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It had been almost a month since Buffy had moved to LA and for the most part things were going pretty good. Buffy had started school at Hemmery High and had even made a few friends. She was surprised how no one seemed to judge her here about being a teenage mother; hell they even had a class just for that sort of thing.

Walking to her ‘Mommy to be’ class, or MTB as they referred to it, she ran into one of her new friends Connor.

Connor was a senior at Hemmery and was on every sports team known to man. Almost ever girl at Hemmery was head over heels for him. He wasn’t your typical jock. He was sweet and would go out of his way to be nice to everyone. He was a nice looking guy. He had shaggy brown hair that he constantly had to brush away from his big, chocolate brown eyes and a soft, innocent face. He was tall and his frame was small considering he played so many sports, but you could tell it was well toned. To sum it up, he was hot, but nonetheless, her heart belonged to Spike.

Buffy first met Connor at her sister’s house. He was the brother of Lindsey’s best friend Angel. When he came over one afternoon with Angel, Buffy automatically thought it was a set up to try to get her over Spike, so she immediately went into defense mode. But once Connor had assured her he had a girlfriend who was a freshman at UCLA they clicked almost instantly. He was easy to talk to and never once judged her. He would call her out of the blue just to see how she was doing or just to let her talk about Spike. At first, she felt weird talking about Spike with Connor, but after awhile it felt nice to have someone to confide in besides Lindsey and Faith. It was safe to say, Connor O’Shea was now a true friend.

Connor walked up to Buffy with a smile from ear to ear. He sidled up next to her and threw an arm over her shoulder. “So Buffy, where you headed to?”

Buffy returned his smile and chirped out, “MTB, you?”

He removed his arm from her shoulder and started walking in the direction of her class. “Gym class.” Waiting a beat, he added, “Hey, this evening a bunch of us are gonna grab some pizza and head to a movie, want to go?”

Buffy gave him an unsure look. “I don’t think I should; besides I have tons of homework already and the day isn’t even over yet.”

Connor and Buffy stopped outside of her classroom door. Connor jutted his lip out in a pout. “Come on Buffy. You always make an excuse not to go. It’ll do you some good to get out for awhile. All that moping around Faith’s can’t be good for the baby, so what do you say, come out with us tonight.” He looked at her with his famous puppy dog eyes that he knew she was a sucker for.

Buffy gave him a pointed glare. “Connor O’Shea don’t you dare give me that look. You know I can’t say no when you do that.”

He grinned mischievously at her. “I know that’s the whole point.”

Buffy let out a huff of exasperation. “Fine, I’ll go, but don’t think that every time you give me those damn puppy eyes I’ll cave. Got it,” she said sternly.

Connor gave her a look of mock admonishment, “Yes ma’am.”

She punched his arm playfully. “I better get into class before the bell rings. Call me with the details when you get home.”

“Will do Prego.” He laughed at the scowl on her face that he knew from the use of his new nickname for her and tweaked the end of her nose.

“You know I hate when you call me that.” She told him with her hands firmly planted on her hips.

“No one even knows what it means,” he replied.

Buffy rolled her eyes. “Yeah right, everyone knows Prego means pregnant.”

Connor gave her a cheeky grin. “Well that may be true.”

Buffy swatted at him, but he jumped out of her reach and started for the gym. Calling over his shoulder just before he rounded the corner, he yelled “See ya tonight… Prego.” Buffy simply chuckled to herself and went in the door to find her seat.



Buffy got home from school and went straight for the kitchen. Since she couldn’t hold anything down in the morning, she was starved by the afternoon. Entering the kitchen, she saw Faith sitting at the kitchen table sorting through the mail. As she walked over to the fridge, she chirped out, “Hey Faithy.”

Faith looked up from the bills and smiled at her baby sister. “Hey B, how was school?”

Buffy simply shrugged her shoulders. “Same old crap just a different day.”

Faith chuckled. “I know the feeling.” Shuffling the papers in front of her, she added, “So what would you like for dinner? Lindsey went to meet some colleagues for drinks so he won’t be home till late, so it’ll just be us girls tonight.”

Buffy put down the yogurt she was eating and looked at her sister. “Well Connor asked me to go out for pizza and a movie tonight, so if it’s alright with you…..”

Faith looked at her with a raised brow. “Is this like a date?”

Buffy’s eyes bugged out of her head. “A world of NO!” How could her sister even ask something like that.

Putting her hands up in surrender, she replied “Hey, just ask’n, don’t bite my head off.”

Buffy huffed and threw her yogurt in the garbage. “Well it was a stupid question. You KNOW Connor and I are just friends, and duh, he has a girlfriend and I have Spike.”

Faith gave her a mischievous grin. “Just check’n B”

Rolling her eyes, Buffy started for her room calling back to Faith, “Still a stupid question.”



Buffy got ready to go out with Connor and their friends. He called and said he would pick her up at six and they would meet everyone at the promenade for pizza. She couldn’t help but feel a twinge of guilt for going out tonight. Even though this was so not a date, she was still going to the movies with Connor. Yeah, there would be six other people going, but it still felt wrong. How would she feel if it where Spike going out and having a good time without her? She knew exactly how she would feel, hurt.

Just as she was fixing to pick up the phone to call and cancel her plans, the doorbell rang. She silently cursed Connor for being early and went to answer the door.

Opening the door, she was greeting by a goofy grinning Connor. Stepping aside so he could come in, she tried to think of an excuse not to go. “Connor I really appreciate you asking me…” she was cut off.

“Oh no you don’t. You’re not getting out of this that easy. I already told everyone you where coming and you aren’t gonna make me a liar,” he said as he was pulling her arm out the door.

Buffy tried wiggling her arm out of his grip. “Connor wait.” When he stopped pulling on her arm, she continued, “It’s not that I don’t want to hang out with you, I just feel guilty is all.”

Connor looked at her as if she had grown a third eyeball. “Why do you feel guilty Buffy?” Then he looked panicked, “You don’t think this is a date do you?”

Buffy laughed and let out an un-lady like snort, then clasped her hand over her mouth. Connor couldn’t help but laugh as well; the idea of this being a date was just too comical.

Buffy wiped the tears from her eyes and sighed. “Oh Connor, you should have seen the look on your face when you asked if I thought this was a date. That was the true definition of a Kodak moment.”

Connor shook his head and replied, “Well now that we have established there isn’t a snowballs chance in hell this is a date, can we just go and have a good time.”

Buffy contemplated his request for a moment. This would be no different than Spike hanging out with Willow and Xander. She knew she was being silly about the whole thing, but she just missed Spike so much. Nothing against Conner, but she wished it were Spike she was going out with instead. Knowing that wouldn’t happen anytime soon, she decide to pretend for one night that things weren’t so messed up and try to go out and have a good time.

Giving Connor a hesitant look, she shook her head in agreement. “Well I guess it wouldn’t hurt to go out for a little while.”

Flashing her a bright smile, he replied, “Atta girl.” Then he mentioned, “I didn’t even have to resort to the puppy eyes.”

Buffy just rolled her eyes at him and grabbed her sweater off the chair. Calling into the kitchen, she let Faith know she was leaving and she wouldn’t be out too late. Not waiting for a response, she made her way down the walk and got in his car.

Connor slid in the driver’s side and looked over at her. “We’re gonna have a good time tonight, I promise.”

Buffy looked back at Connor and replied skeptically, “Yeah, we’ll see.”


TBC


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