SKULDUGGERY AND VALKRIE 29

VCPOV

We did practically nothing until 2 days until my 18th birthday.

Skul thought I needed a dress, it wasn't a bad idea, I mean my last dress was wrecked at the ball.

We headed for the mall and went to a discount dress store, I didn't want him to spend too much this time. There was tons of dresses. I picked out a few and Skul sat in one of the chairs reading a car magazine. I tried on the first one, it was almost good except the waist line was to small. The 2nd and 3rd were the same. The 4th was amazing, it was loose lining of red lace bordered the strapless neckline, waist and bottom hem. I walked out to show Skulduggery, his façade manage to raise a brow and he folded the magazine and said, "it's perfect, shall we go? The music is annoying". I took it off and brought it up to the front.

The clerk checked it out and the price ended up to $23.76, not bad. We exited and I went to a boutique to buy myself some accessories. I bought myself bedazzled skull earrings, fingerless canvas gloves, a black headband with a bow, low wedge boots and a bat necklace. I was quite happy with them, I'm gonna surprise skul good.

He drove me home and left with a smile. I got to my window almost dropping my stuff. I touched my reflection and I remembered something.

"remember the dream you had a few weeks ago? The Darquesse one?"

"oh, yeah. What is it?"

"you dreamed that you were at your 18th birthday and your reign of terror began."

"what's your point?"

"it might have been a vision"

It was a possibility but I didn't want it to be, "maybe, I'll be careful if Skulduggery and Fletcher aren't there."

"remember that Tanith was there too and she is now here"

"you're right… she is hmm"

"can I see your dress?"

I dug it out of the bag and it looked mesmerized. "you'll look amazing in it"

"thank you"

"have you decided to tell him?"

"I don't know, if doesn't turn out to be like my dream I think I will."

"do you think he feels the same?"

"again, I don't know. Maybe"

"I think he does"

"I guess I agree."

I continued my life as Stephanie Edgley for the rest of the day.

Alison is about 4 months old now, she's pretty smart. She's starting to say one-syllable words like ma and ooh. She said a word that startled me "mag-k" is almost sounded like "magic", scary. Another thing, she has powerful sneezes for a baby, strong enough to play with my hair when I hold her. I hope she never finds out about my life, if she does I guess Skulduggery and I could train her.

The next day I got a text from Tanith, it read "want to meet?"

I sent her back "sure, when?"

"after they filter me"

"what?"

"Nye's found a way of getting rid of the remnant. It'll happen in 2 hours, I'll text you back if I'm still alive."

"LOL, alright bye"

"bye"

What was I going to do for a few hours? I just sat down and watched TV while eating popcorn

One moment I'm seeing which guy she'll choose than I'm flashed to a beach shack beside my ex.

"how about that date?"