Skulduggery Pleasant – Attack of the Killer Nuns! –
Chapter 1:
Valkyrie was bored. Valkyrie was always bored at family reunions, but Skulduggery had told her to go. He had said that family was important, and that she should cherish every moment with them. Yeah right she thought, cherish every moment with a room full of drunken weirdos! Her father was talking to some distant relative, and her mother was nowhere to be seen. She probably slipped out when no one was looking… Valkyrie thought. Beryl was on the far side of the room, bragging about herself, and her husband Fergus, was slipping silverware and various other valuable possessions into his pockets when he thought no one was watching. The 'toxic twins' were shooting her snooty, dirty looks from where they were sitting, but Valkyrie had never really cared for them much anyway.
Why did Skulduggery make me come to this stupid reunion anyway? Valkyrie thought.
A faint beeping sound alerted her, and she snatched up her phone off the table, and pressed the answer button.
"Hello." She said, automatically.
"Meet me out front, ill be there in ten." Skulduggery replied.
"What's the – "
The line went dead.
"I hate it when he does that…" she muttered to herself.
Valkyrie got up to leave, but before she could walk more than a few steps, Carrol and Crystal blocked her path.
"What do you want?" she said coldly.
"Oh, just to tell you that you look like a tramp." Carrol sneered, "You're never going to find a boyfriend looking like that!"
"Yeah," Crystal chimed in, "no wonder you don't have any friends. They all ran away in fright when they saw how ugly you look!"
Carrol and Crystal's tauntings had never really bothered Valkyrie. She knew that they were selfish, obnoxious, and full of themselves, just like their parents, but Skulduggery was bound to arrive at any minute, and it sounded as though there was trouble, so she flexed her hand slightly, and Crystal lost her balance. Carrol helped Crystal back up, but by the time they had turned to pick on Valkyrie again, she was gone.