"I'm gone only a few weeks, but I know virtually no one on my TL. Did you all change who you were while I was gone?"

"I take it back. I see a couple now. Thank goodness! I thought I was lost somewhere!"

"It's evening somewhere all the time, right? Hey Wes, I'm glad to see you!"

"Where have all these new people come from? Did I miss a memo or something?"

"Well at least it's not just me. We can be clueless together. "

"Pretty sure she's called me Clueless Girl on more than one occasion to be honest, so I feel ya there."

"Um, yes. That's putting it mildly for sure." She glances around before whispering, "I actually sometimes miss it. The direct and honest thing. At least I always knew where I stood with her."

"I wasn't trying to say that you haven't been or anything! Or that I think you haven't! I'm sure you have been, especially since I've been coming up to visit, not that you weren't before... um..."

"You and Cordy have a lot in common actually. Maybe you should have been her sister."

"Hey!"

"Oh, you know what I mean." She huffs, feeling the heat on her face.

"That wasn't honesty! That was just rude."

"I do not.." She has a sudden mental picture of the time she fell in that pool fighting that blue fuzzy demon and was trying to swim with her boots on. Her face heats even more before a giggle escapes. "Wow. That's bad."

"Well,I may not have been as popular as Cordelia, but I'm way prettier. Or at least just as pretty!" She stomps her foot. "And I might not be as smart as you, but I'm not dumb. I'd have had really good grades if I hadn't had to spend so much time saving the world!"

She giggles again, shaking her head. "Oh, I suddenly remembered when I learned firsthand what 'flail' meant. I fell in a pool with my clothes and boots on, while fighting. Trying to get out was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Everyone had big laughs while watching me."

"You even /sound/ like Cordy!"

"No!" she laughs now. "It was big, blue & fuzzy. I don't remember what Giles called it. Sorta looked like a muppet with teeth & claws." Still smiling slightly she shook her head. "It had a really squeaky roar, too. It almost sliced me when I got distracted by it's squeakiness."

She blinked, surprised. "Um, yeah. It ripped up one of my favorite shirts." She pauses to study him. "I'm gonna take a guess that you weren't a Sesame Street fan as a kid, huh?"

"I, uh, don't think they're all demons. Are they? Man, that makes my whole childhood questionable!" She thought for a moment. "What do you mean you didn't have a tv when you were a kid?! That's horrible!"

She shakes her head vigorously. "But what about unwinding? You know, just chilling in front of the tube? Family time??" Her voice is going all squeaky and she's pretty sure she looks crazy by the way he's looking at her, but she can't help it. She's that shocked.