Buffy pov.
She's got a date. With some Riley dude. For some reason that name leaves a bad taste in my mouth. I mean I saw him and he's not very attractive. I mean they'd make a terrible couple. He's so...ugh. I don't know. Maybe its just major jealousy. But something about him doesn't sit well with me at all. But I have to 'be happy' for her.
"Hey B." says the girl of my dreams. Sitting beside me at the table I'm at outside eating lunch.
"Hey was up?" I ask her. She reaches over and drinks some of my soda. "Have some?" I offer with a raised eyebrow.
"Nothin sup and like I ever ask." she says. True. She doesn't ask before she takes some of my food.
"True. So you ready for your date today?" she sighs.
"Yeah. You wanna help me get ready?" she asks me.
"Sure but I though Bianca's mom and sister were coming her for that." I say confused.
"They couldn't make it. Something about merging their companies and launching a new product." she says waving her hand around. Something occurs to me then.
"Wait the date is right after school right?" I ask she nods. "So how will we have time to get you ready for it? And what do you need help with?" she looks down for a minute then back at me before answering.
"I- I've never been on a date before so I don't know how to act or what to do." she says lowly. Oh hell no she is not having her first date with him.
"So Riley is your first date eh?" she nods again. I take a big breath. "Look why-" I'm cut off by Spike coming over.
"Faith! Chris said Maggie and Bianca wants you guys home." he says jogging over. She looks annoyed at the interruption. Hell so am I.
"Aight, B since you have free period today at the end of the day come to my house you can help me then. Cool?" she asks. I nod and she jogs off. I turn to Spike.
"You do know if you were a vampire I'd stake you right?" I ask him. He chuckles softly
"I figured by the look on ya face pet. You are comin' with me." he says grabbing my arm pulling me with him.
Faith pov.
Damn sometimes Spike has bad timin. I wanted to know what B was gonna say. I still do but more importantly I wanna know what Mags and Binks want. And with all of us at that. We're all walkin home. We're not walkin fast more like strollin, talkin, and laughin. But with sunny hell bein as small as it is we get home in no time. We all walk into the living room where Maggie and Bianca are sitting.
"Sup?" I ask sittin on the floor and everybody else scatters out. Bianca clears her throat.
"Well you guys know how we've been your foster parents for like over two weeks right?" she asks. I hope this doesn't go where I think it is.
"Yeah." Gunn answers slowly.
"Well we got a call from your social worker today." Maggie says. No god no.
"OK?" Chris more asks then says.
"Yeah its ok. Actually its very good. At least we think it is." Maggie says. ok. Now I wanna know like really.
"So what is it?" Fred asks.
"How would you guys like to stay together? Like permanently? Without worrying about splitting up." Binks asks.
"Sounds good." Andrew says. I wonder why we don't call him by his first name.
"I agree with LJ. Sounds good." I realize I can get away with callin anybody any nickname I give them. I'm the only one who can call him that. Everybody nods in agreement.
"Good!" Bianca beams. "Because we adopted you guys." she says.
"Seriously?! You can do that?!" I ask shocked. I thought they'd be too young to adopt us.
"Please my mother is Erica Kane and Maggie has connections with the council. We can do whatever." she says with a wave of her hand.
"But," Maggie starts. "Kennedy is part of this too. She agreed and she'll be here soon." she says lookin at me. She knows we don't see eye to eye very often. I think we're too much alike. Stubborn. "So you're gonna have to be nice." she says again lookin at me. I sigh.
"Sure whatever. Wait don't that make Erica our grandma?" I ask. Oh that'll be to funny. I can imagine her eyes buggin out if we EVER got bold enough to call her granny. Bianca laughs probably visualizing it.
"Yeah in a way. But I don't think it'll be safe to call her that." she say lookin at me. If I didn't know any better I'd swear they though I was the trouble maker. Just cus I happen to do things normal teens wouldn't. Eh its fun. He he.
"Anyway. You're all going to have Lehane added to your last names except Andrew and Faith." Maggie says. Figures. We were cursed with it at birth.
"Can I just drop Smith?" Chris asks. She nods at him.
"Sure." he smiles.
"What about your last name?" Gunn asks.
"Lehane is already on my birth certificate" she says.
"Oh is all he says." we spend a little time chattin bout random stuff while I wait for B to get here. I run over my conversation with her from earlier tryin'a to get a clue as to what she was gonna say. I got nothin but I do think I heard jealousy earlier when she asked about my date. I wish. But if she is interested I wish she'd say somethin.
Buffy pov.
I got dragged away to the band room. When we got there Cordy and Wesley was sitting there with a chair in the middle of the room. I raise an eyebrow and they gesture for me to sit in the chair.
"Okay guys, what's up?" I ask. Spike grabs a chair and plops down in front of me sitting in it backwards.
"What's up is Faith has a date later." Cordy starts.
"I'm aware. I'm helping her get ready." I reply trying not to sound too jealous.
"We have a problem with that." Spike says. Again my eyebrow shoots up.
"You got a problem with me helping her?" I ask.
"No no problem with that. We have a problem with who she is having her first date with." Cordy corrects.
"Exactly. Our Faith should go with someone she likes and likes her." Wesley says.
"So you're saying he doesn't like her?" I ask.
"No we're saying we don't care because she doesn't like him." Spike says to me.
"Ok so what does that have to do with me?" I ask. I'm confused now.
"Do you like Faith?" Wesley asks.
"Yeah I do." I answer.
"So why haven't you asked her out? She should have her first date with you." Cordelia asks.
"What if she's not interested?" I ask them.
"She is. Trust us." Wesley says. I look at them and honestly I don't have a reason to doubt them.
"You think I have a chance?" I ask sounding way hopeful.
"We do if you hurry up so she can cancel with that dude." Spike answers for them.
"I'll go to hers after my next class." I say.
"Or you can go now and we'll get your homework for you. Its your last class anyway we'll just tell the teacher you didn't feel well." Cordy says shrugging. I smile.
"OK guys. See ya later." I say getting up and making my way out of the school and to Faith's.
Faith pov.
Man who ever is knocking on the door interruptin the lion king II is gonna get it.
"This better be important!" I yell at the door. I open it and see Buffy. "Oh hey B, come on in." I say with a big smile. Now she can interrupt anytime she wants. She looks over at the t.v.
"Sorry to interrupt family movie time but can I talk to you?" she whispers tryin to not disturb anybody else.
"Sure. C'mon." I say leadin her up to my room. We get inside and I motion for her to take a seat where she wants. "So B what's up?" I ask jumpin on the bed after she sits in the chair at my desk.
"Ok feel free to say no to this and call me crazy or what ever you want but I need to say this." she stops to take a breath. "So I was talking with Spike and Cordy along with Wesley and we all agree that you shouldn't go on a date with Riley. It obvious he's not your type and call me conceited but I've seen you watching me. You like me and I like you so why don't you let me take you on your first date. It'd be a lot more fun than it would be with him." she says. Well I say damn. Talk about direct approach. I mean this woman knows how to say what she wants.
"Um you're conceited," I start and her expression doesn't change. I sigh. "But you're right. I do like you but I didn't know if you liked me and I didn't wanna mess nothin up with us by comin on to ya or nothin." I say she looks really hopeful now.
"So you'll go on a date with me?" she asks. She sounds all shy now its cute.
"Sure. But I still don't know what I'm supposed to do on a date." I tell her. She looks at me and smiles.
"Well we have dinner and talk, getting to know each other better, then we go see a movie. After that we hit the bronze for a while for a little more fun then I bring you home." she says.
"So its just like hangin out just like not as friends, as hopefully more?" I ask her.
"Pretty much." she says. I can't help but smile.
"Awesome. So when do you want me ready?" I ask her.
"Bout 7, I'll be here to pick you up at 7:15 at the latest." she says.
"I can't wait." I say then I frown slightly. "I gotta head to the school so do you wanna stay here?" I ask. She furrows her brow.
"What do you need to go to the school for?" she asks.
"To cancel things with Riley. Ya know seein as how there isn't a date with him cus its with you now." I say to her. She looks a little distant for a minute.
"I'll walk you." she says.
"Ok." we make our way out with grunts as our good-byes from Maggie and the crew. We walk in silence for a while.
"Oh I almost forgot to tell you, Bianca and Maggie adopted us!" I tell her excitedly.
"Congratulations!" she says giving me a hug. Caught me off guard but I like it. She pulls back and looks away shyly. "So what do you want to see tonight?" she asks me.
"Can we see Mr. and Mrs. Smith?" I ask her. I really wanna see that.
"Sure." she says.
"Cool." I say and the rest of the walk is spent in comfortable silence. When we get to the school I see Riley makin his way out.
"Yo Riley!" I call him. He sees me and smiles and it falters a little when he sees Buffy.
"Hey Faith, Buffy." he says being polite.
"Riley." she says. I wonder what's up with those two.
"Um so I wanted to say I'm sorry but I gotta cancel our date. I'm sure your a nice guy and maybe we can be friends?" I say. The last of it sounds like a question. His smile fades.
"Do you need to cancel cancel or postpone cancel?" he asks.
"Cancel cancel." I say. He gives me a disappointed smile.
"Alright. So who's the lucky guy that took your attention?" he asks.
"No guy. But the person that took it is B here." I say noddin towards B.
"Ah, so you're going out sometime soon?" he asks.
"Yeah tonight actually." Buffy answers. He forces a smile at her
"Well you two have fun. See ya in class Faith I'd really like us to be friends." he says and walks off. I turn to Buffy who's watchin him leave like she wants to throw a table at him.
"Ok so what's up with you two?" I ask her. She turns to me so quick I'm surprised she doesn't have whiplash.
"I just don't like or trust him. Something doesn't seem right." she says. "That and I was jealous of him." she says after a minute.
"How come?" I gotta ask even though I think I know why.
"He had a date with who I wanted." she says lowly.
"Well aren't you glad you took care of that?" I ask her with a smile. She nods and smiles back and we start walkin towards the buildin to get the rest of the crew. On the way up the stairs I don't know where it came from but she grabbed my hand and I gotta say... I like the feeling so I don't make a move to move a way.
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