Hey, I know, I know, you're all thinking, “hey? Did that chick psycho just post a new story?” well yeah but y’all weren’t diggin it so it went bye-bye. So here’s the thing. I was cleaning out my documents and I stumbled upon my first ever original story so I read it over and viola! Insta-inspiration. So you know the drill. You don’t like it, don’t review. If you do support it and let me know that you demand more. Oh yeah, readers of my other stories, Ruby’s back…again. live with it if you don’t like her. *big cheeky smile*

Oh yeah, things to know before you read.

1) Since LA had to be such a trip, I couldn’t let them be from Sunnydale, therefore they’re all gonna be from my home state, Minnesota. I can sympathize with them for wanting to leave this way.
2) Buffy is gonna be a lot more punk-poppy then the original character of Buffy would ever be. It only fits with the type of music that they play. Oh yeah, duh. They’re all musicians by the way.

And that would be all you have to know before hand. ENJOY!!!!
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Guitar? Check. Clothing? Check. Talent? Triple check. Ride? Not so much with the checkness.

Buffy Summers let loud sigh and shook her blonde head. This was so not how she’d pictured it. The girls and her going to LA after graduation was supposed to be magical. They were supposed to be cruising down the highway on their merry way to stardom but no. Ruby’s stupid brother Paul had backed out at the last minute, leaving them ride less. She’d have to remember to kick Paul in the balls next time she saw him.

“Are you doing the check list *again*?” one of Buffy’s two best friends, Willow Rosenberg couldn’t help but laugh.

”Hey!” Buffy protested, “I’ve only done the check list…” she trailed off, beaten. She’d done the check list at least a hundred times in the last two minutes alone. That averaged out to be just about ever minute if you really wanted to think about it. Cause sixty plus…oh hell, she was sad.

“Why don’t we just head down to Planet Bang and see what happens?” Ruby Singer suggested, looked at her best friends, “I mean sure it’s Minnesota but there HAS to be someone else out there heading to LA too. I mean Coon Rapids isn't that lame.”

Her friends both turned to stare at her, “Okay so it is but that’s really not the point!”

“Ruby’s right,” Buffy agreed, “Even though Coon Rapids scores major on the ass sucking scale, doesn’t mean all the people in it suck ass.”

“So we just head down to Planet Bang and what? Just start asking people if they happen to be willing to give three eighteen year old girl’s free rides to LA?” Willow was skeptical.

Ruby smirked, “Exactly.”

A small smile crossed Buffy’s lips. All they had to do was look up and maybe things wouldn’t be so bad. Maybe being the key word of course.

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“Will you put that bloody thing down whelp?” Spike Giles snapped at his mate Xander Harris. He’d had that fucking camera glued to his hand since they’d picked up this trash RV up in Michigan that Xander’s grand da had left him in his will. Spike said junk, the whelp said “Vintage.” Vintage his lily white ass.

“Can't,” Xander stated, “I’m going to make a documentary that’s gonna make us millions. I have a title for it already, “Three Guys and an RV.”

Oz smirked and said in his monotone fashion, “Lovely.”

Xander seemed to miss the sarcasm of the statement all together, “I know.”

“Even if we’re handsome blokes if I do say so myself,” Spike sighed, “No one in their bloody right mind is going to want to watch a movie three guys on a road trip to LA.”

“Chicks do help,” Oz could only agree.

“You guys are only bringing down my vibe,” Xander huffed and turned away from his friends, “I’m a creator and when this thing is a hit, you’ll be thanking me. No more “Whelp” for me, on no.”

Spike rolled his eyes and turned back to driving, Oz put on his headphones and Xander resumed to tape. What he was taping, they all didn’t know. Including Xander for that matter.

just to clear something up for one of my two reviewers (hint, hint people) If you’ve read a story with Ruby in it before, then it’s by me cause she’s my original character.

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Buffy, Willow and Ruby entered the large overdone club and automatically went into business mode.

“I’ll take the pool room, Buffy you get the bar, Wills, you cover the tables? Got it?” Ruby took charge.

Buffy and Willow nodded and they wall went their separate ways. They were on a mission.

Twenty minutes later pasted and still nothing.

Buffy, Willow and Ruby all collapsed at a table and hung their heads.

“This so sucks,” Buffy sighed, “I mean doesn’t anyone wanna have a road trip? It’s not like were going to see the worlds largest ball of twine for Christ’s sake! We’re going to LA!”

“LA as in Las Angeles right?” Buffy, Willow and Ruby where all shocked to the bone to see who had asked the question.

“LA as in Las Angeles,” Buffy confirmed.

Cordelia Chase stood in front of their table with her hands on her expensively dressed hips. Cordelia had not acknowledged Buffy, Willow or Ruby other than to taunt one of them since the third grade, “Then I’m in. We leave tomorrow.”

“Whoa, let’s back up here for just a sec,” Ruby shook her blonde head, “Who said you could come?” Ruby had definitely not contemplated the idea of it being one of the people she hated most would be volunteering. Could you spend every waking moment with Cordelia with out bitch slapping her? Not so much, but the bitch slapping should be fun.

“Oh stuff it Singer,” Cordelia rolled her eyes, “Let’s face it. You all need me.”

“Maybe so,” Buffy nodded, “But why would you want to go with us? I mean, why not just pack up your min…” Buffy paused, almost slipping and calling Cordy’s friends her “minions” in which they all referred to them as, “Why not with Harmony or someone?”

Cordy sighed heavily. Truth be told, she was more than sick of Harmony Kendal. Besides, she’d never admit it, but Buffy, Ruby and Willow had a vibe that got to her…they seemed to be people she could laugh with all summer. Okay so maybe she’d have to play nice with Ruby but they’d be friends for sure by the end.

“Would you want to spend three months with Harmony Kendal seeing her every waking moment?” Cordelia raised a perfectly plucked eyebrow. Ruby, Buffy and Willow all visibly flinched at the idea. Point taken.

Willow and Buffy both turned to look at Ruby who was still going over it. Hmm, have a wild LA summer becoming famous yet having to spend it with Cordelia Chase there or staying home…Cordelia it was, “Okay. We leave tomorrow but I’m warning you Chase. I will claw your eyes out.”

Cordy smirked, “Wouldn’t want it any other way Singer. Bring it on.”

With that, Cordelia disappeared into the heavy crowd of the loud club.

The three friends looked at each other and couldn’t help but smile. Watch out LA. They were coming for ya.

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It was an ungodly hour of the morning. Five AM to be exact. Who gets up at five AM anyways? It was truly unnatural, completely unholy. Ruby got up at five AM apparently. So Ruby was Satan. It cleared a lot of things up really.

Buffy cracked an eye to see her friend standing there fully dressed in a pair of super low, ripped up jeans that had song lyrics and doodles all over them and tight “Jem and the Hologram’s” tee. Her straight platinum blonde hair with streaks of every color of the rainbow thrown in for kicks as she’d put it was pulled into a spiky pony-tail at the top of her head. She looked far too cheerful for this time of morning.

“Come on Buffy!” Ruby exclaimed, “It’s time to get up and go!”

Buffy rolled over onto her back and asked, “Were you chugging Red Bull and ginseng again?”

A look of offense crossed Ruby’s face, “No…okay maybe a little but that’s so not the point! This is our chance to get out of Minnesota! It has to be RIGHT now!”

“Why RIGHT now?” Buffy groaned, closing her eyes once more.

“Because it has to be RIGHT now goddamnit! Cordy’s just getting Wills and then were off in her little red Barbie car!” Ruby explained excitedly. It was a shitty explanation, Buffy decided still staring at her friend like she was crazy.

Hang on a second. Let’s back up. Did Ruby just call Cordelia Cordy? “Since when do you call Cordelia, Cordy?”

Ruby rolled her eyes, “We had a bonding moment over Red Bull and ginseng shots at four okay?

Buffy sighed heavily and rolled out of bed, automatically wanting to jump back under her covers and stay there until noon the second her feet hit the ground.

“I took the liberty of picking out your outfit,” Ruby explained cheerfully, shoving a dark purple tee that said in hot pink “Idaho? No Udaho!” and a dark purple colored velvet mini, “You take forever so I decided that this would be much quicker. Get dressed. Cordy’ll be back with Wills any second.”

“Couldn’t you have gotten Willow then came over here?” Buffy protested, childishly snatching the clothes from Ruby’s hands and grudging towards her bathroom.

“Buffy,” Ruby laughed, “I’m you next door neighbor.”

“Oh yeah,” Buffy grumbled, “No wonder my childhood years were hell.”

“Totally heard that,” Ruby giggled.

Buffy slammed the bathroom door in response which only egged on Ruby’s laughter.

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Three Hours Later…

Buffy was wide awake now. Wow, Ruby’s morning cure really did work. She didn’t think she’d sleep for days.

They’d been driving for a little off forever and her ass was getting numb, “Change the station. This song sucks.”

Ruby rolled her eyes and hit the random button. It stopped and the sound Gwen Stefani.


**What an amazing time,
What a family,
How did the years go by?
Now its only me...

Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh....

Like a girl in heat stuck in a moving car,
A scary conversation, shut my eyes, can't find the brake!
What if they say that your a clutter?

Naturally I'm worried if I do it alone...
Who really cares cause it's your life...
You never know it could be great...

Take a chance 'cos you might grow.
Oh, oo oh.

What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting for!?

What you waiting
What you waiting
What you waiting for!?

Take a chance you stupid ho...
Like a new cut pattern you're repeating yourself
You know it all by heart, why are you standing in one place?
Born to blossom, bloom to perish!

Ya know you're (wigging out) cuz of your sex chromosome.
I know its so messed up how our society'll think (for sure)
Life is short, your capable.(uh-huh)

Oh, oh.
Look at your watch now.
You're still a super hot female!
You got your million dollar contract
and they're all waiting for your hot track.**


They’re jamming was cut short when all four girls saw the most beautiful thing they’d all ever seen. You are now leaving Minnesota.

“It’s beautiful,” Willow whispered in awe.

They all nodded mutely in reply. Even Cordy, who had been out of Minnesota many times had to agree. It was great.

“Good bye Minnesota,” Buffy smiled happily, “Won't be missin ya.”

With that, they drove on, singing and laughing. This was gonna be one hell of a trip.

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review, review, review. That’s all I have to say to y’all.

Let’s skip ahead exactly one week from the time they left. No there hasn’t been any cat fights…yet, lol. Anywho I’m skipping ahead a few days of their trip cause…oh you’ll see.

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Buffy, Willow, Ruby and Cordy all sat in the little dinner and chatted. Hanging with Cordy hadn’t been bad. Once you got past the snob, she was just jammed pack with awesomeness. Of course, Ruby and she were still going neck to neck.

“Stop that,” Cordy sighed as Ruby blew bubbles in her Sprite with her straw.

She looked up and stuck her tongue out at Cordy, “God, you sound like my mother.”

Willow shook her head and looked out the window. Her eyes rest on the car or at least where it used to be. Oh no.

“Yeah well if I was…”

“Uhh, girls?” Willow said, cutting Cordy off mid-sentence, “The car is gone.”

Three heads snapped up and stared at her, “What?!”

“Wills please tell me that you're joking,” Buffy practically begged with wide eyes, “You know, ha-ha! Gotcha to look!”

Willow shook her head, “I wish. Buffy how many cherry red 2004 BMW convertibles are going to be in the parking lot of a place like this exactly?”

All four girls shot up their seats in a hurry and dashed out to the parking lot.

“My car,” Cordy whispered, turning to her new found friends, “Someone stole my baby!”

“Now we don’t know that,” Willow tried to reason with the brunette weakly.

Cordy’s eyes bugged, “Just how many goddamn shiny new BMW’s do you see in this parking lot?!”

“Cordy you need to calm down” Buffy sighed.

“She says calm down,” Cordy started to mutter to herself. Okay Cordy was really starting to freak them out, “How can I calm down? My brand new car was just jacked!”

“Cordy!” Ruby exclaimed and then sighed, “Chill our or I’ll be forced to slap you know take a deep breath and count to fucking ten.” Okay so a little part of Ruby didn’t want Cordy to chill…Bad Ruby!

“Let’s just go inside and call the police okay?” Buffy sighed heavily.

They all nodded and headed back into Sally’s.

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“You are NOT serious!” Cordy screeched, slapping her perfectly manicured hand down on the police station’s front desk.

“I’m sorry miss,” the officer shook his head, “But we found a 2004 cherry red convertible BMW in a ditch completely gutted. The license plate matches the one you gave us.”

Buffy let her hands fall into her hands. Their dream trip was all going to hell. First they didn’t have a ride then they got a really good ride and now once again they were very much ride less. This sucked MAJORLY!

“Hey come on now,” Willow sighed, wrapping an arm around Buffy, “Thing always work out for us remember?”

“Yeah!” Ruby cheered, plopping down on the other side of Buffy and wrapping one of her arms around her friend also, “We can always hitchhike you know.”

Willow turned to Ruby in horror, “Oh no we’re not!”

Buffy looked up, “Let’s do it.”

“Do what?” a clearly flustered Cordy asked.

“Hitch hiking.”

“Cool.”

Okay so not the reply they were expecting from one Cordelia Chase. Ruby looked her up and down before deciding. Okay, so she wasn’t so bad.

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Two LONG hours later…

“I’m all hot and sweaty,” Cordy whined, the snob in her voice coming out stronger then ever, “We’re four hot legal chicks hitchhiking goddamnit! Someone should have picked us up by now!”

Willow looked up at Cordelia from her spot on the ground and shook her red head, “I knew this was a bad idea.”

“No offense Wills,” Buffy sighed, “But you think everything that’s not all safe and sound is a bad idea. This trip was about living a little. Well, this is living A LOT.”

Willow sighed, “You're right. Time to live a little.”

“We could go to the garage sale,” Cordy suggested, then a look of pure terror crossed her face, “Oh my god, you middle class ness is rubbing off on me already!”

“How do you know there’s a garage sale?” Ruby raised an eyebrow, “Are you getting magical middle class powers now Cordy?”

Cordy rolled her eyes, “The sign bitch.”

Taped onto a street light pole was a large cardboard sign that read GARAGE SALE. Buffy stared at it for a moment. Hey, they could totally write on the other side of the sign! Now what would get someone’s attention? All of a sudden, inspiration hit Buffy. A wicked grin crossed her face as she ripped the sign off the pole and started to dig through her bag until she found a thick black sharpie.

She turned the sign over and crouched down to write in bold black letters ORAL SEX FOR RIDE. So what if they were screwed if was a woman that came by. Then again, if it was, she would feel sorry for them more then likely give them a ride.

“You can NOT hold that up!” Ruby laughed.

“Why the hell not?” Buffy demanded, putting her hands on her hips. Her idea was an ass kicking idea if you asked her.

Cordy rolled her eyes, “Oh I dunno, maybe that some nasty old dude will come along and think you're serious?”

Oh yeah. That would suck majorly. Suck. Ewww.

“Buff…” Willow started to warn, knowing the look at had just crossed her friend’s face.

“Ahh, screw it,” Buffy smiled brightly, cutting Willow off, “We could luck out and get a Porsche full of hot college dudes.” With that, she held up her makeshift sign.

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“Oh. My. God!” Xander practically wheezed as his camera rested on a group of four hot chicks about their age standing on the road side. One was holding a sign promising things he’d sadly at this point in his life, only dreamed off.

“You okay man?” Oz raised a red eyebrow.

“Look out the window,” he squeaked in response.

“Now that’s not something you see everyday,” Oz said, visibly unfazed.

Spike must have spotted them too because the RV came to a screeching halt with a “Bloody hell.”

Xander focused his camera on the door. He had a feeling his documentary was about to get MUCH more interesting.

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Hehe, I was listening to a German euro-pop song on repeat will I wrote this chapter. I think it was a brainwashing song too. Watch out on the news for the sixteen year old girl that killed some dude in Minnesota…Anywho, reviews please. Thanks to all of you who did. Do it again and there’ll be chocolate in your future.

“An RV,” Cordy rolled her eyes, “How road trip cliché.”

“Uh huh,” Ruby couldn’t help but laugh, “And for girls driving down the high way in a little convertible blasting music wasn’t at all.” Well she did have a valid point.

Buffy smiled triumphantly at her friends, completely ignoring Cordy and Ruby, “Told ya so. It was a sure fire way of getting picked up when hitchhiking.”

With that, the petite blonde walked up the passenger side door of the RV and peered into the window, giving it a small knock before opening it.

Buffy stopped when she saw just who was driving. Oh yummy.

In the drivers seat was a drop dead gorgeous dude with slicked back platinum hair, dressed in all black, cheek bones that would make any model piss green with envy and deep blue eyes. Definitely yummy.

She gave herself a mental shake and smiled brightly, “Hi! I’m Buffy!”

She was even more beautiful up close, Spike decided as the golden blonde beauty leaned forward into the car seat, “’Ello kitten. ‘M Spike”

Buffy melted. Kitten. He’d called her kitten. Had she ever been called kitten before? Not so much. Anywho, it was charming Buffy time. She let out a girly giggle and batted her eye lashes, “Nice to meet you Spike. I was wondering if you would possibly mind picking me and my friends up and dropping us off in oh, I dunno. LA?”

Spike couldn’t help but chuckle, “Well that might just work luv. Seems to be that me and my mates are heading there too. We could work something out.”

Buffy lit up, “Ohmigod! You can't be serious! Thank you, thank you, thank you!” With that, Buffy crawled into the passenger’s seat and planted a big kiss on Spike’s lips. She blushed slightly as she pulled away and then laughed at the awkward situation, “Sorry. Couldn’t help myself. You're my savoir.”

Spike blinked a few times, his eyes glued her to pouty lips before looking up at her, processing she’d been talking to him, “Uh, not a problem luv.” All he wanted now was to kick Oz and Xander out of here and fuck the small blonde into unconsciousness. Bloody hell. He had a feeling that this was going to be a long trip. I mean there was this girl standing on the side of the road with a bloody sign offering…oh yeah.

“So?” Ruby asked, tearing Buffy’s attention away from the god of a man in front of her.

“So get in,” Buffy beamed at her friend. Platinum worked so much better on him.

Ruby laughed and shook her head before picking up her bags and entering the camper part of the RV, Cordy and Willow in tow.

“Hi,” Ruby smiled at Xander and Oz, “I’m Ruby and I’ll be your friendly hitchhiker today.”

“Dear lord Ruby,” Cordy rolled her eyes, “Do you have to be so freakin bubbly?”

Ruby turned to Cordy and gave her a middle finger salute with a fake sugary smile that showed off every single one of her pearly whites, “Yes.”

Xander couldn’t help but laugh which took Cordy’s glare off of her rival/friend and on him, “And what’s so funny. You don’t look like the kinda guy that lost his virginity until he was eighteen.”

“Ooh burn,” Ruby shook her head and let out a hiss of sympathy for the brunette boy.

“Cordy!” Willow scolded, “Apologize! That wasn’t nice at all!”

Cordy rolled her eyes before giving him an insincere, “I’m sorry.”

Xander stared at the brunette girl. She was a goddess, extremely cruel but a goddess none the less. And for her information, he’d lost his virginity at seventeen. It had lasted all of seventeen seconds for that matter and had never happened again but that wasn’t the point.

While Xander was drooling over Cordelia, Oz on the other hand couldn’t help but notice the little red head. She wasn’t drop dead gorgeous like the two but there was something about her. She seemed so sweet and innocent and she stood up for Xander which was a first for anyone but Spike or him.

Ruby the queen of detecting sexual tension, even in the earliest forms, suppressed the urge to roll her eyes. From all the giggling coming from upfront and this, everyone but her sadly would be fucking before they even got out of Iowa. Oh well. It’s not like Buffy and Willow couldn’t use some good sex. Cordy on the other hand, just like herself new a thing or two already about that particular subject. This was going to be interesting to watch to say the least.

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“So luv,” Spike smirked at her. Ooh that was sexy the way he did that, “Do you make a habit of hitch hiking with signs offering wicked things as much.”

Buffy turned bright red, “Ohmigod no! We’d been out there for at least two hours and we were getting desperate. I blame the heat.” She paused and looked at him with wide eyes, “You're not like gonna kick us out because I’m not gonna...”

“Bloody hell no!” he exclaimed and then sighed. He was a guy for Christ sake! Yeah he was disappointed, “It’s okay kitten. We all do some crazy shit sometimes.”

“I like that,” Buffy blushed slightly, turning away before he could see.

“Like what?” he raised a scared eyebrow.

“That you call me kitten, or luv, or pet,” she giggled slightly, still extremely embarrassed. “Makes me feel all special and I can't believe I just said that aloud. I’m gonna shut up now.”

He couldn’t help but notice the way he could turn her cheeks an adorable shade of pink in a matter of two seconds flat. Now HE liked that. He smirked in manly pride, “Please don’t. Bloke can use a good ego boost once in a while.”

Buffy laughed lightly, “You know you're kinda cocky.”

He smirked again, “Face it pet, you love it.”

Yeah, yeah she did.

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just a little filler chapter. Hope ya liked it cause I really didn’t but oh well. I’m not quite sure what I want to do with this story but I’m gonna keep going. If you got any ideas tell me in a review or e-mail me at MissParis77@aol.com. Thanks ever so much. Review please.
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