JOYCE: Buffy?

BUFFY: Mom!

JOYCE: You're going out?

BUFFY: I have to.

JOYCE: I didn't hear you come in last night.

BUFFY: I was really quiet.

JOYCE: It's happening again, isn't it? I got a call from your new principal. Says you missed some classes today?

BUFFY: I was running an errand.

JOYCE: We haven't finished unpacking, and I'm getting calls from the principal.

BUFFY: Mom, I promise, it is *not* gonna be like before. But I *have* to go.

JOYCE: No.

BUFFY: Mom?!

JOYCE: The tapes all say I should get used to saying it. No.

BUFFY: This is really, really important.

JOYCE: I know. If you don't go out it'll be the end of the world. Everything is life or death when you're a sixteen-year-old girl.

BUFFY: Look, I don't have time to talk about this...

JOYCE: Buffy, you've got all the time in the world, you're not going anywhere. Now, if you wanna stay up here and sulk, I won't hold it against you. But if you wanna come down, I'll make us some dinner.

• Buffy & her mom

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/02harvest.html