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Prologue
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A sealed envelope was passed over the desk. Principal Shermansky had a grave look on her face, an expression perfectly mirrored by the current president of the student body. "I assume, you know what you have to do, Nathaniel?" The blond stood up and bowed his head slightly. "Yes principal Shermansky. I will go and greet the new student and see that he adjusts well in our school."
He was almost out of the needlessly dimmed principal office as a voice held him back. "I forgot one thing. The new boy has some slight … difficulties. Please watch him until I deem him able to move around safely by himself." - "Very well."
It was rare for the principal to use such a pleading tone with one of her students. She had dark circles under her eyes, a sign of lack of sleep. Her dog Kiki stayed on his dog cushion and watched over her. He must have sensed her distress, since he didn´t bolt out of the office on the first sight of an open door. So even the little rascal new how to behave, Nathaniel noted.
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Nathaniel was sitting in the student council room and looking at the envelope. He didn´t open it at first. Difficulties meant problems and he did not want to know what the new teen had on his record just now. He probably was a punk and troublemaker. A slight headache started to form in Nathaniel's head as he thought of what the presumed delinquent had done to have to change schools in the middle of the semester.
The blond was just ripping the envelope open to spread the contents of it on the table as Melody came in to give him some paperwork and make some tea. Although a little startled by her sudden appearance, he accepted the tea gratefully. The tea was slightly enriched with milk, since Nathaniel didn´t like sweets but simple black tea tended to hurt his stomach.
Melody left after some small talk to go help her friend Iris with math, since she failed miserably in their last exam and had to take a makeup test. Nathaniel was once again by himself and had two choices. Paperwork for the school council or the envelope about the new student.
Nathaniel would have preferred to get the paperwork of his to do list first, but first period started in 30 minutes and the new boy would arrive during the third period. A sight escaped him and he ripped the envelope open.
Discarding the envelope in the waste paper bin and spreading its contents on the table. Everything was labelled with post-its. There were two folders a lone sheet and a keychain with two keys. The blond took a double take yes, there were indeed keys on his desk.
He decided to start with glancing through the sheet that was labelled "Nathaniel". After some time he put it down and was none the wiser than before, more confused if he had to give a statement. On the sheet were only some instructions for him. He put the sheet aside and took the folder that was labelled "Castiel" in his hands. After some hesitation, let us say a lot of hesitation, he took out the new students personal information.
To say he was surprised was an understatement. The boy on the pictures looked nothing like a troublemaker. They showed a black-haired boy that was smiling at the camera while playing some kind of game on the computer. The picture was slightly older. The edges were slightly damaged. It had probably been taken 5 years ago. Nathaniel looked through the folder, but couldn´t find a more recent picture. The only thing he could find was an old class picture and his profile picture for the administration form.
Nathaniel red through some forms and noted, that Castiel did not attend school for two and half a year and was home-schooled during this period. After that, he went to a school in the neighbouring city. He moved into this town roughly 1 month ago. His father was an airplane pilot and his mother was a flight attendant. Due to their jobs, their son was legally independent and lives practically alone.
The bell rang, signalling, that first period started in 5 minutes. Nathaniel locked the folder he was reading until a moment ago into the safe and took the rest with him. He made it just in time and quickly took his place in the first row at the window.
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Nathaniel didn´t have the chance to concentrate properly on the lesson. Peggy had somehow gotten wind of the new student and bombarded him with questions, even going as far as ignoring the history teacher, Mr Faraize. She was seated at the back after 10 minutes, but the interested stares of his classmates didn'tlessen, he had the feeling they got even stronger.
Nathaniel was lucky, that Mr. Faraize skipped the break during his double lesson in favour of ending the lesson earlier, so Nathaniel did not have to fend off questions of his classmates. He left the class a little early to go straight to the school gate. After some time Principal Shermansky joined him and they spent the time waiting in comfortable silence.
They didn´t have to wait long and soon after the bell announced the start of the third period, a black van pulled into the school grounds. A man with short black hair got out from the driver's seat and walked up to the principal. He wore a white shirt with a black tie, and jeans with a brown belt. "Hello, my name is Jean-Luis, I´m the father of Castiel and this", he turned to the women that had gotten out from the passenger seat and was talking through the barely opened back door of the van, "is my wife Valerie."
The woman sighted and turned around to join in the conversation. The woman wore an outfit similar to her husbands. It consisted of a buttoned white shirt with short sleeves, a buttoned dark blue dress and black leggings. Her dark brown wavy hair had red tips and was left open. "He doesn´t want to come out. I think he is shy."
Nathaniel tried not to pry into the conversation between the parents and the principal. He tried to make out the features of the boy sitting in the van instead. He would lie if he said that he wasn´t interested how the cute black-haired boy from 5 years ago looked now. He got a little startled as the black-haired man, Jean-Luis if he had heard right, walked right past him and went to talk through a crack of the back door of his van.
A hand was put on his shoulder and Nathaniel looked up into kind red eyes. "And you are Nathaniel, I presume? The school body president?" The blond nodded shortly. "Please take care of my little Cassy, he had a difficult time and is feeling lonely right now. I hope you will take great care of him." The words had barely left her mouth, as the backdoor of the van was finally fully opened, thus allowing free sight at the new student of Sweet Amoris.
To say Nathaniel was surprised was an understatement, to his luck the shock settled down pretty fast and he managed to catch himself, the moment the new student exited the van. The most notably difference from the boy in the pictures was his hair. The black shock of hair was completely red and his features were hardened. He had a very muscular statue and seemed tall, though Nathaniel couldn´t tell, since the new student was sitting in a wheelchair.
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Rambles: I did it. I put Castiel in a wheelchair. I had the idea one night while surfing in the internet and it nagged me since. Now I finally got to write it down. I try to keep everyone in character and I look forward to writing. It is like I am reading the fanfiction for myself for the first time.
Is it my imagination, or do many dislike Melody? I know that everybody has his favourites, but in every story I read, that had Nathaniel as a part of the main pairing, she was described as some possessive bitch. I´d like to let her stay in a positive light, while still maintaining her character.
Castiel was and will always be an asshole, but he has a tender side to himself, you will see that in the next chapter. How will Nathaniel react to the new student?
Oh, please write reviews. Show me that I am not alone out here. I love to talk about my fanfictions. I often realize mistakes and learn how to do better. Also so many of you have such wonderful ideas, they often help me out of a slump.