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Love Was Never Easy
Chapter 10
In the next few days, Legolas and Tauriel have made it known to everybody that they were together, and that they wanted to keep it that way.
Normally, Principal Galadriel would disapprove of this. But she and Thranduil were close friends and she was happy to see his son smile after such a long time...especially after since his mother's death in his teenage years.
Plus, she knew that the ellon was responsible enough to mind both Tauriel and his studies...so Galadriel had confidence in him.
Later that day, Tauriel excused herself and left Legolas for a while. Inside the bathroom, there was one stall occupied. Tauriel shrugged it off and washed her hands, then, she wetted her face.
Looking in the mirror, the door from the occupied stall suddenly burst open...and out came Araniel.
Tauriel quickly spun around to meet face to face with the elleth, who had an ominous aura around her at the moment.
"Araniel," Tauriel said, "look, I know that we have had misunderstandings before...but, let's just forget about those, please?"
Araniel glared at her for a moment, then, she slapped her hard.
Tauriel gasped at how hard she'd hit her and held her red cheek.
"That's for stealing my boyfriend;" she screamed, and the elleth slapped Tauriel on the other cheek, "and that is for making me look bad in front of the whole school!"
She was about to slap the redhead again when Tauriel recovered and held her wrist.
"I never stole Legolas from you!" she replied, "He loves me!"
"You snaked him from me!" accused Araniel and suddenly got a burst of strength, clutching onto Tauriel's hair and making sure that it hurts like hell.
Tauriel struggled through the pain when the blonde dragged her into one of the stalls, threatening to plunge her head into toilet water.
Tauriel pleaded to her, but Araniel pushed harder.
"This is for everything you've done!" screamed Araniel when the door to the comfort room burst open.
"Araniel stop!" came the familiarly cold yet raging voice of Legolas as he hastily ,but carefully fished Tauriel from her arms. He felt the frailty and the way she trembled on his chest.
"What were you doing to my girlfriend?!" he demanded fiercely.
"Open up your eyes Legolas!" she replied, "she is blinding you- she is pushing you away from me!"
"Enough!" said the ellon, "Tauriel did nothing wrong!"
He then walked towards her with slow strides as his cold eyes peered into her soul.
"You do one more thing to her," he whispered darkly, "and I don't know what I might do to you."
The elleth remained silent.
"I won't let you hurt the elf I love."