Giles aimlessly strolled along the streets of Los Angeles, searching for any sign of Buffy. While he was walking, he accidentally bumped into an old lady dressed in rags. "Oh! I'm sorry," Giles told her, stepping out of her way.

She just continued to walk right past him, saying, "I am no one."

Giles, a little confused, continued to walk down the street until he reached a small coffee shop, where he stopped to buy some coffee as a pick-me-up.

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In English, Lexie was completely board, so she sat at her desk and began working on a portrait of her teacher. This way, she looked like she was paying attention, because she had to keep looking up to portray her correctly, but she still had something to do and wasn't completely board. (A/N: this is actually a really good tip to use if you ever don't feel like paying attention in class, but I wouldn't suggest it if you are currently failing that particular course)

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The next day, Alexandra stood in front of a mirror she found, getting ready for the party. Gently pulling her hair back in a barrette, she took a deep breath and stepped out the door.

Willow had called earlier and told her about a huge party, 'everybody is going to be there,' she had said. When she arrived, she realized that Willow might not have been exaggerating. What seemed like a hundred cars lined the streets and Buffy's house was literally overflowing with people. Wow, she thought to herself, Buffy must have been more popular than I was led to believe.

She slowly walked up the steps and through the door, past Xander and Cordelia making out by the door and over to where the band was playing, unfortunately breaking something unidentifiable on her way by. "Dude!" Some guy across the room on the phone yelled, covering up the receiver, "She broke it! She's got to take a shot!"

Not wanting to be forced into alcohol consumption and taking this as her queue to leave, she quickly walked towards the door, but was stopped by Willow on the way there, "Lexie! Come here! I want you to meet Buffy!"

"Willow, I would love to, I really would," Lexie explained, still trying to make her way through the people towards the door, "those guys over there are trying to take a shot."

"Oh, don't worry," Willow told her, "Buffy won't let them; she's really good at self-defensy stuff."

"Alright, where is she?" Lexie asked.

"I think she went up to her room," Willow replied, grabbing her arm and pulling her up the stairs, "come on."

When they got to her room, it was to find Buffy crying in front of a packed bag, which made them abruptly stop their idle chatter and turn their attention to the bag on Buffy's bed.

"Buffy, what are you doing?" Willow asked, eyes wide, afraid of the answer.

"I was just… just… I-I don't … I don't know what I was doing." Buffy responded to her friend, unsure of herself, before abruptly becoming aware of the stranger standing beside Willow, "Who's that?"

"That's Lexie, she's new," Willow explained absently, "but do not change the subject!"

Just then, Mrs. Summers walked in and somehow Lexie felt like she shouldn't be there, even though Alexandra knew she should stay. (A/N: That's kind of confusing, but I'm using the name Alexandra to represent the person that she was and what her duties are, while Lexie is the person that she's become by making friends in Sunneydale and how she really feels. So in this sentence, Lexie as a person doesn't want to be in the room because she's uncomfortable, but she knows it's her duty to stay and find out as much as possible.) In the end, however, Lexie won and she quietly walked down the stairs, only to be greeted by a bunch of demons bursting through the window.

The stench that followed the demons was atrocious, so, covering her nose, she followed the other fleeing students out the door and hid in the bushes. Not because she wanted to see all the icky fighting, but because she knew she should wait and see what happened.

It was a few moments before anything happened. She heard something in Buffy's front lawn, so she looked up to see Buffy and a woman with an ugly mask on and red eyes. All of a sudden, there was a strange red light that appeared to be coming from the mask and Buffy seemed to be frozen in time for a few seconds.

"Buffy!" Oz called, bringing her back from her dreamlike stasis. He appeared to be about to say something else, but the woman looked him and after another flash of red light, he was frozen too, luckily, Buffy had fully recovered and discovered what was happening, at least to some extent.

"Hey Pat!" She called, but when Pat turned around to look at her, Buffy pierced her eye with a shovel.

Alexandra heard Buffy say something, but didn't catch what it was, she was too busy silently vomiting in the bush next to her because of the violence she was just forced to witness.

Author's Note: Wow... shorter chapter than I thought It would be... sorry