Confusing Competitions..
by phantom
Did we just have a moment?
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Disclaimer: Not mine! Whedon all the way baby!
Chapter Five
At that moment, Buffy's eyes lit up and she raises her head thinking that she could smell the familiar scent that reminded her of the redhead. Sweet and fruity and...
"Hey Buffy."
Willow, who had apparently finished teaching herself how to breathe and was now quite comfortable with the whole idea, was standing near the doorway. Just to be sure though, she told herself not to take too many breaths and not too often so she could successfully avoid hyperventilating in Buffy's room.
No matter how hard she tried though, Willow couldn't stop the mental babbling that was going on in her head and was threatening to seriously spill out of her mouth...
'Oh my God, I'm in Buffy's room! And Buffy's over there on her bed... mmm Buffy in bed... wait... aaah!'
When she heard the redhead's voice, Buffy's head snaps so fast in the direction of the door that she was surprised she didn't have whiplash. Well it seemed that she didn't have time to get whiplash, instead she took the opportunity to half jump, and half fall off her bed sending pink paper flying everywhere.
"Willow! Hey, uh.. God, Dawn left such a big mess in my room... I can't believe I let her use my art supplies in here!" Buffy stammers. 'Willow's in my room, Willow's in my room, ok... focus, this is good. A perfect opportunity to win the girl over... the girl that is Willow... who is in my room!!.' She says over and over again in her head.
The redhead nods, trying her hardest to keep her eyes off Buffy's chest, or Buffy's flat stomach, or Buffy's legs, at this point even the blonde's eyes were causing Willow trouble. 'God there's no where to look!' Thought the redhead desperately.
"I thought you might need a little help with Chemistry". She said, hoping her affinity with school-work would save her from embarrassing herself too much and that her voice didn't as squeaky to the blonde's ears as it did to her own.
She also fought the urge to wipe at the corners of her mouth just to check if there was drool there.
"No", the blonde replied. "I think I'm getting our Chemistry thing just fine."
"So you didn't need my help?" Willow nodded, more than a little disappointed and turned around to leave.
"No, wait." 'Dammit Buffy' the blonde thought to herself.
She was next to Willow in a flash with her hand on the redhead's arm.
"We can hang out a little can't we?" said Buffy with a small smile. 'She's in my room and she's sooo gorgeous... and, wait what was I thinking? Mmm gorgeous. Wait, focus brain! Oh yeah, there's no way I'm gonna screw this one up'.
"Actually, there was this one equation that gets my mind all weirded out, will you take a look at it for me?" Buffy says, finding her voice again.
She pushes the rest of the pink things off her bed and sits on it with a smiling Willow beside her.
"So, Dawn's really getting into the whole Valentines theme huh?" Willow asks while trying to keep her eyes away from the blonde that has just started searching for her Chemistry notes.
"Uh, yeah it sure looks like it." Answers the blonde who was currently half upside-down off the bed. 'I really hope Willow didn't see the cut out letters of her name...'
'God, why do her notes have to be under the bed? It's just so... not fair, 'cos umm view... so... hot.' Thought her redheaded friend.
"Yeah it is kinda hot huh Wills?." Buffy said finally coming up from under the bed with books in hand.
"Huh, what?" 'Uh oh, how much of that did I just say outloud?'
"You... umm hot?" Buffy said again.
Willow just nods, getting a giggle from the blonde.
"Me too." She adds handing Willow a textbook and a meaningful look.
Willow was just about to open it when she heard something coming from outside...
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Just outside about 10 seconds ago...
Faith is sitting up in the tree outside Buffy's window and Xander is leaning against it.
"Psst! Hey Faith! What's going on?"
"Ooh, yeah baby they're totally going at it. Man, I didn't think Red had it in her...this is good stuff."
"What?! Lemme see!." Cried Xander as he clambered up the tree.
"No! Xander you ass I was just... there's not enough room here for the both of us!." Faith says trying to scoot over.
"Yes there is! now show me some lovin'... he suddenly loses his footing and lands on the ground with an 'oomph' and a pained "I'm ok!"
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Back in Buffy's room.
"Hey did you hear that?" asks the blonde.
"Uh, no? I didn't hear anything." Willow replies remembering that she'd left two bored idiots outside and nervously wondering what the hell they were up to.
"No... I definitely heard something..." Buffy says making her way to the window.
Willow closes her eyes and braces herself. 'This is not going to end well.' She thought.
"Faith?!" Says Buffy at the figure perched up in her tree.
"Uh... hi B." Faith says with a wave from outside. Buffy gives her a weirded out look.
Willow sighs and makes her way over to the window.
"Hey Red." Faith says with a smile.
"Faith" answers Willow
"What are you doing up in my tree?! What is she doing up in my tree?!" says the blonde looking at Faith, then Willow then back at Faith.
"Umm. Sitting?" asks the brunnette. "Seemed like a great night for some good old fashion tree sitting..."
"Get off my tree Faith."
"Yes B." Faith says sheepishly and proceeds to climb down.
Buffy shakes her head and closes her window.
"That was really weird." She tells the redhead as she sat back down on her bed.
"Yeah... did she actually say 'good old fashioned tree climbing'?" asks Willow.
They both share a laugh that and find themselves back on the bed again. This time though, neither one could bring herself to look away from the other's eyes.
'Ok Buffy, perfect moment... should I kiss her? I think I should kiss her... Ok, I'm gonna kiss her...' The blonde thought dreamily as she brings her head closer to Willows...
"Hey Red!!!"
Willow got up suddenly as soon as she heard her nickname. Buffy fell back on the bed with an exasperated sigh and with 'I'm gonna kick Faith's ass tomorrow.' running through her head.
"Umm... should I go home now? Or wait for you?" calls the brunette from outside.
"Go home Faith!" An annoyed blonde yells back.
Willow sighs and sticks her head out the window.
"Hold on Faith, we should walk together." She turns back to Buffy with an apologetic smile.
"I guess I should go."
The blonde nods finding that all thoughts of Faith just flew out of her head.
"Thanks for coming tonight..."
"Sorry we didn't get to work on any actual Chemistry..."
'I'm pretty sure we did.' Thought Buffy as she walked Willow to the door.
"Goodnight Buff."
"Night Will."
Buffy sighs and rests her head on the now closed front door.
"Buffy?..." her mother calls from the kitchen. "Was it just my imagination or were there people in our tree tonight?"
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On the way home...
Faith, Xander and Willow were walking the Sunnydale streets side by side.
"You think that went well Xand?" asks Faith
"I sure did. I thought it went very well Faith." Replies Xander with his perfected goofy smile.
"What do you think Will?"
"Shut up Faith I'm not talking to you." Willow says as seriously as she can with a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth.
"Ah... you love me." replies the brunette confidently.
"Yeah." the redhead agrees. "Lucky for you..."
"So did you... you know?" asks Xander with a wink.
"Nearly..."
"Nearly?!" asks Faith. "You didn't even kiss her? What the heck happened?!"
"Oh, I don't know." Replies the redhead, happy with her recent near-kiss-experience. "A certain tree climbing brunette decided to ruin the moment..."
"No way", says Faith with a frown.
Xander smirks at her.
"Yep. That's our Faithy. Just call her a regular Cupid... killer." He says pleased with his wisecrack.
"Red I'm so sorry!"
Willow shrugs and flashes a smile.
"Ah Well. There's always tomorrow..."
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