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This one should be fun.. at least I wish! ;)

Chapter 10

Days flew by and it was finally time to test Angel’s skills.
Willow paced around her house restlessly and after she had changed her clothes for the fourth time, Buffy had locked her room, hiding the key so she wouldn’t be able to change for a fifth.
William had fun strumming on Buffy’s guitar, being very careful not to untune it.
It wouldn’t be that bad.. if only he hadn’t turned the amplifier as high as possible!

Suddenly, despite the defeating din by the bleached blond, Willow managed to hear the ring of the bell and she dashed towards the door as a flash.
Buffy and William approached not to lose the whole scene.
“Hi, Angel! How was the trip?” she smiled at him, cursing herself when she remembered that he had a flat at Sunnydale.
“Well, I wouldn’t call it ‘a trip’ because it lasted about five minutes, but anyway, yes, I did, there was no traffic on my way over!” he smiled as she lead him to the front door.

“I can’t wait to hear you play, something tells me you won’t let us down!” she admitted enthusiastically.
“You know, I’ve been playing since I was thirteen years old, now I’m nearly twenty nine.. what do you think? Have I learned something?” he answered with false modesty.
They had got in the room, but neither of them seemed to notice the blond couple that manifested their presence immediately.
“Oh, what a nice scene, you’re just missing the heart-shaped background!” William commented, showing his great taste for sarcasm, as he sat at the drums.
“If you two are done losing into each other’s eyes, we are ready to start!” Buffy added, wearing the strap of her guitar.
Their witty remarks hit the mark, because both of the brunette and the redhead to blush instantly.
“No, guys, what do you think? I was just trying to be a hospitable person!” Willow justified, smiling sweetly to Angel, and then she turned to Buffy and William, throwing daggers at them with her eyes.
“By the way, you need a lesson or two about hospitality, you haven’t greeted him yet!” she added.
“Hi, Angel!” they exclaimed at unison as two little kids scolded by their teacher.
Angel limited to wave at them, amused by the situation.

“So, now, can we bloody start?” William snapped, he wasn’t famous due to his patience.
Angel got ready and stood near the lead singer, what a coincidence!
After a general moment of concentration, Buffy and Willow started in perfect synchrony the first song in their play list , ‘Valerie’, an odd choice for two reasons: first, if two girls sang a song like that it could be ambiguous, but they liked it too much; plus, they had changed the lyrics a little bit, making it a tale in third person; second, in the original version, Ghost of the Robot played that with two guitars, but it was good even using just one.
Angel immediately showed his talent and the cover came out perfectly.

After performing the first song without any mistakes, in the next song the brunette was so self confident that he played an improvised solo that left the girls speechless.
William noticed that, and not wanting to be less, since so far he had been the main attraction, in the middle of the third song he started doing the same with the drums, almost as a challenge.
And Angel picked up that challenge, striking back with his bass, and the two boys carried on that way with a more and more frantic rhythm, until they gave in exhausted.

“This song was supposed to last nothing more than three minutes, but your absurd yen for competition made it last over five minutes!” Willow made them notice.
“Anyway.. this solo thing seems to be fun.. maybe I’ll also try.. “ Buffy commented letting her fingers flow through the frets of her guitar, but before she could pinch the chords with her plectrum Willow stopped her.
“Please, Buffy, be good, at least you! Otherwise, guys, I’ll begin doing vocalizations and trills for ten minutes!” the redhead threatened.
“But we won’t do that, for two simple reasons: first, I’m not very good to improvise, it’s enough that I can pass from a chord to another one without any mistakes; and second..” the blonde said, looking at her friend with a conspiratorial look.
“.. because unlike you boys, we two don’t act as three years old kids!” Willow ended the sentence.
“Look, he was the one that started this!” William justified, pointing at Angel.
“But he copied me!” Angel struck back the same way.
“That’s the point, three years old kids!” Buffy exclaimed, rolling her eyes, as Willow and she wondered if the two guys were really twenty seven and twenty eight years old.
“Anyway, Angel, I guess you’re definitely in the band now! What if we tell you that you two are both equally good, can we go on?” Willow asked, the boys nodded and finally they resumed playing.
Between all the elements there was an amazing tuning, now they were a band!

William and Buffy had had fun watching the several looks Angel and Willow had exchanged when one of them was sure the other wasn’t looking.
No matter all the efforts the two blondes had done to leave them alone, every attempt had failed miserably, mostly because Angel and Willow didn’t feel really alone.
But at the moment to say bye, Willow took a deep breath and taking advantage of the fact that William and Buffy were outside putting their stuff in the car, she came closer to Angel before he left.
“Don’t tell William, otherwise he’ll kill me. And so will Buffy, but.. for me you’re the better player!” she admitted, ducking her head to avoid his gaze.

she added, but only into her mind.

“Thank you, Willow, you’re too kind.. so, it will be our little secret. I’ve already told you, but I’ll repeat it, you have an amazing voice.”

he thought with a half smile, before saying bye.

They both were plenty satisfied for achieving their little goals.
But that way they would never stir things up.
There was just one thing to do, and Buffy had already thought about that.
She couldn’t have carried out her plan immediately, mostly because if she had dared call off the first rehearsal together Willow would have never forgive her, no matter the reason why she had done that.
But they had played together once, and it was a success.
Now she was free to act.
And the proper chance came the weekend after.

It was her turn to drive, and, in time as always, Buffy parked in front of William’s house, as he, taking advantage of that beautiful sunny day, although fall would come soon, waited for her sat at the table outside in his garden.
“Hi, light of my eyes!” she greeted him, showing her romantic side.
“Hi, pet!” he answered, running into her and kissing her as they hadn’t seen for ages!
“Have you seen what a beautiful day? Tell me, Spikey, do you really want to be inside four grey sad walls and play?” Buffy asked, after taking her breath.
“Why? Have you got a better idea, Slayer?” he asked her curiously.

TBC

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