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XI (II)

Riley paid his drink and left the pub.
It was almost 1:00 a.m., so he couldn’t annoy him then.
As he hadn’t said anything to Willow, not to show up as a fooled cheated guy, he wouldn’t say anything to him, too.
He would make it seem just a simple curiosity.
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The day after, at early morning, Riley went to the Magic Box, and, as he expected, he found Giles all alone, because Anya would have reached him later.
Plus, there weren’t any customers around yet.
“Riley, what are you doing here now?” the man asked surprised to see the guy there. “I hope nothing bad happened!” he added, concerned.
“Calm down, Mr. Giles, I just wanted to ask you something, it’s due to a research I’m working on..” he explained.
“Ask me everything!”
“It’s about the several kinds of meditation, I’ve already described tons of them, but I have some doubts about the existence of one..”
“Which one?”
“The Chinese meditation. You know, the meditation that you must do just after midnight, because it requires an amount of concentration you can reach just at that time..” he explained, hoping that Giles would confirmed its existence.
But the puzzled look in the man’s eyes destroyed that hope.
“I don’t know the books you read, but I can assure to you that there’s nothing like that, I’ve never heard a biggest absurdity!” he chuckled.
“Well, thank you anyway. It just means that I won’t insert it in my research. Now I gotta go, have a nice day, bye!” he greeted him, leaving the shop.

< Let’s sum up, Buffy keeps lying to me and that’s only to avoid me. There’s something wrong in Buffy, but tonight I’ll face her and I’ll make her confess everything, so finally I’ll find out the truth!> Riley decided.

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That night, only the big guilty sense that tormented her had forced Buffy to hang out with Riley, against her will.
She had spent whole hours in her bathroom with the make up, but due to a simple reason: to hide the visible paleness of her face.

< Well, Spike has really tanked up last night! No, Buffy, what did we decide? Stop thinking about him! Riley is your boyfriend, you like Riley, you have great times with him and you can’t wait to spent another night with him!> Buffy told herself, as she dragged herself outside.

Not even in that pathetic attempt of self-persuasion she had managed to tell herself she loved him.

After few minutes she saw Riley’s car approach.
Riley parked and got off.
“Hi, Riley!” she greeted him quickly, without even looking at him, as she tried to open the car door, without even looking at him, but without managing to open that. “Ok, I got it. Do you wanna take a walk? Fine, let’s take the damn walk, then. I bet we’re going to the Bronze, as always, aren’t we?” she commented bitterly, starting to walk.
“Buffy!” Riley called her with authority in his tone.
She turned to look at him, and that’s when she realized how clouded over his face was.

“What’s wrong?” she asked him.
“ *You* tell me what’s wrong, Buffy, or should I better call you Miss Inveterate-Liar?” he snapped.
“What the hell are you talking about?”
“I know everything, Buffy, you can’t deny it anymore. You keep lying to me.. about everything.. and I wanna know why!”
“Riley, I don’t..”
But he cut her off.
“The teacher who is always punctual, the Chinese meditation, the coming-soon exam .. should I go on with the list, Buffy?” he struck back, with a louder voice.

“You’re right, but this is not any of your business!” she snapped.
“This *is* my business, I’m your boyfriend, you must show respect to me, you can’t cheat on me and act like a bitch with the first guy you met!” he yelled at her.
“Now you’re unfair..” she struck back.

< .. He’s not the first guy I met!>

“Buffy, what’s going on? You gotta tell me! You’re growing more and more distant, why? Did I do something wrong?” he wondered, more quietly.
“I.. no, Riley, it’s not your fault, you’re such a wonderful person..”



“Whoever he is, whatever you’re doing, quit it. I’ll prevent you from meeting him again! Come back to me, I’m the number one for you!” he went on, dragging her to himself roughly, kissing her as she tried to break free.
He didn’t want to let her go, so she pushed him away violently, but without using all her strength .. otherwise she would have broken some ribs and bones of his.
“Let me go! You can’t order me about! You.. you ‘re pestering me, and I’m sick of that! I guess that tonight there will be no dates!” she snapped, running back to the porch and getting in her house, shutting the door.
“You’re a bitch!” Riley yelled at her from outside, jumping on his car, and setting it in motion angrily, leaving with an exaggerate acceleration.

“Not only tonight, my pet, there will be no dates with him anymore..” Spike thought out loud, as he finished smocking a cigarette.
The bleached vampire had hidden himself in the shadows , watching the whole scene with a large smile on his lips.
“There are too many players at his game, it’s time for one of them to be game-over. Honey, don’t fear, your Big Bad knows what to do!” he sneered, heading towards his goal.

TBC

So, are you ready to party? ;)
Thank you all by Pandy and me, as always!

p.s. My next up date should be ‘Try on my world 2’, if my beta returns the chapter to me, eh eh! ;)
Instead, we’ll up date this one as soon as possible, but we warn you, if you even remotely like Riley.. STOP READING NOW! ;)





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