XANDER: Hey.

CORDELIA: Your clothes... You look so good.

XANDER: Oh. I let Buffy dress me. Well, not physically.

CORDELIA: (upset) Perfect. You had to make this harder, didn't you?

XANDER: Okay, clearly the fact that I please you visually has got us off on the wrong foot here.

CORDELIA: Xander...

XANDER: Let me finish. I've been thinking a lot about us lately... the why and the wherefore. You know, once, twice, a kissy here, a kissy there. And you can chalk it all up to hormones. A-and maybe that's all we have here. Tawdry teen lust. But maybe not. Maybe something in you sees something special inside me. And vice versa. I mean, I think I do. See something. So... (offers her the box)

CORDELIA: Xander... Thank you. It's beautiful. I wanna break up.

XANDER: Okay, not quite the reaction I was looking for.

CORDELIA: I know. I'm sorry. It's just... Who are we kidding? Even if parts of us do see specialness, we don't fit.

XANDER: Yeah! Okay... Do you know what's a good day to break up with somebody? Any day besides Valentine's Day! I mean, what, were you running low on dramatic irony?

CORDELIA: I know. I didn't mean to do it this way. I...

XANDER: Well, you did.

• Xander & Cordelia

written by: Marti Noxon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
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