Making Amends

"Finally," The angel said, rolling his eyes, "Mendel, I am your guardian angel," he flips his hand over to motion to himself, and then rolls it to point to me, "and you are in grave danger."
"Danger?" I ask, "aren't angels supposed to help people in trouble?"
"That's what I'm doing right now," he says, raising his voice a bit, then mumbling something about teenagers.

A few days before Mendel Ephron and his other two siblings's birthday his guardian angel comes to inform him that he will die soon, but not everything is bad since the angel Gabriel came to warn him and watch over him. Gabriel gives Mendel the clue that it's someone he has met before and that if he wishes to survive he must... make amends.