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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I was wide-awake by the time Billee came in. He smiled and dropped a pile of clothes on the end of my bed.

"I just saw Jamie outside" he said softly. "Are you two okay?"

"Fine thanks. You can have your shirt back now" As I gave it back to him, I noticed he looked pale and tired. He didn't seem as energetic as he usually was either.

"What's up?" I asked, concerned. "You look ill"

"I'm very tired, that's all. I couldn't sleep last night," he confessed. "When I left here I went back to my dorm but I kept thinking about stuff. About you and Jamie and my parents. So I got up and walked around for ages. And seeing Jamie out there…she doesn't have a clue that we're keeping something from her. It makes me feel bad"

"Same here" I admitted. "But…it's the only way, Billee. You can see that, can't you?"

"Yes" he sighed and ran his hand through his unbrushed hair. "Are you coming to lessons?"

"What have we got?"

"Biology, Geography, History…you get the picture. Elrond said he'd move Gimli away from us, so you don't have to worry anymore. Coming?"

"I'll just get dressed," I told him. "Wait outside. I'll just be a minute"

Billee nodded and left. I could hear him whistling outside the door. Quickly I got dressed and found that Billee had brought me one of his shirts instead of my own. When I put it on, it was really big but I didn't care.

I wouldn't go to breakfast; I was too embarrassed to face everyone. Billee sat in my dorm with me until lessons started.

"Where did you put the knife?" I asked quietly, looking around. Billee hesitated and pointed to my pillow.

"Under there" he whispered. "I couldn't think of anywhere else to put it"

"Hey guys" we jumped and blushed as Jamie came in, closely followed by Frodo. "We weren't interrupting anything were we?"

"Of course not" I lied. I seemed to be doing a lot of that lately. "Is that Legolas and Boromir lurking in the corridor?" I asked, trying to change the subject. "Tell them to come in."

"How come you weren't at breakfast?" Legolas asked as soon as he came in. "How's your arm?"

"It hurts," I said with a shrug. "I'm used to it"

"Why did you…?" Boromir started to ask, but Billee silenced him with a glare. Boromir glanced at the floor. "Sorry" he muttered. "I didn't mean anything"

"I know you didn't," I said with a smile. "I'm just not keen on talking about it. I did it, it was a mistake. Can we just leave it at that?"

Boromir, Legolas and Frodo nodded. Together we left the dorm and headed off to our lessons. As we walked down the corridor, Jamie pulled Billee to one side.

"Are you alright?" she said quietly, just loud enough for me to hear. "You don't look well"

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

"No" Jamie shook her head and fell into step with Frodo. "I don't think you are"

Just before we reached our classroom, Gimli passed us. He said nothing, just smirked at me, before walking on. Boromir turned to go after him, but I grabbed his arm.

"Just leave him," I said, shaking my head. "He isn't worth it"

"If you're sure" Boromir turned and looked at me. "Emma…" he began and then stopped.

"What is it?" I pressed. I admit I would never have thought that Boromir was the shy type.

"I was just wondering," he said slowly. "If you would like to take a walk with me after dinner."

"That would very nice," I said with a smile. "I'll be looking forward to it. Now, I think we had better go"

"Was what that all about?" Billee whispered as we sat down. I quickly told him and Jamie what had happened. Jamie looked rather pleased; I guessed that Frodo had something to do with that. Billee, on the other hand, looked rather upset…