AUTHOR: Willowtara19
RATING: I’ll let you know when it’s NC-17
DISCLAIMER: The Scoobies don’t belong to me (though I wish they did
)... I’m not making any money out of this... yadda yadda yadda 
FEEDBACK: Yes!! I crave it!! But please be gentle with me, ‘kay? This is my first attempt at writing a fic...
And now, on with the story!
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Tara Maclay entered in her new dorm room, carrying her suitcases and looking quite tired. Sighing, she dropped her luggage and sat on the bed to the right.
Laying back and staring at the ceiling of the room, Tara started thinking about the reasons why she had moved to this little town called Sunnydale.
She always felt like she was out of place. She had no friends, and the only person who understood her was her mom. She also had her father and her brother, but it seemed like both of them hated her since the day she was born.
Once, when she was little, his father had bought Donnie (her brother) a lot of presents for his birthday, and, remembering he didn’t even tell her “Happy Birthday” when hers came, she dashed up the stairs and went straight to her bed, launching herself on it face first and weeping.
A few minutes later, her mom appeared and went over to her bed, sitting beside her and taking her little girl in her arms, leaning her on her chest and rocking her slowly while softly caressing her blonde hair. Eventually, her crying slowed to sobs and she fell asleep in her mom’s arms.
The next day, when she woke up, she had a talk with her mom: her mom had told her that neither her brother nor her father understood how special Tara was, and that was why they treated her like they did.
But, only two months ago, her mom had died. One evening, while she was tidying up her room, she heard her brother calling for her. She went downstairs inmediately, and found her mom laying on the floor, laying unconscious. It wasn’t the first time it had happened, and Tara tried to wake her up as she had done several times before the last few months.
Seeing that her mother wasn’t waking up, she panicked and called an ambulance. As soon as the docs saw her mom, they mumbled something about her needing inmediate surgery and took her to the hospital.
After nearly two days, her mom finally died. And, with her mom gone, she felt completely alone. And, since her mother wasn’t there to protect her, her father started telling her everything was her fault and hitting her.
It wasn’t the first time he did it but, with her mom gone, it had gotten worse. The only thing she wanted to do was disappear.
But then, her teacher phoned her and told her that, if she wanted to, she could go study wherever she wanted. Tara was an excellent student, and her good marks had earned her a scholarship to study where she wanted to.
Wanting to get away from her father and brother and everyone she knew, she chose Sunnydale U.C. Her house didn’t feel like her home anymore.
The sound of the door opening started Tara from her musings, and sitting up on her bed, she looked towards the door to see the most wonderful girl she had ever seen before: fiery red hair and deep green eyes.
Doing exactly the same that Tara had done when she entered the room, the redhead dropped her bags on the floor and, sighing deeply, she sat on the edge of the bed to the left.
Tara sat there, frozen by the beauty of the girl.
The redhead, seeing that Tara seemed to be very shy, said smiling:
“Hi! My name’s Willow, Willow Rosenberg, and I think I’m your room mate”
Recovering her ability to talk, Tara answered with a smile of her own:
“Hi, I’m Tara, Tara Maclay. Nice to meet you, Willow”
Without knowing it, the thought running in both of their heads was the same: ‘I think I’ve just fallen in love with the most beautiful girl on Earth’
To be continued....
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So, what do you think, kittens? Should I keep on writing or should I stop right now?
I really hope you liked it....even if just a tiny little bit
Willowtara19
i will be waiting.
at: 10/11/03 10:17 pm
great start!! 
I can't wait for an update, and I don't think I'm the only one, this fic has been here for less than a day and you're doing great! i'd say thats a pretty good start@! lol, Great idea, I can't wait to read more! 
~~**Monkey Luv**~~
Love these W/T meeting and falling in love stories! Ohh, they're roomies! 
Great start! Can't wait to 
more! 
and 
being roomies....wonder why??? 
, huh? I am really glad you also liked it 
Don't worry about me continuing with the story...as long as you like it I'll keep writing! 
and 
...forgive me, pleeeeease?? ***puppy dog eyes***
