What I Like About You

Chapter 19 - Officer Psycho

Three weeks have gone by and oddly no one else has been murdered. Everyone assumed that the killer had just stopped, but I knew better. They were just waiting for a chance to make another appearance. I knew it definitely wouldn't be long before they came out of the woodwork. The cops still had no suspects and they couldn't figure out how the girls were related to the other, but fortunately their search wasn't ending. I wasn't yet showing and the morning sickness sure wasn't making life easier.
I swore I was definitely getting fatter but everyone just complimented me every chance they got,. Thathelped. I was only three months along so I had a while till Spike was able to adopt the baby. I was so happy that he was taking the baby instead of a faceless family that we will never know. Spike had gone to the library and looked up things about the baby, such as symptoms and how far along until the certain symptoms started to occur.

I was sitting in my room with Darla and Glory while we chatted about useless and unmeaningful things. Things haven't been active around here at all. Boring, was the word most used around this place. Trust me, I would be at Spike's right now if he wasn't so busy. Lately he had been busy. We don't spend as much time together as we used to. I couldn't help wondering: Was he getting tired of me? Did he think
I was now ugly? Or did he realize how much our lives would be changing and he's just trying to keep distance. Whatever it was, I wanted to know, but I didn't want to do anything until I knew for sure
something was going on.
"... so what do you think Buffy?" Darla asked turning to me. I had obviously missed a conversation which I probably should have been listening to.
"What?" I asked confused.
"Glory started to speak as she flipped through her book. "Daydreaming." She stated simply.
"Yep." Darla agreed as she continued on with her current conversation. I smiled. I really did love those two. They were everything I never would be. They were like salt and sugar. Glory obviously the salt and Darla the sugar, she was the sweetest anyone could be in a place like this. Glory... well,. She made her problems the first priority but she wasn't bitchy about it either.
A knock on the door interrupted my thoughts.
I got up off my bed considering I was closer to the door. When I opened it, Anya appeared before me.
"Hey Anya."
"Hey Buffy." She said smiling, then continued on. "I heard you are pregnant and I know it can be hard finding clothes when you're carrying so I figured you could come over and have some of my over- sized clothes. I know you don't need them now but I figured the sooner the better."
I nodded. "Thank you, that would be great." I said with a genuine smile.
"Want to come now?"
"Sure." I said before saying goodbye to Darla and Glory. I shut the door behind me before I started to follow Anya down the hallways.
When they finally entered her room Anya walked over to her closet and pointed to a box. "There, you can look through that. You can take whatever you want."
"Thank you." I said smiling before walking into the closet and leaning down to the box.
The closet door closed behind me but I didn't think much of it. since I could still see perfectly fine. Anya had walked over to her bed to sit and read while I went through the box.
Before I knew what was happening I started to hear voices on the other side of the door.
"Who the hell are you?" I heard Anya ask,. but no answer came from the unidentified person.
"Get away from me!" I heard Anya command.
I slowly opened the closet door and I saw Anya still struggling with whoever the person was. but The back of the killers head was in front of me,. and he was wearing a black mask that covered his entire head. I turned back around into the closet looking for something that was possibly heavy enough to use as a weapon. I foundnothing that could be used,. until finally my eyes settled on a hard oak jewelry box. I lifted it and opened the closet door again. I came up behind the masked man and hit him hard in the back of the head. He
fell to the ground and I dropped the jewelry box. I went up to Anya who was now on the floor to make sure she was all right but as soon as I turned around and turned my back to the murderer I felt a cold piece of metal come in contact with my throat. The jewelry box obviously wasn't hard enough.
Damn!
Then I suddenly knew it was him.
He opened his mouth and words came out.
That was when he was uncovered to the rest of the world.

Andrew.

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