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This story is a true story that happened to me. It's my first one, so please don't be too criticizing, and please write reviews.
Buffy Summers felt the stream of sunlight upon her face. She slowly opened her eyes and observed the new morning around her.

She glanced at the picture of her and Angel at the Valentine’s dance holding each other close and a smile creaped upon her face. She turned around to pull back the tan curtains, and the rays poured into the room, lighting everything in its small path.

Buffy slipped on her light jacket and pulled the zipper up to her chest. She quietly closed her bedroom door, trying not to disturb her sleeping mother, Joyce, and walked across the hall into the bathroom.

She splashed water on her face and pulled back her hair into a loose ponytail, running her fingers through it to get the tangles out.

When she was done, she brushed her teeth and then went back into her room and pulled on a pair of blue jeans and a simple light pink t-shirt.

She smiled goofily at her picture once more as she placed a kiss on Angel’s smiling face. She replaced the picture and bounced down the stairs to start arousing the smells breakfast.

Buffy felt her life was perfect. She was in a deep and loving relationship that had so far lasted for eight months with Angel, and she had the perfect friends to fit her. She could think of nothing that needed improvement in her young life, yet she couldn’t help but feel a void as she thought of it.

She didn’t know what was wrong at first, and she ignored the feeling, but then it started to surround her more each day.

Then she came upon the thought that it might be Angel.

This thought had at first slowly crept into her mind when her best friend Spike had admitted his feelings for her a few months before. He told her simply and didn’t make a big issue of it, but it hit Buffy like a ton of bricks.

She shouldn’t have been surprised, however, because the two were inseperable ever since they first met as kids. Spike and Buffy spent all of their time together, and even their families were close. But when Spike first told Buffy, she still couldn’t help but be shocked.

From then on, everything with Spike felt akward to Buffy. She was suddenly careful when she touched him, what she said to him, and even how she looked at him.

She knew he could tell how she felt when Spike gave her sympathetic smiles when Buffy shyed away. He was sweet and understanding about how their relationship now felt strange to her.

Even their couple friends Xander and Willow noticed that she had started to act differently. They had known how Spike felt, but they were too excited for Buffy’s new happiness to give her the news so soon.

Buffy then spent some restless nights wondering if she was with the right person. How would her life be different if she had found out about Spike’s feelings before she had become involved with Angel?

She looked back at the time when her and Angel first started dating. She realized now how blind she was back then to how much in love with her Spike really was.

She was too involved with just the thought of being with Angel, that she didn’t even realize that her best friend in the world was missing her, and she was breaking his heart by looking at others. Now the second thoughts of her relationship with Angel were more constant.

She was so undescribibly happy with him and in love with him, but she couldn’t help but wonder, especially when she felt the hole in her life that was yet to be filled. She had even started to find excuses to get out of going on some dates with Angel, just so she wouldn’t have to spend the whole night wondering what she was missing.

If only Spike had been more open with his feelings eight months ago, Buffy wouldn’t have a void in her life.

She wouldn’t find herself second guessing her relationship, and she wouldn’t have to feel strange around the only person in the world that she felt most comfortable with.

Her thoughts were interrupted as Angel pulled in front of her house on Revello Drive. He watched her with lust as she innocently put her bag in the backseat as the sun reflected blindly off her hair.

She opened the door on the sleek convertible and sat down. She brightly smiled at him, and he pulled her into a long and intense kiss. He finally pulled back, although it wasn’t willingly.

“You look beautiful,” he said as Buffy gasped for air. Angel had always been one to be playful in the early morning. That was one thing that bothered her. The mornings were her time to think and gather her thoughts for the day, and they were always interrupted by Angel running his free hand on her leg.

She had started to resort to staring in space with her back turned to Angel, and she hoped he had started picking up on the hints that she dropped almost every morning.

Buffy returned her thoughts to the present day and half-heartedly smiled at his compliment. Her heart gave a sudden jerk. She had felt it again without wanting to. That space that should be filled, but was left the same by Angel’s repetitive greetings. Buffy shook the thought from her mind and pulled the seatbelt around her.

She brushed a blonde curl back from her face and gave a full smile to Angel.“You don’t look so bad yourself.” Angel laughed and pulled out from the curb as he put his hand on Buffy’s thigh. He slowly started to bring it closer to her but was stopped by Buffy turning her body to the door and stared at the passing houses. A

ngel finally took the hint for now and continued to drive in silence. Buffy sighed quietly and tried to prepare herself for another day of facing Spike and the battlefield they called Sunnydale High School.

Buffy quickly closed her thoughts as to what was missing in her perfect relationship with Angel as they pulled into the student parking lot beside the school. She opened the door of the car and stepped out onto the hot asphalt. She observed the scene around her.

Students were stalling for time, and teachers were discussing classes as they walked to their own. Buffy shut the door and pulled her bag out of the back seat.

“Hey, Buffy. Good morning, Angel,” she heard called out. She spun around to see Anya waving as she locked her own car.

“Did Oz forget to pick you up again?” Buffy yelled out to her teasingly. Anya laughed sarcastically as she started in the direction of the building.

“Are you kidding? He loves me too much to forget me like that. He doesn’t, however, love me enough to pick me up on time.”

Buffy laughed and turned back to Angel. “Thank you,” she told him.

Angel frowned down at her. “For what?” he asked her as they made their way to the massive building. Buffy stood on the tips of her toes to brush down Angel’s straight dark brown hair.

“For not being a lead guitarist in a band that plays so much you have to sleep in and miss part of first period and me.”

Angel laughed and put his arm around her. “You are most welcome. And if I ever do join his band Dingoes Ate My Baby, I’ll be sure to miss my last period classes and use that time to sleep just for you.”

They laughed together and Buffy cut herself off when she spotted Xander and Willow at their lockers with arms around each other. Buffy longed to have someone that could just make her glow by talking like the way Xander and Willow were with each other.

The couple had started dating a few months after Buffy and Angel. Buffy had pleaded and begged Xander to ask her out all summer, and finally he did to find himself the happiest guy she knew.

She turned to Angel and put her hand on his chest apoligetically. “Go on,” he responded with a smile. “I’ll catch up with you before lunch.” Buffy smiled and walked over to her best friends.

“Hey guys,” she welcomed with a true smile. Xander took his arm off of Willow’s waist and embraced Buffy with a bear hug.

“Good morning, friend. How’s life treating you this morning?” he questioned with a secretive undertone to the question.

“Can’t complain,” she answered with a smile. Willow knowingly looked deep into Buffy’s green eyes. “Honestly. I’m doing fine. I’ve never been happier,” she stated with emphasis. “So, any interesting news this morning?”

Willow laughed at her friend’s question. “As usual, Oz is sleeping late, and Anya is none too pleased. She loves him too much to really say anything, and Oz loves his band too much to quit, so they are basically at their peak. Tara and Warren had a huge fight about Warren using drugs. Tara wants him to quit, and I don’t blame her. Warren promised he would, but you know him. That lasted all but one day, and now Tara is considering breaking up with him.”

Buffy stopped at her locker and turned the dial to put in the familiar number combination. “Seriously? I was really rooting for those two.” Willow pouted her lips in agreement. “Anything else?” They thought for a moment, trying to remember the weekend gossip and avoid talking about Spike’s misery.

“Oh,” Xander shouted, startling everyone around and embarrassing the two girls. “Sorry,” he added more passively. “Parker and Cordelia hooked up this weekend.”

Buffy groaned. “That will last less than a week. Cordelia may not be the cheating kind, but she still flirts with anything male that moves. And Parker will nail anything female that moves, so it’s anybody’s guess as to who backs out first.”

Xander shut Buffy’s locker as she pulled out the last of her books. He slipped his arms around the shoulders of the girls on his sides. “Riley and I took bets. I’m hoping to get some extra cash anyway, so I’m going to help persuade Parker by throwing hot babes in his sight tonight at the Bronze. You busy?”

Buffy rolled her eyes and threw a playful punch in his side. The Bronze was the local club that had live bands, dancing, food, and drinks. Many of Sunnydale High’s students spent their free nights there trying to spend time with their friends, trying to find new friends, or just trying to get dates.

“No. I’m not going to get involved in that mess. And anyway, don’t you have something else you have to do tonight?” she asked, worried that he had already forgot.

Xander made a face to act like he was thinking. Buffy and Willow threw their hands up in disgust and walked into the classroom.

“I’m just joking guys. I know we have driving class tonight. I’m just so not looking forward to listening to another hour of Giles droning on and on about how to properly park a car. He knows we all know how to drive, but it sucks that we still have to have enough required hours to pass the class. And why do we have to take it on our free time anyway?”

Buffy put her books down and sat down beside Willow. “Are you complaining? It’s only one, sometimes two nights a week, and he already cuts twenty minutes off class just because he knows us all so well. I mean, it’s not everyday that one of your best friend’s parent teaches one of your classes.”

Xander and Willow smiled. “Speaking of, where is Spike?” Willow asked as she surveyed the room.

“He better hurry up,” Xander faked anger. “I saved him a seat. Unless you want to sit beside him, Buff?”

Buffy threw a glare at Xander as she pulled out her notebook for class. Xander just ducked his head at Buffy as Spike slipped in the room and sat down beside him. “Right,” he said sorrily. “Math time now.”





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