Dawn's First Light

After I talked to Willow about my slayer dream, I got dressed and walked down stairs to the kitchen. I made myself a bowl of cereal and sat at the kitchen table. Giles was already there. As for him being the new Librarian I was happy for him. 

Xander and Willow were just coming downstairs as I finished my cereal. Angel of course was still sleeping. We all knew he was depressed about the move; something about not having enough supernatural occurrences happening. Rolling my eyes I walked to the dish washer and put my stuff in it.

“So I hear that there are only six hundred kids in this school?” I asked Giles.

“Yes.” He replied, not even looking up from his morning paper.

“Damn! We had maybe twice as many people in my freshman class alone back in L.A.”

“Hey Buffy, I hear you had a slayers dream. Is it true that there are going to be vampires at our school?” Xander asked.

Giles finally looked up from his paper looking startled. “Oh dear, Buffy please tell me this isn't true?”

“Well since Xander brought it up. Yes, I had a dream about a vampire. But he was different. Giles have you heard of the Cullen's?”

“Yes, are you telling me that they are vampires?” 

At that moment Willow looked at the clock and noticed it was time for school.

“Guys maybe we can finish this conversation in the library after school? School is going to start in forty minutes.”

So the gang grabbed their back packs, along with Giles who grabbed his briefcase, and headed out the door. Giles got into his GTO, Xander his Mustang 2, and Willow and I got into her Mustang convertible that she repainted fuzzy pink. I giggled as I got into the car.

Willow looked at me, “What's so funny?” she asked.

“Your car, you know this used to be one of your favorite colors.” I answered still snickering.

Willow shrugged then laughed. “I know that's why I painted it this color. Now please tell me more about this slayer dream.”

As I was explaining my very confusing slayer dream we quickly found ourselves in the school parking lot. Willow parked in front of the Front Office even though you weren't allowed to park there. Other students were arriving to school and parking in front of building three. I knew that we were going to be late for our first class since we still had to check in. Xander parked next to us and as we walked to the building it started to rain.

Walking into the Front Office, it was warm and cozy. I noticed that the carpet was commercial and there were three desks in the office. In the middle one there sat a pretty plump woman with red hair and a purple sweater. Immediately I felt under dressed. We hadn't bought much in the way of clothes since leaving Sunnydale. But I shoved that thought aside and walked up to her. 

“Hi, I am Buffy Evans and these are my brother and sister Willow and Alexander Evans.”

Realization came over the woman and she smiled. “Oh, well I have all your schedules right here.” She dug through a precariously stacked pile of documents on her desk until she found what she was looking for. As she put the schedules out in front of us she also got out what looked three maps of the school. 'Typical' I thought to myself.

“And here are your maps of the school.” 

She went through our classes with us, highlighting the best route to each class on the map. She also gave us a slip to have each teacher sign and bring back at the end of the day. Smiling at us she wished us a good day and hoped we liked it here in Forks. I smiled back at her as convincingly as I could. 

Xander started back outside and headed for the cars pulling up his hood as Willow and I did the same. I should have brought an umbrella.  Willow and I got into her car, while Xander got into his, and we headed off to building three. Willow parked across from, what looked like, a shiny silver Volvo. I looked around and noticed that most of the other cars and trucks were older looking. 

'Great.' I thought 'First day of school and we are already starting to stand out.' I rolled my eyes as I grabbed my back pack and purse then got out of the car once again.