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NeonCity86- I agree, I dont think there are enough AU fics in the Buffyverse. I hope to change that. Thank you very much! SMGbest- Thank you for the great review. I hope you enjoy this chapter.Chapter 2: The Girl Next Door
A blonde woman stepped out of her yellow Nissan Xterra looking at the house in front of her. It was cute, she had never had a real house before. She had only lived in apartments but now she wanted to set down roots somewhere, a place to call home. She walked up the side walk to the 3 bedroom house she had bought. Walking inside she looked around, it needed some work but she could decorate it in no time. Looking at her cell phone she noticed it was 9AM, she had been driving for the past 3 hours she should be tired but she wasn't. She chopped it up to being excited about a new place. She went back out to her car to grab her laptop bag and a box, taking it inside she went up the stairs to the second level of the house. She found what room she wanted to be her bedroom and set the box down then her laptop bag next to it. Her best friend Xander thought she was crazy to move to a small down and to buy a house she had never seen before but she felt like taking a gamble. From what she had seen of the house so far she thought the place looked pretty good. She thought about waiting around until the movers got there but since they had an extra key she decided to go out to get some things for the new house.
She drove around the small town until she saw a home decorating store, she was going to have to check it out. Going into the store a woman greeted her. "Hello there, is there anything I could help you with?"
"Um..." The blonde looked around the store. "I'm new in town, I just bought a house here... I really want to make it feel more homey."
The woman smiled. "Oh! I thought I didn't recognize you. My name is Jenny, this is my little store here."
"I'm Buffy Summers." She smiled back.
"Welcome to Sunnydale Buffy! If there is anything I can help you with in the store or just in general, please let me know!" She turned motioning for Buffy to follow her. "I have some stuff that should be perfect for you!"
After spending two hours in Jenny's store Buffy's wallet was now $400 lighter, not that she minded though. She wanted her new house to be perfect. Everything she bought was going to be delivered to her house in an hour so she made her way back to the house to see if the movers had made it there yet.
When she got to her house she saw several men taking all of her belonging into the house.
Walking into the house she told the men to take anything marked 'Bedroom' into the third door on the right and anything marked 'Materials' to the first door at the top of the stairs. When she finished giving all of her orders she ran up stairs to get her laptop bag and went back down to the kitchen. She sat on a bar stool that the movers had already unloaded, placing her laptop on the island counter.
Turning on her laptop she waiting for it to boot on, she clicked the icon that said 'Summer Love'. She had 40 more orders, maybe she should have put the site on hiatus until she was settled. Summer Love was her clothing line that she had started after high school, at first it was just something she was trying to bring in some extra cash because her father had walked out on them, she wanted to help her mother in some way but fashion was all she knew, then it became a good distraction when her high school boyfriend Riley decided to break up with her before he left for college. She had started making her own clothes when she was 15 years old so making clothes for others just seemed to work for her. When she started getting more and more orders for Summer Love she decided maybe she could use the money to save up for college. It sounded like a good plan at the time but Summer Love kept her so busy she didn't have time for college so she never went. She designed and made all of the clothes her self. Xander joked that she was a one woman company but it was true, no one helped her get to where she was and no one else did anything at the company, it was all Buffy. People she met thought it was odd that she had a successful company with only a high school diploma. Her mother, Joyce often told her how proud she was of her. Buffy was 22 years old and was more successful then her mother had ever dreamed.
Refreshing the page she saw that the orders jumped from 40 to 93, she would have to get started as soon as she could. She told the movers there was a change in plans and asked them to set up the bedroom for Summer Love first, they moved all the boxes that said 'Materials' into the room and started to unpack the boxes that had 'Summer Love' printed on them. She took a quick look at the orders to see what other materials she would need and headed out to buy what she didn't have.
When she got back 45 minutes later the room was all set up and the movers were working on her bedroom. The room wasn't set up exactly as she would have liked it but she could work with it for now. She got to work on the orders, this was going to take a while. Suddenly a thought popped into Buffy's head and she ran downstairs to her laptop. She hit refresh to see how many new orders where placed while she was gone, she now had 150 orders. She plopped down on to the bar stool taking a deep breath. She would have to put the site on hiatus until she got settled and finished the orders that were already placed. Luckily she had some clothes that she had made when she was still living in LA, hopefully that would take care of some of the orders. She went back upstairs to get to work.
Buffy's eyes were starting to hurt, looking at the time on her cell phone she noticed she had been working for 3 hours. She needed a break. The movers had started moving things around downstairs, so Buffy went to her room, searching through her clothes that were still in boxes she found her bikini. The beach was much needed. She changed into her bathing suite and slipped on a pair of shorts.
She drove to the beach which she had seen when she was out earlier, luckily for her it wasn't very far from her new house. She could see herself going to the beach very often, it was one of her favorite pass times in LA.
She laid out on the sand working on her tan. After making dresses for the past 3 hours she needed some relaxing at the beach time.
"Hey there." A man said looking down at Buffy.
"Your kind of blocking my sun." She said looking up at him.
The man took a step to the left so the sun was hitting Buffy again. She looked up at him and smiled. "Thanks."
The man had dark hair, blue eyes and a killer smile. "I'm Parker. I haven't seen you around here before."
And then he had to go and say that. "Are you really going to use that line on me?"
"Excuse me?" He asked.
Buffy closed her eyes dismissing him. "That line is so over used, its not even funny." She smiled as he walked away. At one point she would have jumped at that guy, heck she jumped at a lot of guys in her time but she was in a new town, she wanted to start over. That meant no more jumping when guys like that one tells her too. She was going to be better here, or so she hoped.
When Buffy thought she got enough sun she headed back to her car to go home. When she got there the movers still had their truck parked in her driveway so she parked on the side of the street. She headed inside to see how things were coming, when she walked in the place looked good, the things that she had bought that morning were set up along with her belonging the movers had delivered.. The movers were almost done. She grabbed her laptop and took it upstairs into her new office space. She set it up on her desk and hooked the printer up, she set the printer to print all of her orders out with everyone's address, invoices and order summaries so she could get everything sent out as soon as she could. While she waited for everything to print she headed back outside to take a walk.
She walked around the block, when she turned back on her street she noticed a old beat up truck driving behind her. Seeing that there were three teenage boys in the truck staring at her she thought it would be fun to put a little extra swing in her hips. She turned back to see all of their mouths hanging open, she was about to smile when the truck swerved into the other lane with a car coming towards it. She watched the other car scared for the boys lives that she didnt even know. When the truck went back into its own lane she ran inside her house.
Once Buffy got inside her house she shut the door and leaned back against it. She could have gotten those guys killed, it made her feel a little better that they were all safe now. She let out a deep breath and went upstairs. She walked into her room and grabbed a shirt to put on over her bathing suite top, putting the shirt on as she walked down the hall to her office.
She went through all her orders, seeing what she already had made and what she would have to make. She had a few boxes in her office that she packed up to send out in the morning but she would need to get more boxes tomorrow. She packed up all that she could then walked back to her bedroom to get ready for bed. She walked over to her closet, the movers were nice enough to unpack a few of her clothes for her and hang them up. She took her shirt off, dropping it to the floor she was so tired that she didnt care where it landed. She untied the string of her bikini top letting it drop to the floor alone with her shirt. She then got a odd feeling that someone was watching her, she turned slightly towards her bedroom window and saw a dark haired male through the window of the house next to her. She wiggled out of her tight shorts then stepped into her large closet grabbing one of Xander's old jersey shirts. He gave it to her saying he hoped she wouldnt forget her best friend that was ALWAYS there for her through ALL of her man problems, Buffy smiled at the memory. She walked out of her bedroom to go to the bathroom, she quickly brushed her teeth and washed her face before she put her hair up in a messy bun. She made her way back to her bedroom and climbed into bed.