A/N 2: Italics are thoughts.
Disclaimer: I do not own Drive Me Crazy, contrary to popular belief. I just borrowed the concept, plot, and a few, ok a lot, of the lines from the movie.
Drive Me Crazy
By purplpenguin
(Kool Beans)
The whole crowd was cheering as the star of the team, Riley Finn, attempted another basket. When the ball went through, everyone stood and cheered more. Then a whistle blew. A man's voice was heard over the PA saying that the Razorbacks had called a time out.
Before Riley joined the huddle, he stopped to talk to Oz.
"What Riley?" Oz, the team's manager, asked.
"Go and tell her I want to talk to her," was Riley's reply.
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When the whistle blew, Cordy and Buffy turned towards each other to talk.
"Why hasn't he asked me yet?" Buffy worried.
"Well, there's one other option for Riley's centennial date," Buffy's dear friend Cordelia answered.
"Oh, I thought you said you were going with that college guy."
"I am, I'm only saying. Maybe Riley doesn't know that."
"Come on. Everyone knows that. You've been telling people at every chance you get."
Cordelia just looked at her with a glare that said 'shut up, or I'll shut you up.'
"All I'm saying," Buffy continued, "is there's a process. Sure it's not written down, but I gave the appropriate signs. And Riley knows the rules. I hope."
Before Cordelia could reply, they were interrupted by Oz.
"Look, it's designated Dan," she said instead.
"Cordelia, I've got a message from Riley," Oz said, dismissing her rude comment. "Can I talk to you for a second, in private?"
Cordelia nodded, and she and Buffy shared a look as she left her seat to go to a more private place.
While Cordelia and Oz were chatting, the game started back up. Buffy wasn't paying much attention, she was more worried about the conversation taking place without her. Why does Riley want her to have a message, not me? Hmpft.
The crowd started chanting again. The ball was passed to Riley, but he didn't get to it in time. When he followed the ball, he lost his balance and fell on top of one of the other team's cheerleaders. The two athletes just looked at each other for a moment. Then Riley got up and went over to his teammates.
Meanwhile, Cordelia and Oz had finished their conversation, and Cordelia headed back to her seat. Both of them saw Riley fall, and gasped.
"I hope he's not hurt," Buffy commented, worried about her crush.
"Yeah, me too," Cordelia said. "I'm thrilled to report that Riley has exercised the next element of protocol."
"Oz was an emissary?" Buffy asked. Cordelia nodded in reply.
"He asked me if I thought if Riley asked you to share the evening, if you'd say yes," Cordelia told her friend, only as a person with lots of practice doing the 'he-said-that-she-said' thing could. Buffy wasn't phased by Cordy's quick retelling of the events that had happened.
"And?" she pressed.
"And so I told him to tell Riley that you said a real man works without a net."
"You WHAT?" Buffy asked accusatorily.
"Relax. He's all yours," Cordy reassured her friend. Then, as she sometimes did, she voiced her opinion as a headline (She was the editor of the school paper after all, and sometimes you had to do these kinds of things). 'Scheming socialite snags dream date.'"