His curiosity about Willow

Willow. His oldest living friend.

The person that he now realized had had a crush on him ever since they were kids.

There'd been some strange, magnetic attraction between them that caused The Fluke, where they'd ended up kissing and fondling each other for weeks on end, even though both of them were already in relationships. In the end though, she'd chosen Oz over him, and they'd never talked about it again.

She ended up being taken back by Oz, but he'd ended up in the cold. Cordelia broke up with him and moved to LA the first chance she got. He'd never really gotten into a relationship after all of that.

And now, NOW Willow was going around with her new girlfriend, saying that she'd always been a lesbian? That she'd never really been into guys in the first place?!

"What the hell, Will's?!" Xander yelled into his empty apartment. He'd tried his best to bury it, but with the shock of having the Master PC suddenly come back into his life, it tore right out of him like a tornado that'd been trapped in a tiny bottle.

"Hey! Keep it down over there!!" His neighbor screamed, pounding their shared wall so hard that plaster actually flaked off of it. "Nobody wants to hear you whine about your lack of a love life, Harris!"

From the apartment beneath them, a baby started wailing loudly. "Oh GOD DAMMIT!!" A woman's voice raged. Suddenly, loud pounding came from the floor as the single mother started bashing her ceiling, which was their floor. "I just put him to sleep and you f*ckers woke him back up!"

Xander slumped into his couch, burying his face in his hands as his neighbors started a war with him now caught in the crossfire.

'She has to be lying,' He thought to himself. 'There's no way it's true, right?'

After all, SHE was the one who started The Fluke by pulling him into a closet that first time, WHILE HE'D HAD A GIRLFRIEND, and practically jumped his bones, moaning into his mouth before he even knew what was going on.

Then suddenly she'd come out of the closet saying that she'd known all along that she was gay?!

If he'd misread the signs, again, then that means that maybe Willow had never actually had a crush on him for most of their lives.

If she'd never actually liked him in the first place, that meant that she hadn't liked him at all when she'd dragged him into a closet and gave him the best kiss of his life.

If Willow hadn't felt anything for him, why'd she keep it up for so long?

Willow was a genius. Nobody argued otherwise. Had it all been some kind of elaborate scheme, years in the making, to hurt Cordelia and get back at her for bullying her ever since they were kids?!

Xander's heart clenched at the thought of a new possibility.

Had Willow.... just been using him and Jesse for some twisted version of friendship because they'd been the only ones around? Did she even really consider them friends in the first place?

Before he knew it, he realized that he'd been staring off into the distance with dead eyes for the past half hour. His gaze flickered back to the smartphone on the table in front of him.

'She has to be lying.' Xander realized. 'She has to be. There's no other explanation.'

The only question was..... which one was the lie?

Was she lying about being a lesbian?

Or had their whole friendship, everything they'd gone through together their whole lives, been the lie?

He stared dead on at the thing that would give him answers. With rule 9, he knew that anything he did with it from this point on would be safe. The world would be fine with him finding out the truth to the question that haunted him.....but that didn't mean that he himself would be alright with what he found out.

Picking up the phone, he typed into the Master PC search bar something that would finally give him answers.