He was an angel . He had questionably authentic wings , but an angel nonetheless . No one really knew where he had come from , but I always assumed that it was a place like heaven , or close to it at least . Well , I suppose I can ' t pretend that ' s true . I originally thought he came from a bargin bin . He wore some of the shabbiest clothes I ' d ever seen on someone who lived in this part of town , but it wasn ' t something you ever noticed . His smile was just too good at stealing your attention it was loud , infectious , and all of those other things that cause you to want to talk to a person . Honestly , I don ' t know how he got into Oren ' s Preparatory , but I would believe it if you said he smiled his way in . He had talked his way into too many parties , free meals , and hangouts for me to question it . But honestly , it didn ' t matter how he had gotten into the school I ' m just glad that he did . If he hadn ' t , I probably would be a murderer by now and my best friend and exgirlfriend would have been swimming with the fishes . I ' m just glad he was around to stop me before I knew I needed to be stopped . He was only ever around for a short period of time , but it seemed like all the time we needed . Maybe a school full of elite , uppermiddle class kids isn ' t the first place you think of when you ' re worrying about troubled youth , but at the end of the day it ' s all we knew back then . High pressure environments , pretentious peers , and parents that were impossible to live up to . Most people are astonished to hear about the heavy drug usage and suicide rates compared to America ' s average high school , but honestly I was surprised we weren ' t worse . I still feel like they ' re hiding the real numbers from us . Of course , I knew he was hiding something from us as well . His one pair of shoes had those stupid adidas wings on the side and he refused to wear anything else no matter how many times he got written up over them . I asked him once why he didn ' t buy a different pair or just rip off the stupid things and he just laughed Hermes can ' t deliver the messages without the wings . Besides , they ' re fly . That was the day I was finally sure he was an idiot , but he was still the idiotsavant that saved us all . Now let ' s be clear Kyle didn ' t magically come down from the heavens and solve all our problems . I said he was an angel , not a god . But he did something for us that no one had ever really done . He showed us that it was okay to live without worrying about anything else , but doing just that . And that was enough .