Soooo the 13 was my birthday and I went to see the hobbit...great just sayin

xoxo Russ

Glorfindel:
Outside the schools doors the rain pours down. I looked for Erestor on the way here to give him a ride but didn't see him. he must have gotten a ride. I look at the time and sigh. The bells about to ring. He hasn't texted me saying he wasn't coming. Maybe he got a cold or something.

"What are you waiting for?" One of the other player on my team comes to stand by me. Elladan.

"Erestor. He's not here yet"

"The guy from the dance class? Maybe he is running late" He gives me a smile. Elladan has become a good friend along with his twin brother Elrohir. Both identical in looks with their black hair and blue eyes but different in personailty. The bell ring and he places a hand on my shoulder. "We have class. If he comes he comes."

Nodding I fallow him to the gym. It's odd not to hear from him at all. I really hope hes ok. Gym passes along with health and language and still no Erestor. Maybe he got here but is in the studio. There I see April and wave her down.

"Hey there hot stuff"

"Hey is Erestor here?" I ask and look into the room.

"Um No." She looks down at her feet.

"Where is he then?"

"Hes home today. He won't be in at all"

"What happened? Is he sick?" I can feel myself start to panic.

"Well no" April bites her lip for a minute then looks at me. "Glorfindel it's really not my place to say. He is never in school on this day"

"I don't understand"

"I'm sorry. Like I said not my place. I have to get to class" She gives me one last smile and hurries into the room.

I think I'm going to stop by his house. For the rest of the day I try texting him. even calling but no answer. To say I am worried is a understatement. By the time school ends the rain has stopped but it's still gloomy and chilly. Normal for fall.
I drive to his house and knock on the door. His foster mother greets me.

"Hi. Is Erestor here?"
"

Yes. Yes come in" She opens the door wide to let me in. The house is completely quite. The door leading down to Erestor's room is shut. Something is wrong. "We need to talk before you see him."
She leads me to the living room and I sit in a chair across from her. She rings her hands for a minute. There is sadness on her pale face.

"Today is always a hard day for Erestor. As you know he is in foster care andit is not becuae his parents were bad. When he was six years old there was a brake in at his families home. His father tried to stop the intruders but.." She stops and takes a deep breath. "He was shot and killed. His mother tired to protect him by shield him with her body. She was also killed. He saw it all. Tramatized of course. It was just by chance Celeborn worked the case. He found Erestor there alone sitting in a pool of blood staring into nothing"

My mouth drops as she describes a horrible seance. Like something out of a horror movie.

" The poor child went through hours of therapy. They tried to get suspects out of him but he could never remember. He blames himself for not finding his parents killers and for his mothers death. "

"My god. Thats insane. He didn't tell me"

"Well it's not something he goes around telling people. Every year he skips school and hides away" Galadriel sighs."From the moment he came here him and Celeborn have been close. We wish we had him from the start. In fact we are on the road to adopting him"

"Really?"

"Yes. But he does have family members challenging us for him." She frowns and looks a photo of her, her husband and Erestor all smiling. "Since my own sons are to grown for home I love having him around"

"Does he know?"

"No not yet. We haven't figured out how to ask him" She sighs and looks towards the basement door as we hear a door slamming. "You can go down now it you like"
"

Thanks" Very quietly I make my way downstairs and into my boyfriends room. In the room I find a small lump on the bed completely covered with a blanket. "Erestor?"

"What?" His voice is muffled and sounds like hes crying. My heart breaks at the sound.

"Are you ok?" I take a seat on the bed close to him.

"Yes"

"Come on baby" I place my hand on him and the blanket moves from his head. Erestor quickly wipes his eyes. Yes crying. His hand takes mine and pulls me down to lay beside him. I hug him as he buries his face into my shirt and stroke his wavy messy hair. Must have been braided. I see something laying on his pillow and pick it up. it's a picture of him when he was little when what I am guessing is his parents. "Galadriel told me"

"I miss them" He whispers and his hands grip my shirt.

"I know" I kiss his head and rub his back. No child should have gone through that. "Erestor you know it's not your fault"

"It is. If..if I hadn't been some weak child my mom wouldn't have needed to protect me."

"Erestor baby. You were a child"

"I know"

I hold my crying boyfriend for a while until his breathing slows and hes asleep. Poor guy cried himself to sleep.

"Don't worry. I will protect you from every thing" I whisper to his sleeping form and hold him closer.

Erestor:
In the dance studio by myself I look into the huge mirror and go over my moves again for the fifth time. Foot here, foot there, more this way then the other way. My feet hit the floor hard and every once and a while theres a squeaking sound of rubber on the floor. Dance helps me forget and to clear my mind. My mother was also a dance and was the one to get me into it. I do this to honor her. I bet she'd be so proud to know I was in this school and was captain of the dance team. I fallow in her footsteps. But I also fallow in my fathers. He was a published author. Know for his books about the world and it's creatures.

Sighing I wipe the hair from my face and start my routine again. Foot, foot, hand then turn. What people don't get is that its not just the day that gets to me. It's the nightmares and the flashbacks. From the sound of the gun to the roses being dropped onto my parents coffins at the funereal. It's all still there. Like some one glued it into my mind just to torture me. Thats why I dance and work so hard. To forget and make them proud. I like to believe they are smiling down at me. I wonder if they would like Glorfindel. They were very open people so I think me being gay would be fine.

"Erestor?" I stop dance and find Miss Luna walking into the room She smiles and hugs me. Shes the teacher I am really close to. "Your here early"

"I know. Thought I'd get some alone time in before the others get here."

"There was a reason I picked you as captain. You never stop doing your best and getting better. You'll go far one day" She hangs her coat and bag up as I take a drink from my water bottle. "How are you feeling? I know what yesterday was"

"I'm ok. I am sad but that will never go away. I just have to do what makes me happy"

"Your a strong one. I think you have a visitor" She motions towards the door and I look. Glorfindel stands there and he waves at me. I go over to him and he hugs me.

"Goodmorning beautiful" He whispers and kisses me.

"Goodmorning"

"I thought I'd come see you before I head to the gym with the team" Glorfindel keeps me in his arms even with people giving us looks. "I'm glad your here today"

"Well I can't miss to many days when I have a team to run" I nuzzle his neck and take in his sent. No one I have ever dated came to see me on the day. Only him and that means alot to me.

"Don't over work yourself"

"I won't"

"Baby I have to get to the gym. Have a good day ok?" He kisses me again and strokes my hair.

"I will" After giving him a wave as he walks away I turn and find my teacher smiling at me. "What?"

"He is handsome. Good pick"

I laugh a little and take a seat beside her.

"Yeah I think getting him was a rare thing." I sigh and rest my chin on my hand. "Did you have the dance you want the team to do?"

"Oh. Yes" Miss Luna takes some paper out of her bag and hands them to me. "Theres a competition next week and I want you to teach the teami

"Can do"