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A/N: Photo: Dylan O'Brien as Alex.

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Chapter 5

Alex's P.O.V

I watched how Daniel's face paled. I was pretty sure as well that my face had the same colour as my best friend had. Who wouldn't? I mean, we were just messing around with each other when the topic about the "angel" came in. We always say such impossible and non-sense things to each other. We always humour each other. I supposed that was most smart people do.

After for about 3 minutes of staring at each other with a pale face, I was the first one who broke out from our trance. I may had freaked out a bit from that incident, but I couldn't help not to get interested on what will happen next.

"So what are you gonna do next?" I snapped my fingers in front of my petrified best friend to wake him up to reality. "I mean, this isn't some kind of coincidence right? I believe this is faith." I continued, drawing a big box up in the air with my both hands to emphasize the word 'faith'.

Daniel's confused eyes gazed at me. "I don't know. Is this kind of joke, because it's not funny at all. I am not gay!"

"Ooh, are you a homophobe now?" I crooked my eyebrow, leaning  closer to him of him.

"I'm not a homophobe. You know Dianne would be furious on me if I was like that." he answered, biting his lower lip. Probably thinking about how ferocious my Dianne would be.

Dianne's adopted parents are gay and she truly adored both of them. Her biological parent abused her physically and sexually when she was 9 years old. She was rescued by the police and was placed in the orphanage. She was 11 years old when Liam and Scott met her and adopted her. The couple gave her the love that she deserved and a home and a real family. So, unless you have a death wish, you shall not speak anything against gay in front of her.

"Say, did you feel anything strange when you look at him?" I asked. I saw a glimpse of his reaction when he glanced at the guy on the floor- or should I say, Angelo, if that was his real name. Daniel didn't even help me pick up Angelo's thing from the floor. All he did was watched us or perhaps the guy.

He stepped back as if he was caught off guard by my sudden question. "I—I don't know what I felt. It felt like the same when I saw Chloe the first time. And that scared the shit out of me."

I heaved a sigh. "Come one pal. Let's find out what will be next chapter in your love story. It's time to grow some balls and face it. You know I'm always here to support you. Not only me, but your whole family as well." I said while hooking my arm onto his shoulder.

"Thanks, mate. Actually, I'm starting to wonder if you are somehow related to Yoda. That'll creep me out though." he snickered.

"Dickhead." I grinned. This is so exciting to be honest.

We strolled down the short hallway to our class, Daniel trailing behind me. I paused when I was holding the knob to open the door and faced him. "Remember, don't be awkward. And avoid staring at him for a long time." I warned.

"But I—I wasn't even..." I didn't let him finished his explanation. I opened the door without caring if the Professor were discussing something. Actually, he never cares about our attitude as long as we attend his class. However, you couldn't finish the day without his snide remarks.

"Why don't you introduce you---"Prof. Landon trailed off when I marched in the class. He threw me a dead look, meaning, he was forming his sarcastic assertion for us.

"Don't worry people! We are here. You can now breathe again!" I said, waving my hands up in the air while flashing my best ecstatic smile.

As expected, Prof. Landon gave us the prize of being late. "And the award of most punctual of course, goes to you two. Again." he said, rolling his eyes. "Please take a seat now Alex"

I gazed on the mystery guy (I decided to call him that until I've figured out if his name was actually Angelo) and flashed him a grin. I walked straight to our usual spot which is at the back of the class- far from the professor's range.

"Hi Daniel, wanna come sit here?" said Melody; the petite blonde slut of our class who was sitting near the door way. I'm guessing that she's been with the whole boys' population of the campus. It is only I and Daniel that doesn't want to deal with her. She's the worst 'melody' I've ever heard in my entire life.

Speaking of Melody, it was a good thing that Derek was not here as well. He was  the male version of Melody in terms of whore-ship. He also has slept with every girl and guy in the campus. He will fuck everything that has a hole in it. It is either he's not coming to class and roam around the campus hitting on somebody or he's not present at all. I prefer the latter.

I gazed at Daniel only to find that he was caught (again) in trance, towards the mystery guy. I've never seen him so weird like the way he was acting. To be more peculiar, he was drooling over a guy.

I glanced over the mystery guy and I saw the confusion in his eyes. He actually froze on his spot. Anybody who looked into Daniel's blazing icy blue eyes quickly fell over heels for him. It was like looking through Medusa's eyes, however, his magic was to charm his victim to fall for him.  That was the reason why he can get all the girls he wants, whenever he likes.

I faked a cough to get Daniel's attention. Fortunately, he did.

"Maybe, some other time girls" he remarked to Melody's group with a trace of flirting in his tone.

I wasn't sure, but I think I saw the mystery guy flashed a hurt expression. If that was the case, then my brainless of a best friend was doing a bad move.

"Dude, what are you doing? You're ruining your impression for your angel!" I whispered yelled at Daniel when he seated beside me.

He was about to answer me when Prof. Landon started talking. "As I was saying..." both of our heads quickly turned towards the Professor. He was talking to mystery guy. "...why don't you properly introduce yourself to the class, so we can know something about you."

The mystery guy looked fazed from the idea of introducing his self. "M- me? I don't think that's necessary, sir." he said. "Don't we have more important activity to do?"

After a moment of convincing from the professor and uncomfortable stares from the expecting crowd, he finally stood up and walked in front of the class.

"Hi guys..Uhmm.." he started. "My name is Angelo Grande. I'm 21 years of age, half Filipino and half Italian." That explains his accent and why he speaks proper English. I mean, I haven't heard him say any aussie slang yet.

Everybody nodded; however, I noticed my hopeless romantic best of friend had started staring at Angelo again.

Angelo sighed. I quickly nudged the stupid guy beside me to take him back to reality. Daniel mouthed "what?" to me with an annoyed expression.

"Dude, you're eye raping him again!" I whispered, my eyes bulging from its socket to make it looked that I was serious. He just snickered then turned to look back at the poor guy talking in front with an interesting smirk.

"...thank you." Was all I heard after the silly convo with Daniel, which by the way, was smirking annoyingly at Angelo. Everybody applauded but Daniel. And to be honest, his smirk would intimidate me if I wasn't his best friend. I was worried about Angelo, he might intimidate the guy without realizing it and it will be the end of his pursuing love.

"Dude... erase that smirk from your face now. I'm afraid Angelo might take it differently. To be honest, what you're doing now is creepy." I remarked.

Realization finally hit Daniel and he straightened up his seat. However, I'm afraid that I was right about Angelo felt towards Daniel's stupid smirk.

Angelo started to walk back to his seat when he suddenly halted and turned to his heel back infront.

He strode back in front of the class. Surely, everybody was taken aback and got confuse all of a sudden.

"I just want to add that I hate bullies." Angelo stated. I gasped then turned to look at Daniel. I threw him my best 'see-what-you-did' look. If Angelo took what Daniel did in a wrong way, my best friend can kiss his 'angel love' a goodbye. One thing I knew though, Angelo thought Daniel was a bully!

"Also, I hate people making fun of someone just to make them look cool." He glanced at Daniel. That confirmed my suspicion. Daniel was his subject. "If you are that kind of person and I saw you doing that hideous thing, I say back off now or else I'm gonna punch your sorry face so hard, you'll end up in coma!" he finished

Everybody felt silent after Angelo's speech; I almost heard a cricket singing through the silence. When he started to walk back to his seat, the class roared of cheers and yelling "that kid is cool!", "I love you, Angelo!", "Dude has got some balls!".

I have to admit, Angelo was innocent outside but in fact, he's got fangs and claws. I for one wouldn't want to mess with this kid.

I noticed Daniel's mouth was hanging open and I actually had to close it for him. He looked surprised by Angelo's sudden threat. He looked at me and I burst out laughing. . I was trying so hard not laugh aloud. I held my stomach because it was trying to suffocate me from laughter.

Daniel started to laugh when he realized what his reaction had looked like. He at least tried to be cool and mask his laughter; however, his shaking shoulders betrayed him.

I looked back at Angelo, who by then was seating back on his chair. He seemed confused and all. I guess he doesn't mean to say all of that or he might be serious about it and thought that the class was crazy after all.

When the class calmed down, Prof. Landon announced the activity for that day.

It was Thursday, that only means it was 'debate day'. The day when Daniel turns 'Maleficent' all the way. This subject was like a full moon to my dear best friend and he'll turn into a hungry werewolf. No one dared to oppose him in debate and no one has ever defeated him in an argument. To be honest, he's pretty scary when he's standing in front of the crowd and defending his argument.

It doesn't matter if you're his girlfriend, best friend, or the best lawyer and philosopher in town. As long as you were assigned to oppose him, you better have an emotional insurance ready because he will crush you into tiny bits.

I remember last year, he had this girl dropped out the day after the debate. What was their topic you might ask? Well, it was about ABORTION. Daniel was opposed to it while the girl supports it. The ending? Let's say Daniel had the bitch confessed that she had an abortion several times. Wrong move for her as Daniel got really furious and threatened her to sue her for murdering an innocent child. I think that subject touched a very sensitive nerve within Daniel because it has a similar situation with his son Jared. Only he made the right choice.

The whole law class supported Daniel (as usual) and felt disgusted toward the pro-abortion bitch. The next day, the bitch was nowhere in sight and one of the teachers told us that she dropped out of the university.

We were assigned to pair up into two for the debate. That gave me an idea to help my best mate to get close to his soul mate. Though, I was a bit hesitant because he might kill Angelo's emotional perspective after the activity. However, I decided to give it a try. I'm actually interested how sharp Angelo's fangs and claw was.

I heard a lot of people asking Angelo to be their partner. Well, most of them I supposed admired the speech Angelo have given, though I'm pretty sure that they thought Angelo would be the weakest individual inside the room making him the great victim to defeat.

I pulled Daniel's collar then whispered to him. "Mate, this is your chance. Ask him to be your partner!"

"No way! he retorted.

"It is now or never. Lucky for you, the man whore Derek was nowhere today. Do you want him to take your precious soul mate from you?"

That made him contemplates my suggestion. "You know how I am when debating." He asked worriedly.

"That's why you had to be gentle this time or you future will be BOOM!" I made a booming action with my hands to make it more realistic.

"Fine... Fine... Why would he want to partner with me anyways?" he asked.

"Do you still have his handkerchief with you?" I asked. His eyes suddenly flashed bright then fished out the pink hanky from his pocket.

"Here!" he replied, waving the hanky on my face.

"Well tell him you want to be his partner and you have something for him." I suggested.

"Okay... good idea."

Daniel faced the circle of crowd that was hurling around Angelo.

"He will be my partner. I have something he needs from me." he said to no one in particular with a grin.

I face palmed myself after hearing what he said. I told him to keep a good impression to Angelo and not to act like a dickhead. He just signed his rejection letter.

Everyone stopped from what they're doing and turned towards Daniel's direction. Geez, he has to impress Angelo, not make himself look like an ass.

I looked at Angelo's direction. He was looking at Daniel. He raised his right eyebrow probably with confusion.

"Come again?" Angelo inquired.

Ohh boy, that was a bad move.

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