As Days Go By

Summary: After one tragic night, Buffy refuses to get close to anyone. Now the new guy in town, Angel tries to do the impossible by getting closer to Buffy. Which may prove to be an even bigger tragedy.

By: Sara

Disclaimer: Not mine

Buffy's POV

I stared quietly at the middle of the road as Angel drove me home.

"Are you okay? You seem distant?" He asked.

"When am I ever not distant?" I questioned with a grin and he grinned back.

"No, I'm serious. Are you okay?" He asked and I could hear the concern in his voice. Why would be concerned about me?

"Yup, just peachy." I lied. I cannot even remember that last time my life was ever 'peachy'.

He pulled into my driveway and I still sat in his car quietly. I knew I should just get out, but I was starting to feel like a jerk. Angel's just trying to be nice to me and I'm pushing him away. Pushing seems to be all I'm good at lately. I turned and looked at him.

"Thanks for the ride." I smiled sweetly and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He looked surprised by my action and then smiled.

"See you at eight." He stated and I waved bye to him as he pulled out of my driveway.

When I walked in the house it was dead quiet. Not a surprise mom was never home when I get home from cheerleading practice. I started to think of the fight we had and groaned. We still hadn't made up. At the way we avoided each other we may never make up. I didn't like the thought of that, she was the only family I had left, but her words "she isn't my daughter anymore," kept ringing in my head.

7:46 Buffy's House

I had gotten ready for my date with Angel. It wasn't really hard; going to the movie is a casual thing, right? Or maybe I should have gotten more dressed up since it was a date. NO! I have to stop myself right there. It's just a movie, jeans, a white sweater, and a phony tail is fine. Besides I'm not trying to impress Angel.

Then I looked in the mirror and thought maybe I should wear my hair down. Before I could think about it more the doorbell rang.

"Coming!" I yelled and deicded a phony was just going to have to work.

I opened the door and sighed at the sight of Angel's casual leather jacket and pant.

"Hey," I greeted him, grabbed my purse and was out the door.

"Thanks," I mumbled to him as he opened his BMW's passengers door for me.

"No, problem," He grinned.

"How's your sister doing?" Angel asked as he started the BMW. At the mention of Dawn I frowned. I was so caught up in my date with Angel I didn't even visited her today. What I great big sister I am.

"She's the same. Unresponsive." I mumbled, hoping he wouldn't dig deeper.

"How's your mom?" I asked changing the subject.

"We're waiting on news the news if her body is responding to the new treatment. It's looking good." He smiled, which made me smile.

The rest of the night we talked, though we never stranded to the subject of Dawn. Angel let me pick the movie. I could tell it wasn't his first choice or even his fourth, but he still went along with it. I told him next time he gets to pick the movie and he smiled at my statement. I didn't even realize until later that I had implied there would be another date. What surprised me even more was that I actually liked the idea of going on another date with Angel.

When he pulled into my driveway at the end of the night, I couldn't believe it was over. It went by so fast.

"Thanks for the popcorn and the movie." I told him.

"Next week?" He asked hopefully.

"For sure." I smiled and leaned over kissing him hard on the lips. Hewrapped his arms around me as the kiss deepened. I pulled away to catch my breath and then he pressed my lips to his again. After a couple of minutes I pulled away and said good-bye to him. He grinned at me as he I walked up my driveway.

School

Angel didn't come to school and I started worrying about him. He seemed fine on our date. What if he's sick? Why I am I worrying so much about him? I tried to focus on my English work, which didn't seem to help what so ever.

The rest of the day went by slowly, as I kept looking at the clock. I was thinking about skipping cheerleading practice, but that only made Cordelia look like the better choicefor cheerleading captain. Besides maybe cheerleading will keep my mind off Angel.

End of Cheerleading Practice

Well, there went my theory about cheerleading keeping my mind off Angel. I thought of him so much that I fell on my face three timeswhile I was doing flips, which hurt real bad.

"You look like someone ran over your puppy." Cordelia stated once I got out of the locker room and I just frowned at her. Couldn't she ever just give me my peace?

"I don't own a puppy." I told her, wondering what she was getting at.

"God, it's justa saying. Can't you just go with the flow? I'm trying to comfort you." She sighed and rolled her eyes, while I stared confusingly at her.

"Comfort me? Who are you and what have you done with bitchy Cordelia?" I questioned. Maybe she bumped her head on something during practice.

"Hey, I resent that." She said and put her hands on her hips. Here comes some rude comment, I thought.

"No, one has ever talk to me like that, well my nanny did, but that's another story. Anyways friends or something?" She said and offered her hand.

"Something." I mumbled and shook her hand.

"You want to go to the mall?" She said and smiled. I was must be imagining things, maybe I fell harder then I thought.

"What do you REALLY want?" I questioned, just wanting to go.

"Jesus, is it such a surprise I'm being nice to you?" She asked making it sound like we're best friends.

"Yes," I commented.

"Okay, it is, but I really would like to change. I don't want to be my stepmother…" She trailed off and looked like she was going to cry. Cordelia crying is something I never want to see in my life.

"Mall?" I asked sounding interested, " I guess I can spare a few hours."

"Great, I need a new pair of shoes." She said grabbing my arm and pulled me towards her car.

Talk about a strange day.

AN: Sorry, it took me so long to update. Work and school have been taking up all my time :(

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