Chapter 11 – Valentine's Day

HEYY GUYS!

IT'S VALENTINE'S DAY!

A reminder to all you single people out there that.. YOU'RE SINGLE!

(God hates singles on this day T_T)

Anyway, hope you enjoy this chapter seeing as it's devoted to this day!

Enjooooyy!

ooOoo

"Wake up."

Valkyrie shook her head and rolled over, a pillow hiding her face.

"No."

"Valkyrie, wake up."

"Bite me."

"Don't tempt me."

Lowering the pillow so she could see over it, she raised an eyebrow at the skeleton. The skeleton stared back at her and she scowled.

"FINE! Get out, though. I need to get dressed."

Skulduggery shrugged and left, closing the door after him. She kicks the bed covers off of herself and shivers- sure is cold today.

Dragging herself over to the dresser full of her spare clothes that she keeps at Skulduggery's house, she takes out her school uniform and puts it on, an expression of disgust visible all the time.

She opens the door, glaring at Skulduggery as she passes, and goes to the bathroom to brush her teeth.

After that, she goes in to the kitchen and looks in the cupboards- no food. She shrugged and closed the cupboard. This was a skeleton's house, after all. Skulduggery enters the kitchen and stares at her, his arms crossed.

Turning to him, she asks, "What?"

He shrugs. "Nothing."

Rolling her eyes, she grabs her bag and goes for the door.

"Take me to school- I don't want to have to walk there today."

Sighing, Skulduggery followed her out.

A few minutes later, outside the school..

"Well, there you go." Skulduggery said as he parked the Bentley. "Go have a nice day- and, Happy Valentine's."

Valkyrie gave him a smile and nodded, leaving the car. As soon as she got out, Skulduggery reversed and drove away.

Sighing, Valkyrie hitched her bag up on to her shoulder and began to make her way to the school.

As she approached the door, she got the over whelming feeling of irritation whenever someone's looking at her. At the corner of her eye, she glimpsed to culprit, but decided on not acting on it, seeing as it was Valentine's day.

She could let people gaze at her admirably for once.

She opened her locker and went to shove her bag in side it, when she paused. A red letter fluttered out and on to the ground.

Raising an eyebrow and glancing about, she leant down and picked it up. Attached to the letter was a red rose.

Making sure no one was watching, and she opens it.

My dearest Stephanie,

I trust you are well my darling.

Darling, I really wanted to let you know how special you are to me. Every time I see you, I get butterflies in my stomach.

I really admire your gorgeous, mysterious black hair. Whenever I see it I can't help but notice how shiny it is. I often wonder if you clean it using shoe polish. Technically speaking that would work, but I guess it would smell a bit weird, so I reckon it must be naturally shiny.

I can't remember if I've already told you this but I really do love your smile. It's one of the many reasons I love looking at you my love. Sometimes I wish I could do nothing but stare at your smile all day, but I'm not sure that's a good idea, my love, as people will probably think I'm some kind of nut case and I might get taken away by the men in white coats.

Happy Valentines Day, my love!

Love,

Your Admirer

As she read through the letter, her face turned a light shade of red. She raised the rose to her nose and she inhaled the sweet scent. Did someone really send her this?

Allowing herself a small smile, she grabbed her things and went to her class room. During the lessons, she sits, half-listening to the teacher, and thinks about who could have possibly sent her it.

A disturbing thought came to mind and she made a face- could it have been Fletcher? She shivered slightly at the thought.

Saving her from that thought, the bell rang for lunch time.

She gathered her things together and made her way to the canteen to join the lunch queue.

When she got to the front, she asked the lunch lady if she could get a muffin. Then she looked at the muffin tray, and, to her dismay, it was empty. Sighing, she moved on and grabbed a plate of food. At least she liked this.

She sat down and began to eat her lunch- thank goodness it was only a half day today. She spent most of her lunch time just sitting there, trying to think of who sent her the card. She couldn't say she had many friends- in fact, she hardly had any.

This person must know me well, though.. she thought to herself.

After lunch, the bells rings- school's out.

Val makes her way back to her locker and gets out her bag- she stops again. On her bag was a note, and on the note, someone had wrote;

Stephanie,

Meet me at the park at 10.00 pm.

Your Admirer

Fed up with this secret guy already, she puts her stuff in her bag and makes her way to Skulduggery's house.

Skulduggery's house..

Sitting with the notes and the rose on her lap, Valkyrie let out a long sigh. She still had no idea who her admirer was.

As if sensing mystery, Tanith spun around and leapt on to the sofa next to her. "LOVE LETTERRR!" she cried out.

Valkyrie smiled at her and let her read them. "I don't know who sent me it, though."

Tanith twirled her imaginary moustache and nodded slowly. "Mmhm. Yup. I see. WELL! All you've gotta do is go meet him tonight then!" she concluded- stating the obvious.

"Yeah, I'm going to. I seriously have no idea who it could be, though.." Valkyrie sighed again.

They ate dinner eventually, when Skulduggery realized they all had to eat to live.

It was nearly 10:00 by the time she finished eating, and had to jog to the park to be there on time.

She thought she'd be nervous about this, but really, she'd never felt.. cooler.

She eventually got to the park- only being ten minutes late. She looked around, but no one was there.

She started to doubt herself. What if this was just a cruel trick? She had quite a few enemies, so it could be that.

She sat on the swing and shrugged. If it was, there wasn't anything they could do that would effect her.

She decided to sit it out and wait for someone to show up.

An hour later..

Valkyrie was seeing how high she could go on the swing without going over the bar and flying off in to oblivion.

It was fun, but she was getting bored of it. Bored of waiting.

She slowed the swing down and frowned. Maybe she should just go home. Who ever it was obviously wasn't going to show, so why make a fool of herself?

She found herself being a little disappointed as well. She had really thought that someone actually did like her- someone from her school. But she was certain that this was all a joke.

So, she got off the swing and began to make her way back to Skulduggery's, her gaze not lifting from the ground.

"Oh well, Tanith will have a gre- Ooff!" she walked straight in to a tall, dodgy looking figure who was wearing a long black jacket and a black hat.

Her eyes widened and she backed off, thoughts of her being kidnapped flashing through her mind. When the man started to take off the jacket and hat, she backed off even more.

It was Fletcher.

Valkyrie made a face and stared at him. "Fletcher?!" She said, not quite sure what he was doing here.

He just smiled at her and offered her his coat, seeing as she was shivering. It was rather cold, after all.

She took it warily and put it on. He put an arm around her and rubbed her shoulders in attempt to warm her up.

"So.. Did you like the card and the rose?" He asked quietly, smiling at her.

So it WAS him! Valkyrie thought to herself, panicking.

"It was uhh.. it was unexpected, but nice, I suppose." she murmured. She had honestly expected someone different.

Fletcher smirked a little too smugly for her liking and leaned in close to her.

It took her a moment to realize what he was trying to do, and when she did, her knee shot up and hit him in his special place. Just like last time.

Fletcher froze, a pained expression on his face. Ever so slowly, he slipped down and fell to the floor, curled up in agony.

"You never learn, do you?" She said, taking off his coat. She put the coat over him and waited for him to get over it.

Eventually, he stood back up, wiping manly tears from his eyes. "I'm never going to try and be nice to you again, Valkyrie." he muttered.

Valkyrie grinned and slapped him on the back. "Good. Now, let's go back." She walked ahead of him swiftly, not waiting for him to reply.

When they reached home, Tanith saw her come in with Fletcher, and was immediately on the floor with fits of laughter.

"O-oh! Oh dear! HE is your v-valentine?!" she gasped, holding her side as she continued to laugh hysterically.

Fletcher went a bright red and stormed up stairs in embarrassment. Valkyrie kicked Tanith and threw herself on to the sofa.

Worst. Valentine's. Ever.

ooOoo

Sorry if it's terrible- I'm never good with romantic stuff, so I made it as unromantic as I could! :D

Hope you all liked it :) And Happy Valentine's Day- even to those who hate it!

Ciaaoo.