Kiss Me, Angel by Jacquie Underdown

Author:Jacquie Underdown [Underdown, Jacquie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-08-18T05:00:00+00:00

Belle lies on a blanket, which sprawls across the lush grass, and nestles in beside Louis. His arms are under his head, his attention on the wispy, white clouds blotting the blue sky. Their blanket sits atop a cliff, the ocean’s rhythmical waves crashing against its rocky base metres below. Breeze that smells of salt and sea whirls around them, caressing their skin like a lover’s touch.

“The earth is truly beautiful,” says Belle.

“Not for much longer. It’s dying, yet the complacency over this fact staggers me.”

“We’re too comfortable.”

“Brain-washed is more to the point.”

Belle sits up, looks down at Louis with wide eyes. “Brain washed?”

He raises his arms loosely out in front of him, like a zombie, his eyes staring vacantly at the sky above. “I must have three T.V.s. I must buy the latest fashions. I must have the latest phone that is no different from the previous version. Nothing lasts.

"Everything’s made with cheap parts so you’re forced to buy yet another product once it breaks. People are spending more and more under the guise of helping our dwindling economy and chucking the products away just as quickly, so they end up as mountains of landfill. But it doesn’t bring happiness, and it doesn’t help the billion who are starving….” He stops, drops his arms to his side and takes a deep breath in. “I’m sorry.”

She holds her hand up. “No. Don’t be sorry. You’re exactly right. That’s exactly the case. I see it every day with my work. My kids are from the worst conditions, barely have a roof over their heads, hardly have food on the table each night. If we didn’t provide breakfast and lunch, some of them wouldn’t eat. And yet you drive a half hour north and you’ll find million-dollar ten bedroom, ten bathroom mansions with two people living in them.”

He smiles faintly. “I just think people are being thrown off their natural purpose in life. Their natural compassion and generosity has been subverted, and they’re brain-washed to instead carry-out the purposes of a few insidious men and ideas. And the sad and most frightening thing is that billions of people are following blindly.”

“I think things are changing, though, Louis. I’ve felt the change. I’m part of that change with the school I teach at. I’ve seen people becoming more aware of how things are actually run, rather than how we are told they are run.”

He nods emphatically. “I admire you so much, Belle, for that. You’re one of the few who operates altruistically. And that’s why I’m here — to make people realise the lies they’re being told, to raise their state of awareness, to return this planet, intact, to its people.”

She looks down at his determined face. “You never told me that.” She smiles. “I thought you were an artist.”

He levers onto his elbow, runs his fingers gently along her throat where the angel charm once sat, now only a faint pink scar from where it was torn free. “I am that too.”

“So who do you work for? Someone local? Is that why you moved here?”

He smiles bashfully.

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