The Gypsy 7: Sittings
"Dawn's been wearing her neck lace constantly these past few days."
"Really?" Rupert chuckled over his coffee as he and Joyce sat in the coffee house early Thursday evening.
"Oh yes. I think she's got a bit of a crush" Joyce smiled to herself "a bit" was a bit of an understatement. Dawn definitely had the full blown thing. Hopefully Dawn would get over it before she got her hopes dashed. But that was the life of a young girl.
"Is William ready for school?" Joyce asked. School was starting less than a week. She couldn't believe that the summer had gone so fast.
"He's got his notebooks and things, I think he's ready. He certainly hasn't expressed any apprehension to me. But that's typical William the more I ask him the more he shuts down. He used to wear his heart on his sleeve." Rupert thought back to his son in better days looking in his eyes used to be like looking into his soul you could read everything in his bright blue eyes. Now it was like the spark no longer burned: the passion in his eyes was gone. Rupert was caught in thought for a second till Joyce brought him back from his ponderings.
"Why don't you have William come by tomorrow afternoon and I'll take the kids over to the high school to find their homerooms and William can tour the building." Joyce had a hint of an idea floating around her head. Maybe it was her second major in psychology that made her think she could actually be of some help.
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Spike sat awkwardly at the Summers's kitchen counter, his dad had left him there 5 minuets ago saying something about how Mrs. Summers was going to take the kids on a tour of the high school. Spike scoffed: more like take him, the others had been going to that school for a good four years they didn't need a tour. And then there was the fact that none of them were here. Apparently Buffy had Taken Dawn to the movies or some such nonsense. So Spike just sat there waiting as Joyce milled around the kitchen.
"Can I get you anything William?"
To be continued...