Angels and Saviors and Whatnot

The next morning, about 45 minutes after my 'father' left for work, I heard my doorbell ring. I took a quick look in the mirror, satisfied with my bruised up look (I had done my makeup done all special), and hurried downstairs. I opened the door to a smiling Andy and stepped back so he could come inside.

"Good morning Alli," he said.

"Good morning Andy." I smiled and went to my kitchen to try to make something for breakfast.

He followed and sat at the dining table, pulling out his phone as he sat.

"You want anything?" I asked, pulling out some eggs and bacon from the fridge.

"Yes please, whatever you're having." I started cooking and cursed a little bit here and there from the grease popping up from the bacon. When I finished, I set Andy's plate down in front of him and he looked up from his phone and smiled.

"Thanks sweetheart," he said, still smiling.

"No problem," I said, smiling back. We ate in silence until I asked Andy "Why do you call me sweetheart?" He seemed worried.

"Do you not want me to?"

"No, I want you to, I mean, I like it, but...why?"

"I honestly don't know, I mean, it's just kinda natural for me, I feel comfortable around you. That's not weird is it?" He nervously rubbed the back of his neck with his hand.

"No, I totally get it." Which I did. I mean, I've only known him for a day and it seems like we've known each other for years. And I might have a tiny crush blooming. DON'T TELL ANYBODY. I mean, have you seen him? His raven black hair, what I swear could be unnaturally blue eyes, and those lips, oh those lips, they were pink and plump and just UMF. And his height was PERFECT, like, he made me feel short, which I was, but ya know. He snapped me out of my trance by asking "Alli, you okay?"

"What? Yeah, I'm fine, just...thinking."

"About what?"

"How I'm gonna stand up for myself this time against the Wicked Bitch of the West." I looked down, ashamed. I had forgot about her while Andy was here.

"Who's that?" He looked concerned.

"I'll show you at school. We need to get going," I said as I put my dishes in the sink and picked up my book bag. Andy remained sitting at the table looking down at his lap.

"You okay Andy?"

"Why do people do this to people like us? Why do they go out of their way to make you feel like shit?"

"I honestly don't know...I can tell you one thing though: we'll brave this storm, Andy. We may not be like them, but we're all human beings. We're all the same no matter what we look like. Let's just go to school, I'll help you around the building and everything, okay?"

"Okay." He got up and walked over to my front door with me and stopped to say, "If anybody tries anything, I'll protect you, I promise. Who did this to you yesterday?" He traced the bruises on my arms.

"Stephanie Millone....she does this all the time, it's no big deal." I opened the front door and Andy stuck a boot in front of it, preventing me from opening it very much.

"It's a VERY big deal Allison. People should NOT treat you like that. If anything, I mean ANYTHING happens when I'm not there, tell me."

"I will Andy. Thank you for actually caring."

"It's what I'm here for sweetheart." He smiled and led me out the front door.

At school, we went up to the front desk and got Andy signed in. We got his schedule and found out that he has 2nd, lunch, 4th, and 5th Period with me. Isn't that just GREAT? I walked him to his 1st period class and said "This is where you go every morning after homeroom. I'll see you in 2nd, okay?"

"All right, bye Alli."

"OHMYGOD, EMO GIRL HAS AN EMO BOYFRIEND!" Damn, Stephanie saw me.

"Fuck off Stephanie, he's not my boyfriend." Andy didn't even have the chance to walk in the classroom before the bitch made her stupid little outburst. I looked at him with a pleading expression, and he nodded.

"Of course he is, you guys look just like each other! You're both faggots!"

"Stephanie, stop he isn't my boyfriend," I said weakly. Just then Andy stepped between Stephanie and I and leaned down.

And then he kissed me. And my knees went limp.

He caught me with his hand around my waist and just kissed me. I could hear Stephanie saying "Ew, let's go." He pulled back when they were gone and said "please don't hate me, I didn't know what else to do to get her to shut up."

"No, it's okay, thank you. I'll just uh...go." I looked down to keep my blushing cheeks out of his sight and hurried to my next class.

*Skipping to lunch*

I found Andy sitting outside, alone. I decided to sit with him, despite what happened earlier today.
"Hi Andy."

He looked up and smirked a little. "Hey Alli Cat."

I noticed he had some paper and there were words and scribbles and arrows everywhere on it.

"Whatchya doing?" I nodded towards the paper.

"I'm writing a song...Can you read it? I don't know if it's any good." He handed me the paper and I read around the scribbles and arrows.

Those times in life we learn to try
With one intention
Of learning how and when we'll die
But we can't listen
I wish to God I'd known that I
I didn't stand a chance
Of looking back and knowing why
Or pain of circumstance
You're not alone
We'll brave this storm

I recognized the last line from what I said this morning, "We'll brave this storm, Andy."

"Andy, this is amazing, what's the song called?"

"I don't know yet. But you were my inspiration for it..." He looked down and took the paper back.

"Thank you Andy, I absolutely love it."

"So...this morning-"

"Don't worry about it Andy, I appreciate what you did."

"You sure?"

"Positive."

We talked for the rest of lunch and Stephanie didn't bother us all day. We both got home and Andy stayed over and watched SpongeBob with me until around 5:30. When my dad got home.

"OHMYGOD, Andy, my father's home, you need to get out. Like NOW. " I pushed him towards the door and he stopped me. Why don't I just hide in your room? Under your bed or something?"

"Sure, anything to where he doesn't see you, I'll be up in a few." He raced quietly upstairs as my father burst through the front door.

Notes

Cliff hanger! Hehe, I love you guys, I'll post more tomorrow!