I don't even know how we could let this happen

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When Charles had freed me from the handcuffs, I flashed him a quick smile and then shot a smug look to Faith. She was still stuck in that cage and with the way she was slamming around and acting and so I'm sure the last thing on Charles' mind was opening that cage door. Oh well. Worked better for me that Faith was acting like the psycho slayer she

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I dumped my bookbag on the counter next to Fred's and was just about to hop onto it and sit and wait as Fred called the pizza place but she told me to go upstairs. With a shrug I headed up the stairs. The Burkle's house was so nice. I mean it wasn't like me and Wes were destitute or anything but it also wasn't like the Council was really gonna spring for a decent joint. Then again, I guessed anything was better than the divey motel room I'd first been stayin' at when I got into town. It wasn't just the house either really, it was like the whole vibe. They were a real live family. Her parents were even nice to me. It was weird, most parents don't usually like me.

Maybe if I'd been Fred my mom wouldn't have ended up a washed up piece of white trash who didn't give a crap about me. Kinda doubtful though. Still, just lookin' around her room? She had science stuff all displayed proudly.

Wrinkling my nose a little bit I picked up a piece of a rock and looked underneath it before setting it back down with a shrug. I was never gonna be good at this kind of stuff which I guess was good why I hung out with Fred too. She was pretty much the brains y'know when she wasn't makin' us all go psychotic over Xander.

Plopping down on the end of her bed I picked up a magazine to flip through when a small baggie came rollin' out and landed right on her bedspread. With a frown I narrowed my eyes at it. Was that.....what I thought it was? No way, I mean this was Fred and Fred played around with magic and stuff. Maybe these were just uhh...magical herbs?

Pickin' it up and lookin' it over I sniffed it a little bit before unrolling it and lookin' inside. Yep, definitely what I thought it was. Herb. And not the magical kind. At least not in the strictest sense of the word.

I heard Fred in the doorway and glanced up with a smirk.

"Someone's been naughty."

And for once it's not me! Man, I was on a roll today.

[freddles]

After ordering the pizza, I grabbed a couple drinks from the fridge and started up the stairs to my room. This was the first time Faith really had been in my house minus maybe some of the downstairs part. Usually we'd hang out at the Bronze or the library or something how weird was it that we all hung out at school when we didn't have to? Well, I guess I did that anyway sometimes, but not usually to just hang out with friends.

Walking into the doorway, I wasn't really paying any attention to anything when I looked up and saw Faith grinning at me and hey where did she find that?? Almost a little worried, I sat the drinks down on the nightstand and looked nervously at Faith. "It's not what it looks like." Was what it looked like a little weed because I guess that really was what it looked like.

"Okay, so it is what it looks like but I'm not some junkie or anything. Just a little sometimes to.." Faith was giving me this 'are you serious' look and finally I just rolled my eyes at myself.

As far as I was concerned this was the perfect time to pull out the bong and make myself feel better because after everything that had happened today? Exactly.

I looked up from the bag she still had in her hand and smiled a little at her. "Want some?"

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The corner of my mouth twitched up into a smirk as Texas suddenly started to backpeddle faster than I'd ever seen anyone else backpeddle before. It was pretty fucking hysterical if you asked me. Tryin' to tell me she wasn't a junkie. Well, no shit. It wasn't like I found a bag of coke in her room or something. Then I might raise some bigger questions and did I really have to remind her that just cause today I happened to be the good child didn't mean that every other day I wasn't the bad one. Actually, it kind of made me like her more. She wasn't my usual speed of friends, not that I'd had a ton of them in my day but the people I used to hang with back in Boston weren't like Fred at all.

They sure smoked alot of weed though.

"Yeah, I do." I nodded at her still smiling as she seemed to finally ease up on herself. Did she really think I was gonna come down on her for a bag of herb? Not likely. "Hold on, wait lemme guess. You seem like...." I stood up and thought it over for a second as I looked at her. "A glass water bong person, none of that plastic shit, am I right?" I asked her as she just kept starin' at me.

"Let's see." Walkin' over to her closet I pulled it open and stopped when I saw what was sittin' on the middle shelf right in front of me. Guess Mr and Mrs Burkle never needed anything out of their daughter's closet. Course if I had a kid like Fred I would trust her too.

There was just what looked like a giant glass beaker filled with water halfway with a hole punched in the middle of it. Turning it around you could the pipe part of it built into the top of the beaker.

"Wow." I said as I took the bong off of the shelf and openly admired it. "This is a work of art, Fred."

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As I sat still on the bed, I watched as Faith went into the closet. Yep, right there on the shelf was the bong. Probably should find somewhere else to keep that since sooner or later Daddy or Mama would probably find it. Sure missed the little hardwood floors of my room back in Texas. Those boards just come right up.

Faith was admiring the glass bong and I just shrugged. "Thanks. I'm working on another like the one I had back in Texas, but it's still hardly finished yet. This was just a little something I spent a couple days doing in.. the science lab after school." Reaching over into the drawer of the nightstand, I grabbed a lighter. Daddy liked to smoke his pipe sometimes, so what was wrong with a little herb? I doubt he'd see it that way. Which is why he wasn't gonna find out.

Faith walked over to the bed with the bong and I went ahead and put some of it into the bowl, using the lighter to ignite it.

"I wonder what kind of speech I'd get from Mr. Pryce if he caught me with this," I said looking back up to Faith. Breaking out into a grin, I shrugged. Hey, he chained me to a pipe so he didn't get to say anything about me using a different kind of pipe for myself.

The smoke started to rise in the chamber and I leaned over, inhaling. Ahh, yeah. That pizza would come just in time. Grabbing one of the pillows on the bed, I held it in my lap and watched as Faith leaned forward to inhale some of the smoke.

[prodigal_slayer]

Dude, I could just fuckin' see Wesley's face if he walked into Fred's bedroom right now. Luckily that would never actually happen cause after the funny shocked expression? Would come the really angry one where I was in trouble again. This was a day of Faith not bein' in trouble. Let's remember that. I didn't wanna jinx myself now by thinkin' about Wes findin' out me and Fred were smokin' up. He'd have a fit, or whatever it is the British do.

Fred passed the bong over to me and I lit it up before inhaling. Shit, it'd been a long time since I'd smoked up like this. Maybe I should've asked Fred for it earlier, not that I would have ever guessed she'd be down. But seriously, after the last few weeks? We could all use some time to relax and kick back I was thinkin'.

Exhaling the smoke I passed the bong back to Fred still in total disbelief at the bong she'd been building in the science lab. The science lab at school? I had the best friend ever. Not only was she wicked smart but sneaky and badass too. Now if I could go without fucking this friendship up? I'd be doin' pretty good.

"So....you knew I was gonna ask." I said giving her a serious look with just a hint of a smirk so she'd know I was mostly bustin' her chops. "What's the deal with Xander and Cordy. Oh c'mon, you did the spell for him. He's been clammin' up on me, I think he's embarrassed or something which okay, Cordelia is fairly embarrassing but still, she's kinda hot. Xander could do worse, you know if she wasn't a total bitch."

[freddles]

Faith had this amazed and amused look on her face as I told her about building the bong in the lab and simply the fact that I had a bong at all. What? I wasn't just little miss science freak. Okay, mostly I was, but it sure came in handy when you need a self-made bong to go with your stash.

Taking the bong from Faith, I lit it up and glanced up at her as I inhaled again. Xander and Cordelia? Exhaling, I sat it down on the bed and shrugged. "I don't know, he's just being all mopey pants over her and wanting her to fall in love with him. He came into the library the day after that night at the Bronze all sad-faced while I was looking through a spell book. I'd never done a spell, well a real spell before so when he asked if I wanted to make a practice run I said okay."

Picking up the bong again, I inhaled then looked sheepishly over at Faith as I exhaled and handed it back to her. "Didn't think all of that was gonna happen." Was kinda funny though when you really thought about it. Well. It was right now anyway. I grinned.

"We all were kinda out there with the violent lovey dovey feelings though weren't we? I think I wanted to make everyone disappear or something." I rolled my eyes and laughed at myself. "Yeah, because I'm sure I could've pulled that one off. Probably would've made the world explode or something."

[prodigal_slayer]

My eyes got a little wider and i just blinked at her when she said she probably would have exploded the whole world. Could she really do that? I had no clue but with the way she made everyone at school act today? Maybe? Maybe Wes was right freakin' out about all this magick stuff. I didn't really pay that much attention to it cause I figured Fred could handle herself but hey, I was still the good child today so maybe I should encourage her to do more?

Leaning against the headboard I folded my legs underneath me indian style and leaned over to hit off the bong again before passing it back to Fred but just as I did the doorbell downstairs rang. "Pizza." I smiled at her as we both got up and walked downstairs.

While Fred went to get the door I walked into the kitchen and opened up the fridge. I had cotton mouth something fierce and so I pulled out a bottle of juice and looked at it for a second before shrugging and pouring some of it into a cup. Mmmmmmmm food. I could smell the pizza and I had the wicked munchies goin' on.

"Maybe we should go out tonight." I said with a shrug as Fred came back in with the pizza box in her arms. "We could always go and rent a movie, pop some popcorn."

[freddles]

I grabbed some money out of my wallet off the counter and went over to the door for the pizza. Giving the delivery guy the cash, he handed the pizza over to me and wow did it smell good. Yeah, he got here just in time or else I'd be having to raid the pantry in the kitchen for something to eat.

Shutting the door after he was gone, I headed back into the kitchen with Faith and mmmmmm pizza. I sat the box down on the counter, immediately opening it up and grabbing a slice. Oww hothothot! What had Faith said? Oh right, a movie. I shrugged a little as I took another bite of the pizza. Popcorn?

"Hey, we have this really good popcorn you know like the kind you get at the actual movies? Not the cheap kind that makes you feel like you're eating cardboard," I told her and went over to the pantry, and grabbed a pack of the popcorn. "See, it's.. 'movie popcorn'." Grinning, I tossed it on the counter and finished off my piece of pizza. "Yeah, let's get a movie."

I went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of water, taking a sip. Man I was thirsty. "What do you wanna watch? Nothing fluffy and oh I'll love you forever. I've had plenty of that for today thank you very much."

[prodigal_slayer]

The pizza box was opened and we both dug in like we were starvin' kids who hadn't been fed in days. Or ya know, stoners. Whatever. I only stopped gnawing on the pizza when Fred showed me the kind've popcorn she had here. Good. I needed popcorn after pizza, how could I still be thinkin' about food as I was already chowin' down on a pizza? I dunno. Maybe we should go to the store too when we went to go get a movie, just to make sure we had everything for our munchie needs.

I smirked a little bit when she said she wasn't in the mood for a chick flick. Did I look like the kinda girl to dig chick flicks? Well, mostly I liked action movies and old movies but pretty much you could put anything on a television screen and I'd watch it. I was pretty easy to entertain that way.

"Hey, you know me I'm a girl of action." I said with a wicked smirk in Fred's direction as I finished the slice of pizza and pulled another one out of the box as I perched myself lazily on the corner of a chair at the kitchen table. "None of that sappy romance crap for me." Mostly. At least not publically, I think.

[freddles]

Another piece of pizza was practically half eaten and I just grinned wide at her. Action movies? Yeah, that might actually be kinda fun to watch tonight. But really I didn't care. Just nothing with the girl falling in hopeless love with the guy because he was the greatest man in the entire world and nothing could ever become between them. Stuff getting blown up sounded much more appealing right now.

Maybe it's a good idea I didn't ever get anywhere on that making people disappear spell.

Next piece of pizza was now gone and now that Faith had put the idea of popcorn in my head I wanted some now. It was good popcorn! I drank another long sip of water and sat the bottle down on the counter. "Okay, we can decide when we get there. I can be a girl of action." Yeah, of course I could.

I grabbed my keys off the counter and grinned at her as I picked up another slice of pizza. "Alright, let's get out of here. We can figure it out when we get there. Something with action but nothing with Bruce Willis." Popcorn and pizza and the bong would be waiting for when we get back.