Do you or dont you?

"Soooooo..." xander drawled out. "Do you or don't you?"

"Do what?" Buffy asked.

"What do you think?" Xander gave her a look of exasperation.

Buffy just shrugged. "No idea what you're talking about, Xand."

"Do you polka." Xander said snippily. Shaking his head at Buffy he snorted, "Do you follow in your mom's footsteps, so to speak. C'mon, Buff, what do you think I mean. Stripping. I mean stripping. You ever try out your mom's practice pole?"

Buffy groaned and slumped her shoulders a little, "God, I dont want to have this conversation."

"I'm not judging. I'm just curious." Xander defended himself.

"Ugggggh." Buffy groaned.

"Between Slayer powers and being a former cheerleader add on the figure skating you used to do plus that pre teen stint in gymnastics..." Xander ticked off Buffy's qualities on his fingers. "I'm just saying, that combination, makes a person the best stripper around." Seeing Buffy trudging ahead of him with stooped shoulders and her head hung forward, Xander added, "Which is quite an accomplishment. Stripping well is something to be proud of. Not at all something to be ashamed of or regret. Come to think of it... stripping is an art form which makes the woman dancing an artist, really."

Buffy stopped, seemed to think for a second and then straightened up and looked back at him with a slight smile. "You know what? You're right. I do have nothing to feel bad about. Its just artistic expression. My mom just... practices her art."

"Damn straight." Xander gave her two thumbs up.

"You following in your mom's footsteps is nothing to be ashamed about either. I'm sure you're dancing is a artistic tour de ****." He was fishing with that one but he was pretty positive that at some point Buffy had to have tried her hand at dancing on the pole in the basement. So he'd give her a little prod and see if she would admit to it.

"And freeing. It's freeing to be dancing in that unihibited style..." Xander rolled his eyes at that one, but he didnt know how else to make it sound less bad to Buffy, he didnt want to come off as judgemental. He wanted to sound supportive of her stripping. "To dance without a care in the world about what people will say is one of the most freeing things you can do. Just using your body to express your emotions. Very gratifying. Physically speaking."

Buffy paused as she processed his babbling and the gave him a cheeky grin. "I do like how it feels when I dance."

Xander grinned back at her. "Yeah? Tell me more."

"I've learned a few things." Buffy fell into step with him and when Xander caught up to her, she proceeded to kick a leg up, straight up above her head, so that her toes were pointed directly at the sky. Buffy then pirouetted and as she spun she dropped her leg, only for that to lead into Buffy falling forward into a full split. She looked up at Xander and gave him a big smile, "Taaaah- daaaah."

"Wow." Xander looked down at his friend. "Wowie wow wow."

Getting up off the ground and dusting herself off Buffy waved it away, "That's nothing. You should see me when I got my music going and feeling the flow. That's... I can just let go and dance without a care in the world. That's really impressive. Even Mom says so."

"Wow." Xander tried to down play how eager that made him. Suddenly his lap dance prospects were looking up. If Buffy was hiding this well spring of talent he was looking at more than just some disinterested grinding.