Ch.2

As the gang were walking down the hall to English, Buffy stopped and turned to Angel.

"Um Angel, why are you here?" At his wounded look she continued, "Not that im not ecstatic to see you it's just, you're not a teacher anymore."
"Miss Burke didn't come back."
"So you'll be our teacher?"
"Yup, until graduation."
"Good."

Buffy linked her hand with Angels and they continued down the hall.

"We're late." Oz commented.
"Only by a few minutes." Xander replied while checking his watch, "Plus, our teacher's here."

Everyone filed into the classroom but Angel held Buffy back. She looked up at him in confusion

"I haven't been able to say good morning properly yet."

Buffy smiled and stood on tip toe.

"Good morning my Angel."
"Good morning my love."

Angel leant down and gave her a sweet kiss which quickly deepened.

"Can't you guys do that in private?" Cordelia's voice sounded down the hall.

Buffy and Angel quickly jumped apart and had the grace to look slightly embarrassed. Cordelia shook her head and went back inside smiling. Angel clasped Buffy's hand again and they walked into class together.

Everyone looked up as they entered, a few smiled, a few rolled their eyes. Buffy sat down and Angel stood at the front of the room facing the class.

"Alright guys, this is your last week of school. I know that none of you really care about English at this point so I say, screw English. None of you will work so why bother?"

A girl near the front rose her hand.

"Yes Amanda."
"What are we going to do?"
"I'll let you guys decide."

Angel handed out pieces of paper and gave them five minutes to write something down. As he collected them he noticed little hearts all over Buffy's. He went back to the front and read what was on each of the slips. Finally he got to Buff's. He read it and smirked.

"Later."

The a few people in the class looked back at Buffy who just looked back innocently.

"Okay, all but one or two of you have said similar things so for at least this lesson we are going to be playing true confessions. The only rule is that whatever is said in this room stays in this room. I f I hear of anyone repeating anything outside that door, I will see to it that you don't graduate. So who wants to start?"

a few kids looked down and everyone avoided looking at anyone else. Finally Harmony spoke up.

"Angel, we've all been here forever, there isn't much that we don't know, but we don't know anything about you. So can we ask you questions?"

Angel raised his eyebrows and shrugged.

"I guess that would be okay. But only if the rest of the class agrees."

There were little murmurs of agreement around the class and so Angel got a chair and sat down facing the class.

"Okay, what do you guys want to know?"
"Where were you born?" Aura asked
"Ireland, Galway Ireland to be exact."
"How old are you?" another girl asked. Buffy raised her eyebrows and Xander coughed.
"I'll put three numbers on the board; you can guess using those three numbers."

He wrote his age, 243, on the board and sat back down. Harmony looked back at Buffy and smirked at her.

"So, you're over 20, my guess is 24. What was your first girlfriend like?"

Willow and Cordelia turned to look at Buffy who was looking directly at Angel.

"She was a bitch." He stated simply. When he didn't embellish harmony put up her hand again.
"Why?"
"She couldn't get over me. She shot me and she tried to shoot Buffy. She's dead to me now."
"Do you miss her?"
"Nope. Never have and I never will."
"So is Angel your real name?" Sydney asked while shooting a look of disgust at Harmony.

Glad to have a change of topic Angel smiled at his newest friend.

"No it's Liam."
"So how did you get the name Angel?" Xander asked
"You know the answer to that."
"Yeah, but I'm waiting to see what kind of spin you put on it."
"My sister first called me Angel. I was known as Angelus for a while but eventually it was shortened to plain old Angel. I haven't been called Liam for a very long time."
"What's the best moment of your entire life?" a boy asked?

Angel smiled and leant back letting a memory was over him

"Three years ago I was in LA and I was sitting in my car outside a school and I saw this popular cheerleading princess walk down the steps."
"Who was it?" the boy asked.
"The most beautiful woman in the world."
"No I'm not." Buffy murmured. Angel caught the comment and smiled
"She never believes me when I tell her."

Everyone looked at Buffy who turned a slight shade of pink. She looked at Angel and frowned

"What is this? Embarrass Buffy day? You're so dead."

He raised an eyebrow at her and smiled. The Scooby gang laughed at the little joke.

"So what's the worst moment of your life?" someone called out.

Angels smile faded away and sunk a little deeper into his chair.

"Seeing Buffy dead."

The class went silent and Sydney turned around to her new friend.

"You DIED!?"
"Yeah." Buffy replied quietly
"When? Jade asked
"Two years ago." Angel answered
"What happened?" Sydney asked
"I was…attacked" Willow whispered 'Vamp' into Sydneys ear, and I couldn't fight, I just had no power to do anything, I was knocked unconscious and was then left to drown in a pool."
"Oh my God." Jonathan said quietly
"Xander and I found her a few minutes after. By then she was already dead. Xander gave her mouth to mouth and we were able to revive her. After all the things I've seen, that was the worst nightmare of my life."

Willow went to Buffy who was silently crying and a look of understanding passed between Angel and Xander.

The bell rang and everyone left without a word being spoken they all knew that people died, especially in Sunnydale but none of them had ever met someone who had died and was then bought back to life.

Angel went and held Buffy in his arms while her tears slowed. Eventually she looked up at her friends.

"I'm sorry. You should all go to class. I'll be fine."
"Nah, class is for those who actually care. Xander told her with a smile." "Yeah, plus we have maths next. So who cares."

Everyone stared at Willow.

"Well there has to be one part of school I don't like, doesn't there? Come on, lets go bug Giles."

With that everyone headed to the library