True Confessions of the Angel of Death

The First Attack

It didn't take long to here from Jake. That Monday, I found a note stuffed into my locker in his scrawling print.

The Angel Came

The Angel Saw

The Angel Fell

I crumpled the note, stuffing it into my backpack to show Gabriel and Ivy later. People seemed to be acting differently toward me today. Guys who usually tried flirting with me averted their eyes. Girls seemed nervous when I talked to them. A few of Jake's followers actually bowed as I walked past them. It was weird and it had to stop. At lunch, Maghen ran up to me with a weird look on her face.

"Azrael! I can't believe you and Jake kissed at the dance and you didn't tell me. You're so lucky!"

"Maghen, I don't think I am. I...How did you know?"

"It's on face book. One of the girls on the prom committee was taking pictures all night. Everyone's seen it."

"That explains a lot..." I muttered. "Look, there's nothing going on between me and Jake. Just the opposite. I won't be hanging out with him anymore."

"That's a shame. He is sooo cute."

"Some how...I don't think so."

On Tuesday morning, Xavier had breakfast with us.

"Jake isn't normal. What he said to me at the dance...I had thought I recognized him before that but I went anyway...I think he might have once been one of us."

"If you're right you mustn't try to deal with him alone." Gabriel told us seriously, rereading the note, "We don't know what he's capable of."

"Can't be too dangerous, "Xavier muttered, "He's pretty scrawny."

"You know appearance has noting to do with it." Ivy looked at him sternly.

"So what do we do?" Beth asked, lacing her fingers with Xavier's.

"We can't do anything. Not without drawing unwanted attention to ourselves."

"We need to keep an eye on him. The accidents are happening more frequently. They might be because of him."

"Like the car accident?" Bethany breathed.

"But he wasn't even at school at that point." Ivy sighed.

I thought back. "No...He only had to be in town. Remember that night when we ran into Molly on the beach and I left? I saw him."

"If that's the case then no one needs to approach him. We need to be very careful about this." And with that, Gabriel left the kitchen.

After the dance, Jake's popularity sky rocketed. Instead of getting a few more followers over a number of days, the number doubled. All of them had this vacant and dark look to them, pupils dilated, dark circles under their eyes, hollow looks. Barely human anymore. They only perked up when they saw Jake, practically worshiping him and doing whatever he wanted them to do.

More acts of violence were happening around town too. It seemed like the more followers Jake got, the worse the town became. The doors of St. Mark's were vandalized, windows of downtown businesses and offices were shattered, homemade explosives, food poisoning... Wherever the disaster was, Jake was always there, watching from the side lines. He seemed to thrive on making our job more difficult for us and I couldn't help but feel like it was to get back at me for rejecting him. But the worst was yet to come.