Broken Love - A Spuffy FanFiction (ON HOLD)

Chapter 5

Chapter 5

Buffy's POV

"Because I love you. I love you, Buffy." Spike said this, his voice filled with unbearable sadness and hope.

Wait, what? Did I just hear that? He loves me? But... but, but what? Spike just told me thats he loves me. Surely I should feel something other than a painful,burning sensation in my chest. I love him too. I think. I know.

"I-uh-I, I need to go. To, uh, do, uh...stuff. Slayer stuff." I mumbled, looking at my feet. I could feel my cheeks burning up.

"Buffy..." Spike sighed.

I turned, sharply on my heels, and stumbled over a gravestone. I fell, so quickly but it felt like I was in slow motion, hard on my wrist and tried not to squeal in pain. I took a quick glance and within seconds my wrist had swollen up like a balloon. I pulled myself up and walked away, trying to look as dignified as I could after my clumsy fall.

"Buffy! Buffy, wait! Come back! Listen to me! Listen pet, please?" Spike called after me as I walked away. I didn't respond. I can't respond. I might say something i don't or worse, do something to hurt him. I don't think I could bear that.

Why I am walking? Why can't I bring myself to tell him that I love him?

'Turn around,' I told myself, 'turn around and tell him. Tell him that you love him.' But I couldn't. I just couldn't. I kept on walking through the cemetery, weaving in and out of the old, withered tombstones. Tears welled up in my eyes and I tried my hardest to hold them back.

I reached the tall, rusted iron gates of the graveyard and turned back to look at my beloved Spike. He was stood staring at me in exactly the same place that I left him.

"I love you too, Spike." I whispered tenderly in his direction. I walked out of the graveyard gates and hurried home.