BUFFY: Hey!

WILLOW: Oh, hi! Hi!

BUFFY: Oh, you're here with someone?

WILLOW: No, I'm just here. I thought Xander was gonna show up.

BUFFY: Oh, are you guys going out?

WILLOW: No, we're just friends. We used to go out, but we broke up.

BUFFY: How come?

WILLOW: He stole my Barbie. Oh, we were five.

BUFFY: Oh.

WILLOW: I-I-I don't actually date a whole lot... lately.

BUFFY: Why not?

WILLOW: Well, when I'm with a boy I like, it's hard for me to say anything cool, or, or witty, or at all. I-I can usually make a few vowel sounds, and then I have to go away.

BUFFY: It's not *that* bad!

WILLOW: No, i-it is. I think boys are more interested in a girl who can talk.

BUFFY: You really *haven't* been dating lately.

WILLOW: It's probably easy for you.

BUFFY: Yeah, real easy.

WILLOW: I-I mean you don't seem too shy.

BUFFY: Well, my philosophy, do you wanna hear my philosophy?

WILLOW: Yeah, I do!

BUFFY: Life is short.

WILLOW: Life is short!

BUFFY: Not original, I'll grant you, but it's true. You know? Why waste time being all shy and worrying about some guy, and if he's gonna laugh at you. Seize the moment, 'cause tomorrow you might be dead.

WILLOW: Oh, that's nice!

(Buffy looks up and sees Giles on the upper level.)

BUFFY: Um, I'll be back in a minute.

WILLOW: Oh, tha-that's okay, you don't have to come back.

BUFFY: (smiles) I'll be back in a minute.

WILLOW: (to herself) Seize the moment.

• Xander & Willow

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: AleXander Thompson. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/01welcome.html