She crept around the room, no one was in the bed so she thought faith might have got up when she heard the door open 'Faith? You here? ' she headed towards the walk in wardrobe 'no, not in this room pet' Nicole went a bright shade of red, 's,spike..'

She said holding her arms behind her 'I, I didn't mean to intrude I, I was just you know.. Looking for faith' she said trying not to smile and trying to hide her embarrassed face.

Spike smiled, 'its okay pet, you're welcome in here anytime you like, no invitation needed'

Nicole scanned the room; a smile grew across her face when she noticed a book case filled with old books near spike's bed.

She walked over to the bookcase running her hands along the row's and row's of books

'these, are some of these handwritten?' spike approached her 'yep' Nicole could see him smiling in the corner of her eye, it kind of creped her out but she thought he was cute, so it wasn't all bad. 'do you, do you mind if I read some of these?' he stood behind her and reached over her shoulder, gently pushing her forward, he grabbed a book and placed it in her hand 'like I said pet, no invitation needed'

That night Nicole spent hours reading, she finished the book by midnight.

She was really starting to like spike, with his bad boy looks but cuddly bear interior.

And that was when she finally came to the conclusion she had a crush on this platinum blonde, leather wearing bad-boy.

She was tempted to get another book to read, and to see spike altogether.

She knocked and there was no answer she ran the words through her head 'no invitation needed' she opened the door and headed for the book case, she could see a lump under the bed sheets she knew it was spike.

She gently placed the book back and slid out a new one 'Pet? That you?' Nicole was shocked he heard her, she barley heard herself! 'Yeah, sorry I should have knocked'

Spike chuckled he was still half asleep 'read to me?' he said rubbing his eyes.

Nicole opened the book and sat on the other side of his bed and got comfortable

She started reading 'her spirit was like the ocean, free..' spike watched her lips as she read such beautiful words.

Soon after she woke to the sound of a buzz, she had fallen asleep reading to him,

She was about to get up when she noticed she was under the covers and he was holding her. The fresh crisp morning breeze from the window brushed her face it made her wriggle back in to spikes embrace she noticed she was rubbing her bottom against him she peered over her shoulder to see if he was awake, only to notice he was smirking at her.

Everyone had already left the house to go help angel with a case in L.A.

Nicole wasn't ashamed she had fallen asleep with spike, it just came as a shock to her.

I may as well make the most of this, she thought she turned to face spike,

'morning' she smiled 'good morning pet, hungry?' Nicole shook her head 'good, me neither' he chuckled 'you warm enough?' Nicole hesitated with her answer 'no...I'm not, 

I'm not warm enough' he pulled her in closer, their noses were barley apart now spike smiled 'guess we should get..' before he could finish Nicole gently pecked his lips

'well, I wasn't expecting that from you' Nicole looked confused 's, sorry' she said while reaching to push herself up from the bed, spike pulled her down and mounted her 'not so fast pet' he pulled her in to a deep passionate kiss, she had never kissed anyone like this before she had only recently turned sixteen.

Nicole gasped for air then wrapped her arms around him and continued to kiss his warm tender lips.

As night fell once again all Nicole could think about was kissing spike.

She never wanted to stop! She needed to see him.

It was about eleven thirty, late enough for everyone to be asleep, she thought.

She grabbed her books and headed for spikes room, without hesitating she opened the door expecting to see spike waiting for her return.

But to her surprise all she would see that night was her heart shattered.

She seen buffy mounted on top of spike, his hands grasped her waist, unpleasant moaning followed. It wasn't hard to see what was going on 's, spike?'.

Spike leaned up to face Nicole as buffy hurried to hide her body.

'im busy! Sod off!' she could feel her palms start to sweat, the man she was falling inlove with turned out to be an ignorant prick, so that's exactly what she told him 'you, you ignorant self centered arrogant Prick!' and with that she slammed the door and ran for the street. Spike pushed buffy off of his waist 'Women!' he sighed he slid his leather pants on, grabbed his coat and headed after Nicole. Sunnydale was no place for a sixteen year old girl this late at night.