Buffy glanced over from her talk with the one guy who dared burst through the group ogling her and spotted William talking with some dark haired Goth chick. Her brow furrowed as she tried to decipher if she knew the girl and if she was bothering William, or if he was interested in her. He had a tendency to get shy around females, her excluded of course, but by the way he was watching this one with what could only be described as fascination, Buffy felt something akin to jealousy. She didn’t much like the feeling as it so happened. She felt . . . twitchy. Almost like her hands were itching. Itching to pull the Goth girl away from William, maybe even gouge an eye out and then brand William as hers.
Hers? What exactly did that mean aside from
the obvious protectiveness and possessiveness she felt
concerning William? He was hers to an extent. Her best
friend, her rock, her—well, her everything. Okay, wait. Her
EVERYTHING? So now he was not only hers, but now he
was her everything? She shook her head, it was the move.
The move was making her feel a little off. He was her roommate and the only familiar thing in her new surroundings and of course she felt possessive over him. Jealous, even. It was a whole safety thing brought on by change and that was it. She glanced over again and saw the girl touch Williams face. Okay, time to see what was going on.
“Uh, hi?” the guy said as she marched away and Buffy
barely noted it. Not like it mattered anyway. She wouldn’t be
making time with him. Not only was he not her type, cemented
by the fact that she already couldn’t remember his name, but
she had a rule about going out with William like this. She could
dance to her hearts content, but she was not going to spend
the entire time with some guy and ignore William all night. She
often told would be suitors that he was her brother. In that
way, she was sure they wouldn’t try anything funny, or
expect her to hang out with them all night. She knew William
wasn’t keen on these types of places, so she tried to make it
as much fun as she could for him.
Approaching the table, she frowned when she
was ignored. Perhaps it sounded arrogant to say that William
always paid attention to her the second she walked in a
room.
Buffy slid into the seat next to William. “Hi, who
are you?” she asked pointedly.
The girl sat back and stared at her darkly,
almost distastefully.
William pried his eyes away from her and turned
toward Buffy. “Buffy, this is Dru. Dru, this is Buffy.”
Dru’s studied her now, “Hello sunshine.”
Buffy raised her eyebrows at her. “It’s Buffy.
How do you know Will?”
Dru leaned forward and grabbed Williams hand
in hers, smiling at him, “We just met.”
Buffy wanted to pry the woman’s fingers off of
William’s. Who the hell was she and how did she know they
weren’t together? It was insulting!
“Will, I’m ready to go home now. Come with?”
He seemed torn which only fueled the rage
building inside Buffy. He actually WANTED to hang around the
vapid ho? Please. William had more sense and more taste
than that.
“Leaving me so soon, my Spike?” Dru purred,
gazing at him.
“Spike? Your Spike?” Buffy said, her jaw
dropping. “His name is William. Maybe you didn’t hear over the
din in here, but he is definitely not a Spike.”
Dru raised a brow and narrowed her
eyes. “He’s a Spike. My Spike.”
Buffy stood slowly, placing her hands on the
table. “All right, you know what you can do Miss Dracula’s
wife, you can—“
“Okay, okay,” William jumped up and placed a
hand over Buffy’s mouth. “I uh, think I should go with Buffy
right now Dru. I’m sorry.”
Buffy started to say that he didn’t have to
apologize to her, but her voice was muffled by William’s hand
still over her mouth.
Dru snapped her fingers at the waiter going by.
She stood, eyeing Buffy and grabbed the pen out of the
waiter’s shirt and asked for a piece of paper sweetly. The
waiter handed it to her and gave Buffy a funny look.
Scribbling, what was probably her phone number down; Dru
sauntered over to William and slid her number into his pants
pocket.
“Call me,” she purred and sauntered away,
gazing at him over her shoulder.
Buffy lunged, as much as she could in William’s
arms. She didn’t like the look on his face. The stunned,
intrigued and –turned on? look on his face. It hurt.
“You going to stop?” William asked sternly.
She glared at him, trying to cover up the fact
that she was hurt by his tone and actions. She nodded and
he released the hand over her mouth and around her waist.
She was so angry with him; she didn’t even
want to speak to him. So, she spun on heel and marched
away from him.
Once outside, William grabbed her arm. “Buffy,
stop,” he said on a weary sigh.
She wrenched her arm from him. “What the hell
was that about?”
“You were being rude!” he exclaimed.
“I was being rude? She was GLARING at me
William. Or is it Spike now? I can tell you right now I’m not
fucking calling you that!”
“Why are you being such a bitch?”
Her jaw dropped. “You just call me a bitch?”
“You were being rude from the start Buffy. I
was fine. I didn’t need you to come and rescue me,” he told
her indignantly.
“Oh no? Because she’s a great choice for a
date. Maybe she’ll suck your blood and turn you into a blood
sucking fiend on your first date.”
“What about the little prat you were talking to?
He looked like SUCH the gentleman.”
“We were just talking, he didn’t have his hand
down my pants!”
“I’m surprised with the way you were dancing!”
Buffy reared back from the blow of that
comment. Her heart dropped and she felt suddenly winded.
He might as well have kicked her in the gut. Regret instantly
washed over his face at that and he started to reach for her.
She backed off and now he was the one that was hurt.
“I don’t want to be around you right now,” she
told him coldly.
“Buffy, I’m sorry—“
“No, it’s all right. Now I know what you really
think,” and she turned away from him, wrapping her arms
around herself and walking away.
“Buffy, are you going home?”
“Yes.”
“I’m coming with you.”
“No.”
“I live there too.”
“I’m going home to my parents. Good night. . .
WILLIAM.”
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