Chapter 15.

"You slept with Angel? I thought you two weren't even that serious?"

"Cordilia, we've been dating since high school, why would you sound surprised? I figured you would be shocked that we hadn't done it ages ago."

"But why?"

"Because he's my boyfriend, because he wanted too, because he waited so patiently for me to be ready, take your pic!"

A freshmen cheerleader tried to hide a giggle at the last part of Buffy's justification. Girls were always doing that and she never quite knew why. She had given up trying to work it out a long time ago. Cordy's eyes clouded as she mentally made a decision she realised she should have made a long time ago.

"Buffy, I really didn't know you were serious or I would have told you earlier but I think you should leave him. He doesn't care for you like you care for him. He doesn't love you and you deserve a chance with someone who will love you."

"What are you talking about? We aren't perfect but we're still together and if I try harder we can make it work."

"I'm sorry but it can't work because he doesn't want it to work. He has been seeing other women for over two years now. You're the only one he dates but he spends the night with a different women every other week."

"How could that be true?"

"I guess he never expected things to get this far. You had fun together to start off with but then things ran their course, he expected you to end things when it stoped being fun for you but they just stayed the same and then everyone started saying what a good match you made so socially you two kept dating but things just floated along."

"It's not true. He said he cared about me. He wouldn't have slept with me if he didn't."

"Honey they always sleep with you. He slept with just about all of us, well except Cordy"

"Shut up Harmony!"

Buffy couldn't believe what she was hearing. It couldn't be true, he couldn't have been cheating on her for years and still trying to get her into bed. Buffy stormed out of the locker room and into the stair well just in time to overhear Angel and a couple of his friends on the landing below.

"So did you get any from the ice queen this weekend?"

"Not that it's any of your business but yeah I did."

"So what's she like in bed?"

"Lets just say it's no wonder Parker never bragged about nailing her, it's like trying to have sex with a dish rag! She may look like a tiger but she had about as much skill as a stuffed kitten."

There was a rupture of laughter and rude comments which drowned out the sound of Buffy's horrified gasp. Obviously encouraged by his peers Angel went on.

"Buffy Summers is a cold fish and easily the worst lay I've ever had, and trust me I've had plen…ough!"

Angels last word was cut short as a clearly enraged Spike landed a well calculated punch to his abdomen.

"What the hell? Where did you come from Winters"

"Well you will talk in public stairwells"

"What the hell was that for?"

"For being a complete asshole for over a decade, for trashing your girlfriend in front of your mates and giving the rest of us a bad name, for being a bloody ponce, take your pic?"

It was at this point that Buffy finally regained the use of her legs. With more composure than she though possible she walked up to a winded Angel radiating with rage.

" I don't need you to defend me Spike, thanks all the same but I can take care of myself."

Turning on the crowed of football heroes with a wild look in her eyes she released her fury where it belonged.

"How dare you, you bastard! You told me you cared about me, you lied to my face every day and you were apparently more than willing to sleep with anything with breasts. Then you have the arrogance to run back to your friends to destroy the last shred of dignity I had?"

"Babe, come on now…"

"Don't you dare! You can't even use my name now can you? You, you ,you heartless… ARGH!"

With fists clenched and an almightily scream Buffy ensured Angel wouldn't be sleeping with anyone tonight and left him rolling on the floor where, as far as she was concerned, he belonged. Then with a frightening, though completely false level of calmness she walked out of the stair well and then ran to the nearest bathroom.

"Well, she may not be a tiger mate but the bint sure is dynamite!"

Spike chuckled at Angels agonised groan and turned to go after a women who had refused his advice, ungraciously rejected his assistance and somehow still invoked his protective instincts.

That girl will be the death of me, I just know it.