Buffy Summers (buffy_da_slayer) wrote in btvsal, @ 2009-11-28 15:50:00 |
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Date Night
Who: Buffy and Kevin
Where: Eden
When: Saturday Night, Nov. 28
The music was pumping through the huge speakers, and bodies were grinding on the dance floor. But as usual, Kevin Van Warren was standing by the bar, more an observer than a participant. But this time, the leather-clad rocker was accompanied by his new girlfriend, Buffy Summers. That almost comically sweet smile on his face, he had an arm lovingly wrapped around her waist, holding her body to his.
"So, do you always just like to sit at the bar and watch other people dance, or do you ever join them?" Buffy asked playfully, leaning against him a little as she listened to the music.
"Well... now that we're dating..." he leaned in, whispering in dread seriousness into her ear. "One of my deep, dark secrets? There's probably one-legged, 400-pound blind men that can dance better than me."
She laughed loudly. "Come on, there aren't that many people who are born completely without rhythm," she pointed out to him. "How can you come to a club and never dance?"
"Sure, you mock me... but you'll see. I'll go on the floor with you, but you're gonna have to stop me from falling all over the place..." He said with mock dire-warning.
"I'm not that afraid," Buffy said to him. "I have faced all sorts of things in LA. A little bit of bad dancing doesn't frighten me at all."
"Well... alright then... but you just remember this if I ever get famous, and then videos of me dancing like a goofball pop up on the internet." He laughed sweetly though, taking her hand and leading her onto the dance floor, deciding (wisely) to let her take the lead.
"I'll keep that in mind," Buffy said as he led her to the dance floor. She leaned over and whispered in his ear, "The trick to looking good is to let the girl do most of the dancing and to just enjoy it." It was playful, but she had a point. She started to dance with him, going slowly to the beat of the bass in the song playing at the moment.
He did as she said there, just placing his hands on her hips, and more or less following her lead. It didn't matter anyway: by this point, he was focusing more on her than the music.
She pressed herself against him, rubbing against him as she swayed back and forth. She loved dancing, even if her boyfriend claimed that he couldn't dance much back. She found it cathartic to actually be able to dance for a while.
"Ok, now, if you'd have asked me if I wanted to simulate sex on the dance floor, THAT I would have agreed to much quicker." He quipped, stifling that girlish giggle as he held her closer still, sweetly sniffing her hair as they swayed, just taking in her scent.
"I thought that you knew that's what dancing was?" Buffy asked playfully. "I bet you would have come out here quicker if you had known that's what it was, wouldn't you?" She talked to him and kept dancing with him as well.
"Well YEAH. I just never really had a girl I wanted to do this with." Sad part was? The big doof wasn't kidding. To him, this kind of dancing was far too intimate to do with just any random person.
"Now I feel special." She said it playfully, but she actually meant it. She was a little amazed that he didn't feel comfortable doing this with Irene, but, then again, maybe that was why they had split in the end. Well, that and the cheating, of course.
What was weird was, while he did love Irene, very rarely did they ever get very affectionate in public. It was usually a much more private affection they shared. Very passionate, but very private. With Buffy though... she was so playful, so much his FRIEND as well as his girlfriend, that he felt much more comfortable with the whole PDA thing.
When the song ended, she leaned forward and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before pulling him off the dance floor again but, instead of heading to the bar again, pulled him off toward a table instead.
"You know..." he said as they headed to the table. "Lucy was way more ok with us at Thanksgiving than I expected. I figured she'd be completely freaked out."
"Well, she did freak out a little bit still," Buffy said, but she laughed anyway. "She was really sweet, though. I'm glad that no one did any serious flipping out."
"I told you... my sisters are probably the most trusting, easygoing people you'll ever meet. Even if they do act like they replace the sugar in their coffee with cocaine." He giggled, picturing how Chloe used to snort pixie stix for fun.
"They are. I think they are finally warming to me a little, you know, now that I'm not competing with one of them over a guy." Buffy smiled at him, showing that she was at least a little bit joking.
"Yeah, now that Lucy has her little angsty magicman to herself..." he rolled his eyes, before finally having to say it. "Ok. I have to ask. HAVE TO. What do you all SEE in him??? I don't mean to sound like a total bitch, but I have to know."
She laughed again. "Everybody keeps asking that!" she squealed, still laughing. "Ash is actually a really sweet guy. Yeah, he's dark and a little angsty. You just sort of, want to cuddle him and make him happy or something. I think your sister is really good for him, though."
"I hate to admit it, but they make a good couple. She makes him seem less mopey, and he makes her... see the world through more grown-up eyes." He grinned and reached over to take her hand. It was like now that they could actually show affection, it was all he wanted to DO. "Thanks, Buffy. Really. For giving us a chance."
"They do make a good couple," Buffy agreed with him. She squeezed his hand when he took hers. "Why wouldn't I give us a chance? The only thing that I could be worried about is being a rebound type thing, but, I hate to say it, you didn't come off that badly from the relationship, I don't think."
"No... I technically ended it, really." And strangely, he didn't seem all that upset by it. "We... weren't meant to be. Not in the long term. And I knew it. I knew it as soon as I started to realize how into YOU I was."
She wanted desperately to ask what happened, but she knew that it wouldn't be right for him to rehash what had went on at the end. She was sure that he didn't want to go into it, either. "Well, what matters now is that we're together, right?"
"That's exactly it. And the best part?" Oh yeah, it came out with a TOTALLY straight face. "Now I don't have to go all the way to China with you to find a man."
"Which is great, because now I don't have to go to China, either!" Buffy said, sounding excited. "I found the perfect guy for me right here in LA."
"Kinda funny, isn't it? How often you think you know who's meant for you, only to be totally wrong?" Oh, if Buffy even KNEW a few of the horrible crushes he'd had in his day.
"God, I totally do," Buffy said to him. In the past few years, she had dated so many guys. Not that she had been slutty or anything, but she had dated a lot of guys. She was just so glad to have found Kevin now.
"You know, for quite a few years.. I really thought I was meant to be with Lexi." He said this with a hint of embarrassment, never really admitting that to anyone but Chloe.
"Is that so?" She couldn't really picture him with Lexi. Actually, it was partially because that she had thought Lexi was gay, but that was mainly because she had only ever seen her sober and with another girl. Shows what she knew.
"Yeah. We're about the exact same age, and we used to flirt up a storm back when she first started jamming with Chloe. But she... had a lot of baggage then. We're still great friends, but.... yeah." He snickered at some unspoken memory then. "Until the day I started dating Irene, Chloe kept trying to hook us up."
Buffy giggled. "Good for me that it didn't work, then, isn't it?" She would have lost out on a lot if he had every actually started dating Lexi and stayed with her.
"Not only for you, but for me AND for her. Have you met her girlfriend Ginny yet?" Kevin had known Lexi was bi, but never honestly pictured her DATING a girl before. But now he understood why. "Talk about two people that just.... wow. There's a chemistry between them that just.... you can almost SEE it."
"Yeah, I know Ginny," Buffy said. "You really can see that something is going on between the two of them. It's actually kind of fun to watch." A girl that had been so hurt in the past was now in a good relationship with a recovering drug addict. Who knew?
"I know you're a fan of Gin's band... we're gonna try to jam with them soon... you should come watch. Might be fun." Ok, so part of him kind of wanted to show off for his girlfriend. Was that so wrong?
"I would love to see you play, finally," Buffy said to him. "I have yet to actually get to see you play, you know." She was looking forward to it.
"Then we'll plan on it. Damn soon." He replied with a big grin. Awwyeah. He was gonna enjoy this.