Pleasantly Raising Cain

The Elemelons

"Skulduggery?"

"Yes Valkyrie?"

"I have a question."

"What is it?"

"Why is there only a melon called watermelon?"

"What sort of question is that?"

"A really important one. I mean, if there's water melons, why aren't there fire melons and earth melons and air melons?"

"That is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard."

"So what? It's true though!"

Skulduggery sighed. "Sometimes I wonder why I'm your friend."

Valkyrie grinned. "Because you love me!" She tried. Skulduggery stiffened. Valkyrie narrowed her eyes.

"What?"

"Nothing," he said quickly. "Nothing at all."

"There is something. You're tense."

"I'm not tense," he replied slowly.

"You are."

He sighed again. "Okay fine, I'm tense."

Valkyrie laughed loudly. "I knew it! What's wrong?"

He didn't answer, and Valkyrie swallowed. "What. Is. Wrong?"

"Yes I'm friends with you because I love you," he said quietly, his voice barely audible, but she heard it nonetheless.

For a moment, Valkyrie was speechless. She didn't know what to think... Skulduggery loved her?

"I- I love you too," she whispered, turning her head away from him and hiding her face with her long dark hair.

Nothing was said for a while, until Valkyrie grinned, and turned back to him.

"We should invent that though..."

"Invent what?"

Valkyrie giggled. "The Elemelons."

"Oh my god..."