My first ever fanfic. Constructive criticism is definitely accepted. But please, don't be too harsh. As I said before, my first ever fanfic. Have a heart.

Disclaimer: No, I do not own LOTR or any of the characters. I wish I did, of course. That would be soooo AWESOME if I woke up in the morning to find the Fellowship lounging in my living room! Then again, I would look ridiculous in my PJs and a bed head.

17- year- old Nikila Sharma sighed as she walked out of her Bharatanatyam class. Two hours of fingering practice for her mudras and then an hour of footing practice made her feel like jelly. She pulled her thick, black- with- blonde- streaks hair out from a braid and pulled it back into a neat, high ponytail. Her brown eyes, which usually had a mischievous glint in them, looked around anxiously for her best friend Zoey's car. She, along with her other BFF Claire Robinson, were staying in Zoey's apartment for the weekend.

Niki, as she preferred to be called, gave up looking and pulled out her iPhone to play Temple Run. After years of begging her super- strict, super- Indian parents to exchange her old Blackberry for an iPhone 4S, she finally got it as a graduation gift. "I'm lucky they let me stay at Zoey's for the weekend", she thought, "under normal circumstances I would be given a simple yet straightforward 'no'."

Finally, Zoey's car pulled up at the driveway. "Where have you been for so long?" Niki yelled as soon she got into the car. "Oh I'm fine, thank you!" Zoey Jones exclaimed sarcastically, shaking hear blonde head and rolling her blue eyes.

"Where's Claire?"

"Already at my place."

"Figures. Little Miss Perfect always has to be on time."

"That's not nice, Niki."

"No, I meant that as a compliment. At least she knows her timing, unlike some other people I know."

"Do you want dinner tonight or not? You can go to bed hungry if you want, though, your choice."

"Ha-ha, that's so funny I'm peeing my pants right now."

And so they argued on and on till they reached Zoey's nice, cozy apartment. As soon as Zoey opened the door, they were greeted by a beaming Claire, whose stormy grey eyes were shining. "Omigosh, Niki! How are you?" she exclaimed, giving Niki a huge bear hug. Niki, who hated hugs, slithered out of Claire's grasp, yelling, "Stop manhandling me!".Claire gave out a little yelp of surprise and chased her around the living room, Niki yelling for help. Zoey rolled her eyes and headed to the kitchen. "Okay then, Nik, Clai, any ideas for dinner?" she asked the two wrestling girls. The girls stopped wrestling and looked up. "I don't know, Zoe", Niki muttered, "and quite frankly, I don't care. Cook something. Just make it taste good." Zoey sighed and facepalmed. "Fine. Does mac and cheese sound good?" she asked. "Sure. Why not?", the other two chorused.

After dinner the girls gathered in the living room. Niki plunked down upside-down on the bean bag, while Claire sat in a lady- like manner on the couch. And Zoey sat down next to her, cross- legged. After a few minutes of awkward silence, Niki burst out, "Do you wanna watch a movie or something?". Zoey nodded, then got up to the cupboard next to the TV and pulled out a pile of DVDs. "Okay, we have 'Shrek'.."

"God, no."

" 'Madagascar'.."

"I do not want to 'move it' right now."

" ' Lord of the Rings'..."

"LET'S WATCH IT!"

"... 'The Fellowship of the Ring'."

Zoey inserted the DVD into the DVD player and the movie started playing. The scene was just shifting from the story of the ring to Frodo reading a book when Niki exclaimed, "Elijah Wood makes Frodo look super- hot." The other two gave her weird looks. That was so out of character, considering Niki. "I kinda like Merry", Claire sighed. "I'm good with Legolas. At least he doesn't have hairy feet.", Zoey admitted. And so they watched the movie, with some small talk at some parts.

Suddenly, when Gandalf had just fallen with the Balrog, the lights went out. Almost like it was on cue, the building started shaking and objects started falling from the cupboard. Niki got knocked in the head when at last the cupboard itself came tumbling down. Suddenly, everything went black.