Chapter 8: Never Kill A Boy On The First Date

Willow had given Ben, Buffy's number but he never got the chance to call until Tuesday night. Buffy only talked to him for about 15 minutes and then made an excuse to get off the phone. She called Willow as soon as she got off the phone and tried to tell her she didn't want to go out with Ben anymore but as soon as Willow got excited when she heard that Ben had finally gotten the chance to call, she couldn't do it. She didn't want to let Willow down… but ever since Monday, after her long talk with Angelus. She couldn't stop thinking about him. To make matters worse, his bedroom was right down the hall. She found out which room it was. It wasn't the one he was standing in front of, that turned out to be Spike's room which she didn't really want to know. Angelus' room was to the left of Spike's room. The door on the other side of Angelus' room was Doyle's, the room at the other end of the hall, closest to Buffy's room was Gunn's. … but that's besides the point. She couldn't stop thinking about Angelus! He seemed so sweet and generally nice… and of course when she thought about Angelus, what he had told her popped into her head. Riley. He had rejoined the Army, 6 months ago! They broke up 5 months ago! How could she not have noticed!

But anyway enough about the cheating lying scumbag … back to Ben. He called her Thursday to see if they could meet up on Friday. It was all going a little to fast for Buffy but again, she thought about Willow and how happy it made her… which she would then think about Angelus and how happy she had been when she was just talking to him. It was all very confusing because even though they weren't talking about happy thoughts the whole time she got sucked into what they were talking about… she never knew the military was actually interesting. Then there was also his smile. He smiled a lot when they were talking that nice. 'He has a nice smile.' She thought. "But I don't think he likes me like that!" She said aloud throwing herself back on her bed.

It was now Friday and Buffy was trying to pick out her outfit for her date with Ben. She couldn't believe she was doing this… not only could she not believe she was going on a date but she also couldn't believe it was so hard for her to pick out an outfit to wear on said date! "I used to be so good at this." She said holding a dress up in front of herself. After putting on and taking off about 10 outfits, she decided on a black dress and maroon heels, she put her hair up in a cute bun and checked herself over once more.

Looking in the mirror at her make up one last time she grabbed her purse and went downstairs.

"Okay boys, I'm off!" She said going to the door. "Remember, be good little boys and tomorrow you can have some ice cream, but none tonight, its to late- you will be up for hours!"

About to open the door, Buffy was stopped by the sound of Gunn's voice. "Where are you off too, exactly?"

Buffy made a 'oops' face… "I have a date…"

"A date?" Angelus asked in a low voice.

"Who is this date with?" Doyle asked her. Angelus looked away from Buffy and to the floor. Buffy looked at Angelus.

Buffy sighed letting go of the door know. 'So close to getting out! Its only been a week and these guys are already over protective. Its like having 3 more Xanders.. And a Spike.'

"Am I about the get the 3rd degree? Because if I am, I plead the 5th.." Buffy said turning back towards the door.

"At least tell us his name." Doyle said.

'Oh, that's not hard.' Buffy though.

"and what he does for a living, his home address, blood type and if he has a criminal record." Added Gunn.

Buffy rolled her eyes. 'Your kidding me!' "His name is Ben, he works at the hospital. I don't know his address and I never plan on knowing his blood type and God, I hope he doesn't have a criminal record."

Gunn smirked. He was enjoying this WAY to much. "But what if you have kids? You should know his blood type, for the sake of the kids."

Doyle looked over at Angelus when he thought he heard something coming from Angelus that resembled a growl.

"Can you say jumping the gun, Gunn! I'm 21, kids are the last thing on my mind! Plus I killed my Gigga pet- really, I sat on it and it broke! And this is the first date!" Buffy said getting flustered.

"I think your worked up enough, I'm done." laughed Gunn.

"How long have you known this guy?" Angelus asked. 'If anyone is getting me worked up here, its Angelus. Damn, he looks sexy! Is he scowling? He's hot when he scowls… why is he scowling?' Buffy rambled in her thoughts.

"Huh?" Buffy didn't hear what Angelus said. 'I really need to stop thinking so much when Angelus is around, I tend to miss what he says.'

"I said, how long have you known this guy…" Angelus repeated.

"Its kind of a blind date… I told you Willow had been trying to set me up. This is a set up. I talked to him on the phone 2 times. Which I am kind of nervous about, I didn't think it would really happen this fast but I just want to make Willow happy. I like Happy Willow." Buffy rambled.

"What about Happy Buffy?" Angelus asked.

Buffy looked down at her shoes and back up at Angelus. " Well… maybe this guy wont be so bad and he could make me Happy Buffy."

Ben had asked Buffy to meet him at the Bronze at 8:30. It was now 9 and there was no sign of him. She thought she had been stood up until a tall-ish good looking man with longer hair walked up to her. "Buffy?"

"Yeah… Ben?"

"I'm so sorry I am late. I had some last minute stuff to do at the hospital and then I couldn't find you. I was here on time though! Make sure that's noted." Ben said smiling.

Buffy and Ben talked a little and danced some. 'Man, these shoes are killing my feet!'

Ben excused himself to use the restroom. The waitress came over and asked Buffy if she wanted another drink. "How late was he?" she asked Buffy?

"He said he was here on time but I didn't see him until 9." Buffy told the waitress who just happened to be a friend of Buffy's from high school named Amy.

"He was not here at a half hour! I saw him walk in the door Buffy, he was here for like a total for 2 minutes before he walked up to you! That guy is a liar." Amy told her.

"Maybe. I don't know how much I like him… But don't you think our named sound good together as a couple? Buffy and Ben. Ben and Buffy. B and B. We could open a Bed and Breakfast, and call it B and B!"

Amy put her tray under her arm. "You have thought about that WAY to much."

Buffy sighed. "I know. I just got so bored sitting here. He hardly talks! I have to occupy my brain somehow or I will start thinking about how sexy Angelus is and that NOT ok when I am on a date with Ben."

"Angelus" Amy smiled.

"Yeah, he is my new room mate and he is so sexy and sweet but I can tell he has a little of a bad side, which I think I am okay with." Buffy thought about what kind of stuff that bad side could do and smiled.

"What'cha thinking' about Buffy?"

Buffy looked up at Amy. "Would I be a totally bad person if I said, doing the dirty with Angelus."

"Oh my god! Tell me more about this guy! What does he look like!" Amy wanted to know.

Buffy's smile widened. "Well, he is tall, dark hair, dark eyes, hard muscles, a rockin body and oh my god! His hips! I love his hips, I don't even know why! But I do! there is just something sexy about them, Amy! And he is in the Army."

"You got it bad girl. Wait, the Army? I thought you weren't going to go back to that." Amy said.

"Who said anything about going back it to? First of all, Riley wasn't in the Army when I was with him, although I heard from Angelus that Riley is back in the Army now. Loser. And I don't even think Angelus likes me like that. All the guys treat me like a kid sister. It didn't take long either, I have been living there a week and they are all over my personal life like Xander on chocolate cake! And Ben is so bored, I don't know if I can last very much longer with him! Riley was boring too! Do I just attract boring guys? Arg, I am getting flustered again."

"Ok well get unflustered because Mister tall, boring and shaggy is coming back." Amy said getting back to work.

It was now 15 minutes since Ben had come back from the bathroom and he was just sitting there watching other people dance. Buffy got so bored at one point she started blowing bubbles in her drink, which he told her she had to pay for because this wasn't a pay week for him. 'Who invites a girl out on a date but doesn't have money to pay for it?'

Buffy tried to jump start a conversation with Ben but he would shut it down with one word answers. 'Maybe he is like Oz and is actually very interesting under the top layer… What am I saying, Oz changes his hair color every week, he is interesting on all layers. This guy just sucks.'

"So….." Buffy said.

"Yeah…" Ben replied.

5 more minutes of silence.

"Willow tells me you have a sister that is my age…" Buffy commented.

"Yeah."

'Another one word answer! I have to do something and fast or I might chew his arm off just for entertainment purposes. ' "Do I know her?"

"Her name is Glory…" 'Four words! We are getting somewhere.'

"What does she do?" Buffy questioned.

"Nothing," 'Damn, back to one words'

Buffy looked at her phone and it was now 11:00. 'I made it to the 2 hour mark, that's about time for a bad date to end right?'

"Do you want to go somewhere else for a while?" 'what was that 10 words? Wait, he is asking to make this date last longer? I guess its time for a bad date to get worse! Hell, please open up and swollen me now!'

"Its getting kind of late and I have work tomorrow." Buffy said trying to convince him to end this horrible date.

"Oh ok, yeah. I totally understand." They got up and walked out the door to The Bronze. 'This place is not as fun as it used to be… or maybe it was just the company.'

"We should do this again sometime. It was a lot of fun." Ben told Buffy.

"Um.. Yeah. I will let you know." 'What should I do?… He is looking at me like he wants me to kiss him.. I don't want to kiss him. That would just be weird.

"I will call you then." Ben said still giving her that look. 'Oh, what the hell. It cant get much worse. Maybe there will be something in a kiss..' Buffy leaned forward and kissed Ben on the lips. 'Oh my god… is he, yes he is! He is licking my lip! What the fuck is wrong with this guy! There is NO way in hell I am letting him stick that tongue in my mouth' Buffy pulled away 'Oh my god! His tongue is really grossing me out!

"I gotta go." Buffy said turning and walking quickly towards her apartment.

Buffy walked into the apartment. Closing the door, she locked it too. 'I cant believe how horrible that was and I just had to kiss him and make things worse. He probably wants to know why I didn't go home with him, I practically threw myself at him!'

She looked around the living room and saw that Angelus was still sitting on the couch where he was when she left but this time he had a beer in his hand and a bunch of empty beer bottles next to him on the coffee table.

"Hey." She greeted.

"huh? Oh hey." He said simply.

"You know…" Buffy said sitting down next to him. ".. its called a coffee table, not a beer table."

Angelus looked at her. "Maybe we should get a beer table then."

"They make those?" She asked confused.

"Don't know. They do now." He offered. "So… how was your date?"

Buffy's shoulders slumped in defeat. "You said the D word!"

"That good, huh?"

"Oh yeah, you don't even know the half of it! Sooooo boring. Can I ever date a not boring guy, I mean the last non boring guy I dated was senior year… of high school! This guy, hardly talked. He took so long every time he went to the bathroom that I don't know if he was powdering his nose or taking a poop! If he was pooping then he MUST have irritable bowel syndrome."

Angelus couldn't help but laugh.

"Oh yeah, laugh it up mister! You haven't even heard the best parts! He showed up a half hour late, and then lied to me and said he was there on time but couldn't find me. The place isn't that big! And this diet must be working pretty damn good if he couldn't even see me! I was lucky if I got more then one word out of him at a time! I thought at one point the must have fallen in love with me because he said 10 words to me! And then the kiss!.."

"You kissed him?" He asked. 'Out of all that he got that I kissed him!'

"Yeah, I had to. He was looking at me like he was expecting me to and I didn't want to just not do it… and that just maybe made me sound a little like a kissing slut but its true. I couldn't not kiss him when he was looking at me like that. It was a bad kiss. One of my worse, and I have had some pretty bad kisses. I mean, he licked my lips WHILE I was kissing him and when I ended the kiss because I just couldn't take it anymore, he was still standing there: eyes shut and TOUNGE OUT! It was like wiggling around and I just couldn't take it anymore!"

Angelus couldn't take it anymore and burst out laughing harder then he ever remembered laughing before. And he couldn't stop.

"Why is this funny to you?" Buffy asked. Then she began to laugh too.

"I'm sorry Buffy, it really sounds like you had a horrible time, its just…"

Buffy stopped laughing and looked at Angelus. He was just so beautiful. She couldn't help herself or stop herself. Buffy slowly leaned over and kissed Angelus softly on the lips. He stopped laughing, when he didn't respond to the kiss she started to pull away. Angelus stopped her by softly putting his hand on the back of her neck. He slowly opened his mouth, silently asking for permission, Buffy slighting opened her mouth and invited his tongue in to play with hers. It was the sweetest kiss she ever experienced. Angelus started to pull away this time but his lips did not leave hers.

"Your killing me" Buffy mumbled against his lips.

"Not my intentions" Angelus smiled against her lips and kissed her sweetly again