I literally wrote this chapter in like an hour so I hope it doesn't suck to bad. LOL It's a short one but I have another one that I will post very very soon! I am currently working on chapter 18. Thank you for all your feed back on the last chapter!

Chapter 16: I love you, Bro!

"Hey man!" Angel jerked out of his trance and looked towards the voice that had just entered his room. Seeing Gunn walking further into his room Angel quickly shut the curtains in his window, his friend had seen enough of Buffy as it was and he didn't want Gunn to know that Buffy was giving him a peep show.

"What are you doing here?" Angel asked his friend getting up from his desk chair. "I'm grounded."

"I know." Gunn said laying down on the bed. "I guess your mom cares about my schoolin' or something cause she called ME asking if I needed to study."

Angel looked at Gunn questionably. "You actually want to study?"

"Hell no!" Gunn exclaimed picking up one of Angel's text books off of his bed and tossed it further away from him. "but I figured you needed some kind of human contact at home..." he glanced at Angel's bedroom window. "not the kind of contact you would be getting from her though. You know I ain't like that."

"And I don't want you to be." Angel said shaking his head and leaned back to sit on the edge of his desk.

"Speaking of contact you don't want... anything going on with Ms. French?" Gunn asked.

Angel crossed his arms over his chest and took a deep breath. "I am avoiding her like the plague."

"That workin' for you?" He laughed at his friend.

"So far." Angel nodded. "She hasn't come after me."

Gunn burst out laughing getting a odd look from Angel. "Sorry, man. I just got a picture of her chasing you down the hall in my head and its hilarious! It would be funny as hell if she was chasing you down and she ended up trippin' or something." Gunn broke out into another fit of laughter pointing to his head. "Yeah, it's even hilariouser with her fallin' on her face."

"Glad you find it humorous but hilariouser?" Angel asked with a concerned look. "You really do need my help."

"Nah, man. Forget about that." Gunn said sitting up and moving to the edge of Angel's bed. "Let's talk ladies!"

"I think your education is more of a concern here." Angel told his friend as he walked over picking up up the text books one by one to look at them. "or you know, you graduating at all." When Angel found the text book he was looking for he opened it to the bookmarked page from their latest assignment. "You need to work on your English."

Gunn took the text book from his dark haired friend, closing it and tossing it back on the bed. "When am I ever going to use English, anyways?"

"Other then everyday for the rest of your life?" Angel said raising his eyebrows.

"Yeah yeah, whatever! I want to hear about what is going on with Buffy... unlike Doyle who wants to SEE what is going on with Buffy." Gunn laughed.

Angel's annoyance was written all over his face. "Don't bring that up!"

"Okay." Gunn smiled holding his hands up in surrender.

"Why the hell would you guy's just walk in like that?" Angel burst out. "You can't knock first?"

"Wasn't my idea. I had a pretty good idea what was going on but Doyle... well you know him, he... didn't." Gunn explained. "Tell me what's going on with that. Well not THAT but I want to know what is going on with the two of you."

"Things are good." Angel said with a small smile. "It would be better if I wasn't grounded but that is my own fault."

"You want her human contact, huh?" Gunn smiled.

Angel nodded. "Would be nice."

"I bet."

Angel's smile got wider. "Always is."

"Hell yeah!" Gunn smiled leaning in for Angel to tell him.. anything.

Angel laughed at his friends actions. "What are we girls?"

"Dude, you are the only one of us that has a girl right now.. I am livin' through you!" Gunn explained.

Angel leaned closer to his friend. "I thought Doyle was the one that needed to live vicariously through someone else, hell before I met Buffy I was living vicariously through YOU."

"and now look at you, Mr Popular Basketball Star with a smokin' older girlfriend. You put me to shame!" He joked leaning over to knock Angel in the leg. "So, spill man."

"Fine." Angel took a deep breath, he hoped he wouldn't regret this. "What do you want to know?"

"Well I already know the sex is good." Gunn smiled but his smile quickly fell from his face when he realized Angel wasn't amused. "Sorry."

Angel watched his friend for a minute with a serious look on his face then suddenly smile. "Amazing is more like it, but whatever."

Gunn smiled again nodding. "That's what I'm talkin' bout! You guys serious?"

What do you mean by serious?" Angel questioned sitting back down in his desk chair, he glanced towards his closed window, Buffy was most likely gone by now.

"Bro, I know you were admiring the view when I came in here and you know I ain't talkin' bout the flower garden out there!"

Angel whipped his head towards his friend. "Shut up!"

"Yeah, okay." Gunn chuckled. "None of my business what you two do to get your rocks off when you can't be with each other."

"Your right! It isnt!" Angel said upset.

"Friendly conversation here." Gunn reminded him. "By serious I mean do you see yourself being with her past high school or is this just a fling?"

"I don't know." Angel shrugged. "That would be up to her."

"Meaning..." Gunn tried to pry more information out of him.

Angel looked down at his outstretched legs. "I care to much about her for it to just be a fling and I think she cares more about me then she is letting on but at the same time how many relationships actually last past high school?"

"Your asking me? Hell if I know." Gunn shrugged.

"59 percent of high school relationships end in divorce." Angel told him. "Most relationships don't even get that far!"

"Divorce?" Gunn asked with his mouth hanging open. "That means marriage had to be involved, right? Your thinkin' marriage?"

Angel shrugged. "Well it does tend to happen at some point."

"With Buffy?" Gunn asked still shocked. "Your thinkin' marriage with Buffy?"

"Again, that would depend on her." Angel threw his hands up in defeat.

Rubbing his face and taking it in for a second Gunn looked back up at his friend. "So your like... in love with her?"

"It's confusing." Angel leaned back in his chair, he couldn't believe he was having this conversation right now.

"How is it confusing?" Gunn asked. "You either love her or you don't."

"It's confusing because I have never been in love before!" Angel shouted looking back over at Gunn, then realizing his parents where him he lowered his voice and could only hope they didn't hear his little outburst. "I don't have anything to compare it to... I know I have love for her but I don't know if I love her or if I am IN love with her." That wasn't true. He knew, he just didn't want anyone else to know.

"There is a difference?" Gunn questioned.

Angel nodded. "Of course there is a difference. I love you, I love Doyle, I love Cordelia but that is all friend love."

"You friend love Cordelia?" Gunn smiled. "Times have changed."

"Yeah." Angel nodded. "Your telling me!"

"So just compare your friend love for Cordelia with whatever you feel for Buffy... is it the same?" Gunn tried to help.

Angel shook his head. "It's not the same, Buffy is my girlfriend... there are romantic feelings there, I don't have that for Cordelia... anymore."

"Okay then, compared to what you used to feel for Cordelia... how do you feel about Buffy?" Now Gunn really wanted to know what Angel was going to say, he knew his friend was in love but he wanted to hear him admit it.

"It's... like... ten times what I ever felt for Cordelia." Angel said softly then stood up pacing his bedroom, raising his voice slightly. "I can't get her out of my head!" He threw his hands up above his head, dropping them again. "Buffy is what I think about before I go to bed and as soon as I wake up in the morning! My thought randomly drift to her when I am trying my hardest to concentrate on something... anything! I want to spend every waking second with her... hell even when I'm not awake I want to be with her! Just knowing she is there, next to me, it gives me this calming feeling. When we kiss, it's almost like no one else is there. I forget about everything and everyone... it's just us. Nothing else matters! When I think about my future all I see is her! All I want is her! The future used to scare the shit out of me! I never knew what was going to happen in the future, I hate it when I am in the unknown. I could be completely lost but at the thought of her being with me... I know everything is going to be okay!" Angel took a deep breath, he didn't expect all that to just come pouring out.

"Your in love." Gunn stated.

"No." Angel said looking down at the floor and then back up to his friend. "You think?"

Gunn nodded.

"Maybe." Angel said softly.

"That was some heavy shit right there." Gunn said raising his eyebrows. "You okay?"

Angel nodded, looking away from Gunn.

"Feel better gettin' that out?" Gunn wanted to know.

Angel nodded again. "Oddly, yeah."

"You gunna tell her?" Gunn questioned again.

Angel shook his head. "There is no way she feels the same way."

"Why?"

"I'm sure I don't occupy her mind as much as she does mine and she is older then me, there is no way she would want to be tied down to someone as young as I am." Angel said still not looking up.

Gunn watched his friend stare at the same spot on the carpet for a few minutes. "You don't know that.. besides, with the way she looks no one would even know she is older then you."

"We would know."

Gunn got off the bed looking down at the floor where Angel was looking. "There something really interesting about that part of the floor I should know bout? Cause if hell is about to open up in your bedroom I would like to know now so I can get my black ass outta here!

"What?" Angel asked with a slight chuckle, finally looking up at his friend.

"I don't know, maybe you have one of those super special brains that can see weird shit that no one else can see. If somethin' is goin' on you gotta warn a brother! You know the black dude always dies first!" Gunn exaggerated.

Angel laughed, shaking his head. "Did you actually want to study?"

"Didn't I already say no?" Gunn said walking towards the door. "I will let you get you get back to your creepy way of getting your rocks off." Gunn pointed to the window.

"Don't really feel like it anymore." Angel replied getting out of his chair once again.

"and by the way Bro, I love you too." Gunn smiled batting his eye lashes at Angel as he walked out the door, closing it just as Angel's text book came in contact with the door where Gunn's head was a few second before.

Angel laughed softly shaking his head again at his friend. He couldn't believe he just revealed so much of his feelings to Gunn, he hadn't meant to but once he started he just couldn't stop it. He didn't like the fact that Gunn now knew something that Buffy didn't know but he didn't want to creep her out by telling her that she was on his mind so much.

Gunn had always had a way of making Angel realize something that he wasn't aware of but he was wrong about one thing, Angel wasn't in love with Buffy. He was completely, insanely in love with Buffy. He already knew that, he was sure of it but just didn't want to admit it. He couldn't tell her though, not unless she gave him some sort of sign that she felt even a little like he did. Nothing was worse then telling someone you loved them and not getting the same reply back. This is why he didn't want to admit to anyone, most of all himself that he was in love with the girl next door, he didn't want it to change their relationship. If he admitting to his feelings he would have the urge to confess those feelings to Buffy, if she didn't return the feelings then their relationship could be ruined. That was something he didn't want. Their relationship was strong, if anything Ms. French helped prove that.

Angel's eye's quickly glanced up, with a curious look on his face he made his way over to the window opening the curtain enough to peak threw. Seeing Buffy laying in her bed in a pair of tiny shorts and a black lace bra reading a book, he smiled. He was happy she didn't put all her clothes back on. Quickly sitting in his chair again he pushed himself over to the window and opened the curtain all the way and pushed his window up. Maybe he was wrong, he did feel like getting back to what they were doing before Gunn showed up.

Buffy must have seen the motion out of the corner of her eye because she looked up at Angel and smiled. Putting her book down, she got out of bed and slowly walked closer to the window so Angel could see her better. She tucked her hair behind her left ear, slowly trailing her hands down her body until she got to the button on her jean shorts. Angel didn't know what was sexier- the way she looked right now as she slid her shorts down her toned legs or the fact that she had been reading.