"So, Lexa said you had your own apartment?" Buffy wondered, taking in the new improved Xander. Dang it, he was still the old loveable Xander-shaped friend, but Xander-shaped was a whole lot better shaped then before. She shook her head; she had Angel, she couldn't do that to Willow, it was something to ban from her mind.
"Yep," Xander told her with a grin. "One whose previous owner was killed by a vampire, rent is /way/ down, sometimes vampire attacks are good for something after all."
"Xander!" Willow said in horror.
"Relax, Wills, I know the guy's dying was bad, but you gotta see the silver lining, you know? Anyway, I've been decorating, Lexa's been helping, when it's finished, you're all invited to the big unveiling of Case del Xander!" Xander exclaimed with a big grin.
"You better not forget that, we expect pie, we expect a party!" Buffy gushed grinning widely.
"Don't worry, Slayer appetite is calculated in," Xander replied grinning as they slowly got closer to their class room.
"Are you saying I'm fat?" Buffy latched on.
"No, I'm saying you've got a good metaba-bo . . . help me out here, Will," Xander returned, blanching as he couldn't remember the last part of the word.
Willow grinned, and said, "metabolism."
"Yeah, that!" Xander said, pointing at Willow and then looked back at Buffy, who seemed to have accepted the explanation.
She smiled, and asked, "So, what have you been doing since you got back?"
Xander grinned, remembering, and then said, "Well, the first couple of days I was stuck in LA, at the FBI turning my father in, and going around with judges to get 'emancipated' as they call it, while I searched for the apartment via the net. Then when they all accepted the evidence I presented them, and they believed that I wasn't a prankster we all returned here. First I went over to pick up the keys for my new apartment, there was a deadline, and then over to my parents' house. You should have seen the look on my dad's face when they slapped the cuffs on him. They dragged him away, and then I went further inside, finding a scared Lexa." Xander smiled broadly. "Ow!" he exclaimed as two elbows hit him. "What was that for?!"
"We have to keep you from fantasizing about you're own cousin, Xander," Buffy explained.
Willow added, "Yep, incest is unsavory."
"I was fantasizing about my dad being hauled away, and who he was going to share his cell with!" Xander protested. "You two really have a low opinion of me, don't you!?"
"Oh," Willow blanched.
"Sorry, Xan, but you're a guy," Buffy explained pitifully as they reached the door of their classroom.
Xander shook his head, and said, "You two need to stop reading the feminist propaganda, men think about more than sex."
"Yeah, food, drink, and sports," Willow answered with as straight a face as she could muster. Buffy giggled.
"Hopeless. The female race is hopeless," Xander said, shaking his head and stepped into the classroom, ahead of his friends, who giggled more.
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Buffy felt her air being restricted. She tried to gasp for air, but couldn't. The hands around her neck got tighter and tighter; hands belonging to Giles! In desperation she clawed at his head, and to her shock the skin gave away, and she pulled it off, revealing: the Master's face! He growled in satisfaction . . .
Buffy's eyes snapped open, and she looked around her bedroom; it had been a dream. Her eyes latched onto a figure standing at the window, and she recognized Angel. "Can I come in?" the vampire asked, even though he was already in.
"Feel free," Buffy commented somewhat annoyed.
"I'm sorry if I waked you," Angel said, remembering Xander's threat, and the line 'If you have but one decent bone in your body . . .' God, Buffy had such nice kissable lips . . . stop it, business only!
"Is this a social call?" Buffy bit in irritation at about everything.
"Uh, no," Angel answered, still going over Xander's disturbing visit to his apartment.
"Oh, I get it, grave danger then, home sweet home," Buffy bit at him, glaring at him.
Angel was rather shocked at the hostility, but then, that was probably a good thing. "The vampires are on the move, they are up to something, just a heads up."
"Thank you, but I can handle it, is that all?" Buffy asked of him.
I shouldn't, I shouldn't, Angel thought, fidgeting. "Well, you didn't call or write, I was wondering . . ."
"No, I wasn't moaning about you every moment while I was gone," Buffy bit at him.
Angel looked a little shocked, and asked, "Did I do something to offend you?"
"Nope, and I'm really sorry if you think I should have been moping about you, but I haven't, and I've moved on, to the living," Buffy told him snidely, and then turned around on her side her back to Angel, and pulled the covers tightly.
"Yeah, ok, that's good . . . I missed you," Angel said with a little pain in his voice.
Buffy turned around quickly, starting, "I missed you . . ." Angel was already gone.
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"So, Angel came by last night," Buffy said, as she opened her locker and got out a few books.
"Really? Was there, uh . . . kissing involved?" Willow asked excitedly.
"Yeah, and groping, and grinding?" Xander asked half bitterly, his eyes shining with a brand new hardness that had slipped in after being sold into slavery and training to become a powerful martial artist.
"Hormone overload you two? Get your minds out of the gutter. Not every boy-girl meeting is about hunkadory, he came by to warn us that the vampires are up to something," Buffy explained with a shake of her head.
"Oh, well," Willow said subdued, as the three of them started walking.
"Will, that reminds me," Xander said, happy it seemed the corpse was keeping to the warning. "This afternoon, at the library, I want to start training you."
"Huh? But . . . no-no, brainiac hacker here, not of the fighting," Willow told him, tightening her hold on her books.
"Will, I want you to be safe. I won't put you through weight training and everything if you don't want to, but I want you to be able to get out alive if you're surrounded by a couple of gang members on PCP, okay?" Xander told her with a little force, mixed with pleading. "I'll teach you some basics of Hapkido."
Willow frowned, "I thought you were taught something else . . ."
"Yes, "Anything Goes" Martial Arts," Xander answered, making the quotes with his fingers. "Emphasis on 'Anything Goes', that's literally. Anything that works, is used. Hapkido works, it's all about using your opponents strength and speed against him. Which means that even a sweet little, no-strength girl like you can kick vampire ass, ok?"
"Yeah, Will, that would be good," Buffy added, thinking it would be nice if Willow could handle herself as well. She was still wondering how good exactly Xander had gotten, perhaps she should spar with him.
They walked into Cordelia then, who asked them, "Well, if it isn't the three musketeers."
"Uhm, Cordelia, the three musketeers were cool?" Willow asked rather shocked.
"So?" Cordelia asked.
Xander nodded, and told her, "You know, I would have gone for 'the three stooges', myself?"
Cordelia looked at him uncomprehending, and replied, "Whatever. I just meant that you're always together."
"I would have gone for the three stooges as well," Buffy told Xander slyly.
"Listen," Cordelia said drawing their attention, "I wanted to ask if you've fought anymore squicky things lately."
Xander gave a fake laugh and said, "Silly Cordelia. Squicky things at that party."
"Huh? No, I mean the demons and the vampires we fought at prom night," Cordelia replied. "You know, grrr."
"You m-must be joking, vampires, demons? Ha, ha, good one, Cordelia?" Willow answered, as the three of them quickly walked onward.
Xander pulled Cordelia along, and said softly, "You see, Cordelia, you can't tell anyone about the demons, and Buffy being the Slayer, or everything will go very, very wrong, ok?"
"You haven't spoken to anyone about our adventures, have you?" Buffy asked softly.
"What? Are you crazy? And everyone knowing I hung out with you three losers on prom night? Don't worry, your secret is safe with me," Cordelia told the Slayer.
"Well, perfect," Buffy said with a sweet smile, adding softly, "You won't tell anyone I'm the Slayer, and I won't tell anyone you're a moron." Then Buffy walked past Cordelia and Xander and Willow.
"Now that's a good insult," Xander observed with somewhat wide eyes.
"A little too good," Willow whispered.
Cordelia just huffed, and said, "First a slut, now a bitch." Then she walked off.
Xander and Willow looked at each other for a moment.
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While Xander was teaching Willow the basics of kicking and punching without hurting herself, Buffy was training against the wooden dummy, with Giles watching. She punched the pad representing a torso, and punched harder, and faster. She beat against the wooden arms on occasion, and beat the mid section again. She beat the 'head' with even greater fervor, and then went back to the torso. Hitting, it again, and again, going faster and faster, her face in a grimace.
Giles finished taking a sip from his tea, and said, "I think that's about enough, Buffy." Buffy only increased her speed, and the determination etched in her face. "Buffy? Buffy, it's enough!" Buffy increased her speed again, then suddenly reared back, and kicked out. The entire wooden dummy snapped at its central pole and was sent flying away.
"Well, we can safely say you haven't slipped in your training over the summer," Giles said with a somewhat amazed face.
"I'm ready," Buffy nodded in agreement. "Whatever they'll throw at me, I'm ready."
"You certain?" Xander asked, and left Willow behind, joining Buffy in the central circle.
"You think you can take me, Xan?" Buffy grinned at him, almost cruelly. "You think you've trained enough to take on a Slayer?" Buffy jumped up and down a bit to show off how limber she was. Xander gave a shrug, and stood casually straight.
With a roar Buffy threw a punch. Xander casually moved a side, and grabbed her wrist. He twisted around his axis, and pulled Buffy along, three quarter circle and tossed her aside. She went high into the air, and crashed through the wooden railing, before she landed on the upper level. "Watch the books!" Giles cried on in horror, realizing this might not have been such a good idea after.
Buffy looked up, surprised. "Fine," she said getting back up. "First point for you." Buffy then took a two step run on and jumped. Xander flipped backward, throwing his legs up, smoothly stretched out side by side, and catching the flying Buffy straight in the chin with both feet. She flipped back until she rammed against the raising to the other level, cracking the wall slightly. Xander was back in the same position again, smiling as Buffy groaned lightly, and got back up, looking at a smirking Xander. Willow and Giles looked with shock at the display, two moves, to hits on Buffy, none on Xander.
Buffy was a little more cautious this time, she neared Xander fists raised. She made a rapid jab to Xander's left, but he danced only his upper body to the right, and used his left hand to move Buffy's punch aside. He made a quick step forward, diving into the opening in Buffy's defense, putting his back in her left's path. His right hand shot forward, and his vertical fist hit her on her breast bone. Since she was still moving forward, the difference in momentum lifted her off her feet and she landed on her ass skidding back. Deciding punches didn't work, Buffy got up and delivered a rapid snap kick, that Xander avoided by ducking down and swiping her remaining leg out from under her, making her fall to her ass once again. Buffy made smooth jump to her legs, and pull herself up movement. The problem for her was that Xander had anticipated it. He grabbed her right arm with his left, twisted it and locked it beneath his right. His left hand then went into a snapping hit, his palm ramming in her chin and snapping her face to her left. At the same time he twisted to back and to his right, using his weight, and her imbalance in the proper direction caused by the hit to pull her along. Half-way the movement, he let her fall back, releasing her arm from the grip, and grabbing her wrist with both hands. Thus he used the farther circle moving faster than closer to launch her toward the entrance of the library, where she crashed against the few steps, and rolled upward until she lay in front of the door.
Buffy groaned, and pushed herself up, looking at Xander, and one shocked redhead, and one shocked watcher. "Fine," Buffy bit out in irritation. "So you trained hard, you're stronger than me, big deal. I'm the Slayer, it just means I have to put some effort into training, and I'll kick your ass a week from now!" The blonde then got up, and stalked into Giles small office to change clothes.
"No, you won't," Xander replied but she was long gone.
"Why not? She /is/ the Slayer," Giles asked still surprised at the ease with the boy in sweat clothes beat Buffy.
Xander turned to Willow, and asked, "Did you see? A little bit of what I've been teaching you was in there." Willow - not in workout clothes, she'd have to bring them the day after - nodded dumbly. Xander turned further to Giles, and explained, "I didn't beat her on strength or speed, Giles, hell, I barely even used any of my own. I beat her on skill, I used her own strength and speed against her. She can get herself stronger and faster, but that simply means that I'll give her an even bigger defeat." Giles looked thoughtful. "Giles, if this is the extent of Watcher training, it's pitiful," Xander said with a shake of his head. "Against a true martial artist, a Slayer with this training level wouldn't stand a chance, as you could see."
Buffy came back out, dressed in normal clothes again, leaned on the railing, smiling, she was obviously in a little better mood now. "Hey, Buffy, perhaps you should let Xander train you!" Willow exclaimed excitedly at the prospect.
"No need, Willow," Buffy said cooly. "Giles, you and I are going to up my training right?"
"Uh, right," Giles answered.
Buffy then turned to her friends, and said, "Hey, guys, are we going Bronzing tonight."
"Sure!" Willow answered enthusiastically.
"Sorry, guys," Xander answered disappointed. "I've still got a ton of work to do at my new place . . . but Lexa'll be there! She's been saying she's been itching to dance! I'll tell her to go to Bronze and look you up, it'll be an all-girls-night out for you, you'll love it!"
Willow looked disappointed at first, and then excited at the prospect of getting Xander's cousin; the one that had talked Cordelia down so incredibly well! "All girls!" Willow said, never having had an 'all-girls-night' before. "That could be fun, right Buffy?"
"Yeah, sure!" Buffy answered, and then said, "Well, I gotta go, have fun training you two." Then she was off.
"Hmm," Giles said thoughtfully. "You really should train Buffy, Xander. For one thing, not having to train Buffy will save the function of my wrists. I just wish I knew a way to make her understand reason."
Xander looked at Willow, and smiled, saying, "Don't worry, Giles. I know how to get her there." Willow blinked and looked behind her, seeing just stone raising on top of which was the second level, then she looked back in confusion. "Give me a week."
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Lexa a.k.a. Xander stepped in front of the bronze entrance, and grinned. She wore the same skirt as in school, but she had worn a tight, spaghetti strap top, that hugged her frame, and offered a lovely cleavage. Her grin widened, as a guy he had never truly been hot, as a girl, he was scorching. The bronze was his or hers tonight, and nobody was going to stop her. He stepped inside, and looked around, quickly spotting Buffy and Willow. With her hips swaying, she walked over to them, taking the time and effort to let most guys now she was here. An occasional wave of her hand, a wink, and the most guys had spotted her, looking at her with big appreciative eyes. And none of them would get even a touch: any guys she would take apart would be geeks, and less then jocks. The 'popular' guys she would burn to the ground with remarks none of them would recover soon from. Payback time for all the times they had ignored or belittled Xander Harris.
Soon the bombshell joined the redhead and the Slayer, and smiled at them broadly. Girls night had another advantage, she would get to find out thinks she would never find out as a guy, no matter how much Buffy might still consider him 'one of the girls'. "Hi, guys," Lexa greeted the two.
"Hi, Lexa," Willow said, taking her eyes of the obviously displayed boobs, stopping her wish she had such a magnificent pair. Next to her Buffy did the same. Willow took in Lexa's sly smile and her sparkling eyes, and couldn't help but feel something, something odd. There was something about Lexa, now that she had the time to take her in as a friend, not a rival. She didn't quite know what, but she felt odd somehow.
"Hey," Buffy greeted, a little jealously. Damn, how come the new friend had to look like an Amazon sex goddess. She realized this is what Willow must have felt like when she came blazing into town, and felt sympathy for her redheaded friend, who seemed to be taking this a whole lot better than she was.
"So, any hot guys around?" Lexa asked sitting down on a stool, and starting to take in the room. "Some heartbreaker I shouldn't let get to me?"
Willow blinked, and then said, "Well, uh, that guy over there, in the sports jacket, Linden Ashby, he's gone through a few girls already."
"Got ya," Lexa said with a grin. This was so much fun.
Buffy was next, pointing at quite a hot guy, who was pointedly not from the popular crowd. "That's Jarod Daniels, I think he's pretty cute, and I think he's unattached, right Will?" Willow nodded, and Lexa took the guy in. He wore jeans, had short brown, nice volume hair, and wore a tight t-shirt showing off his lower arms. He wasn't quite as muscular as Xander, but Lexa could see the attraction if she put herself in that position.
"Nice," Lexa commented.
Willow then pointed at a blonde talking with a blonde girl, and said, "Alan McCarthy, he's so yummy."
"And stupid," Buffy added, nodding resolutely. "He tried to chat me up a few weeks after I got here first." Buffy then shook her head, and said, "You might as well date a chimp, you'd get better conversation."
"Really? I didn't know, too bad," Willow returned with a frown. "So, Lexa, Jonathan? Do you really think he's handsome?"
"Hmm, who? Oh! The helpful guy yesterday," Lexa looked up, faking remembering him, and said. "He's a bit short, could do with a slightly better wardrobe, but yeah, he isn't bad. If you're looking for long term substance, not a quick role in the hay, definitely. Handsome. What do you guys think?"
Buffy crinkled her nose, and said, "But he's so . . . so . . . geeky." Willow looked down. "I didn't mean it like that, Will. You know what I mean, he doesn't . . . he . . . how do I put this?" Lexa waited, after all, Lexa wasn't supposed to know about Jonathan. "He's got no . . . confidence, I think, he just hides in a corner."
Willow looked further down, that described her as well. Deciding not to give Lexa the wrong impression, she looked up at her, and said with a false grin, "Of course, the two hottest guys in town aren't here."
"Oh?" Lexa perked up, and Buffy looked over.
"Xander and Buffy's yes / no boyfriend Angel," Willow announced, making a bright face.
"Angel?" Lexa asked, but before they could answer. "Oh! The coward, pedophile vampire hiding in the shadows playing the mysterious routine to prey on teenage girls! Xander told me to look out for him! He's your /boyfriend/?" Buffy's jaw dropped at that description. Not even Xander had called Angel that in front of her face. Willow's face was equally shocked. "Did I say something wrong?" Lexa asked nervously.
"Angel isn't a coward!" Willow protested for her friend's sake. "He's helped us lots of times! He dusted Darla . . . who attacked him, uh, uh . . ." Willow scratched her head trying to think of something, and then looked helplessly at Buffy.
"That's what you disagree with?" Buffy asked rather shocked. It left to whole pedophile and preying part rather unanswered. Willow reddened and shrugged. "Well, starting with coward then, he's not, he came with Xander to rescue me against the Master, which was this ancient powerful master vampire."
"That's not how Xander tells it," Lexa answered her with a sour look. "Xander says he had to threaten Angel at cross length and stake point before he would come along and lead Xander to the Master's lair."
"He's lying, he's just jealous," Buffy defended Angel.
Lexa looked at her, and then Buffy looked over at Willow. "Yeah," Willow said, nervously.
"Hey, just because it's Buffy's boyfriend doesn't mean you have to defend him, you know," Lexa told Willow sourly, perhaps a little too sourly. "I thought Xander was your best friend."
"Willow?" Buffy prompted, looking at the nervous redhead.
Willow looked with a weak expression to Buffy, and said, "I'm sorry, Buffy. But the way Angel always acts and the way Giles was about this prophecy, I doubt Xander is just making it up. Xander said he was going to get a way to find out where you went, so /he/ went to Angel. I don't what happened at Angel's, but if fits. Besides, why would he lie to Lexa?" Buffy blinked several times, and then looked down. "And you know, hiding in shadows, that's true," Willow added. "Pedophile preying on girls, is a way to interpret his actions."
"Let's quit with the hole booboo act," Lexa talked again, drawing the other two's attention. "We were with Xander, I believe. I know he's hot, and if I weren't his cousin, rowr, but you really think he's the hottest guy in this entire town?"
"Oh, yeah!" Willow said, nodding vigorously. "I've had a crush on him in ages, great friend, loyal, heroic, and now he comes back all muscley and oh, boy. I wish he saw me standing, and not just Buffy here." Willow sighed all gushy.
Lexa, or Xander blinked, his heart beating in his chest. -Whoa!- he thought rather shocked. -Willow? A crush on me? In ages?- He took Willow in another time, looking at her differently, wondering.
"Hey, it's not my fault," Buffy pouted at her best friend. "I can't help it, I told him 'no' to the dance. But Xander, hottest of the town after Angel? Well, he definitely isn't ugly, and he did come back with those muscles, and he saved my life even after I crushed his heart . . . I don't know about the entire town, but . . . well . . . he's not bad." Buffy looked down, looking at Willow out of the corner of her eyes. The redhead looked at Buffy as well, not really knowing what now.
"The mood officially went below freezing," Lexa said and turned to look at the dance floor. "Time to heat it up. Let's go dance."
"Huh?" both Buffy and Willow said.
"Dance, you know, move to the music?" Lexa asked them.
Buffy shook her head, and said, "I don't really feel like dancing."
"Well, Willow, let's go," Lexa said with a grin, and grabbed Willow by an arm, and pulled her along.
"Hey, but, I . . ." Willow protested without success. "I don't really dance."
"Nonsense, Xander tells me you dance great," Lexa said easily pulling the diminutive redhead along. Lexa put Willow across from her, and smiled at Willow, starting sensual motions. "Come on, Will, you can do this, follow my lead, almost every guy will fall all over you."
"But, but, guys all over me, doesn't sound as nice as it sounds. Wait, that came out wrong," Willow stuttered out, but the music slowly made her move timidly.
"Trust me, Will, you're sexy, you're hot, think you're Buffy, think you're Pamela Anderson . . . think you're Cordelia Chase; you're queen high bitch, and nobody can touch you, nobody will dare ridicule you, think you're the hottest girl in town," Lexa encouraged, starting to roll her hips, bringing her ass out regularly.
"Eep?" Willow asked looking at the hottest girl in town in her opinion. Lexa had an idea, she suddenly went around Willow. Once at the back she wrapped her right arm around Willow's waist, and pulled her back against her, putting the redhead's head right against the top of her breasts. As Lexa undulated, started dancing sexy, Willow was forced to go along.
"See, you can do it, just let yourself go," Lexa encouraged, and slowly Willow got more into it. This felt good, leaning into Lexa felt good, letting the music rule her body felt good. "See, all the guys are staring at us."
Willow gulped, opening her eyes, looking around the room. It seemed they were only one of three couples left dancing, but all eyes were on them. "They're staring at you," Willow whispered nervously. "You've got breasts, you're hot."
"You got breasts too, Will, check out how they poke out a bit when you put your chest out," Lexa whispered back, knowing the whispering would look extra hot. Willow did look down, and noticed Xander's cousin was right. "Next time, just where something tighter that doesn't cover up so much. They're staring at /us/, Willow, they're watching two hot babes doing a sexy dance. A hundred different lesbian fantasies are shooting through their brains, all where they get to join in. And the girls, they're all jealous."
Willow gulped hard, taking in the guys looking at the two of them, and feeling how Lexa maneuvered them in a twisting motion, letting Willow see the other side, more guys watching as their bodies slowly melted to one, moving sexier and more suggestive with the moment. She noticed girls watching with their arms folded across their torsos, obviously not liking this development. Willow swallowed again, and nervously looked over to Buffy. To her shock she saw her blonde friend smiling, and then giving her the thumbs up.
The next moment came the shock off her life, when Lexa called out, "Are you guys just going to stand there and ogle us, or will you join in!?" She specifically didn't mention 'what' they got to join in on. Willow let out a whimper, as slowly the guys came on the dance floor, and started dancing around the two of them. To her shock, Willow felt Lexa twist her around, so they were across from each other again, but still close. "Keep going," Lexa whispered, bending over to Willow. "Just follow my lead, let yourself go." Willow looked around nervously, but felt like her body had assimilated the movements, and she continued doing them, feeling more self conscious by the moment. Then Lexa caused another shocking moment. She twisted away, pulling a guy in her place, and she went to dance with a few guys. Willow gulped, wanting to quit, wanting to sink through the floor, her movements starting to become jittery.
"Hi, I'm Ben Gibson," the guy said with large eyes, taking in Willow. She wasn't exactly his idea of perfection, but there was something about the wallflower look dancing so damn sexy. The contrast turned him on.
Willow swallowed nervously, and answered, "W-Willow Rosenb-b-berg."
She felt another two guys dance close enough that they touched her on occasion, instantly making her more nervous, and right after making her calm down with the cool realization that she was not being made fun of, that guys were dancing with /her/. "I hope you don't mind me saying it, but you're sexy," Ben told her.
"S-sexy?" Willow asked, feeling the music taking over again.
He nodded, and added, "Are you guys . . . a couple, or were you just teasing?" Willow did a double take. Teasing? Her? She looked over to Lexa, who was easily riding up to guys, surrounding herself by hot guys, yet for some reason pushing equally hot, but more popular guys away. She was teasing. Willow Rosenberg had been and was teasing guys! And they liked it!
"Teasing," she said with a private smile, trying the word out on her tongue. "We were just teasing."
Buffy watched, jealous now. She really wished she had gone out with them. She couldn't believe it. Willow was dancing like a professional seductress, and she seemed to be becoming better and learning more by the second. She was smiling, and talking with a guy. Dang it! She looked over at Lexa as she made the art form of Willow into a lewd festival of groping and touching; she did it with the guys, and they returned the favor! Damn, the girl had guts, and she had turned Willow around like that, by not giving the redhead a choice. Buffy watched her friends enjoy themselves for several more minutes, until the song ended, and the band took a break. A few moments later a grinning Lexa, and a flushed, and embarrassed Willow returned to the table.
"I can't believe I did that," Willow said looking away from the blonde.
"Hell no, Will, you were great!" Buffy told her with a smile. "Lexa went overboard, you just enjoyed yourself."
"Hey!" the raven-haired girl protested. Buffy just grinned at her indicating she was just joking, damn it, she was starting to like her.
Lexa fidgeted suddenly, and the other two saw the uncertainty. "What?" Buffy prompted.
Lexa looked at them nervously, and then said, "Xander said you wouldn't mind, but I've been burned . . ." She slowly bent forward and so did Buffy and Willow. ". . . the way you two are, I think he's right . . . I'm kinda gay."
Buffy's and Willow's eyes widened suddenly and they sat back up straight. "Kinda?" Willow asked.
"Well, entirely," Lexa replied.
"You didn't just . . ." Willow pointed at the dance floor.
"No, no, no," Lexa stated quickly. "I didn't try to cop a feel, but if I did, was that so bad? I didn't grab your breasts or ass did I?" she added filled with uncertainty.
"I guess," Willow said slowly, remembering the girl's hands on her stomach, and her head against her breasts hadn't really felt bad.
"Willow, she's gay, that's great, I'm completely non-judgmental," Buffy said with a big grin: no competition! "Friends together?" Willow and Lexa nodded with smiling. "You know what," Buffy added, "Let's go to my place, watch some tv, I'm getting rather tired, with Angel waking me up in the middle of night yesterday and we can just sit and chat!"
"Yeah, ok, I gotta recover from that anyway!" Willow said pointing at the dance floor. When the redhead and the raven-haired girl left, plenty of guys and a few girls watched them go with disappointment, realizing they were too late to ask them out.
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