Chapter 20

When the sun rose and shined on Buffy and Angel's faces both stirred to the direct sunlight. When Angel woke up he was shocked at the position he was in with Buffy. But god did she smell and feel so good. His thoughts were soon interrupted when he noticed her stirring up as well and saw her how her emotions changed from shock, to confusion and finally to utter surprise.

Buffy decided to play it cool and hope he didn't feel her heart beat rapidly at their intimacy. Buffy wasn't going to admit it, but he felt like heaven.

"Well... er... isn't this interesting?" Buffy tried to joke.

Angel stared at her in shock that she didn't immediately bite his head off or like storm out the room.

Buffy blushed even more at his unresponsive answer as he lay there staring at her she decided to save herself the trouble of looking even more of a fool and get the hell out of the room.

"Well... I think its time to um... get up you know. Stuff to do... awkward positions to get out of..." Buffy mumbled.

As she was about to get up and run as fast as she could out of there Angel grabbed her and said

"Buffy I..." He didn't exactly know what to say. Was he himself surprised? Hell yea. Did it feel good? Fuck yea. He needed to get out of this situation before Buffy hated him even more.

"Listen Buffy. I know this is weird for both of us but I'm sure we can be all mature about this. We just... well got a lil' cozy. It's nothing big you know."

She couldn't believe the nerve of him. Not only did she feel so damn stupid but he had the nerve of giving her the its not a big deal if two people are rubbing against each other all night lecture and act as if there weren't some remote feelings.

"How is it okay Angel?" Buffy ranted. "I mean does this look anywhere but normal?" Buffy ran her fingers through her hair and sighed in frustration.

"I need to get away from you. Jees. We HATE EACH OTHER. Remember that. You despise me and vice versa. I'm going to the bathroom and start changing." She said as she marched out of the room.

As Buffy left Angel couldn't be more than pissed off by what just happened. Why was it that everything he said seemed to blow up in his face? He had to pretend it meant nothing to him anyways. She just did reinforce she hated his guts. Angel threw back the covers hastily and decided to dress for the things to come during the day.

Throughout the whole day both were trying their best to ignore each other. Yet again they were force to partner up for the following activities that came their way. Their last activity involved scattering from all the other classmates who all had different maps and had to do a scavenger hunt based on vague and tricky clues. Each group had to collect the item they were searching for which was essential for their next task. If they failed this task, they failed the whole assignment.

Buffy and Angel's treasure hunting went well on throughout the night where both were getting frustrated because they were tired, cold, and definitely were getting ticked off because the other kept arguing back. No one could deny though, the sexual tension building between the two. At last they found their item after numerous hours of searching. The item turned out to be a gold, unusual key with intricate markings unlike most keys. Both of them wondered what door the key opened.

As they started heading back, lightening started to erupt and soon followed heavy rain. Both were running mad to get back to their hotel room and the nice warm heat that awaited them. When they finally got up to their suite both were soaking wet.

Angel immediately took off his shirt which Buffy couldn't help notice and gulped at his nice hard body. She quickly averted her gaze and went to the bathroom to go and change. Angel waited until she came out to ask her if she was hungry.

"Hungry much?" Angel asked.

"Starved." Buffy said.

When their order arrived, they ate silently and waited for the other to start talking. Angel decided to break the ice by commenting...

"You know, we could have gotten back to the hotel much sooner if you didn't detour us with your 'advice' about that shortcut which made us go into circles." He knew that was cruel but at least her yelling at him was better than Buffy being silent.

Buffy's nostrils immediately flared and barked back, "Oh yea? How about your suggestion to take that stupid trail when we first started the scavenger hunt? I'm pretty sure you wasted one hour at least!"

"OH YEA?" Angel yelled.

"YEA!" Buffy yelled.

"If you weren't busy flirting with crack boy what's his name Parker earlier maybe your head could have been more focused on the task!" Angel was venomously jealous when Parker tried to make a play at Buffy while Buffy batted her eyelashes and flirtatiously flirted with him.

"Oh I'm sorry. Jealous that for once that I wasn't paying any attention to you because god's knows how much time I waste just arguing with you when it's just a hopeless case?" Buffy gritted.

"What the hell makes you think I was jealous?" Angel shouted

"Why the hell were you watching me?" Buffy hollered

"Sorry. You were making such a big sceptical of yourself how could no one notice?" He roared

"Fuck you. You can go to hell for all I care. I'm out of here." She spat.

Angel immediately grabbed her and said, "Don't you dare walk away."

"Or else what Angel? What are you gonna do? Buffy mocked.

They both locked eyes with each other, both filled with anger, tension and passion.

Finally after what seemed liked eternity Angel whispered...

"This."

He smashed his lips with hers that finally ended all the years of want and desire into that final moment. Almost immediately she responded greedily as they both clung to each other for dear life as they left their passion to be finally ignited.

Author's Note – Huh. It's been awhile huh? I know, I'm sorry for the long delay. Writer's block along with no time and just so busy with work, school etc. They finally hooked up! The moment many of you have been waiting for. Hope this chapter was worth the wait! Thank you so much for all the great reviews and hopefully I can finish the story up although I still might have many more chapters to go. Remember:

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