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Touched by an Angel: AU. Hua Ze Lei has given up on love after being dumped by his childhood lover, Teng Tang Jing. Dong Shan Cai is top girl in Ying De, but she can't outrun her shadows of the past. One day, fate brings the two together. Will they forget their own insecurities and finally be happy at last, or will another couple end in tragedy?

Touched by an Angel

Chapter 1- First Impressions

"Lei, I'll see you in the break," shouted Xi Men to his friend and he disappeared in the sea of students.

Lei didn't bother to reply back, knowing that Xi Men would not hear him anyway. With a sigh, he turned back and tried to figure out where his art class was. What room was it again? W15. Where the hell was W block then?

Lei silently regretted having changed classes. It was in the middle of the semester when he decided to drop legal studies and take up art instead. Normally at Ying De, students weren't allowed to change subjects in the middle of the year. Now Lei could see why. But then again, Lei wasn't just any student. He was part of F4.

The story of F4 is a long one. As the name suggests, there are for members. They are Dao Ming Si, Mei Zhuo, Xi Men and Hua Ze Lei. The four of them came from the four most prestigious families in Taiwan. The school that they were going to, Ying De, was owned by their parents. In the school, students feared them, teachers feared them... hell, and even the Headmaster himself feared them, which explained why he let Lei change classes in the middle of the year but not other students.

Another thing what Mei Zhuo and Xi Men would call a benefit of being F4 is that girls flood after them. Ah Si hated this, and as Mei Zhuo put it, scared away all the poor girls who are helplessly in love with him. Lei didn't mind, or rather, he simply didn't care. Ever since his childhood lover, Teng Tang Jing, had dumped him, he had given up on love. Besides, he knew that being the heir of the Hua Ze Corporation he would one day be forced into an arranged marriage. So why bother falling in love if it will just make him suffer? If there was anything he loved, then that was his music. No one could take that away from him.

Suddenly his folder slipped from his grasp. It fell to the ground and sheets of paper flew everywhere. Hurriedly, Lei bent down to pick them up. But there was a strong gale that day and it blew the pages of writing further and further. Lei watched helplessly as a page of carefully written out notes flow slowly down the drain, literally.

Then he saw a hand reach out and grab it just before it fell completely. In an instant, a pile of paper was being shoved into his hands and before he could say thank you, the person was gone. Looking into the distance, Lei saw that it was a young girl with dark hair down to her waist. Rays of light bounced off her shiny black hair as she ran.

Lei looked down at the paper and saw that they were his other pages of notes. The girl must've helped him collect it. He looked up again but she had vanished in the distant. Why didn't she stay? Lei wondered.

Looking at his watch, he cursed under his breath. He was already ten minutes late to art class, and he still didn't know where that was.

Lei arrived at his class almost half an hour late. The teacher gave him a sceptical look, but said nothing, obviously knowing who he was. She briefly told the class that they have a new classmate. She introduced Lei to them, not that she needed to for the whole of Ying De knew who he was. Then he was told to sit down and the teacher went back to explaining the theories of art.

There was only one seat left and it was up the front next to a girl. Brushing past several students, he moved to his seat and sat down. He took out his notebook and jotted down a few things from the board. But he soon stopped. The teacher was utterly boring. This is even worse than legal studies, thought Lei glumly.

The teacher was explaining 'Surrealism'. She kept talking and talking in this tedious monotone that could turn the most interesting subject into trash. Bored to death, Lei scanned the class and saw that the rest of his classmates were like him. Some kept looking at the clock, wishing that the class was over, others took out books from different subjects and had started to review and in the back corner, one boy even slept behind an open book.

All except for one person- the girl who sat next to him. She was watching the teacher's every move and hanging on every word. She sat up so straight that Lei felt tired just watching her. Her hands were moving with such speed as she wrote down notes. She was so focused on the teacher that she didn't even notice when Lei took a peek at her flawless writing.

Lei leant back and thought to himself that this girl was crazy. Suddenly he sat right up, for he realised with shock that this was the girl who had helped him pick up his notes outside.

For the whole lesson, he watched her. Not once did she turn her eyes away from the teacher, and not for a second did she stop writing. Lei wondered if she was like this in every class and that if she were then how her poor hand managed it.

Leaning across his seat to talk to the boy to the left of him, he pointed at the girl and whispered, "Who is she?"

The boy almost gave him a sarcastic smile but quickly took it back, remembering who he was. "You honestly don't know who she is?" he asked incredulously.

"No. If I did, why would I be asking you then?" Lei replied impatiently.

"That's Shan Cai. Dong Shan Cai. She's top of the grade in every subject. She was dux last year, don't you remember?"

To be honest, Lei rarely ever attended those ceremonies because he thought that they were boring. But of course he could not say so. Straining his mind, he tried to come up with a plausible excuse but could think of none. Luckily, he was saved from answering because the art teacher shot a disproving look in their direction. Hurriedly, the other boy leaned back into his seat and minded his own business.

After another agonizing half an hour, the bell finally rang and signalled the end of class. People stood up hastily and left the room without another word. Lei stood up and was about to talk to Shan Cai when she jumped up, grabbed her notes and flew out of the room.

Lei stared after her.

It was past five in the afternoon. Lei was driving his car, on his way home. He had just spent some time with the rest of F3 hanging out in VS. He didn't feel like staying for long though, for his mind was on the mysterious girl... Shan Cai.

Lei stopped at an intersection and waited patiently. The blazing setting sun shone fiercely in his eyes. The lights turned green and he pressed down the accelerator.

Suddenly Lei noticed a child walking across the street. He was about to hit him!

Impulsively, Lei pressed for the break. But the car had gained too much speed to slow down. It was aiming right at the boy! Someone shouted from the sides and a figure leaped out and pushed the toddler aside. Lei pressed the break sharply. But it was too late. His car collided with whoever it was and the impact sent the person flying across the road!

The car stopped and terror-struck, Lei leapt out. There, lying on the ground was the body of a girl his age. Horror filled Lei's as he realised who it was. He had hit Shan Cai!

A/N: Hope you've enjoyed it. Please review and let me know what you think!

Cheers,

Amyranth.