Chapter 26

First aid

Buffy was unable to hide her excitement that morning as she rushed about her room getting ready for her day at the beach with Spike, she had even woken up an hour earlier.

He is so freakin' pale. Today will be perfect for him to work up a nice tan.

Buffy sighed as she imagined Spike with a tan, Hot, Hot, and Hot.

Buffy stuffed a set of clothes into the backpack that she took to her dad's house, with a bottle of sunscreen, a first aid kit and her sandals. Her bathing suit was laid out on the bed so she could put it on under her clothes after she took her shower.

Down stairs her mother, Joyce was just getting her self out of bed.

"Buffy! Are you up?" she called as she headed down stairs to get breakfast started.

Buffy bounced around her room, "Yeah mom!"

Joyce was just a bit shocked that her daughter was actually up and sounded like she had been for a while.

After her shower, Buffy threw on her clothes and flew down stairs grabbing a piece of toast and kissing her mother goodbye on her way out the door.

At school Buffy spotted Anya and Cecily sitting on a bench and listening to some music on Cecily's Ipod.

Buffy greeted her friends cheerfully, "Hey guys!"

Anya and Cecily stared at Buffy then glanced at each other. Cecily shrugged and went back to her Ipod but Anya jumped off the bench and grinned, "Some one got lucky last night, I can see it in your eyes. Plus your not being yourself today. The not-getting-any-Buffy that I know is never the cheery, even if she is a cheerleader!"

Buffy shook her head, "What? No! That's not why I am happy," Buffy glanced at her watch. The bell was going to ring soon and she had to get to go to her locker before heading down to the basement, "Listen, I don't have time to explain but you guys will have to cover for me today. I'm ditching"

This caught Cecily's attention, in small amount of time that she had known Buffy, never had she thought that Buffy would be the kind of girl to ditch, "What? Is this a joke?"

Buffy was still smiling, counting down the minutes in her head until beach time, "100 not a joke. I have to go now." Backing away.

Anya was starting to frown now, "But we have cheerleading practice today and you know how Cordelia is. She might sic her Cordette's on us. They are annoying as hell, especially Harmony. She makes the rest of us blondes look stupider than we really are."

Buffy chuckled, "Anya, blondes are already stupider than they really are"

Cecily just shook her head at her friends, "And we are moving on. Buffy you cannot ditch today, you know Cordelia will send Darla after you if you ditch. And then Darla will get her freaky insane-o friend Drusilla and the both of them will like tear out your eyeballs or something."

"God gross much Cecily? Anyways I am not scared of Cordelia or her little minions."

Cecily took Anya's arm and began walking towards the building, "Fine, you better not say we didn't warn you. And it was real nice of you to tell us where you're going too."

Buffy stood there staring after her friends; God Cecily can be a real bitch sometimes. I am not scared of Cordy or her stupid group.

Spike paced around the basement floor for five seconds before he decided that Buffy was going to stand him up. Should 'ave know the girl wouldn't go on a date with a bloody git. So bloody stupid.

Spike growled and punched the wall, only to end up howling in pain cradling his hand, "Bloody Hell!"

"Is this a bad time?" came her voice from behind him.

Spike whirled around and found himself facing Buffy, "Thought you weren't gonna show"

"Spike I saw you come down here thirty seconds ago, we got here at the same time almost"

Spike growled as she reached out for his bruised hand.

Buffy smiled, "Stop being a big baby, and let me put a band-aid on that before we go."

Spike let her drag him to the floor as she sat and proceeded to pull the first aid kit out of her backpack.

"Somehow I knew I would need this today, guess I was right."

"Did you have second thoughts?"

Buffy tore the band-aid from its wrapper, "Nope, you?"

Spike smiled at her, "Not for a bloody second."

Her voice lowered a bit, "But you hate me."

"Who told you that?"

"You do."

"I don't hate you Buffy, don't think I ever could."

Buffy placed the band-aid over the small scrape on his hand, "You were so mean before, I know I wasn't exactly the nicest person either. But you seemed to hate me."

"I had just found out that you were a slayer, pissed me off that a girl as wonderful as you was known to be the cruelest girl in school."

Buffy stood up, "I guess you heard wrong then. I put on a show that's it. Cecily can be real cruel she doesn't even need a reason to be. She just is."

Spike glanced down at his hand, "Thanks for the patch up job pet."

Buffy blushed, "Your welcome, but next time wait till it's been at least five minutes before you decide to jump to conclusions."

Spike stood up and grinned at her, "I didn't jump, took a small step and there conclusions were."

Buffy smiled at him, "Alright Mr. Funny guy are we gonna go now or do you want to make some more jokes?"

Spike headed up the basement stairs with Buffy following behind him, "Bloody original that was."

"So original that I didn't use that same line on the librarian last week."

"Can I help it if I over hear things?"

"They call that eavesdropping these days"

Buffy and Spike walked hand in hand to his car that was parked behind the school. Buffy slid on her sunglasses and Spike sped out of the parking lot and on to the highway.