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They were learning self-defense in P.E. How to flip your opponent and other fun treats like that. How nice. The coach showed them a couple of demonstrations and then told them all to get into groups of two to practice. Buffy smiled grimly and walked over to Xander’s side. “Sorry, Larry. I’ve got him covered.”
He leered suggestively at her. “I’ll bet you do. Any chance of covering me?” She gave him her frostiest glare, which he conveniently ignored. Larry nudged Xander and whispered in a not-so-quiet tone of voice. “First Willow, then Cordy, and now Buffy! Man, I envy you! How do you do it?” He moved away from the pair, chuckling to himself.
Xander stared after him and shook his head wryly. “That Larry ... what a chump.” He looked at Buffy, expecting her to agree with him, but she was silent. “Something wrong, Buffster?” he asked. The coach blew his whistle and the two of them got into position. “You don’t look too happy.”
Buffy grabbed his arm and threw him over her shoulder, none too gently, and Xander landed with an “Oomph!” on the mat. “Ow!” Xander got up, frowning. “A little too hard on the flip there, Buff. Take it easy.” Buffy responded by sweeping his legs out from under him so that he collapsed into a crumpled heap on the ground. “Hey! We’re not all gifted with super strength, you know.” Xander sat up and rubbed his head with a groan. “If you’re mad at someone, please don’t take it out on me!”
She leaned over him and hissed. “It’s you I’m mad at, you dimwit!”
He stared at her in confusion. “Why?”
“For what you did to Cordy, you jerk!”
“What did I do to Cordy?”
Buffy moved back, not expecting that response. “You mean you don’t know?”
“Know what?” Xander asked in exasperation. “Can I please get up now?”
She held out a hand and pulled him upright, clearly puzzled. “She saw you kissing Willow in the closet. It really messed her up bad.”
Xander blinked. “What?” he asked loudly. The coach glowered at the two of them and he lowered his voice. “How did she know we were in there?” he whispered.
“She sent you a note telling you she wanted to meet you there! What are you talking about?”
“I didn’t get a note from her,” he said indignantly. “Willow sent me a note telling me the same thing! I got one from her, not Cordy!”
They came to the same conclusion at the same time. “It was a set up,” said Xander with a sigh.
Buffy was more expressive about her feelings. “When I get my hands on that girl, I’m going to wring her neck!” she muttered, only half-joking.
Xander looked at her in alarm, but then he wasn’t feeling too kindly towards his ex-girlfriend either. he thought angrily. He thought of the shock that must have gone through his friend upon seeing them kiss. “Cordy never liked the idea of the two of us together, you know,” he said, musingly. “She must have been so disappointed in me.”
Buffy gave him a long, hard look. “You really don’t know, do you?”
“Know what?”
“She loves you. Cordelia loves you, and from what she told me, she has for a very long time.”
“WHAT?”
The piercing sound of the whistle bounced off the walls of the gym. “Harris! Summers! The two of you obviously think you know your stuff already, if you can afford to give up this valuable learning time to stand around and talk.” The coach’s booming voice grabbed their attention at once, and they shuffled their feet sheepishly, not wanting to catch his eye. “You wouldn’t mind giving a demonstration to the rest of the class then, would you?”
Buffy and Xander looked at each other resignedly and began moving towards the coach.
“You’d better not hurt her again, Xander,” warned Buffy under her breath. “She was already crying her eyes out in the bathroom this morning. If you make her cry again ...”
“I am not going to hurt her, Buffy. That’s the last thing in the world that I want to do. She’s my best friend! I didn’t know ...”
The whistle blew again, and their conversation came to a halt.
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