My brother came up to me all smiles before he left

My brother came up to me all smiles before he left. He gave me a huge bear hug lifting me off the ground, which was just for show since his little sister threw an okay party, if it had sucked he would have left before he even walked in and denied any relation to me. His posse of the cool juniors, seniors and girls left with him. They left around 2:30, which was everyone else's cue that the party was over. It took two hours for the last two people, Cordy and Willow, to leave.

I walked back into the living room. I stopped in the entrance and instantly got a headache. Empty beer bottles, cans, paper cups, all the other things people leave behind, the couch cushions were all at weird angles and some of the were on the floors. I was going to have to clean this all up, with some but minimal help from Faith. No sense in worrying about it right this second. I walked over to the couch were Faith had thrown herself and shook her until she grunted at me, got up and we went to her room to crash on her bed.

I woke up the next morning to Faith open the curtains in her room with such force that the almost tore. Light flooded into the room which reminded my brain that I had a hang over and did not like bright, bright lights.

"Faith what the hell are you doing? What time is it?"

"Come on, out of bed it's 10:30, make that 10:32, and we need to get started cleaning. I've been up since, uhm, 9ish and I've started cleaning the living room. We still need to clean up the yard, the bath room, the kitchen, the stairs and hallways, and we need to put all the breakable stuff back where it was store the boxes back in the garage." I felt like I was dieing, yet Faith was up, making lists and looked like she did not party last night.

I had no choice but to get up and help. Faith let me get some water first though. Then we set off and started cleaning. Faith did the living room; I went outside and cleaned around the pool, patio and hot tub. Then we both cleaned the kitchen, bathroom and everything else together. We then sat down and started unwrapping the glass dishes, candles and statues. I unwrapped while Faith put them in the right place.

"So anything exciting happen last night for you?" Faith asked me while putting family photos back on the mantel above the fire place.

"I don't think I should give you the satisfaction of knowing how my night went since you just abandoned me."

"I didn't abandon you… I just you looked fine and I just…"

"Made out with Xander?" I finished for her.

She cringed. "Gahh I was hoping you hadn't seen that."

"Nope I did, and so did a lot of other people." I knew I shouldn't be giving her such a hard time, I mean I was really drunk too, but I was kind of annoyed with her for ditching me. In order to keep myself from getting emotional and saying something bitchy I changed the subject. "So there was a new guy here last night."

"What really? And I didn't see him? Where have I been? Is he cute? What's he like? What grade.." I cut her off.

"Chill Faith one at a time. I don't know that much just that his name is Lindsay and he just moved here this summer I think he's from the country 'cuz he kinda looked like that almost overwhelmed by our wily California ways." I paused to snicker at my comment. "But he was really cute but we were like talking and he just seemed to get up and leave, it was weird."

"Huh, can't wait to meet him, what grade is he in?"

"Dunno" We stopped talking for a bit and continued to put away the glasses. When we were done we both sat down on the couch with a loud sigh.

"So who was all here last night, I saw your brother but I was distracted most of the time." Faith asked as she flipped through the channels and finally settled on the Laguna Beach marathon on MTV.

"Well yeah my bro, then Parker, freak he tried to hit on me, Doyle, Winifred and Owen. Will was here with Cordy, Xan obviously. The new guy, I saw Nina and a few other people. Not to mention Angelus, Gunn and Spike.. Oh and wanna know the best part?" I then went into my long embarrassing story about how I had adjusted my bathing suite in front of their car and the kitchen episode with Angelus and how I pretty much insulted him. Faith however was more caught up on the fact that I said he made my stomach flutter and I thought he was gonna kiss me.

"B," she the let out this long suffering sigh, "I know he's cute, more than cute he's the most attractive guy living in Sunnydale.. But just because we throw a party does not make us automatically cool. It takes time. Plus he's the hot lacrosse captain senior and you're a sophomore. And more to the point B, he is a known playboy. The biggest! He and Spike have a new girl every week. And that girl Darla you saw him with is his on off fling when he isn't making his way through the female population."

"So…You think I'm not good enough for him?"

"I didn't say that. It's just, B.. You're a sweetheart, you like romance and stuff like that. If you start to like him… well I just don't want you to get hurt."

"I can handle myself thank you." I said with finality putting and end to the conversation. We spent the rest of the day on her couch watching Laguna and doing our nails. The next week was the first day of what promises to be an interesting school year.