Angel Among Us
A Covenant fanfic
Chapter 2: Gem in the Sea
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"Excuse me, sir?" Angel spoke.
He was in his first class, history. Classes haven't started yet, and the room was still vacant of students. He and his two friends went their separate directions after they stepped inside the school since none of them share their first class and they wanted to get things with their first hour teacher set up before classes start.
The history teacher looked up from the paper he was reading at his desk.
"Hi, I'm new here and I'll be in your first hour class." Angel explained.
The teacher's eyes shined in interest. "Oh, where are you from?" He said with a friendly smile.
"Westwood."
"Ah, okay. Not that far at all. And you're a…freshmen?"
Angel nodded. "Yes, sir."
"Mmhmm, alright. And you're name?"
"Angel Diamond."
The teacher's eyes blinked in pleasant surprise. "Wow, you're parents have an amazing taste of names."
Angel chuckled. "Yeah, I know."
The teacher stood up and held out his hand over his desk. "I'm Mr. Bentley. Welcome to the class."
Angel smiled and shook his hand. "Thanks."
"Why don't you sit at the front of the room here with me for now until everyone takes their seats. That way we can see where to place you."
"Okay." Angel agreed and sat against the wall behind Mr. Bentley's desk and got out his purple skinned BlackBerry Curve 9320 phone to entertain himself till all the students came.
Once the room filled up, the bell rang, and everyone took their seats, Mr. Bentley spoke.
"Morning first hour class. Before we get started on today's lesson, I would like to inform you that we have a new student."
Some whispering could be faintly heard amongst some parts of the class. When Mr. Bentley spoke again, they ceased, wanting to listen to the interesting new subject.
"Come on up." Mr. Bentley said over his shoulder to Angle, who was hidden from view of the students by the teacher's desk.
He put his phone back in his pocket, stood up, and walked to where he was next to Mr. Bentley's desk. Once he got up and was in view of the students, all the students' eyes immediately focused on him. Soft, surprised whispers of praise sounded through some parts of the room amongst themselves, some just stared in silent awe, and some others glared from being negatively envious. The new kid was beautiful; from his skin, to his hair, to his fashion style, to his eyes…especially his eyes.
"This is Angel Diamond. He comes to us from Westwood, so it is advised that you give him direction when he needs it," Mr. Bentley scanned the room for a seat that Angel could take.
"Ah, that one near the middle on the right is free for you, Mr. Diamond." Mr. Bentley pointed.
Angel spotted the seat, nodded, and went to go sit down. As he was walking up the stairs in the center that split up the left section from the right, He faintly heard two girls speaking softly about him to each other somewhere on his left.
"Damn, even his name is gorgeous!" The girl gushed to her friend next to her.
"Yeah, talk about a hottie." The first girl's friend next to her said dreamily.
The compliments made him blush. He was a very modest guy, so he didn't really think of himself as that big of a deal like others always did. He was placed between 2 girls, one with blonde hair, and one with black, them both having fair skin. The black haired one turned to him with a big smile and began whispering.
"I'm Crystal, I can give you a tour of the school, if you want?" The girl said trying to act calm, but failing and coming off really eager.
Angel gave a nervous smile from how strongly she was acting towards him.
"That would come in handy, thanks…Crystal." Angel could tell the girl barely contained a squeal of excitement from him saying her name.
'Oookay, maybe that wasn't such a good idea to accept. Well, can't change it now. I don't want to come off as a jerk.' Angel thought.
"Calm down, Crystal, it's only another human being sitting next to you," The blonde girl on the other side of Angel lightly belittled out of annoyance in a whisper, making Crystal glare annoyingly and pout at her.
The blonde girl then looked down at Angel. "Don't mind her, I'm Sarah, nice to finally see a new face in here." She said, much more relaxed than the other girl, which pleased him.
"Nice to meet you." Angel whispered.
Angel and Sarah then went back to paying attention to the teacher, but some of the class was still focused on Angel with their dreamy stares. Mr. Bentley started teaching about World War 1.
"World War 1 was a military conflict lasting from 1914 to 1918 which involved nearly all the biggest powers of the world. There were two groups of alliances formed to create this huge war, The Allies…and The Central Powers. The countries that made up The Allies were; Russia, France, British Empire, Italy, United States, Japan, Rumania, Serbia, Belgium, Greece, Portugal and Montenegro. Can anyone tell me what countries made The Central Powers?"
Only three hands raised, two boys and one girl. One of those boys, however, was Angel. Since he was new Mr. Bentley wanted to get to know how he does in class, so he settled with picking him.
"Angel." Mr. Bentley stated to enable his answer.
Angel put his hand down and answered the question stated. "Germany, Austria, Turkey, and….Bulgaria."
Mr. Bentley, as well as the class was impressed.
"Very good, Angel. I see you are researched. Refreshing to see." Mr. Bentley praised.
The teacher then continued the lesson. Sarah side glanced at Angel with an impressed smile.
'So…he's more than just a pretty face…that's a relief. Too many here with looks, but no brains. I'm definitely gonna enjoy his company.' Sarah thought.
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Angel was in a hallway with that Crystal girl after history was over with and had a 5 minute break before next class. Crystal was explaining the map of the school on the wall.
"-For whatever reason, who knows, but all I know is that the jocks get mad and aggressive if you hang in that spot of that hallway."
Angel nodded. "Good to know. Thanks for the heads up, Crystal." He said in a kind smile.
Crystal had a dreamy look come over her face. Him saying her name again and that striking smile reduced her to a swooning mess. She looked down and fiddled with her fingers before looking back up at him shyly.
"Umm….Angel…." Crystal hesitated.
Angel looked from the map back towards her. "Yeah?"
She fiddled with her fingers even more and looked down in a blush.
"Could we…..could I…..go out with you?" She blushed more intensely now.
"Go...out?..." Angel repeated, not catching the seriousness of those words at first, but then realization sinks in when he thinks more on it.
"Oh…..o~h…you mean…date." Angel stated nervously.
"Yeah…" Crystal said shyly still looking downward, blush gradually going away but still existing.
'Oh great, how am I going to break this to her?'
"Uh….mm…Crystal, I'm flattered you consider me as someone you would date, but….I have to decline, sorry."
Crystal's demeanor deflated and she met his eyes. "Aw, why not?" She asked in disappointment, wondering if it's for good enough reason.
Angel didn't want this to come out immediately when he only just recently moved here, but no reason in lying about it, so…
"Because…..I prefer guys."
Crystal stared at him for a minute before speaking. "...You mean….you're gay?"
"Yes." Angel confirmed uncomfortably.
Crystal sighed. "The saying is right…..all the attractive ones are gay or married." She said as she walked off in disappointment.
Angel showed light surprise by lifting his brows at that remark.
"Hehehe…" He laughed nervously before going to his next class.
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After two more classes, math and science, Angel went to the cafeteria for lunch hour. Once he decided what he wanted for lunch based on what they provided that day, he then got in a line of students and waited his turn to get his food. A few steps across the cafeteria in a different lunch line stood the Sons of Ipswich waiting to get their food as well.
"God, I'm so hungry." Pogue mused waiting impatiently.
"Same here, I didn't eat much for breakfast, so I'm starving." Tyler mused in response.
"I didn't even eat breakfast, so I'm hungrier than both you guys combined." Reid remarked.
Tyler turned his head around behind him at Reid fixing him with a look.
"That's because you slept in too late…ya know…like you do every morning." Tyler teased.
Reid shrugged in a smirk. "Life's too short to be rushin' around, Baby Boy."
Tyler lifted a brow incredulously at Reid. "Life's too short to be slackin' off ei-"
"Oh, look! We're next!" Reid interrupted unnecessarily loud and cheery to stop Tyler from completing that sentence.
Tyler glared good-naturedly at Reid before looking in front of himself and noticed Pogue and Caleb were now standing with a small gap between them and he and Reid, Caleb and Pogue with an amused look on their faces while they watched their antics of which kept them unaware of their surroundings. Tyler rolled his eyes and finally walked forward to close the gap as Reid chuckled behind him. After they were moving with the line again, Reid looked around the cafeteria in boredom. His eyes happened to roam in the area Angel was at and Reid froze when he saw him, his eyes sparkling with interest.
"…..Damn, he's hot." Reid whispered, unaware he just said that out loud.
Since Tyler was right in front of him, he heard what Reid said. Unsure if he heard right, Tyler turned around and looked at Reid in confusion.
"What?" Tyler asked.
Reid blinked rapidly and tore his eyes off the boy he was oogling and thought fast.
"I said…'damn, this lot', heh-heh. Wish it would move faster…ya know…since I'm super starving and all." Reid said feeling nervousness rush through him.
"Okay, figured I heard wrong." Tyler said before turning back around.
Reid silently sighed in relief. 'God, that was close. Gotta be more careful with that, idiot,' Reid scolded himself mentally.
Reid looked back over in the area that boy is in and checked him out a little more once his eyes found him again. He was so gonna get to know that boy. His figure was beautifully sculpted and sexy. His fashion sense, icing on the cake. He was so screwable, it was incredible! When Tyler looked around the cafeteria and caught Reid in his peripheral, he noticed he was now the one behind in the line unmoving. He was just standing there staring off somewhere. Tyler walked five steps behind him to Reid and looked over in the direction he was looking in to see what has him so transfixed. Not spotting anything that explained it, he looked back at Reid and waved a hand in front of his face a couple times. No response.
"Hey…Reid." Tyler said and snapped his fingers in front of his face. That finally got him.
Reid flinched and quickly looked at Tyler in confusion. "Huh-yeah?"
Tyler raised a brow. "You're behind in the line." He said as he pointed to the line which was five steps away from where Reid was standing.
"Oh…heh…right." Reid said dismissively and he walked back up to the line, leaving Tyler the spot in front of him so he can get back in his original spot, which he took with rolled eyes at his recent spaceyness.
'Damnit! Hopefully I can get some alone time with that boy. No way can I talk to him with people around, especially my friends, not if he makes me act so out of it. They'd notice that immediately and bust my secret wide open for sure.'
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End chap. 2
Now things are rollin'! Next chapter will be cute. x3 Sneak peak of next chapter: Reid tries to flirt and get to know Angel during lunch hour. When the lunch bell rings, signaling lunch is over and time to head for class, both Reid and Angel get disappointed and have to part ways only to meet up again in their English class immediately after. This makes Reid excited since he can get to know a bit more about Angel in a class setting. Little did Reid know, he's not the only one who has major secrets to hide. Till next chapter. ^ - '