Chapter 1 (Meet the Characters)
The bell rang signaling lunch, and everyone
headed to the cafeteria. Buffy plopped her tray down on the
table where her best friends were sitting. They were
considered the “geeky freaks” of the school, mostly because
they were not geeky enough to be considered losers, and
everyone hated them because they had very strong opinions
about everything, and for that they were called freaks.
Buffy looked like your average California girl:
long blonde hair, green eyes, tanned and toned body. But
everyone knew that she was not. She was quick-witted, hot
tempered and not someone you would want to mess with.
Buffy looked at her friends and smiled. They
began to talk about the day, classes, and the night’s plans.
Willow Rosenberg is a very shy girl with
flame-red hair and a friendly expression. She was very
smart, and had been accepted at many top colleges. She
and Buffy formed the core of the group, for they were best
friends since they were in daycare.
Tara McClay had been the next addition to
the group. She is also very quiet and smart, with blue eyes
and light brown hair. She is currently dating one of her best
friends, Amy Madison, who is also a member of the group.
Amy joined the group when she began to
date Tara. Black hair and brown eyes, she likes to study the
occult and works part-time at a bookstore where the girls
hang out. She also has a weird obsession with cheese.
Fred Burkle joined the group on her first day
of school her sophomore year. She was a transfer from
some foreign country where she had been living with a
foster family. She is a very shy girl with brown hair and
glasses, who likes to spend most of her time reading.
And then there is Anya Jenkins. She joined
the group last year. She was a transfer from Los Angeles.
She doesn’t know her natural hair color due to the fact that
she changes it all the time. She is also very blunt.
The girls continued to eat their lunch, while a
few tables over Spike sat down with a loud thump.
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Spike sat down at the table with his friends. Spike was
known as the school bad boy: bleached hair, black clothes,
English accent, and a leather duster which he wore every
second of the day. He began school at Sunnydale a year
ago. Most students didn’t know anything about him except
rumors. He skipped most of his classes and was known to
pick a lot of fights. He is also a member of the band, Dingoes
Ate My Baby, in which he sings and sometimes plays guitar.
Spike greeted his friends, the only people
who had bothered to talk to him his first day of school, and
also members of the Dingoes. He noticed the boy from Ms.
Addams’ office. He introduced himself and everyone began
to talk about their upcoming gig at the Bronze.
Xander Harris is the quirkiest of the group.
He often makes jokes that only he and Jesse laugh at. He
plays guitar for the Dingoes. Daniel Osbourne, known as Oz,
also plays guitar for the Dingoes. He is very stoic, and his
hair has been every color of the rainbow at least once.
The guys looked up as they heard a loud
crash.
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The freshman fell to the ground as he was tripped. He heard
laughing as he looked up at Angel and his friends. He quickly
gathered his things and ran, already embarrassed and not
looking forward to a beating.
Angel O’Connor is the most popular guy in
school. The guys want to be as popular as he is and the
girls wish they could get with him. He spends most of his
time tormenting the less fortunate. Laughing, he turned to go
to his table and sat down.
Riley Finn, a farm boy from Iowa, is only
popular because he happens to be on the football team with
Angel. His father is in the military, so he often talks in military
code. Parker Abrams is also on the football team. His hobby
is getting girls to sleep with him and then leaving them the
next morning, never speaking to them again. And then there
is Charles Gunn, known as Gunn. Also on the football team,
he enjoys taking the geeks to the bathroom and beating them
senseless.
Angel sat down at the “popular” table just as
three girls entered the room.
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Dawn, Harmony, and Cordelia walked into the room. They
spotted Angel at the popular table and went to sit down at
the table next to it. All sophomores, the girls were among the
most popular girls in school.
Dawn is Buffy’s sister, although neither one
admits it. She’s had her eye on Angel since she saw him her
freshman year. Cordelia, a very tactless girl with jet black
hair, is a walking fashion magazine. She only wears the best
names in fashion and dates the most popular guys. She and
Dawn have been best friends since they were little.
Harmony is the epitome of a valley girl. Blonde hair and
tanned body, she lacks common sense and has the lowest
gpa in the sophomore class.
Lunch continued on, with everyone
chatting. The bell rang signaling the end of lunch, and the
students reluctantly get up, and head for their next class.