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[freddles]

The entire night after Charles dropped me off at my house, I couldn't sleep. I wanted to get on the phone and call Faith to tell her what had happened, but I couldn't. She was probably still with Angel and even though I was still a little mad at her about that, I kinda wasn't. At least not as much as I had been when I left the Bronze. That

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[puffy_xander]

Well, at least Mr. Pryce wasn't here. I could do without a lecture or whatever came out of his mouth. I just sat there, thinking about last night and what I could have done differently. You know, not even show up. Now there was an option, why couldn't I have not thought of that before? Too late. I did show up. I gave her the bracelot and then she dumped me. In front of everyone. Everyone ... that I'm surprised that Fred didn't know.

Glancing over at her, I just gave her a look and then she changed the subject. Right now, last night and Cordelia were things that I never wanted to talk about again. Possibly think about, but not talk about. Never.

She got attacked? Okay, maybe my problem wasn't *that* bad compaired to that. "Sorry," I mumbled and then looked over at her with a small smile on my face. Spells?

A spell. That was it. That way Cordelia would love me again. Oh yes, the dumped will become the dumper. Or something. I'd make her fall in love with me and then just dump her and humiliate her in front of everyone. That would be the best payback in the history of paybacks and Xander Harris was going to perform it!

"So ... what kind of spells are in that book?" I asked a little too interested as I looked at her, then at the book. "Any love spells? Not that I would use it, just ... so I could see what was in there, that's all," I shrugged, not trying to give myself away.

[freddles]

He said he was sorry about what happened last night and I just shrugged. "It's alright. This guy showed up and kept the vampire from.. ya know, killing me." I smiled a little at him. "He took me home after." I flipped a little more in the book and grinned when I saw a couple of the spells. Too bad I can't even perform a good locator spell without setting fire to my parent's rug because some of these would be fun.

"A lot of kinds that Mr. Pryce would lecture me again about for just looking at them." I smiled. "Which is why I look at them and sometimes copy them down without him knowing." Not to mention the one or two books that I had stashed under my bed or hidden away in my locker. It wasn't like he'd miss them right? "Love spells?" Shrugging, I handed him the one book and picked up the other. "I think I might've seen something about that sometime in one of these. Never really had anyone to do it on, so I just skipped over it."

It was too bad these books didn't have nice indexes in the back to let you know exactly what was in here. Except that would be too easy wouldn't it? "Here," I said pointing to one of the pages. "This one giv-.. oh. Nevermind." Turning the page, I glanced up at him. "That one gave someone the feeling of-..nevermind." A few more pages later and there was another. "Oh! Here it is."

Smiling, I handed him the book so he could see. "Your average love spell. Makes someone fall in love with you.. which is what good love spells do I guess."

[puffy_xander]

I had no idea that Fred was into all of this, but it was usually the quiet ones that you had to worry about. Fred was ... she was nice, she wasn't like Cordelia though. In fact, no one was like Cordelia and I'd do anything that I could to get back with her. Or to just make her suffer and for her to be in love with me? Forever? And me give *her* the cold shoulder? Hey, I could handle that. I just wondered how long it would take before I gave in and wanted her. Hmm, let's think about this. About five seconds? Maybe less? Yeah, I had it bad for her and that's something that I hated about her.

Fred handed me a book and I looked through it, but really, I didn't know what I was looking at. I had a hard enough time following a math book, let alone a spell book, so when she found it? I was relieved. I took the book from her and read it and then grinned. This might work.

It just needed a few things. Something that she had, something of mine, blah blah and I think I could pull that off. Besides, this was Cordelia. When things would go missing in her gym locker, it was usually me who had it. Oh yes, I did. Good things. Wonderful, cozy ... er, non stalker-creepish things of course.

Moving along.

"Think you could ... do one for me? Like a practice? It would be fun, what do you say, Fred?"

[freddles]

I'd never done a love spell or anything really that was as complicated as one, but it sounded really fun. It had to be better than a locator spell that set my rug on fire, right? Then again I guess this could set something bigger on fire if I didn't do it right. Mr. Pryce was always trying to tell me the dangers of magic and this and that, but he really couldn't expect me to get really evil or something could he? Though one thought of trying this thing out on Charles did pop into mind. But I wouldn't do that. Nope.

Blinking, I looked up from the books and back to Xander. "Huh?" A part of me was jumping at the chance to do a spell this big, but then the me that was putting out the rug-fire at my house was telling me I need to shut the book and back away slowly. "You want me to do a love spell for you? Like.. on you?" He didn't want me to make him fall in love with me or Faith or something did he? Cause that would be.. just weird.

He kept looking at me in that Xander-way and if you added in that little factor that I hadn't ever done one of these spells before and if I wanted to learn I had to.. try. Right? Right. "I.. well, I guess so. But just so you know.. I've never done anything li-" What did I want him to think? That I couldn't do it? I might not be completely sure that I could, but.. I think I could. It didn't look that hard.

"Okay!" Grinning, I closed the other book and hopped off the table. "So.. what do you want exactly? I mean.. cause you're gonna need something of someone's. The, um.. other person."

[puffy_xander]

For a minute there ... I was thinking she wasn't going to do it. I kept on looking at her and I took the whole her thinking about for a really, really, really long time as a good sign. This could be good practice for her and I was going to bring that up until she finally said that she'd do it with a grin on her face. Everything that she needed? I could pull off. It would be nice to use the bracelet that I got her that she didn't give back to me you know, when she dumped me and all, but it was cool. I'd use something else.

I had a box full of Cordyness in my room.

"Right ... yeah," I said and nodded my head. "How about this, I meet you at your house tonight, say ... 7 o'clock? I'll have everything I need and we can see if you're a good witch or a bad witch."

Wait, that sounded so hot ... why did I just say that? Turning away, I nodded and took a breath before standing up. "Right. So ... class and I'll see you tonight, right?"