"How's our Buffy this morning?" Xander asks.
"Awful" she pouts. "I had this dream about me and Riley and…some other stuff…you know…"
They all nodded.
"Oh and I haven't mentioned the best part where I wake up, run to the bathroom and puke my guts out." She adds.
"That's normal!" Willow chimed in. "After what Riley did to you, it doesn't surprise me that he makes you want to spill your insides as much as Spike does."
"Please, let's not go there…" Buffy begged.
"Yes, please! I'm in agreeance with Buff here. If we start talking about Spike, I seriously think my breakfast is gonna make it's way back up." Xander announced.
"I second that!" Anya says as she raises her hand.
Dawn enters the kitchen.
"Buffy, I was thinking that maybe we could go see a movie or something… anything actually… it's just we don't do stuff. You know the kinda stuff sisters do." Dawn puts on a smile.
"Dawn, I'm sorry. Today's really not a good day." She hated to this to Dawn, but she had to. "I was gonna go see what I could find on this demon I had the distinct smelly pleasure of running into last night...among other things…" she said implying Spike as one of them.
"Yeah sure. Some other time then…" Dawn said with melancholy in her eyes.
Buffy tried to think of something to say to make her feel better but she couldn't think of anything. Her mother was always better at this than she was.
"I'm going to go and get dressed." Dawn finally said.
"Ok. Umm… I can try to be home by 9, and then maybe we can go out?" Buffy yelled after her.
Buffy left the house around eleven in the afternoon and didn't get back till 2 in the morning. She walked through the back door hoping to avoid the Scoobies, but they were all present when she arrived.
"Buffy, where have you been?" a worried Dawn asks.
"And what happened to your face?" Anya says insensitively.
"Anya!" Xander turns to her and whispers.
Buffy seemed to be in a different world. "Oh, this? It's nothing. I guess I fainted and hit my head on something. That's what Spike told me." she answered Anya.
"Spike?" Willow inquired.
Buffy didn't bother to explain. "I'm gonna go thank Spike for taking me to the hospital. I'll be in soon." she said expressionless.
"Since when does she thank Spike for anything?" Willow asks the gang.
"Maybe if she got hit on the head again…" Anya suggested.
Everyone looks at her.
"What?"
The gang started to walk away.
"I've seen it on the movies you know!" she calls after them. "They never listen to me…" she says under her breath.
Anya walks to the window and sees Buffy in Spike's arms. Not wanting to get caught, she backs away and starts towards everyone else.
"They should've listened to me." she tells herself.
Buffy walks upstairs and into her bedroom. She shuts the door, along with the lights. She crawls slowly into her bed. She can't control the tears anymore and bursts out crying. Then suddenly realizing someone, Dawn, might hear, she stops at once. She wiped her tears and lay there in her bed, motionless.
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