Coming Home
Sunnydale, the world without shrimp 1998
Dear Diary,
Buffy had been stressing all week because Cordelia decided to run for Homecoming Queen and so that meant Buffy had to run too. This weird skinny guy asked her out apparently, Willow said she was really excited about it, but the guy just looked a bit too gay to be with her. I did try to tell her that but she just told me to go away. She told me I was being a brat which I thought was totally unearned, so I stomped off to my room and ranted to mom for an hour about how Faith was influencing Buffy against me.
Either way, Buffy was walking around the house totally crazed. making flyers and ranting angrily about how all her friends were taking Cordelia's side. I wasn't sure I'd vote for her just for how she's turned our house into a pep rally.
Then the night of Homecoming came. I thought about my own Homecoming for years, in the end I never got one because Spike exploded and destroyed the town and we had to move to England for a year. It was sad really I had the colour of dress all sorted out.
I heard the story from Buffy when she got home that night, she knew I was excited to hear all about it. So I guess she pity indulged me just for the night, even if she was disappointed that she didn't win Homecoming queen. But Cordelia didn't win either so she wasn't too bummed. She told me that they were headed to the dance, a fancy limo they hired came to pick her up, I wanted to look inside but mom told me to go inside. Apparently, on the way there, the limo drove off the road and they were kidnapped by a crazed vamp.
Might I add that she got kidnapped with Cordelia. Who I kinda liked because I thought she had style. I kinda wished she'd stuck around. But anyway, they were kidnapped and had to escape some weird demon thing called Slayerfest. They were being hunted and Cordy decided to fight it with a spatula. Buffy really liked telling me how dumb she was trying to do that. They eventually got rid of the some of the demons and made it to the dance. And even after all of that they didn't win! I told Buffy she still had prom, so she should try again. She nodded and told me to go to bed because it was getting late. Typical big sister behaviour. I went but only because she was nice to me.
That night I did dream about Xander taking me to the dance and us slow dancing to a love song. Now I look back on it, I was a real dork for that kind of stuff. But who can blame me? I was just a little kid. All kids dream about that stuff, even kids who have to deal with vampires and demons.
Dawn x