"So what's the deal with you guys, are you official yet?" the red head asked excitedly between sips of her slushy.
Buffy beamed. "Yeah. He finally asked me last night." She couldn't hide her smiles if she tried to. It was just too perfect to her. New amazing friends... new amazing boyfriend... maybe she could actually enjoy the last few months of her high school years as a normal girl instead of that bitch you see in all the teen scene movies.
Willow smiled. "So are you doing anything tonight? I thought maybe we could hang out or something..."
Buffy looked up from her iced cappuccino. "I totally would, but I'm going to the drive in with Spike." As the sentence got closer to his name the smile on her face grew bigger and bigger.
Willow smiled and shrugged her shoulders. "Look at you, you're all glowy. I knew you liked him but, wow. I didn't realize you really REALLY liked him."
"Wil, I don't even know where it came from. One day I'm happy with my popular athlete stud boyfriend and everything else in my life and then boom... new neighbor. A new, incredibly sexy and generous and considerate neighbor who treats me amazing and... I don't know where it came from either. All of a sudden I just realized I was falling in love with him."
"You love him? Aw Buffy!" Willow squealed. "Did you tell him?"
"No not yet. I was really tempted to last night but then, I don't know. I froze up I guess. It's so early in this relationship and I really want it to work, you know? I don't want to rush things any more than we already have. Besides," she leaned closer. "I still haven't talked to Riley. He still thinks we're together."
Willows face fell a little, remembering what Spike had said about seeing Riley with another girl. She wanted to tell her so badly, but she knew it was really none of her business.
"I can't wait 'til Riley gets home, just so I can get it over with." She played with her straw a little and the smile started to come back. "What I feel for Spike... I've never felt that for anyone. Not even Riley, and we've been together for over two years. It excites me."
"I'm so jealous. I want that kind of sparkage with Oz, but I'm afraid to come on too strong."
"That's right! What kind of friend am I?? I forgot to ask you how your night with Oz went. Okay, I want details..."
Willow blushed. "Oh, Buffy I had so much fun. He took me to get ice cream and we were with Xander and Anya for a while but then we dropped them off, and Oz took me to my house but then he asked me if it would be alright if I stayed out with him for a little longer just to talk. It was the sweetest thing ever. Oh! And then, my head started to hurt because my hair was up so tight, so I pulled the clip out and let it all fall and I noticed him staring at me... and he was smiling."
Buffy cooed. "Willow thats so cute. You've so got that cat in the bag."
"It didn't go any further than that. We talked for a little while and we exchanged phone numbers. But I think it's headed somewhere. Or at least I hope it is. I want glowy feelings."
"You'll get 'em. I told you once before and I'll tell you again... No one can resist the charm that is Willow."
x X x X x
"Hey mom?" Buffy bounced through the house looking for her mother. "Mommy?" Buffy play-whined as she looked in the dining room and made her way over to the kitchen. "Mom?" she said poking her head in, smiling brightly when she saw her mother.
"Yeah honey?" Joyce laughed. She hadn't heard Buffy call her 'mommy' for years.
"What are you doin' today?" she asked as she sat down at the island where her mother had been making some orange juice.
"Since when do you care to ask me what my plans for the day are?" she asked pointedly but with a smirk.
"I always care," she pouted. "Sometimes I just forget to ask. Ooh juice," she said picking up a small glass of fresh squeezed juice.
Joyce laughed. "You're in a good mood today..."
Buffy smiled and bounced a little in her seat. "I'm going to the drive-in with Spike later. I haven't been to the drive-in since dad used to take me."
"Well that sounds like fun."
"Yeah, but that was sorta what I wanted to talk to you about," she said giving her mother a look. "Can we use your car? We could open the back hatch and put the back seats down and then lay down. It would be so much more comfortable than a regular car."
"Comfortable..."
"Please?? Spike said he's definitely leave you his car if you wanted to go anywhere..."
Joyce laughed. "No, thats quite alright. I won't need Spikes car. You can take my Jeep I'm not going anywhere tonight."
Buffy leaped up off her stool and wrapped her mother in a tight hug. "Thanks, mom! I'll put gas in it when I'm done!"
Joyce couldn't help but shake her head and laugh. Was this happy, friendly girl really her daughter? As she watched Buffy begin to walk out of the kitchen she stopped her. "Buffy..."
"Yeah?" she said spinning to face her mom again.
"Spikes driving, right?"
Buffy rolled her eyes and smiled. "Yeah."
"Just making sure," she laughed.
x X x X x
"We should order a pizza and bring it with us to eat during the movie," Buffy said as she stripped off her clothes, revealing the hot pink bikini beneath.
"We could do that," he said as he floated around the pool, not really hearing anything she was saying but stuck in a trance as he watched her strip down.
Bloody perfect...
"Spike are you even listening to me?" she asked, crossing her arms in front of her chest, blocking his view.
"No," he chuckled, his adams apple bouncing as he finally looked up at her face. "I'm watching you undress, pet. Can you blame me?"
Buffy couldn't help but smile. He was a perv, but he was a sweet perv. "How do you do that?"
"Do what?" he asked as he moved toward her. The lust in his eyes was making her knees go weak.
"That..." she said trying to hide her smile as he got closer to her.
He smirked and grabbed hold of her hips, encouraging her to step down into the pool.
"I don’t know, luv. Only works with you," he said as she moved forward into the pool. She immediately wrapped her arms and legs around him.
He groaned as she sweetly and innocently rubbed against his groin.
"Minx," he breathed into the hot afternoon air.
Buffy smiled and leaned back, resting the upper half of her body on the concrete next to the pool, but her legs remained wrapped around his waist.
"My mom said it's fine if we take her jeep to the drive in. It'll be more comfortable if we fold down the back seats and open the hatch. Then we can lay down."
Spike wagged his eyebrows.
Buffy gave him a look. "Shame on you and your naughty mind."
"You love my naughty mind..."
Buffy smiled and paused as she looked at him. He said the word love again. She knew it didn't mean anything, but hearing that word come out of his mouth made goose bumps form all over her body. In a good way.
"I do," she smiled.
He smiled back and leaned forward to kiss right around her belly button. It was a sweet gesture by him.
All of the feelings coursing through her were overwhelming for this man. She couldn't believe how fast she fell for him. At this very moment she was fairly certain she would do anything for him.
He began to move upward with his kisses on her stomach until they were right below her breasts, making her squirm and giggle.
Spike loved the way she sounded when she giggled, and he couldn't help but smile into his kisses as he went along.
"Oh, have I found a ticklish spot, pet?" he teased.
Buffy stopped squirming. "No," she lied.
"Oh really?" he said matter of factly, and in seconds he was tickling her uncontrollably again until she was kicking and screaming with laughter.
"Stop! Stop!" she laughed as she weakly tried pushing him away. "Spike please..." She was laughing so hard she could barely breathe.
"But you said you weren't ticklish..." he said innocently, a look he could only pull off with Buffy.
Buffy opened her eyes wide and sort of half-snarled at him. "Spike!" she yelled as she launched herself at him, curling her legs back around his waist and wrapping her arms around him, causing him to fall backwards into the water, taking her with him.
Under the water Spike finally stopped tickling and instead subtly began to untie the bottoms of her bikini. When they resurfaced Spike immediately began to kiss her so he wouldn't have to hear her object.
Little did he know, she never planned on objecting.
He pulled the bottoms away from her body and felt her shiver as the cold water touched all of her most intimate parts. Spike began to untie his swim trunks as Buffy pulled her mouth away and looked around.
"You're not afraid someone will see?" she asked breathlessly.
"The fence is high enough and ol' Rupes won't be home for a while," he said as he pulled himself out of his swim trunks. He grabbed her hips and lifted her with ease so that she was perfectly level with him.
Buffy trembled with anticipation. She was always so nervous with him. Everything was still so new and exciting with him, and she was afraid she wouldn't be good enough for him.
He gave her ass a light squeeze as he lined up the head of his cock with her opening and slowly pushed forward, filling her almost immediately. It was a new sensation for her, she had never had sex in water before.
Her mouth dropped open when he finally filled her completely. She still wasn't used to his size being so perfect for her. He was big, but not uncomfortably big.
His jaw clenched as he filled her to the hilt. He let out a breath he didn't realize he had been holding and opened his eyes to look at her.
She was looking strait back at him, a glimmer in her eyes that he hadn't seen before and suddenly this huge wave of emotion swept over him. He was in love with this girl, there was no doubt in his mind he was crazy about her.
He began to thrust into her slowly as he brought one hand up out of the water to push a strand of hair out of her eyes. Before he brought his hand back down he swept it across her cheek, grabbing the back of her head and pulling her face forward for a kiss in the process. It was soft and gentle at first, but it quickly became more heated and passionate. The more passionate the kiss got the quicker and harder his thrusts became. Buffy had to pull her mouth away from his for a gasp of air, and immediately needed to bite down on his shoulder to hide her cry of pleasure.
Her climax had her shuddering uncontrollably as the heat of her orgasm hit the cold of the splashing water. Her inner walls squeezed him tighter than he would have imagined possible, sending him right over the edge before she could even calm down.
Spike kept thrusting all the way through his orgasm, and kept thrusting slower and slower until he could fully come down from his high. He grabbed her ass and squeezed hard as he pressed himself as far inside her as he could possibly get, eliciting a squeak from her. He just smiled and curled his tongue behind his teeth.
"You're amazing, pet. What would I do without you?"
"Wither and die as a lonely horny bastard," she laughed as she unwrapped her ankles from behind him and let her feet finally touch the bottom of the pool.
Spike smiled at her and reached over to grab the bottoms to her suit just in time before they got sucked into the filter. "So pizza for the drive-in, huh?" he said handing the bottoms to her as she so generously tucked him back into his trunks and tied them up for him.
"Yep!" she said taking the bottoms from him as he fell back to float around the pool. "How do you feel about Hawaiian pizza?"
x X x X x
"Just try a piece. Come on," Buffy said waving a slice of pizza in front of his face. "You'll be pleasantly surprised, I promise."
"Why on earth would someone want to put pineapple on a pizza?"
"It’s good!" she whined. "Try it."
"No."
"You ate all the plain cheese slices and I know you're still hungry. Just try it." She shifted so that she was sitting back on her heels as he lay on his side next to her, half empty pizza box in the center. "Come on," she said waving the slice in front of him again. "There’s ham on it too, you'll like it."
He rolled his eyes and stuck his tongue out. "Fine. Just one bite, though," and with that he closed his eyes and opened his mouth wide like a little kid.
Buffy giggled as she chewed a bite she had just taken. She positioned the piece in front of his mouth and moved it in until it looked like it would be a decent amount. "Okay, bite..."
Spike bit down and made a face at her as he chewed. He opened his eyes and looked at her.
"Not bad, right?" she smiled and took another bite.
He made a face like he was still trying to decide. When he finally swallowed he just simply looked up at her.
"What?" she laughed.
"Come here," he said seductively.
Buffy swallowed her bite of pizza and leaned in closer to him.
He snaked a hand into her hair and pulled her face down to his to give her a breathtaking kiss. Their tongues battled and Buffy couldn't help but nip at his lips just a little. When the kiss was over and Buffy slowly started to open her eyes Spike quickly snatched the slice of pizza out of her hand and he quickly stuffed the entire thing into his mouth.
"Hey!" Buffy said smacking his arm. "That was mean!"
"Love hurts, baby," he said chewing the remainder of Buffy's slice of pizza.
He did it again... He said the 'L' word. Well, I suppose it didn’t... ugh he said it!
"Be quiet you... you pizza stealer! I told you you'd like it."
"It's alright," he said shifting a little. "Still don't understand why someone would put pineapple on a bloody pizza. It's just not natural."
"Shush, you. The movie's starting," she said moving the box out of the way and snuggling up next to him.
"Kiss me first," he said matter of factly.
Buffy smiled and turned to plant kisses all over his face, followed by one final one on the lips.
A few cars away a guy sat in a truck watching the two of them. He rudely and nosily took a few pictures with his camera phone and quickly started to text away.
Back in the jeep Buffy already started rustling around to find the bucket of popcorn she had Spike buy earlier.
Spike chuckled. "For someone so tiny you sure do eat a lot."
Buffy paused mid-chew. "I do, don't I? I'm totally a pig!" she said with a worried expression. "You don't think I'm totally gross now, do you?"
Spike chuckled again. "No, I like it. Dru would pick at food like a bleedin' bird. Barely ever ate. It bothered me a bit. I like a woman that can eat," he said leaning over to kiss her on the forehead. "And that's you, sweets."
Buffy smiled and popped more popcorn into her mouth.
He is so incredibly perfect...
x X x X x
"So my mom won't be home friday night. She's staying late at the gallery to get ready for some big showing," Buffy said as she turned toward him from the passengers side of the car as they drove home. "Do you want to spend the night with me? At my house?"
"Do you even have to ask?" he said wagging his eyebrows at her.
She made a face at him. He was so adorably sweet. Most people who would look at him would immediately just see the bad boy exterior and never see the sweet man he was when he wanted to be.
You're lucky, Buf. He's your second chance to be the real you... Don't let that go.
Buffy subtly slipped her hand into his and they rode home together, their new found feelings for each other exchanged in the silence.
TBC