The nightmare has a name (Alucard x reader)

10. Going for a swim

I never have seen anyone being scared to go swimming. Literally, I had to help Valeria to get dressed and pulling her towards the showers. Because of the resistance, I allowed her to give the showers a miss; she waited till I was done. At the pool I was ready to get in, but I wanted to jump in with her together. "Come on Valeria, stop making things difficult for me."

Splash!!!

She shoved me with such force that I fell into the water, coming back to the surface I met her smirking face. What she didn't know was that Alice stood behind her and pushed...

Splash!!!

We laughed out loud, till we realized, she didn't come up again. "Valeria! Valeria!!" In panic I dived down to see her at the bottom of the pool trying to swim up, I wrapped an arm around her and got her out of the pool. In an instant...she hold on to me for dear life, eyes shut. Alice got me my towel, with that I dried her off, taking her to the nearest bench. "Why didn't you tell me you can't swim?" Weakly, she pointed at her lips "I know you can talk, but you could have written it down or something." She looked away, for once, not with that annoying smirk, she frowned. "You know what; let us go to the beach chairs over there. While you sit there I go for a swim, okay?" She nodded slowly.

I played with Alice, while Valeria watched us; she seemed to follow my every move, no matter where I went. Somehow, it felt familiar...by this man...

Blubblublbub!!!!

Alice pushed me under water to gain my attention, once back up again I yelled "Are you out of your mind? You nearly drowned me!" "Chill, it's not my fault when you were miles away. Hey N/A, Valeria seems all alone up there, why don't you go to her hand play something?" I wasn't such a bad idea, however we were in a swimming pool, and she doesn't like water "What can we do here then?" Alice looked around, as her sight stayed at something "Board games" "Eh?" "Up there are huge board games, play a round with her." I knew, arguing with Alice is pointless, she always gets what she wanted and it wasn't any different when it comes to guys. As I made my way to Valeria, I could see Alice flirting with the guy nearby, I got the feeling that she did this on purpose, to get me out of the way. Valeria seem to be pleased for me to approach her "Hey...uh...you want to play...chess?" I pointed at the massive chess board with the giant plastic figures lined up. Her excitement was expressed through grabbing my wrist and dragging me all the way there. She pointed at the black figures and at her "Ah, so you want black? Fair enough."

To my surprise it was fun, Valeria is a really good chess player. Whatever I tried didn't work...I always lost. From one round, it turned to twenty rounds. I was eager to win...at least once. She pretends to giggle whenever I make a smart move "Stop it you!" it only made her giggle more. Before we know it, we wasted hours on the game, till Alice came up to us "Hey, I been waiting for you, I said one round!" "Sorry Alice, it was just too much fun" I smiled, for once I enjoyed being around my exchange student. "Yeah whatever, there is a hot guy that wants to meet you" she grabbed my hand and pulled me towards them. "What about Valeria?" I complained. She gave her one glance before pulling me again "She isn't going anywhere, geez!"

I wasn't in the mood to talk to guys, but I had no choice. They greeted at me before the flirt starts. My, quick aren't we? I felt uncomfortable as he came near; he touched my shoulder without any permission and wanted to kiss my cheek next. In disgust, I pushed him away... only to see a familiar hand shoving him into the water.

"Valeria!" she stood next to me, holding my waist with one hand. The guy however, didn't seem to be offended by it, he go out of the water and made the same flirt attempt again, this time with Valeria. She seems to like it though. Alice pulled on my arm to drag me away "Give her some privacy N/A!" she shoved me to another pool, away from them. In the meantime I watched Valeria from the distance, as she followed the guys into a room. In fear she might be in trouble I followed them, with Alice. She was just as curious as I, but our motives were different at the time. We reached the door...as someone yelled at us "Hold it ladies! You cannot enter, house rules" "But a friend of ours is in there!" tried Alice "She is right sir; she went in there with a bunch of guys." He looked bored at us "And you expect me to believe that? Better luck next time girls." Even as we told him to take a look, he ignored us and our request.

All we could do was to wait for Valeria to come out, the more we waited the more anxious we got. "I get something to eat" said Alice after minutes of utter silence. "How can you think about food right now!? " "Sorry for my need of hunger, anyway, you stay here and I get us something." I sighted before making a hand gesture for her to get lost. Not even a minute gone, two arms were wrapped around my neck... it was Valeria, without a single scratch on her. "Valeria, are you alright, what happened to you?" I checked her body for any sign of abuse, only to be stopped by her, she waved her hand sideways. So nothing serious had happened. She giggled before leaning over to kiss my cheek. I looked at her surprised, as this annoying smile came back. "Get that smug of your face" I said out loud, only for her to kiss my other cheek "And stop kissing me!!!"

"Did I miss something?" Alice stood before us with a tray of fries and two drinks. Valeria and I smiled at each other before I answered "Nothing interesting for you to know."

After the food was all gone, we left the swimming pool, ready to go back home. On the trip Valeria feel asleep, with her head resting on my lab. Alice got curious "What's this, is there something I should know about you N/A?" "Keep your filthy thoughts to yourself, it is nothing like that" "Hey N/A, did Valeria even eat anything since you met?"Now that she mentioned it, it was true, she refused any kind of food I gave her, she didn't even ask for anything either. "She probably had the hot lads for lunch" "Alice!" "I'm just saying, not one of us know what happened in that room, right?" she had a point there; however, I couldn't believe she would go that low to have her fun with the lads.

In the morning came the shocking news!