Chapter Three: And the Weirdness Keeps on Coming
Cordelia was always one of those girls who dated college guys. Well, I guess every girl I went to high school with would have rather dated a college guy, but she could actually do it. So imagine my surprise when, out of nowhere, she actually starts talking to me. Okay, so it wasn't like she wanted to know anything about me, it was more like letting me get stuff for her, but I did get to be around her and speak to her in public. She would hang out at the Bronze and tell me what kind of drinks to get her. Sure, I had to pay, and I usually had to take the drinks back four or five times until they were correct, but she didn't seem to mind me being all flustered, or being seen in public with me. It was one of the best weeks of my life. I know most people think she's just some vapid prom queen, but a couple of times during that week I got to see how nice she could actually be. It was surreal. But in a good way.
I guess I come off as a complete loser, talking about Cordelia like this when I've never even dated her or anything, but that's just how she was to me back in high school. And, believe it or not, I did have a girlfriend for a while. Okay, it was in camp, but we kissed and stuff. Anyway, I stopped paying so much attention to Cordelia when she started dating Xander, and then she left Sunnydale, and I sort of forgot about her. I did have some other stuff going on, after all.
That year, the weird occurrences in Sunnydale just sort of multiplied. On Halloween, there were a record number of deaths. People said that monsters were running around attacking people. It's probably true. I stayed home on Halloween, so I just heard about it at school. Although, at one point, I heard what I'm pretty sure now was gunshots from the street. Just one more reason to stay inside at night when you live in Sunnydale.
The weirdness continued at career fair. One of the speakers, a cop lady, tried to kill everyone, but ended up only shooting Oz in the arm. I felt bad for him. Oz is one of the only people at school who didn't care how unpopular I was, and would always say hi to me. I wasn't surprised when he started dating Willow. They sort of belonged together. I still don't know what exactly happened later on. Maybe Willow discovered she was gay and that's why they broke up. I don't really know. Anyway, that one was explained as temporary insanity on the part of the cop. It could be true. I get the feeling she was specifically aiming for Buffy, however.
Buffy, if you ever read this, I just wanted to say that you are such an amazing person to be able to deal with all these things trying to attack you all the time, and still be able to have almost a normal life. I know I couldn't do it. I mean, look at me and Andrew- Willow tries to kill us and we run away first chance we get. I don't know if I'll ever be able to be as brave as you or Willow or Xander, but I hope to have the chance to try.
Anyway, there were some more weird experiences that school year. A girl spontaneously combusted in Buffy's class one day. Snakes took over the cafeteria. For an entire day, every single girl in school talked about "how incredibly hot Xander Harris was". That one threw me for a while. I guess it was some kind of spell, but it cracked me up to see how pissed off all the jocks got at Xander. Then Xander went out and joined the swim team. I knew it wouldn't last. I'm not saying that Xander wasn't good enough, just that some people aren't meant to be jocks. Or to be around the mindless school heroes for more than a few minutes without your brain exploding.
And then, at the end of the school year, something big went down, which landed Willow in a wheelchair and resulted in Buffy not being in school for a while. I still don't know what it was, but I'm guessing something demon related.
Wow, I don't think I realized until I started writing this just how much stuff happened to those guys in high school. It's kinda strange, because before Buffy showed up, life seemed pretty boring. I mean, sure you heard stories about people disappearing and lots of deaths resulting from neck trauma, but I think Willow and Xander just ignored it like the rest of us. Then Buffy shows up and it's like they all have this little secretive group where suddenly they're involved in every weird occurrence. I would love to hear what was actually happening one day. Hopefully I'll get the chance. At the rate things are going, it might be possible. Andrew is wavering. He seems to have decided that maybe going back to Sunnydale isn't the craziest thing ever. I don't think he expected it to be as hard as this, considering how easy things were for us before prison. And we thought being in hiding was bad- at least everyone still spoke English.