Life After High School. Is It Scary? You Bet.

By Risty Maskell and Silver15

Disclaimer: If we did own them, we would tell you, you know.

Summary: Crikey, I dunno.

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As I fed Ria, I looked out the window. Emma was racing away oh her horse, no doubt to find Boromir. I glanced at Frodo and we both shared a knowing smile. Then I looked at my daughter. She was burbling and drooling. Being only four days old, she was very alert. While I had changed her nappy, she had grabbed one of her stuffed animals and faced it, burbling to it in baby talk and waiting every now and then, as though listening to it answer. It was so cute.

After I had finished feeding her, I picked up Ria and gave her to Frodo, who showed her his cards, and in a serious voice he said, 'Don't tell anyone what my cards are, okay?" That got everyone laughing, and I think the sudden noise startled her, because she began to cry and I had to take her to rock her to sleep.

Just then, Emma and Boromir came in and everyone glanced up. After about five seconds of silence, Billee and Benny began clapping quietly, with big grins on their faces. Then everyone else began clapping quietly, obviously so as not to wake up Ria. I had grinned at them. Julia came over and took the sleeping baby from me and I went upstairs, filled two bath tubs with hot water and grabbed fluffy towels, then came back down and dragged the two wet bedraggled lovebirds and sent them to the bathroom to have a wash and get out of those wet clothes. They glanced at me gratefully and stepped into the bathroom, where I had also put clean changes of clothes. Being a mother already and I was being as hospitable as Granny Mallory used to be when she had visitors. I sighed to myself.

I had nothing else to do, I went downstairs and took my daughter from my sister, the I went into the lounge and put on a video. Spy Kids, I think it was. I laughed at the funny parts and gasped at the scary parts, Emma came down and we watched it together. I thought it was pretty funny. Emma was sitting there not really watching it, she had that love-struck grin on her face and I tried not to laugh. She looked so cute.

Ria woke up then and began squirming. I decided to feed her. As I fed her, I innocently asked what had changed her mind about Boromir.

She looked at me. "A note, he wrote to me. Before he left."

I nodded approvingly. "You know, he loves you a whole lot. Why do you think he could do with something better?"

"You read the note?"

"About ten seconds after Boromir left Billee found it and showed it to me. I'm totally innocent."

Emma smiled and settled back to watch the movie. I kept feeding Ria and then put her to sleep. It indeed seemed like everything was goning to be all right.