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.

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After Drama, we had Art. There was no Gimli, lucky and it went quite well. But on our way to History, Billee, Legolas and Jamie pulled me aside.

"Emma, you seem to be acting rather strangely," Billee said slowly. "Has something happened?"

"You can tell us" Jamie encouraged. "And don't say that we are just worrying about nothing"

"Well you have to admit that you two do worry about me a bit more than necessary," I said, attempting to make a joke of the situation. However, when I saw that they weren't going to let it drop, I nodded.

"I had a run in with Gimli," I admitted. "He just said that he was going to get his own back on the three of you. I…I'm just worried about you"

"You shouldn't worry about us," Billee said with a laugh. "I can look after myself and so can Jamie. He didn't threaten you, did he?"

"No" I lied, shaking my head. I was too confused and embarrassed to tell my friends what Gimli had said. I was also afraid that they wouldn't take me seriously. His threat had only been light, but I could tell from his eyes exactly what he had been thinking.

"That's alright then," Jamie said, squeezing my arm. "But maybe none of us should go anywhere alone for a while. Until this blows over"

"Until it blows over," Legolas echoed. "Right"

"Are you sure he didn't threaten you?" Billee persisted. "If he even lays a finger on you, I'm going to kill him" I knew he meant it. It takes a lot to push Billee over the edge, but when someone does, they soon begin to regret it.

"Come on Billee" Jamie pulled at his arm. "Give Emma a break. She wouldn't lie to us. We're her friends"

"Right" I agreed guiltily. "Come on, we'd better get to class"

History has always been one of my favourite classes. Elrond teaches us, I think we're one of the only classes he actually does teach. He's pretty patient and he makes the lessons interesting, so I think most of us do enjoy them.

Despite us having stopped to talk, we were still amongst the first few students there. We sat down and watched the other students come in. Unfortunately, one of the last was Gimli. Even worse still, since all the seats were taken, he ended up having to sit right behind us. Billee noticed my discomfort and put his arm around my shoulder.

"Don't worry," he whispered in my ear. "This lesson is going to be fun"

"What are you planning?" I whispered back. "Don't get yourself into trouble"

"Billee!" I hadn't noticed Elrond come into the room until he spoke. "Are you molesting my students again?"

"No sir" Billee said immediately. "I see you aren't wearing purple today. It's so your colour"

"Don't push it, Billee" Elrond said with a smile. "Are you going to do some work for me this year?"

"Maybe" Billee said with a shrug. "Hopefully"

I had to smile. Billee is probably the only person I know who could get away with insulting Elrond so much. You can have a joke with Elrond, that what I like about him, but Billee goes way over the top and gets away with it. That's just Billee for you.

We got settled and the lesson started. After five minutes, Billee stood up.

"I need to open the window," he said loudly. "The dwarf's smell is making me feel ill"

Elrond began to say something, and then changed his mind. He merely nodded and carried on with the lesson. Gimli gave Billee an evil look, but didn't say a word.

For a few minutes more, the room was quiet. Then suddenly I felt something hit me on the back of the neck. As I turned round, Gimli grinned and threw another piece of rolled up paper at me. I scowled at him, but it made no difference. I ignored his pathetic attempts to be annoying and turned back to my work. After a few minutes, Gimli returned to his book, muttering rude things about all of us under his breath.

"Gimli" Legolas said finally. "Don't they have water or soap where you come from?"

"Shut up, stupid elf" Gimli hissed. "At least I don't look like a woman"

"He doesn't look like a woman," Billee said, not even turning around. "And even if he did, it's better than looking like a walking bush. Now shut up and leave us alone, dirty, fat dwarf"

"You want to watch yourself," Gimli threatened. "Because you're heading for trouble"

"Not half as much as you are" Jamie cut in. "Now please shut up. You're boring us"

When he was sure that the others were engrossed in the lesson, Gimli leant over the desk slightly and touched my hair.

"You are very pretty," he whispered in my ear. "A pretty half-elf like yourself should watch herself. Just in case people take advantage of her"

I couldn't reply. I pulled away and attempting to lose myself in the lesson, trying to block out his voice. When the lesson was over, I didn't wait for the others. I ran over to my dorm, and to my relief, there was nobody in there. Knowing that I didn't have long before the others came to find me, I pulled up my shirt sleeve, took out my pen knife and slashed at my arm over and over again. As I watched the blood run down my arm, I felt better. Quickly I pulled my sleeve back down just as Jamie walked into the room.