And believe me, your friggin' strong for your size and weight. I knew you would fight me regardless; I wanted to see how brave you were. No guy would take taken the proposal I gave you so willingly. And why I didn't punch you? That's because I'm an old fashion kind of guy. I believe women deserve respect. I believe that you don't hit a women. Therefore I tried to trip you, not hit you because I still have moral beliefs that hold strongly to me till this day. HAPPY NOW?"
Buffy, shocked by his answered managed to stutter out, "Well. uh. um. what? You know for such a jackass you seem to have very weird motives. You seem to analyze a lot too? Why did you wanna analyze me for? Am I some specimen you wanna figure out or something?"
Angel, laughingly said, "Yea. Something like that. Testing you more like it. You confuse me Buffy. In more ways than you'll ever know. I just wanna figure out the person who I bicker to everyday."
Annoyed, Buffy stated, "Please, for the record, don't bother. I'm not yours to figure out."
And with that final statement, she headed to the campus doors and went back to the cafeteria. Angel just stood there for a while. Grasping on what she just said. Sighing. maybe he never had a chance with her. Her words crushing any hope he had of having her. She never really saw the pain in his eyes when she said that, "I'm not yours to figure out." Maybe she never did notice how much behind all those days of back and forth insults how much he loved them. That she never saw him always staring at her whenever she wasn't looking. The fact that he barely noticed any other girl except her. She was the driving force that made him pick up his life. Take his schooling seriously, make him want to become a better person, in hopes that he would one day be good enough for her. He cursed himself. this was probably his punishment for using all those girls, for treating them with so much little respect. Now he paid back for it with Buffy.
He slowly walked back to the campus and joined his friends at the table. He tried to act normal, but soon found it exhausting. He went back to his dormitory. Ugh. he still had 2 more classes to go, all whom he had with Buffy. This was gonna be a very long day.
When class began shortly afterwards, everybody headed off to their usual changing room to get ready for another day's work of Combat Training.
"Hello class. Today I've decided to start off with hand to hand combat against your partner. Please assemble yourselves to your usual spots and begin practicing the usual blocks, kicks, offences, what ever you like but please make your time useful. You exams begin in 3 months time. Please begin except for Buffy, and Angel."
As the class headed off with their partner to their usual training session, both Buffy and Angel dumbfoundedly walked towards Mr. Giles.
"Ah. both of you guys are here. Good. Good. I've decided for this year and as of next year that you too will be pairing off together as partners. And yes I'm well aware that she's a girl and you're a boy. I just think that you two fighting against each other on a regular basis will help you both improve. I can see that you guys aren't really getting a challenge from your other peers and seeing you guys fight, well I think our two best classmates should fight against each other continually."
"But Mr. Giles." Buffy protested.
"No buts Ms. Summers. I know you and Angel well haven't gotten off to a great start but hopefully this reunion will hopefully get you guys past your childish bickering and duels with each other and you guys can find some moral ground with each other. Both of your skill levels I must say are sensational and for you guys to improve you need someone that will challenge you and this is your chance. You have no choices so I suggest you guys start warming up now."
And with that Buffy knew she couldn't get out of this. Great. Was he gonna be scared to even strike her now? They both walked silently to a corner and just stood there for a while. No one either knew what to say. Angel on the other hand couldn't believe what just happened. How was he suppose to forget about her? If he was gonna be even more around her now? This was brutal. He loved the fact that he could get closer to her more but dreaded the fact on what the toll would be on him and his sanity. He decided to break the tension.
"Okay so shouldn't we start?"
"I dunno. Are you afraid to hit me? Or strike me or do you think that I'm so fragile that I won't be able to cope?" Buffy said bitterly.
"Okay Buffy. I know we got off on the wrong foot. But since we are gonna be partners for this and our last year. we might as well make a mutual agreement. We're I dunno. a team now. I'm here to improve you, and vice versa. Since our exams are coming up as well, I wanna make the most of our time practicing okay?"
"Okay. Okay. Wow. I'm actually agreeing with you! What the world is coming to these days!" Buffy couldn't help but laugh and smile at him.
Angel couldn't help but smile since she smiled warmingly to him. It felt so good. "Yea well, there's always a first for something. Let's get started shall we?"
"Yes. I think we should."
By the end of the class, they knew it was a good idea to put them together. Although they would never admit it to each other, both of them were tired and sweaty. Both of them couldn't remember how long ago it has been since they've had a good match up.
*Some time during the middle of the year
"Okay ladies and gentlemen. As you all may know, today is challenge Friday. This is the only challenge Friday for this year. You may challenge one of your peers to fight and to prove yourself. I strongly encourage that all of you participate in this challenge. This will not only prove me of how much your skill has improved but will allow me to see if you have any sort of leadership abilities. You do not have to participate at all. You can even challenge to fight against the opposite sex, boy vs. girl if both sides are willingly. Any volunteers?"
Angel immediately started, "Buffy Summers. I challenge her to fight me. If she has enough balls to do so." Replied Angel with a grin.
"Is that a challenge?" Buffy replied harshly.
"Yea, I think so. Unless your too much of a wimp or to scared to fight me, you know. You might get totally pummelled or you might break a nail or something. Won't hold it against you."
"Oh, your so on jackass. I'll make sure I'll whip your ass real good."
"We'll see who's pleading to stop from pain."
"Bring it!"
Giles finally responded to break up the pre-bullying. "Okay enough you too. Why is it that there is so much tension against you too. I guess you guys fighting will let it all out. Okay. Both of you guys ready?
"Yup" said Angel.
"Oh yea" said Buffy.
"Take your positions. and FIGHT!"
Angel came attacking with force by trying to trip Buffy but Buffy retaliated by using her quick reflexes by jumping over the leg while kicking him straight on at his face. Angel regained his balanced and had to go to defence mode as Buffy punched her way towards Angel, and Angel blocking each punch and then successfully tripped Buffy only Buffy was quick enough to kick him on his chest making him fall backwards completely. With one swift move, she pounced on Angel like her prey and secured him between her legs on his thighs while using her hands to push him down onto the ground. Buffy successfully beat Angel.
"Beat cha." Buffy said.
"Well done Buffy as I may do say so myself. Well, well Angel. For once you actually lost. To the new girl as well. My, my, I can certainly say there's a good prospect for you in the future Buffy. Your reflexes are quite excellent and your speed. I haven't seen anything like it in a very long time well done Buffy!"
"Thanks Mr. Giles. I appreciate that. Hehe. how sweet is that? Aww. poor Angel. Did I just mess up your streak? I'm not as easy to beat am I hmm? I hope that teaches your little inflated ego a lesson. "Buffy swiftly got off of Angel and started walking away towards her dormitory.
Angel yelled back, "Oh don't worry Buffy. You just got lucky this time. Don't think you're the queen of this school because you just got lucky today. I'll get you when you back is turned!"
"I'm hoping for it lover." Buffy yelled as reached the door onwards to her room.
Giles pondered to himself. He knew that both of them didn't have much competition during their classes against their partners. He suddenly had a perfect idea. He hoped his idea will not only improve them but will hopefully bond them together. Yes. he would tell them tomorrow.
Just then the whole room was buzzing of what just happened. Angel, beaten! Now that was something that never happened. And to a girl, a girl he loathe, but yet was attracted to so severely it scared him. He never admitted to anyone how much he wanted her. not to his friends, not even to Doyle or Gunn, his closest buddies which shared everything between them. She wasn't the typical girl he ever knew, or what his friends knew of. She was different. she wasn't an airhead; she wasn't a girl who he would use and dump the next day. She was everything he ever dreamed of but knew he could never have. Just having her on top of him, being allowed to smell her just intoxicated him. Man. he had it bad.
Just then, Gunn and Doyle came up to Angel. "Yo man. that chick is tough. Hahaha. she whooped your ass real good ya know?" Gunned replied.
"Hahaha. for real. Man. don't you feel dry. Your record broken, to the one and only Buffy who YOU challenged yourself. What happened man? I could have sworn you held back or something. The only thing you tried to do was tripped her, you didn't throw in any punches or those complicated moves you usually make. What's the deal?"
"Didn't wanna punch her. Hey, I may have challenged her, but I'm not gonna punch a girl, that's just way to rough for my style. I'm an old fashion kind of guy. I don't think its right to punch a girl. So I stayed on the down low and just tried to trip her, not really hurt her. Even for Buffy, I wouldn't go to the extremes."
"Then why did you challenge her? If you knew you could possibly lose your record?"
"Record doesn't matter to me. Every single guy is still terrified of me, and if not, hey they can go challenge me whatever they want and I'll beat there ass down. I challenged Buffy to provoke her, see if she had the guts to come out and play and plus, I wanted to see what she was made of. I wanted to see what she was capable of ya know."
"And? How is she. Fighting wise."
"For her size and shape, damn she has power. Not bad for a spoiled lil' brat she is."
"Oh come on, you don't thinks she's a sexy number?"
"BUFFY? Are you insane? I think she's attractive? Yea right. What do you take me for???" Although Angel very well knew he was lying through his teeth, he didn't want out rightly show how much respect he had for Buffy, or how much he admired her.
Xander, Gunn and Doyle all looked at each other and started cracking up hysterically. "That's the biggest piece of bull I've heard from your mouth. You know you want her. Too bad she's not gonna be given to you on a platter with easy access." Gunn replied.
*At the same moment.
Willow, Faith and Cordy ran towards Buffy, trying to catch up with her and to talk with her on what's just happened.
"Hey Buffy! Hold up will ya?" Willow panted.
"Yea B. why are you in such a rush?"
"Sorry Faith, Willow, Cordy. Didn't see you guys. ARGH!! I'm so pissed off now."
"Why?" Cordy replied, "You just beat the one and only hunky Angel McKillean! No GUY or GIRL has ever beaten him on his turf and own game. You should be proud of yourself girl. I just hope you haven't bruised him too much. Maybe I'll tend to his wounds."
Buffy immediately cut Cordy off, "Yea why don't you do that. Considering what that jackass did. God. why didn't I see it sooner??"
Willow confused asked, "See what Buffy?"
"See the fact that he was holding out. The fact that he didn't even look like he was trying. the FACT that he allowed me to win when he didn't put his all in the match. What an asshole. I don't understand him; he CHALLENGES me first of all, and then barely hits me, lets me pummel him and allows himself to lose his all time record. What is up with that? I just feel so retarded knowing the fact that I only beat him because he was holding out. ARGH!"
"Yo B, are you sure? It did look like an intense match. Are you sure he was holding back?"
"Yea. positive. Did you see him try to punch me or use his usual Ohh look at me... I know how to use this really complicated move on me? NO!"
"Yea. now that I think of it that is strange. Whats up with that?" Cordy pondered.
"Well I ain't gonna that crap or his pity or whatever you call it he's trying to throw at me. I'm gonna settle this once and for all with Angel and demand a friggin' explanation from his stupid ass."
"Ohh... wouldn't wanna see that." Willow thought.
*Next day*
Buffy couldn't help but keep staring at Angel's direction when he wasn't looking. She was confused on what happened yesterday at the challenged. Why did he hold back? After all of those cocky words he threw at her he made a really bad attempt of proving himself that they had meaning. She knew he was capable of more since he was the top of their class and she even admitted to herself he would have been a challenged if he put the effort in. This was really pissing her off now. She wanted answers, and wanted them today. She would confront him at lunch.
As lunch vastly approach, she headed towards her lunch table and already saw that he was there, talking to the gang. She walked, directly tapped him and politely replied, "Angel? Can I have a word with you?"
Angel curious to why she asked to nicely simply replied, "Uh yea sure. Let's walk around the campus." He didn't feel like provoking her today.
As they walked out, the girls were informing the guys on what Buffy said yesterday.
"Oh boy" Xander said. He started chuckling, "I hope he can keep his head today."
As they were walking, they headed outside and quietly walked around the campus. The quietness was making Angel nervous. They hadn't bickered at all today and it was scaring him. Out of the blue Buffy turned to face him and slammed him against the wall.
"Is there a problem M'am?" Angel said surprisingly.
"Yea. There is. Why did you hold back? Did you think I couldn't handle you? Was that some petty attempt to give me a courtesy by trying to act like a gentlemen or something? I mean, you WERE the one challenging ME and you were the one who said I couldn't handle you. What the fuck is up with that?"
"What are you talking about? I gave you my all." Angel tried to say convincingly. "I guess you got the better of me THAT time. but don't count on it sweet cheeks that it'll happen again."
"No. Don't fuck with me. I know your bullshiting. Why did you do it? You didn't even punch me? I don't need you to pretend that you weren't holding back. I've seen you fight. You barely even tried a decent attack on me. I wanna settle this once and for all."
Buffy stood back, threw her jacket off to the floor and placed up a fighting stance in front of Angel.
"Are you asking me to fight you?"
"Yea? What gonna be a chicken about it now lover? Come on, I know you've wanted to kick my ass for a long time now. You can't tell me the bickering and my insults don't piss you off do they? I know they do. I can see it in your eyes. Now goddamn FIGHT ME you jackass!"
"No. You know what? This is insane. I'm not gonna fight you. I've already fought you. You beat me fair and square. I'll give you credit for that. Now I'm getting hungry, let's go inside and eat."
"No. I want the truth dammit. I'm starting fighting you regardless so you better tell me now."
You wanna know? You honestly wanna know? It was because I wanted to see how strong you are. And believe me, your friggin' strong for your size and weight. I knew you would fight me regardless; I wanted to see how brave you were. No guy would take taken the proposal I gave you so willingly. And why I didn't punch you? That's because I'm an old fashion kind of guy. I believe women deserve respect. I believe that you don't hit a women. Therefore I tried to trip you, not hit you because I still have moral beliefs that hold strongly to me till this day. HAPPY NOW?"
Buffy, shocked by his answered managed to stutter out, "Well. uh. um. what? You know for such a jackass you seem to have very weird motives. You seem to analyze a lot too? Why did you wanna analyze me for? Am I some specimen you wanna figure out or something?"
Angel, laughingly said, "Yea. Something like that. Testing you more like it. You confuse me Buffy. In more ways than you'll ever know. I just wanna figure out the person who I bicker to everyday."
Annoyed, Buffy stated, "Please, for the record, don't bother. I'm not yours to figure out."
And with that final statement, she headed to the campus doors and went back to the cafeteria. Angel just stood there for a while. Grasping on what she just said. Sighing. maybe he never had a chance with her. Her words crushing any hope he had of having her. She never really saw the pain in his eyes when she said that, "I'm not yours to figure out." Maybe she never did notice how much behind all those days of back and forth insults how much he loved them. That she never saw him always staring at her whenever she wasn't looking. The fact that he barely noticed any other girl except her. She was the driving force that made him pick up his life. Take his schooling seriously, make him want to become a better person, in hopes that he would one day be good enough for her. He cursed himself. this was probably his punishment for using all those girls, for treating them with so much little respect. Now he paid back for it with Buffy.
He slowly walked back to the campus and joined his friends at the table. He tried to act normal, but soon found it exhausting. He went back to his dormitory. Ugh. he still had 2 more classes to go, all whom he had with Buffy. This was gonna be a very long day.
When class began shortly afterwards, everybody headed off to their usual changing room to get ready for another day's work of Combat Training.
"Hello class. Today I've decided to start off with hand to hand combat against your partner. Please assemble yourselves to your usual spots and begin practicing the usual blocks, kicks, offences, what ever you like but please make your time useful. You exams begin in 3 months time. Please begin except for Buffy, and Angel."
As the class headed off with their partner to their usual training session, both Buffy and Angel dumbfoundedly walked towards Mr. Giles.
"Ah. both of you guys are here. Good. Good. I've decided for this year and as of next year that you too will be pairing off together as partners. And yes I'm well aware that she's a girl and you're a boy. I just think that you two fighting against each other on a regular basis will help you both improve. I can see that you guys aren't really getting a challenge from your other peers and seeing you guys fight, well I think our two best classmates should fight against each other continually."
"But Mr. Giles." Buffy protested.
"No buts Ms. Summers. I know you and Angel well haven't gotten off to a great start but hopefully this reunion will hopefully get you guys past your childish bickering and duels with each other and you guys can find some moral ground with each other. Both of your skill levels I must say are sensational and for you guys to improve you need someone that will challenge you and this is your chance. You have no choices so I suggest you guys start warming up now."
And with that Buffy knew she couldn't get out of this. Great. Was he gonna be scared to even strike her now? They both walked silently to a corner and just stood there for a while. No one either knew what to say. Angel on the other hand couldn't believe what just happened. How was he suppose to forget about her? If he was gonna be even more around her now? This was brutal. He loved the fact that he could get closer to her more but dreaded the fact on what the toll would be on him and his sanity. He decided to break the tension.
"Okay so shouldn't we start?"
"I dunno. Are you afraid to hit me? Or strike me or do you think that I'm so fragile that I won't be able to cope?" Buffy said bitterly.
"Okay Buffy. I know we got off on the wrong foot. But since we are gonna be partners for this and our last year. we might as well make a mutual agreement. We're I dunno. a team now. I'm here to improve you, and vice versa. Since our exams are coming up as well, I wanna make the most of our time practicing okay?"
"Okay. Okay. Wow. I'm actually agreeing with you! What the world is coming to these days!" Buffy couldn't help but laugh and smile at him.
Angel couldn't help but smile since she smiled warmingly to him. It felt so good. "Yea well, there's always a first for something. Let's get started shall we?"
"Yes. I think we should."
By the end of the class, they knew it was a good idea to put them together. Although they would never admit it to each other, both of them were tired and sweaty. Both of them couldn't remember how long ago it has been since they've had a good match up.