-1Chapter 7
My Father's Enemy
After Angle got done with her shower, she got dressed, and went outside. School was out and it was time to go home. But for Angel, going home was not on her schedule. She looked around, spotting Jean and Kitty by their car, and spotting The Brother Hood boys walking in her general direction.
In a split second decision, Angel dashed across the lawn, and over towards Jean and Kitty. Knowing that The Brother Hood boys wouldn't mess with her if she was with them.
"Hmph." sneered Pietro, "Go ahead and seek comfort in those that pity you, you mute freak. Just remember that they can always protect you."
Pretending not to have heard him, she continued on to Jean and Kitty's car.
"Hey, Angel." Kitty smiled. "You decided to join us after all." Angel nodded and started to climb into their car, taking one last look back behind her before they drove off.
"Hey, Pietro." piped Todd, "What exactly did you do to get her that spooked?"
"Don't worry about it, Todd."
"It wasn't anything bad… Was it?"
"I said don't worry about it!" he turned and headed in the direction of Lance's jeep. Speaking only to himself, "What happened in the girl's locker room is only the beginning…"
Two hours later at Bayville Mall…
Kitty, Jean, and Angel are shopping for dresses. Well, Kitty and Jean at the very most. Angel simply just looked at the dresses and watched Kitty and Jean parade around in fancy dresses, applauding to only ones that she thought looked good on them.
"Come on, Angel!" Kitty dragged her over to a rack of dresses, "The whole point of dress shopping for Prom is to pick out the coolest dress there is."
Angel grudgingly walked over to one of the dress racks and looked through them. Frowning when she found that all of the dresses were skimpy looking and left nothing to cover the back.
Jean sensed her uneasiness. It was hard for her not to use her powers to search Angel's mind, but she tried as best as she could not to pry. "Angel." Angel turned to her voice, "Are you having trouble finding a dress?" Angel nodded, "What exactly are you looking for in a dress?" Angel made a sweeping motion with her hand over the back side of the dress and Jean caught on immediately, "Oh, I see. You're really shy about your body, aren't you?" Angel nodded, "Hmm Well, let's see if they got any dresses that aren't so revealing…" she looked through all of the dresses in the store, but found none that would cover all of Angel's back. "Huh? Well, it doesn't look like they have any dresses here that suite your criteria. Let's move onto the next store."
By the time the mall closed, all three of the girls had went through every single clothing store in the mall, and found nothing that Angel liked.
"I'm sorry we couldn't find a dress that you liked, Angle." Jean said.
"Yeah, like, I'm surprised that fashion designers didn't think to make dresses for the shy."
"Well, we've got to get going. You need a ride home?"
Before Angle could answer, Logan had pulled up next to them on his motorcycle.
"Hey, kids. Everyone was startin' to get worried about ya when you two didn't show up for dinner."
"Sorry, Mr. Logan." said Kitty, "We were trying to help Angel find a dress for prom, but none of the stores had anything that she liked."
"Angel, huh?" he looked down at the small girl with dirty blonde hair and blue eyes and was shocked to see that she was giving him an animalistic death glare from hell, "What's you're problem, kid?"
Jean and Kitty looked down at her and saw that look in her eyes.
Jean reached out, "Angel?"
At Jean's words Angel snapped out on her anger and just shook her head and walked off.
"Angel, wait!"
"Hey, kid! It's dangerous to be out at this time of night. Why don't ya let us give ya a ride home?"
But Angel didn't want a ride home, at least not from anyone associate with Logan.
"Logan…" Kitty whispered.
"Don't worry, half pint, I'll keep an eye on her. You and Jean just head on home, okay?"
"Okay, Logan."
The girls got into their car and left the parking lot, while Logan drove off after Angel.
Angel had just walked down a few blocks when she noticed Logan following her out of the corner of her eye. She walked down a couple more blocks till she turned a corner and then booked it. Logan noticed that something was up with her posture after a couple of blocks and when he saw her disappear around a corner, he tried to follower her. When he rounded around the corner, into a dark alley way, but her scent just immediately disappeared. He scanned the area, but found nothing.
"Where the hell did she go?"
Angel hid in the shadows, waiting for Logan to leave. It was one thing that she was grateful that her father had taught her, it was the art of disappearing, and masking your scent from humans and animals. He made sure that she learned that technique if Weapon X happened to come across her.
After Logan had left, she emerged from her hiding place, and continued in the opposite direction of Logan to go home.
