"Hello Gerand" Mhadz said opening the front door.
"Good morning Gerand" He said walking in. "Is breakfast ready?"
"Yes it is, but Angel won't be coming down she is sick" Mhadz informed him.. Gerand didn't believe that.
"You should go up and see her." Mhadz suggested.
"It's okay, I think she probably needs rest" He said.
"Well okay, I have French toast waiting for you in the dining room." Gerand smiled and followed Mhadz to the dining room.
Mhadz set the French toast in front of Gerand and went back to the kitchen. Gerand just looked at the food, he was still worried about Angel. He believed that she would no longer hurt herself but now he didn't know what to expect. He hated when she kept things from him. They had been through so much and ever since she began dating Bobby, she started hiding things from him. Gerand decided to try and talk to Angel. He stood up and ran up the stairs.
He stopped in front of Angel's room and knocked nervously.
"Come in" Angel's weak voice said. Gerand took a deep breath and walked in. "Hey Angel" he said. Angel was surprised see Gerand, she was happy to see him, but she wasn't ready to tell him what was going on. She knew he would ask though. That's why she loved him, because he was such a good friend to her.
"Why aren't you coming to school" He asked.
"I'm sick" Angel said plainly. Gerand became annoyed by her simple answers.
"Why are you hiding things from me?"
Because it's none of your concern" She said coldly. Gerand was about to retort but he felt a hand on his shoulder. "Angel needs her rest" a cold voice said. Gerand turned to see Franz giving his usual cold stare.
"Sorry Mr.Perez, I just wanted to check on Angel" Gerand said bowing.
"She is fine, now please leave her be" He said, Gerand nodded and left. Angel sighed in relief. Franz looked at her then spoke. "He is merely worried, you should not be so cold to him" With that Franz left Angel alone.
Angel began crying and wrapped her arms around her stomach. I appreciate Gerand but he can't know about this, he would only be mad at me for this.
Zhul finally finished sweeping up the classroom, when a couple of students had entered. He didn't expect Angel not to come to school. He was worried, since she didn't seem like herself a couple of days ago. He sighed as he returned the broom to the proper place.
Suddenly the door opened abruptly. Bobby had come into the classroom and looked around to see two students staring at him and his least favorite carrot top glaring at him. Bobby slowly made his over to zhul, and zhul stood up preparing to fight. Bobby smirked.
"I'm not here to fight you carrot top" Bobby stated.
"So what do you want?"
"My girlfriend…where is she?" Bobby asked.
"Not here" Zhul said plainly. Bobby grew angry and took a step towards zhul.
"Obviously she is not here, so where is she?" He repeated with venom in his voice.
"Why should I tell you?' zhul teased. bobby clenched his fists tightly. He so badly wanted to hit zhul.
"If you see her, tell her to call me" bobby said before turning around and leaving. The other two students in the classroom just looked scared at the interaction between zhul and bobby.
zhul sighed and decided to text angel. He simply said 'hey' but she didn't reply.
Soon enough the class filled up with students. One of the last students was Gerand Nunez.
"Good morning" shane said to him smiling. Gerand gave her a half smile then whispered in her ear. She seemed slightly surprised then nodded. zhul began to wonder what was going on.
"Okay class let's get started" shane began. "Mr.Nunez has informed me, Miss.Perez is sick today so she won't be joining us today. I need someone to bring her all the notes and work she will be missing."
Both Mush and Adrian raised their hands in order to volunteer to take Angel her work. shane gave a devilish smirk the pointed to the orange headed student. "Mr.Alexis, I would like you take Angel her work after school." zhul was about to retort about his after school job, but he remembered he had the afternoon off and Shane knew that.
"Yes Mrs.Villanueva" zhul mumbled. Adrian glared at zhul. He was so annoyed of how often Angel and Zhul were together. He put down his hand in defeat and his thoughts floated to Angel.
Zhul walked down Angel's street nervously. He didn't know why he was so nervous, he had been to Angel's home before, but something in the pit of his stomach told him something was wrong. It was probably because of the way Angel was acting at the tournament.
He rang the door bell and not too long after Mhadz answered the door. Mhadz smiled widely at Zhul who stood at the door.
"Hello again Zhul, How are you?" She greeted happily.
"I'm good, thank you"
"Come in" Mhadz said opening the door wider. Zhul bowed and walked in. He stood in the hallway looking nervous. Mhadz simply smiled at him.
"Uh, I brought Angel her work." He said feeling awkward. Mhadz realized this. "I'm sorry if I'm making you feel weird, but Angel talks about you so much, she has taken a liking to you" zhul blushed profusely after that comment. "Well she is a good friend" was all zhul could say.
"I just made her soup, do you mind bringing it up" She asked him.
"I don't mind" He said. Mhadz ran to the kitchen and quickly returned with a tray with a bowl of soup. She carefully handed it to zhul. He nodded and carefully made his way upstairs with a tray in his hands and his back backpack filled with his and Angel's homework. He finally made his way to what he remembered as her bedroom door and knocked gently.
"Mhadz, there is no reason to knock, you know it's open" He heard Angel say.
"It's not Mhadz" He said balancing the tray on one hand and turning the knob with the other. Zhul walked in and saw Angel dressed in bear pajamas, under her blankets with a book in her hand looking at him surprised.
"zhul? What are you doing here?" She asked.
"Bringing you soup" He said bringing the soup over to her. She smiled and took the tray and put it on her end table. "Okay, why are you really here?"
"Homework" He said. He pulled out his notes and a copy of Angel's homework. He handed Angel the papers and she smiled at him. "Thank you Zhul" Angel didn't expect to see Zhul. She expected Adrian or Mush, but she assumed Gerand must have told them about her being "bulimic".
"How are you feeling" He asked.
"Okay I guess"
"What's wrong with you"
"My stomach hurts" She said plainly. Zhul could tell she was hiding something. He suddenly remembered something. "Oh you dropped this the other day" he said handing her the planner. She took it and smiled. "Thanks"
"No need to thank me" He said, it was a bit awkward. He was just standing while she sat and looked over her homework.
"Why don't you sit" She said noticing how uncomfortable he was. Zhul nodded and sat at the edge of her bed. He looked around her room, and noticed his picture was on her wall. He got up to get a better look at the picture.
"That's such a bad picture of me" He said referring to the one with him, angel, and kimberly. angel smiled at his comment. He looked at the picture of just him and Angel and his heart smiled. She looked so innocent in that picture.
"I had a lot of fun that day" Angel said standing next to him. He was surprised he didn't notice her leave her bed. Next thing he knew she was wobbling and about to fall then he caught her.
"Angel are you okay?" He asked. His voice filled with worry.
"I'm just a little light headed" She said trying to stand up but Zhul stopped her.
"Don't stress yourself" He said. Angel looked at him and saw how he looked at her. He looked worried like her truly cared for her. She didn't know why, it was probably hormones but she began to cry. Zhul looked at her shocked. "Angel, was it something I said?"
Angel began sobbing more and Zhul was beginning to panic. "Angel, what's wrong?"
"I. Cant'. Do. This." She said in between sobs.
"Do what?" He asked but she didn't answer. "Angel tell me what's going on, what's got you this upset?"
"Zhul" She said looking into his beautiful amber eyes. "I'm pregnant"
zhul's mouth fell open, his mouth went dry and his heart stopped beating and fell into his stomach…and he wasn't even the father.
"What?"
"I'm pregnant." She repeated. "And I have no idea what I'm going to do?" She said then started crying again. zhul couldn't believe it. angel was pregnant….at seventeen. He had no idea what to say to a girl in this situation.
"I thought you were on birth control"
"I am" She said breaking away from zhul. "I am, but I notice I hadn't gotten my period in two months! I having been throwing up, I have back pains; I have been eating the weirdest foods. And I know my body, there is something going on."
zhul watched her as she tried to regain her composure. "Did you tell him?" He asked referring to bobby. "No, I can't, he is gonna be so mad"
"So what! This is his responsibility too" zhul barked. zhul tried to quiet him down. "Not so loud"
"Angel, you have to tell him and your family."
"I know but Franz is gonna hate me"
"No he won't, you guys are family, he will be disappointed but he won't hate you" zhul tried to reassure her. angel sighed to herself and rubbed her stomach. zhul looked at her sadly. Why her?
"Have you thought about whether you are gonna keep the baby?" zhul asked.
"I refused to get an abortion, I'll have to choose between adoption and keeping the baby" zhul said. She allowed a few tears to fall down. "I feel so stupid" She said holding her face as she cried. Zhul walked up to her and hugged her tightly. She grabbed his shirt and cried more. He held her tightly just like that. "Don't worry, I'm here" He whispered.
Bobby flipped through the channels on TV. His phone kept vibrating, he knew it was either Fatima or Cassandra but he wasn't in the mood. His mind was on Angel, she hadn't called or text him and he was annoyed. It was annoying to feel something towards a female, he didn't like it at all but he couldn't deny he felt this possessiveness over Angel. Soon a knock came at his door. He lazily got up and headed to the door.
In the peephole there was dark skin man with black hair. Bobby sighed and opened the door. "Hey Leyvan" He said leaving the door open and walking back to the couch.
"Still rude as ever Bobby"
"That's nothing new." he answered. "What brings you to my place?"
"You already know, I need the money" He said coldly.
"You guys are so money hungry." Bobby dug into his pocket and pulled out a wad of cash. "Here it is" Leyvan took the money and looked at it, without even counting he said "You are short"
"It's been hard" Bobby said simply. "Rusty will not be happy about this"
"Tell Rusty, that I will get him the money when I can" Bobby said. Leyvan smirked at him. "You better watch how you talk to me" he then pulled out a black 9 mm gun and pointed it at Bobby. "I will be back for the money, if I don't get it, I will have to end your football career. Rusty made you, he can easily break you"
Bobby gulped and nodded. "Plus I heard you have a wealthy girlfriend, that's where you have been getting the money from right" Leyvan added.
"How did you know that?"
"How else could you afford the steroids you take, Rusty gave it to you to sell it but you take it instead and steal from your little girlfriend in order to support your habit" Leyvan explained. "Rusty knows more than you think" was the last thing he said before leaving. Bobby cursed and sat back in his couch.
Bobby remembered why he started dating Angel, in the first place, she was rich and he could easily steal money from her home. He was using her to support his addiction but recently they were on rocky terms and he wasn't even thinking about the drugs or Rusty. He simply was thinking bout, dare I say it, Angel. He missed her. She wasn't like every girl who was all over him. There was times where she kicked his ass and he had to admit he liked that. But he would never let her assert dominance. He knew that Angel was definitely something special, and that Cassandra and Fatima were merely used to satisfy his manly needs.
Bobby found himself thinking about Angel more, and then he became horny. He sighed and looked at his phone. "I might as well call Fatima, she has nothing better to do" he said as he dialed her number.
Zhul slowly opened his tired eyes. He woke up to a familiar room but it wasn't his. He took a good look around and realized he was still in Angel's room. He then felt something warm on him. He looked down to see a sleeping Angel on his chest. He had his arm around her and she had dried tears on her face. He suddenly remembered bringing Angel to her bed when she was crying. She asked him to stay with her and he did. He comforted her as she cried, He realized they must have feel asleep as they lied on Angel's bed.
Zhul watched as Angel peacefully slept. She looked so beautiful that it brought a small smile to his face. He watched as her chest slowly moved up and down. He examined all of her features. He noticed she had her hand resting on her stomach. He couldn't believe she was pregnant. He could only hope that he could help her. He didn't know why he felt so attached to her but he didn't plan to leave her to do this on her own.
Zhul nudged Angel and she slowly opened her eyes. She looked up at the man who was holding her and it brought a smile and a small blush to her face. He smiled back. "Hey sleepy head" He said. Angel hit him lightly then sat up. "What time is it?" she asked. zhul looked at his watch. "Almost eight, which means I have to head home soon, so I can eat dinner" angel nodded and got up. zhul got up too and grabbed his backpack. zhul watched him get ready to leave and was feeling colder by the second. She enjoyed zhul's warmth.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow." He said. zhul nodded her head and smiled.
"Before I go" zhul said. "You need to make sure you know what you have to do"
"Tell my sister and brother, tell bobby, apologize to gerand, go to the doctor and stop eating darlene's food." She said mechanically. In the mist of her crying earlier she told him about what happen between Gerand and Zhul gave her a list of things she need to get done. Zhul smiled and nodded. "Good."
Zhul opened the door to Angel's room and standing there was a tall man with long black hair and stern face. It was Franz Perez. Zhul froze in place as he was face to face with Angel's brother.
"Who are you and what are you doing in Angel's bedroom" He asked with his icy voice. Zhul wasn't sure how to answer the question, he was completely intimidated by this man. Suddenly  angel walked up beside zhul.
"This is Zhul Alexis, he is a friend from school, and he brought my school work." Angel explained. Franz raised his eyebrow.
"This is the young man Mhadz is so fond of?" Franz asked.
"Um, Yes, she has taken a liking to him" Angel said politely. Zhul couldn't believe how polite she was. He could tell Angel was a little scared of Franz.
"That does not explain why he was in your room, with the door closed" He said. Angel bowed. "I'm sorry; I was cold so I asked him to close the door." Angel lied. Franz accepted her excuse. "If you are feeling better come join us for dinner Angel" franz said before turning to Zhul. "You may join us too" He said rather coldly.
"No, thank you; I must be getting home sir" zhul said bowing. franz gave him a good look up and down then proceeded to join mhadz downstairs for dinner. angel turned to  zhul who quickly gained his composure. "Thanks zhul"
"No need to thank me, I'll see you tomorrow." He said. She gave him a small hug and he embraced it. He cared for this girl, he didn't know when it started but he liked her. zhul kissed her on her head then pulled away. The kiss shocked angel but she tried to ignore it. "Bye" she said. He waved and made his way out. Angel sighed and went into her room. "ANGEL HURRY AND EAT BEFORE YOUR FOOD GETS COLD" Mhadz yelled from the dining room. Angel rolled her eyes in annoyance and looked at herself in the mirror. She rubbed her stomach. "I'm going to be a mother" She said to herself. Bobby popped in her head. He wondered how he would take it. She was afraid but she knew she would have to tell him, but just how is he going to react?