Chapter 4 - A Night Full Of Surprises

Anna turned to look at her clock. 11:59 PM. She smiled as Cordelia opened the door. Cordelia walked over to Anna's bed.

"Happy Birthday, little girl." Cordelia said.

"Hey." Anna smiled.

"Scoot over, it's cold." Anna smiled as she scooted over and let Cordy crawl into her bed.

"Where's Angel?" Anna asked.

"He's late, as usual." Anna chuckled. Every year that Anna had been there, Angel and Cordelia came into her bedroom and woke her up at midnight so they could wish her a happy birthday.

"So, do you feel any different?" Anna shook her head.

"Nope, I feel exactly like the same person I was when I went to bed, an hour ago."

"Oh." Cordelia said. Angel walked into the room. Anna looked at him.

"You're late." She said.

"I know, I'm sorry. But I was on my way here, and I ran into some vampires, and..." He looked at Anna, who was smiling at him. "How late am I?"

"Just a couple minutes." Anna smiled and Angel sat down on the other side of Anna.

"So, where were we?" Cordy looked at Anna.

"You were just about to start the story of my first day at the hotel."

"Oh, right." Cordelia nodded. "You're were such a cute thing-"

"And, what, I'm ugly now?" Anna asked.

"No!" Cordelia said. "You're-"

"Beautiful." Angel cut Cordy off. Anna blushed, Cordelia nudged her.

"He's right you know." Anna blushed even more.

"Okay, let's just get back to the story." She said. Cordy laughed.

"Anyways, I remember the first day you were at the hotel, you kept asking question after question, you were getting into books, and you were trying to open the weapons cabinet; Angel was a wreak."

"I was not." He said.

"Yeah, you were." Cordelia said.

"No, I wa-" Anna cut him off.

"Okay, before you two get into the whole 'no I wasn't, yes you were' fight, lets just get on with the story so I can go back to sleep." Anna smiled.

"So anyways..." Cordelia continued on with the story.

OOO

Friday afternoon rolled around quickly. Cordelia had asked Fred and Gunn to take Anna somewhere for a while, so everyone could get everything set up. Fred and Gunn took Anna to a place where all teenage girls live to go to; the mall. Gunn was following the two girls as they proceeded to go into every store, all except the sports stores.

"Are we done yet?" He asked impatiently. Anna laughed.

"You're bored, huh." Anna said.

"Kind of." He told her.

"We could go back to the hotel." Anna suggested.

"No!" Both Fred and Gunn said this at the same time. Anna looked at them. Gunn cleared his throat.

"We mean, there's nothing to do there." Gunn tried to save them." C'mon, it's your birthday, what else do you wanna do?" Anna stared at Gunn for a second.

"Well, we've pretty much been to all the stores." Anna said. "We could go get some ice cream or something."

"Yes." Fred said. "Ice cream, lets go get some ice cream." Anna just looked at them strangely as they walked to get some ice cream.

OOO

A few hours later, the sun was setting and Gunn, Fred and Anna were walking out of the movie theater. Anna was talking about the movie.

"I can't believe Hollywood's take on vampires." Anna said, throwing away her soda. "It's just so... lame." Gunn laughed.

"Yeah, I know, they always make it look like the vampires are tortured. I mean, they're all just animals." Fred and Anna stared at him. "Except for Angel, I mean." Anna snickered.

"And Spike." Gunn just mumbled something. Anna looked at him. "What was that?"

"Huh?" He asked. "Oh, nothing I just said... Wesley."

"Wesley?" Anna looked ahead of her and saw Wesley standing in front of her. "Wes? What are you doing here."

"You guys need to come back to the hotel." Anna instantly got worried at the tone of his voice.

"What's wrong?" Anna asked. "Is Cordy okay? Is Angel okay? What's going on?"

"I think you should just come back to the hotel." Anna nodded, she looked like she was about to cry. She was silent the entire car ride home. Once they pulled into the Hotel parking lot she ran to the door. When she opened it she was in utter shock when everyone yelled 'surprise'. She stood there with her mouth wide open. Cordelia walked up to her, smiling.

"Surprised?" She asked.

"That's an understatement." Cordelia laughed, Anna looked around and the entire hotel covered with fake palm trees and tiki torches, she also saw all the people who were there. "Everyone's here." She said as Buffy walked up to them.

"Everyone who's anyone." Buffy smiled as she hugged Anna. "Happy birthday Ann."

"Hey Buffy, thanks." Angel walked over to them and hugged Anna. "Hey!"

"Happy Birthday." Anna smiled. After a few minutes of greeting people, Anna spotted Andrew standing by the front desk, drinking something with an umbrella in it. She walked over to him.

"Hey Andrew!" She smiled at him. "Watcha drinking?"

"Hey, Ann." He smiled back at her. "I'm not sure, Lorne gave it to me. It's kind of making me a little tipsy though." Anna laughed.

"So how've you been?" She asked.

"Pretty good." He told her. "Giles assigned my a new slayer." Anna tried really hard to smile.

"Oh yeah? Who?"

"Emma. She doesn't really listen to me though."

"Oh." Anna nodded.

"Yeah." They stood there in silence for a few seconds. "I miss you."

"Yeah?" Anna smiled.

"Yeah." He nodded. "I miss our movie nights."

"I do too."

"Hey, Ann, come over here." Cordelia was across the room.

"Okay, I'll be there in a second." She turned back to Andrew. "I gotta go. But we'll talk later, okay?"

"Yeah." Anna smiled and she started to walked over to Cordy. But stopped when she heard Andrew. "Hey Anna?" She turned around and looked at him again.

"Yeah?"

"You'll always be my favorite slayer, you know, even though you're not really one." Anna smiled and walked over and hugged Andrew.

"Thanks." Anna turned and ran over to where Cordelia and Buffy were standing. "What's up?"

"Turn around." Anna eyed Cordy.

"Why?" She asked.

"Because I said to, just do it." Anna did as she was told. In the blink of an eye her world went black as Cordelia placed a blindfold over her eyes.

"What happened?" Anna asked. "I can't see." Cordelia held up two fingers in front of her face.

"How many fingers am I holding up?"

"Cordy, I just said I can't see. That includes the amount of fingers you're holding in front of my face..." She paused for a moment. "At least I think they're in front of my face" Cordelia laughed.

"C'mon, follow me." Cordelia said.

"I'm blind. How am I suppose to follow you?" Angel walked over and placed his hands on her shoulders.

"I'll help you." He said.

"Angel?" Anna turned her head to try to see him.

"Yes, it's me." They started walking. Anna heard a click, she started looking around.

"What was that?" Anna asked.

"I took a picture." Cordelia laughed.

"What?" She said. "No. There will be no taking of pictures while I cannot see the camera." They all laughed.

"Step." Angel tried to warn Anna.

"What?" As soon as she said this she tripped up the steps in front of the door. "Ow!" Angel tried not to laugh.

"I said 'step'" Anna got up.

"Well you could've said 'watch your step' or something." Cordelia was laughing, she grabbed one of Anna's arms and Angel and Cordy helped her up the steps. "I feel like a moron."

"Well, that's okay. Because you look like one." Gunn stood in front of the door.

"Gunn? Is that you?" He smirked.

"Yeah."

"I'm gonna kick your ass, just to let you know." He laughed as he opened the door.

"Just tell me when and Where, Geller." Angel, Cordelia, and Anna walked out the door.

"Now where are we?" Anna asked.

"We're outside." Cordelia told her.

"Outside? Why are we outside?"

"To show you this." Cordelia took off the blindfold and Anna stared at what was in front of her. It was a car with a huge pink bow on the top.

"Is that-"

"You're new car?" Cordelia asked. "Yeah." Anna's eyes got big.

"My... This is... This is mine!" Cordy smiled and nodded. Anna screamed. "Oh my god!" She threw her arms around Cordy and Angel. "Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Cordy handed her the keys. She squealed and got into the car. She rolled down the window. "Can I drive it?"

"It's yours, do whatever you want." Cordy smiled. "Just, please don't drive it into a building." Anna laughed.

"I'll try not to." She started the car. "I'll be back." Anna drove out of the driveway. Cordelia smiled and looked at Angel.

"Well, at least she's a careful driver." Angel smirked.

"Yeah."

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A few minutes later Anna pulled into the parking lot of the hotel. Spike was leaning against his car. Anna parked next to him and got out of the car.

"Hey." She said. He looked at her.

"Hi." He looked at her car. "New car?"

"Yeah." She said, looking at the car. "Angel and Cordy just gave it to me. It had a bow on it, but I forgot to take it off before I drove out and I was driving down the street and it kind of, flew off, so I had to turn around and I chased it down half a block before I could grab it- and I'm babbling. Sorry." Spike smiled.

"No, it's okay." He said. "It's cute." Anna blushed.

"So where have you been? I was looking for you."

"Sorry, I was, um, I was picking this up." He handed her a small box with a ribbon wrapped around it.

"Spike... You didn't have to." He shrugged. "I-I don't know what-"

"Well, you can start by opening it." He smiled. Anna smiled as she carefully untied the ribbon and opened the box. Anna's mouth dropped open when she saw what was inside. It was a silver bracelet with three charms on it. The first charm was a book.

"That represents the first time we met, you ran over and grabbed my arm and sat me down and read me that book-"

"Alice and Wonderland, I remember." She smiled. The next charm was a music note.

"That's supposed to represent the other night at the club." Anna nodded as she looked at the third charm it was a heart with the date engraved in it. She looked at him, confused.

"That is the date of our first kiss."

"But we haven't-" She was cut off by his lips. The kiss was soft and sweet. Anna's stomach was doing flips. Once the kiss was over, Spike smiled at the shocked expression on her face.

"Now we have." He took the bracelet from her. "Here." He put it on her wrist and linked her fingers with his. She looked at him.

"Thank you."

"Thank you?" She closed her eyes and shook her head.

"For the bracelet, I mean."

"Oh." He smiled. "You're welcome."

"Um, we should probably get inside. Cordy and... Um..." She didn't want to think about Angel and the fact that she just kissed Spike wasn't going to go over well with him. "We should just get inside." Spike nodded.

"You go ahead, I'll be in, in a minute." He said. Anna smiled.

"Okay." She walked into the hotel.

"And the birthday girl is back." Anna turned to see who was speaking to her, she smiled when she saw who it was.

"Dawn?" She said. "Oh my god! Hey!" They hugged.

"Hey." Dawn said.

"When did you get here?" Anna asked.

"About ten minutes ago. I had to work late."

"Oh."

"Um, was that Spike I just saw you with?" Anna's eyes got big.

"You saw that?"

"Yeah, but don't worry." Dawn told her. "Your secret's safe with me."

"Thanks." Anna smiled. "Um, do you think anyone else saw?"

"No, I was the only one at the window."

"Good." They both laughed.

"So, Spike, huh?" Anna smiled at Dawn.

"Yeah, well he's just... I don't know."

"I understand." Dawn told her. "I used to have a major crush on him." Anna looked at her.

"Really?" Anna was kind of surprised.

"Yeah, but don't worry, I was like fourteen." Anna laughed.

"I've always had kind of a crush on him."

"Had a crush on who?" Angel asked as he walked up to them.

"On Chad Michael Murray." Dawn said quickly. "He's such a hottie." Angel stared at Dawn.

"Um, sure." He looked at Anna. "Cordy wants you."

"Is everything okay?" Anna asked.

"Yeah, I think she wants cake." Anna laughed.

"Okay." She turned to Dawn. "We'll talk later?"

"Definitely."

OOO

After they all had cake everyone was just kind of hanging out. Some people were dancing, some people were eating, and some people were just talking. Spike and Anna were sitting on a couch talking. Willow was watching them. She walked over to Buffy.

"Looks like Spike finally moved on." Willow said. Buffy looked confused.

"What?" Willow turned her head to look at the couple. Buffy looked at them. She saw that they were both laughing, she also noticed that Spike had his hand on Anna's thigh. "Huh. Who would've thought?"

Cordelia walked over to where Anna and Spike were sitting with a huge armful of presents.

"Geez, are all of those for me?" Anna asked.

"Yep. You're spoiled." Anna smiled. Everyone started gathering around her. Spike started to scoot away from her, but she stopped him. He looked at her, but she didn't say a word. She started opening presents. She had gotten The O.C. on DVD from Wesley, Anna knew that Cordy had helped him getting her a present. Fred and Gunn had gotten her a new CD player, as well as a couple cds. Andrew got her the Star Wars trilogy on DVD, clothes from Buffy, Dawn, and Willow, a book from Giles, and Lorne had gotten her tickets to a Gavin DeGraw concert. She was pretty happy.

She was in the middle of opening presents when the door to the hotel opened and a boy with brown hair walked in. Anna looked up.

"Connor?" Anna said, causing Angel to look up. Sure enough, it was his son. Cordelia smiled and walked over to Angel.

"Surprise." She said. Angel smiled at her.

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So? What did you think? I LOVE reviews! oh, and yeah, I took the whole birthday bed thing from Gilmore Girls, anyways, Thanks