Chapter One: Starting a Life after Death

A/N: Sorry I haven't updated in a while I've been busy with so much stuff going on I've been lucky if I get five seconds to work on any of my stories.

I stood stunned for a moment, now even more certain that it was indeed Hannah stood in front of me. I had said something similar to her when she had woken in the hospital just before she died in my arms. Unfortunately I had been the only one with her in her room when she died. She knew it was happening and recorded two messages using my new recorder that I had been given to record ideas when they came to me.

Her parents had cried when they heard her message and had been responding to the ghost of her voice as the message continued. I'm unsure why but playing the message to our friends and her boyfriend was harder than I thought it would be. All of us where in tears and several of the boys where weeping too this had only made me cry harder having been there with her through her death.

"Am I dead?" I asked bewildered.

"Yeah sorry hun this must be really confusing." Hannah responded. "Come on we'll be late if we don't hurry." She added gesturing for me to follow her as we hurried through the school grounds.

"So what is this place?" I quizzed.

"The Angel Academy is a school for all trainee angels where we learn to be celestial trouble shooters." Hannah answered happily.

Our conversation ended as we entered what I must be an assembly hall, great the one thing I hated most about school was assemblies and here I was in the middle of some kind of angelic assembly. Familiar words like 'teamwork' and 'awards' where mixed in with the word 'angel' and other terms like that. I hurt terribly to know that I wasn't going to get to see my family again and that they didn't get to know that I was safe and in this interesting and new place.

Now we where being split into groups thankfully I was in a group with Hannah so at least I would know someone. We where shown our class room and met our teacher Mr Allbright and he told us school would start properly in two days as well as some other stuff.

After that Hannah began to lead me to the dorms until two girls came bouncing up to us. "Hey Hannah you coming to sign up for the history club" Lola smiled.

"Of course, Suzie lets go to the library first then we'll go to the dorms." Hannah grinned.

Seeing no other option I followed my three companions to the library. "Don't look so down, the history clubs great we actually get to time travel." Mel stated.

"Really that's so cool" I replied happily and the rest of the walk pasted with us swapping our lives and deaths.

Lola is unbelievable from the 22 century and was shot (accidently) and Mel two months before me (I knew she was familiar – her photo was in the news). They told me the different times they'd been to – a total of five.

The library was the most impressive building I have ever seen. I ended up in one of the lines, when I got to the front the man that took my name looked more like someone out of men in black than a school teacher – on the way out Mel explained that all the agents look like that. After the library the girls took me shopping and instead of money they flashed these cool like ID cards. "You'll get one to after your probationary period is up." Hannah explained, as we walked to their favourite hang out - Guru.

I was really enjoying myself and began to find friends in this strange place. The guilt in my stomach was fighting to prevent me from enjoying myself here. Lola and Mel were telling us about their friend Reuben when he arrived and sat down at our table. It began to get late and the five of us began to head our separate ways. Hannah and I arrived back and the dorms and after explaining how to get my hands on thing from our time that I 'can't live without' she left and returned to her room.

I arrange to get my IPod, laptop and eternal hard drive, guitar, tablature and my new Ipad – the real one sitting unopened in a bag on the floor of the restaurant where I'd died (now isn't that a cheerful thought). Tired but unable to sleep I pick up the angel handbook thing and begin to read. Hannah had told me that she hadn't gotten any books, TV series DVDs and DVDs because the library has all of that so she just gets them from there – I decided to do the same thing.