˗ˏˋAn Angel Lives in My Basementˎˊ˗

chapter 22

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"Hold still" Arakh whispers coming close to me.

"You know every time someone tells me to hold still I get a real bad urge to move around and fidget and oh-" a gasp leaves me when he picks me up bridal style.

I circle my arms around his neck as a reflex. I watch with wide eyes as his wings morph behind his back. I still did not know how the grace works in hiding his wings and making them reaper so suddenly.

"What..what..now?" I stammer, my thoughts, nerves and heartbeat getting wild by the light speed. The closeness between us was making it hard for me to keep my head straight.

He chuckles and then takes off without giving me a warning. In a blink I find us hovering over my house, the walls of my basement gone instead I see clear blue sky around me. I look at Arakh and he smirks. I feel a blush creeping to my cheeks and my heart skips a beat. This is the first time I have ever seen him smirk. It was usually Leo's thing and I have to say I liked Arakh's smirk more, it put him in a different mood, more playful then his usual stoic self and I like seeing him this way. He has been through enough as it is and deserves to look happy and smug.

Flying across the sky in his arms I realize how far away from normal my life has come to. All my life watching Mick with his friends I always thought that my life would be just like everyone else. Just plain boy drama, focusing on how I look, trying to figure my life out and yet all those things now seem silly and pointless.

Some people don't even get to properly stay in one place and I have already been to hell and back at lest five times. Am constantly surrounded by angels, my parents are getting divorced and Mick has a girlfriend. Yep so not normal.

So much has happened through the past week. Leo has been AWOL, Arakh keeps making rounds up in heaven without giving me much information except continuously telling me that he is looking for something very important, something that has been kept a secret by the High Angels, some knowledge that they didn't trust in the hands of their decedents but he never tells me how does he plan on finding it or if the angels have stopped trying to kill him. He is just really determine to find whatever that thing is as he believes its the key to everything that is happening.

Amidst all this chaos I have to deal with my school work as my grades have gotten terribly bad. Mick is hardly ever at home which is worrying mom, my best friend Sara is busy digging dirt on our teachers to blackmail them for grades as she still remains obvious to all the supernatural drama that I am dealing with. All the while I have this feeling like I seem to be standing still watching it all happen around me. Like I am present physically but absent mentally. I feel helpless and, confused and overwhelmed in understanding what my part in all of this is. The only thing keeping me going is knowing that I have Arakh and Leo besides me and I know they will never let anything happen to me.

"Look" he says and I turn my gaze away from his beautiful face and to the view in front and below me. We are flying. I am flying and it feels exhilarating. The cool wind hitting my face, the ant like view of the buildings, streets and people below makes me grin like an idiot.

"Hold on" he speaks in my ear and I hold him tighter than before. He increases his speed taking us higher in the sky through the clouds. A squeal leaves my lips and I feel Arakh's chest shake near my cheeks as he laughs at me.

Few minutes later after soaring in the clouds he slowly starts descending towards the ground, making me whine and complain. He chuckles and I feel his wings move in an even motion. I see us getting closer to a clearing far away from the city with the ground covered in nothing but flowers.