Chapter 19
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Then the day of the wedding finally came. Although we tried to get her to, Earendil would not come, she was still heartbroken. We left her there, but as we were almost out of sight, I saw her leave the house in familiar direction of which she had been going lately. If I needed to find her, she would be back at the clearing.
I patted my pocket to make assure myself that the leaf rolled up into the shape of a straw and strips of paper were still there. Elbereth, Balin, Rose, and Primrose also had similar things in their pockets. Elbereth and I had told them about what had happened, and they were glad to help. My plan was as follows; we were going to make Arwen so annoyed that she would totally go crazy and Aragorn would realize how foolish he was to try to marry her. We were going to accomplish this with old fashion spit balls, I had arranged it so that we were sitting in the second row behind some extremely tall elves, so we would be close enough to be in range, but hopefully no one would notice what we were doing. We had some trouble convincing Glorfindel, Legolas, Merry, Frodo, and Pippin to not sit with us, but after we told them we had something important to take care of, they finally agreed. Also, Balin had a special spell in store for her.
When we arrived there, we took our seats, and at a sign from me, we all took a piece of paper and popped it into our mouths.
It only took a little bit for all of the guests to arrive and take their seats. Then the wedding began. After Arwen had dramatically walked down isle (gag) and she was standing next Aragorn, the ceremony began. We let things get boring for a little while before I shot the first spit ball. It had great aim and hit her right in the back of the head. She turned around to see who had sent it, but I just smiled and looked perfectly innocent. We waited for a couple of minutes, before Elbereth fired the next one. This time it hit her square in the back. She looked around again, this time more annoyed, but once again couldn't find the felon. We waited a couple of minutes once more, before Rose and Primrose fired theirs at the same time. They had fired them just as she had turned a little, so they both hit her in the face. This time she said something.
"What was that!?!?!" she cried.
"A spit ball, I think dear." said Gandalf, who was sitting in the firs row. He winked at us before saying, "Quite common this time of year."
"What are you talking about?!?" she said.
I winked back at Gandalf before saying, "Back where I come from, it's quite common for them to be attracted to people who aren't liked much by every one else."
"We might have brought some with us by accident." Added Primrose.
She gave us a look of hatred. "I don't care where they come from or what they are, someone just get rid of them! Let's continue now Aragorn."
Then, as a waiter carrying a platter with a banana cream pie, which had been specially prepared by Rose and Primrose, walked by, Balin cast her little surprise spell. Suddenly, a huge wind came up, the waiter lost his footing, and the pie flew into the air and landed on Arwen's face.
"You fool!!" she yelled. "Look what you've done!"
"I'm sorry Milady, but the wind came up all of a sudden, and so strongly, I was caught completely unexpected, it was like a spell or something!" stuttered the waiter.
"Your right, it was just like a spell!" she cried, and then turned to catch me giggling. "You, you caused all of this, you and your stupid friends!" and she walked up and slapped me.
As she did that, my dog Tayo ran up from under my chair and bit her leg.
"Oh, you stupid animal!" she cried, shaking him off of her leg. " Aragorn, do something!"
"I think I will." He said, and then turned to priest and guests, "I'm sorry for bringing you all here for nothing, but the wedding is off."
"WHAT!?!??!?" screamed Arwen.
"You heard me, I'm not marrying you." Then he turned to Elrond as he rushed to his daughter's side and said, "I'm sorry Elrond. I love and respect you like a father and I was going to marry Arwen because of that, but I can't. She's not the one I love."
Then he turned and left, and Arwen turned to follow him, in a rage. But as she walked by, I reached out my foot and stepped on the end of her dress. It instantly tore and Arwen left in an fit. Elrond rushed after her. Then Primrose stood on her chair and yelled out above the chatter of the bemused guests, "You heard him, the weddings off!" When everyone stared at her with blank faces, she yelled, "That means you all can leave!" Before she had even finished saying the word "leave", there was the clatter of chairs and everyone was rushing toward the exits.
While she was doing this, I had run over to my dog Tayo and hugging him like crazy. Legolas came over and asked, "Who is this?"
I told him. "This is my lovable little puppy-dog Tayo, from when I lived in earth. But how did he get here?!"
"Well, you can figure that out later, but right now we have to go find Earendil." I turned to see that Elbereth had joined us.
"Your right. Balin! Rose! Primrose!" I called, "Can you take Tayo back to your room?"
They immediately said yes, happy to be around something from their old lives.