Disclaimer: See chapter one. please don't sue me.

P.S.: ((Means thinking))

Chapter Two: Stripping for the New

'Welcome to Sunnydale'

Buffy snorted as she read the sign, ((Oh yeah, this town will be great.)) she thought sarcastically to herself.

"Ms. Summers, I presume?" a troll-like man said, causing Buffy to jump.

"Uh, yeah... Could you tell me where to find the principal please?" she asked politely.

"Funny. Follow me." He said as he walked away from her into the school. They reached the office and Buffy read the sign "Principal Snyder" on the door.

"Umm I can take it from here sir," Buffy told the man, "Principal Snyder should be expecting me."

"You're a regular comedian aren't you?" the man snarled as he walked into the office. Buffy followed him and watched as he sat down in a leather chair behind the cluttered space that hid, presumably, his desk.

"Oh, um I-I didn't realize that you were the principal... sir." Buffy said apologetically.

"Whatever," Principal Snyder cut her off, "Here is your schedule, manual, contract, and list of acceptable students to socialize with." He said, handing her a thick looking folder.

"Excuse me? Can't I choose who I hang out with for myself?" she said rudely.

"Obviously not." He sneered, "I've seen your record."

As Buffy got up to leave the room a leather-clad blonde stumbled in.

"Ah yes, Ms. Mclay. Good of you to join us, finally. Why the costume?" the principal spat.

"Whatever are you talking about?" the blonde replied sweetly.

"Uch, never mind." He said disgusted, "Here is Ms. Summers, the girl you will be taking care of."

"-Taking care of?" said Buffy, offended.

"Yes, Tara here will keep you from getting into trouble again. Considering the way you are dressed," he said, while looking her up and down, repulsed, "she will also be lending you a pair of clothes."

"Whatever, can we go?" Tara asked, interrupting the battle.

"Yes. Get out of my sight."

"Gladly." Buffy muttered.

As they got outside Tara said, "So, you know my name, what's yours?"

"Oh it's Buffy. Buffy Summers." She said, not noticing Tara's eyes widen at the new information.

"So what is the deal with that principal?? I mean, does he treat everyone like that or am I just special and what the HELL are you doing????!" Buffy shrieked, startled by the fact that this girl whom she barely knew was taking her clothes off right in the middle of a public campus.

"Oh! Sorry, I should have warned you!" Tara said, embarrassed. "I don't actually dress this way. It was just a dare from one of my friends. You know, to get under Snyder's skin. But don't worry; I have clothes on underneath this stuff." Tara explained reassuringly.

"Oh," said Buffy dejectedly, looking down at her own outfit. Did that mean that her red leather, micro-mini and black halter top wouldn't fit in?

"Oh don't worry!" said Tara suddenly, sensing her new friends plight, "its fine for you, just completely unexpected from me." She said, trying to reassure her.

"Tara, stripping for the new girl are we?" said a brown haired man from behind them, who was being followed by a group who, in Buffy's opinion, looked as though they were probably forced to hang out with one another. Not one person looked as if they were from the same type of crowd.

"Hey." Said the boy, looking Buffy up and down, "Aren't you a cutie, what's your name?"

"Buffy."

"Hey, doesn't Liam know someone named Buffy?" The guy said, turning around to look at the people whom Buffy assumed where his friends.

"That's Xander," said a small redhead suddenly, "I'm Willow, these are Gunn, Wesley, Doyle, Spike, Fred, Cordelia, and you've already met Tara. You'll meet Liam in a few minutes." She said, taking charge and then turned to Xander to say, "And she couldn't possibly be the same Buffy because his Buffy had brown hair and hers, as you can see, is blonde."

"Oh I used to have brown hair," Buffy chipped in, "but as I got older it just, lightened to blonde I guess." She said as the group stared at her. "What?" she asked self-consciously.

"Did you ever happen to know someone named Liam, love?" asked the man Buffy now knew as 'Spike'.

"Nope." Buffy said without hesitation.

The entire group let out a collective sigh of relief just as someone came up behind them and said, "HOT-TIE!! Damn you're fine."

Buffy turned around and gasped. "Yeah well, it's a miracle what nine years can do to a person." She said, and then ran into the school, straight into the girls locker room, leaving a very shocked Liam Angelus 'Angel' O'Connor to hate himself for showing his soul mate what he had become. He hoped she hadn't seen his outfit.