NO WAY!

Disclaimer: I do not own LotR. If I did, I would be a trillionare and Viggo Mortensen would be MINE. Well, maybe not, considering that he's old enough to be my father. Yipes. Scary thought.

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A/n: The dumb story didn't have any paragraphs, so I had to re-post it. Now you can actually READ it. Thank you for your time and money. Wait! There's MONEY involved?! Why didn't anyone tell me?! Oh. I just got a message. Stupid Elladan and Elrohir... Do they take ANYTHING seriously? I am never letting them write while I dictate again! Geeze. OK! On with the fic!

Chapter 1: Of Bets and Sleep Deprivation

"YAWNNNNN!!!" Ugh. I couldn't believe how incredibly exhausted I was. I checked my clock.

"Sweet Eru! It's a new record! 4:30 am!" The realization that I had to stay up only half an hour more lightened my weariness. I needed something to keep me up. I trudged down our off-white carpeted stairs and crossed the living room into the kitchen.

"Let's see...Fruit Loops, Red vines, eew! I thought we threw that out a month ago! Anything else? Hey, what's this? ((O.O)) OH. MY. HOLY. VALAR." I grabbed my precious cargo and began to roll on the floor, hugging it. "PIXIE STIX PIXIE STIX PIXIE STIX!!!!! Happiness is here!" I cried. It took me only a few minutes to polish off the little tubes of flavored sugar. Much better. That should keep me up for a while. Maybe I went a little overboard with the sweet, because before I knew it, I was bouncing off the walls, literally.

But as we say, what goes up must come down, and I was even sleepier than before.

"Sigh. Can't trust sugar to keep you up for more than 20 minutes. My mom would kill me if I tried to make coffee." I laughed at the memory of the first time I tried to do it.

"Ugh! Must. Keep. Awake. Maybe I shouldn't have taken that bet." I yawned. I needed to take my mind off of sleep. Why did I have to do it? Why did I have to say 'yes'? My tired mind recalled the important part of the conversation with my friend Alex:

"Yeah, right Jenai! I really doubt that you can run a 12-hour marathon without sleep!" scoffed Alex.

"Fine! I bet you, um, 10 Brandybucks that I can!" I challenged back.

"Deal! Starting 5 sharp this evening to 5 tomorrow morning you can't sleep AT ALL. Got it?"

"Duh. Alrigty then. I'll call you at 5 on the hobbit tomorrow morning. Be there or I'll sick Muffin on you!" (Inside joke!)

"HAHAHAHA! You'll probably look worse than Sauron on a bad hair day by tomorrow!"

"NOOOOOOooo!!! Not my purple wig! I swear Mr. Neegish! I didn't take Bacon Sandwich! It was Minion I tell you!"

(That's from a really funny fic I read: Sauron's Journal. Read it!)

"Hahahahahahaha! I'll talk to you in the morning! Bye!"

"Bye!" I hung up the phone.

That's how it started. So now I was suffering of sleep deprivation because of ten dollars. I was determined to prove her wrong! I was going to get my well-earned 10 bucks! But what could I do for 10 minutes? I could work on the belt I was weaving. I was already halfway done. I worked a couple minutes on it before I checked my clock. It read '4:52'. Good. I wanted to take a shower after I called her. I was afraid to take one before because I would probably fall asleep with the warm water streaming across my body, and lose the bet. So got out my clothes for the day.

"Shorts, check, shirt, check, necessities, double check, I think I'm set! Oh, wait I need two towels! He he. Two towels..." I muttered to no one in particular.

"Yes! Only one more minute!" I got her phone number ready and started to count down the seconds.

"...49, 48, 47, 46..." I was almost there! "34, 33, 32, 31, 30..." I picked up the receiver and dialed her number with shaky hands (I know it sounds dumb to get that exited over 10 dollars, but dang I was tired, and I wanted to take my shower and SLEEP! The money was the second thing on my mind.)

"HERE WE GO!!! 10! 9! 8! 7! 6! 5! 4! 3! 2! 1!!!!!!" I hit the 'dial' button. It rang 5 times.

"YAWN! Uh, hello?"

"Alex?"

"Oh! Jenai! Crap, you did it! I'll give you your 10 bucks in a week. I'll have it then."

"Can I trust an Elf?"

"Hahaha! You can, but I don't know about Gimli!"

"Haha...Sweet Eru, I'm tired!"

"Well, Great Wizards, so am I! I'll let you go.

"Thanks! I'll talk to you later!"

"Okay! Bye!"

Then there was one of those awkward silences.

"Bollix."

"Hahahahahaha! Good bye Jenai!" And then she hung up.

"Right then. Now for a nice shower and to go have a well deserved rest." But it was not to be.

a/n: YAY! First chapter done! Hey! I wanna know what you thought, sooooooo.....................................

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