Devilish Angel

2.Meeting Xander

"It is better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

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Aria POV

Regal was astonished to say the least. The wild eyed look that she gave when she saw Novah was enough to confirm her thoughts. Though Regal had a boyfriend, Lukas Bert, who was currently in Australia for some internship, I knew from her face that she found Novah hot. Lukas would be back in two months, but I know that even if the distance was stressful for them they were pretty serious about one another.

And the funny thing is that Lukas was actually my first boyfriend, my first crush and my first kiss but things never worked out for us because he had been smitten with Regal from the very start. And the time when we dated he always used to compare me with her, intentionally or not. The break up was messy, our friendship got strained but now its back to normal. I think we all need to forgive and forget to move on in life or else the grudges will always hold us back from growing.

"Aria, always be compassionate honey, always show kindness to others. You never know what the other person is going through." Something that my mother used to say to me when I was young. My mother. Only if she was h- No. No. I refuse to go down that path now. Not when I was going to have lunch. I didn't want to loose my appetite. Moreover I had toned down the conversation that Lukas and Regal were having, hopefully they don't ask me anything.

"-has history lesson now. It's on the other side of the building, so he had asked me to catch a table before it gets crowded." I guess Novah was talking about his other friend. I didn't catch his name. Oh well. I am anyways gonna meet him soon. "Good you found us then. Me and AEF always sit alone. We do have other friends but we are not close to them and everyone knows everyone from a long time so you could say that all have groups of their own except a few who like to be alone."

I playfully hit Regal when I heard the stupid petname. "AEF?" Novah asked curiously. "Always Etique-"I cut off Regal,"The one time Regal Beagel daughter of a Eagle sees me eat MacNCheese messily she names me that stupid name that doesn't even make sense." I reply with a sideways glare at Regal. "And of course who am I to sit quietly while getting verbally abused so I came up with a equally stupid name." It was now my turn to get hit.

Chuckling slightly at our silliness Novah points out an empty table. "Lets go sit there and you guys tell me more about each others embarrassing moments. The one with the more stupid one will get a Sneaker. I promise" Reaching back into his bag pocket he removes one sneaker as proof. I glance at Regal and see her already looking at me. Its on sweetheart.

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"-and she sneezed and farted at the same time!" I said laughing hysterically. Beside me Regal slid down in her seat, her face red as a fire alarm. "and that was the first time that I met her. Oh did I mention it was during the silent part of the prayer" I finished with a big grin. Before I could even comment Noah who fell down the chair laughing got up and gave me the sneaker. "Here Aria you deserve it. Thank you for making my day. That was the next best thing that I had heard after In My Blood. It just touched my soul too deeply." Still chuckling he bows down towards me. Shaking my head at his silliness I suddenly look forward and my eyes caught on to the pair of electric blue eyes and I get choked on my own saliva.

It feels as if the time stop stills even though I could hear the voice of each and every student sitting around me. But it didn't made sense now. It was all gibberish. All I could do was look at those pair of eyes and drown in them. His face was the most handsome, most beautiful and most imperfect perfect face I had ever seen in my life. Ruggish but at the same time so delicate. He had a small scar above his left eyebrow that made him look more serious. His lips were soft pink and his hair the colour of mahogany.

But my eyes kept drawing back to his own. So intense. Wow. It knocked the breathe of me. My heart starts thudding so loudly that it became borderline painful. I feel a blush spreading across my face as I realise that he had seen me ogle him. I look down suddenly. Chiding myself to get my hormones under control. Never had I ever felt such a strong attraction towards anyone. It was ridiculous. He is just a pretty boy for now. You never know how pretty he is personality wise. Don't judge a book by his cover. Don't get ahead of yourself.

I could still feel his eyes on me. Goosebumps arise on my arms as if the temperature just dropped but inside I felt all mushy gushy. What the hell. I hear a chair scraping in front of me. Raising my head up, second time, in a span of 20 sec, I choke on my own saliva as pretty boy sits down. We keep staring at each other as Novah introduces him. Shit I again missed his name. Before I could have a mental breakdown, Pretty boy bows his head down to me,

"Xavier Xander Xerxes, pleasure to meet you." Damn. Pretty boy has a pretty name. And his voice was so soothing and calm. Why is my heart beating so furiously. Shut up heart. Save the cheesiness for later. "Aria, short for Adrianna Elessandra Faith. Nice to meet you too triple X." I replied with pretty stable voice unlike my dysfunctional heart. Hoping to reduce the weird tension between us I give him a small smile. Pretty b-Xander smiles back. And here goes my heart again. Honestly Xavier doesn't matches his face. He looks more like a Xander.

Beside me Regal introduces herself. I honestly forgot that she was sitting beside me. After all the introductions are done we start chatting about Novah and Xander. Apparently Xander has a twin sister Xena that didn't come today because she came down with a mild fever. Such a pretty name. I hope she gets well soon, I wanna know what she is like. I have no doubt that she would be as beautiful as her twin. The same twin with whom I was making eye contact the whole lunch break.

Triiiiing. The bell rings signalling the end of lunch. I had bio next and Xander had too. Regal had literature and Novah had history. Picking up my bad I stood up as did the others to part ways. I waved bye to Novah and Regal and turned around to step forward when Xander suddenly asked,"Its okay if I called you Eli?" I shyly ask him,"Why Eli?" "Short for Elessandra. You look like a Eli to me." I looked at him and nodded silently.

I liked Eli. My mom's name was Elessandra and everyone used to call her Eli. It made me feel somehow connected to her. "If you don't mind can I call you Xander? You don't look like a Xavier" I ask him looking at his eyes. "Yes Eli I don't mind you calling me Xander." We smile looking at each other for a long time.

Suddenly I remember that we had biology next. Looking at my watch I realise that we are already five minutes late. "Shit we are late. We gotta run." Rushing through the halls and dodging people we reach the class and Mr.Violet was pretty pissed to say the least. One look at us and he uttered the doom words, "Detention both of you." Oh Boy.

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