Guardian Angel by Brittany Richards (top reads TXT) 📖

of what I thought to be: frustration, bewilderment, and fascination. It was an odd combination.
"It's you, isn't it?" Jessica practically shouted. I took a step backwards, taken by what she had said, hitting my head of the wall again. I stood there for a few moment rubbing the back of my head and staring at her with confusion. What was she talking about? Was she crazy? She continued, "You are he reason for all these dreams! It's all your fault! I never had any dreams like this before I moved into here. So it must be you. I know this might sound like I'm crazy, but I'm not. I have a question for you," I nodded for her to go on, " but are you a fallen angel? I want you to answer honestly, and if you think I am utterly, unconditionally insane please feel free to say so. Don't worry I wont tell anyone."
I was aghast. How did she find out? I thought she was crazy but at the same time she wasn't. I had to tell her. She already figured it out and I definitely was going to lie to her and accuse her of being totally insane and that she didn't know what she was talking about. Because the truth was that she did.
I took my hoodie off and uncurled my wings. The extended out through slits I had cut in my shirt. Long black wings unfurled before her eyes. She took a few steps back, mouth agape, and feel onto the couch. I looked down at the ground.
My wings were one of the few that had red tipped feathers. Most other fallen angel's were pure black. Each wing was about six feet long and almost hit the ceiling. I folded my wings around me so they were out of the way.
"W-what?" Jessica struggled to say.
"I don't know if it is exactly true but I might be your guardian angel," I explained.
I rolled my shoulders back and my wings contracted back into my back. I took a few steps forward and she curled into a ball trying to get away from me. I stopped and outstretched my hand as to comfort her from far away and to show her that I wasn't going to hurt her.
I could tell that she relaxed a little but she was still scared. I walk slowly over to the couch and sat next to her. Jessica scooted over to the side of the couch. I didn't move, not wanting to push her. I explained everything to her. My family, how became one, everything. I tried to make it so that she would understand. It seemed as though she did. She relaxed a bit more after our long conversation.
We sat in silence as she tried to comprehend what I just said. Her hair, half fallen into her face, as she concentrated. She finally spoke, "And your brother, he is one too?" She asked meekly. I nodded and her expression went back to confusion.
I walked into my room and called my brother.
"You did what?" Jake screamed through the phone.
"She already knew so I showed her," I replied. "I didn't think that telling Jessica about the fallen would be such a big deal, for she already guessed it."
"This can get us into big trouble you know. What if Jeremy found out? He could banish us to hell, never to get out again. Another war could start and either the human or angel population could vanish. Do you want that? How could you trust her so much? You know not to trust mere mortals. What is wrong with you?"
"First of all Jeremy isn't

going to find out and I've talked to Jessica enough to trust her. And they are not just 'mere mortals', you know a lot of humans are nicer then they seem. It is the bad ones that give them a bad rep. And don't you talk to me like that! There is nothing wrong with me! It was my decision and that’s final!"
I hung up on Jake before he could say anything else. He tried calling back a second later but I ignored him and turned off my phone.
I flung myself onto my bed and closed my eyes.

Chapter 4

Fire developed everywhere. Burning brightly, hot as

hell! This place was hell, quite literally. I looked up only to find sky. Looking down I found the same. I was falling! Faces looked down at me from above, smirks laid upon their face. As much as I tried I could not stop myself from falling. Laughter surrounded me and for a minute everything went dark and a sharp pain came. Or what I thought was pain. I awoke to find myself back in the place I started. I looked up to find the same people that were laughing at me only moments ago, to be falling from the sky too. Each one landing not so gently on the hard floor below. Wing burning a bright red with fire. Each one struggling to get up and extinguish their burning wings. Everywhere I see are angels looking confused and distraught.
As for me I felt nothing. No burning, no pain, just numbness. Nothing.
I didn't exactly know why I was here. Questions ran through my mind. Why am I here? What is with all of these angels? What was happening?
I noticed one thing that was out of place. A small girl, curled up in a ball, sat in the middle of the floor. Human. She shook, as if she was scared. She was. I couldn't see who it was, for her long hair covered her face. In the darkness it seemed black but I wasn't quite sure. I walked slowly over to her. On my way over I looked up and almost got hit with a falling body. Luckily I missed it just in time, but they hit the hard stone ground. I kept walking as if I never noticed it.
I continued to walk over to the small girl. She wore a white dress covered in red splatters of blood. From what I could hear it sounded like she was crying. Though it was hard to hear through all the crying and screaming. She looked up at me. Her look took me by surprise but I continued to look.
They say that the passageway to the soul is trough your eyes. That you can see a person's soul through them. If this was true, that is what I was seeing. Her eyes were pure black. She had no white or any type of color in her eyes. That's when it hit me. She had no eyes! Instead the girl had hollow eye sockets, where her eyes would be if she did have eyes. She smiled. Her lips curled back and it expanded literally the width of her face. Rows and rows of sharp pointed teeth lined her smile. They reminded me of needles.

Jessica? It was. Her crying turned to laughing and she looked at me like she wanted me dead.
Startled, I let out a small gasp and took a few steps back. Determining if I should run, I almost fell backwards when a pair of cold hands caught me at my waist. Though in the depths of hell anything felt cold down here. A shiver ran down my back from the sudden cold. I didn’t really want to turn around and look who caught me, for the fear of what I find. After a few moments of mental preparation I decided to turn around. The same look appeared on the face behind me. No eyes and sharp teeth. I ripped out of his hold. Well tried to anyways. No matter how much I struggled he would not let go. I tried to pry his fingers off of me but it was no use. As much as I tried I just couldn't get him off of me. I looked again.

This time instead of what I had saw before, it was my brother. A clear liquid ran down his face. Tears. I turned around and hugged him for a reason that I didn't know. He hugged me back and I felt a sharp pain in my back. I let go of Jake and let out a long scream. I fell to the floor. When I turned to look back at Jake, it was replaced by the original face I had seen before. This time the face was full of hate and passion. Another sharp pain ripped down my back and I let out another scream. Arching my back from the excruciating pain. I curled up into a ball in the hard stone ground. A red substance surrounded me. It smelled like metal. Blood.

My blood! Laughter surrounded me yet again and I closed my eyes. I knew if I laid here I had two options. Either they would eventually leave me alone, or lie here and die from loss of blood. The chances of these things leaving me alone, were not that great.

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Publication Date: 05-11-2012

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