Chapter 142
The group went home for lunch and Valkyrie excused herself for a shower. Nadia was looking over at her worriedly but Valkyrie just didn't have it in her to do anything. Vasuda was no longer sitting with her as Dhiya and Zainab were talking with her about horses, which they all loved apparently, but it still stung that Nadia had spent so much time with Vasuda. It wasn't her fault, of course, she just saw her as a friend.
Instead of using her own shower, Valkyrie grabbed her clothes from earlier in the day and went to Tanith's rooms.
"Val?" Tanith asked when she walked in without knocking. "What's wrong?"
Valkyrie dropped her clothes to the floor, walked over to her sister's bed and threw herself onto it.
"That bad, huh? I thought you and Nadia's friends were all buddy-buddy," Tanith said, raising an eyebrow.
"I'm upset," she murmured into the bedsheet.
"Sorry, didn't get that."
"I'm upset because Nadia's friend Vasuda is a bitch!"
"Shut up!" Tanith snapped and they both listened intently for thirty seconds. When little Laila hadn't made a sound from her attached bedroom they continued. "Why is she a bitch?"
"She likes Nadia," Valkyrie muttered pathetically. "And Nadia doesn't even see it. She thinks Vasuda is her friend and being nice to her and stuff but she's actually trying to flirt with her and she's being all touchy-feely and Nadia is letting her because she thinks it's just what she's like because she's acted like that for ages and it's making me really mad."
"Yeah, that can happen," Tanith said sitting on the bed next to her. "What's your plan then?"
"I don't have one. I'm just getting mad and sucking it up."
"Really?" Tanith asked. Her tone was both shock and confusion. "That doesn't sound like you."
"Tanith, the only ideas on what to do is staying close to Nadia and controlling her every move and interaction. That sounds like a control-ly, shitty person thing to do, so I'm avoiding the situation entirely."
"Or, you could just tell Nadia your concerns like a big girl and the two of you can work it out. Even if Nadia doesn't believe you, she'll be more aware of what's happening and realise your right or she'll smack you up the back of the head and explain that she's like this with everyone because they were best friends at school. Some people are just that touchy, like Erskine," Tanith explained.
Valkyrie grimaced. "I promise it's not like that. It's this look she gives me, she's very obviously doing it to annoy me. I don't want to make Nadia not spend time with her friend but honestly, I wish I could."
Tanith rolled her eyes. "Just tell Nadia why your upset. I doubt she hasn't noticed."
She grimaced again. "She has."
"See? You're just going to piss her off not saying anything," Tanith warned.
Valkyrie sighed and got up. "I'm using your shower."
"Sure. But I shaved in there earlier so you might want to give it a rinse down," she called after her.
"You're disgusting."
"And proud."
Valkyrie used her shower time to think over Tanith's option and concluded she was right. After getting dressed and wringing her hair as dry as possible, she went to her room and found Nadia dressed and brushing through her perfectly dry, washed hair.
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Skulduggery Pleasant: Raising Cain
Fanfiction(This story is written as a fanfiction, but can be read as a story without having read any of the books.) Valkyrie Cain, the adoptive daughter of the Dead Men, has had a life full of love and magic. But as she gets older, times become scarier and sh...
