Crystal Bella by Marty Christopher

some big angels you know.”
    Kali laughed. He’s gorgeous, you’re an angel she said to herself and Ethan heard her thoughts and it just made him glow even more.
    “ You know I have seen you before.”
    “ I know, (matter-of-factly) you walked past me in the hall at college yesterday. It’s an intense stare you have.”
    “Sorry about that in the three seconds that we had, I was trying to read your thoughts.” Kali cracked up and a couple from the table looked over hearing her angelic, loud, impulsive laugh. Ethan continued. “I’m glad you remembered though. I got a whole hour to look at you. You couldn’t see me.”
    “ Really?”                                                    
    “ Yeah, I was a student in your class of course, I wasn’t just randomly watching.”
    “ Oh that changes the dynamics, you’ve heard me talk for an hour.”
    “ It was a little unfair. You couldn’t really see me as there was a girl in front of me and I kinda liked being anonymous. Only for that moment.” Ethan paused then leaned forward slightly. “I’m not usually like that. I needed an unfair advantage, only at the beginning.”
    “Like a golf handicap?” Ethan tried not to laugh.
    “No ... not like that. It’s like having special powers and just using them at the beginning, and a bit later too maybe.”
    “Ok ay I‘ll let that one slide. Maybe I have special powers.”
    “I’m sure you do.”
    “You have a lovely accent.”
    “ Thank you, I spent a couple of years as a teenager in New Zealand, my mom got a job over there, beautiful place. Some of the words or the sound of the words still remain.”
    “How cool.”
    “ You’re cool.” It just came out of Ethan’s mouth.
    “You are .”
    “You are.”
    The words were just slipping out. Ethan almost said the cool bit in his head but they just came out. Kali made him flow, everything was coming out easy. He could say anything. He had to be careful. She was bringing out the essence in him but he knew he had to take it slow, that in life he had been taught already.
    The waitress came over and they ordered their coffees.                                                            
    “ Aren’t you meant to be at class?” Ethan asked.
    “ Yes and you too I’m guessing?”
    “ Yeah but it’s a little more chilled for me, I’m not the professor. Crazy morning, alarm didn’t go off, every street is blocked.”
    “ Me too!” she said.
    “ And we end up here, and here you are. The same time, in one big city and you’re in front of me again, just a little closer this time”
    “ I am.”
    They stare d at one another. It just felt so right for Ethan. She was gorgeous and he wasn’t afraid. He knew if had met her earlier in life he would be afraid. Her beauty was powerful but now he just felt addicted without any pinning from the mind, like two peas in a pod, they fitted and both were fascinated with one another.
    “ So you’re okay just not turning up for a class today?” Ethan asked.
    “ I normally would be concerned by this, but at this moment I just don’t care. I look honest, I’ll make up a good lie.”
    Kali mea nt every word, she didn’t care. Nothing else seemed to matter right now, like discovering a new wonder world. All Kali wanted to do was stay there.
    “ I understand,” he said, “I’ll tell them I was watching you for a whole hour and confirm whatever you tell them.”
    “ What should I say I was doing?” Kali asked then remembered she didn’t know his name yet. “Oh before you answer that...what is your name?” Angel boy I bet, she thought to herself and Ethan again could sense her words in her head. He was sure he could hear them.
    “Ethan. ”
    Beautiful , sounds like ether. A world she had read up on, a world of love that she knew existed. He was love, maybe he was Ethan from the ether. She couldn’t wait to