"Where else would I be Valerie? It is my house after all and you’re in my pool”
”Well I didn’t exactly plan on finding myself inside a pool but okay” she said, running a hand through her water soaked hair.
He then started laughing as she asked him why, like it was such a crazy question to ask, like, why would she ask that? What did she want? ”Some grand reasoning to why I do what I do?” an answer? A good reason? A bad reason? Whatever it was, just the real answer… ”Or… wait… let me just tell you the answer everyone wants. I’m Daniel Parker. I don’t fcking need a reason." ”Fcuk everyone. who cares” she said in response to his answer. ”Ooh aah Daniel Parker is so evil he does not need a reason. Yeah, hitler was an actual bad guy and even he had a reason to do stupid things, not a good one, but still a reason. find a better excuse”
Her gaze followed him as he jumped off his floatie and swam towards her, facing her with an emotionless expression “Tell everyone what they expect because it’s the truth. I was… Just bored, so I suggest you leave before… I get bored again,” he said and swam away and pulled himself out of the water, and walking towards the bar. Was that a threat? Did he just threaten her? Valerie rolled her eyes watching him go, and swam out of the pool, pulling herself out ”I’m not afraid of you Daniel” she said ”And you know that” she added as he came back, handing her a glass of scotch, very necessary. ”thanks” she said briefly
“Leave anytime darling; I would much rather be here alone because guess what; I"m just a bad guy. Nothing more to the story than that,”
She drank the drink in her hand as he spoke. Honestly, hearing him speak this way about himself, in a way, it just hurt. It hurt because as much as neither of them wanted to admit, there was so more to him than a bad guy. In fact, he wasn’t even a bad guy at all, just… a broken guy with questionable decisions. very questionable decisions ”Cut the bullsh!t Daniel. For a certified genius you hide behind ignorance quite a lot did you notice that?” she rhetorically questioned, and drowned the rest of her drink ”You know what,” she started, and paused for a split second as the feeling of the burning fluid hit down her throat Okay, you’re nothing but a bored bad guy, so here, in the camping trip I was asked about a picture and told everyone it was my twin sister who died. I shot her when we were kids. I bloody murdered my own sister because I was a stupid child that played with everything that I found in my hands and couldn’t tell the difference between a toy gun and a real one. Nobody knows that, not even my best friend not even my cousins. So here, clearly you’re so focused on convincing yourself you’re bored and nothing is wrong with your life, so go on, tell everyone. destroy me and let everyone know what a hideous murderer I am. Right here, handed to you on a silver platter, the bloody pleasure is aaaaall yours ” she said with frustration in her voice, not taking her piercing gaze off the boy, pain and despair in her eyes ”You’re not a monster Daniel” she added, quietly. ”You’re just too bloody stubborn to realise that” she said, and put the glass down before turning to walk away and leave. There was nothing for her to do here anymore was there?