Dear Sam,
When I woke up I found both the men of the house in my room. When Bilbo saw me wake up he handed me a box and got really somber. He said he would probably be gone; yeh right, before my birthday (a month from now) and he wanted to give me my gift along with Frodo. It was a genuine, Dwarven made necklace. Oh, it was beautiful, each gem shone slightly different when it caught in the sun and it was loose enough around my neck that I didn't feel suffocated; he always knows what I like. He told me that he knew a certain Hobbit my age that had been catching my eye and he thought this would help bring the poor boy to his knees. I hope he wasn't talking about Sam!
As Frodo and I went outside, we were greeted by almost the entire Shire wishing Frodo a happy birthday. We went to help everyone set up the celebration area underneath the Party Tree, but we were shooed off by everyone saying it was his birthday so we shouldn't have to work.
When the party started I had ten different boys ask me to dance immediately after the music began, unfortunately Sam wasn't one of them. Trying not to be rude I danced with them all as quickly as I could before sitting down beside Frodo and Sam. All Sam was doing was drinking some ale and sometimes taking a glance at me or Rosie, and then Frodo whispered something in his ear and gave him a wink before getting up. Sam took another sip of his drink, blushed furiously, and asked me to have a dance with him.
I was so surprised, but I guess I answered a bit to fast because he blushed even harder; still, I got up and noticed Frodo go over to the band and talk to the conductor. As Sam and I got out onto the dance floor, the song that had been playing changed dramatically and a slower song began. Sam and I looked at each other shyly before he put his arm around my waist, and mine went on his shoulder while our other hands joined in the air. Slowly he began to twirl me around on the floor. I caught a glimpse of Frodo in the crowd that was watching us happily and he gave me a wink before asking for the hand of a hobbit lass beside him.
For the next two minutes we danced, I couldn't read what Sam's eyes were telling me but I thought I saw a glint of happiness in his deep brown eyes. Slowly without realizing it we got closer to each other, I gasped when I realized that our bodies were touching slightly. Just as I looked up at Sam to tell him my feelings for him, the dance ended and another began, but this one wasn't a slow dance so Sam let go of me awkwardly and went back to his ale. I walked back to my seat in a daze until Frodo asked me to dance with him. We had a lot fun; I have absolutely no shame when I am with my older brother. We twisted and shouted, laughed and jumped; but soon he had to go off and find Bilbo to make sure he was okay.
I ran around searching for my friend, Pearl, and soon found her with her younger brother Pippin. He stayed around for a minute or two talking to us before making up an excuse and running off. We saw him sprint off to where we knew Gandalf's fireworks were. I told Pearl about my dance with Sam, and she laughed, she never really understood why I liked him because of his weight difference. But that was the only thing we had ever disagreed on. We both hated being thought of as defenseless because of our gender, besides we were both two of the best archers and fighters in the Shire, and we both loved our brothers greatly.
We jumped simultaneously when a loud bang resounded through the field and a fiery dragon soared through the air towards the party. After the dragon burst into fireworks, we looked at each and laughed because we knew who had set it off. The two of us ran over to the spot it had ignited and chuckled until our sides hurt when we saw, much to our enjoyment, Merry and Pip on the ground covered in soot from head to toe. Soon Gandalf was over and dragged then off to wash dishes, with a wink at us. Pearl and I were laughing so hard we had to fall on each other for support. But eventually the both of us had to stop to go listen to Bilbo's speech. I went off to sit with Frodo and both of us shared a glance at each other that said… He's going to do whatever he's doing very soon.
I listened to his speech and saw how he became more and more nervous as the speech wore on, he said he was leaving and then he disappeared! Frodo and I ran around looking for him before we found his footprints on the ground, we followed them back to Bags End but by the time we had gotten there, he was gone. Frodo inherited everything inside Bags End (since I'm a girl I can't inherit a house). We begged Gandalf to stay longer but he left immediately, suddenly I got a vision of Frodo, Sam, and I walking through the Shire with bags on our back. I told Frodo but he said it was probably us going to see Bilbo.
I'll write back when we get everything sorted out.
