“I don’t wanna, I hate the first day of school, I wish I could just kill myself” said Exek with a cold look in his face. While hugging him, Michelle, who was born a minute before him, said “Come on, if you kill your self I wont have anyone to call my little bro, mom wont have anyone to b***h at and dad would give me…” She paused for a second and continued with a serious face, “Dumb Christian sermons” Exek laughed and just ignored her. “Well let’s go pick up our schedules, before the gym gets crowded.”
After getting their schedules and ID’s they both went to check out their classes. “Ok I have trigonometry, graphic design, English, world history, PE, and I get to be Purtel’s T.A; sis?” Michelle exited and bouncing said “Yay, I got Spanish, Advanced Algebra, English, Zoology, Art, and I get to be Purtell’s TA” with a stupid look on his face, Exek said “well our senior year’s going to suck really bad” slapping him hard on the shoulder Michelle grinned and explained “Well at least have fun, Its our last year and you’re already bitching about it. I don’t know about you but I think this is going to be fun.” And walked away with out saying a word while the bell for first period rung. He asked her pointlessly “Hey sis what’s that supposed to mean?” Michelle just rose and waved with out looking back.
Since Exek’s first period was math he just knew where that was. On the way there a shy looking girl accidentally bumped in to him, “Sorry.” he apologized with out looking at her face. But when he turned his head he thought to him self “wow she’s cute.” “No I'm sorry, I wasn’t ‘paying attention,’” the girl said bushing. Giving a friendly smile Exek added, “It’s ok, well my name is Exek, yours?” The girl had kind of trouble blushing and trying to speak. “Melissa, sorry for bumping into you but I didn’t want to be late for my first period.” Turning around and walking fast she left him with a curious face.
When he got inside the Trig. Class he saw Melissa sitting alone in the back corner. Sitting next to her he said, “Hi, well it seams like we have the same 1st period.” She smiled and buried her face in a book Exek saw when they bumped into each other, a copy of Christopher Pike’s Ashoolay. “Great author.” he commented, “I like his books.” “Hello class.” Mr. Onizuka introduced himself. “Hey Exek one more year with you?” Exek just smiled and said “Yea I think its cause you’re a good teacher, the only one you’re missing now is my sis.” Melissa set her book down and asked him “You were in his class last year?” Exek smiled and nodded.
At the end of class Exek stayed back talking to Onizuka when he noticed that Melissa was with Dave, the schools quarterback. “She’s out of your league Ex, there is no way in hell that you’ll get near that girl without passing through her boyfriend first.” Onizuka made a joke at Exek, “Come on Oni what are you a teacher or a kid?” Exek laughed and continued, “I thought you were a kid years ago.” Onizuka just smacked him over the shoulder and laughed.
On the way to second period he saw his sister with a sad look in her face “Hey sis what’s wrong?” He asked her. Michelle answered with a cold stare. “My Spanish teacher is gay, I thought he would be like a sexy teacher with a sexy accent but he’s just gay.” Exek laughed at her and said “Sis not all teachers are sexy, most of them suck.” Leaving her alone he turned and saw one of his old friends. “Yo Mike, long time no see!” he waved. Mike smiled and waved back.
Graphic Design for him wasn’t that big of a deal, considering that it was his third year in that class. As the teacher had him do most of the project that not even he could do. “Mrs. Morris, when are you going to have us do something for college credit?” as he asked that, the teacher handed him some papers and said, “This is all college projects I had dropped here just for my students.” She looked around and told her advanced students, “guys have fun and don’t tell anyone because if you do a great job we might get paid, its all up to how good you work.” She smiled and left them to work on their tasks.
Looking at the papers he told his partners, “Guys we have a lot to do, should we do it or not?” Most of the students said that it was illegal, but Ice he didn’t listen to them he just smiled and said, “I’m all for it, so I’ll do my part. Out of you seven, whoever wants to help you can, who ever doesn’t then you can do something else but don’t come to me when pay time comes.” After saying that, everyone decided to help. That period went smooth.
Third period English was like hell, because Mr. Bidel had to be the worse teacher he ever had. Since English wasn’t his best class or the worse, he slept throughout the whole period. Lunch wasn’t as crowded as he thought it would be. In lunch he sat by himself waiting for the day to end. When the bell rung for 4th period he got there kind of late and Mrs. Bradley scolded him for being 5 minutes late, because Exek's parents told all his teachers that if he was slaking that they had the privilege to scold him.
In history he slept through the whole period, and didn’t do anything. After dressing down for PE and showing his face there, he saw Melissa talking to some of her friends. Since Mr. Johnson is a physical fanatic he put the fit students with the not so fit ones, for some weird coincidence Exek was paired with Melissa. “Hi, how you doing?” he broke the silence by smiling. Kind of shy she responded, “Huh… fine thanks for asking”. “OK class” a student interrupted him because he was needed in the office, “Well I have to go, just stretch out until I come back.”
When he was gone the class just did whatever they wanted. Some students including Exek and Melissa stretched out. “Melissa try having your legs all the way in the floor while your stretching it.” Exek told her, because he saw her doing the squads kind of wrong. “Sorry but I can’t it’s too hard to stretch out and have my leg all the way in the floor.” Exek being kind kneeled down next to her and pushed her legs down. “Try stretching out now.” With a red face she said thanks and stretched. “Oh my god his hands are so soft!” she thought to herself.
“Um, X, you don’t mind if I call you that do you?” Exek laughed and shook his head and, “Do you use lotion or are you gay?” Exek stared at her and with a grim look he said, “No, I don’t use lotion and I’m not gay, my hands are just soft.” She blushed awkwardly and apologized. “Hey you don’t have to apologize I get that a lot, even from teachers.” As Mr. Johnson showed his face in the gym the class settled down and Johnson had them run laps around the gym for not stretching.
After redressing and waiting for the bell to ring, Melissa walked over to Exek and thanked him for helping her stretch out. “Sure no problem, ever need help I’m here, by the way what’s your next class?” She pulled out her schedule, while looking at it she said “Next I have communication technology with some teacher called Mrs. Morris, you?” While checking time he said “I’m a TA for Purtell. By the way, would you mind telling Morris that I’ll have her special project done by tomorrow?” With a troubled look in her face she said, “Sure, hey can I ask you something?” Exek nodded and she continued, “What’s a TA?” As much as Exek tried not to laugh he couldn’t help it, and Melissa glared at him “Sorry, a TA is a teacher assistant” when the well rung they both waved at each other and left for their last class.
Entering 6th Exek ducked down dodging a flying eraser. “How did I miss?” Purtell said from behind her desk. “That’s because I’m the only student you’ll never be able to hit. So why do we have to baby sit freshmen? I thought you would have a junior class.” Exek said while setting the eraser on the board. “I don’t know, I thought I would get sophomores this year; but its not up to me; the head of the school board has all the teachers mixed up and since I’m a math teacher there’s a new test that we have to give out and it sucks having newbie’s as students.” Purtell said as she looked at Ex with a sad face.
“Ok class we will be doing line graphing, and how to read graphs. Ex your going to help me out with the students who need help, also they’re too young for you so no flirting with them.” She smiled at him and he gave her a mean look, “Ha ha not funny, at least I can try cant I?” they both laughed and looked at the class with friendly looks “I wonder why the freshman chicks are so umm how would you say it” Exek paused for a second and said quietly “Butt ugly.” then loudly he said “I mean beautiful.” after he introduced him self to the class and apologized for the dumb joke he helped several students and had a hard time trying not to laugh at the freshmen who didn’t know what to do.
The bus drive home seamed emptier to him but at least he had people to talk to. “Hello Ex how was, ah how you say, the first day of school?” King Tansanok, a new kid who transferred from another school, asked him. “You know it wasn’t that bad, I think its been better than last year, but I think you don’t know because you weren’t here, sorry.” He paused and looked at King with a worried face like they would be able to understand each other. “It is ok, back in Laos we also have separate school grades but we manage to continue living with each other.” King told him; some words of wisdom when the bus stopped at Exek’s bus stop. “See ya!” As they both waved, and Exek walked several minutes to the point where he was in front of his house.
“Hey Ex, moms pissed try not to say something stupid when you walk in.” Michelle shouted from the second floor of the house. “What happened now?” He asked while stepping back several steps from the door. “I don’t know, but I’m guessing that something happened at work” she said. “Ok lets see what she tells me.” Exek steps in the house and hears his mom yelling into the phone “Ex go to your ******** room now, I don’t want to see your face!” She yelled at him from the kitchen without looking at him. “Yes mum.” He responded, and rushed to his room. As he got in the room Michelle asked him what he was going to do for the rest of the day. “I’m going to go to sleep; just wake me up when its time to eat.” Impatiently Michelle urged that she wanted to go to the mall. “Ok, we’ll go later now let me sleep cause Azrael is bitching in my ear that she wants to come out.” Ex said as he sat in the bed holding his head. Exited Michelle said “Yay! Can she come out and play please? Its been a while since we did something girl to girl.” Exek grinned at her and told her not to mess around with his body. Exek lay on his bed and got into a blank state of consciousness.
Looking at a mirror Exek saw a girl’s reflection instead of his. “Hey Azrael its fine if you go out, I really don’t care but don’t do anything to my body nor kill anyone.” Smiling evilly Azrael agreed with him. Placing his hand on the mirror the two souls switched places and Azrael was free to walk on earth. Outside in the world not even a second had passed that she was out. “Hey Ez ready to go out and have fun?” Michelle hugged her. “Yea I am but Ex told me not to mess around with his body that much, I think its cause he doesn’t want me to put make up on it.” They both laughed and walked downstairs.
Looking at Exek’s body his mom hopped happily, “Azrael just the demon I wanted to see, what did Exek tell you about his body?” Azrael just shook her head and said, “It’s not to be used to mess around but to only have fun for the day.” “Oh, ok well ask him if you can kill someone for me.” Ex’s mom said. Azrael; a kind-hearted demon, who jumped in Exek’s body when he was a little boy, has to live with him. She was that demon who killed her dad after he decided to play God with Exek’s birth. At the same time Exek was born with a gift to communicate with Lucifer. Ever since Azrael jumped inside of Exek’s body, she had to follow what ever he says. Otherwise only she knows that the day when she has to tell him that she killed Sr. Exek; he would have to chose his own path, the evil path or the path that will lead him to heaven.
“Who do you want to kill?” Azrael asked her curiously. Looking weary she responded, “This new moron that came in as our advisor, just because he is new and getting paid better than us, thinks that he can tell us how to live our lives. Damn moron told me to get a boyfriend and I would be happy.” Azrael laughed and Mrs. Cresent grinned at her. “Ok Ill see what Exek will let me do then I might kill the guy but that is ******** hilarious, you and a boyfriend, like that would ever happen you’re an old hag.” As she said that Cresent threw a cup at her forehead, with a slight move and with a devilish smile she said “What are you trying to do, you know you wont ever be able to hit me, the only one that can do that is Exek, but his strength hasn’t awaken yet so I really don’t mind. Ready Michelle so we can go? I’m getting bored making fun of the old hag.”
“Man I'm so bored, not even in my own head I can get some fun.” Exek said while sitting in the throne of his conscious, “Guess I’ll head back after I take a nap.” Several hours had passed then Exek heard something. “Wakie wakie sleepy head!” Azrael was sitting on his lap messing around with his hair. “Its 8:30 are you going back?” While holding her he said that he was only going to eat and was going back to bed, Azrael got mad because the only thing he did was sleep all day, and also mentioned that his mom wanted to kill someone. “I’ll check up on his records, if I find something I don’t like then you can kill him. Ok?” Leaving the room Azrael asked him why he was spending all his time sleeping. “I don’t know I think this world is really boring and it seems that I don’t fit in it, just try to sleep I’ll be back later.”
“Exek your back already, its kind of late you know and moms still pissed.” Michelle said as he opened his eyes. Half awake and half asleep he said “Yea I know Azrael told me already. I think Ill go check out his records and I’ll see what I can do.” As his stomach rumbled he smiled and asked, “What are we eating?” Michelle told him that they went to the Pizzeria and had bought two pizzas and were waiting for him to so they could start eating. Sitting down he saw the guy’s report in the table. “Is this the moron mom?” he asked as he grabbed it. “Yea that’s him look at that, he is an ex-convict that got this job just because he is the bosses nephew.” Exek told her that he was going to let Azrael have fun.
After eating he did his homework and sat on his bed reading John, the person that was insulting his mom, an ex-convict that had a really well planed out life; but to him that didn’t matter. Lying in bed he went back in to his conscious and saw that Azrael was in some sort of bed like. “Azrael I know we have to live here like if we were out there, but I think this is getting out of hand.” He told her while trying not to laugh. “ I can dream cant I, so what do you think of the guy?” he told her that it was fine with him that she could have fun but that it would have to be at night and somewhere dark.
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Days passed by and Exek got closer to Melissa, with out noticing it she was falling in love with him and was losing hopes with her boyfriend. Mean while Exek met new people and gained more friends.
“Hey Meli how you doing?” Exek asked Melissa. “Tired.” And she nodded as she kept on eating breakfast. “Guess what, I got a new project that I need to do and I have several helpers in mind to help out too?” He asked her while waiting for a response he heard Azrael calling him to talk about the guy she killed. “Ok can you get to that later I have to go do something and I wont be here all day. I’ll talk to you later about it.” Leaving the table he waved and called his sister that was wondering in the hall. “Moshi Moshi” Exek told her that there were some problems with the death of Michael Winters, the guy who Azrael killed. Michelle asked what was wrong and he told her “I don’t know. Its been a while since he’s died and Azrael is having second thoughts, also the cops wont quit that investigation and their getting closer and closer, I think we’ll have to go somewhere different for the mean while and hide.” she told him that it was up to him and Azrael.
Later that day a man showed up in their house. “Hello how may I help you?
” Cresent asked. “Hello I’m the chief executer of the police station and I would like to ask you some questions regarding your co-worker Michael.” He stated in a weary voice.
“Sure, come in Mr. um I don’t recall you telling me your name.” she said. James he said.
“I’m investigating his abnormal death.” He pulled up several papers from under his coat, “I have the results of his death from the laboratory and the way I’m looking at its like his soul was ripped out of his body.”
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