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Just thought we have look at a day in the life of the scoobies from Anya’s point of view. I’m not really good when it comes to writing essays so you guys have to bear with me on this one ;-p
The paragraphs that are both in bold and italics are part of Anya's essay.
The paragraphs that are both in bold and italics are part of Anya's essay.
“You're a strange girlfriend”
- Xander , Pangs
Thursday 8:00 am
“I’m sorry, Ms. Jenkins. But I find your essay on Gandhi truly preposterous and incongruous.”
Anya gaped at her English Lit Professor. “ Incongruous? “
“Incongruous.” Mr Cowel in an irritated tone that made his British accent even more evident. “It means that the idea you came up with is just too illogical and bizarre. May I ask if you’ve even read his autobiography?”
“Huh?”
“His book, Ms. Jenkins. I’m asking if you were able to read it.”
“No. “ She paused. “I was about to, I did go to the library and looked for the book but it was already been checked out. So I did most desperate students would’ve done and-“
“You rented the movie, “ Mr. Cowel continued for her as he sighed in frustration. “But even if you watched the movie, it still doesn’t explain why you ended up having such a very peculiar point of view. Please understand that this is an essay and an essay has to be based on facts.”
Anya gave in. “Okay! So I wasn’t able to finish the movie. I got a little confused. I thought Ben Kingsley seemed to be a little too white to portray the role.“ She looked at her professor straight in the eyes and tried to plead with him. “ Mr. Cowel, I know I screwed up big time but you already told me that my grades are looking pretty horrible this semester so I kind of badly need not have a D right now. Is there any way I could make-up for it?”
Mr. Cowel looked thoughtful for a moment before he made his reply. “ All right. I will give you another chance and I will need it by Monday, but if you if fail to deliver it properly this time around, I’m afraid the D will have to remain.”
Anya smiled hopefully. “That’s great, Mr. Cowel! That means I could rewrite this essay again. I promise I will read the book this time. I’ll even ask my boyfriend to stop distracting while read and maybe make it up to him by-”
“Wait! I’ve actually decided to give you another topic for your essay. Although it’s not necessary, you may use any books that you think is appropriate. What I would require you to do this time is to write your essay by thinking with your heart.”
“Heart you say, Mr Cowel? I believe I can work with that as long as I don’t need to go to the library. I’ll take whatever topic you decide to-“
“True love, Ms. Jenkins. “ Mr. Cowel told her. “Your next topic is about true love.”
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Friday morning, 7:30 am
“True love?” Xander asked Anya in disbelief.
“Right! True Love. “ She repeated to him excitedly. “ Isn’t that amazing! I mean how hard can it be? True love, pff! I’m going to ace this in no time!”
Xander who had a hard time trying to suppress his amusement, finally burst out into a roar of laughter.
“What?”
“It’s just that…Anya Jenkins…. The girl who thinks that everything is about sex…. is writing an essay on True love! Now that’s something I need to see!” he mocked her playfully
Xander Harris, my love monkey, my sweet cookie-face the guy of my wet dreams can be terribly daft sometimes. Sure I can be blunt and tactless sometimes…All right! Most of the times, but there are instances like now that shows just how much he’s ignoring the fact that I’m still human, despite my shortcomings. He doesn’t seem to realize that I’m not really as heartless as he thinks I am..
Anya snorted and ignored her boyfriend’s snarky laugh as she went on wit her task of writing her essay. She still has a lot of time on her hands since her next class won’t start till after lunch.
Now where to start? She said in her thoughts. I could write an outline first, hmmm….But Willow had told me once that writing an outline could take up a lot of time and that if I have an idea what direction my paper is going then I should not have a problem with writing it in the first place.
What I probably need to do is start out in defining what true love is then I could from there. Okaaaay. What IS true love?
Several moments later, Xander halted from doing his own homework and went to sit on the edge of the bed beside Anya who’s sporting a big scowl on her face. He peered into her laptop and saw that her Word document is still blank.
“Aaaah!” Anya broke out exasperatedly. “ I can’t do this! I mean I know I already feel something for you Xander, but putting it into writing, I don’t know if I can do that.” She closed her laptop and faced him. ” If you ask me, I’d rather be talking to you about our upcoming vacation in Hawaii! That’s already a week from now! I feel like I’m going crazy just thinking about it.” She grabbed the brochure on her nightstand and began skimming through the pages.
“Ahn, about that.”
“Oh wow! I can’t believe that we are going on a hummer safari adventure! “
“Anya, there’s something that I need to tell you.”
“And we could view the sunset from the summit of Mauna Kea which is happens to be the tallest volcano on the planet, wouldn’t that be so romantic! I bet we could even do a quickie in one of their restrooms and find out if doing it from a high place would affect the height of our orgasm. Get it, height? “ She laughed at her own quip, not even bothering to check Xander’s reaction.
“Oh Xander! “ she threw her arms around her boyfriend. ” You don’t know how grateful I am that you’re spending the money you earned from your high school job just so we could have our own dream spring break. I knew I was right for not listening to Cordelia and Dru when they told me to leave you. You’re the most thoughtful boyfriend I’ve ever had. I’m so lucky to have you.” She gave him a fierce hug before she withdrew from him. “ Now that I finally got that out of my system, it’s your turn.”
Xander looked at her dazedly. “Huh?”
“You said you were going to tell me something.”
“Oh that! Pff! It’s nothing. Nothing important. “He looked at his watch. “Geez! Is that the time? I have to go. I almost forgot that I have an early class today. “ He kissed her so breathlessly that it left her wanting for more. “ I’ll see you later, ok.”
“Okay,” Anya said numbly as she stared after her boyfriend who disappeared behind the door. “Now that I have my inspiration.” Smiling to herself, she began to write her thoughts into her computer.
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Lunch time, 12:30 noon , Café Rayne
“True love is all about finding the right partner. It's how the human species has survived for thousands of years. It is the red hot urges that calls out for the man and woman to combine sweats and all other types of body fluids….” Willow halted her reading, cringing her nose as she handed the laptop back to Anya. “Oh I’m not sure I will be able to continue reading the rest of it."
“That bad, huh?”
“Look Anya. I’m not saying that your essay sucks but I think it would help you figure out what true love is if you just starts thinking with your heart first and not with your… you know.”
Willow Rosenberg, geek slash nerd turned cool ever since Oz became her boyfriend. I’m not really fond of her but I listen to whatever sort of advice she ever decides to throw my way. She’s part of the gang, therefore, it’s really hard to ignore her.
“Who says I’m thinking with my… Okay! It’s just is so hard not to mix them up. If you’d ask me, love and lust are a lot like the same. It’s hard to distinguish which is which.” She muttered.
“It’s only difficult because you think it is. Trust me, all you have to do is open your eyes.”
“Open my eyes? That simple?”
“Yup. “ Willow told her.
“Open my eyes. I think I can do that.” She punctuated her words with a nod.
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Does true love even exist? If it does, where do we look for it? How do we find it? But the real problem doesn’t lie on where we could find it, but rather how do we even know if it is indeed true love when we see one?
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One moment later, Oz appeared, holding a wolf pez in one of his hands as he joined Willow and Anya at the café.
“Oh my goodness! Oz, Is that for me?!!!” Willow squealed.
“ I just thought maybe your witch pez is getting awfully lonely by herself.” Oz answered as he gave Willow a light peck on the lips.
Daniel Osborne or Oz , hmmm nothing much to say about him since he hardly ever talk. Probably from the number of times he would change the color of his hair in a span of one month, the ammonia must've travelled all the way to his brain and mucked-up his communication skills. He and I are totally opposite. He’s very selective with words while I….I don’t select. I say whatever comes to my mind.
“Anya did you say something?” Willow asked, looking at her strangely.
“No, I didn’t.” came Anya’s immediate guilty reply.
“Sorry I just thought I heard you mumbled something about saying whatever comes to you mind.”
See! “ Nope, you probably just imagined it.” She told Willow as the too cute for words interaction between her and Oz continues to unfold. These two lovebirds are truly strange. Does it mean that true love IS strange?
“What?” Willow asked when she saw Anya’s stare. “You know we both share this same obsession for the Vampire Slayer show. Oz is the wolf while I’m the witch.”
“Oh I knew about that! It’s just that you seemed too enthusiastic about one pez. “
Surprisingly, Oz responded for his girlfriend. “It’s actually not about the pez. “
“It’s not?” Anya looked at him quizzically. ”How could it not be? Didn’t you just see how she reacted to your pez?”
“It’s quite simple. I knew how Willow loves these things so the moment they became available in the Internet, I immediately got them for her. ”
“Thanks. Don’t I have the best boyfriend!” Willow told him sweetly.
Huh! Would youlook at that! PEZs and flowers are interchangeable. Tsk,tsk, I guess it depends on the person you’re giving it to .
“Hi guys! “ Buffy finally arrived and joined them at their table. “Whatcha all doin’ ?”
Oh, finally the teenage drama queen is already here! Don’t get me wrong. I like Buffy! I do! It’s just that there she is, engaged to one of the richest guys in UC Sunnydale, beautiful, blonde, and have somebody as cool as Spike as her best friend who happens to be drool worthy by the way, and still she looks far from being happy! Miles even! I mean if you’ll look at her, that’s definitely not the face of a girl who is about to get married. To be honest, she appeared more like a girl who is about to be thrown into the lion’s den.
“I’m doing my essay for Mr. Cowel while Willow is celebrating coz’ Oz got her a pez.” Anya informed her.
“Another pez huh? Is it a wolf pez ? I know you’ve been dying to get one of those for your witch pez.”
Willow smiled widely as she showed Buffy the pez that Oz just gave her.
“How thoughtful!” Buffy smiled at Oz.
“If you guys aren’t doing anything later, Willow and I will be having a movie night at my house. You guys should come.” Oz told them.
“Sure! We’d love to.,” Anya said. “ I’ll tell Xander. We’ll just stop by at the library then we’ll head to your house right after, how’s that sound?”
“Sounds good.” Oz replied then turned his attention to Buffy. “How about you, Buffy?”
“Sorry but I can’t tonight. I have a date with my dad. “ Buffy told them.
“Oh right!” Willow chirped.” I forgot about that. That’s really great, Buffy! Which ice show are you planning to watch this time?”
“Champions on ice! Dorothy Hamil is going to make a special guest appearance!”
“Oh wow! I know you’ve been wanting to see her perform live since…forever!”
“ I know! That’s why I’m so excited! Dad got us two front row seats.” Buffy beamed.
“Nice of your dad to do that for you.”
“Well, it’s not like he’d been there to support us all this time. I still couldn’t get over the fact that it was only a year ago when he’d decided to show-up after he left us for his secretary.”
“Yup. He does have a lot of making up to do. I’m glad that you’ve given him a chance.”
Buffy smiled. “So am I.”
TBC
A/N : YOU guys are so generous with all your reviews. I was shocked when I saw my story listed as one of the top 10 most recommended stories. I’m sooo grateful to you all!
I've just finished part two of this chapter. If I could get at least 10 reviews by midnight (central time), I'll post it right away. If not, I'll just post it the night after :-)
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