Chapter Three
Happy Birthday!
Stephanie Edgely woke that morning with a feeling of dread. And a lot of pain due to some psychopaths but that is a whole different story. Well today the main feeling was dread for her.
"Okay", she told herself as she slowly got up from her bed at Gordon's, "your turning 100. Not the end of the world right".
She groaned and muttered "of course it may as well be, another one of Tanith's surprise parties. God I hope she hasn't invited everyone like last time".
Valkyrie got changed and wearily made her way down the stairs and sticking to the shadows, she hoped to catch them out.
-SQUEK-
"Shit" she growled at the stairs when the muttering from downstairs instantly stopped but she however was now yelling insults at the stairs. This fact had now worried Skulduggery Pleasant a lot, since after he'd known her for 88 years now and he had never seen or heard her insult an object that had no way of answering back.
"Ugh, are you okay?" – ten minutes of more insults thrown at the stairs – "VALKYRIE CAIN" the skeleton roared, she span round and tumbled over and over the banister.
Skulduggery caught her and barely noticed the huge blush on Valkyrie as he did so. Everyone had rushed over to her as she had fallen but soon realised without Skulduggery she would have been fine because of the huge banner in the way.
"SURPRISE" Tanith yelled in her ear earning a smack which caused a play fight to happen again.
"Okay you have two choices the first is what Tanith wants to do the second is something we only thought about a few minutes ago. One is that we go to the beach the second is a boat ride" Ghastly said splitting the two girls apart.
Val smirked and said "I want to go to the pier and then on a boat and then go to the pictures and then have dinner and then go bowling. Oh, sorry Tanith we wouldn't have any time for the beach".
The blonde glared at the black haired girl before dragging her outside and placing the helmet on her head.
"OH NO!" Valkyrie screamed as Tanith pushed her to the front of the bike, it was official she half hated her birthday and Tanith now hated her.
Pier
"Never. Do you understand? NEVER. I refuse to go on that motorbike again" yelled Valkyrie as she placed the wet cloth on a large gash on her arm.
"Oh please Val. I am much stronger than you and there is no way anyone can get past my motorbike".
10 seconds later
"Hey Val I have a surprise for when we get home" someone yelled over the now chattering people because a certain motorbike had crashed into a gas main causing an explosion.
Dear Diary,
(Everything that just happened)
Basically nothing interesting happened after that, well except when we got home and apparently left Skul there because no one could find him anywhere. That was just odd, but now I know it was him that had a surprise for me when I got home because I checked outside and it went pretty much like this after that.
A guy stood in front of me, he had light grey eyes and shocking black hair, for some strange reason I recognised him from somewhere. Also that playful smile on his face.
"Hey Val" said the velvet voice of no one un-other than Skulduggery Pleasant. I was in shock of course.
"Happy Birthday" he said engulfing me in a hug, which was weird because I was used to the bones of his arm crushing me to death.
"Okay Skulduggery this seems like a present to yourself and not to me. I don't think that is how birthdays work. I mean it may have been that way a few hundred years ago but not now, Pleasant" Valkyrie said cheekily to him.
"Oh no, it was so I could do this" he said calmly before kissing me. Wow I could get used to that. And of course our happy, private moment was inturrpeted by my best friend Tanith who I kill right now.
"That was so CUTE!" she screamed and rushed off to tell someone.
"I love you by the way" he said to me.
"I love you too" I muttered as I turned bright red.
"I know" he said, I swear if his ego got any bigger it would destroy the Earth and maybe the Universe.
But at least I had a good birthday and a new boyfriend
Love
Val.