Summary: Buffy has to write a term paper.
Timeline: Where everything is now.
Rating: If you can watch the show, you can read it.
Feedback: Yes please!!!!! It's like writing fuel.
Spoilers: Everything, just in case.
Dedication: Thanks to everyone who sends me feedback. Special thanks to Kasiya, Shannon, Sara-Lee, and Ryan. They always send it!!!
Author's Note: Buffy's POV again.

"You assignment for the term paper will be easy for some and hard for other," Mr. Harrison, my English teacher, announced to the classroom of college students. "The paper will need to be about your love life. There are certain questions that must be answered throughout the reading. Have you ever experienced love and if so with whom? Was it the real kind of love or was it a high school kind of love? Are you still dating your first love? What was your first loves name? Was it a painful relationship? Have fun writing it, I know it will be interesting to read all the responses. It is due on Monday morning."

My love life? That's just great. How am I supposed to explain that the love of my life is a vampire or how am I going to explain I sent him to hell?

Yeah, then my English teacher will really think I'm a loony. Since it's due in two days, I better get to work on it.

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I'm still living at home with Dawn. We bought a computer a few weeks before Mom died, knowing I would need it for classes.

How am I supposed to start this?

Here goes.........................................

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Buffy Summers

Colorful Events: The Story of my Love Life

My love life would definitely be classified as a colorful event. Most people don't experience love until they are in college or possibly out of it. I was lucky, I was able to experience it when I was only sixteen. His name was Angel, it suited him. For he truly was an Angel. I loved him and he loved me. Love is the happiest moment in your life, but at the same time most painful.

When I transferred schools during my sophomore year, I thought all hope was lost. I thought that I wouldn't be able to make it through high school. Angel changed my feelings on that. He made me feel like anything was possible. I'd come home from school and feel like the world was ending, Angel would talk to me and then all my doubts would go away. In a way, he was my savior.

My friends didn't care for Angel very much, they saw him as a viscous killing monster, although he wasn't. After dating him for a while, they came to like him. They accepted him. At the end of my junior year, he left. I thought it was the end of my life so I ran. Literally, I ran. I ran to Los Angeles. The place that most reminded me of him. I stayed there for about 3 months. He left because of me, I put him through hell. I felt so bad for what I had done. The only person in the world who loved me more than life itself, left because of me.

He came back. After I started my senior year, I found him. Actually, he found me. It was the happiest day of my life, we were reunited. Boy, was I wrong; but that part comes later. When Angel came back, I kept it a secret. My friends didn't like him for leaving, they still had the killer idea in their head. Soon, they found out what I had been hiding and they weren't very happy with me. Realizing that I was a packaged deal, Angel and I came together, they accepted him again. I was so thankful.

After Angel and I started dating again, we went through yet another bump in our relationship. We needed to get some information from a friend and in order to do that Angel had to pretend that they were dating. He kissed her in front of me, only to my orders, but it hurt just as much. I told him I needed a break and he respected my wishes. The idea of separation for us didn't last long because we got back together only to have another bump come our way.

He almost died. My life was falling apart, my Angel was dying. Fortunately, I was able to save him but not before he decided to leave me. He said I needed things in life that he couldn't give me. I hated him when he did that, but I still loved him also. After my high school graduation Angel left town. He now resides in Los Angeles. I know that he still loves me and I know that I still love him.

Love is the most painful thing I've ever experience, but I wouldn't trade it for anything in the world. Our love wasn't a measly high school love, it was the real thing. It will last forever. Someday, we will be together, I will make sure of that.

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I turned in my English paper today and I feel good about myself. It was a simple paper to write even if I had to change a few things around. I meant every word I said in that paper.

Never, would I trade our love for anything.

Someday, I am promising Angel and myself, that we will be reunited.

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