Four hours. He had been following them for four hours. To random places the jackass took her. The park, the restaurant, the theatre. He guessed there was one more place but Faith didn't want to go. He'd seen him go close to her face and whisper something with a small smile on his face. She looked at him for a moment got a nervous smile and shook her head. He almost jumped for joy when he saw that. She was just going home now. He had a look of disappointment on him that he didn't let her see. But he knew what Torry had just asked. Had he asked Faith a year ago when she was suicidal and in desperate need for attention she would have jumped into her arms. But she was different now and he and the others gave her some much needed attention. He already knew where they were going. He drove back quick to the hotel and ran into the lobby to pick up a book to have it seem like he had been reading. A few seconds later Faith came in the door.

"Hey Angel." She said giving him an odd smile in a quite voice.

"Faith!" he said looking up. "How was your date?"

"It was okay, well you know, I thought it was. I've never really been on a "date date" before. Usually just a hop in bed."

He wished she would stop staying that. That was the person she used to be. And who could blame her? She had horrible abusive parents, no one to take care of her, no one to love her, and no one ever gave her any real attention.

"That's not you anymore." Angel said trying to comfort her.

"Thanks." She said with a smile. "Do you think he'll call again? We didn't do all the stuff that he had planned I guess." She said in an oddly quite voice.

"Even if he does call, I don't think he was right for you anyway." He said looking at her.

"You never did like him did you?" Faith asked with a slight smile.

"He just bugs me that's all....Are you going to go out with him again?" he said the last part not sue if he wanted an answer.

"I don't know. I don't think he's what I'm looking for. He's a great friend though."

YES!! Angel thought to himself. She's safe now. He could tell that she wasn't as defensive of him as she was before.

"That's good. You want to go to bed?"

"Huh?" she said turning to face him.

That was a slip he thought. "I said are you going to bed? You look kind of tired."

"Oh. Yeah. I'll see you when I wake up." She said getting up.



Faith had put an her pajama's on and was now covering herself with the blankets and put her head on the soft pillow. She had had fun tonight. But the whole time she was with Torry her thoughts had kept going back to Angel. She almost started to laugh. She'd been so focused on him that she had actually thought she saw him watching her through out the date. Angel was her friend but he wasn't THAT crazy and he just didn't feel that way about her. Angel. She cared about him a lot. How much she cared she didn't really want to know.



What had gone wrong?!?!?! Faith was playing into his hands perfectly then all of the sudden she pulled away. Why? She had been slightly distant but loving it. Why had she turned away. Was it because of Angel. He had been there watching them. He had never actually seen him but he could sense him near and he felt his eyes on him. There had to be away to get around him. To get him out of the picture.

Hey guys, sorry this chapter is so short. I'm in kind of a rush. I'll write more later on both my stories. Thanks for the reviews everyone. I really like them.