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

By Risty Maskell and Silver15

Disclaimer: We own nothing. Damn.

Summary: I can't tell you. I'm brain dead.

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Gandalf teleported us back to Bag End, when we appeared in the kitchen, Legolas shrieked and dropped the plate he was washing up. Everyone laughed.

"Hey Lego," Yelled Boromir. "Take it easy mate! What are you trying to do? Kill my future wife?" Everyone laughed again. Legolas' shriek had woken up Ria, so I walked into the lounge to rock her back to sleep. Emma and Boromir was in there. Emma looked at me curiously, but, saw I was busy and decided to leave me to it. I just smiled and sat next to her, giving Ria her bottle. Boromir saw this was 'girls time', took the hint and left for the kitchen. Emma turned to me.

"So," she said. "Why so happy all of a sudden?"

"What do you mean?" I asked, playing dumb.

"Well, Billee said you sounded happier on the phone, I want to know what your secret it."

I sighed. "Promise you won't laugh?"

"I swear to heaven and back that I will not laugh."

"Marks ghost came to visit me."

I could tell she wasn't expecting that one coming. I smiled and pulled out the diary.

"What do you mean, his ghost came to visit you?"

"He had some unfinished business."

"Which was?"

"To tell me not to be sad. He'll be there with me."

"Wow. That is…wow."

"I know. And I found his diary among his possessions." I showed her the last entry. The one before the day he died. She read it. When she looked up, she had tears in her eyes.

"You actually wrote that poem?" I nodded. "When?"

"When I was ten years old. Julia had told me, she was fifteen. Her friend got pregnant. So I wrote a poem about it. I got an A for it, too."

Emma laughed. "Mark taught you lots of stuff, didn't he?"

"Heaps. Judo, karate, how to be a hell-bent bitch in three easy lessons…" That got Emma cracking up again. I smiled. "Whaaaaaaat?"

"I don't think you needed those lessons." Emma said. I playfully hit her with a TV magazine. Ria was asleep now, so I thought I'd better put her up in her crib. I went upstairs, lay her down and put on the baby monitor. Then I went back down stairs, finding everyone else at the table, eating some of this leftover soup that Legolas, Billee and Colan had made. I ate some, surprised to find it quite good. It was still early in the evening. And it was Saturday. So it was time to get the movie started. I called everyone into the living room and popped 'Roger and Hammersteins Cinderella' with Brandy as Cinderella. We all paid attention to it, because of the great music. That was the kids movie, after Colan and Wendy, who was spending a lot of time here nowadays, had gone to bed, we put on 'Priscilla: Queen of the Desert' (A/N: Aww come on! It's a classic!) We all laughed at one of the drag queens, Tick, I think was his name, because he looked like Elrond with short hair. Even Elrond had a hard time trying not to laugh at the stupid dances Tick came up with.

Billee decided to add a witty comment. "Hey Elrond, you and Tick are alike. You both love to wear dresses."

Elrond chased him around the house with a chain-saw…okay, now I'm lying, it was actually an electric toothbrush.