The Angel Chronicles Vol. 3 by Holder Nancy

Author:Holder, Nancy [Holder, Nancy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2001-08-10T05:00:00+00:00

Xander dashed after his best buddy, the first girl to see him cry—well, okay, the only girl, when he lost his G.I. Joe—the girl he had nearly drowned when they had bobbed for apples on a long-ago Halloween.

“Willow, come on!”

She screeched to a halt beside the trophy case in the main hall and whirled on him. “I knew it! I knew it!” She shook her finger at him. “Well, not ‘knew it’ in the sense of having the slightest idea, but I knew there was something I didn’t know. You two were fighting way too much. It’s not natural.”

Xander helplessly held out his hands. “I know it’s weird.”

“Weird? It’s against all the laws of God and man! It’s Cordelia!” Willow was so angry she was sputtering. “Remember the ‘we hate Cordelia club,’ of which you are the treasurer?”

“I was going to tell you—”

“Gee, what stopped you? Could it be shame?” she sniped.

He lowered his voice a half-octave. Things are getting too shrill. Which means our voices may carry. All the way back into the library.

“All right, let’s overreact, shall we?”

She gestured angrily. “But I’m—”

“We were kissing. It doesn’t mean that much.” Which is bizarre, but true. At least, I think it is.

And then she deflated. Her face filled with pain. “No,” she said miserably. “It just means you’d rather be with someone you hate, than be with me.”

Her voice cracked on the word, “me.”

So did Xander’s heart.

She turned and ran away.

He thought to run after her and try to make things right.

But why? It’s true.

* * *

Buffy trudged to the front door of her house. She stood and stared at the three rectangles of glass. Her heart pounded. She was numb with fear and dizzying confusion.

She would not go in. She would not allow herself to be safe when she had no idea if Angel was alive or dead.

Resolutely, she turned and walked back into the night.

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