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You're My Light in the Dark
Chapter 7
"Kat... Kat... come on, Kate! Wake up already!" And I awoke receiving a jab in the ribs.
"Ouch... what was that for?" I asked my baby sister sleepily while sitting up. She was sitting on the edge of my bed smiling.
"I've only been trying to get you up for a half hour now," she replied, "Kinda had to do that to get you up."
"Oi, what time is it?" I asked. She looked at her watch.
"7:45."
"If I was at home I would be walking into the gym now. I hope the rest of the Morning Crew is okay."
"Doubt it, betcha anything that Jill's worried sick about you." Lauren said. I got up out of bed and got ready.
"Yeah, suppose so. But it's not like we intended on coming here, actually we were kinda dumped here, is more like it."
"Yup, totally agree on that, but I would most definitely rather be here than at home."
"Damn right," I said smiling.
She got up off my bed and I followed her as she walked into her room. She went over to the nightstand beside her bed, opened the drawer, rummaged through it, and pulled something out. She walked back to me with her hand outstretched. "I believe this is yours." She dropped my birthstone ring into my hand.
"My lucky ring... " I said as I examined my gold opal ring in the palm of my hand before sliding it onto my left ring finger. "How did you get this?"
"Well, when I found out that you were missing and before Ma locked me in the basement, I went into your room to see if it was there, cuz I knew you always wear it when not expecting to go to gym. When I found it in your jewelry box, I knew you didn't run away."
"Thank you so much," I said as I hugged her.
"Don't thank me. I just took it to remind me of you."
"So? You still kept it safe."
"Ah, it was nothing."
Then there was a knock at the door. "Hey guys! It's Lily! Can I come in?"
"Yeah, come on in!" Lauren shouted. Lily entered the room smiling.
"So, what are ya guys up to?" she asked.
"Not much, just finished getting ready," I said.
"Did Merry and Pippin come to visit as well?" Lauren asked her.
"Sam too. Come on, we're going to take you two to our spot today." And she led us to the kitchen.
"So, Mr. Frodo? Was last night great, or what?" Sam asked. Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin were all sitting at Frodo's kitchen table drinking tea.
"Yeah, last night was pretty funny."
"Pretty funny? It was hilarious!" Pippin exclaimed. "Hum, and to think, two new lasses on their first time down there ended up making a bigger scene then we have ever done, Merry. It's quite unfair if you ask me."
"Actually, I think what they did was fair indeed. Poppy had it coming, though I never thought she would get it that soon, and especially from two new lasses no doubt," Merry said while sipping his tea in thought.
"Well, well, well, are you guys still talking about what happened last night?" I asked while strolling into the kitchen with Lauren and Lily right behind me.
"Yeah, you really have to get over that. If anything like what Poppy did happens again, we will take action again, and we will probably get worse," Lauren commented.
"Worse?" Lily asked, "I hardly doubt they'll do anything again."
"Sure they will, to get revenge of course," said Lauren, "And besides, Kat and I have gone through this many times before ourselves during our sports."
"Hey, we didn't get tortured by conditioning and bodily and mental pain all our life just from our sport, you know," I joked. I got strange looks from all our new friends. "When my heels are fully heeled, I'll give you a demonstration of what I'm talking about." But I had Pippin's attention.
"Sport? What kind of sport did you do?"
"Well, I'm an ice skater and Kat's a gymnast," Lauren said.
"We skate sometimes on the pond during the winter," said Frodo, "And I know some kids down the row do cartwheels up in the fields."
"Doubt you have ever seen anything like we do before though," I said.
"Alrighty, now, where are we going today?" Lauren asked.
"Hey, this is where.."
"This is our secret spot. Hardly anyone comes back here, so we decided to get together in this clearing," Sam explained to me. I looked around the clearing again "Hey, Frodo, isn't this where you found me the other day?"
"Yeah. Still can't believe you ended up here of all places."
"Cool, this is kinda like a hangout!" said Lauren, "Do you guys chill here often?" More odd looks.
Lauren, may I remind you that they don't use our "lingo" so to speak. I said. They have no idea what you're saying.
"Oh, yeah, oops." She thought for a second. "So, do you guys "get together" here often?"
"Yeah, we either go here or the Green Dragon," replied Merry.
"But why do you only go to here or the there?" I asked, "Must get boring going to the same places and doing the same things all the time."
"It's for the better. No one bothers us out here," Lily explained.
We sat in the trees, looking up at the clouds rolling by, pointing out various shapes and animals they made. It was quite peaceful spending time out here with all of them.
"I wish we could stay out here forever," Lily said.
"Why is that?" asked Sam.
"I don't know," she replied slowly, "Perhaps it's because I love spending time with you guys out here and we aren't pestered by anyone; we can just spend time together without any trouble."
The days flew by fast, with pretty much the same schedule day by day. Either I'd wake up by Lauren jabbing me in the ribs or I'd wake her up by jabbing her, we'd make breakfast for ourselves and for Frodo, then read, and when my heels finally got better I'd condition us. (Hey, it took a lot to gain the muscles we have, we weren't just gonna throw it away that easily.) And our small little gang always got together at like 4:00; we'd always go to our "secluded spot" and then off to the Green Dragon for the rest of the night. We bonded really well with the gang, and loved to spend time with them. Before we knew it, we'd been in Middle Earth for two weeks, and Bilbo was expected coming home any day soon.
"What are you gonna say to Bilbo if he asks about us?" Lauren asked on our way to the secret spot, "Is he gonna be mad at you for letting us stay with you?"
"Nah, I think he'll like you guys very much actually. He only likes people who respect us, which, being part of our, what did you call it?"
"Gang," I replied.
"Yes, well, you two being part of our gang now, I know he won't mind."
"Yeah, but is he really gonna believe us that we're not from here?" I argued.
"He's going to, believe me. It's not that hard to tell that you two are different anyway," said Frodo.
"Hey, what's that suppose to mean?" We asked in union.
"Different isn't bad you know. It's just that, well, you refuse to wear dresses, you talk weird, and you have an accent that no one has ever heard before."
I shuddered. "Evil dresses."
"Alright, good points," said Lauren while she hit me to stop shaking and muttering. We entered the clearing to find Merry and Pippin rolling around on the ground and Lily just watching in amusement.
"What are they doing?" Frodo asked as we walked up to Lily.
"Don't know, we were sitting over there a while ago and Pippin stood up and Merry tackled him randomly. They've been at it for a while now." They stopped tackling each other and stood up.
"Hey guys!" Pippin squeaked while coming over to us.
"What was that all about?" Lauren asked.
"Nothing, we were just bored and wanted something to do while we waited for you."
"Riight."
"Is Sam coming today?" Merry asked.
"No, he had to help his Gaffer after he worked on Bag End today, but he said he'll meet us at the Green Dragon tonight," explained Frodo.
"So, what do you guys want to do today?" I asked.
"Well, we were thinking of taking a visit to Farmer Maggot's crop," said Merry.
"No, thanks," Frodo replied.
"Well, then I guess it will be just the five of us?" Lily asked.
"What exactly are we doing at Farmer Maggot's crop?" Lauren asked.
"They're gonna steal mushrooms," Frodo said.
"What about you, Lauren? Gonna come?" Merry asked.
"Sure! Why not? That sounds like fun!" she replied happily.
"Nah, that's okay. I'll pass," I replied.
"Well, come on now! We must get going! Can't let those mushrooms wait any longer!" Pippin said anxiously while pushing the other three ahead.
"See you guys later!" they called. Lauren turned her head to face me, smiled and did a little salute before following them out of the clearing.
"Have they done this before?" I asked Frodo while he sat himself down on a large rock.
"Many. They've been doing it since they were small. I use to go with them when I was younger, but that was until Mr. Maggot's dog chased me for miles and up a tree. Never liked dogs, always been scared of them terribly. Ever since that happened, I haven't gone with them since."
"Oh."
"How come you didn't go?"
"Well, I couldn't just leave you here all by your lonesome now, could I?"
"Yeah, but, I'm use to it. You could have gone if you wanted to."
"That's not the point," I argued. I laid myself down on the soft grass, looking up at the clouds. "So, what do you wanna do today?"
"Dunno." He got up off the rock and lay next to me. Leaves started to fall off the trees and danced in the wind. "I love autumn, it's my favorite time of the year. It's a pity winter's coming though, it's gonna get cold fast and pretty soon we're not going to be able to do this."
"Do what?"
"Just sit out here and look into the sky. It's so big, I often wonder how far it really goes."
I started to trace the outline of the clouds with my finger. "Frodo?"
"Yeah?"
"What's today's date?"
"October the 25th of the year 3013."
I sat in thought. "Five years...right? Yes, 3018 is the year. A little less than five years...wait, October 25. That rings a bell..." I muttered to myself.
Frodo propped himself up on his elbows. "What's gonna happen in five years?" he questioned with an eyebrow raised. He snapped me out of my trance.
"Oh, um, uh, nothing. Don't mind me, I tend to ramble on to myself about nothing most of the time."
"Alright, whatever, then."
We fell silent for a while. I wanted to tell Frodo about the ring, and the whole miserable quest, but knew that I couldn't.
Kinda pointless chapter, I know, but it needed to be done. Anyways, I saw ROTK for the second time today! Jumps up and down and starts giggling like an idiot Even better seeing it the second time 'round if you ask me. I love the hobbits; they are just so cute! I just wanna hug 'em all to death! Don't ask me why, but I just have this thing with hobbits. Yeah, most people are crazed over elves. Beautiful, perfect, yadda, yada, yadda. They may be pretty and everything, but I'm just obsessed with the hobbits, Frodo and Pippin especially. :P Don't ask, I'm just weird like that. I'm always different.
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