"Hey. I've been looking all over for you," Oz, Willow's boyfriend, greeted. He kissed her on the cheek.
"Hi Oz!" Willow said with great enthusiasm. "It's Oz!" she directed to Buffy.
"Oh, is that his name?" Buffy asked with a smile.
"I was trying to remember it all day," Oz quipped.
"See, Willow is the total genius," Buffy stated. Willow kept her big smile and kissed him lightly on the mouth as she slid her hand in his. "You two are so cute. I wish I could have the whole high school romance thing."
"Yeah, to that, again I ask, why are you even doing the marriage thing?" Oz asked.
Buffy led them as they walked down the hallway. "Because my Mom wanted me to have a future with someone instead of getting divorced like she did."
"So she looked up babies online that had the same drooling and crawling personality you had?" Oz was always the one to put things in a new light, but sarcastically. A sarcastic light if you will.
"She met Giles on an airplane and they bonded over their love and loss stories. Then they were like 'ooo, let's engage our children so they won't be unhappy like us.' I don't understand it all but I can't not go through with it because it's an honor thing. I would be disobeying my mother and be shunned upon by society."
"Says who?"
"Her. And apparently some Chinese religion we don't belong to. I just look on the bright side and think some day I'll wake up and he'll be totally different and I will be happy." Spike appeared from around the corner and walked to her, looking a little annoyed. "But until then," Buffy added. When he reached her, Buffy asked, "What do you want now?"
"That attack in the library was much worse than the snake in your bag."
"Yeah well, sometimes you have to be cruel to be kind. And sometimes it's just for fun." Buffy brushed past him and kept walking.
Willow nudged Oz to follow Buffy. Oz acknowledged her command and walked past Spike. "Looks like the Spike Annoying Buffy Meter is in the red," Oz observed.
"You're not completely wrong," Willow said.
Buffy and Willow opened their lockers and grabbed what they needed for class. "He is so annoying and evil and manipulative. I swear I've even seen his eyes glow that bright red Satan color."
"That's goin' around," Oz informed.
"Buffy. Maybe you need to be the one to try and be civil. And if it doesn't work, you'll probably scare him by the complete 360 behavior." Willow turned to Oz and asked, "Or is it 180?"
"You were right the first time." Oz was so loving and happy when he was with Willow.
"I like the scaring him thing. I guess I could try that." Buffy shut her locker. "I'll even start right now."
Spike and Xander came walking down the hall. They were laughing and bringing up the class clown things they've pulled over the last week. When they reached Buffy, Spike stopped. He walked over to her and looked down at the ground. "Buffy, I'm sorry for yelling at you earlier. And for the snake in your bag."
Is he doing the 360 thing too? He can't do the 360! That's my plan! "Yeah, right."
"No seriously. I'm sorry and I hope you'll forgive me." He gave her a quick hug, which Buffy didn't participate in, and pulled his hands onto her shoulders. "I'm really sorry." Then he continued down the hall with Xander.
"What the heck was that?" Buffy asked her friends. She turned her torso to watch him continue his laughing spree down the hall.
"Uh Buffy," Willow said. Buffy turned around. "You got something…" Willow pointed to Buffy's back.
Buffy reached behind her and pulled off a sign. She read, "I'm a stuck-up tight-ass with no sense of fun." Buffy crumpled the paper with her left hand. "On second thought, I'll start tomorrow."
Author's Note: Okay, sorry to all the Oz fans, I'm not much of an Oz writer so he didn't say much. I'll try and improve, promise. But I hoped you liked it and there is more funniness and unexpected stuff to come. Stay tuned and check out my other two stories 'Eclipse' (completed) and 'Tabula Rasa' (not so completed).
