"Yeah. Buffy just wants me to go in case she can't talk Angel into it, which is immensely flattering. No idea what I'd even do there." Dance, he supposed, but it wasn't as if he really liked dancing the way the people at school did. But Buffy was his friend and he knew what it'd mean for her to have no one or, at least, as she put it, no one decent. Nicolas might not be in with the popular kids, but that was more his lack of interest in them rather than anything else. The only popular people he talked to were Cordelia and Spike, both for obvious reasons.

But he was in a band, French, good-looking and with an accent, of course he was an acceptable partner. "Things not going so well with Harmony?"