My Fallen Angel

“Let’s start from the beginning” I say

“Alright”

“So as you know, up until I was four and a half, I lived with my parents. Everything was perfect, they were happily married, they loved their daughter to death and she loved them, but one night, while my father was away at work, my wings unfolded from my back for the first time and my mother freaked out, then my father came home and saw me, sitting there, crying, begging for my mom to accept me and when he walked in he pulls on my wings and says ‘What the hell is this? You’re not my daughter’ and then ‘No, get out of here you monster and never come back’. That was the last time I saw them” I say, leaving out the most gruesome part

“Yea, you’ve told me that” He says, urging me to go on

“So, also as you know, I lived on the streets until I was 5 in a small town in Washington. When I finally decided I had had enough of the memories I decided to leave and find a new home, which is when I came to this town.” I take another deep breath and continue “I found an old rundown warehouse to live in and the memories stopped happening. Nothing after that really matters until I met this guy when I was 19, he took me in, never asked any questions and loved me, until he became addicted to alcohol and heroin when I was 21.” I look down and close my eyes as the memories come flooding back. I breathe in again “He beat me constantly and was just all around a horrible person to me, but I stayed with him because he was the only thing I ever had. I endured the physical and verbal abuse for four years before I ended it” I finish without telling the most gruesome part of that story either

“So, you said wings. What are you?”

The fear rises in me again

“Promise you won’t leave”

“I already told you, I promise”

“I-I’m a demon” I say and he looks at me surprised

“I knew there was something off about your energy”

“Well, you don’t exactly have a human energy either”

He stands up then “There’s something I’ve been hiding, too” He says

He takes a deep breath in and a beautiful pair of charred white wings extends from his back where the small scars I had noticed the night before were. I take a step back, not saying anything. I just stood there mesmerised

“Please don’t be afraid of me” He says

“How could I ever be afraid of you?” I ask “So you-you’re an angel”

“Fallen angel”

“Fallen? But why?”

“Show me yours first”

“My wings?”

“You have them, don’t you?”

“Yea, b-but, they’re so ugly compared to yours”

“I doubt that, and I really don’t care”

I look up at him and then down at the floor as I let my tattered, burned, red and black wings extend from my back

“They’re not ugly” He says

“Yes they are”

“No, they’re unique, even for other demons”

“I did notice that Nick’s were kinda a dark brown colour”

“Wait, Nick’s a demon too?”

“Uh, yea, not really sure if he wanted anyone to know that though...” I say, looking down again

“Now why are you a fallen angel?”

“I uh... hurt... someone”

“Hurt?”

“Yea... I was having a love affair with a human, which isn’t really allowed, and I asked her to marry me after 3 years” He stopped then and looked down, I could tell he had started to cry again “Gabriel, another angel, found out about it and made me break it off. When I told the girl that I couldn’t see her anymore, she clung to me and I kept telling her to let go so I could leave and she said “I’m not leaving you, I love you too much, just tell me what’s going on and I...” He stops again and swallows hard “I’m sorry, I can’t” He says

“Don’t worry about it, it’s not like I need to know anyway”

“But you just told me everything”

“I, uhm... Yea...” I say, beating myself up over not telling him everything. I just can’t, not yet. I feel vision goes blurry and I realise my eyes must have turned red from their usual light grey amidst that conversation somewhere and Andy hadn’t said anything about it.

Maybe I could trust him, he’s not afraid like all the others have been.

“I’m glad to see you’re calmed down” Andy says, snapping me out of my daydream

“What?” I say, still not completely aware

“Your eyes turned red about halfway through the conversation, but they’re back to that gorgeous grey. I assume that means you calmed down?”

“Uh, yea” I say, nobody’s ever called my eyes anything but dull before “Sorry that must have had you worried”

“Not at all, I’ve run into a few demons in my past”

“Really?” I ask, surprised

“Yea, in Cincinnati, there are tonnes there. Not quite sure why you’re the only one I’ve run into here though...”

“I’ve only ever met two. Nick and Alix. And I wish I’d never met Alix...”

“Heh, no kidding”

“So there are a lot in Cincy?”

“Oh definitely. Used to get me in a lot of trouble, too. Gabriel never liked me hanging out with people on Earth”

“Who?”

“Gabriel, she’s another angel, much higher up than I could ever dream of being.”

“Oh” I say dumbly after realising he had already told me that “So when I found you in my house you?”

“I had just fallen and ended up in your house”

“Well, that would explain the loud bang then” I laugh

“Yea” He looks at me questioningly

“What?”

“Nothing, just de ja vu or something”

“Okay, weirdo”

He laughs at me “I’m the one who’s weird?”

“Yep”

“I’m not the one who spoke, even the Jabba the Hutt’s parts, during Star Wars”

“What? It’s not weird I just absolutely adore those movies and have seen them like 20 times”

“Yea, but did you really need to speak the Huttese parts too?”

“Duh” We both laugh

Just then, I get thrown into a flashback

~ He laughs, the smell of alcohol evident in his breath.

“You really think so, huh?” He laughs again

“You’re scaring me” I say, my voice wavering as he raises his fist and it comes down to meet with my face

“You’re a little bitch, you know that?”

That’s the first time he’s ever physically hurt me ~

“Jessicka? Jessicka are you all right?” Andy asks as he shakes me

“Yea, sorry” I say as my hand goes to my head “Just a flashback”

“What are these flashbacks even about?” He asks, concern lacing his features

“Just bad memories, sometimes good, but usually bad”

Notes

So I finally got the new chapter up. I'm really sorry it's been so long, I've just been really busy and got stuck because of writer's block and yea.

So, I hope you like the chapter, I made it a little longer than the others for you guys.

Remember to always stay strong and I love you guys so so much and thanks for reading