A ray of hope

Chapter 4

Needless to say math was boring and if I didn't have to take it,I definitely wouldnt've.The next two periods were okay.Apart having Violet and Faith in my class,it was pretty uneventful.

And neither of us has seen Angela yet,which I thought was very strange,like seriously,how can you not find your best friend on the first day and have the first 2 periods with your other best friends,but not with her.

It was finally time for lunch so I was was walking down the hall trying to get to my locker when my shoulder bumped against someone else.I whipped my head around to say sorry to whoever it was but when I turned around no one was there.All I saw was a flash of midnight black hair.

I frowned,well that was rude.

I got to my locker,threw in my books and made my way over to the cafeteria.To say it was full,was an understatement.I managed to get my food, which was a hamburger,fries,juice and cake.I liked to eat and I was NOT ashamed of it,and hey I exercised.I glanced at the "in table" all the girls were eating a salad,well it looked kinda like a salad,it was more like 1 piece of iceberg lettuce and I think that was a sliver of cucumber.How they stayed alive,no clue.

I spotted an open table and dropped my lunch tray on the plastic surface.I looked up to see Faith heading toward the table.

"Faith!" I cried,she turned her head and grinned at me.

'Hey Hope,thanks for saving the table."she said while taking a seat next to me.

'No prob"

Faith looked around a bit,scanning the cafeteria.

"Have you seen Violet?" she said while still looking around.

Just as the words left her mouth the doors of the cafeteria burst open revealing a very exited looking Violet,she zoned in on our table and stomped over.

"Found her" I said lamely.

"You would not BELIEVE what happened!!" Violet exclaimed slapping both palms on the table.

"Why hello Peace,nice to see you too" I said with a sarcastic smile.

"Hi" she said quickly not realizing my sarcasm.Faith and I exchanged a look.

She was about to launch into her story but stopped,looking around she said

"Where's Angela?"with a puzzled face.

I personally had no idea,I didn't see her all morning.

I shrugged and Faith looked around.

"Oop,found her"Faith stated as she pointed toward the lunch line.I zoned in to where she was pointing and easily spotted her.She was wearing a teal dress which hung down to her knees,underneath was black leggings with a lace pattern and ankle boots.To top it off she wearing a hot pink scarf around her waist,a few funky bangles,huge hoop earrings and a black scarf around her straight dirty blonde hair.She looked funky,as usual.None of us could pull something like that off.

She looked like she was having an in-depth conversation with a girl who had platinum blonde hair,her clothes were a tad too short and it looked like someone tried to bake a cake on her face.I don't like to judge people but this looked like the type of girl that guys took advantage of.

This is what I loved about Angela,she saw good in everyone,she wasn't mean and her heart was made of pure gold.After all,her name was Angela Heart,it was actually Angela Cuore,which in Italian meant 'heart',so she made everyone call her that.All in all,you couldn't hate her.She also had a thing for match-making and she was really good at it too.That's how she got her nickname "Love".

"LOVE!" I shouted.She snapped her head up to me.She smiled hugely and waved frantically.She turned back to the girl saying good-bye and started toward our table with a huge grin on her face.She was absolutely gorgeous.She had silky dirty blonde hair that fell to her waist,she also had Heterochromia which meant she had two different colored eyes.She had one hazel eye and one blue,it could be dangerous though so she had to take extra care of her eyes.She had a great figure and she stayed fit.She was deemed as the "Aphrodite" of the group.Not to get me wrong,all my friends were beautiful,she just had that special something.But under her smile I know she was really sensitive,because of her looks she was never sure if a guy was dating her for her.She almost got taken advantage of 4 times.She was my best friend and it's really hard to see her like that.Angela was smart so she stopped it before it went to far.As soon as she turned up at my door with her tear-streaked face,I just let her let it out.It was awful.She was so nice and kind.It's just unbelievable that people were so shallow and heartless.

Angela plopped down in the seat next to me.

"Hey guys!" she exclaimed enthusiastically.I looked between Faith and Violet.

"Where the heck have you-"

"OMG LOVE WHERE WERE Y-"

"Angela,I swear to -"

"Miss.Heart you some exp-"

We were all cutting each other off trying to tell Angela off.She had a stunned look at her face and looked down sheepishly.

"I'm really sorry guys,I tried to find you but I was meeting new people and the school is so big and......."she replied kind of embarrassed.

"It's okay Love,just don't forget who your real friends are."I said with a smile.She smiled back.

Before anyone could say anything else Violet interrupted with another earth-shaking slap on the table with her palm.

"Now that we are all here.........you would not BELIEVE what happened!!"