CHAPTER 2:
Angels were supposed to be anonymous. Mine didn't do a very good job in that respect. It wasn't long --- not more than a week, before I discovered her name was Amanda, and figured out what she looked like. Not that I was curious, of course, or trying to find out. It just kind of happened. Like magic.
At first, I was typical suspicious me, and didn't trust her one bit. But as she wrote to me, something in the way she wrote... It made me trust her. There was something amazing about her that I could never quite put my finger on. When I met her for the first time, she clicked instantly.
I had been cutting through the canteen, as usual, on my way out of school, when someone thumped my schoolbag, hard. At first I panicked, because the last time someone had done that, it had been Cassandra, one of the popular girls. That day, she had decided to mock me for carrying a 'baby' schoolbag at thirteen. Trust me, it hadn't been a very pleasant experience.
But luckily this time it wasn't Cassandra.
"Hey." a voice said. I didn't know the voice, but I liked how it sounded.
A short-haired, amazingly cool looking girl stepped in front of me, blocking my path.
"You know who I am?" she asked, grinning mischievously.
I nodded, smiling shyly.
"I knew it man! You've been dropping me clues all over the place!" she exclaimed, giving my bag another hard thwack. I would probably have fallen over, if not for the fact that she had by then slung her arm around me. Personally, I was a little overwhelmed. She was being awfully friendly for someone who'd only just met me...
She may have been a little loud, a little rough, a little too outgoing for comfort, but I liked her all the same.
"Hey kid, I gotta go now, see ya tomorrow!" she had said, and with one last wave, she left.
It was at that moment, as she was walking away, leaving me genuinely smiling for the first time in forever, that I knew she was going to be special to me.
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Call Me Ashleigh
RomanceAshleigh was always different from everyone else. Unwanted, that was what they said she was. When she graduates and moves to a new school, she is determined to cast her past aside and start anew. Unfortunately, she can't help but be herself, and she...
