Wow, 2 reviews, 3 follows and 1 favourite so far! I honestly didn't expect this much but thanks so much to those of who who reviewed and etc. because it really helps me get some more inspiration. I'm glad everyone enjoyed the first chapter and now we're on to the second one. Now I won't be introducing Undertaker JUST YET but I will be introducing Soma in this chapter so enjoy! It'll be just a deeper look into Valerie's new life at Phantomhive Manor.
"Morning!"
Ciel's eyes fluttered open and then he screamed at seeing Valerie leaning over him.
"Wha-what are you doing here?!" he demanded.
Valerie giggled. "It's almost 9 o'clock! You should've been up hours ago!"
"I always wake up at this time," Ciel grumbled, and then he looked around the room. "Where's Sebastian?"
"Preparing your breakfast I think," Valerie said. "But Ciel, doesn't he seem kind of creepy to you?"
Ciel's eyes wandered to the door of his room where Sebastian was waiting with his breakfast tray. "Creepy?" he asked, smiling. "In what way?"
"Well, he's pretty strict around your other servants and he seems to be a 'do-it-yourself' sort of handyman."
Ciel snorted. Sebastian a handyman?! It was an absurd thought. "What else?" he asked.
Valerie sucked in her lower lip. "Hmm, well he's also kind of grumpy. I've hardly ever since him smile."
Sebastian was smiling just then, but his eyebrow was twitching in irritation. How dare a human judge him of all people?
"I mean he's good looking if anything," continued Valerie. "I imagine he would look good if he was an opera singer. Just imagine him as a knight in shining armor, on stage playing the part of Don Jose in Carmen. Or maybe he'd be better as a bullfighter..."
Ciel couldn't hold it in anymore. He burst out laughing more than he'd laughed in a long time and so Sebastian decided to make his entry.
Valerie gasped as Sebastian appeared behind her, unaware that he'd heard everything she said. "G-good morning Sebastian," she nodded, curtsying clumsily and she would have fallen down if Sebastian hadn't caught her in time.
But Sebastian acted dubious and just gave a sweet smile. "Good morning," he answered.
"H-how did you sleep?" Valerie asked, at a loss for anything else to say?"
"Quite well," Sebastian said, "but that's not the main thing. How did you sleep, Lady Missy?"
Valerie smiled. "Well."
"I heard movement in your room before going to bed myself," Sebastian pointed out. "Are you sure you slept well?"
Valerie blushed. "Actually, I slept terribly. The bed was all lumpy on one side and so I kept having to face my left but it got uncomfortable so around midnight I just decided to start pacing the pass the time."
Sebastian only caught on to one thing. "The bed was not to your liking?"
Valerie turned to Ciel. "I don't know who made my bed Ciel, but that person's obviously a complete moron not to notice a lump that big on the bed."
Again Sebastian's eyebrow twitched since he had been the one to make Valerie's bed the night before, but he didn't say so.
"I'll go fix that lump and make it more comfortable for you tonight," he said, excusing himself from the room without even helping Ciel to change.
Ciel sighed, and sipped his tea but them almost instantly he spat it out. "This has no sugar!" he complained, while pushing the tea away. But it's not like Sebastian to make mistakes like that, he thought, as he went to choose out his clothes.
It was around lunchtime when Prince Soma and Agni decided to make a quick visit to Phantomhive Manor. They'd taken Ciel's townhouse carriage and arrived in the gardens just as Valerie and Ciel sat down to tea.
"CIEL!" Soma rushed ahead and hugged his young friend. "How mean! You didn't contact us in such a long time! For a while I thought you were dead or something!"
"As you can see, I'm not dead so let go of me!" Ciel retorted.
Soma stepped back and then noticed Valerie sitting across from him. "And who might you be?"
Valerie grinned. "Valerie Durless, monsieur. Je vois que tu parlez anglais!"
Soma rubbed his head. "What did she say? Is she french?"
"Oh no!" Valerie exclaimed. "No, I thought you were!"
Agni chuckled. "Pardon me, Miss Durless, but Prince Soma Asman Kadar is not French. He is pure Indian, I assure you."
"Oh!" Valerie fumbled at her mistake. "But you look French."
"What part of me looks French?" Soma sat down next to her and leaned forward, truly curious.
"Miss Durless is new here, I persume?" Agni asked.
"Call her Missy," Ciel said, waving his hand. "That's what everyone else calls her. Valerie, that man is Agni, Soma's servant."
"Oh wait, he's a prince right?" Valerie studied Soma for a moment or two. "He looks more like a belly dancer."
Agni cleared his throat while Soma laughed. "I can't belly dance all that well," the prince insisted. "I had servants who could though."
Sebastian appeared again, this time carrying a letter. "I think you should read this Milord," he said.
Ciel looked down at the envelope and noticed that it had the Royal Seal on it.
"Excuse us," he said, while he and Sebastian went up to his office.
Meanwhile, Valerie and Soma attempted to belly dance in the garden together, both of them ultimately failing.
Well, Soma and Valerie seemed to have hit it off but what's the letter from the Queen going to be about? Ciel's got another mission but will this disrupt Valerie's visit?
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