Angels

G or J?

Dear Angel,

I have a problem, I've never really asked you for advice before, but now I am I'm stuck. I think I've found you, your likeness in a girl named ?. She's perfect, but I don't know how to talk to her and she's always at the beach like me. Before too long I'm going to need to pluck up the courage, how to you talk to perfect people?

X

How do you talk to perfect people? When you're not perfect yourself. I never thought I'd ask that question. After contemplating over ? (my perfect girl) I sat at my desk and thought about the summer project, I wrote the word Dear, then crossed it out and wrote To, then scribbled that out and wrote Dear again. I pulled my laptop out of my drawer and searched. 'English Girls' Names.' There was a list, a very long list, I scrolled through them absent-mindedly. I got to about three quarters of the way through the As when one caught my eye. 'Angel' so I added it to my letter, Dear Angel, I wrote. Then I left it for a while, then came back to it. Dear Angel, Where are you now? I scrawled across the page. When my phone started to buzz. It was Julia, I picked up quickly "Hello?" She took a while to respond, there was some talking and a muffled giggle, then she spoke back. "Sorry, hiya. Wanna come for milkshakes with Eddie and me?" Her and Eddie were like this (I'm crossing my fingers.) Out of us four musketeers, Justin and I were best friends and Julia and Eddie were inseperable. "Yeah sure, I'll just change and I'll meet you at the mall entrance." I got up off of my desk and chair looked around my bedroom floor for a clean t-shirt. I picked up a green Superdry one and put it on, I grabbed some fresh board shorts and was on my way. "Bye Mum, I'm meeting Eddie and Julia!" It was 12:00 and obviously not dark, so she wouldn't mind. But she still came rushing downstairs. She grabbed me by the cheeks. "Stay safe honey, do you need some money?" I felt around in my pocket, about £8.35 "nawh I'm alright." I said, she kissed me quickly on the cheek as I escaped from her hold and out of the door.

I arrived at the mall, it was incredibly hot and I just wanted to get inside to the air conditioned shops, Julia and Eddie weren't far behind me, but they were walking very slowly, but when they saw me waiting they starting picking up the pace. I was all set for my cookies and cream milkshake. They approached me and we all walked in. 

We sat down at the bar, right next to the window so we could very easily people watch. "So have you guys started that pen friend project yet?" Julia put on a smug smile, meanwhile Eddie had just taken a large gulp of his milkshake and practically died choking on it, he had clearly forgotten. "Project!?" Julia raised her eyebrows. "I've already sent out five different letters, three of them... Airmailed." She smiled her smug smile once again. "Jeez Jules. Five letters!? I haven't sent out one." Eddie said, slightly calmer now after his choking outburst. "What about you, Beau, have you sent any?" Julia said, knowing my answer would be no, just a chance for her to be smug again. "I've sent one, but no reply yet." I hadn't sent it, no. I'd penned the beginning of it. "Who was it to? Family, friends. Foreign friends?" She said, taking a large sip of her strawberry and vanilla shake. "J-just a girl. A friend, y'know... A friend." Julia nodded and swallowed her mouthful. "Course, and what was her name??" Interrogation, Julia's main strength at getting the truth out of people. "Angel, she's thirteen and she lives in the area, just moved here actually." I lied, about everything, apart from the name, but even then I had still made that up. Julia looked suspicious and took a long slow mouthful of shake. "Hmmm, interesting...." She swallowed it and raised her eyebrows. "This girl... She wouldn't happen to have joined the surf club, or have shiny blonde hair, a cute accent or even have won a Wavey Award would she." I turned away, trying to compose myself, I hadn't planned to almost describe Georgia, but I sort of did. "Don't be stupid, sounds like you're trying to describe.... Ohhh. And no, no way, since when is Georgia's name Angel... And her accent's not THAT cute." Julia looked at me as if to say, really? "Oh come on, I see the way you look at her.... You obviously have a crush." I shook my head very fast. "Nuh-uh, she not the only one I look that way at."