****************Part 13********** Willow woke up to the soft windy breeze, and a warm chest breathing below her ear. She tilted her head to see if he was asleep. He was. Or at least thats what it looked like. She watched him sleep for probably half an hour, before she finally grew restless. She pushed herself up off of his chest, and noticed that the abscense of her body wasn't going to wake him up. She started running her nails up and down his chest, tracing tiny circles with her nails. His body flinched when ever she touched a sensitive spot on his body. She looked at the back of his head and winced. There was one of the meanest looking bruises she had ever seen in her life. She carefully leaned over and kissed it. A grunt ran across his lips, and she cringed when she realized it was because she touched his head. His eyes opened wide to look into her worried eyes.
"I didn't hit my head again did I?" Oz asked.
"Nope just once. Sorry. I didn't mean to wake you up....Well I did. But not like that." Willow said sadly. He smiled warmly at her, and brought a hand up to play with her hair.
"Thats okay. I forgive you." Oz said, pulling her head down to kiss her again.
"I had fun last night." Willow said smiling. He smiled and started to chuckle.
"Feeling is mutual." Oz said. They kissed for a few moments before speaking again.
"You know what I forgot to tell you last night?" Willow asked.
"Whats that?" Oz asked playing with her ear lobe with his teeth. She took in a deep breath.
"I still love you." Willow said, her eyes shining. Oz pulled his mouth away from her ear, and looked at her in wonder. He smiled for all he was worth.
"I love you too." Oz said, his eyes glazing over. She leaned down to kiss him. "I never stopped." He said before kissing her again. This time they didn't pull away for what seemed for hours, but was only 10 minutes. A steady ring sounded in the distance in Oz's ears. He broke his attentions away from her neck, to focus on the insistant ringing. He saw his cell phone buzzing a red color on the antenna, in his still wet jeans on the floor, and leaned over Willow to pick it up.
"Hello?" Oz asked in the telephone.
"Oz? Hey its Buffy. I just wanted to make sure you were okay. Lisa called and said that you didn't come home last night, and she wanted to know if you'd go get groceries. As for Willow. She seems to have disappeared to. Do you have any idea where she might be?" Buffy asked. A hint of playfullness in her voice.
"Yeah. She's with me. Did you want to talk to her." Oz asked.
"Sure." Buffy said. There was a slight rustling, and then a voice.
"Hello?" Willow asked.
"Hey girl."
"Hey Buffy. What do you want?"
"Details?"
"Not likely" Willow said, a little grumpy.
"Did you two have sex?" Buffy asked.
"Yes." Willow said. Buffy squealed excitedly, and Willow had to hold the phone away from her ear to keep from going deaf. Oz over heard Buffy's scream, and couldn't help but chuckle at the young girls enthusiasm. And there was only one thing that could make Buffy do something like that. Boy talk.
"Does he know about Kevin?" Buffy asked.
"Sort of."
"Sort of?" Buffy asked.
"I'll tell you later. Listen, is this important?" Willow asked.
"Not really. Lisa was just wandering where Oz is, because he didn't come home last night, and I had a pretty good idea who you were with, so I decided to call the cell."
"You finished yet?" Willow asked.
"Whats up with you?" Buffy asked out of curiousity. "Your so pushy."
"Well I'm kind of busy." Willow said sighing into the phone when Oz sat behind her and started nibbling at her ear again. She started playing with the back of his neck, and she giggled.
"Oz kissage?"
"You could say that." Willow said smiling, than yelping when Oz bit her shoulder, but not hard enough to break the skin.
"Sounds like Oz kissage. I'll talk to ya later, and I won't tell Lisa." Buffy said giggling, when she heard Oz moaning on the other end of the phone.
"Bye" Willow said before turning the phone off.
"Your girlfriend is looking for you." Willow said, handing him the phone. Oz sighed, throwing the phone against the wall, letting it crash into hundreds of pieces.
"She can live without food for a few more hours. Hell, she throws it up every time, I some times wonder what the point is of buying it." Oz said before kissing her again. Her face turned from playful to serious.
"Oz?"
"What?" Oz said nipping at her neck, as she sat on his lap, and he leaned against the head board of the bed.
"What are we going to do?" Willow asked.
"Well, I was sort of hoping you and I could have sex again." Oz said with a playful grin. Totally unaware of how serious she really was.
"I'm serious Oz. Sex, can wait." Willow said moving off of him, and heading towards the bathroom, where her cloths should have been dry by now. Oz frowned. She was being serious, he was goofing off. No wonder she was so upset.
"Well what do you want to talk about?" Oz asked, knocking at the bathroom door. She opened up a second later, her face flushed, her eyes wide.
"Us. You and Lisa. Me and Kevin." Willow said in a panic. She was breathing hard, and near histeria. He opened his arms wide for her, and she fell into them greatfully.
"Just breath. Its okay. We'll work it out. You don't have to leave Kevin." Oz said, kissing her forehead.
"Its more than just that Oz. There is something you don't know about Kevin, and I'm pretty certain that you don't want to know right now. I swear, I'll explain it all one day, but not now." Willow said, shaking in his arms. Her soft hair rustling against his smooth naked chest, nearly set him on fire. He kissed her forehead lightly, and coaxed her over to one of the lazy boy chairs in the room. He sat down, bringing her down into his lap, trailing tiny kisses down her spine and making her shiver.
"Lisa will get over it." Oz said. "I don't want to be with her." Oz said, his voice warm, but near the edge of desperate tears. "I want to be with you." Oz said, before moving a strand of her hair from around her neck, and kissing her skin softly, before nuzzling her neck with his nose. At those words, she relaxed into his touch and closed her eyes.
"I have to admit that I feel the same way." Willow said before smiling, and turning to face him. She leaned in to kiss him, and he kissed her back with equal force. She straddled him, so she could get a better angle at his mouth. He soon found the flannel, rapped around her waist. His fingers slowly but surely, managed to untie the knot, and throw it across the room before the author of this story decided to leave the room before things got a little to personal for her liking.
****4 hours later.**** "So you'll be home later tonight?" Oz asked Willow from Buffy's front porch.
"Uh huh." Willow said before leaning in, to give him a kiss.
"Okay. I'll call you and let you know what happens. I'd stay with you, but I want to get things over with between me and Lisa, plus Jesse says that I have to work today." Oz said, kissing her cheek lightly before turning around and heading towards his car.
"I forgive you." Willow said, before turning around and hopping inside the house. At the sound of a door closing, Buffy came running down the stairs to greet Willow and give her a hug.
"Okay. First question. How many times did you do it?" Buffy asked. Willow gave her a smug smile.
"3 last night. Once this morning." Willow said running up the stairs, skipping them by two at a time. Buffy let out a really high squeal, grabbed Willow's hands and started jumping up and down.
"What did he say about Lisa?" Buffy asked.
"He said that he was going to break up with her today. Take her back to LA, and that he'd call me after work." Willow said.
"Hmmm..well what else did you two do in the 4 hours since I called?" Buffy asked, slightly annoyed.
"Well...we went sailing, now that the wind wasn't as bad as last night, and then he took me out to IHOP, and we ate all the hashbrowns and Waffles that we could eat." Willow said, licking her lips and rubbing her tummy. "Anyhow, we went shopping to help him pick out a new jacket, because last night he was wearing, that real soft kind of leather with fur on it...er..swade I think it is. Anyway, we didn't know it was going to rain last night and he was wearing it when it did rain, so it got ruined. Hence, I went to help him pick out a better jacket that wouldn't ruin just because it rained on it." Willow said.
"Well what did you buy?" Buffy asked. Willow blushed slightly. She showed Buffy the bag.
"I didn't buy it. He insisted." Willow said.
"He insisted that you get this and let him buy it for you?"
"No. I told him I wanted this, and he insisted on buying it for me." Willow said blushing. Buffy looked over the out fit she pulled out carefully, and her eyes narrowed at Willow when she noticed how low cut the neck line was on the sweater, and how short the grey plad mini-skirt was.
"I can see why he would buy it for you....Wow. I doubt you could afford it. $300 dollars for one sweater? Sixty four dollars for the skirt? $364 total, just for a sweater and a skirt?" At the nodd of Willow's head, Buffy's mouth dropped open.
"I'm going to wear it on our next date." Willow said blushing.
"When is that?" Buffy asked, eyeing her best friend warily.
"I don't know. He said he'd call and we'd figure something out. Maybe tomarrow." Willow said shrugging happily.
"Don't you feel the least bit guilty?" Buffy asked. Willow looked at her for a second before deciding to go ahead and tell her.
"After the way she treated Oz, I really don't give a shit how she feels." Willow said.
"How did she treat Oz?" Buffy asked.
"She cheated on him. Alot more than once, he knows for a fact that she's just after him for his money, and the fact that he is dumping her for me, sort of gives me a happy." Willow said.
"What about Kevin? How much does he know?" Buffy asked. Willow let out a deep sigh.
"He knows, that Kevin is practically a son to me, and that he is 5 years old." Willow said, burrying her head into the pillow on her bed. "I'm so stupid. What am I going to tell him? How am I going to tell him?" Willow asked.
"Just do it naturally. You know he would be thrilled to know that he has a son." Buffy said.
"You don't understand. I mean...well..what about the fact that I waited 5 years to tell him?" Willow asked with wide eyes. Buffy made a hissing noise.
"Tricky question. I have to admit."
"Oh god Buffy....... I royally fucked up." Willow said close to tears. She grabbed a tissue and blew her nose.
"Come on Willow. You know its not that bad." Buffy said, pulling her friend into a hug. "It will be okay. You and I both know that Oz is an understanding guy, and by the sound of it, he seems pretty adament about making things right between you two. Hell, when I asked how you two were planning on communicating, or how you two were going to date, you know what he said?"
"What?" Willow asked.
"He said, he'd find some way to move to NewYork. Or some way to convince you to move from NewYork." Buffy said smiling sympathetically. "Face it Willow. He's head over heals in love with you. And you know the feeling is mutual." Buffy said smiling. Willow found herself smiling again.
"He really said that?" Willow asked. Buffy nodded her head. Willow let out a cry of laughter, and the tears flowing from her eyes halted.
"Thankyou Buffy. Thankyou so much." Willow said hugging her friend one last time.
"Now, now. Go take a shower." Buffy said pushing her friend away.
"Oz and I already took one." Willow said smiling.
"Really?" Buffy asked. "Do tell."
"Well, after you called, we got all hot and heavy, and well...you know." Willow said blushing.
"In the shower?" Buffy asked. At Willow's shy nodd, and blush Buffy squealed.
"Well, anyways. What about you and Jesse?" Willow asked. Buffy made one of those noises, that said...'yummy, yummy yummy'. "That good?" Willow asked.
"Its just. Everytime I see him walking, I just want to grab him and bite him."
"Your sick." Willow said laughing.
"But its nice being sick." Buffy said smiling dreamily.
"Okay. I'm going to go take a shower now." Willow said
"I thought you already had one." Buffy said.
"I did. Now I'm taking another one." Willow said. With that said, she grabbed her robe, and walked into the bathroom.
*****Oz's house*****
"Lisa? I'm home." Oz hollered, dropping the grocerys on the counter.
"Oz? Sweety...where were you?" Lisa asked. Oz took a deep breath.
"We need to talk." Oz said, walking towards the living room. She followed him in, and sat on his lap. Oz let out a heavy sigh. He stood up again, causing Lisa to tumble over to the corner of the couch.
"Oz...whats wrong?" Lisa asked.
"I...don't think...we should see each other anymore." Oz said, rubbing his temples. He pulled out a bottle of asprin from his pocket, and took a few.
"Why?" Lisa asked softly. The look in his eyes said it all though. "You don't love me any more." Lisa said, realization dawned in her eyes.
"It just wasn't meant to be Lisa." Oz said, walking around.
"Is it her?" Lisa asked. Oz's head shot up slightly.
"Who?" Oz asked.
"That Willow girl. The one with red hair." Lisa said, her voice growing higher by the minute. At the nodd of his head, she looked down into her lap. *How Could he?* Lisa thought.
"Do you really think you can have a future with her? After every thing she put you through." Lisa asked angrily.
"I don't know Lisa. All I do know, is that you and I, can't have a future together."
"Why?" Lisa asked standing up. "Oz...she'll destroy you. What's wrong with me? Huh...you know she's just after your money. Why else would she just now show interest after how long? Was it...5 years since she had been in SunnyDale. Honestly Oz. What kind of person rekindles an old flame after 5 years? Do you have any idea what your getting into? She could have a kid, for all you know, and she wants to say its yours. Oz your rich. You don't need her." Lisa said, determined to change his mind. Oz held down a huge lump in his throat.
"Your wrong in that Lisa. No matter what she's done, I still want her. I've always wanted her. I love her, and I do need her. You have no idea how many times I wanted to find her and ask her to come back. Even if she doesn't want me...I want her." Oz said, his eyes red with brimmed tears and exhaustion. He looked up to see Lisa practically flaming. *I guess I was the first person to be the dumper, and not the dumpee.* "You could not make me happy, and even if you could, I certainly couldn't return the favor. I need to get out Lisa. Me and Willow... Its meant to be." Oz said, kneeling down in front of her, with pleading eyes.
"Well...just because it is meant to be, doesn't mean it is going to happen." Lisa said, her eyes growing feral by the moment. She waited for him to speak, but he could only look down at his feet. After a few moments of resignation, she spoke up again.
"Would you give me a ride to the airport?" Lisa asked, looking down into her lap.
"Yaah." Oz said, a hint of tears in his throat. They weren't over Lisa though. Well they were in a way. He was giving away his life. Sure he'd still be playing music, but he was risking every thing to be with Willow. And as much as he wanted to, he had to admit that he couldn't trust her. Imagine that. 5 years, of wanting nothing but to hold her in his arms, and now that he finally had the chance, he was having second thoughts. But he knew, deep down...that she was worth it. No matter how many times she broke his heart. It was meant to be. By the time he looked up, she was no longer on the couch. He stood up, stretching his sore knees. She came down 10 minutes later, her bags packed, and silently made her way out the front door. Oz followed her footsteps, not saying a word, and turned the key to the ignition. He tossed her an envelope.
"Whats this?" Lisa asked, as Oz started pulling out of his driveway.
"Its money to get you through for a while. I had a feeling, you were going to want to go to the airport, so I got you a ticket back to LA, its refundable, and you can always change it to another flight if you want."
"Thankyou."
"Don't be thanking me Lisa. You deserve it. You'll be a great model. I promise." Oz said patting her hand.
"Did you really mean what you said. That you and I can't have a future together." Lisa asked.
"Yes...I did. I'm sorry, but it would be unfair to you, to be with you, when I need to be with someone else." A moment of silence transcended between the two.
"Uh...Oz?" Lisa asked.
"What?" Oz asked, turning onto the freeway.
"Invite me to the wedding. That is..if things work out." Lisa said smiling slightly. Oz looked over to her.
"I was kind of hoping, you'd want to come. That is if we did get married." Oz said smiling over at her.
"What went wrong between us?" Lisa asked.
"We just weren't meant to be. Your nice Lisa...your beautiful, but your not her. Thats probably why we started going out in the first place."
"Its not because, you caught me sleeping with that painter?" Lisa asked.
"Nope." He said, shaking his head. "It hurt...alot, when you did that, because at first I thought I was moving on, but..I guess I didn't." Oz said slightly perplexed. After that, they rode to the airport in silence. About 10 minutes from being there Lisa spoke up.
"So you never told me where you were last night." Lisa said. She had a pretty good idea. Oz sighed.
"You don't want to know." Oz said, shaking his head as the bright son glared into his eyes. He reached over for is sun glasses.
"Were you with her?" Lisa asked, a smile leering at her lips. Oz looked at her amazed. She was smiling?
"Yaah." Oz said warily. "Whats so funny? Your smiling, and a while ago you were crying."
"I don't know." Lisa said excitedly. "I feel free. I'm single. I can date who ever I want now, and not feel guilty about it." Lisa said laughing into the air. She looked over to him, a smile playing at his lips. "Its okay for you to laugh Oz. I won't hold it against you. It feels kind of good." Lisa said. With that his smile widened, and he broke out into laughter, as he made his way onto the airport ramp off of the highway.
"Okay..." Oz said laughing. His smile faltered when he thought of something. "Lisa???" Oz asked.
"What?" Lisa asked.
"Do me a favor?" Oz asked with pleading eyes.
"What do you need?" Lisa asked like a cheerleader.
"Don't tell anyone, about you and me breaking up. Cause, I'm going to be with Willow alot, and I don't want the media exposing her. Especially when nothing is certain. Just wait a while. Can you do that for me?" Oz asked, pulling into the airport parking lot.
"Sure." Lisa said. "I promise. Until I hear wedding bells, I'll keep my mouth shut." Lisa said. Oz got out of the car, and opened Lisa's door for her. Oz pulled her in for a hug. "Oz?" Lisa asked.
"Yep."
"In return. Do me a favor. I don't know her very well, but if she's anything near what you've described, I'm going to kick your ass if something happens to her." Lisa said pulling hard at Oz's collar suddenly. Oz started gasping for breath, once Lisa released him, and once his natural color kicked back into his face, he smiled.
"Its a deal. I promise." Oz said kissing her cheek before escorting her inside and to her flight. He walked back out to his car, glad that the relationship ended on good terms. Smiling to himself he drove to work, slightly stressed that it was an entire hour away. Meanwhile, Lisa's words about how uncertain his future with Willow, started to kick in. Why would she wait 5 years to reconcile? Was it because she knew he was rich? Did she want something?
*Of course not you stupid mut. She loves you. She said so herself.*
*She said that 5 years ago, and then she left you, and never told you why.*
*She said so herself though. It was because of her parents.*
*But she never told you what her parents did to drive her off.*
*arghh!!! Would you shut up? I'm trying to get my life back on track.*
*and the chances of that happening are?*
Oz dead panned his thoughts, mentally beraiting himself, not really knowing how he got to work. Jesse met up with him at the front door.
"Oz my man. How's it going? You okay?" Jesse asked, taking in Oz's pale complexion.
"Oh yeah. I've just been thinking alot today." Oz said.
"Is it about that Willow chick?" Jesse asked. Oz looked at him. *How did he??*
"How did you..."
"Oh please. There were over 300 people at the reception yesterday. I was one of them." Jesse said laughing.
"Jesse. Don't say a word about it. You got that. I'm going to be hanging alot with Willow until she goes back to NewYork, and I don't want the media coming anywhere near her." Oz said.
"Oh I won't say a word. I had a feeling you'd be saying something like that so I made sure Usher over there knows to keep his mouth shut. Did you break it off with Lisa?"
"Yes. It ended in good terms. She says she won't say anything."
"Are you serious? That bitch actually went along with it?" Jesse asked.
"Don't call her that." Oz said sadly. "She let me go, and right now I'm happy. So lets just get down to work, so I can get out of here, and call Willow." Oz said eyeing Jesse warily. Jesse's features broke out into a huge grin.
"What ever you say padre." Jesse said slapping Oz on the back, and cocking his head towards the studio. Oz followed him, picking up a file of documents off of a desk. Jesse bent over and picked up Oz's guitar and handed it over.
"What are we doing today?" Oz asked.
"We are recording, 'Dillemma' and 'Scream'" Jesse said.
"Well lets rock'n'roll." Oz said, smiling as he entered the recording booth. Chris, the drummer, and Dwayne, the keyboard dude, were already in the booth goofing off. Oz sat down, in a haze, still thinking about Willow.
"Okay...1,2,3,4..." Chris said starting off the beat. Oz's head went blank. He forgot the lines. Chris's loud drumming tumbled down to a small thump when he realized that Oz wasn't playing.
"Oz?" Jesse said tapping at the window. Oz looked up to see Jesse tapping at the window. He blinked once. He blinked twice. His face then broke out into a cold sweat. Before he knew it, Jesse was no longer in the window, but instead waving his hand in front of his face. Oz broke out of his haze. He shook his head.
"Oz? You okay. Did you want to call this off till tommarow?" Jesse asked. Oz stared blankily for a moment.
"No." Oz said suddenly. "Sorry about that. I guess I just...went somewhere else for a moment." Oz said smiling shakily. Jesse smiled back.
"All right than. Lets get this done...so you can go play with your love toy." Jesse said, saying those last words into Oz's ear so the others wouldn't hear. Oz's lips broke into a wide smile. This time, when Chris started the drums, Oz remembered, and the group finished recording in record time. *Only 6 hours this time.* Oz mused.
"Okay everyone. Thats a wrap. You don't need to be back here until, 6pm, two Fridays from now. Got that? Two Fridays." Jesse said holding up two fingers. Everyone nodded their head.
"What time is it?" Oz asked yawning. Jesse looked down to check his watch.
"Its a little after 10:30." Jesse said.
"Good. I can still call her." Oz said relieved. Jesse shook his head.
"Man, your whipped. No wonder you still love her. Your under some spell." Jesse said laughing.
"A nice spell indeed." Oz said dreamily. He hopped into his car, the hood up to keep the cold air from getting to him. After locking his doors, he reached into the glove compartment for his phone. Surprisingly it wasn't there. Than it came back to him. He remembered what happened with it this morning. He broke it. Than he remembered what else happened that morning and grinned. He headed straight home, and made it back before 11:10. He locked the door, and lazily grabbed for the unbroken phone. A chill went down his spine. He wasn't accustomed to this kind of silence. Dialing Buffy's number, Willow picked it up on the 4th ring.
"Hello?" Willow said, a little out of breath.
"Hey baby." Oz said smiling.
"Oz...hi. Did you just now get home?" Willow asked.
"Yep. Its kind of interesting though. Usually I'm not home until after 1 in the morning." Oz said into the phone, while sitting back lazily on the couch.
"I bet your exhausted." Willow said, laughing nervously.
"I'll live." Oz said yawning.
"Did you want me to call you in the morning?" Willow asked. Oz shook his head, and then mentally slapped himself when he realized that she couldn't hear him.
"Actually, I was kind of hoping you and I could watch a movie or something." Oz said smiling. He could almost hear Willow smiling as well.
"Did you want me to come over?" Willow asked.
"No thats okay. I'll come pick you up." Oz said standing up.
"I don't think so. If your that exhausted, I don't want you driving anymore. I'll drop by Block Buster on the way over. Where do you live?" Willow asked.
"I still live in the same house as before. Only now, my parents don't live with me."
"Did they move out?" Willow asked.
"No. Well, one of them did. Mom died of leukemia about a year ago, and Chase moved out to Hawii after she died." Oz said saddly. Willow gasped when she learned that Oz's mom had died.
"I'm sorry. I didn't know." Willow said shocked.
"Thats okay. You sure you don't want me to pick you up?" Oz asked.
"Posotive. I'll bring pizza on the way over." Willow said cheerfully.
"Okay." Oz said, half yawning, half grinning. At that he hung up the phone.
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