Chapter 22
Joyce was suprised when Buffy told her she'd decided not to be a cheerleader, but the Buffy wasn't the mot predictable. She'd taken both ballet and karate classes as a child, been both a baseball player and a cheereader in highschool. And Buffy told her mother about the "accidents." Cordelia and Amy's respective car crashes, Amber being pushed down the stairs. Buffy didn't tell her mother about the flying knife, only that the other things made her nervous wen put together. Joyce was glad her daughter was playing it safe. Then Joyce saw the news. She was glad Buffy and Dawn were at home when it happenned. A young woman, apparently another follower of Caligo, hd walked into store in the mall wearing an explosive vest, and detonated, killing herself and four others. Joyce had thought Sunnydale was a safe place to live. Suicide bombings, insane cult leaders, these things were suppossed to happen in the middle east or in Sloboda. Not in America, certainly not in the suburbs. It was becoming painfully clear that Sunnydale was not as safe as Joyce had once thought.