touchable - Buffy the Vampire Slayer S2 (on hold)

some assembly required - p1

CAMILA POV

Buffy, Xander and I walk towards the library in search of Giles. Slowly i push open the door as we make small talk until we see Giles sitting in a chair, across from an empty chair. I raise an eyebrow at his actions as we huddle at the door silently. 

"W-w-what i'm proposing is, um...and i-i don't mean to appear indecorous, is, is um, a, a-a-a social engagement, um, a, a, a, a-a date if you're amenable." i stifle back a laugh and look up at Xander and Buffy who are doing the same. "You idiot!" Giles yells at himself, displeased with his rehearsal. 

"Boy..." Buffy smiles and Giles jumps in his seat. He quickly gets up and faces us. 

"I guess we never realized how much you like that chair." i joke. 

"I was just working on..." he knocks over a few books as he begins to move things around. 

"Your pick up lines?" Buffy asks as we settled in at the table. I push myself onto the table, letting my short legs hang. Xander leans against the table next to where i was seated, our legs brushing. 

"Um, in a manner of speaking, yes." Giles replies as he bends over and picks the books up off the floor. 

"Then if you wouldn't mind a little Gene and Roger, you might wanna leave off the 'idiot' part. Being called idiot tends to take people out of the dating mood." Buffy explains carefully to Giles in a playful tone. 

"Hmm, it actually kinda turns me on." Xander smiles, looking over at Buffy and then me after i hit his arm playfully. 

"I fear you. Idiot." i smile up at him and he smiles brightly down at me. Buffy walks over to the table now. 

"You might also wanna avoid words like 'amenable' and 'indecorous' y'know. Speak English, not whatever they speak in, um..." Buffy begins and Giles looks up. 

"England?" he quirks his brow and Buffy nods. 

"Yeah. You just say 'hey, i got a thing, you maybe having a thing, maybe we could have a thing'" i explain and Xander looks down at me confused. 

"Oh, thank you, Cyrano." Giles speaks to me sarcastically and i roll my eyes. 

"I'm not finished. Then you say, 'how do you feel about Mexican?'" i open my arms in presentation. 

"About Mexican's?"Giles asks confused and i shake my head. 

"Mexican. Food. You take her for food, for which you then pay." i explain simple and Giles nods. I jump down off the table, going to collect a book i thought of from the shelves. As i leave Xander slides up onto the table. 

"Oh. Right." Giles replies. 

"So this chair-woman. We are talking Ms Calendar, right?" Xander asks. 

"W-what makes you think that?" Giles stammers and i giggle from the stacks. After finding the book i wanted, i skip down the stairs back towards the group. 

"Simple deduction. Ms Calendar is reasonably dollsome, especially for someone in your age bracket. She already knows that you're a school librarian, so you don't have to worry about how to break that embarrassing news to her." Xander explains as i approach the group. He slides his legs open slightly and i go lean against the table in between. I turn my head over my shoulder to see him smiling at me standing there. He wraps his arms around my waist and rests his chin on my shoulder. 

"And she's the only woman we've actually ever seen speak to you." i add, pointing my book at him. Xander lifts his arms up and takes the book from my hands, flicking through it around my figure.