... To the Irish Sanctuary.
'What are we doing here?' Skulduggery asked, genuinely confused.
'I thought that you should tell Ghastly where we are going,' Van replied.
'Finally something smart comes out of her mouth!' Val muttered darkly.
'Don't worry,' I replied with a smirk. 'She's the smart one.' Val turned to me and "killed" me in death glares. My smirk changed to a full out grin when I got that reaction.
'Who is this person?' Val asked Skulduggery as we all walked through the halls, causing quite the commotion. Skulduggery ignored them and proceeded tell Val about him and Van and I just waved at the people staring.
I love that word. Staring. It's like star-ing but not...
'So he's scary?' Van asked.
'Yes, very much so,' Skulduggery replied and didn't notice Van's smile.
'Book 1,' she told me in answer to my confusion.
'I would have gotten there eventually,' I replied.
'Sure,' she said sarcastically and started walking again from where we had stopped.
After thinking about it for a while I ran to catch up.
It took ages but finally Ghastly agreed to us going to Oz, much to Tanith's annoyance.
'I want to go,' she told Ghastly. He groaned and banged his head on his desk.
'But I have paperwork to do,' he argued and Tanith just gave him "that" look. 'Let's all go to Australia for a tiny holiday!' he said.
We ended up in Oz not that much longer after and we did end up training it into the city.
I don't remember much from the train ride (they bore me in general) but I do remember when we had just gotten on the train.
Skulduggery had looked around before choosing the most secluded seat (not that it was very secluded) and then frowned. 'Its not very clean, is it?' he said.
'Never is,' Van and I told him and then I fell asleep against the window.
Once I had woken up again, I saw that the air was carrying the awkward silence. I decided to solve that in the normal way I do.
'Hey Van!' I said to her. She was sitting across from me
'Yes?' she replied, looking bored.
'You know that one day my sister, the back stabbing (I wont write what I said next as it wasn't very nice) wrote "I love Josh" across her knuckles.'
'Who was Josh?' she asked sleepily in reply.
'The one who phoned her every night and would talk for longer than we would,' I explained.
'Really?' she asked siting up more.
'Yep, and when I saw it and asked her what it said she denied it 60 million times before telling me that it did say that she loves Josh.'
'Wow, I never would have taken her for someone starting so young.'
'I knew she would that back stabbing (I still wont write what I said here).'
The conversation ended and I went back to sleep until we got into the city.
'Where to now Mr Inspector Me?' I asked Skulduggery.
'I still want to know how you know about that questioning,' he said to me.
'That's a pity, because you aren't going to find out,' I replied back. He just tapped to activate his facade instead of replying.
We tried walking around the city, with not a great deal of success because it seemed like all of NSW were trying to get into position to watch the fireworks. We found a Woolies and bought supplies for later (SUGAR!) and then somehow, don't ask how because I don't know, but somehow we managed to get into a position that enabled us to view the whole Harbor Bridge.
'I thought we were going to find the criminal,' Val said. 'Not that I'm complaining of course.'
'There's always tomorrow,' Skulduggery replied.
'Besides, I don't want to try and get back through that crowd again, losing our spot whilst we are at it,' Ghastly said with shudder.
'And these are meant to be the best fireworks in the world!' Tanith added and I silently agreed. I have seen clips over my short span of life of other countries fireworks and I have decided that Australia's were the best.
What seemed like ages later the count down started and we were watching what had to be the best firework show on Earth.
( m. youtube #/ watch?desktop_ uri=%2Fwatch %3Fv%3DGr8CMNuy8DA& v=Gr8CMNuy8DA&gl =AU Take out the spaces and this is what I meant)
'I have to admit, that was pretty spectacular,' Val said.
'Of course it was, it was Australian,' Van and I said at the same time.
We quickly went back to Dublin and found a position to watch those fireworks. They are epic but I personally love the Australian ones the best.
Naturally.
Once we had done that, we were running high on sugar and other assorted confectionary, and we decided that we could go and celebrate the new year with the sanctuary. As we went towards there, Ghastly kept trying to convince us to go celebrate somewhere else but we decided to ignore him.
So we did.
We walked in and ran into Erskine.
'Sup mate!' I said to him and giggled. Van started laughing with me and soon we were lying on the floor, laughing our heads off about nothing in particular.
'Is there anything that you really want, because I was about to close up,' Erskine said to Skulduggery and Ghastly, as he found that they were the only people not infected with giggling syndrome.
'Nope, just saying happy new year,' Skulduggery replied to his friend. Erskine said it back and then we were shoved out of the Sanctuary as it was locked up.
Van was really silent in the car and it was starting to worry me. I had already tried to imitate the English and Irish accents (I failed) and she still didn't notice. We were halfway home before I poked her.
'You alright?' I asked her.
She nodded in reply.
'Yeah right,' I said.
'I have been trying to come up with a catch phrase,' she explained.
'And?' I asked.
'Fame, Fortune, Fletcher!' she replied with a nod and I laughed.
'A brilliant catch phrase, if only we knew where he is,' I replied.
Eventually (it seemed like forever) we arrived at Val's place, Ghastly and Tanith got a room and the rest of us went to our own separate rooms and went to sleep.
Aside from Skulduggery, but we wont go there.
The next day (today) I woke up and shot out of bed. Today was going to be the day thta we were returning to Australia, again.
But this time we were planning on trying to find the guy who was trying to kill us.
At the moment I am sitting in yet another Australian train. Skulduggery, Ghastly and Tanith had brought money to exchange into bucks and we have tracked the person into the Blue Mountains.
This should be fun.
Do you know how hard it is to write your own best friend's reactions to things? Really hard. I am really worried that I get her personality wrong...
I am really, annoyed, to use a nice word at my sister, if you can't tell. She wont shut up. She calls me fat when I know I am not and she tells me that I should start running. She has made it into state for running and I don't have that running build needed. I have seriously considered killing her occasionally.
Also, to all those sport fencers out there, I need a common household objet to use as a target. I am starting to prepare for nationals for the first time which are approaching fast and my orange tree is not liking me. :)
(Yeah... I broke a branch off and stabbed an orange straight through)
Talk to you all soon!
Aly