Valkyrie followed Caelan's instructions. She called Skulduggery later the next day.
"Hello?"
"Yes...um...Skulduggery?Um...can I have tommorow off? I have some family plans."
"What kind of family plans?" He asked suspision in his voice.
"You know family stuff?"
"Hmm...And how long is this family stuff going to take?"
"All day?"
"Hm...Okay you can have the day off. Ghastly's always complaining that I should give you more days off." He sighs. "Just don't get into any trouble, will you?"
"No. I won't. Promise."
"Ok so I won't see you tommorow."
"Oh and Skulduggery-"
"Yes?"
"-You can't bother me for any reason what so ever."
"Why not?"
"Um...because it is really important to me and if I get ONE phonecall my parents will KILL me."
"Oh in that case maybe I won't. Bye."
"Bye." She hung up and sighed as she sat on her bed. She hated keeping secrets from Skulduggery. She had just told him all of hers recently and now she was keeping more. She sighed again. She felt like she was cheating on him and on her promise to Tanith. She didn't want to have a day off just to spend it with the one person he SPECIFICALLY told her not to talk to. She put her head in her hands, she feared Caelan. Well...not him exactly. She feared her own feelings for him. Skulduggery had warned that vampires are obessive and dangerous. But Caelan is different she argued. Now she doesn't know what to think. Society's rules or her feelings. Maybe tommorow will help make up her mind.
She looked at the time and it was getting late. She leaned back on her bed and fell asleep.
Tap...Tap...Tap.
Valkyrie woke up. She looked at her yellow alarm clock. It said 3.30 in the morning. She leaned her head back on her pillow groggily.
Tap...Tap...Tap.
The irregualring tapping continued. Slowly she stood up, placing her feet unsteadily on the ground. Tap...tap...tap. Something was repeatidly being thrown at her window. Rubbing her eyes she moved toward it. She slowly lifted it up off the sill and got hit by a small stone. She cursed now more awake.
She stuck her head out of the window and looked down to see a shadowy figure. That's it! she thought. This guy doesn't know who he's messing with and is going to cop it for waking me. She quickly grabbed her protective jacket and touched her reflection.
"Stay here in case I don't come back. I'm going to teach some guy a lesson!" She orded. "Pretend you are asleep the return to my normal home schedule. Got it?"
"Yes." Her reflection replied
Manipulating the air around her she glided down the vertical wall, landing straight in front of the shadowy figure.
"Okay what is your problem mister?" She said strugging to keep her voice down and pointing rudely at him.
He grabbed her wrist gently and she intantly relaxed. She didn't know why though.
"Who are you and what do you want?" Her anger and lessened and so did her volume.
"You missed our appointment." Instantly her eyes widened and she yanked her wrist back.
"Caelan? Wha-what are you doing here?" She continued to back away.
"Don't you remember our agreement?" Damn! How could she have forgotton.
"Yes but it-it's night-ti-time-"
"I found a cure remember?" He said pulling out a syringe. She stopped backing away remembering the finer agreements. Slowly she took a deep breath. Taking another look at him she noticed him wearing denim jeans that were torn at the knees and frayed at the cuffs. He wore red high top tennis shoes that were well worn. He worn a thick leather jacket that only slightly covered his bare chest. Her eyes lingered a little too long on his pale chest for her liking. Quickly looking up she gazed into his dark eyes almost tranfixed.
"You ready?"
She blushed deeply. He held out her hand to her.
"What are we going to do?"
He smiled. "Trust me" he said.
A/N The story will get more detailed later on as it complexes. This is all very necessary to the story and I really need some reviews. Please! Please!
