Today was the first day of February, Valentines day was coming up and I was looking forward to spending it with Alex. I walked up the front walk of his house, thinking about that awful dream last night. As I raised my hand to knock, the door opened and I saw my angel smiling lovingly at me, He bent down for a long hello kiss and led me into his small kitchen. Alex studied my face for a moment before letting me make his breakfast, "What's wrong, sweetie?" he asked seriously, placing a trembling hand on my cheek, bending far down so his face was level with mine, at this rate he won't only have cancer but also scoliosis if he kept up this bending down thing. "Nothing, I just didn't get much sleep last night." warm tears were forming in my eyes as I thought about the dream more, I looked away. Alex's gently took my chin in his unsteady hand and turned my face towards his.
"Tell me you dream," he said, letting go of my face and grabbing my hand instead, sitting me down in a chair. "I.. had a," I swallowed, I couldn't get the words out. "I had a dream you died," I sobbed, resting my head in my hands, completely losing control of myself, Alex went down on one knee so he could be level with me again and, saying nothing, pulled me to his chest, kissing my hair and rubbing my back. I cried into his shoulder for a while before I could get control of myself. "It's okay," he whispered, my lower back was starting to hurt, I'm sure the position on the floor wasn't very comfortable for him either, I pulled away. "I'm sorry." I said, looking down, Alex looked troubled for a minute, "I don't want you to be sad." he said, brushing the hair soaked with tears away from my face, " I know," I choked. Alex kissed my forehead, "Come on, let get you cleaned up." he gave me a reassuring smile, "I love you." he said, "I love you too." I touched my wet cheek and looked at the black water in my hands.
I looked into Alex's bathroom mirror, my face was tearstained, the charcoal makeup was all over my cheeks, I looked awful. I laughed, Alex looked at me in surprise, raising an eyebrow, "I look awful." I said, Alex laughed too, whipping the tears away from my face. "I'll go and get a towel for you to use." he said, still chuckling. My face was washed, completely, so I had no makeup on, I sighed, I always thought I looked terrible without at least eyeliner. "Your always beautiful!" said Alex, I just looked at him, raising my eyebrows, he read my mind, again. "You read my mind." I breathed, Alex smiled sheepishly at me, "I'm just good at reading facial expressions, you get good at it when you've lived at a hospital for a couple of months, but you are very hard to read." He said, I stared at him, "Hard to read? You seem to know what I'm thinking all the time!" I said, incredulous. Alex laughed, "Really?" I nodded, he laughed some more.
"Come on, we better get going to school." Alex said, grabbing his bag, and mine, and lifting them over each shoulder. I tried to grab my bag, he looked like he could break any minute, and our bags were heavy. "No, I'm okay!" He reassured me, I giggled, "Did I do it again?" he asked smiling, he was amused, now, liking the idea that he could tell what I was thinking without even realizing it, "Yep." We made our way out to the small car and I skipped around to the driver's seat as Alex loaded our school bags, heavy with homework from the merciless teachers, into the back seat. I started the car and a loud chorus of, "We'll Carry On!, We'll Carry On." blasted the speakers, we both laughed, My Chemical Romance's Welcome to the Black Parade was playing at that moment. "Loud enough?" he laughed, I giggled "Never!" I answered.
I caught Alex singing along with the song with me, "Your not a bad singer yourself," I teased, he looked at me, clearly shocked, "No way! I prefer writing to singing, that's your area of expertise!" He laughed. "And what exactly do you write, Mr. Author?" I asked, smiling in his direction, "ah, stuff here and there, the school newspapers and such." I raised my eyebrows, "I want to read your stuff!" I said excitedly, "Oh, no, it's mostly small, it's really bad." he stuttered, "Oh, honey, nothing you do is ever bad." I said, shocked, "You don't see yourself very clearly." I said softly, Alex smiled, "Then, we're two of a kind." He replied, smiling his special smile. I pulled into the school parking lot, I hate high school, students were flooding the sidewalk and grass, we were just in time for the morning announcements, I wanted to get a hold of the school paper, to take a look at Alex's writing. Alex opened my car door for me, I smiled taking the shaking hand he held out to me, I smiled and went on my Tipp toes to kiss him softly on the lips. I carried my bag this time, a group of rowdy juniors were walking ahead of us, I recognized then from class. I attempted to walk around them I was leading my angel out of the crowd to the lockers, but Alex stopped, looking at the group of our classmates, he was furious. "Alex?" I asked, moving forward to meet him, I looked up at his angry face, "Alex what's wrong.?" then I noticed what the group was calling after us, or me.
"Hey, hot stuff, I'd like to get some of that!" joked a boy with oily hair and acne, he wasn't very handsome, but I guessed he was popular in our class. The whole group laughed, "Monster girl!" called a tall brunette with too much lip gloss on, she seemed out of the group, almost like she was trying to be accepted by them, by making cruel jokes. "Ever hear of, tanning?" I raised my eyebrows, that insult was really bad, I almost laughed. "Are you Emos lost or something? The cemetery is that way!" a big boy pointed in the other direction, the group just laughed at that, and they laughed some more at the other insults directed to us, well mainly me, most of them were evil and sexist from the boys in the group, they really put Alex on edge. "SHUT UP!" Alex shouted at them, coming closer to the boys who called me bad names, "don't you ever call her that again." Alex snarled, I was almost scared, but I've seen an angry vampire before, compared to that, this was nothing.
"Or you'll what?" sneered the popular boy "look he's shaking." I heard somebody whistper, "I'll punch you till your begging me to stop!" Alex hissed, I widened my eyes, "Alex, they're not worth it!" I said, jumping in between the two boys, facing my angry angel. "Hey, baby why don't you ditch this sick kid and come over here with us, you don't have to be with this disease any longer." I slowly turned, "What did you say?" my voice was horse, "You heard me, sexy." He sneered, I swallowed, and, like lightning, slapped the kid with the oily hair really hard. It was one thing insulting me, but it was a wholly other situation insulting my angel, especially when the insult was as cruel as this. "You Son of a Bitch!" I shrieked, then from behind me, Alex threw himself on to the shocked boy, he was still holding his slapped cheek. The whole thing was a blur, girls screaming, the boys were yelling, "Fight! Fight!" I was trying to pull Alex off of the popular kid, "Alex, Alex, he's not worth it!" I yelled, but of coarse that didn't stop Alex from punching the guts out of the kid.
By the looks of it Alex was getting pretty beat up himself, I was scared, for Alex, and , funnily enough, for the kid Alex was trying to beat up, how much anger did Alex have for these kids? What happened before I moved here? "Hey!" A loud voice I recognized shouted, I looked quickly around at the group of seniors that gathered, I spotted Wes and Ian, and a frightened Scarlett, she made her way over to me, I was panicking by now. Wes grabbed Alex, and Ian grabbed the popular kid, they were all bloody, I ran over to my angel, taking him into my arms. "You okay, Alex?" Wes asked softly, Alex nodded, then told him the story of what happened for a minute Wes looked like he wanted to kill the popular kid too.
A loud whistle blew behind us, the teachers had joined the group, along with the principle. "What's going on here?" screamed the tiny lady, that I supposed to be our principle. I looked at Alex's already bruised face, worriedly, "I just hope she doesn't want to suck on the Emo's bloody face, that new girl and her brothers look like, like, vampires!" a girl whispered from behind us, I widened my eyes, Ian and Wes heard too along with Alex. "Now, you know that's ridiculous, don't you sweetheart?" Wes whispered to the girl smoothly, chuckling by the dazed reaction he got in return from the her. I suppressed a giggle, Wes and Ian could really dazzle people, even men! "What happened?" Shrieked the small lady, again, the popular boy answered before Alex could, "The monster freaks attacked me!" he shouted, pointing to at Alex and I, all eyes were on us. "I'm guessing this boy, here, provoked Alex into punching him." Ian said, at Alex's defense, winking at us, silently telling us not to worry. "You three! In my office now!" the principle said, pointing at me, Alex, and the popular boy. I glanced quickly at my brothers, Wes smiled reassuringly at me and motioned with a hand to get going, I raised one eyebrow. "We'll call home and explain everything, we heard and saw what happened, everything will be okay, for you and Alex." Ian whispered as I passed him, My arm was linked with Alex's, I held on tight.