Angel brushed her teeth to get rid of the taste of vomit. She hated throwing up. She quickly got dressed and fixed her hair. She was a bit excited to go to school. She felt better about Gerand and Bobby knowing even if Bobby didn't try to contact her.
Angel walked down her stairs and noticed Gerand waiting by the door.
"Why are you here, Mhadz hasn't even woken up yet to make breakfast?" Angel asked.
"I know, so I bought us breakfast" Gerand said holding a bag. Angel smiled.
"I don't deserve you as a best friend" Angel joked.
"You're right" He agreed.
Angel and Gerand made their way to school. "Isn't this a tad bit early for you?" Angel asked. Gerand has always been lazy. It takes all his energy to wake up early enough to eat breakfast with the Perez's.
"It is, but I wanted to make sure, you got to school safely" He said.
"I swear you and zhul are a bunch of softies" angel giggled. gerand wondered what was going on between them. "angel, are you falling for this guy?"
"Who?"
"zhul, I mean, you guys are spending a lot of time together"
"We are just friends," angel answered defensively. "Plus I am pregnant with another man's baby, he isn't interested in me." It hurt zhul to say it but it had to be true.
Gerand looked at his friend, he knew she was lying but he wouldn't push her. Gerand and Angel finally reached the school and headed for the class. In class, zhul was already cleaning the chalkboard. He was surprised to see angel with gerand.
"Morning zhul" angel said. "gerand is joining us for cleaning duty"
"I didn't say all that" gerand said. angel elbowed him in the stomach. "Yes you are" she hissed.
zhul watched the exchanged. angel seemed back to normal. He knew it was hard for her to be in her situation but he knew she was strong.
"I heard rhesalyn kicked you pretty hard yesterday" zhul said. gerand mouth dropped in surprise.
"How did you know?"
"rhesalyn is an old friend, she came by my house yesterday, and she told me about it" zhul teased.
"She is pretty strong" gerand commented.
"You are crushing so hard!" angel said.
"Shut up angel " He said blushing. zhul and Angel laughed. angel wanted to continue the talk that she and zhul had the night before but she knew it was a sensitive subject.
Class had gone by fast and Lunch came by quickly. Everyone met on the roof. kent sat next to Mush and Jenny  sat next to Kent while Jonica and Brix were on the other side of jenny. marison darwin and archie sat next to brix. Rhesalyn and Darlene sat by Gerand and Adrian. zhul and angel found themselves sitting next to teach other.
"angel, how are you feeling" zhul asked concerned.
"I'm fine, thanks"
"angel, why didn't you call me?" Mush asked. "We were so worried" mush said speaking on behalf of her, adrian and kent.
"I'm sorry guys, I truly am" angel said sadly. Adrian smiled at her. "Its fine but don't do that to us."
angel then felt her phone vibrate. She looked and saw Mhadz's name. angel automatically got worried. She got up and walked away from her friends.
"Hello? Mhadz what's wrong" Angel asked.
"Hey Angel, me and Franz must leave town for a few days." Mhadz said quickly.
"What happened? Is everything okay?" Angel asked worried.
"Well Franz's cousin died in a car accident, and franz must fly to manila immediately, and I need to be with him. I left money in your room. Pack some stuff and stay with mush while we are gone."
"But Mhadz-"
"We have to go, but I'll call you when we get to manila, I love you angel" She said before hanging up. angel sighed and walked back to her friends. She wished she could have told Mhadz and Franz about her pregnancy, but now was not the best time, not when the Perez family had suffered a loss.
"Angel is everything okay?" Gerand whispered to her, when she returned to her seat. angel put on a fake smile and nodded.
"So are you guys going to the homecoming dance?" darwin yelled out.
"Homecoming?" angel said to herself. "I completely forgot"
"How could you forget" jenny asked. "You are junior class president."
"I know, but I have had a lot on my mind."angel  said.
"Is homecoming big at this school" brix asked.
"Yeah, it's a huge deal especially to juniors and seniors, since it's a dance exclusively for us" Adrian replied.
"Yup, guys have to find the perfect girl to take" Gerand said glancing quickly at Rhesalyn.
"Is that so?" Brix said. He turned to Jonica who was sitting quietly next to him. "Would you like to accompany me to the homecoming dance?" He asked her politely hold out his hand. Everyone's mouth dropped to see brix act so forward.jonica blushed and nodded smiling.
"Brix is the first to get a date!" archie cried out. "The world is coming to an end."
"I wonder who the senior guys are going to ask." jenny said.
"Well we all know, alec and cassandra are going together. Demmy will probably ask Fatima" Adrian said. Darlene looked up at the mention of Demmy. She found him very handsome and mysterious.
"Are they a couple?" She asked.
"Who? Fatima and Demmy? No, but they all hang out together" He said.
"Bobby is probably going with our little lady here" jenny said winking at angel. She forced a small smile at her and went on eating. zhul and gerand both gave each other looks, both thinking the same thing. Over my dead body.
"zhul, are you gonna go?" rhesalyn asked.
"I don't know. You know how I don't like school dances" He said. angel laughed at him.
"What are you some cliché rebel?" angel asked.
"Whatever, shortcake" He snickered. angel slapped the back of his head and went on eating like she didn't hit him.
"Well I better start looking for a date before, all the beautiful goddesses are gone" darwin said.
angel giggled at darwin until she felt herself becoming nauseous. "Excuse me" angel said quickly getting up. Mush noticed angel's sudden discomfort and followed her. darlene noticed both Mush and angel and she began to worry.
"I should check if Mush and Angel are okay" Darlene said out loud to no one in particular. Everyone watched the girls leave.
"What's up with them? Archie asked.
"Are they running away from me!" Darwin cried. "Shut up idiot" Rhesalyn said punching him in his back.
Gerand and Zhul began to worry about Angel, but they couldn't follow her into the bathroom so they had to take comfort with the thought that she was with Mush and Darlene.
Angel ran down the stairs and into the hallway. Her stomach was turning but she was also feeling light headed. She stopped herself when, her legs started feeling weak. She could feel herself losing balance and as she fell back she felt a pair of arms hold her. She looked up weakly to she emerald eyes staring at her.
"ANGEL!" Mush called. She saw her best friend half collapsed in Demmy arms. angel looked to see her friend worried and concerned.
"Are you okay?" Mush asked, helping angel up. angel tried to shake her head in to better vision. "I'm fine" angel lied.
"Liar" Mush hissed. She turned to Demmy. "Thank you for catching Angel" Mush said to him. Darlene had finally caught up to them, and was pleasantly surprised to see Demmy there. But her happiness faded when she saw Angel looking very weak.
"Angel, are you okay?" Darlene asked running to Angel's side.
"Yes, thank you Darlene"
"You should be careful Angel" Demmy spoke up. "A young woman in your condition should take better care of her health." Angel looked at him shocked. He knew?
"Her condition" Mush questioned.
"Yes, didn't you know, Miss Perez is carrying Bobby's child" Demmy said with a small smile. Mush's mouth hung open, while Darlene tried to grasp what he was saying.
"Oh, I'm so sorry" He said after getting a very shocked response from both ladies. "I thought you already knew."
"It can't be true" Mush whispered out loud.
"Well, this isn't something Bobby would lie about" He said. Angel could feel tears coming to her eyes but she felt vomit coming too. She wiggled out of Mush's grasp and ran into the bathroom that was only a few feet away. Mush quickly followed her into the bathroom leaving a shocked Darlene and a calm Demmy. He smiled at her and began to walk towards her. He stopped when his body was dangerously close to hers.
"I would like you to be my date to homecoming" He said calmly. Darlene who had got just gotten over her first shock was surprised by his proposal.
"Me?" Darlene questioned nervously.
"I'm sorry, let me rephrase. Darlene Resalute, I would like you to be my date" He said. Darlene didn't know how to answer. Of course she wanted to know more about him, but she didn't know him enough to trust him as her date. Demmy, who became impatient, said "I guess I'll pick you up at your place at 7 on that evening, see you later then" He came close to her face and kissed her cheek. She stood there paralyzed as he walked away whistling to himself.
Meanwhile in the bathroom, Angel was vomiting her lunch, while Mush held her hair away from her face.
"I can't believe you didn't tell me" Mush said. Angel wiped her mouth then looked at her friend.
"I'm sorry Mush but it isn't exactly something I wanted to talk about" Angel said.
"Angel, I'm your friend, I have always been there for you. I would hope you could tell me anything"
"I do trust you, but this is something I didn't even wanna talk about, but zhul insisted that I tell-"
"You told zhul?"
"He caught while I was still a hormonal mess. I told Gerand, because he thought I had bulimia and I told Bobby."
"What did Bobby say?" Mush asked. Angel looked at Mush sadly. "We haven't spoken since I told him"
"Angel! You have to talk to him again" Mush said sternly. "Mush, I'm not stupid, I will, he needs time, and so do I." Mush sighed and dropped the subject. She helped angel up. "C'mon let's get you cleaned up"
" Angel is what?" Engeline questioned. Engeline, Cassandra and Fatima were sitting under one of the trees out in the courtyard.
"She is pregnant with Bobby's baby" Cassandra said to her friends. Engeline didn't know what to say but Fatima had her say.
"She must have tricked him into getting her pregnant" She suggested.
"My thoughts exactly" Cassandra agreed. Engeline couldn't believe what her friends were saying.
"I doubt Angel wanted this" Engeline argued.
"Seriously Engeline, you think Angel  is this innocent person but she isn't"
"You have got to be kidding me; Angel would not get pregnant on purpose." Engeline said firmly.
"Of course she would, Bobby is a football player, he will probably go professional and she wants to make sure she is taken care of" Cassandra stated. "Her brother is Franz Perez, why the hell would she need Bobby's money?" Engeline yelled back. "Plus this is none of your concern"
"Yes it is!" Fatima snapped back. Engeline raised her eyebrow. She wondered if she would tell Cassandra that she had been sleeping around with Bobby's.
Cassandra and Fatima had both confided in Engeline about sleeping with Bobby. Both girls told Engeline not to tell the other. Engeline thought it was funny that both girls were sleeping around with Bobby and they didn't know it. Both girls had even told Engeline that the other would be jealous if they found out.
"How is it any of your business" Engeline said playfully hoping someone would confess.
"We are his friends" Fatima stated. Engeline gave her a weird look then got up to walk away.
"Engeline, where are you going? we have to find a way to help Bobby out"
"You do it yourself" Engeline said brushing off her so called friends.
"First order of business" Angel called out. It was after school, and Angel had her class meeting. "I would like to announce my resignation"
"WHAT?!" the committee yelled.
"But Angel you can't" the vice president Ivan said.
"I have to, I have a lot of personal issues and I cannot commit to being the class president" Angel said sadly. "So I am handing my position over to Ivan"
"Are you sure" Ivan asked her. Angel smiled sadly and nodded. "You will be a great president" She assured him. He smiled at her and thanked her.
"I will do my best Angel " He said standing up proudly. Angel smiled at him and walked out the classroom, with people gossiping and wondering. Angel knew that she couldn't stay as president if she was pregnant. A pregnant class president did not set a good example. Plus she had forgotten about the homecoming dance. Something that should have been a priority but now her baby and her health was her priority. Angel gathered her stuff from her locker and sighed. She knew it was going to get harder but she would have to face it.
"Angel!" Angel heard a female voice call out to her. Angel turned to see her Engeline walking toward her.
"Hell Engeline, how are you?" Angel said happy to see her.
"I'm good; don't you have your class committee meeting?" Engeline asked.
"Yes, but I just resigned" Angel informed her sadly. Engeline figured why and could see Angel was sad about it.
"What about you, aren't you supposed at cheerleading practice?"
"No, Cassandra and Fatima canceled practice" Engeline said indifferently. "What are you doing now?" She asked.
"Well, I will probably watch Adrian and Gerand practice" Angel said.
"Well I do love watching men get sweaty, but how about we do something better" Engeline suggested.
"Like what?"
"SHOPPING!" Engeline said happily.
"I don't know" Angel said unsure.
"Please, we don't even have to go into the city, they opened a cute little boutique not too far from here, we can go homecoming dress shopping" Engeline said with puppy dog eyes.
"Okay okay" Angel said giving in. Engeline squealed and grabbed Engeline's arm happily.
zhul sat in Gaston Park on of the benches. He sat their nervously. He was finally dealing with is emotions. He was finally going to confront his feelings and her.
"zhul?" an all too familiar voice said to him.
zhul turned to see the woman who stole his heart and crushed it into pieces. "Hey Anica" He said to her.
That was all that was said. He didn't know how to react. She was scared to see him after their last encounter.
"I was surprised to hear from you" Anica said. zhul had emailed anica during his technology class, and she answered almost immediately.
"I'm surprised you answered."zhul said quietly. anica made her way to sit next to him on the bench. She sighed and decided to speak. "First zhul, You have every right to hate me and call me a slut, I hurt you in such a way I couldn't imagine" anica voice was shaky but she did her best not to cry. "I did love you zhul and I don't want you to ever doubt that. What I did was unforgiveable but I am hear begging you to forgive me"
"Why did you have to cheat on me?" zhul questioned her angry. "Why couldn't you have left me?"
"Because I was selfish" anica said looking at him sadly. "I loved you and I loved him, and I couldn't choose, so I did something selfish."
"You obviously didn't love me enough to spare me the pain."
"I did love you, but I loved him more, I think I always had" anica confessed.zhul looked up at her. This was the woman he loved with all his heart, this was the woman who he hated with such a passion but this was the same girl who was his friend at first.
"I don't hate you" zhul said. anica smiled sadly. "I forgive you" He said. anica finally let the tears fall. "Thank you so much" She said happily crying. "You have changed so much."
"It's because I met someone who changed me" zhul said smiling. anica looked at him questionably.
"Her name is Angel" he said smiling thinking about the midget.
Angel felt her stomach flutter for an unknown reason. Weird. She brushed it off as stomach pains from the pregnancy.
"This dress is cute" Engeline said holding up a pink dress to show Angel. Angel gave a disapproving look.
"Lavender or black is more my color for dresses." Angel said. Engeline shrugged and put the dress away. Angel and Engeline looked through the evening gowns in the cute little boutique.
"So who are you going to homecoming with?" Engeline asked as she looked at the dresses.
"Not sure if I am going" Angel said trying to mask her sadness.
"Why not, I thought you would go with Bobby." Engeline said his name with disgust. Angel laughed at this.
"You don't like Bobby?" Angel questioned.
"Angel, you are a pretty and smart girl, why would you date such a pig like Bobby"
"I'm shocked, I thought the cheerleaders loved Bobby" Angel teased.
"That's Cassandra and Fatima," Engeline corrected her. "I don't even feel like I belong with them, but they were the first ones to talk to me when I moved to Cagayan in my sophomore year."
Angel always knew Engeline wasn't like the other girls. Even though she looked the part, she wasn't a slut or a mean person. Angel learned that.
"I enjoyed our tutoring sessions, I feel like you weren't like the other girls here. But Cassandra and Fatima told me that quitting the team was not an option, man I hate them" Engeline huffed.
Angel giggled. "So what about you? Who are you going with?" Angel asked.
"I don't know, a bunch of guys have asked me but I said no, I am kind of waiting for certain someone to ask me" Engeline said refusing to look at Angel as a blush crept across her face.
"Who?" Angel asked completely drawn into the conversation.
" He is your friend" Engeline mumbled. Angel had about a few guy friends, so she couldn't think of anyone, but then a person popped into her head. "It wouldn't happen to be the certain friend who walked you to my house because you desperately needed to find me to help with your homework?"
Engeline smiled and nodded.
"Adrian?" Angel questioned loudly.
Engeline blushed and nodded again. "I would have never guessed." Angel said. "Well, I totally approve, he is a good kisser too"
"You kissed him before" Engeline asked as she wore a shocked expression.
"We dated in freshman year" Angel said simply
"But then I couldn't date him" Engeline insisted. "Its fine, that was two years ago, and I never really felt that way about him" Angel said assuring her. Engeline smiled and turned back to the dresses and a small black dress caught her eye.
"Angel this is perfect for you" she said showing the dress to Angel. It looked tight and revealing.
"I don't think I would look nice in it."
"Oh shut up and try it on" Engeline said pushing her to the fitting room. "Just try it on, if you hate it then don't get it."
"Okay" Angel said taking the dress and walking to the fitting rooms.
"I'll be looking around some more, call me if you need me" Engeline said as she walked off. Angel walked into a hallway with several rooms along the halls. Angel walked in to the last one and hung the dress on the hook. She looked in the mirror and sighed. She was having fun with Engeline. She would miss the times were she would hang out like this. She knew once the baby came, she would have no free time.
Suddenly two tall figures in black appeared behind her. "Um excuse me no men allowed" She said, but then she felt a force hit her head and soon Angel's whole vision went dark.