The Courtship of Buffy Summers

A/N: I am so sorry it has taken me this long to post another update. I'll try to have the next one in a lot sooner but I can't make any promises. I'm way busier then I used to be so finding time to work on the chapters is becoming harder. But I'll find a way to make it happen. Anyway, enjoy your update.
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The following morning the not-so-giddy blonde makes her way up the stairs of Sunnydale High, through the front doors, and towards her locker. Today is the day she’s going to confront Faith about the phone call, and hopefully the brunette will have a good explanation. As she walks down the halls she can’t help but notice that a lot of her fellow students are watching her.


‘Ok, so I have something huge and highly noticeable on my face?’ No, you’re face is fine. Everyone is keeping a close eye on the blonde transfer student, because today is also the day that Percy West will be coming back to Sunnydale High after a three week stay in the hospital. Faith did a lot of damage with those heels. She’s lucky Percy is too embarrassed to tell his mom and dad that he was beaten up a by a girl or she’d be in jail right now.


When Buffy reaches her locker she opens up the door and takes out the book she’ll need but she doesn’t close the door right away. Instead, she stares at the emptiness that is the inside of the locker door. ‘I should pout some pictures of Faith in here. I mean, I did that at Hemery with my boyfriends. Why shouldn’t I put up a picture of Faith?’ She closes the locker door and smiles when she feels two arms wrap around her. She leans into the warm body standing right behind her. ‘I love it when she does this,’ she thinks and giggles as Faith leaves little butterfly kisses along her neck.


“How did I end up with the hottest girl in school?” the brunette whispers and gently tickles the blonde’s stomach. Buffy giggles and squirms out of Faith’s grasp. She looks into the dark brown eyes of the girl she’s falling for, and her good mood drops a little. ‘I still need to ask her about the phone call,’ she thinks and gives Faith a small smile. ‘I have to be casual about this. I don’t want her knowing I had a little freak out yesterday.’


“I called your cell phone yesterday,” she says and the two start walking down the hall toward their first class. She glances at the brunette out of the corner of her eye, and watches for any change in expression that could be cause for concern. “Some girl answered. She didn’t tell me her name, but she said she’d tell you I called. How come you didn’t call me back?” They stop outside of the classroom and Faith leans against the wall as they wait for the bell to ring.


“I was at my brother’s place yesterday, I forgot my phone in my room. Amy probably answered. She’s my foster sister, we have to share a room and she still hasn’t learned not to touch my stuff.” ‘That doesn’t explain why she sounded breathless,’ the blonde thinks and tries not to sigh. “I didn’t get home ‘til late so I didn’t wanna call. So, what did you want?” ‘She’s not acting nervous or anything, and she told me she doesn’t want to be with anyone but me, but how do I know that for sure? I’ve been grounded, it’s not like we hang out a lot after school. How do I know she’s really at her brother’s?’


“My sister wants to go to the mall with one of her friends, but they can’t go alone. So my mom wants me to play babysitter, and she said it’s ok if you go with me, if you want to. I was kind of hoping you would so I don’t have to be alone with a couple of fifth graders all day.” She puts on her best pout and Faith can’t help but smile. ‘She is so fuckin cute, and she is using it against me. Why did I tell her I love that pout? Now she’s gonna use it all the time.’ “I can make it very worth your while.” The brunette gets a very mischievous smile on her face, which is exactly what the blonde wanted.


“Oh really?” she asks and raises an eyebrow. Buffy nods her head, and leans against the wall standing close enough to Faith that their arms are slightly touching. As if her hand has a mind of its own, the brunette entwines their fingers together as they continue to smile at each other. ‘Ya know, this is kind of sappy. When did I turn into such a pussy? Oh right, when I went down on Buffy’s.’ “And what exactly did you have in mind?” The prospect of fooling about with the blonde never fails to get her juices flowing.


“Well, since my kid sister is going to be there nothing above PG rated can happen at the mall, but I was thinking I can make it up to you.” Buffy leans in very close to the slightly taller girl and leaves a little kiss on the warm skin of Faith’s neck. Then she whispers into the other girl’s ear, her lips lightly brush against the soft flesh. “I feel the need for a little after school tutoring session.” ‘Ok, that sounded a little lame, but by the sound of that little whimper I think it did the trick. Faith swallows hard and looks over at the blonde.


“That sounds perfect,” she says with a small smile, but then the smiles goes away and is replaced with something that Faith has never felt before regarding another girl: nervousness. ‘Well, I have felt this way before with Anna, but that was a long time ago,’ she thinks and clears her throat. “If you want to do it. You don’t have to if you’re uncomfortable with it.” She manages to get out in one long breath. She opens her mouth to keep talking, but Buffy cuts her off with a kiss. No tongue is involved because the blonde knows if they get caught making out in the hallway by a teacher or the principal then they’ll get suspended for sure.


“I want to,” the blonde says when they pull away. Kissing the brunette for even a second can feel like hours, and Buffy loves that feeling. “Like you said it’s only third base, just as long as I don’t go inside you.” Saying that out loud makes the blonde blush all different shades of red. Faith smiles at Buffy’s sudden bashfulness. But then she gets serious as she prepares to say something she’s been thinking for a while. Right when she opens her mouth to voice her thoughts the bell rings, and many students start walking passed them to get into the class.


“We’ll talk later, ok? We can eat lunch alone today.” Buffy smiles at the thought but then shakes her head a little bit and gets a ‘please understand’ look on her face. ‘Great, so it’s lunch with the super geeks,’ Faith thinks and forces herself not to sigh. “Alright, then we can talk after school.” Buffy smiles and gives Faith a little kiss on the cheek and they walk into class. ‘Am I ever gonna have her all to myself?’ the somewhat disgruntled brunette thinks as she sits down at her desk.


The fact that she’s worked up and can’t do anything about it is putting her in a very bad mood. If she hadn’t told Buffy that she would take her and her sister to the mall then she would just ditch and go home and work off this tension growing between her legs. ‘Today is going to suck so much,’ she thinks as she doodles in her notebook. She normally doesn’t doodle, but today she doesn’t feel like doing anything else. The only other thing to do would be to sit and listen to the teacher and that would require her to hold still, and she can’t do that right now.


The day seems to fly by for Buffy. She spends lunch with Willow and Xander like she promised them she would. Because of her grounding situation she can’t see Faith anywhere else but school and she’s been spending a lot of time with her, and she thinks she’s been neglecting her friends a little. Faith has her own group of friends that she hangs out with because she thinks that Willow and Xander don’t like her very much, and she’s right.


It’s not that they don’t like her, but their minds still haven’t changed about what type of person Faith is. They still view her as the heartbreaking bitch who stole Anna’s heart and put it in a blender. Seeing how nice she is with Buffy only makes it worst. They know Faith’s intentions aren’t good, and she’s acting like she cares. They know that after Faith gets what she wants then she’s going to split, and Buffy is going to be really hurt. They don’t want to see their friend hurt, but it seems the only way the blonde is going to learn about the brunette is if she experiences it first hand.


When the last bell of the day finally rings both girls are very relieved. Faith is relieved because now she doesn’t have to sit down, and stay still. Buffy is relieved because her math class is possibly the most boring class in the entire world. ‘Ok so maybe not the most boring class ever, but I can barely stay awake. I wish Faith had that class with me, it would be a lot less boring that way,’ she think as she walks out to the parking lot. Every day after school Buffy meets Faith at her rust bucket of a truck, and today is no different.


“Hey sexy,” Faith practically purrs when Buffy walks up to her. She steps forward and wraps her arms around the blonde girl’s waist. She kisses the blonde hard on the mouth. Her tongue refuses to be denied as she runs it along Buffy’s bottom lip. The blonde is too caught up in the moment to remember that they’re in the parking lot of the school, and she opens her mouth for Faith to explore. Kissing the blonde like this is, smelling her sweet perfume, and feeling her soft skin is revving Faith up even more.


‘God what is this girl doing to me?’ she thinks to herself as she tightens her grip on Buffy’s waist. She turns them around and presses Buffy up against the door of the truck. She rubs her hands along the blonde’s side, grazing the sides of her breasts with each pass. The feeling makes the blonde’s nipples grow hard, and Faith can feel them through the material of their shirts and bras. Just thinking about taking those nipples in her mouth, lightly nipping them, and strongly sucking on them, is making the brunette even wetter then she was before.


“I need...air,” Buffy quickly says when she pulls her lips away from Faith’s. She smiles a little when the brunette rests her forehead against the slightly shorter girl’s. ‘I love it when she gets all cuddly,’ Buffy thinks and rubs the tips of their noses together. “Don’t take this the wrong way, but what has gotten into you?” She giggles at the tickling sensation when Faith leaves some little butterfly kisses on the blonde’s neck.


“You have,” Faith whispers and instantly regrets it because of how sappy it sounds. Buffy doesn’t seem to mind though. She smiles and gives Faith a small kiss on the lips. The kisses start out soft, and gentle, but they grow until Faith is pressing Buffy against the metal door and their tongues are battling for dominance. Faith’s desire to take the blonde right here and now is growing, and she knows if she doesn’t stop she’ll do something stupid. “We better get going. Wouldn’t want to keep little sis waiting too long.”


“You just had to remind me about that,” Buffy says with a small groan. “She’s going to be pissy about you tagging along.” Faith looks a little confused at that. She’s never met Dawn and hasn’t had the chance to make any type of impression. So why would the adolescent be mad about Faith joining the shopping trip? “She thinks we’re going to be all over each other, and acting all gaga and moon eyed. I told her we can do have self-control, but she doesn’t believe me.” Faith sees and opening and happily takes it.


“Well we were just making out in the school parking lot where everyone can see us, so maybe she’s a little right,” the brunette says with a mischievous smile. Buffy lets out a little irritated noise and gives Faith a little smack on the arm. “Oooh, baby, I like it rough.” Buffy blushes and lightly pushes Faith away from her. She’s slowly getting used to Faith’s teasing and sexual innuendoes but she still gets embarrassed and a little uncomfortable.


“We need to get going or Dawn is going to be pissed,” she says and takes a few steps away from the brunette. Faith knows that she’s overstepped her bounds and she feels bad about it. But at the same time she knows that Buffy is starting to get used to her teasing. And she knows this because Buffy isn’t babbling a million miles a minute, and almost hyperventilating. So the two hop into Faith’s truck and make their way to Dawn’s school.


Sunnydale Middle School isn’t very far from Sunnydale High, but the drive there feels like forever. They’re both turned on, their bodies are very aware of one another, and the urge to pull the truck over to the side of the road and fuck like rabbits is almost overwhelming. They stay calm though, and listen to the radio as they try to ignore what their bodies are telling them to do. It’s harder for Faith then it is for Buffy. The brunette was used to having sex on a semi-regular basis, her body was able to release the tension whenever it built up, but she cut off that release and now she’s suffering the withdrawals.


‘Why did she have to kiss me like that?’ Buffy thinks and starts to chew on her thumb nail. ‘I want her so bad now, I’ve never felt like this before. Sure I’ve been horny, but this is completely different. It’s like if I don’t have her inside me and soon I’ll die.’ She knows how stupid that sounds, and she knows she’s going to be fine, but her body is definitely in hyper drive. ‘Let’s just hope it cools down before we get to the mall. Dawn will freak out if I can’t keep my hands to myself.’


“There she is,” Buffy says and points over at the two girls waiting in front of the school. Faith pulls her rust bucket up to the curb and keeps her foot on the break. No use shutting it off when they’re going to leave right away. “Hey Dawn,” the blonde says in a friendly tone and opens the door. She scoots closer to Faith, making room for the two girls and red flags start going off in her mind. ‘I have to be pressed up right against Faith. Please, please God, give me some more self-control.’


“Hey Buffy,” Dawn says as she hops into the truck and sits next to her sister. She looks over at the driver and her eyebrows raise a little bit. “So, you’re Faith, huh?” The blonde glares at her little sister for the tone that the smallest brunette used. She sounds suspicious, and curious, but mostly suspicious. ‘She better not say anything about my meltdown yesterday or I’ll kill her.’ When Janice hops in and closes the door Faith eases off the break and eases the truck onto the road.


“Yep, the one and only,” Faith says and gives the younger girl a charming smile. “So are you girls ready to shop ‘til you drop?” They smile and nods their heads and Buffy gives Faith’s thigh a little squeeze. She knows when Faith turns up the charm it’s to try and win someone over into liking her. ‘I thought she would care less about Dawn, but I guess not,’ she thinks and only half listens as Dawn and Janice ramble on and on about some of the other kids in their class.


‘When are we going to get there?’ Buffy thinks and gives Faith’s thigh a little pinch. She smiles to herself as the other girl gives a little start. She’s surprised when Faith gives her a little pinch back. ‘So she wants to play does she?’ Buffy pinches Faith back a little harder then last time and she tries not to laugh. She watches Faith’s hand sneak it’s way from the steering wheel and it makes its way down towards Buffy’s thigh. The blonde jumps away from the fingers trying to pinch her and it causes her to bump roughly into Dawn.


“Jeez, Buffy, watch what you’re doing,” the pre-teen says in a very irritated tone. Buffy rolls her eyes but she doesn’t say anything. If Dawn had bumped her like that she would be kind of pissed. “I thought you said Sunnydale is small, how come it’s taking so long?” Buffy sighs and shakes her head a little bit. ‘She’s right this is taking a long time.’ She looks out the window and realizes she has no idea where they are. ‘Ok, where is she taking up?’


“I’m taking the back way. School just got out so there’s gonna be a lot of people on the main roads. This’ll take a couple minutes longer but we won’t hit any traffic.” ‘That’s a good idea. I have such a smart girlfriend,’ Buffy thinks with a small smile. She rests her head on Faith’s shoulder and gives her neck a little kiss. Her smiles gets a little bigger when Faith softly rubs her cheek against the top of Buffy’s head.


“Do you guys have to be so sickening?” Dawn asks and gets an elbow to the ribs from Buffy. “Ouch, God I was just joking. You don’t have to be such a jerk.” Buffy sighs and tunes Dawn out as she start talking to Janice again. It doesn’t take long for them to get to the mall. As soon as Faith finds a parking lot and shuts off the truck the two younger girls jump out. They don’t walk far because Dawn knows if she wonders off then Buffy will nark on her, and she’ll be grounded too.


“Alright ladies, let’s do some shopping,” Faith says and wraps an arm around Buffy’s waist. The blonde similes as they walk into the air conditioned building where most of Sunnydale’s stores are kept. The pre-teens don’t wait for the older two before they start walking in the direction of the store they want to go to. Buffy and Faith trail not far behind, keeping enough distance so they can talk with a little privacy.


“So when you said we have to babysit your sister that wasn’t code for we’re going to drop them off and then go do our own thing?” Faith asks as they walk into the pet store. Buffy laughs a little bit and then stops to look at the puppies. She lets out an ‘awww, how cute,’ and then gives Faith a big pout. That makes the brunette chuckle a little bit and she gives Buffy a kiss on the cheek. “Sorry babe, but I’m sure your mom would kill me if I bought you a puppy.” Then the blonde gets an idea.


“But you could keep it at your house, and we can walk it together and teach it tricks, and it can be both of ours.” The image of walking down the sidewalk hand-in-hand with Faith with a happy go lucky puppy zig zagging back and forth and barking at the squirrels and cats in the neighborhood puts a smile on the blonde girl’s face.


“If I brought a dog home my foster parents would kill me, and how are we gonna do all that stuff when you’re grounded?” ‘She just has to bring reality into this, doesn’t she?’ With a large sigh Buffy scratches the nose of the puppy she wanted to get, and a frown appears on her face. Faith has to bite the insides of her cheeks to keep herself from smiling. The blonde looks so cute right now that Faith just wants to kiss her, but she doesn’t want Buffy to get mad at her.


“Bye little puppy. I hope you find a good home,” she says and Faith rolls her eyes at the melodrama. ‘Jeez, everything is life or death with her isn’t it?’ They start to walk towards the back of the store where the two younger girls are looking at the dog toys, but then Buffy spots something. It’s a separate room with the door wide open. Inside is dark except for the lights coming from the different fish tanks. ‘Bingo,’ Buffy thinks and gets a small smile on her face.


“Faith, lets go look at the fish. All the different colors are really pretty,” she says and Faith sighs a little. “Aw, poor you. Your girlfriend wants you to take her into a dark room where no one else can see you, so she can see you without getting kicked out of the store. Poor little baby.” Faith starts laughing a little too loudly as they walk towards the aquarium room. The other customers, and the sales clerk give them odd looks but they go unnoticed.


When they first step into the dark room Buffy is distracted by all of the different colors and the large amount of exotic fish in the many aquariums. The feel of Faith’s lips lightly kissing her neck tickles her skin and causes her to giggle and snap out of her little trance. They wonder around the large room until they find a nice spot by the seahorses. Faith wraps her arms around the blonde girl’s tiny waist and looks deeply into her soft hazel eyes.


‘God, she’s so sexy. I can’t wait until I get her on her back and she’s screaming my name,’ Faith thinks as she leans down and presses her lips softly against Buffy’s. The blonde instantly reciprocates and lets out a soft moan. She can’t help it, and she wouldn’t even think of hiding it if she could. Faith has her pretty worked up from earlier, and now that she’s kissing her again it’s like adding more fuel to an out of control fire.


‘But I’m not out of control. If I were out of control I’d let her go below the belt, and there will be none of that today,’ she thinks as she parts her lips and allows Faith access to her hot and wanting mouth. ‘That’s not the only part of me that’s hot and wanting. It would be so easy because I’m wearing a skit. All she would have to do is slip her hand down there and under my panties, and I’d part my legs a little more and she could go inside me.’ Just imagining Faith doing that makes the blonde moan very loudly.


“Ok, B, we gotta stop,” Faith says as she pulls back quickly. Her breathing is labored and heavy and her eyes are fully dilated not only because of the darkness of the room but from the heavenly sounds coming from the blonde. The brunette knows that if they don’t stop soon then she’s going to reach a point of no return and she doesn’t want to cross that line. Buffy wants it to be special and losing her virginity in the aquarium section of a pet store doesn’t exactly sound like something she’d look back on and smile about.


“Yeah, that sounds like a good idea,” Buffy says and leans her forehead against the slightly taller girl’s. ‘I’m glad no one heard that. I can’t believe I moaned that loud. I wonder if that’s what I’ll sound like during my first time,’ she thinks and concentrates on bringing her breathing back to normal. When it’s slowed and her face feels like it’s cooled down some, she looks up at Faith and she can see the flush still on the other girl’s face. ‘She must be really worked up. Too bad I can’t do anything about it now. Maybe later.’


“I almost forgot,” she says and gets a small smile on her face. “My mom said it’s ok if you come over for dinner tonight. I know the last one didn’t go so well, but she’s willing to try and get to know you some more.” She can tell by the look that appears in Faith’s eyes that the younger girl is going to protest. “I know I’m asking a lot, but I know that if my mom just gets to know you a little better then she’ll be more willing to un-ground me. Please Faith, do this for me?” She puts on her best pout and watches as the other girl thinks it over.


“Alright, I’ll go,” she says with a little sigh. Buffy squeals with joy and wraps Faith up in a big hug. The brunette hugs her back for a minute or two and then she pulls back. “But I wanna go home and change first. I really don’t think she’ll like the fact that you work me up so much.” Buffy blushes and looks away from the other girl. “Hey, it’s nothing to be ashamed of, B. No one’s ever got my juices flowin as much as you. You should be proud.” ‘I could take that in so many wrong ways,’ she thinks and smiles a little bit.


“I am a little proud, but I’m just not used to talking about that kind of thing with other people. What goes on between a girl’s legs is supposed to be private.” Faith just smiles and shakes her head a little bit, and then Buffy gets a somewhat bad thought. Now we all know that thinking and the blonde have never gone well together, especially when she gets suspicious about something. It is possible that her thinking could ruin this good thing they have going.


“Don’t take this the wrong way, but have you bragged to your friends about what happened?” Faith looks a little confused and Buffy’s cheeks burn with embarrassment as she puts her thoughts into words. “You know, when you went down on me. You haven’t told anyone about that, have you?” She stares deeply into the dark eyes and looks for any sign of panic or anything that could indicate that she’s about to be lied to.


“No, B, I haven’t. What we do is our business. No one else needs to know,” Faith says and gives the blonde a little peck on the lips. “We better get going. I think the squirts are ready to go somewhere else.” She takes a step back out of the blonde girl’s slight embrace and holds onto her hand. The two walk out of the aquarium room in silence and Buffy has a feeling that something bad just happened, she just isn’t sure what.