Thanks for the reviews, they make me feel special. And thanks to Cranium mischief I keep saying sponge brains in lots of different accents. And today I was asked if I came down the river Clyde in a banana boat, what's that supposed to mean, I'm googling it. I can't believe I'm on chapter 20 already! :DDD

CHAPTER 20:

Valkyrie walked down the stairs at Skulduggery's house with her phone pressed against her ear. She listened to Fletcher talking about the Jervis shopping centre next to the river Liffey. Skulduggery appeared at the foot of the stairs and pointed to the clock and shook his head in dismay. Valkyrie smiled apologetically and hurried up. She slipped and her phone fell from her hands, it bounced eight times before whacking off the wall. She stood up and straightened her cardigan with some difficulty. She was eight and a half months along now with only two weeks to go. "Sorry, sorry, I can't see my feet anymore. I'm so sorry." Skulduggery shrugged. He prodded her phone, pressed all the buttons. It did nothing. "Touch the screen. Is the battery fallen out?" He checked, "Slight problem with the screen. It's on the floor in a couple of hundred pieces." He got a dustpan and brush and swept up all of the pieces of phone then he put them in a sandwich bag. "Still under warranty so discount on the new one."

"What new one. I'll use Fletchers, he won't mind."

"Val, you need a phone. You're pregnant. And you're you."

"What do you mean by I'm me?"

"You have a habit of getting into trouble. And danger." She tossed her hair over her shoulder and put her boots on. "I'll buy you a new phone whilst you're shopping for baby stuff with Fletcher and Tanith. She really likes getting involved with the babies, doesn't she? Do you think her and Ghastly might ever mate and increase the world's ever-rising population? It's big enough already though. I could just imagine little mini ghaniths running around the shop with measuring tapes and pole dancing the display thingy-ma-bobbies. They would be bald obviously." Valkyrie stared. Skulduggery laughed like a rabid male koala that had been put in the flamingo exhibit at the zoo. Valkyrie wondered not for the first time if he had gone mad with the faceless ones or if he was already like that.

The Bentley purred and it pulled out of Cemetery road. The noise made her smile and Valkyrie had an idea. "Skulduggery? You know when I'm old enough to drive, will you teach me? And will you buy me a car? Did you know Ghastly's buying Tanith a car she seen on ebay and liked. She put photos on facebook, it's really nice but not as nice as the Bentley through." Skulduggery looked at her. "What you mean to say is you want to be able to drive like me and you want the two thousand and eleven Bentley mulsanne in silver with black leather and dark mahogany? I check my credit card Val, I know what you ordered. Two hundred and sixty four thousand pounds Val. That's a lot of money. I only didn't cancel it because it's you. But you could have gone for the gold plaited one." They pulled onto the parking lot of the Jervis shopping centre and Valkyrie seen Fletcher and Tanith so she jumped out. Skulduggery went away to park his car in front of a security camera. "You said he wouldn't check his credit card!" Tanith held up her hands.

"Her don't look at me, how was I supposed to know he was like phosphorescence." Valkyrie frowned and thought about her science lessons at school, maybe she should have paid more attention. "How is skulduggery like light that is given off by a substance without burning or heat?"

"I'm not sure but it's my new word, Ghastly taught me it this morning after we- never mind."

"Oh my god, Skulduggery was right! There will be hundreds of mini ghaniths running around with measuring tapes and ple dancing the-"

"Hundreds of mini what the fucks? Look who's talking you and your mini Fletchyrie's!"

"Jeez those would be really good names for the babies, Val. One can be called Fletchrie, it'll look like me-"

"And be really really ugly!"

"Shut up Tanith and one can be Valtcher and look like you-"

"And be gorgeous!"

"Seriously shut up Tanith. I mean it."

"Sorry Val. OH MY GAWD. MIDGET SOCKS!" Valkyrie gave Tanith two hundred pounds and whispered in Fletcher's ear, "Hoe about we abandon her and go look for another crib. It's all we really need now anyway." Fletcher nodded and they slowly backed away then they sprinted to another shop.

Tanith looked up, her arms were full of baby clothes. "Guys what do you think of this? Guys.. Guys?"

So while writing this my laptop said ghaniths was spelled wrong and it kept trying to change it to Hadiths, I didn't have a clue what that meant to I googled it. Anyone who can google it, go on wikapedia and make sence of I'll give you a sofa. And I also had to google shopping centres in Dublin because I was gonna have them go to st james's but then I realised it's no in Ireland. SPOONGIEE BRAINS :DDD