Note: The game they play in this chapter is an actual game. At least in my hometown it is, it was a huge craze in my high school.

I'm not overly happy with how this chapter turned out but I am going to keep it anyway and just move on.

I got a scene in this chapter from the movie Crossroads.

Chapter 17: Guilty Pleasures

The next morning Angelus walked around the house, his friends passed out drunk in random places. He wondered if Doyle and himself were the only ones who could handling drinking. 'Maybe its because our motto was always 'The best way to avoid a hang over is to not stop drinking'" He thought to himself. He peaked his head into Doyle's room. He was already gone. Gunn was sprawled out on the couch with a video game controller in his hand, Jeremy was on the floor by the TV, Sully was asleep in the chair by the couch, their other friend Leadingham was a few feet from the chair Sully was in and Spike… well.. Angel walked out of the game room and over to the stairs, there was Spike. Passed out drunk like he had been walking up the stairs, fell and was just to drunk and lazy to get up. Angelus had the urge to kick Spike but then he heard the faint sound of music coming from Buffy's room and went to check if she was awake yet.

He quietly knocked on the door but didn't get a response, all her heard was the beat of some pop song. He slowly opened her bedroom door and saw her dancing around in as mall white tank top and little boy shorts. 'She's so cute.' He thought.

"I see you on the street and you walk on by." Buffy sang as she danced around the room swaying her hips.

Buffy picked up a cowgirl hat, putting it on her head , dancing. ".. you make me want to hang my head down and cry." Buffy put her hand on the cowgirl hat to keep it from falling off and bowed her head. Angel smiled.

"If you gave me half the chance you'd see my desire burning inside of me but you choose to look the other way." Buffy put her hand on her jaw and turned her head like the lyrics were saying. "I've had to work much harder than this for something I want don't try to resist me." Buffy put her hand over her heart and danced around the room.

"Open your heart to me, baby. I'll hold the lock and you hold the key." Buffy reached her hands out in front of herself and shook her butt. "Open your heart to me, darlin." Putting her hands back on her heart. "I'll give you love, if you… Angel!" Buffy shouted falling to the floor by her bed and taking the hat off.

Angel laughed. "Don't stop on my account. Please."

"What are you doing?" She asked embarrassed that he had caught her singing and dancing. She often did this was to shy to do it when she knew people where home. When she was at her moms she would do it every morning while getting ready for her day. "Did I wake you?"

Angel opened the door further and walked in. "No. I was already awake. I heard your music and thought you were up. That was cute by the way." He smiled.

"Oh…" Buffy looked down at the floor, she was so embarrassed.

He sat on the bed next to where she was on the floor. "I didn't know you could sing or dance."

"I cant… well I can dance." She said still looking down. "But that wasn't my dancing!"

"It looked like you dancing…"

"I mean, that's not how I would normally dance. I was just goofing around." She said softly.

"Well I thought it was good." He said looking down at her causing her to look up at him. "You should hear me sing, I think even a dying beached whale sounds better then me." He laughed.

"Doubt it." She smiled.

Angel looked next to him on the bed, there was a decorated box there. "What's this?"

"Nothing. Its stupid." She told him as she got up.

"It doesn't look stupid. It looks… sentimental." He told her pulling her into his lap.

"Its just this … thing… we used to do when we were younger… whenever we got a new boyfriend. Veronica wanted me to do it but I think I will just tell her I did." She explained.

"What is it?" He asked.

"Its to get to know your 'significant other' better." She answered.

"Wanna do it?" He smiled.

"Are you sure? Its stupid. I mean, its homemade and by a bunch of preteens… all though we added a few as we got older and if the guy stuck around then he could write one." She said looking at the box. "Oz, Logan and Xander have added."

Angel picked it up. "Lets do it, baby."

Buffy and Angel sat Indian style across from each other on her bed with a pile of index cards between them. Buffy put the box on the bed to the left of her.

"How does it work?" Angel asked.

"Well… we take turns picking up a card and we have to read the card and the other person answers it. But be prepared. A bunch of pre teens… and Oz, Logan and Xander." Buffy said the boys names slowly.

"I have yet to meet these Oz and Logan guys and have only met Xander once but I think I can handle it." He smiled.

"OK, you can go first." Buffy said pointing to the cards.

"If you insist." He said picking up a card and reading it to himself first.

"Read it out loud." She told him.

"Are you sure? You already know what all these cards say, right?" He joked.

"I'm not a mind reader, and I told you… it was a long time ago. I don't even know what 95% of these cards sat!" She said trying to read for the card in his hand but he pulled it out of her reach.

"Okay, okay." He looked at the card again. "How old where you when you had your first kiss?"

"Oh, goodness." Buffy said trying to think. "My first real kiss… not including the one on the reading rug in first grade…" Angel laughed at her. "I was 14, when I had my first real real kiss… is that weird?" She asked him.

"No, not at all." He said leaning over to kiss her.

Buffy picked up a card and read it out loud. "What is something you never want your parents to know about you?"

Angel took a deep breath. "That when I was 16 I told my mom I was going to church but I never went, I met up with a girl instead."

"Naughty, naughty." She said putting the card on top of Angel's discarded one on the side.

Next Angel picked one up. "What is your first memory?"

Buffy had to think on that one too. "I have bits and pieces of memories in this mostly useless head of mine but I guess I would have to say when my dad was out of town when I was little we would often go to my Grams house because my mom didn't like being alone, I remember going there and every morning I would wake up to the smell of breakfast, I would go down stairs and my Grams was cooking and my Papa was sitting at the table reading his morning paper and drinking coffee. Much like a certain boyfriend I have."

"I remind you of your Papa?" He asked

"Ewwwww." She laughed. "Just the morning paper and coffee thing."

"That's a really sweet memory, Buffy."

"Yeah. And my papa used to sing that little kid song to me 'She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes.' every night when my mom would be coming home from work, because my grandparents used to watch me. Sometimes I miss being young." Buffy said with a sad smile.

"But its so much fun being an adult. The phrase She'll be coming around the mountain when she comes takes on a whole new meaning." He joked, earning a playful slap to the shoulder from Buffy .

Buffy picked up a card. "What was the first thing we said to each other?"

Without a beat Angel answered "Well you said 'Hello Salty Goodness' which has always stuck in my head." He laughed " and I told you I don't jerk off to anime."

"Yeah, like I would ever forget that moment." She laughed.

"Ok, lets see….When did you first become aware of me?" He asked her.

"Duh! As soon as your sexiness came into view when you came down the stairs!" She said like it was a given and picked up her card to read. "What is your favorite memory of me?"

Angel smiled. "My all time favorite would have to be when you came home and told me how horrible your date was.. I was hoping you would have a bad time and my wish came true. That was the night we kissed for the first time and it changed everything. That night my whole world changed, YOU changed it and didn't even know it." He said sweetly. "And then there is all the times you have ever been naked in front of me with your legs spread." He added bluntly.

"OH MY GOD! You were being all sweet until you said that!" She laughed. "I could have been putty in your hands mister."

"You always are." He said with a sense of cockiness in his voice.

Buffy rolled her eyes and shoved a card at him.

"Oh, I like this one. What is you all time guilty pleasure?" He read.

Buffy looked down and whispered. "This doesn't leave this room…. But…. I… I have every episode of Battlestar Galactica recorded. Gah! Its good to get that off my chest."

Angel burst out laughing. "Galactica, huh? I used to watch that show all the time."

"Really?" She asked him. He nodded. "We should watch it sometime together sometime!" Buffy excited that he didn't think he was a nerd.

Buffy looked at Angel seriously. "Can I tell you a secret that goes with the guilty pleasure thing?"

"Don't tell me you have had 'self love' moments while watching Apollo fly his viper." Angel said sarcastically.

"No.. although Apollo is pretty hot, I kind of have a thing for Helo." She told Angel. "But it has nothing to do with BSG, at all."

"Helo? Really?" She nodded. "Why?"

"I just find it sexy that he can really kick ass." Angel nodded excepting that as her answer.

"So… whats the secret?" He asked her.

"Well… promise not to make fun of me?" She asked.

"Promise, Baby. What is it?"

"Well…" She started again. "My friends… well some of them. Make fun of me because they all know Riley was a very straight forward never try anything out of the box kind of guy, they would even joke around that he only did missionary because he is a dutiful soldier who is all about the mission… I… he wouldn't really do anything else in bed… it was actually really boring." She said. Angel watched her carefully. "I,,, I have always wanted… I think.. Maybe… doggy style would be fun. And being spanked. Gah! Did I really just say that?" Angel laughed. Hard. "And your laughing… Your making fun of me."

"No, baby. I'm not." He stopped laughing and was very serious now. "I just, find it funny that Riley would never want to do anything else, and the joke about the mission is pretty funny . Also that you had such a hard time saying that to me. Baby. If you EVER want to try something new sexually, just tell me. I'm all for it! Hell, even if its not sexual. I would do it."

"Really?" She asked.

"Really."

"Cool." She said picking up her next card. "What do you like best about me." She read.

"Tits." Was his reply.

"Angel!"

"Your wit, smarts and beauty." He said more like a question then a statement.

Buffy threw the next card at him to read to her. "Do you fall in love fast?" He asked what was written on the card.

"No. I have trust issues and guy issues and a bunch of other issues most likely and it takes a lot for me to let my guard down." She answered honestly. "Ok… what was the most important 'something' to happen to you ?… "

"I should have been playing the game, but at the last minute before the basketball game started.. This girl came and got me. She said she needed to talk to me. She pulled me under the bleachers with her and we had sex. It wasn't the best sex because it was my first time but I will never forget that moment. It was amazing, her name was Rebec…" Buffy cut him off while he was talking.

"OK, then. Next!"

Angel picked up the card and continued, if she couldn't handle her own game then that was her problem. "What is your most embarrassing moment?"

"There is a tie for that one. I would like to say it was that time when I tripped and fell face first into the boys bathroom, but its not. Even though that did happen to me. But it's a toss up between when my dad drove all the way from LA to meet me at school and tell me how much of a disappointment I was and how I should have been a boy and he wished I hadn't been born…" Buffy looked down at her hands. "I never told anyone that last part before. … but there was also that time in high school when some guy ruffied my drink at a party and I passed out by the pool and people thought it would be funny to undress me…" Angel looked at her like his heart was breaking. "Yeah, someone slipped me the date rape drug. Fun."

Buffy picked up the next card and read it aloud. "Who is the most important person in your life?" 'Oh god! I don't like this question. He is going to say some girl he used to know, just like his most important moment was sex with some girl! This was such a bad idea! I bet he doesn't even like me anymore since I went a spilled all those bean all over him! I suck! I should have lied! I wish he would have lied and said something about me was an important something for him, at least that way I shouldn't feel like crap ran over twice right now. I hate you Veronica!'

"I think we are done. This was stupid." Buffy said as she picked up all the index cards and threw them in the box, not caring what the condition of the cards were. Angel looked at Buffy with a questioning look, she was still throwing more index cards in the box, she looked like she was about to cry.

Her mood had completely changed towards the end of the game, he must have said something to upset her… but he was only trying to be truthful with her. He THOUHGT that was what relationships were about, but he didn't know much about them. It had been a while since he had been in a relationship.

Buffy got up from the bed and carried the box over to her desk. She was either going to give that stupid game back to Veronica or burn it. Whatever one came first.

Angel watched Buffy as she walked around her room, she didn't seem to be walking anywhere, she just wanted to be moving. He got off the bed and went to wrap his arms around her, she gave in for a second and then walked out of his arms and out of the room.