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Edward P.O.V
"Me and Skul got bored, and Ghastly was too busy making a suit and wouldn't play with us." I heard the woman, Tanith Low, complain as her and Stephanie walked down the hall. I growled quietly, frustrated. I couldn't hear any of their thoughts - the both of them were completely mute, and it annoyed me to no end.
Over the next few days, the mystery that was Stephanie Egdley got more irritating. She turned up, but it was like she wasn't there. She was blank faced, un-emotional, and would only speak when spoken to - nothing like the snappy girl I met on Monday. It was Thursday morning, and me and my siblings were lazily lounging around the car park, waiting for the bell to go, when a sleek black Bentley swerved into the lott. Out climbed Stephanie, and as she moved away from the car, I noted she was walking with a limp, and she had a faint scar curling down the left side of her face. What had happened?
"Have fun, Steph!" A deep, male voice said. She turned around, to look at the man. All I could see was a black fedora, a scarf and a pair of glasses on a hidden face. My fists clenched. I. Coundn't. Read. His. Mind.
"I hate you!" Stephanie yelled back. He laughed.
"No you don't, you look up to me." He said, a smile evident in his voice.
"Oh, get over yourself!" Stephanie sighed, and started to limp towards the building. "Stupid Funny Bones, making me come to school, I should be helping him and Tanith, not doing maths problems." She grumbled. She hadn't been like this over the last few days - it's like she's totally different.
"Stephanie!" Alice called.
I heard Stephanie mutter somethin like "Great, company." Sarcastically before she turned to look at us. My eyes went wide when I saw that her right eye was swollen. She slowly walked over to us, trying to hide the limp. So, Stephanie didn't want us to call her up on it. Well...
"What happened?" I asked, raising an eyebrow and looking from her leg to her eye.
"I fell down the stairs." She lied quickly. You know, to a human, she could be as good as an actress, but her heart beat sped up, giving her away. I didn't mention it, and she let out a sigh of relief. That got me thinking, had that man being hurting her? Abusing her? And who the Hell is Tanith, anyway?
I vowed to myself, I'd find out the mystery of Stephanie Edgley.
Valkyrie P.O.V
Ouch. Ouch. Ouch.
I limped to my first class, with Pixie-Cullen next to me. She was talking about some sort of shop over in America that she missed, and I really couldn't care less.
"Whats been up with you these last few days, Steph?" Alice asked, finishing her rant.
Oh shit, they met the Reflection. "I had something on my mind, is all." I lied. I was fighting Sanguine. And he still got away. Again. Damn, that was enough to put anyone in a bad mood. We made our way to the desk at the back, and I slouched into my seat, before I got out my phone and sent a text to Skulduggery.
Skul, I'm going to buy dog, and feed you to it, K?
- V
Alice was looking at me with a puzzled look.
"V?" Shit.
"It's my nickname, since one of my cousins friends forgot my name and called my Val, It stuck." I shrugged.
"Who is Skul?" Dammit!
"A friend." I answered lamely. My phone buzzed.
Don't text me, I'm working - Still chasing Sanguine.
Oh wait, didn't you want to help me on that case?
- SP
"Fucking bastard." I muttered.
"What is it?" Alice chirped.
"Nothing, I'm just jealous. I want to be a detective, follow in the footsteps of my friend, and sometimes he lets me help out with cases. He's doing one I wanted to do right now." I moaned.
"Detective, why?"
"Because they're badass." I answered simply.
After morning classes, I made out way to the canteen, and all the way there, I took advantage of the quiet. No one was talking to me. Thank God.
The quiet ended as soon as I set foot in the canteen.
"Stephanie!" Alice called. I groaned quietly. It isn't like I don't like them - they're good people - it's just that I'd rather be fighting crime than talking to other people my age. I limped over to the table, and slid in next between Pixie and Bronze Adonis.
"How about we play twenty questions?" Emmett boomed. No, lets not. I was over ruled, as everyone else cheered.
"Alright. Steph, whats your favourite colour?" Edward asked.
"You can't go wrong with black." I answered, grinning as I remembered when Ghastly said it on my first case with Skulduggery. "Whats yours?"
"Blue." He answered.
"Steph, whats your favourite pass time." Fighting crime.
"Martial Arts." There, that was close enough.
"So your a violent person?" Emmett asked.
"No." Yes. He smirked.
"I bet you are." He boomed.
"No I am not, I haven't got into a single fight..." I paused. "At school." I finished, making him laugh. I think that was the only thing I told them that wasn't a lie - apart from my favourite colour, that is. I caught Jasper eyeing me suspiciously, but I brushed it off and slouched back.
"Where did you actually get that scar?" Jasper asked.
"I thought we were playing twenty questions not 'Get all the information we can out of Steph'." I grumbled.
"Answer the question." Rosalie snapped. Ok, so she... Doesn't like me.
"I fell on a piece of glass, it went into my skin, and I had to go to my doctor. I hate hospitals." I finished as a mutter. I honestly did, I mean, whenever I visit Kenspeckle, I have a broken bone or something worse.
"Do you spend a lot of time in a hospital?" Edward inquired. I was overcome with the urge to tell the truth, and I tried not to, but failed miserably.
"Yes." I blurted out. He smirked, and opened his mouth to speak again, but my phone started to ring, and I quickly picked it up. Saved by the bell, I thought thankfully.
"Val!" Tanith screached down the phone.
"Shit, Tan! Talk quieter, you'll burst my ear drum." I stood up, made a 'one minuet' gesture at the Cullens, before walking away and standing just outside the canteen.
"Oh, so the girl who fought and conquered the Faceless Ones can't handle her bestfriend screaming. I'm impressed." She accused sarcastically.
"Leave me alone." I whined. If I was going to be forced into spending time at school, I didn't want my friends rubbing it in my face.
"Fine, I will. I just wanted to warn you that I'm picking you up on my motorbike afterschool.
"Jesus Tanith, do you want the whole school thinking I'm into drugs or something stupid?" I groaned.
"No, but it if it happens, I'll laugh my arse off!" I could hear her laughing.
"Alright, I'll see you later." I grumbled before hanging up and walking back in, and over to the Cullens.
"Who was that?" Edward asked.
"Tanith, my cousin." I answered with a smile.
"That woman from Monday." He said, understanding. "Where did you go, anyway?" Shit...
"Oh, nowhere. I just wanted to get out of school, and she understood my need to ditch P.E." I shrugged. Ha! That wasn't a lie.
"I would've thought you'd like P.E." Emmett said.
"Not when everyone is too easy to beat." I muttered. Cheating is way to tempting, and I'm better than most of them anyway, just because I actually have muscles from my training with Tanith.
"Hey, if you stay today, how about me, you and Rose have a race. I heard we're doing track." Alice chirped.
"Your on."
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