(authors note: I only realised the other day that California is like really close to New Mexico, please don't blame me, I'm british.)

California Airport

"Okay we're here." Maria said in the Airport triumphantly. She looked around, it was huge and much colder than she expected, of course not too cold. People were everywhere, getting off planes, buying tickets, eating food…

"Uuugh I feel sick." Liz whined. She hadn't stopped whining since she woke up. First, she was thirsty but the water (spring and bottled) made her feel ill. Then she was hungry but she decided all of the food was inedible, no matter what it was.

"I wonder if one of the air hostesses poisoned her on purpose." Isabel whispered to Tess. They both tried to hide their smirks behind their hands, hoping the little "princess" did not notice.

Alex looked over at Isabel giggling with Tess. He was so glad she had dropped the ice queen act; at least Maria has stopped calling her Queen Amidila. Now she was like even more beautiful than before, because she's truly showing her real self, that person he had always seen in her, the one he fell in love with. He just wished that she would see him in the same light.

"Now where do we go?" Tess asked, making a frown that cause cute little wrinkles to cross her forehead.

"Now," Maria said, "I will call Willow and get her to pick us up. Don't worry, she'll be as quick as she can." Maria brought out her cell phone in a flourish and dialled Willow's number.

Ring Ring, Ring Ring

"Hello?" Willow picked up her phone. Who would be calling me at this time of the day? She wondered. She didn't have much sleep last night since she had been researching until about 4am. Spike, Angel and Faith had not come back and she was slightly worried. There probably wasn't anything to be worried about, two old vamps and a slayer could hold their own. Giles hadn't said much all night, he mumbled to himself a lot and spent hours in the stacks. Something was telling her that he was keeping something from them, she'll have to worm it out of him soon.

"Hey Willow girl!" Willow nearly dropped the phone, crap! She had forgotten about Maria and her friends coming here.

"Maria? Oh my god is that you? Where are you?"

"We're at the airport, California airport. We're not too sure where to go. Can you pick us up? Otherwise we might get lost or something, I'm sorry, I know its quite early."

"Umm okay, hang on. How many of you are there?"

" There is...one minute, me, Michael, Liz, Max, Tess, Kyle, Isabel, Alex and Jim. So I guess that's nine. You know Jim would probably really get along with that Giles guy you were talking about. They are about the same age. Oh and here's a warning, beware of Kyle, he makes a pass at any girl."

"Um…okay." Willows head was racing, how was she going to deal with all of these new people coming to stay and this problem with Buffy. Could life get anymore confusing? "You know what I look like so at least you will recognise me. I'll come with a van and Giles' car; the van might only be able to take about 6 of you though. If Jim and two others take Giles' car, then you and the others take Oz's van...then hopefully we can get this all done. Sunnydale isn't that far from there, but its far enough to get extremely lost. I'll call back when I have everything ready and to tell you we're on our way."

"Okay, we'll just hang round here, maybe eat something. Can't wait to see ya babe, ciao." Maria turned to the others, "She'll be here in a little while, lets go get breakfast. The girls huddled together as Isabel announced she had another plan.

"Right, Plan 2 of Boy Seducing; while we eat our breakfast try to be as seductive as possible. Like sucking the straws with your drink or licking icing off a bagel or something. Trust me it will get the boys' mouths watering." Isabel looked at Liz, "Hmm, I'm not too sure how you can do this though because sometimes when the wrong person does it, it can make them look a little silly. No offence or anything, honestly. I mean, look at Monica with Chandler from Friends; he ended up losing a toe. You best do what you normally do; give sweet smiles, stare into his eyes. But, I do know a way that will get to him as much as us sucking on our straws...show skin. Maybe say 'wow...its really hot in here' and take off your sweater, making sure he sees as much skin as possible...yeah...that'll work." The girls smiled mischievously at one another and followed the boys to the breakfast bar.

The breakfast bar was quite large, it had countless amounts of food in it; Coffee machines, small boxes of cereal, doughnuts, freshly squeezed orange juice, bagels, croissants, salad sandwiches, coke machine, hot chocolate machine, muffins…it went on and on. Maria got an orange and some apple juice; Isabel got a few carrot and celery sticks and some bottled water, Tess got orange juice and an iced bagel and Liz just got a croissant. All three girls with drinks got straws, to temp the boys even further. They sat in pairs, Maria opposite Michael, Isabel opposite Alex…etc but so it wasn't obvious with what they were doing.

Maria smiled wickedly at Michael, caught his eye and proceeded to start drinking her apple juice. Michael was immediately entranced as he watched those shiny soft lips close around the straw and suck the juices out of it. Feeling his arousal start up he quickly looked away and made a start on his breakfast. If that was what you could call a breakfast. He got a Pepsi Max, a chocolate muffin, 3 sugar covered jam doughnuts and a double chocolate cake with whipped cream. Maria noticed him trying not to look so she gained his attention again by darting forward and taking the top off the cream on his cake, licking it off her finger, cleaning every bit off until its all gone. Then she peeled her orange very slowly, took out a piece and moaned with satisfaction as she bit into it, the juice seeping into her mouth.

Michael's widened and he nearly growled. This was just too hard to handle, he ached to grab her and take her over his shoulder, throw her into a nearby toilet or bush and ravage her. He finally lost it when Maria licked her lips and smiled a long sexy smile. "Mmmm good." She said and then took another sip off her apple juice. He stood up quickly.

"I gotta go…pee." He said and walked off. Maria turned and winked at Isabel. Yes this plan was going along greatly.

Much to Kyle's fascination, Tess picked up her bagel and started to slowly lick off all of the icing, one slow lick after another. It drove Kyle mad. Removing his eyes from Tess' slow torture, he started his breakfast; which was oddly enough identical to Michael's, only Kyle added in a bag of potato chips as well. Tess then copied Maria's actions with her orange juice. Kyle's reaction was so funny; his mouth was wide open, his tongue nearly hanging out...only his eyes were moving and they were following Tess' every move; up down, down up, up down…Kyle excused himself from the table muttering something about having too much to drink. His can was unopened.

The men's toilets were quite clean. Kyle walked into find Michael leaning against the hand dryer, his eyes closed.

"Yo man, what's up?" Kyle grinned, he knew exactly what was up at this moment. "Don't feel too bad, Tess broke me as well. Do you think they are purposely doing this, like some kind of girl conspiracy? Nah, they wouldn't do that...would they?" Kyle stopped and actually thought about it. "Who am I kidding of course they would do that, they're women."

"We'll know for sure," Michael said, getting off the dryer, "if they're plotting against us, if Alex walks through that door in the same state as us." As if on cue, Alex burst into the men's and grabbed a handful of cold water, splashing his face with it.

"Hey Alex, Isabel got you too huh?" Kyle found this extremely funny. Here they were, big grown teenage guys running away from beautiful girls because they were too sexy. "Lets see who'll fall to their ways first yeah? The first guy that falls has to do a forfeit, like paying $20 or wearing a dress or something. The last guy who falls gets $20. Come on it'll be a laugh, besides we can then pick out the strong willed guys here and the blatant weaklings. I'd say Alex would go down first."

"Hey! I can be as strong willed as you." Alex said with an indignant look on his face. Michael smirked,

"Right, so if Isabel came up to you and asked you to ravage her, right then. You would just say no?" Alex thought about it.

"You're right. I bet on Max though, when I left he looked like he was in a bad shape."

"The perfect goody-two-shoes Miss Parker is being sexy?" Michael asked in disbelief, personally he thought Liz wouldn't know how to act sexy if it came up and bit her on the ass. Obviously, Alex thought the same because he cracked up laughing.

"No no no, she was taking off her sweater and underneath she was just wearing a spaghetti belly top. Max was just getting excited by that!"

"I would say Max would be the first one and I, being the most stubborn and more manly out of you all, will be the last guy to succumb to their ways." Michael said, while asking himself where the hell did the word succumb come from? That had never been in his vocabulary before.

"We best go back before they think something is wrong." Alex said, glancing at the door. Casually they strolled through the restaurant and spotted the girls and Max chatting away.

"They are probably talking to him about what makeup he uses." Kyle whispered, smirking.

Michael chuckled, "Yeah, and what nail polish colour would really suit them."

"There you are boys, we thought you had gotten lost!" Maria said, bouncing happily on the chair.

"That or you fell in." Isabel said dryly but with a small twinkle in her eye. The girls laughed and went back to talking to Max, both of the boys were wrong, they had been talking about hair products.

tbc...