But It's Not Over!!

Time passed, as time tends to do and one month was like 4 weeks, or ten seconds. Allison was overly consumed with her studies and Eric with Varsity Lacrosse. Though, whenever Allison saw him sporting the varsity jacket, she smiled remembering their last night with the Fellowship, playing lacrosse and hitting dwarves with pinecones.

It was the last day of finales, and Eric stopped by Allison's last period class to see how everything went. Allison walked out of the Pre-Calculus class totally drained. She saw Eric and smiled weakly,

"How was it?"

"Insanely hard."

"Awe. Gonna go home and shoot yourself?"

"No, I still want to know what I got…then I'll shoot myself." Eric chuckled, and they walked out to the parking lot together. It was a cold January day, but the sun shone, confused that it was still winter. Allison threw her hands up and said,

"I'm so happy that it's over! Let's do something tonight, to celebrate the ending of my emotional breakdown!" Eric enthusiastically agreed.

"Let's go get some coffee, we can figure it out from there."

It was ten minutes later when the two meet at Starbucks. They ordered their coffee and took their seats. Allison began emptying out her bag to find some lip gloss and placed her now finished Return of the King on the table aimlessly. Eric picked it up, flipped through it and smiled.

"So how does it end?"

"What?" Allison looked up from her search, saw the book and laughed.

"Gollum bites of Frodo's finger, takes the ring and falls into Mt. Doom. They all go home, the Third Age ends, Frodo, Gandalf, Galadriel and some other elves from the war go to the Havens and the rest live happily ever after."

"So Frodo dies?"

"Yes, I suppose you could say that." Eric looked sadly at the book, and Allison laughed,

"You remembered his name!" Eric laughed too, but it was rather melancholy.

"Why can't they all live happily ever after?"

"I suppose, because Tolkien wanted to show a complete end of the Third Age."

"But Frodo was so young…"

"Do you think that he shouldn't have died?" Eric just shrugged.

"I don't know." Allison was quite thinking about his answer, and thinking about those she missed so much. But she grinned and said through a laugh,

"Let's go back."

"What?"

"Let's go back! Let's go see everyone and take Sam to a movie!" Eric gave her a confused smile, then laughed and nodded,

"Ok, let's do it!"