Establishing shot of the Summers residence that evening. Buffy enters her room and looks around, calling, "Angel?" Angel steps out of the shadows as Buffy turns on a lamp and hands him a Ziploc bag, explaining that she brought him a bit of plateless dinner. Then Buffy asks him what he did all day, and Angel replies that he was reading. Did he bring a book with him? I can't imagine that anything Buffy would have on her shelf would capture his interest, I picture Buffy as mired pretty deep in the V.C. Andrews oeuvre. Buffy quickly glances at her diary and notices that it's out of place and jumps to the conclusion that Angel read it. She has a minor conniption fit, saying, " My diary? You read my diary? That is not okay! A diary is like a person's most private place! You don't even know what I was writing about! 'Hunk' can mean a lot of things, bad things. And, and when it says that your eyes are 'penetrating,' I meant to write 'bulging.'" "Buffy," interrupts Angel, but she runs right over him: "And 'A' doesn't even stand for 'Angel,' for that matter, it stands for... 'Achmet,' a charming foreign exchange student, so that whole fantasy part has nothing to even do with you at all." Angel explains that Buffy's mom moved her diary while she was straightening her room and that Angel "watched from the closet." Heh. I'll bet you did, Angel. Buffy realizes that she just spilled all of her secrets as Angel explains that he can't be around her anymore. I start to rejoice at this point, but it's short-lived, because Angel admits that all he "can every think about is how badly [he] want[s] to kiss" Buffy. Angel again says that he'd better go as Buffy sidles up closer to him. "I should..." "Go. You said." And then it happens. They kiss. I cry. Angel breaks off the kiss and backs away, hiding his face. Buffy wonders what's wrong, and Angel turns towards her with his game face on and growls. Buffy screams and Angel takes off through the window. Gosh -- I think there was probably a better way to handle that.









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