Cory And Suzy, Katryn Ali [13 inch ebook reader txt] 📗

Grant, and Gabriel couldn't go. They had to work but Michael had today off.

Up in the mountains as they looked for the tree, Moiya kissed him, just like that. "I love you, Michael," she said.

He thought her kiss was nice but a bit too wet. "Well, I love you too, mush-head," he said.

"No, I mean, I really love you, I want to spend my whole life with you. I just don't care if you are a Jeni and haveruules of who to marry. I want to get married and have babies," she said. Her heart was just a thumping. He stopped in his tracks. Amistis just looked at him, then at Moiya.

“I told you, I can't marry you,” Micheal told her firmly. Why hadn't she dropped this foolish crush on him?

"In love. I'm in love. I want us to see each other," she got out. He swallowed. What was he to do now? He couldn't tell her all of it. That he was an Angel, and angels did not have that kind of a relationship.

He did not want to lead her on. He sighed. "Honey, I don't feel the same," he finally said. He knew he had to. He could not pretend. Her face fell and he felt like a first class heel.

"Moiya, I adore you. Sweetheart. You are one of my best friends," he said.

Michael was trying to take Moiya's hand but she pulled away. "No," she barely spoke. She could not be best buddies with him!

"That's fine. I understand. I'm cold. Going back to the truck," she said and began to leave. She sobbed and sobbed. He got the tree cut down, then he and Amistis dragged it back to the truck. He had given Moiya the keys to start the engine and turn the heater on. He saw she was just a crying. He felt horrible. He loved her with all his angelic heart could hold. "Oh Father, why does it have to be so hard?" he prayed.

When they got home she ran up the stairs. Raphael heard her crying. "What happened?" he barked. Michael then told him.

"Oh man! I totally forgot. I knew her feelings for you were deep. She told me last week and I was going to give you the heads up on it," he said.

"Why didn't you tell me! I could of prepared myself better! I already knew she had some crush on me, and I told her before some lame excuse; that my people get promised for marriage at a real young age," Michael roared at him now.

"I got busy. I forgot. I'm sorry," Raph replied.

Raphael knocked on the door. "If it's Michael, GO AWAY!" Moiya growled.

"Honey, it's Raphael," she heard. She sat up and wiped her eyes. When he asked if he could come in, she said yes.

"He said he didn't feel the same way," she then sobbed to him. He held her as she cried. "Honey, he loves you very much. So do I," he said and wiped a big tear from her eye. She looked into his blue eyes. Man, was he handsome, she noticed.

Michael did not look so good in the light of her eyes any longer. Raphael was much better looking.

She was about to say something to see if he'd like to go out with her, when he said, "Truth is Moiya, Michael, Gabriel, and I belong to a certain Christian sect, and we cannot marry. We devoted our whole lives to Christ instead," he said feeling moved, compelled even, by the Spirit, to speak this.

"Yes, we are like the Jeni," he spoke sensing that was her next question. "And we are allowed to not accept our traditions to serve God. But only that," he explained to her.

"Grant too, but he married Amistis anyway because she is so ill, to help take care of her, she should not be alone. They fell in love but they both have taken the oath of chastity, even though they got married," Raphael could feel his mouth just a flapping and the words flowing forth. Well, it was more the truth than not. Moiya looked up at him.

"I loved him. Fine. I don't think I will ever marry either," she said.

"How bout we go out for a pizza and go do some bowling. Nothing against friends doing fun stuff together," he then invited.

"Why didn't Michael say that then? Instead he said, 'I don't feel the same,' " Moiya blurted out now. Raphael took her hand. "Well, the truth is, he does care for you very much. So do I. I'd marry you in a second if I wasn't involved with serving our Lord," Raphael told her. She was so deeply touched.

"I guess the words just came out all wrong. Don't hold it against him. He didn't mean it as you took it, Moiya," Raphael said.

"You truly are a gift from God," she told him. They then went to tell Michael about the outing and to invite him too. But Moiya hoped he'd say no. But he said he'd love to.

"Raphael is my best friend," she told him matter of factly as they went to get into his truck. Angeleeka was there. Amistis too squeezed in. Gabriel went too, but he drove the van which Grant, Ardimus, Jackmist, Staggisus, Ahha, Petra also went. Cory and Suzy wanted to go but it was too cold out.

Amistis sat next to Raphael and Moiya kept wanting to be the only one who got any attention from him, she wanted Amistis to go sit with her hubby and leave Raphael to her.

At the pizza parlor Ahha, Petra, Staggisus, Jackmist, and Ardimus all sat at a booth for aliens that were small, their size.

Staggisus smacked down his cheese pizza. "CheeeeZZZeeey," he said. Angeleeka laughed.

"Boy, was that good. Man, am I ever full," Raphael said. Michael gave out a belch. Gabriel just looked at him.

"After Christmas, Ahha and I will be returning to Quorlec 7 and I have a favor to ask of you, AAyael," Petra said.

"Staggisus, we are leaving with you until the end of summer comes. There is a bad epidemic of a reindeer flu virus going around and I don't want him exposed," Petra said.

"Huh?" Staggisus spoke.

"Sure, he can stay," Amistis replied.

"He'd better be good," Grant then said under his breath. Raphael heard.

"You can discipline him as you see fit," Petra also put in.

"Huh?" Stag honked.

"I suggest giving him a time out in a closet. That's what I do back home," Petra revealed his secret to him and Amistis. Raphael blurted out then in a little laugh. It was kind of funny. He cleared his throat.

"And, if Amistis too misbehaves, we'll put her in a closet along with him," Michael then said in a tease. Amistis squinted at him. Raphael gave her a wink.

For Christmas Moiya got a glass horse from Michael. It was beautiful. She was very touched but she still hadn't warmed back up to him too good. Raphael got her a snow dome. Inside the snow globe was a nice big house with lights on it and a Christmas tree outside with lights on it. He also got that, well, a different scenery for Amistis, but it was a Christmas looking snow globe too.

Michael got AAyael a glass dolphin. Grant got Moiya a fancy little table lamp. For his wife he got her a nice white fancy pair of gloves. They had little diamonds in them.

"Here, watch this," Raph said to Amistis and wound up her snow globe. The whole globe inside lit up now. He then did Moiya's. "Oh wow!" she exclaimed.

"Yeah, they both run on battery energy. It takes a circular type battery. You can get it at any hardware store," he explained.

All in all it was a wonderful Christmas.

Staggisus cried like a baby when Ahha and Petra left. He moped around for weeks. But he finally seemed to snap out of it. The weather began to turn warmer and so Cory and Suzy could finally go back outside to play.

"I have an assignment," Michael told Raphael, Grant, and Gabriel.

"I'd better go tell my goodbye to Amistis and Moiya," he said.

"Oh, they both have grown so attached to you. They sure will miss you," Raphael said.

"I know. I have too, but we'll be together again. If not now, in eternity," he said. He then went and told them. Told them that he had been transferred off the planet. They seemed to take it well enough.

"If I can I will return this summer and we'll go camping," he told them and they hugged.

Amistis really missed Michael and could not wait to see him again. But Moiya had to get him out of her mind so she moved out and got her own place and forgot she ever met him. It was just how she did things.

Spring had come and Amistis heard from Michael. He asked how she was doing and that he'd be back by the summer if all went well. He had one last assignment before coming back.

Gabriel had put off and put off his next set of inoculations and was scheduled soon to leave to be given them.

It had been a gamble that year to go so long without them but thankfully he hadn't caught anything bad.

With summer soon to arrive he was not in danger of getting seriously sick until the fall so he had plenty of time to get his last shots and recover from them.

But Michael's human type body was killed while he was on the assignment. He would not be coming back. He was now back in Heaven with the Father. Gabriel postponed his shots to help Amistis, Angeleeka, and Moiya out after they would be told about Michael.

Amistis came home from work. It was the first day of summer and she was so happy. She'd see Michael soon.

Raphael was sitting on the couch and he'd been crying. Gabriel sat there too with him. Grant stood near by and the look she saw on his face, you'd think a puppy had died.

Grant, Raphael, and Gabriel all quieted up and Raph dried his eyes. He didn't want her seeing him in such a state.

"What's up? Raph?" she asked. He didn't know what to say.

"Come here Amistis. I have top tell you something, honey," Grant then broke the silence. He took her hand.

She knew something was wrong. She sat. Angeleeka came into the house now too. She'd just gotten off work at the ice cream shoppe.

"Honey, come sit down. I have some bad news," Raphael finally said.

When Grant told them that Michael was dead, Angeleeka went running up the stairs crying but Amistis was in denial. "No he's not," she said simply and got up from the couch. Cory and Suzy began to cry. So did Staggisus. He had loved Michael too.

Amistis sobbed and sobbed on her bed.

"It's okay honey, I miss him too," Grant said holding her as she cried. He wasn't sure if she would recover alright. He was concerned about her disease.

Amistis did not do good in the night. Grant was afraid with the stress and all over Michael's death she might have a relapse. Raphael sure hoped Angeleeka didn't.

Grant had to give Amistis mouth to mouth in the night because she stopped breathing. He soon had to insert a breathing tube down her throat. Raphael and Gabriel helped him get her to the hospital.

Gabe drove while Grant continued to bag breathe for her as he stayed with her on the back seat along with Raphael. Once at the hospital he got her into Intensive care and onto a vent. "Come on sweetheart, don't give up, you just can't, AAyael. Not now, not like this," he said holding her hand. He then prayed, "Father, please don't take her yet."

Amistis got better. Raphael and Gabriel were angels in shining armour and she grew even more attached to them now.

"We should go. This is not good that the humans get so attached to us here," Gabriel told him later that