Here is chapter 2 of this story. You will meet Valkyrie in Sword & Cross and two more students lol
Chapter 2: Friends
Valkyrie arrived at Sword & Cross at nine o'clock Saturday morning. She was nervous enough as it is but luckily there were two other students starting that day. One was a boy and the other a girl. They looked like they were together. The girl was pale-skinned with long blonde hair and a nice slim body not too dissimilar to Valkyrie's, only the girl had more curves. The boy was the opposite. He was tall with dark hair that curved around his high cheekbones. His skin was the colour of bronze as if he had spent hours in the sun and got himself a tan.
"Right now that we're all here," the attendant said. "Let's get started. This is the main foyer. This is where reception is and where you will go to get your confiscated items. You will not be allowed your mobile phones during school hours even if they are in your bags. They will be taken off you for one week and you will have only get 15 minutes in the phone booths here. The dorms are in that building over there and your classrooms are over there," she just explained where everything was but Valkyrie wasn't listening. She was too busy missing Skulduggery, Tanith, Ghastly and even Fletcher and she'd only been away for five minutes. How was she going to last 6 months?
She wished she had left things between her and Fletcher a bit better than she did. When he had broken up with her because she gotten the wrong idea when his ex-girlfriend had kissed him and she'd seen it, she felt like a dagger had gone through her heart. She still liked him but just said she didn't to make the pain easier on both of them. She didn't know this but Fletcher hates himself for dumping her and for her seeing what he did. He hates himself so much for hurting her.
"Now if you three would like to follow me I will show you to your rooms." The three students followed the attendant to the dorms where she knocked on a door and a dark, shoulder-length haired girl appeared in the doorway. She looked at the attendant and opened the door wider where a golden-haired boy was sitting on a bed on a Nintendo DS.
"Ah I'm glad your both in here." The attendant said. "Luce, Daniel these are you new roommates. Luce this is Stephanie and Ever," she pointed to Valkyrie and the blonde girl next to her. "Daniel this is Damen and he will be in your room." Daniel grunted and put the DS down while Luce went to sit next to him. They crossed their arms and stared at the attendant.
"I'll let you get settled," she said and left.
"OK you two," Luce said. "I'm keeping my bed here you two can fight over who gets the bed in the corner."
"Luce," Daniel whispered in her ear. "I thought we agreed we were going to be nice?" he looked at the three new students.
"Come on Damen. I'll show you to our room and help you get settled." Then he and Damen left the room.
"Sorry about that. So which one's Ever and which ones Stephanie?" Luce asked.
"I'm Stephanie," Valkyrie said. "It's a pleasure to meet you,"
"Yes. It is. Have you had a tour yet or do you want to get settled."
"Um I'd like to get settled first thanks," Ever said. "Which room is Damen in though. I want to see him later,"
"Oh he's just two doors down the right but opposite." She walked over to two wardrobes.
"Ever this is your wardrobe and Stephanie this is you one." Then they all started to unpack Valkyrie and Ever's things. They talked and got to know each other when they heard the loudspeaker crackle in the hallway.
"Everyone just a reminder that as of Monday the school uniform system will be put into place. Any students not wearing a uniform will be put in detention. If you continue to ignore that then you will be on kitchen duty. Cook always needs help with washing up. Repeat as of Monday morning the school uniform system will be in place. That means you wear school uniform Arriane."
"Typical Randy. Always blaming Arriane. Randy was the one who brought you here by the way." Luce said. There was a knock at the door and Valkyrie opened it. Standing there was skinny dark-haired girl in the style very similar to Luce's.
"Oh hey. Is my pet in?" she asked
"Your pet?"
"Luce. Duh,"
"Luce it's for you," Valkyrie said as the dark-haired girl walked in. "Won't you come in," she said sarcastically but quietly.
"Hey Luce can you believe Randy? Seriously I'm not that bad at keeping to the rules am I?"
"No Arriane your not. Oh this is Stephanie and Ever my new roommates."
"Oh hey girls. I'm Arriane. Do you want to come outside and sunbathe with us?"
"Yeah sure," Ever said.
"No thanks I'm going to stay here for a while. Finish unpacking and text my friends on my phone," Valkyrie said.
Arriane, Luca and Ever walked out the door where Daniel and Damen were waiting and they walked over to the edge of the forest and lay down to start sunbathing. Valkyrie sat down on her bed and cried silently into her pillow. She missed Skulduggery. She missed Tanith. She missed Ghastly. She jumped when her phone rang. She looked at the number and name:
Skulduggery Calling
She flipped her phone up and put it to her ear.
"*sniff* Hello?*sniff*"
"Hey Valkyrie. How's the school?"
"Terrible. I have to share a room with two other girls. *sniff* It looks like a bloody cemetery, and I'm not joking when I say there is actually a cemetery here."
"Have you been crying?"
"What? No, of course not why? *sniff*"
"Well you've just sniffed four times in two minutes. You never do that unless you've been crying. What's happened?"
"Nothing. I'm just homesick,"
"Valkyrie you've been there for two hours. How are you already homesick?"
"It's complicated. And it's been longer than two hours. Your watch must have stopped again,"
"Oh yeah. So you've been there for four hours."
"Yeah pretty much. I'm homesick." There was a knock at the door.
"Skul I've got to go. I've got a visitor. I'll talk to you later," she got up and started walking to the door.
"OK Valkyrie. I'll call you later. We've got to talk about the fact you're homesick," She opened the door and standing there was Cam.
"OK Skul. I'll text ya when I'm free." She hung up and looked at Cam.
"Hey," he said
"Hi," she said
"I'm Cam," he held out a hand, she shook it
"I'm Val- Stephanie,"
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. I'm Stephanie,"
"Sorry for dropping by like this but I saw you and I thought I could show you around? If no-one had already?" he offered, holding his hand out again.
"Um sure," she said taking his hand. There was something about Cam that made her like him. He had wavy black hair and deep green eyes that she wouldn't mind staring into for hours on end. He walked her around to a sports field and she didn't even realise that they were talking about their lives until he asked her what she was doing there. She then realised she didn't know. She had come home one day and her parents had said that she had to go here. Why? They didn't say.
"I don't know why I'm here," she said. "My parents just said one day 'you're going to Sword & Cross boarding school' they ever told me why. I'll ask them later. Or get my boy- ex-boyfriend to find out for me,"
"Ex-boyfriend? So you're single?"
"Yes. And I'm happier about it than ever. I've got more time for me. You should have seen my roommates Luce and Ever and the way they are with their boyfriends,"
"Oh I know what Luce and Daniel are like. Trust me. In fact she actually liked me and Daniel at one point but I was the only one nice to her. She practically used me until Daniel decided he wanted her just because we both knew she was more interested in him than me. Then she just dropped me and decided she hated me,"
"That's horrible. Such a shame she doesn't seem to be the kind to do that,"
"Oh trust me she's like that. Anyway I don't want to talk about Luce. It's getting dark. Maybe we should go in?"
"Yeah sure. It's getting cold too," They walked back to Valkyrie's room.
"Um. Do you want to pop by my room later?" Cam asked.
"Maybe I shouldn't. I don't like explaining to people where I go."
"OK. How about tomorrow morning you meet me outside the cafeteria at seven o'clock and we can get breakfast together?"
"Yeah sure. I'd like that." He walked her up to her door and she walked in where Luce and Ever were already there gossiping about their boyfriends. Neither of them seem to be what they appear but she ignored them and sat on her bed texting her mum.
Mum why did u send me here? U didn't tell me y!
She waited for hours when a reply came through.
I'm sorry darlin. Ur father's got a job to do in England so he's going to be away for a while and I've got to do some work in the South for a while so it was Just easier to send you to tht school so it doesn't mess up your education by making you keep moving schools all the time. Also ur father and I r splittin up and we didn't want to worry u. We thought it best to send u there while we sort things out.
Not what she was expecting. How could they do that to her? Valkyrie cried herself to sleep that night. And it wasn't very early.
Valkyrie went to the cafeteria at 7.00am on the dot. And there waiting for her was, of course, Cam. He was wearing a plain black t-shirt that looked tight but showed off his strong muscles. He had a pair of baggy dark blue jeans that just covered the top of his black converses. He looked dark and mysterious, the complete opposite of Fletcher. For that she was grateful. He was tall, about an inch taller than her and she felt so fragile when she was next to him in her blue t-shirt that was long enough to be a short dress, stopping mid-thigh, and her tight black jeans and black slip on shoes.
"Hey," he said, smiling.
"Hi," she smiled back. He took her hand and walked her into the cafeteria.
The cafeteria was very large with plain white walls and white tables with blue chairs that should really be in classrooms. There was one long counter with lunch ladies behind a station where you collect your food from. Valkyrie could smell a strange burning smell that reminded her of when her dad tried to make her porridge on morning when she was ten. She smiled at the memory.
"So Stephanie. What are you having?" Cam asked leading her to the back of the line. Then she realised something...
"Um. Nothing thanks." She said.
"Sorry?"
"I'm not hungry. But then again I never eat breakfast. In fact I hardly ever eat,"
"You don't eat?" his face was a look of concern as he was handed a bowl of oat-so-simple from the lunch lady. He looked at Valkyrie but she shook her head. She and Cam went over to a free table on the other side of the room to Daniel, Luce, Ever and Damen. Cam made it clear he wanted to stay away from them before they walked in.
"Back home, my parents never realised, but the only thing I ate was dinner. But that's because I was out all the time with my friends."
"Well that's a good thing for you then. I'm always hungry but the food here isn't the best. Your only missing poison." He said and she laughed.
"So tell me about your family. You told me that you spend a lot of time out with your friends yesterday but you never told me about them,"
"Well. I have a mum and dad that have been together for years. My mum used to go out with my uncle Gordon first though but when she met dad it was 'love at first sight'. They got together, my uncle stepped aside gracefully and they had me. My uncle died when I was twelve and I met one of his friends at his funeral. I spend a lot of time with Skulduggery nowadays and some more of their friends. I lived a happy life away from home. My mum dad had another baby when I was fifteen so I now have a little sister who is one and half now. But they thought it would be best to send me here to finish my education because they've been keeping secrets from me. Last night I found out why I'm here. They're splitting up and they don't want me around to get in their way because they know I would try to stop them."
"I'm sorry. But at least you have parents. Mine left me when I was a baby. But then again I've always thought I was lucky. Never saw the point in parents so..." he said. She laughed. Cam was funny to her. she saw Luce looking over to them and she saw her move her head in the 'come over here' gesture.
"Be right back Cam," she said and walked over to her roommates and their boyfriends.
"Stephanie what are you doing with Cam?" Luce asked.
"We're just sitting down having a conversation while he eats his breakfast. He's alright you know,"
"Be careful Stephanie. He's dangerous," Daniel said.
"What do you mean?"
"He's acts nice but then he turns out to be not so nice. He was exactly the same with Luce. Until I practically saved her from his evil ways."
"Really? Well from what I've heard Luce is the one who hurt him,"
"What?" Luce asked.
"The way you used him to make Daniel jealous? That's just sad."
"Is that what Cam told you? That's not what happened Steph,"
"Whatever."
"Why not hang out with us? We can tell you what really happened?"
"No offense but I'd really rather not hang around with two lovey dovey couples. I split up with my boyfriend a while ago and I wanna throw up,"
She walked back over to Cam who finished his oat-so-simple and they went to walk around the school. Tomorrow was Monday and her first day of classes and Cam had kindly offered to walk her to them every day. But that's mainly because he's in the same ones.
OK it's not my best but I was running out of ideas. Plz give me any ideas u have and review nicely plz. Btw Ever and Damen are from the Immortals series by Alyson Noel which I don't own, obviously. I couldn't be asked to make up more characters so I used them. I might use them more in further chapters I might not. Haven't decided yet.