(Buffy's dorm room, Oz & Willow are talking to Kathy.)

Kathy: It seems kind of weird.

(She hands the note to Oz.)

OZ: Yeah, weird's a pretty good word for it.

WILLOW: Buffy wouldn't just take off, th-that's just not in her nature. Except for that one time she disappeared for several months and changed he name, but there were circumstances then. There's no circumstances.

Kathy: Does Buffy have a history of emotional problems? 'Cause on my request form I was pretty specific about a stable non-smoker.

OZ: I don't think this is her handwriting.

WILLOW: I bet there were circumstances! We've probably been so wrapped up in our own petty lives that... that we totally missed the circumstances. We're bad friends!

OZ: Let's think this through.

WILLOW: How can you be so calm?

OZ: Long, arduous hours of practice. Now either Buffy took off, or she was robbed, or...

(Xander suddenly arrives)

XANDER: It's a prank!

WILLOW: Xander!

(Xander walks into the room with arms spread wide. )

XANDER: How are my guys?

(He hugs Willow, then hugs Kathy.)

XANDER: (still hugging Kathy) I don't know you, do I?

Kathy: No.

XANDER: This is very intrusive, isn't it?

Kathy: Little bit.

(Xander lets her go.)

XANDER: Xander.

Kathy: Kathy.

XANDER: (Looks at Oz.) Do we hug?

OZ: I think we're too manly.

WILLOW: What's the prank?

XANDER: Prank? Oh, the room. Well some friends of Buffy's played a funny joke, and they took her stuff. And now she wants us to help get it back from her friends who sleep all day and have no tans.

WILLOW: Oh! Those friends!

OZ: Funny guys.

XANDER: They took the chest. Well, let's go! Let's go to our friend. It's nice meeting you Kathy.

Kathy: You too!

(Outside in the hall.)

XANDER: Let's go to Will's, get supplies.

WILLOW: Is Buffy in danger?

XANDER: She's in a holding pattern, we've got some time.

• Funnies

written by: Joss Whedon; Transcribed by: Diov Llun . Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/57freshman.html