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Chapter 10: Friends and Enemies

Buffy turned up the radio in her car, singing louder. She had just come back from Jenny's store, she bought a few things that Amy said would be delivered as soon as possible. Buffy asked her to have them delivered in a few weeks because she still didn't know exactly what she wanted to do to her house. She saw a lot that she wanted to buy though so she thought she would just figure out how it would all fit together when she had it all in her house. Buffy really liked Amy, she had been working for Jenny for a few years and on the plus side she was Buffy's age. Amy was normally only there when Jenny wasn't but every once in a while the two women would be there together. Today was one of those days they were there together, Buffy stayed and talked to them for a while after she placed her order. Now she was on her way home but because the road she normally used was under construction she had to take the longer route. Luckily that route took her right past the park where she saw Angel and Gunn shooting some hoops.

Angel jumped up putting the ball through the net and laughed as he swung from the hoop. He let go and dropped to the ground when he heard someone whistle. Looking up he saw his girlfriend walking towards them. It had been a week since Angel confessed what was going on with Ms. French and things between him and Buffy were better. Better then they had ever been.

"Sexy." She said walking up to the court. "Hey guys."

Angel picked up the ball throwing it to Gunn and turned to Buffy. "Hey." He kissed her quickly.

"You have come a long way in a short amount of time." She smiled at him.

Angel smiled back at her. "Yeah well, I had a good coach."

"Coach Wheeler?" Gunn asked confused.

"Speaking of...practicing without me?" she teased

"Sorry about that. Just needed some guy time." Angel told her.

"Plus tonight is game night!" Gunn said dribbling the basketball.

"Its cool." Buffy smiled. "So Gunn, if it was the biggest moment in your life who would you want beside you?"

"What?" Angel asked her. That was a random question to ask his best friend.

Buffy shrugged still smiling. "Just something I was talking about with my best friend. I actually asked a woman who owns this store I go to all the time and she said her husband and her son, how sweet is that?"

"Scarlett Johansson!" Gunn replied. Buffy laughed. Gunn turned to his best friend. "What about you?"

Angel glared at Gunn.

"So, I hear you have some killer music at your crib... feel like sharing?" Gunn asked with a smile.

"Sure! Come over anytime and you can barrow something." She smiled.

Gunn looked from Buffy to Angel. "How bout right now?"

Buffy drove the two boys to her house so Gunn could look through her large collection of CD's. They walked into Buffy's spare bedroom and she opened the doors to the large closet.

"Nice!" Gunn said checking everything out. "You got any hip hop in here?"

Buffy nodded. "Some old school. There is Public Enemy and Fearless Four."

"Buffy Summers, getting sexier by the minute." Gunn smiled.

Buffy laughed. "Have at it, but if you happen to come across any notes from ex boyfriends, ex lovers or my bigamy loving father do me a favor and skip over those. "

"That sounds like a whole bunch of white people drama that I want no part of. I will skip over those." Angel nodded to agree with Gunn as he looking through her music then looked up at her. Gunn didn't know if she was joking around or not. "Do you happen to know which ones those are? And where's this Mandy Moore CD?"

Buffy laughed. "No actually, I don't... Sorry. Mandy Moore?"

Gunn nodded and pointed to Angel. "He said it."

Buffy looked to Angel. "I do not have Mandy Moore."

"Yes, you do. I saw it somewhere." Angel said going over next to Gunn to look through his girlfriends CD's. Once he found it he held it out for her to see.

Buffy grabbed it away from him. "That is from when I was younger, I loved her song 'Crush'."

"That is a good song." Gunn nodded looking at Buffy's collection. Buffy raised her eye brows at him. "What? A brother cant have layers?"

Laughing Buffy turned to Angel. "How are things going with Ms. French? Because I really cant handle you coming in here crying like a school girl." She laughed.

"You know that woman doesn't really listen to the word no and I do not come in here crying like a little school girl..." He said seriously then smiled. "It was more like a whine."

Buffy laughed. "Find anything good over there, Gunn?"

"Oh. I'm just pretending I'm looking so I can hear ya all's issues. I'm actually wondering how you two

are gunna get rid of Ms. I-Like-My-Nerdy-Basketball-Playin'-Student-Groper so I don't have to listen to this school girl cryin' nomore." Gunn said pointing at Angel.

"I was not crying like a school girl." Angel said again this time to Gunn."I am actually interested to hear that too."

"Oh yes you was." Gunn pointed out.

Angel shook his head.

"Do you have any idea's Gunn?" Buffy said walking across the room to where her boyfriend was standing by the closet door.

Angel looked unsure, where they really asking Gunn for his input on this?

"Dude, I'm takin this Led Zeppelin." He said taking a album from the shelf. "And I think you gunna be late for your game."

"Talk about this later?" Angel asked giving Buffy a kiss.

She nodded. "See you tomorrow."

Angel walked out of the room in front of Gunn.

Gunn turned around to face Buffy. "How come you never go to any of his games?"

"He's never asked." Buffy shrugged, watching Gunn walk out of the room to catch up with Angel.

Buffy sat on her porch steps, resting her chin on her hand with her sketch book in her lap. She was working on some new designs that she wasn't so sure about yet. She couldn't help but think about the Ms. French situation, she was convincing herself that she needed to let Angel deal with it. On the other hand whatever he was doing wasn't working.

"Hey, Buffy?"

She looked up to see Cordelia Chase. "Yeah."

"This is your house?" She asked Buffy. "I knew you lived near Angel... did he tell you he had been helping me out with some school work?"

"No, he didn't." Buffy responded politely.

Cordelia walks down the side walk to Buffy's porch. "Look, I don't really like you. Its nothing against you or anything... well I guess in a way it kind of would be but its more because my boyfriend has the hots for you."

"Completely understandable." Buffy smiled. "I wouldn't like me very much either."

Cordelia nodded. "Good to know there are no hard feelings but look... I just wanted to warn you... I don't know if you know this or not but Angel has been spending a lot of time with Mr. French."

"Yeah, he told me. She is helping him with the Science Fair." Buffy nodded looking back down at her sketch.

"I'm sure that is just a cover." Cordelia looked down at the ground in front of her then back to Buffy. "There have been rumors around since the day Ms. French started teaching at Sunnydale 3 years ago that she... well she kind of, I guess the word would be seduces her male students. I have seen Angel with her in her class room and she is more then just playing the role of teacher." Buffy looks down at the porch steps while Cordelia continued. "I have also seen that Angel doesn't want any part of it, he always leaves. That makes him special because let me tell you, he isn't the first girls boyfriend that Mr. French has done this too."

Buffy looked up at Cordelia. "Percy?"

The brunette nodded.

"Thanks for telling me Cordelia, Angel told me about Ms. French. I have been trying to figure out how to deal with it or just let him deal with it." Buffy told her boyfriends classmate.

"Oh... well just to let you know, she wont let up. She gets off on it or something." Cordelia told her as she turned to walk away.

"Cordelia." Buffy called out. When Cordelia turned around to face her Buffy said. "I'm sorry about Percy, not just because of how he is with me or what he did with Ms. French... I'm sorry for everything he has ever done to you. You don't deserve that."

"Thanks. But you said what he DID with Ms. French like its not still happening." She said sadly.

Buffy watched the girl walk away, it broke her heart. Buffy put her sketch pad down on the porch, looking over at Angel's house for a second. She picked her sketch pad back up and ran inside to change.

Angel made his way down the empty hallway from the locker room, they had finished the second quarter of the game. They had sucked as always, the first half of the game. He got a little nervous when he saw Ms. French walking towards him from the gym.

She smiled at him and put her hand on his chest. "Hello, Angel."

"Ms. French, I think we should talk." Angel said taking her hand off his chest.

"Natalie." She corrected with a smile.

"Ms. French. The way you have been acting.. towards me. Its not okay and as I mentioned before I have a girlfriend. She isn't to happy that you have been... pursuing me." He tried to explain to his Science Teacher.

"Why? Would she like to join?" She smiled.

Angel's eyes widened. "No! We both.. we both want it to stop."

"You look so sexy in this jersey Angel." She said placing her hand back on his chest, letting her hand slid down. Angel looked at Ms. French nervously then turned his head down the hall when he heard what sounded like heels on the tile floor. "Have I told you that before?"

He didn't like where this was going. This woman really gave him the creeps. He swallowed thickly. Natalie's hand traveled lower into the waist band of his basketball shorts. Angel grabbed her arm, pulling her hand out of his shorts.

"I have to go." He said quickly before he ran away.

Buffy walked down the empty hallway in the high school, she was pretty sure she missed the first half of Angel's game but as long as she saw part of it she would be happy. She stopped in her tracks, narrowing her eyes when she saw a dark haired woman with her hand down Angel's shorts. That must be Ms. French and the whore had her hands all over a boyfriend that didn't belong to her, just like Cordelia had said. Buffy watched Angel remove the woman's hand and run away.

"Hey Bitch!" Yelled a girl, Ms. French turned to see what the problem was. She is a teacher at this school after all, she couldn't have students fighting. Looking around she didn't see anyone else in the hallway.

"Excuse me?" Ms. French asked the blonde down the hall.

"You heard me! A little friendly warning, stay away from Angel Sawyer." She warned walking closer to the dark haired woman.

"I am just helping the boy." The Science Teacher told the blonde.

She nodded. "Yeah, helping yourself right into his pants and here is where it gets not so friendly. Stay away from him unless you want to check into Sunnydale Emergency Room, courtesy of me.. Oh, and stay away from Cordelia Chase' boyfriend too. You give woman everywhere a bad name."

"And who are you?" The teacher asked.

"Angel's girlfriend, so keep your saggy boobs away from him." She glared before walking in the same direction her boyfriend had gone.

Ms. French watched as the girl walked away. When Angel said he had a girlfriend she didn't expect his girlfriend would be anything like that. She thought his girlfriend would be a quiet nerdy girl who didn't know what she was doing but looking at his girlfriend now, she wasn't a girl as all. She was a grown woman who had confidence... and very tight clothes that were a little on the skimpy side. She smiled as she watched Buffy walk away in her tight pencil mini skirt and black low cut tank top, her black high heels making a clicking sound with every step.

When the Basketball team ran out into the gym, Angel was thinking about Ms. French, she went to every single one of his games. His own girlfriend didn't even do that but he didn't blame her, with the way he had been acting before they talked about everything, he was surprised she hadn't broke up with him already. Angel spotted Ms. French over by the end of the bleachers, as always she was checking him out. He ran further out on to the court and heard someone in the bleachers shout out his jersey number. He scanned the crowed when he heard "Number 3 is sexy!" He found the girl who had shouted it, it wasn't just any girl. It was his girl. Buffy stood in the bleachers with a smile on her face. Angel smiled brightly at her then turned to join the rest of his team mates who were gathered around the coach.

All through the game Angel kept looking up at the bleachers at Buffy. Every time he looked at her she was cheering, it gave him a boost of confidence. Angel played the best he had in all their games and he even made the winning basket just as the buzzer sounded. It was the first win for the team that season.

Buffy jumped out of the bleachers and made her way through the people, giving Angel a hug. She was so excited for him.

"We should celebrate!" She said pulling away from him, then her smile dropped from her face and she ran her fingers through her long blonde hair. "I mean, if you have time."

Angel smiled at her, still happy that she was there. "Yeah, I have time."

"Ice cream?" Buffy asked.

Angel nodded. "Just let me change."

Angel got a chocolate ice cream cone while Buffy got frozen yogurt.

"You know that was our first win." Angel said opening the door for Buffy. "I think you might be my good luck charm."

Buffy laughed, moving her plastic spoon around in her yogurt. "I'm sure that isn't true. So... I either saw Ms. French tonight or someone else is trying to get in your pants, other then Cordelia."

"There is nothing going on with Cordelia." He told her looking for a empty picnic table.

"That isn't the impression I got from Parker." She said following him over to a table.

Angel let out a sarcastic laugh sitting across from her. "Parker? I really hate that guy."

"Why?" Buffy asked sitting at the table

He looked at her shocked like she should know why.

"You pissed about your old lady or the hot girl from earlier?" Buffy repeated what Parker had said.

"He wants you!" Angel exclaimed. "I heard he is the biggest player in town!"

Buffy rolled her eyes. "You think I don't know that?"

"But you still hang out with him?" Angel asked her.

Buffy shook her head. "I don't HANG OUT with him. He is a pain in my ass."

"Not the pleasurable kind right?" He asked unsure.

"That was gross." She said eating. "So... she was hot, well her face could use a little work."

"Yeah well, Cordelia..." He started.

Buffy raised her eyebrows at him. "Cordelia? I was talking about Ms. French."

"Oh..." Angel said turning to his ice cream.

"Figures you would still find Cordelia hot." Buffy rolled her eyes. "Just to make sure...next time a slutty teacher tries to get into your pants, will you just tell me?" She half joked.

Angel nodded with a half smile. "Yeah, I will."

"I was thinking..." Buffy said putting a spoonful of frozen Yogurt in her mouth.

Angel raised his eyebrows at her playfully. "Is that a good thing? Because last time you said that you said we shouldn't spend so much time together."

Buffy smiled taking a small amount of ice cream onto her finger and flung it towards Angel. "Shut up. I was thinking.. what is the difference between me and Ms. French? I mean, we are both older then you. You were a minor and I'm... not. I knew you were younger and I still pursued you anyway. It makes me no better.. but tonight.. I saw you. I saw you with her.. I should have been thinking about how wrong it was not only that she was doing it but because I did it. Instead all I was thinking was- I'm going to kill her for touching you."

"Buffy, you are different then her." He got up from his spot at the picnic table and moved to the other side to side next to Buffy. "First of all, your hot. Second of all she's like 10 years older then you or something. She has to be old to be a teacher, right?" He laughed. "Buffy, I want to be with you. She was more like forcing it on me. If you really think about it I started this whole thing between us. I totally peeping tom-ed you, then you told me to leave that night at your house but I didn't want to. I kissed YOU."

"I didn't have to let you stay though." She told him.

Angel nodded. "True, but you couldn't resist my studly ways."

Buffy laughed. "Yeah, that is SO true."

Angel hugged Buffy, she laid her head on his chest then asked. "Does that mean in 10 years I'm going to be old?"

Angel smiled and kissed her hair.