Here is chapter 5. Characters belong to Derek Landy, Lauren Kate and Alyson Noel (ha poor Derek only male owner here!)

Chapter 3: Lessons and Phone Calls

Monday morning was boring. Stephanie, Luce and Ever woke up early and got ready for their lessons. None of them could stand the new uniform. The girls uniform was black skirts, which stop about mid-thigh, with white simple t-shirts with 'Sword & Cross' written on the left shoulder and their light blue and black neckerchiefs, similar to a scouts one, done up at the tips. The only thing Stephanie couldn't stand were the fact that the skirts were so short. The boys didn't have that problem. Their uniform was the same except they wore trousers instead of skirts. That wouldn't be very attractive with their hairy legs. But that was one reason she wished she could really be a boy instead of pretending all the time.

She met with Cam, Luce and Ever and their boyfriends close behind her. She had heard that they were always arguing and she wanted to stop that. She had enough fights with Fletcher, she didn't need any more.

"Right you guys. I've learnt that you don't like each other. But the fact is I have to share a room with you Luce and I'm good friends with Cam. So can we at least try to get along?" she asked

Luce and Daniel looked at each other. She lowered her eyes while he looked at her with the look that said we should. She looked back up to him and sighed.

"Alright Steph. We'll try and get along. But Cam I mean it if you ever try anything with me again and I'm going to kick your sorry butt into next year!" she said.

"I don't think we're going to have the problem ever again Luce. I've got my own new friend," Cam said wrapping his arms around Stephanie's waist. At that moment the history teacher walked out the classroom.

"Will you guys hurry up? Stephanie, Ever and Damen have a lot a catching up to do," he said.

"We're coming Mr Cole," Daniel said as they walked into the classroom but Mr Cole stopped Luce and Daniel just before they could get in. Stephanie turned and saw him talking to them through the window of the door he just closed. They nodded, looked at each other and nodded again before they were allowed to walk in and sit at their desks. Stephanie found a unoccupied one next to Luce and sat down in it.

"Luce," she whispered and Luce looked at her.

"Yeah?"

"What did Mr Cole want?"

"Nothing. Just asking if we were able to help you and Ever catch up a bit. Daniel can help Damen,"

"OK," she said as a paper airplane fell on her desk. She unfolded it to find it was a note. It read:

So welcome to your first double history lesson with one Mr Cole. Now these lessons can get very boring and you may feel the urge to send notes. Let me give you a tip now Steph. You can send them. But only send them to the people either side of you. Mr Cole knows if you're sending notes. On Friday I knew Luce and Daniel were sending notes and I sit in front of them. Anyway enough about history. Tonight there's a party in my room. You have to come. Bring Luce and Ever and Daniel and Damen, heck even bring Cam! I don't care. Just remember no uniform. Not that you would. I can't stand the skirts either lol. Pass this to Luce now... Hey Luce party in mine again tonight. Bring Daniel and blah blah blah! You know same drill as Friday! Let Daniel, Ever and Damen know. A (Arianne)

She read the note and passed to Luce as instructed. Arianne must be a pro in note sending if she could do that. She looked around for Cam and realised he was sitting next to her as well. they smiled at each other.

Jeez girl are you feeling that feeling again? A small voice in her head asked.

Yeah I think I am. A different voice replied.

You go girl! I don't think you've felt this way since Fletcher! The first voice said. She stopped thinking. She didn't want to think about Fletcher. Not now, not ever. But she knew she wouldn't be able to stop herself. She still liked him, but not like she liked Cam. Cam was... different to all the other boys. He seems different somehow but she couldn't figure out how. She spent the whole lesson thinking about Cam and Fletcher thinking about what she ever saw in Fletcher when she had Cam now. OK so they weren't a couple but she liked him. Compared to him Fletcher was a waste of space.

She spent the 20 minute break on the phone to Skulduggery on the patch of grass near the edge of the forest away from everyone. He asked how she was coping. Was she still homesick? She had explained that she was fine and she wasn't homesick anymore.

"So you're OK then Val?"

"Skul I've told you. Honestly I'm fine now. Got some great friends. You know the first few days were the hardest."

"No I don't know. Anyway we all miss you."

"Really?"

"Even Fletcher,"

"What?"

"I said Fletcher misses you too,"

"I couldn't care less if the Queen of bloody England says she missed me. I told you not to mention that prick to me!" She said as Cam was walking over to her. She saw him and smiled at him.

"Listen Valkyrie. You may not believe me right now but you still like him. When you come home at Christmas just kiss and make-up. In fact he's just literally popped in. Why not talk to him now?" he said chuckling.

"Skulduggery Pleasant you put that twat on the phone then I am going to get the biggest dog I can find and find the deepest hold I can and get the dog to bury you in it!"

"Heya Val what's up?" Fletcher's annoying tone came down the other end of the phone.

"Fletcher put that other bloody twat on that phone right now before I set your hair on fire!" she threatened. Cam was just sitting there looking confused but trying to hold in the laughter to the unusual threats she was giving the people down the phone.

"Hi Val. Sorry about that. And I very much doubt you have a dog waiting to bury me in that deep hole in your garden." Skulduggery said. She smiled covering the mouthpiece with her hand and whispered to Cam.

"Make a barking noise. But sound realistic," he frowned but did it anyway. He sounded like an angry Rottweiler which caused Skulduggery to scream down the phone. She laughed.

"Consider that a warning Skulduggery Pleasant! Will you check on my parents? I haven't heard anything since Saturday and now I'm getting worried,"

"Yes Valkyrie I will check on your parents for you. I've got to go now anyway. Lots of work to do now my partner has left me,"

"Blame mum and dad. They did this to me," he laughed again.

"Well I'll speak to you later Valkyrie."

"Yeah speak to ya soon," they hung up and she turned her attention to Cam.

"Who was that?" he asked.

"My friend. The one I met at my uncle's funeral. He's awesome and I love him to bits. He's mysterious and I like that sort of thing. And no I do not have a crush on him. He's just a very good friend,"

"I liked the insults you were giving him. And the other boy. What did you mean by 'find a biggest dog and bury you in the deepest hole' and 'set your hair on fire'?"

"Well Skul's kind of got this thing about being buried. Doesn't see the point of it. When he dies he wants to be cremated. And Fletcher has this thing with his hair. He loves it and thinks there's nothing more important than it. So I threaten to burn it which annoys him and gets him to do pretty much anything I want,"

"Interesting," at that moment the bell went. Time for lesson 3 in the library. What kind of lesson would they have in the library? She didn't want to know so when they arrived she daydreamed again. Why did she need school when she was going to inherit a massive mansion and a load of money? It's not like she was going to need a very important job was it? Besides, she already had a job before her parents sent her away because they decided to split up. But then she had another thought. If they had sent her away were they doing something else with Susan? Was she going to live somewhere else too? Was she staying with their parents? Her head started to hurt by the time the bell went.

The next few weeks went fast. It felt like she'd only been there for two days by the time the second week had gone by. She also felt she was just at another normal school. Only this one she slept at. She didn't think about Fletcher or Skulduggery or anyone really, just her friends and Cam. And didn't even feel like Valkyrie Cain.

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