“Want some more?” Xander asked.
“No thanks, two bowls are enough for the month. I’m sorry about before.” Cordelia said.
They were sitting on Xander’s bed watching Airplane and eating chocolate ice-cream. Cordelia had just finished off two small bowls of ice-cream, and now that she refused more, Xander was about to finish off the quart.
“Don’t be sorry, I’m the one who should be sorry.” Xander said.
“Well are you? And, God, you eat like such a pig!” Cordelia scrunched up her face in mild revulsion.
“Yes, but those comments make it hard to stay that way.” He said and closed the lid on the ice-cream container. “Let me put this back in the freezer.”
“OK,” she replied.
He stood up, looked at her for a moment and took the empty bowls. Then he went to the kitchen to put what was left of the ice-cream in the mostly empty freezer. He thought, “she said she loved me.”
“Me,” he said aloud, startling himself slightly. He closed the freezer and returned to the room, placing the dirty dishes in the dishwasher on the way. He sat down next to her, and put his right arm around her back and his left hand on her knee.
“I’m sorry I haven’t always been as...focused as you would have liked. But I hope to make that up to you.” He said as he leaned in to kiss her.
“You’ve got a lot of making up to do,” she said as she turned her head to let him kiss her. Together they leaned back onto the bed as they made out. “Um, maybe you should close your door.”
“Yaaah!” Xander said as he jumped out of the bed and shut the door quickly. His mother was working, but sometimes she would be able to leave her shift early. He wasn’t prepared to try to explain this to his mom. And really not ready to explain anything else that might happen. With that thought, he became really nervous. “Want me to turn the light off?”
“You don’t have to, but it would be more romantic,” she purred.
He practically knocked over the lamp turning it off.
“Come back over here,’ she whispered.
“Absolutely.” Xander crossed back over to the bed and sat down. His face kept changing from serious to smiling to near laughter and back as every sexual thought he ever had raced through his mind. Until she kissed him again and pulled him towards her on the bed. “It’s nice not to be in a closet for a change.” he mumbled into her ear.
“Do you have any protection?” Cordelia asked.
Once again he immediately tensed up. This brain freeze was not the ice-cream’s fault. “Um, well...I...”
“In other words, ‘No,’” she said for him.
“It was never something I had to be concerned about before,” he explained.
“Oh, I’m sorry. I guess we can wait a little longer.” She said as she went to kiss him again.
“There’s a 7-11 right down the street. I can be there and back in 15 minutes.” Xander said, still reeling from her question.
“No. Stay here with me. I just want to be with you right now.” She said and kissed his neck and shoulder.
“But I don’t have any...,” he started.
“I didn’t mean that. I just meant that I want to stay with you for right now. We can worry about that another day. And there will be another day,” she said, as they went back into making out again. Soon they would see each other in ways they never had before.
"*"
Barely audible though the slightly ajar window, Angelus could hear a woman’s voice.
“...and there will be another day,” she said.
“I wouldn’t count on it honey. I wouldn’t count on it.” Angelus whispered into the night air outside Xander’s window. “Better watch yourself, little buddy, look what happened to Angel when he did the deed.” Angelus barely stifled some laughter on that thought. “Have fun, but sooner or later, she’s got to go home, and then, she’s all mine. All mine.”
