Angel's Guardian

“His name’s Angel” someone in the hall said, emphasizing his name, coating it with hate and dislike.1

“Why is he here?” another asked with the same distaste for someone they hardly knew.2

“I heard he held up a gas station and his parents put him up for adoption.” Jillian said with a worried look on her face.3

“He’s so, like, weird.” Katie said with an attitude and flipped her hair back then glared at the thought of ‘the new kid’.4

“Well I heard that he was some kind of psychopathic.” California said, the gossip about the new kid was getting more and more blown out of proportion in the group of friends.5

“You guys don’t even know him,” A young girl with dark brown hair said, irritated. She rolled her eyes at them. 6

“Maybe we don’t want to know him!” Katie said arrogantly.7

“Well I heard that he had to go to a private school because he shot up his last school.” A new sarcastic, deep voice broke in the circle of people talking. Someone gasped and they all turned to look at the stranger. A tall, black kid who looked about seventeen stood before them, wearing the school uniform with his backpack on one shoulder. He gave them a sly grin and walked through the group, giving the brown-haired girl a wink only she saw.8

“Was that him?” John said, eyes wide with amaze, sliding an arm around California and pulling her close.9

“That was him. Oh my gosh. He shot up his school?” California said blondly, eyes wide.10

“Shut up, you guys are so stupid.” the brown haired girl said again and turned around and slammed into her older brother.11

“Did you hear? We have a nigga in our school now!” her brother said to her.12

“Oh my god you guys.. SHUT UP.” she said and walked away glaring at the group of her friends.13

“Where are you going?” shouted the girls brother to her back.14

“Away from you all!” She said and turned the corner.15

“What’d we do?” California asked blandly. 16

Everyone just shrugged and continued the talk about the new kid.17

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