High school is a teen's best friend. Yeah right.

By Risty Maskell and Silver15

Disclaimer: If we owned anything to do with LOTR, we'd be in heaven. Unfortunately, we don't so we are still on crappy earth.

Summery: You mean you still don't know? Well I'm not wasting time telling you, you can just read the previous chapters thank you.

A/N: Please forgive me if this doesn't make complete sense. It's almost midnight here and I'm really tired, but since I can't get to sleep, I'm writing this instead.

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As usual, we got our seats before most of the others made it into the room. Jamie, I, Billee and Legolas sat together, with Boromir, Frodo, Sam and Aragorn in front of us. I was glad we were all together, especially since I knew how much Jamie liked Frodo. However, my joy was short-lived when Gimli entered and made his way to the back of the room. As he passed us, he glared at Billee. Billee glared back until Gimli had gone.

"Be careful," I whispered to Billee. "Don't start making trouble with him. He's not worth it"

"Of course he isn't" Legolas said with a small laugh. "He's a dwarf"

"Are you alright Jamie?" Billee asked my friend. "I can't believe he tried to hurt a girl"

"I'm fine, Billee" Jamie insisted. "Really"

"It was cool what you said to him," Billee continued. "I wish I'd thought of it"

"Next time, maybe," Jamie told him. "Right, Em?"

"Yeah" I answered mechanically. "Next time"

I noticed Billee and Jamie exchanging a quick glance. I was just about to insist that nothing was wrong, when the door opened and Galadriel came in. She paused in the doorway and looked around at us, before smiling softly.

"Greetings, all of you" she said in her soft voice. "I see that I have the pleasure of having my favourite students from last year again"

"Looks like it" Billee agreed. "Don't tell us you haven been looking forward to it"

"You have all changed" she smiled. "It is quite frightening. Billee, you have grown"

"I know" Billee smirked. "I'd like to see Elrond try and discipline me now"

I had to laugh at that. So did Jamie and one or two of the other students. Even Galadriel gave a small laugh.

"Maybe you would like to go and say that to him" she joked. "I would like to see what he has to say about that"

"So would I" Billee agreed. "Maybe later"

"And I see we have some new students here" she continued, sitting down and looking at the list of names in front of her. "When I call your names, would each student kindly raise their hand"?

One at a time, she went through our names. Jamie Shadow, Legolas Greenleaf, Emma Silverblade, Billee Deamae, Frodo Baggins, Aragorn Strider, Boromir South and so on. When she had finished, she went over the rules, mainly for the benefit of the new students. I sat there, trying hard not to yawn. Sure, we don't have that many rules in this place, but the ones we do have, I could repeat in my sleep. I'd heard them that often. Jamie looked as bored as I felt. On my other side, Billee was repeating them under his breath.

"I wish she would just get on with it" Jamie whispered in my ear.

"I know," I whispered back. "I mean, I know that some people in here need to know them, but why not give us old students our lesson plan and let us get on with it"

"Because they think our brains have gone rusty over the vacation" Jamie said. I giggled.

"Well mine bloody well hasn't," I pointed out. "Neither has Billee's from the sound of it"

Finally, Galadriel finished her talk on the rules and stuff. Then she handed out our lesson plans. It's basically a piece of paper which tells us when we have lessons, where and who with. When she had given them all out, she asked if we had any questions. Of course no one did. They never do. Then we were dismissed.

"Maths," I grimaced, looking at my plan. "I hate maths"

"Of all the worst luck" Jamie said with a grin. "First lesson of the year and its maths"

"That sucks" Billee agreed. "Still at least the four of us are together. We're together for quite a few lessons this year. That's great, isn't it Legolas?"

"Yes, it is" the tall, blond elf gave a nervous smile. "Are you sure you don't mind me hanging out with you?"

"No, it's cool" Billee said, reassuringly. "Isn't it girls?"

"Yes" Jamie and I said together. The four of us looked at each other and laughed.

"Come on" Jamie said finally. "We had better get to class"