"Where's Cordy?"

"She went to get some groceries, why? you forgot to ask her for some frozen meals?"

"Just wondering where she was"

"Aw, well yeah"

"Uh huh, I'll be upstairs alright?"

"Yeah... I'll go take a walk, I'll be back soon"

"Ok, here you have a key" he says throwing a key to me

"Thanks" I say going to the door and going away.

*Door Closes*




[Chapter 5]


I walk out of Angel's place. The day looks nice, I like gray days. Not gray enough for Angel, but for me they are just fine. I light a ciggie and start smoking. I really like walking out in this kind of day, feels a little weird in the stomach.

There is a nice park, so I sit on a bench lifting both of my legs and look around. I watch absently, there are kids playing around. But kids in the morning? That's weird, well anyways. One of them looks like Buffy. It's quite fun, she even has matching clothes. NO WAIT! It is Buffy, and they're not kids. One of them is an old woman, and that is her purse the other 'kids' are giving to Buffy. What the hell just happened with my slayer senses?!?! Shit! Buffy just saw me, she comes straight to me. Yeah, I needed her to hit me again.

"What the fuck is it that you want?"

"Huh?" I say confused

"What do you want? You came here looking for me, didn't you?"

"Actually no B! I thought you were going back to Sunnydale, not that you were hanging out in the park around the corner with your new friends"

"Wha...


*Phone Rings*


A cell phone interrupts our very interesting conversation. A guy, two ladies, and B grab their pockets; press some button; and say "Hello". But only Buffy actually keeps on talking. The other ones just blush furiously and put their phones back to their pockets as if nothing had happened. See? that is why you always should get yourself some fancy ring tone to avoid the embarrassment.

B's talking to Willow, I think, because after so much time I can barely recognize Red's voice. She is asking Buffy some stuff about a research and a demon I know nothing about, so I just don't pay attention to what they're talking.

Interesting... so now B's got a car and also a cell phone, damn, I never thought B was such an adept to technology, I guess that time really changes people.

After a while, she hangs up and her attention turns back to me. "So? what is it that you want? You want me to hit you again?"

HELL YEAH! I was actually going to say that, but she might take it seriously and then my ass would be sorry for that, so I think better and tell her "I was not looking for you Buffy, I just came here and it is not my fault you were here as well. But I can always go away."

"No wait" She tells me.

"What?"

"Well, I was just leaving, so you can stay"

"I didn't ask for permission B. I know I can stay If I want to, but now I just don't feel like it anymore"

"Whatever bitch"

I sigh instead of answering to that. I turn around and start walking away without really looking at her. I can hear she is walking away as well because her steps start getting lost.

If only I could ha...

Urgh... What the hell was that? Aw! It was Buffy's engine, her car won't start. I bet she's so mad she could start throwing smoke through her nose and fire through her mouth at any moment. I turn back around and start walking, but I just can't stand seeing poor Mustang suffering like that. She doesn't know how to treat him, you got to treat a car with love, not with multiple kicks. I hesitantly walk to where Buffy and her car are, and stand right in front of her.

"May I please" Ugh… I think that was just way too polite for me

"What?" she says frowning

"Uhm... I know how to fix cars, I studied"

"I can do it myself"

Yeah right. "Yeah! I see the progress you’ve made. C'mon B... I ain't doing this to help you, I am doing it for your car. I just love it, and I can't see him suffering like that"

"Well, if it is that important to you, then go ahead."

"Ok!" I reply to her and sit on the driver's seat to check on the car. B only watches me half astonished and half sorry she ever let me touch her car, but she already did, so she can't go back.

I try to start the engine, but nothing. Try twice and still nothing. "Uhm. Let's see" I say while I get off the car and go to the engine place and open it. "Wow, this is not cool B!" I say

"What's the problem with it?"

"One, The battery seems to be dead, that I got from the sound of the engine when I tried to start it, and second, I don't know how but the car got so hot it might burn the engine out"

"What? that is just not possible" She says frowning "We're in winter, how the hell can a car get hot in winter?"

"Well, actually it does get hot when the weather is hot, but it also gets hot because you push the engine too much by driving long distances, and when the car gets hot, you need to stop for a while, open this little cap you see here and put some water, then you wait until it gets cool again to start it. That usually happens to old cars you know?"

"But Xander has a car, and he doesn't need to water it"

I try to hide that I'm laughing... "B! you don't water cars, you just put water in them so they don't get hot and this doesn't happen. New cars have something called coolant, the coolant is a fluid that refreshes the engine so you don't have to 'water' them. Besides the problem here is just the battery, luckily it went dead beca..

"What do you mean 'luckily'?"

"Because otherwise you wouldn't have realized that your car was hot and needed water until a lot of smoke started to come out of it"

"And is that bad?"

DUH!..."yes it is, because, as I told you before, eventually if the car keeps being pushed when it is hot, the engine burns and if you put water in it when that happens, it only get worse and you fuck up your car"

"Ok! so what do I have to do then?"

"You need to have your battery recharged, or you buy a new one. About the hot car, you just need to 'water' it, and wait a couple of hours for it to get cool again"

"So that means I have to stay?" She asks resigned

"Or you can go in train and leave this beauty to me" I joke

"I'll wait" She said.

"So where do I get a battery?"

"I can get it for you" I offered

"Uhm, actually, that is too many favors from you in just a day" she snaps.

I am laying in her car, she gets closer and steps in front of me. She reaches inside her right pocket and takes out a lot of papers. One of them is a twenty-dollar bill that she next throws to my face.

I shake my head and tell her "actually you don't nee...

"I do, now go away, thanks" she says still looking in the papers she had in her hand.

Geeze, what an attitu… OH MY GOD!! I just recognized one of her papers, how the hell did she get it? those papers were in my pocket, weren't they? SHIT! she is reading it... Now I can't do nothing but start going away slowly and then run. So I do, very slowly I slide and.. Fuck! her right hand is holding my shoulder very hard. My heart skips a beat and I start to breath rapidly. I feel her eyes on my back, so I swallow very hard and turn around to meet her eyes.

I feel so weird... time seems to be standing still. I.. I never thought that this moment would actually happen. Me facing my feelings for B.. I ... I..

"You have five seconds to explain yourself" She says in a tone that really frightens me. I think she is mad beyond words.

"Five"

"Wu.. wait" I say nervously.

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