OMG! lol. I got online tonight, I read my e-mail, talked to my friends for a little while and then I checked if I got any reviews for this story and what did I find? REVIEWS!!! Please don’t ask where that came from because in all honesty I have no clue. Thanks ever so much to everyone who did review and be thankful you all didn’t have to see my happy dance!

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“Need a ride home?” Ryan asked as they exited the school together.

The two had been inseparable all day, causing much gossipy goodness around Sunnydale High. Buffy wasn’t the type that liked the attention but this felt pretty good.

Buffy bit her lip, “Nah, I have a feeling my house is gonna be a war zone when I get home. I don’t want you have to witness Angel chasing me up to the doorstep yelling at me.”

He laughed and ran his finger’s through his hair, “I think I can handle it Summers. Get in.”

She then realized that they’d reached the parking lot and were standing in front of a beautifully restored vintage red Ford Mustang. Buffy smiled and then giggled, “How can a girl say no to a car like this?”

Ryan smiled widely, “I know. One of the many reasons I love it.”

“You're a freak,” Buffy rolled her eyes playfully, “But I really shouldn’t.” Then the picture of her older brother’s face if she were to be dropped off by a guy like Ryan in a car like this crossed Buffy’s mind and she couldn’t help but mentally smirked. Oh that would be sweet, “You know what? Okay.”

“Hey Buffy!” Spike called from a few feet away, shocking Buffy, Ryan and himself for that matter, “’M supposed to bring you home. Angel’s bloody well pissed at you.” Oh yeah, nice save mate, Spike internally sighed on the inside. He’d been watching her all day and seeing her with that git was driving him bleedin insane. The way the little bastard would take any excuse to touch her, make her laugh. Urg! She was supposed to be following him around like a little puppy, not hanging out with Ryan Cooper!

Buffy rolled her eyes, this time annoyed. She about to reply but then decided to do something much louder than words. She flipped her hair over her shoulder, opened the passenger’s side door of Ryan’s car and slid in but not before blowing her old crush a sarcastic kiss. It’s funny how someone like Ryan at your side could make someone like Spike Giles…okay he was still the sexiest guy she’d ever seen but that wasn’t the point. Something was just different.

Ryan smirked at the platinum blonde male before joining Buffy in his car. The sound of The Matches “Jack Slap Cheer” blared as he started up the car and they tore out of the parking lot. Before they were gone, Spike heard Buffy’s unmistakable giggle and couldn’t help but wonder when it stopped being the most bloody annoying sound ever to the sexiest?

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Lindy Morgan, Sunnydale High’s resident gossip queen and columnist rolled her eyes at the scene before her. Guys were so stupid. Why couldn’t they just make up their damn minds? And people say woman were bad. Geesh. The year before one Spike Giles had cold bloodedly ripped out the heart of one Buffy Summers and stomped on it brutally but now? Ryan was paying a little attention to Buffy and here was Spike practically drooling over her. Dear lord, all a girl had to do was show a little leg and a dude was putty in their freakin hands. Not to forget one of the most powerful forms of seduction was using the jealously card. Lindy really didn’t think that Buffy knew this yet but it would be come very clear, very soon.

Lindy pulled out her laptop and took a seat on a bench in the courtyard by the fountain.

Hmmm, as much as she would love to, she couldn’t let her first article as a senior be a rant about the soon to be Buffy Summers/Ryan Cooper/ Spike Giles love triangle. The Cordy and Angel thing was so passé it made her sick to even think about it. There was also that nifty little rumor about Couch Bradley and Mademoiselle Dubois. Ewww.

With that last thought, Lindy started to type.

You don’t know what you have until you’ve lost it. For example for one unnamed person, that would be the affection of a certain petite blonde….

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Buffy’s head feel back against the car seat with a laugh giggle. That had been extremely liberating. Her own little way of telling Spike that he was so yesterday and Angel that she was a big girl now.

“Thanks,” she smiled brightly at the first guy that had ever been really interested in her, “That felt really good.”

Ryan laughed and nodded at Buffy. She was beautiful, sitting here in his car with her laughing. Truth be told, he’d had a huge crush on her since their freshman year but she’d been too involved with following Spike around to ever notice him, “Glad to be of help.”

Buffy smiled at him once again. She’d smiled a lot today. This was something that tended to be uncommon. She had been right about this year. It was going to be better. MUCH better.

They drove in comfortable silence until they reached the Summer’s home. Ryan stopped the car and turned off the ignition. He turned to Buffy and asked, almost shyly,
“Listen Buffy, I was wondering if you’d possibly…”

Unfortunately, Ryan asking her out was cut off by an angry looking Angel pulling into the driveway and stalking over to Ryan’s car.

To dodge any further embarrassment, Buffy blushed and said, “I gotta go. I’ll see you tommorow.” With that, she was gone.

“I hate you!” Buffy bit out to her older brother as she stomped past her and into the house.

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Spike groaned and collapsed down onto his bed. Bloody hell he was an asshole! He’d had her and all of her soft golden hair and velvety tan skin right in front of him for god knows how long and he’d chose to completely ignore her. Now that he couldn’t have her…hold up a fucking second. Who said he COULDN’T have her now? Yeah, who said that he couldn’t be the one to make her laugh, and to play with her hair and touch her lush…Bloody hell.

Spike sat up and shook his head. Angel wouldn’t like it for sure. With his track record, that being love um and leave um, his friend wasn’t going to willing let him anywhere near his little sister. If Spike had a sister, he bloody well wouldn’t let a guy like himself within twenty feet of her.

With one final sigh, Spike stood up, adjusting his erection, (not even thinking of bloody Angel could get rid of this one!) he made his way into the bathroom for a shower.

He ended up taking a very long and cold shower.

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Hope you’re all still interested! I should give you a warning, it’s gonna take a while Buffy and Spike to get together, much to Spike and my dismay. And another warning, there’s going to be a whole buncha of mushy happy in love-ness with Buffy and Ryan. Live through it. Good things come to those who wait. I promise! Reviews make me write faster!





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