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The Guardian Angel With No Wings ~Chapter 2~

Chapter 2: Gabriel

A quick check of my clothes in front of a mirror, I grabbed my jacket and started to pull it on before tossing it back with a shrug onto my bed, which I’d actually made up for once. Wouldn’t need it wherever I was going. The Almighty One had said as much earlier before He told me to get ready to leave. Now I had only one question left. Where was I going and who was my assignment? Wait, I thought, that’s two questions.

I walked out of my room into a cloud-white hallway and stretched some. From what I had been told so far my assignment was a male living in a small town located somewhere in a country called the United States of America. In my whole life I’ve never been away from Heaven and the only things I knew about Earth came from textbooks and whatever I had learned through my training. I was clueless about anything besides that. That’s where my training became very crucial to my assignment. I had no idea what I’d be facing down on Earth and I had to be prepared for everything.

“Lena?”

I turned to where the voice came from and automatically narrowed my eyes. “What do you want, Gabriel?”
Gabriel was top of all our classes when we were training to become guardian angels. I was always second. He was excellent, I had to admit to that, but he could have been less stuck up and more easy-going about it. Wouldn’t have killed him. Actually as angels we can’t be killed anyway.

“Hey, Lena. I noticed you didn’t get your wings.” He smirked. “I knew you wouldn’t make it as a guardian angel.”

My temper flared but I bit my tongue. No use saying anything, he always had a comment on the tip of his tongue to fire back at me. Instead of saying the million or so curses that came to mind I said, “Yeah, I didn’t get my wings, but I’m still an angel.”

“But all angels have wings.” Gabriel chuckled some. “Lena, you don’t have wings. That means you can’t possibly be an angel.”

“Not all angels need wings to be an angel!” I growled. Sometimes Gabriel just got under my skin and I could only take but so much of him. “You can ask Him yourself! Actually, I’m going to meet with him right now. Care to join?”

He lost the smirk on his face. “You’re actually going to see the Almighty One? I have to come along and see this. I don’t believe a word you’re saying.”

I shrugged, I didn’t care if he believed me or not. “Whatever.” Turning on my heels, I started off in the opposite direction that Gabriel had come and didn’t look back to see if he was following along. Of course he would, not many angels ever got to speak personally with the Almighty One, except at ceremonies. Visits to Him were rare, and practically non-existent to newly assigned guardian angels. It interested us beyond comparison what the Almighty One was like in person. So, in a way, I didn’t blame Gabriel one bit that he wanted to tag along with me to my brief meeting with Him before I went to Earth and started my assignment.

The guards standing by the Almighty One’s closed doors stepped back when I approached and I halted for a second. Gabriel stopped at my side and I snuck a glance at him. Slight fear was present on his face and I blinked. He was afraid? When I was speaking with Him earlier today regarding why I wouldn’t be receiving my wings I wasn’t afraid, actually I was full of questions regarding my wings and my assignment. I didn’t feel any fear. So why begin now? Standing up straighter, I stepped forward and went through the double, pearl white doors that led to the Almighty One’s room with Gabriel at my heels.