Days continued to float by and Stacy was slowly letting go of John. Though not forgetting him completely but she has learned to accept the truth that John's is gone and there's no future for them. She would feel lonely sometimes but Randy was always there to cheer her up.
"I'm letting go of John." Stacy suddenly said which surprised Randy. They were at the beach sitting on the sand while watching the calm beach.
"Huh?" Randy asked in surprise.
"I'm letting go… I realize I can't hold on to this forever." Stacy said.
"It's… it's nice to hear that." Randy said, not knowing what to say.
"Yeah?" Stacy said softly and turned to Randy. "Randy?" she called out his name.
"Hmm?"
"I'm cold…" Stacy said with a faint smile on her lips.
"Well, come here and I'll keep you warm." Randy replied and pulled Stacy closer to him and she rested her head on his shoulder and he wrapped an arm around her.
"Randy?" Stacy called out again her eyes were closing.
"Hmm?"
"Promise me you'll always be there for me." Stacy said in a slow voice.
"Yeah, don't worry I will be. I… I love you, and I'm never gonna leave you." Randy replied but when he looked at Stacy, she was already sleeping. Randy sighed and slowly picked her up and carried her like a baby.
"Oh! They look so sweet!" Ashley cried out as they watched the two.
"Yeah, they do." John agreed, he could still feel that he was a bit jealous of Randy. But he quickly shook the feeling away. He looked at Randy who was now placing Stacy gently in the car to take her home. After seeing the car drive away, John turned to look at Ashley and saw that she was looking at him closely and she quickly turned away with her cheeks burning red.
"Ash?" John called out her name in a hoarse whisper. But Ashley didn't look at him.
"Ash, look at me." John said again in the same voice and Ashley slowly turned to look at him. The next thing that happened was a blur to Ashley. The only thing she remembered was that John's face was so close to her and then their lips touched gently. John kissed her so softly that Ashley felt he just brushed his lips to hers. Then the calm sky suddenly turned angry and lightning struck and brought the two of them back to reality. Ashley opened her eyes wide in shock.
"No!" she cried and floated away.
"Ash! Wait!" John called out to her and followed her. When he finally caught up with her, he got hold of her arm and stopped her from floating away.
"Ash, I'm sorry, I didn't mean to." John apologized.
"No… John, just…" Ashley tried to cut him off in the middle of his words but she realized she doesn't know what to say. "Why did you do that?" Ashley asked in a small voice.
"I… I didn't know what came over me. Maybe, I… I miss Stacy and I saw her in you." John said and Ashley ran away.
"I'm so stupid!" Ashley thought over and over again. "I'm so stupid of falling for you John!" she thought again.
"Ash!" John called out to her but Ashley didn't look back at him and continued to get away from him. John was left hanging in his thoughts.
"Why did I kiss her? Why?" John asked himself. "You're not suppose to fall for your angel!" he said out loud and was surprised that those words came out, especially the word 'fall'. Then his thoughts floated to the time when he first appeared to Randy.
Flashback:
"Whoa! And who are you?" Randy asked.
"I'm Ashley, John's guardian angel. Nice to meet you." Ashley bubbly said and offered a hand. Randy extended an arm but his hand just went through hers.
"Oops, sorry I forgot. But nice meeting you anyway." Ashley said and smiled.
"Same here I guess." Randy said confusedly.
"Okay now, down to business." John said seriously and Randy turned to him after being mesmerized by Ashley's appearance.
"Hey, get your eyes off her! She's my angel." John whispered to him.
"I think you like her." Randy whispered.
"Huh? Who?" John asked, trying to act innocent.
"Ashley." Randy said in a sweet voice that John could throw up.
"No way! She's my guardian angel!" he answered but couldn't help but blush.
"See I told you." Randy said.
End of Flashback
Randy was rummaging through his things when he suddenly felt a presence in the room.
"Who's there?" he called out cautiously and Ashley suddenly appeared in a swirl of silver.
"You scared me!" Randy cried and clutched his chest.
"Sorry." Ashley replied.
"You should really stop doing that swirly thing." Randy said.
"Where's John?" Randy asked and Ashley just shrugged in reply.
"Shouldn't you be guarding him or something?" Randy asked as he poked his head in his cabinet looking for something.
"So you took Stacy home already?" Ashley asked instead of answering.
"Yeah, she was tired. Wait! You were spying on us?" Randy asked incredulously.
"Spying is such a harsh word." Ashley said and tried to smile.
"Ash, what's wrong?" Randy asked. He hasn't known Ashley for a long time but he felt there was something wrong with her at that very moment.
"Huh? What do you mean what's wrong?" Ashley tried to ask innocently.
"Well, you seemed not yourself at all." Randy told her.
"You're silly Randy! Of course I am myself see?" Ashley tried to laugh and turned around to let him see that she was 'herself'.
"Whatever you say." Randy just said. "Uh, where's John?" Randy asked again.
"Ashley! You're here! Thank God! I was worried where you might have been!" John's voice came from the door. Randy raised an eyebrow when he saw Ashley's smile vanished.
"Um, I have to go, I need to uh… take care of something. See you later Randy!" Ashley said and Ashley suddenly disappeared.
"What's up with Ash?" Randy asked John and John sighed in reply.
"Man, what happened?" Randy asked again. John scratched the back of his head and tried to look at Randy.
"I… I think I'm falling for Ashley…" John confessed to Randy and Randy was surprised for a while and shut his mouth before laughing out loud.
"You're what?" Randy asked, hoping to hear his confession again.
"I think I'm falling for Ashley and I…" John said again but stopped in the middle of his words.
"And you?" Randy urged him to tell him more.
"I… I kissed her alright!" John snapped and his cheeks were as red as tomatoes.
"You kissed her?" Randy repeated his words still unbelieving and John nodded.
"So I was right! You do like her!" Randy said and clapped his hands.
"But, angels are not to fall for mortals and vice versa. And Ashley is an angel and well, I'm a mortal." John said.
"Dead mortal." Randy corrected him and John glared at him.
"I think… I think I screw up though." John said and ran his hand through his hair.
"Huh? What do you mean?" Randy questioned while looking at John and enjoyed himself at looking on the other side of the room through John's flimsy form.
"Hey! You still listening to me?" John snapped his fingers in front of Randy. "Earth to Randy!" John said loudly for Randy to hear.
"Whoa man! Tune it down! You want Stacy to go out with a deaf guy?" Randy asked sarcastically while rubbing his ear.
"It isn't my fault you are so out of your mind right now." John whispered.
"Sorry, hey! What did you say?" Randy cried out when he realized what John whispered.
"Nothing… So are you willing to listen to me now?" John asked him.
"Yeah. Like I have any other choice." Randy said like a kid.
"You really are trying to get on my nerves Orton!" John said.
"Just tell me what you want me to know." Randy said.
"Well, after I kissed Ashley, she asked me why I did it and told her that I saw… I saw someone in her." John replied shyly remembering that they're working on pairing Stacy and Randy up and there he was telling Randy that he kissed an angel because he saw his former love interest in her.
"Stacy?" Randy mentioned her name and John nodded slowly.
"So… so what are you going to do now?" Randy asked him.
"I don't know. I hope… I hope I could take 'this' to the next step." John said. "What about you? I saw you and Stacy earlier."
"Well, we're taking it to the next step, I guess." Randy admitted shyly. He was still a bit uncomfortable on talking about Stacy with John.
"Good luck." They said together glumly.
"And you better hurry up Randy. I only have like what, fifteen days left." John said to him.
yanzell's note: okay i think this chap is a bit longer than that of the previous one. soi hope you enjoyed reading it. please leave a review aight? thanks guys! till next chap!