Buffy felt a pair of strong arms wrap around her and she smiled as she looked into the small mirror she had put up in her locker, not only because of who it was but also because of the fact that the whole hallway seemed to have suddenly gone completely quiet except for a gasp or two as everyone stopped to watch Angel holding her and leaning down to kiss her neck.

"Hey," he whispered and Buffy laughed.

"Hi yourself."

Buffy grabbed up the rest of her things and walked with Angel outside, his arms remaining around her, eyes following them, as usual, the whole way.

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Buffy was just as shocked as everyone else as Angel joined in on the conversations the group had, even filling in what happened over the weekend with her, and more.

But Angel would just smile and act as if everything was normal, which made it even stranger, but somehow fit.

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Angel watched as Buffy started to give a little complaint about having to rejoin in Gym now, and that was the only roadblock he'd stumbled across so far. That tiny flash in her eyes.

Buffy could almost feel his attitude changing and looked over him, that look in his own eyes had her giving a soft smile as she leaned closer to him.

"I'm fine, nothing happened. Not to me anyway.."

Angel's head tilted a bit. "She okay?" he asked, not knowing which she he was referring to.

Buffy nodded. "Will be anyway. But it's okay."

"You gonna be okay to rejoin so soon?" he asked remembering how bad she'd been dinged up.

"Yeah, I guess so."

Angel sighed then leaned over to kiss her, hearing Willow gasp and almost feeling everyone's eyes widen around them.

"Tell me later?"

Buffy nodded again then smiled, blushing as she saw everyone looking at them. Normally she didn't mind but this was diferent. She wasn't sure how to feel, but happiness was one of them many flowing through her.

And that was what worried her.

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Jenny almost had a heartattack when she watched Angel, Buffy, Willow and Jesse enter. Angel had his arms around Buffy again and he was still in a conversation with Willow about something, all of them laughing and making jokes and she couldn't believe it.

Angel smiled and stopped in front of her desk.

"Buffy's moving next to me alright?" he asked looking back at their seats.

"Um.. sure..."

"And when was this decided?"

"Right about now," Angel smiled. "Thanks."

Jenny watched them go into the back, Buffy taking her new seat at Angel's table. Willow was smiling back at them from hers and wondered if she let them rearrange the whole seating chart, even as selfish as it was.

She really needed to send out thank you cards to Buffy's old school and then her parents.

"And I somehow wasn't close enough over there?" Buffy raised her eyebrows at her former seat.

"Nope."

"Uh huh."

"Besides, it'd be much harder and less private to do this," he leaned to kiss her, "if you were."

Buffy smiled and shook her head. "You're crazy."

"Maybe."

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ANgel was flipping through his notebook and Buffy happened to glance over and something on one of the pages caught her eye. Her arm reached over and she grabbed it from him, getting a confused look from Angel. Carefully she pulled it over to herself and started flipping through, looking until she found it.

Buffy's eyes widened a bit as she looked at the page then back at him.

Angel felt his shyness returning as Buffy had just found one of the drawings he'd done of her. It only took a moment for him to get a better view and noticed it was the one from three weeks ago after he'd just met her.

"What's this?"

"You?"

"Yeah, I know that."

Angel shrugged uncomfortably. "I don't know. I just started drawing when I went to class.. and.. it just sort of.. was there.."

Buffy looked it over again before she leaned over and placed a gentle kiss on his lips. She was glad she hadn't started crying, but had to pull back away before that changed.

"You should join that contest thing they have posters all over the place for."

"I don't do contests," he shrugged again. "Besides, it's too late to join by now I'm sure."

"But you don't know?"

"No, but it doesn't matter."

"Too bad," she said then handed the noteback to him. "It's very beautiful."

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"So what are your plans for this evening?"

"Besides this mountain of homework? I'm not sure yet. Probably stop by, bother you," Buffy smirked as they entered Walsh's History room.

"Hi there, Mrs. Walsh," ANgel said before smiling at her and turning to go to his seat. Buffy almost fell over laughing as she watched the teacher turn ghostly pale and stumble backwards.

The poor woman didn't seem to get it back together for the whole hour either.

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"Okay, you're about to send all of the teachers to the ER, you do know that right?"

Angel smiled. "That's the plan. You sure you're going to be alright?"

"Gonna write me a fake note if I say no?" she teased.

"I could. Or I could just come capture you out of there, I mean what would they do, try and stop me?"

Buffy chuckled. "Doubtful. But I think I'll surive. Thank you though."

"Alright."

Angel watched as she headed towards the Gym and finally started going in the opposite direction, his mind finally catching up with this day. His emotions were still all over the place though. But he honestly didn't mind it. It felt good. It felt normal.

Today he actually felt almost normal.

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Snyder returned to his seat, fuming. He was beyond tired of those two, that awful Angelus boy and that wild child Summers.

He growled then got up to go visit Flutie. They needed to do something.

On his way out, he stopped to grab both of the student's files.