He's my beast

"La, la, la, la, la, the sky is so blue. The earth looks deep green, and the sun is pretty. Haha, I feel like a bird flying out of its cage." Snow said as she twirled around the rustic iron pole.

Angel stared at her with admiration in his eyes as Snow spun. He could not stop himself from smiling when he gazed at the excitement in her eyes.

"This feeling is amazing. The wind is in my hair, and my worries are flowing away with the breeze. I can touch the sky from where I stand." Snow energetically said before smiling back at Angel, who could not keep his eyes off her.

"Okay, I feel dizzy and weak. I think I am going to puke now." She told her friend in a shaking tone.

He rushed toward her as she was about to hit the ground and grabbed her in his arms. Snow then wrapped her hands around his neck to balance herself.

Angel wore a worried expression on his face and looked at her with sad eyes when he stared at her. Snow then pulled herself away from his embrace and let out a depressing sound.

" Uh, what is wrong with your face? Stop acting pathetic and twist along with me. Let us ship all of our pain with the wind and free ourselves from life's worries and problems. Angel, take my hands, and don't let go." She said.

Snow suddenly reaches out to hold his hands, and he smiles and nods his head. Angel then held onto her hand tightly and spun along with her.

His smile widened every time Snow let out a playful giggle, and his yellow eyes seemed to focus on her entirely.

Regardless of how hard they turned, he did not seem drowsy, but Snow appeared to be getting unstable in her movement. She could not endure any longer. Her vision was getting dim, and her surroundings were growing dusky.

Snow closed her eyes and felt herself falling to the ground. However, her body landed on something soft. Her eyelids slightly lifted, and she gazed at those dreamy pair of yellow eyes before resting her head on his chest and falling asleep.

Angel did not move a muscle, nor did he make a sound. He wanted Snow to rest and release her mind from her problems. She has been restless since they met in the morning till now, and Angel disliked watching those beautiful brown eyes worried.

Time drifted by, but that did not bother him. Finally, after thirty minutes had passed, Snow somewhat woke up from her sleep. She raised her head and noticed Angel gazing at her.

Once the sleep had partly left her system, Snow realized that she was resting on top of Angel's body.

"Your eyelashes are so long, and your eyes look cute with their yellow color. You seem quite handsome right now." She whispered to him.

He smiled, then she giggled a bit and rested her head back on his chest. However, the beat of his heart made Snow realize that she was not dreaming, and the sleep immediately left her.

"Oh my God, I am so sorry." She cried as she attempted to get off him.

However, she was lured back on to his chest. Snow became confused as to why she could not stand up. Then, she realizes that he was still holding onto her hands all this time.

"Angel, let go of my hand!" She shouted at him before forcefully withdrawing her hands from his grip.

He did as she said, and Snow hastily got off him and sat on the grass. Her heart was pounding violently in her chest, and her ears turned pink.

Angel turned his head away from her and stared at the broken fence that surrounded the abandoned house.

"Is he mad?" Snow thought, then bit her lower lip when she realized that she might have hurt Angel because of her reaction.

"I am sorry. It was not my intention to be this hash. We are friends, and I do not want to give the wrong signal." Snow stated.

However, Angel did not seem moved by her apology, and his face remained in its previous position.

"How about I promise you as your friend, I will not leave your hand ever again. I will not abandon or hurt you. And I will pardon you when you wrong me. I will also stay by your side in this life and the next. What do you think?" Snow said before laying down on the grass and focusing on the sky.

Angel turned his head and looked down at Snow. As her heart strived to keep calm, she shifted her focus away from the clouds and settled it on him.

"We can make this our friendship oath." Snow said and bounced off the ground in excitement.

Later, she calmed down from the rush of excitement after seeing that Angel looked blank.

"You don't understand what I am talking about." She asked him.

Angel's facial expression remained the same, and Snow took that as his way of saying yes to her question.

"Okay, I will go first. I, Snow Wright promises to stay friends with Angel forever. I promise to protect and stand by him no matter what happens in our lives. Okay! Angel, it is your turn to say your vow." She uttered to him.

However, he did not appear enthusiastic about making such an avowal to her. Instead, Angel shook his head in disagreement.

"You do not want to make a vow?" Snow asked him.

Angel nodded his head. He could not afford to make such a promise to her. After all, they were never meant to be friends in this life but enemies.

"Oh, I see. That's fine with me. But I am still keeping my promise to you." She replied.

Her voice sounded cracked as though she was about to burst out in tears, yet she held back her cry so she wouldn't make him feel bad about refusing to make the vow.

'He was the want who felt neglected in the first place. Now he's refusing my offer to be there for him.' Snow thought, feeling more hurt.

Despite his mission and what he has to do to her in the future, Angel still found himself torn into a series of dilemmas when he saw the sadness in Snow's eyes.

'I didn't mean for us to get this far. Now I can't even bear to see you hurt. How am I going to carry out my order if I am this entangled with my enemy?' Angel thought as he struggled to handle his emotions.

He was about to apologize to Snow with sign language, but they were interrupted.

"Look, it is the freak and the weirdo who decided to be friends with the freak."

A voice called out from the abandoned house's back door, and they turned to see Kelvin standing against the door.

"What do you want, Kelvin?" Snow asked in a frustrating tone.

Kelvin left the doorway, marched toward them, and seized Snow by the hand.

"Your mother entrusted me to find you. You know she despises this freak. She is going to be enraged when she discovers that you were with him again. Just quit hanging out with this dork and come back to the old gang?" He said before pulling Snow away from Angel.

"Kelvin, stop it. You are hurting me." Snow screamed as she tried to remove her hand from his grasp.

Angel became enraged as he watched the tears rushing from Snow's eyes.

He then stepped up to Kelvin and punched him in the face. His hit left Kelvin bleeding from his lips, which angered Kelvin. The fight was on, and Kelvin was not holding back.

He let go of Snow's hand and delivered a forceful punch against Angel's stomach, which sent him a few steps back.

Kelvin then hit Angel in the face before elbowing him to the ground. With no delay, Kelvin started hitting Angel everywhere on his body, implanting bloody injuries from several punches.

"Leave him alone! Please, I am begging you to stop beating him!" Snow cried as she fell to her knees in tears.

"I said stop, Kelvin! I will leave with you! Stop hurting him! He was trying to protect me. He is not the bad guy here!" Snow yelled at Kelvin as she tried to break Angel free from his grip.

However, Kelvin gripped Angel's shirt and kept on hitting him, yet Angel was not even putting up a fight.

"So who is the dangerous guy? Is it me, uh?" He screamed at Snow.

She did not answer since she feared that her words would cause Angel more harm than good.

"You don't have to answer my question because I already know your response. Fine, you are right! I am a dangerous man. Now leave with me before I take out all of his teeth from his mouth!" Kelvin stated, then let go of Angel's t-shirt.

"Remember that you are just a filthy thing. And you do not deserve her or her friendship." Kelvin shouted at Angel before spitting at him.

Snow got mad when she heard what Kelvin had said. Angel did not deserve this, and she knew it. The only crime that he committed was standing up for her. Yet he is getting wounded for it, and that hurt Snow's heart.

"He is a human being like yourself. Kelvin, every time I see you acting this way. You look more of a monster, and not the guy I grew up with for the past fifteen years." Snow told him with hate and anger in her voice.

Kelvin's expression changed when those words came out of Snow's mouth, and his eyes seemed burdened with hostility and pain. He grabbed Snow's hands and dragged her away from the abandoned house.

"I am sorry, Angel!" She screamed as Kelvin yanked her out of sight.

"Ahhhhh!"

Snow heard a loud howler. She stopped and looked behind since the sound seemed to have come from the direction of the abandoned house. Her eyes searched around to see who was yelling.

"Is that Angel screaming?" She asked out loud.

"Don't be stupid. That freak is mute. There is no way he could be the one screaming." Kelvin said as he caressed her on the head.

Snow frowned at his statement. Even though she knew that Angel could not speak, she felt eager to run back to the old house and check on him. Yet Snow suppressed her urge, since she knew Kelvin would use that as an opportunity to pick on Angel.

"Get your hands off me! Also, you are the one who is stupid and not him! And for the last time, stop calling him a freak!" She yelled at Kelvin, then pushed him from beside her.

Kelvin moved back a few steps, and his smile disappeared from his face when he saw how angry Snow was.

"Fine, you win. I will stop calling your crush a freak. But Snow, what do you know about Angel except for the fact that Mr. William adopted him when he was eight years old?" Kelvin asked her in a concerned tone.

Snow did not reply to his question at first, since she wanted to find the right answer that would shut him up. After a few seconds, Snow stopped and faced him.

"He is nothing like you, Kelvin. It is all the evidence I need to know that he is a man with morals." She assured him.

'She did not even deny that she has a crush on him. Why can't you stop looking at him and notice me? I am right here. Since we were kids, I have always been by your side, but why can't you notice me?' Kelvin thought as his heart ached from Snow's remark.

He kept silent the rest of the trip to Snow's house, and that did not bother her since the only issue that occupied her mind was Angel's health.

Snow's mother was waiting for her daughter at the front of their house when she and Kelvin arrived.

"Mrs. Wright, I have delivered your daughter as I promised. Now, it is time for me to head home." Kelvin said.

Snow passed by her mom without a word, and she was about to enter the house when Kelvin called her name.

"What?" She said.

"I will find proof that he is not the guy for you, and he's not as righteous as you think." Kelvin declared.

"Then who is my Mr. Right? You?" Snow asked before bursting into laughter, then entered her home.

"That was not a pleasant thing to say to Kelvin. He is sincerely looking out for you. But you won't understand his intention because Angel has clouded your judgment. I dislike him! He has a destructive influence on you." She told her daughter when she arrived inside the house a few minutes later.

"Why do you despise him so much? He has done nothing wrong to you and dad, so why do you guys keep on hating him?" Snow angrily asked.

"You wouldn't understand!"

"Then make me understand. Because right now, the only reason I can come up with is the fact that he and I are friends!"

"That's one. But another reason is that we know nothing about this boy. He showed up out of nowhere, and since then, no one has any information about him."

"So because he's an orphan and can't speak, that made him earn hate from you guys?"

Mrs. Wright seemed to have lost all patience with her child since each remark she made only created more fuss between her and her daughter.

"Yes! You listen here, young woman! You know nothing about this world that we live in, and you are still too young to understand." Mrs. Wright lashed out.

"Mom, I am seventeen, and I have a few months to be eighteen. So I am not that little anymore." Snow firmly replied.

"Since you are still living under our roof, that does not matter. What's important right now is that your father and I dislike him, so keep your distance."

"Wow, that is great! You don't have to like him, that's fine! But he's not your friend, he is mine! He is my freak and my buddy, not yours!" Snow screamed at her mother.

"Oh, mine! See what I mean. That boy has polluted you with nonsense, and now you can't even respect your parents. I do not want you hanging out with that brat anymore."

"Mom, that's not for you to decide!"

"Go to your room now! I am grounding you for one month, and you won't be allowed to leave this house without my permission! Do you understand?" Mrs. Wright responded to her daughter's daring statement.

Snow could not believe what she was hearing. Not seeing Angel for an entire month, she believed that it was the worst punishment that she had received in her life. She could not accept her mother's words, but how was she going to change it?

The tension in the Wright's home was intense in the living room, as Snow strived to hold back her anger and reason with her mother.

"Mom, you can't be serious." She cried.

The next few minutes, Snow's face got soaked with tears, and she could not help herself from breaking down.

"I am dead serious, Snow. Until you learn to respect us and decide to stay away from that boy, this will be your punishment." Mrs. Wright announced.

Snow folded her hand in a fist as the anger she felt seemed to increase rapidly along with her fear of not being able to see Angel for an entire month.

"Mom, please. Don't do this to me." She uttered in a trembling voice.

Mrs. Wright could see the devastation on her daughter's face, which made her more determined to keep Angel and Snow apart. She did not want Snow being with someone that she is willing to choose first above others, including herself.

She knew the task that was waiting for her daughter in the future was one that needed Snow to be strong-hearted.

Since Snow is closer to the age that will make her eligible to enter the family line of work, Mrs. Wright could not allow her daughter to have any weaknesses, and she feared that Angel could be a risky weakness for Snow to have because they knew nothing about him.

"Honey, we won't be discussing this issue again. Your dad and I won't accept him to be your friend. You can use this one month to meditate on your behavior and if his friendship is worth all the trouble that it is causing between us as a family." Mrs. Wright explained.

"Mom! Angel and I have been friends for nine years, and he has never hurt me or brought harm to me. If anything, I am the guilty one. Please don't ruin our friendship." Snow pleaded.

She felt desperate and frustrated at the same time. She was exhausting all of her options and words to tell her mother to make her understand that Angel was one of the important people in her life, yet Mrs. Wright was not giving in to her plea.

"You and Kelvin have been friends longer than that. But I don't see you want to be with him like the way you desire to be with that boy. Also, the only reason your dad and I allowed you to be friends with him was that you were young at that time. Later, you kept on rebelling against our warning of you not seeing him, and that's another reason while you guys are still friends." Mrs. Wright explained.

"Don't ground me, mom. I promise to be on my best behavior. I won't cause trouble for you and dad." Snow begged when she realized that she had lost the argument.

"I am sorry. However, your dad and I are doing this for your own good and protection."

"Fine! I accept getting grounded! But know that I dislike you guys, and I will not quit being friends with Angel. So I hope dad and you are ready to keep me in my room forever."

After screaming these words at her mother, Snow raced up the stairs and into her room, then slammed the door. She leaned against the wooden door and allowed herself to break down and cry.

"Angel, is that you?" Mr. William said when he heard his front door open.

After a few seconds passed with no response from the person that entered the house, Mr. William became alarmed and stood up from his seat.

"Yeah, it's me. You don't need those claws, " Angel said after he met the old man in the living room.

"You have to stop sneaking into this house like that." Mr. William replied as his claws shifted back to human nails.

"It's not like I can announce my presence at the front door since people are not allowed to know that I can speak. You and the other elders were the ones that made that dumb rule anyway, so why are you scolding me for being silent."

"Yeah, but it is for our sake because we don't need people asking you unnecessary questions that may lead them to suspect us. Nobody would question a mute person, and that makes it a perfect cover for you. I am your adopted father and you are a mute boy that I found, that's the only information people need to learn about us."

"Who knew having two identities would be this tiring?"

Angel walked past Mr. William and took a seat on the sofa. He then let out a deep sigh.

"What happened to you?" Mr. William asked when he noticed the bloodstains on Angel's shirt.

"Nothing, " Angel replied, striving to dismiss the subject.

"You got into a fight with that boy Kelvin again."

"Kind of."

"I can guess that it was because of Snow once again?"

Angel did not respond. He knew that his silence and his words would still give the same answer.

"You are going to be the next leader of our clan. You can't have a mere human beating you. What will happen if our people hear about this?"

"I could kill him. You know my strength is not something Kelvin can handle. Using force on him will only leave his bones broken. Also, he's Snow's friend, and hurting him may leave me in her bad book."

"Don't forget why we are here. The other elders and I have turned a blind eye to the relationship that you have with that girl because you had the trust of one member of the Wright family, which is beneficial for your mission. But over the years, the closeness you have with her has made a few of the elders uncomfortable."

Angel frowned after hearing Mr. William's remark. Everything was getting too complicated for him to handle at such a critical moment in his life. His head and heart were at war, and he got left with two options and one choice.

"As you said, I am your future leader, and I don't need some old dudes telling me what to do or how to go about my business. I will complete my mission, okay!" Angel harshly stated.

He got up from the sofa and was about to leave the living room when Mr. William's voice stopped him.

"I hope so. Your eighteenth birthday is one month from now. The moon will be full, and your strength will increase. Get rid of the entire Wright family on that day and complete your mission. Don't fail your parents."

Angel shut his eyes for a second as the sentence, "You have to get rid of the entire Wright family on that day and complete your mission, " sunk into his ear.

He felt a piercing pain in his chest, but he ignored it and kept on walking without giving a response to the old man's statement.