Can you be my Guardian Angel?
The night drawled nearer as Alexa finished touching up her makeup before leaving her apartment. If she had thought her apartment was cold she was wrong; the wind's icy breath breathed upon her revealed skin, causing her to jump slightly. She was only a few feet away from her black Pontiac Sun fire, but because of the weather it felt like miles. Once getting into her car the first thing she did after turning the car on was turning the heat on full blast. The last thing she wanted right now was to go to an important dinner with frozen body parts, but before driving off Alexa picked up her black leather purse that sat on the passenger seat beside her and examined its contents. Mirror, check; Lip gloss, check; medication, Alexa picked up the small bottle and held it in her hand, she was going to need this if she were to survive the evening without another pounding headache.
Once she arrived, she checked her car mirror, running her hand through her soft, straight light brown hair before stepping outside. Strangely the air outside wasn't as chilling as it once had been back at her apartment. Happy to be able to move her legs again Alexa walked up to the front door of the small house and knocked three times. She breathed in and out, trying her best not to look too nervous, she had been waiting for this day for months now, and she didn't want anything to ruin it. She stopped breathing deeply once she heard footsteps, approach the door. Straightening up she watched as the wooden door swung open, revealing an older man wearing a tuxedo smiling at her. Entering inside the cozy house she wrapped her arms around the man and smiled.
"Hello Alan," she let go of the man and they were now looking at each other. They were very different; one was in her mid twenties and the other in his early sixties.
"Such a long time since I last saw you, you were about this high," Alan made a gesture with his free right hand, showing the height she once was when she was younger, "And now, now you're so big and beautiful, I didn't mean big as in fat, because you aren't fat, you're…"
"I know, thanks," her cheeks turning a slight pink, Alan nodded and motioned her to follow him into the dinning room.
"So how are your mother and father?" Alan asked sitting down on the arm chair in the corner of the room, Alexa took a seat on a nearby couch.
"Fine, I and my brother are taking turns watching them, it's hard but I'd do anything for them." She smiled but couldn't help frowning.
"So how's school?" Alan sensed the tension which had followed his previous question and decided to change the subject to something less harmful.
"I just finished College recently. I had a job for a while but it didn't work out too well." She smiled sweetly, holding one of her hands in the other, picking at her nail polish, it was a bad habit.
"Well, Don and Charlie should be here any minute now. I sent them to the store at the last minute. I'm sure they'll be surprised when they see you, you've all grown up so fast." Alan laughed, thinking back to the past, "You three were so cute together, like three peas in a pod."
Alexa smiled widely, and she finally felt relaxed and comfortable, "Yeah well, what can I say? I was a good looking kid; Don couldn't help but follow me around." She smirked.
She heard the door chime go off and watched as two grown men walked in carrying two bags full of what looked like food. She quietly watched the two of them as they walked right past the dinning room and into the kitchen. She raised her eyebrows in surprise and wondered how they missed her black furry coat that was hanging on the coat rack just beside the door. She stood up and decided to go and help the men with setting the table, it was better than sitting and doing nothing. Opening the kitchen door slowly she heard the clanging of dishes being placed on the table and she got to catch a portion of their conversation, 'so when do you think this girl is going to come? It's been so long I have no idea what she looks like.' One voice said, the other responded after 'you don't? You two were the same age, you guys always used to hang around each other…" the man's voice abruptly stopped and Alexa found herself loosing her balance, she felt her body lean forward and felt her knees hit the hard floor beneath her, her hands automatically went down on the floor in front of her, preventing herself from falling flat on the kitchen floor. It took a few seconds for her to catch her breath and realize that she was in the kitchen and the men were now watching her with a look of surprise and concern.
Looking up at them with a grim expression on her face as she grabbed one of her shoes and noticed that its heel was broken. Lifting it up and smiling at them, she said sheepishly, "I knew I shouldn't have gone with these shoes."
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