---A/N: How could I ever live up to that 1st chapter? Enjoy!
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Ch. 2

The morning sun glared on the boat ahead of me as I got my bags from the back of De's Jeep and the four of us headed down the dock. I had 2 suitcases and a backpack.

"I think I have everything..." I said to myself. "......Where are the tickets?!"

De, Ian, and Kristin all stopped in the middle of the dock. "I thought..you had them...Jess." said Kristin, with a blank face.

I couldn't help but start to laugh. "I had to say that, once in my life."

"That wasn't funny! You almost gave me a heart attack!" said De, proceeding toward the boat. It was worth a try.

I handed out the four tickets and we loaded the boat. Kristin, De, and I shared one room, while Ian was next to us in an adjoined room. Technically, he could have shared a room, but after all there are three of us girls, to one guy. We walked up a small flight of stairs to the section of rooms in the one-hundreds.

"Here it is, rooms 134 and 135." Said Kristin, opening the door.

"TOP BUNK!" I yelled tossing my pillow onto one, of the two bunk beds in the room.

"I get the other!" said Kristin, right after me.

I looked back at De, whom didn't look happy herself, as she made her way to the bed under Kristin. "Since we'll be here a few days, maybe I'll switch with you once or twice." I offered, hoping she'd decline.

"I'll take you up on that, Jess." said De, with a little smirk.

I piled my suitcases on the bottom bunk and popped them open. I replaced my pillow, along with a stuffed animal bear, slippers, and PJs.

"A bear, Jess?" said Kristin, with a small giggle.

"Oh...em, he goes everywhere with me!" I explained. "...He's been to Maine, North Carolina, NYC......." when I was cut off by a random outburst sounding like it came from next door.

"NO VCR!?!? HOW IS A MAN SUPPOSED TO KEEP ENTERTAINED IN THIS PLACE?"

"Ian...." all three of us said, looking in the direction of his room.

~~~In Middle-Earth~~~

"Come on, Pippin!" loudly whispered Merry, tugging on Pippin's hair.

They eyed Gandalf's new staff leaning against the wall in the hallway of Bag End. Frodo, Sam, Aragorn, and the crew were talking outside on the lawn. They snuck through the window and crept toward it.

"This thing is taller than us!" stated Pippin. "How'r'we supposed to get it back out the window without them seein'?

"If they're distracted by one of us, they won't be able to see. I'll go, and you take the staff and I'll meet you by the bridge." said Merry, making his way back out the window.

"WAIT! Merry, let me distract 'em!" said Pippin, running toward the window with Gandalf's staff. UMPH! Pippin ran right into the window with Merry and right out went the staff. SNAP................

"PIPPIN!!" exclaimed Merry. "Look what you....." He stopped to see 7 pairs of eyes staring down at him and Pippin. ".....did."

"Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took...I should have known." said Gandalf, picking up the broken pieces of his new staff, lying in the middle of hallway.

"So...where'r'we anyways?"


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---A/N: Oooooh, what next?