Chapter 3 Mr. Blue Orbs
~~ Match-made in Heaven ~~
It was Friday afternoon. Buffy was sitting at the front counter assorting the files of their clients. She really thought this people were hopeless, except one that is. She still can’t get over the man she had seen yesterday on the audio-visual room. She even went back to watch this guy’s video again before she made the call to his office informing him about Harmony’s interest in him. She can’t wait to see this guy in person. She even had an evil thought that maybe she should tell this guy that a ‘Buffy Summers’ was interested in him rather than a ‘Harmony Kimball’. This guy did something to her that she can’t quite put her finger on, but it seems that she can’t get this guy out of her mind.
The bell on the agency door suddenly rang. Looking up, Buffy saw a well built man in a black suit, his hair was blonde, almost white actually. And he had eyes that kept Buffy staring at him.
“Are you okay, pet?” The blonde said with a British accent. As he came to the front counter.
“Huh?” Buffy finally stopped staring. “Yeah, how may I help you?”
The blonde crocked his eyebrow saying. “Yeah, a lady called me yesterday. She told me a Harmony is it? Was interested in me taking her out?”
“Oh, yeah. Mr. Bennedict right? I’m Buffy Summers, I will be handling your account.” Buffy said with a huge smile.
“Sure, call me William. So, how do I get in touch with this lady, luv?”
“Well, you could watch her video first, or schedule a meeting with her right away.” Buffy said. Still with the huge grin on her face. She can’t believe this was the guy she was drooling over yesterday. He was even more handsome than she remembered. His blue eyes where like the ocean, taking her every breath. And a plus, he has that sexy accent.
“I really have no bloody idea what to do here, pet. This was my first time to be matched up. Maybe you can explain it to me?”
After Buffy had explained to William that they would be the one arranging their dates, the reservations and all that was their job. The only thing he had to worry about was showing up and paying the fee for the arrangements. That is if he was the one who initialized the meeting.
Realizing that he really had nothing to lose, except maybe paying for the dinner. He agreed to watch Harmony’s profile video and decided to give this woman a call once he got her phone number from Buffy.
“Here you go Mr. Bennedict. Just give her a call and we will be the one to make the reservations.” Buffy said, handing him a piece of paper.
“William, and thanks...”
“Buffy.” The blonde supplied.
“Yeah, thanks again, luv.” William said before heading out the door and into his car.
“So, that was Mr. Blue Orbs himself huh? Willow teased her friend. She knew that Buffy felt something for this guy. She saw her watch his video 3 times yesterday, even if she never wanted to admit it.
“Yeah... That was him, William.”
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
William was on his way to the Bronze to meet up with Xander, ever since high school, every Friday they had always gone to the Bronze to shoot some pool, have a couple of drinks or just hang out. They call this their ‘boys night’, they always reasoned that because girls have ‘girls night’ where they binge on junkfood and watch chick flicks while they gossip about their boyfriends, then why can’t he and Xander have one night to drink and just be with the guys.
When he entered the Bronze, he spotted at once Xander and the pink haired guy at the 2nd pool table by the Bar.
“Here man!” Xander waved to William.
“Hey, Why the Bloody Hell did you start a game without me?” William joked.
“Cause Xander here wanted to ‘warm up’ for you.” Oz and William laughed at that. Knowing Xander, they both know he has not a single clue on how to play pool. Sometimes, William doesn’t even know why they bother doing this every Friday. Sure they both enjoyed their ‘boys night’ but why try so hard to play pool, but then again it does attract the ladies.
Xander just shrugged off what Oz had said and proceeded to the bar to get some beer.
“Hey, I’ll be backstage, if you need me. K?” Oz called after the two men.
When they reached the bar, William asked, “Backstage?”
“Yeah, his part of some band named Dingoes ate my Baby.” The brunette replied.
“Beer.” William said to the bartender. Then looks back to Xander with a questioned look on his face. “I thought he works with you at the site.”
“He does” Xander answered, as if it was going to explain everything. William looked at him with a crocked brow. “He only works part-time for the band, he is the guitarist.” William still looked confused. “It’s a long story.”
William just shrugged it off and proceeded to talk to his pal about his day at work. He then told Xander about what happened at the matchmaking agency, also mentioning more than once that he was still kind of hesitant about this whole blind date thing.
“Its not actually a blind date man.” Xander told his doubted friend. “You saw the girl’s video right?”
William then thought back to the video he had just watch early that day. Click. “Hello, I’m Harmony. I am currently taking up interior designing at The University of California. I would like a man who would share my interest in fashion and my love for animals.” A woman in blue halter with long blonde hair, said to the camera. Click.
William thought she was fairly attractive. Seemed to be a nice lady, who knows, he might enjoy her company. That’s why he agreed to meet up with her, that is if he ever has the nerve to call the girl and asked her out properly.
“Yeah.”
“So was she hot?” A very eager Xander asked William.
“She was okay. William said with a smirk. “Had a voice that could break my bloody eardrums, but... she looked fine.”
“Have you called her already?” Xander said, still curios to find out what his friend will do.
“No! Just got her bloody phone number from that ‘Buffy’ lady.”
“Was she... hot? Do you think she might go out with a guy like me?”
“What! Oh... don’t know... she looks okay too, just kinda freaked me out, she keeps bloody staring at me. Like I was a freaking ghost or something.”
After a long silence... “Maybe she has the hots for you?” Xander said, out of nowhere.
“What?” William said, in a groggy voice.
“Maybe this ‘Buffy’ girl has the hots for you.” Xander repeated.
“Nah... Probably has a boyfriend. Obeying everything she says. Oh, how I so don’t want to be whipped.”
“Whatever you say Will, Whatever you say...”
~~ Match-made in Heaven ~~
It was Monday morning, another day in the office. Buffy was all alone on the front counter looking through some of the new videos and files that just came in over the weekend. She never thought so many people in LA would actually be interested in matchmaking. When Willow brought up to her the idea of opening a matchmaking agency, she doubted that it would ‘click’ with LA community. She was indeed wrong; business had been not so great but not so bad either. Considering they had only been in business for not over a month, things were doing pretty well.
After sorting through all the profile videos and arranging them in their respective shelves, she was already bored. Willow was not in because she had classes, certainly she did not want to disturb Willow when it came to her studies. If she even gets a B+ her mother would certainly go hysteric, not to mention probably cutting off Willow’s allowance, which would lead them into a financial problem. She very well knew that without Mrs. Rosenberg’s monthly contributions via Willow, their business would never have survived.
Looking for something to do, she finally saw the note she had left on a yellow post it by her desk to remind her to call Harmony Kimball and tell her to expect a call from William Bennedict. As she picked up the phone and dialed Harmony’s home number, she suddenly remembered what happened the other day when William came in to the agency. She thought that the man probably thought she was a lunatic, because of the fact that she can’t keep her eyes off of him. She really thought the guy was very attractive. By the looks of the way he dressed, he must be successful in whatever his job was, and Buffy knew he was totally out of her league. Not was she only a couple of dimes away from being broke, but she did not even get to finish college. Its not because her mother did not offer to pay her way to college, but she just thought her mother needed the money more to pay for the education of her little sister Dawn. She certainly did not think it was a priority.
“Hello?” A voice from the other end of the line suddenly chimed in.
“Yes.” Buffy was still a bit lost from her day dreaming. “May I please speak with Ms. Harmony Kimball?” Buffy asked.
“Yes, I am Harmony. Who is this?”
“Oh, hello.” Buffy thought she should have known never will there be another person with that high of a voice. “I’m Buffy Summers from Match- made in Heaven, I just wanted to inform you that in a day or two Mr. William Bennidict will be calling you.”
“Oh. My. God.” The astonished blonde said through the phone. “I can’t believe he said yes. He did say yes right?” Harmony was suddenly concerned that maybe it was not a yes, maybe this guy was just going to tell her that he wishes not to go out with her. She was going overboard, anticipating for the lady on the other line to respond. Sure she had dated a lot of men through the years, she was popular in high school. But she had never seen a man whose eyes were so blue that she thought she was staring into the ocean, and his cheekbones were so sharp that you could slice steaks with it.
“Yes, he did agree...”
Before Buffy could finish, the blonde from the other line suddenly shouted a the top of her lungs, “Oh. My. God. I can’t believe it.” Suddenly Buffy regretted telling the woman her answer before putting the phone a mile away from her ears. She certainly needed to make an appointment with her ear doctor, to check for the damages to her eardrums.
~~ William’s office ~~
It had been a long day for William, for him Monday always meant a staff meeting, which consist of planning, planning and more planning for the week ahead. It also involved reviewing the progress of distribution in the last week. Monday also meant, a meeting with all the editors and arguing with them on how they can’t afford to raise their budget. After a long day’s work, William was ready to retreat and go home to lie in his bed and get some rest to get ready for the next day. Grabbing his coat and reaching in the pocket for a cigarette, he suddenly saw a piece of crumpled paper with a phone number in it. Remembering last Friday, he decided to call this lady and ask her out in hopes of something that would make his day better.
As he dialed the woman’s number, he still can’t believe he agreed into this. Being raised in England, he was thought strictly by his father to treat women with respect, courting a woman would take time and complete dedication. He just thought this was not how his father pictured him meeting is possible wife.
“Hello?” A very cheery voice from the other line greeted William.
“Yes. Is this Harmony?”
“Yup, that’s me. Who is this if I may ask?” Harmony asked, already knowing that the person the other line was William. She found his accent so sexy.
“This is William. I wish to ask you if you would like to go on a date with me, luv? I know it is...”
Before William could finish the lady answered. “I would love to go out with you William.”
“Great, I guess I’ll just call you again then, pet. To tell you the place and time?”
“Okay, It was really nice talking to you William.”
“You too luv, see you then.”
“Yeah, see you.”
As William put down the phone and headed out into his car, he decided that going to the agency today was totally out. He was certainly beat up and making arrangements for his ‘up coming date’ was totally out of the question.
to be contiued...
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