The next morning Buffy woke up with a headache. She decided to lay down for a while longer . it wasn't like she had things to do unless Giles called wanting her to look up something for him. She fell to the ground harder than she thought when she faught Mathhew and his followers last night. She hated her duty but she knew that she had to do it to stay alive. Jsut then there was a knock at the door. Willow poked her head in.
Buffy: Hey Will.
Willow looked in and lseemed shocked that Buffy was up so early.
Willow: Buffy we have a problem. Spike called earler this morning and told me that Matthew ran into him last night and threatened to kill him just becausehe's involved with you.
Buffy; I already knew that, Will. Me and Matthew ran into each other last night and he said something that i don't think i should say to you or Spike only because i know that if I told you or him that you would be upset. I don't want you upset. I know that you are happy right now. Actually , i have noticed you have been happy ever since you've met Kayla. Buffy gives Willow a smile that is supposed to reassure her of the fact that there is nothing to worry about.
Willow: i know that you are covering something up. What is it? Buffy. She said sitting on the bed.
Buffy: I don't feel like talking about it anymore, Willow.
Willow: Buffy, you know that you need to talk about it as much as you can. It isn't good keeping all of your feelings bottled up inside.
Buffy: I am not doing that. I just don't want to talk about what Matthew said to me last night. I am not trying to scare you but i think something dreadful is going to happen again and i am not saying that it is going to happen to me.
Willow: Then who will it happen to? Wait a minute you think that Matthew is going to kill you so he can torment Spike . You do, Don't you?
Buffy: See Willow , You are the one who brought it up not me and i would appreciate it if you kept your voice low, I don't want Dawn to overhear.
Willow: How can she do that when she is already at the college?
buffy: She didn't tell me that she had a class this early today.
Willow: She didn't know until last night and she forgot to tell you so she told me to tell you after you got home from patrol and i forgot to plus i was already asleep when you came home.
Buffy: Oh, Okay i didn't know if she was just not telling me things again. you know the way that she was keeping things from me when she was in high school.
Willow: you have to have more confidence in her, Buffy. She is a grown woman now and she needs to know that you can trust her.
Buffy: I do trust her I just don't think that i can trust her that much because of what she did in the past. The breaking in and stealing things from other people. I just wish that would have never happened. i know that teens are sometimes rebellious and dawn had a reason for acting out but that doesn't mean that she had the rgiht to steal personal property.
Willow: Buffy, we are getting off the subject here. Do you think that Matthew is going to try to kill you just so he can torment Spike?
Buffy; Yes, Willow. I do. He told me that is what he was going to do. he said that last night and i didn't know what to do he had a group of his followers with him and i killed one of them but that doesn't necessarily mean that he couldn't get more vampires together. Willow, what am I going to do? i am so scared.
Willow: Buffy, You are going to keep on doing what it is you have to do. Keep on living. You know if you let Matthew see that you are scared that he is going to get the better of you and then you are really going to end up dead.
Buffy: Thanks, Will. I know that you are the expert advice giver. I will keep on being strong but i don't know for how long.
Willow: That is all that i am asking of you. i know that the slayers have a shorter life expenctancy but that doesn't mean that you couldn't outlive any of them. dawn is here to see that you do that.
Buffy: Thanks Willow.
Just then they heard a knock coming from downstairs.
Buffy: I wonder who that could be?
Willow; I don't know, me and kayla are supposed to be meeting here later to go out to luch but I don't think she meant this early.
Buffy: Remind me to call Spike after this visitor leaves.
Willow: Okay.