Chapter 30-Of Notes and Forgiveness
Diamond thought long and hard about what to do next. It was early evening. Malva did offer to lend her some night-things and let her stay as long as she wanted, but Diamond thanked her and decided she'd need to be alone for a while. Alone somewhere she could think, somewhere where she wouldn't be disturbed and could plan out how to go talk to Pip. If him and Merry aren't still busy rutting each other, that is, she thought nastily.
Where would be a good place to go? She headed for the tree. Where they'd met, and proposed, and Valar sakes, it seemed total Donkey at that moment in time.
She sat down underneath the branches, watching the Sun get even lower, and sighing, snivelling slightly. Something hit her on the head. At first she thought it was just a clump of leaves. She looked at whatever had hit her, crumpled on the ground. It was a scrunched-up wedding invite. She looked up. Nothing there except branches. She opened it, curious, knowing that her own invites didn't suddenly fall out of the sky. It was in Pip's handwriting, and read:
Deerest (crossed out) My dearest (crossed out) Diamond, I donnt no how too say what I have too. It is hard too xpresse. Im not jist sorry, I regrrette it so bad it hertz. U are thinkin I am a fol of a Took and u are rite, I think so as wel. It was alle my falt too give in wen he askd me if I remememberd wen we wer litl and I sed yes so he tried too kisse me and so did I and it wos Not Nise but I cudnt stap so ArgH DAMMIT!
And it ended there. Diamond was more than a little confused. This was the genuine Pippin article, misspellings, virtually illegible handwriting and all. It was to her, but it wasn't finished, and he'd certainly never throw it at her by way of delivering it.
She heard a noise. Spooked (she had thought she was alone in the field), she stuck her head round to try and see who or what it was. There was a voice coming from the branches of the tree. It was muffled, but she could make out horrendous swearing. Another piece of paper dropped out of the foliage and bopped her on the nose. She unscrewed it and read it:
Diamond(crossed out) My love, I cant say how sorry I am on a stoopid bit of payper. I want too xplain evrythin so u undeerstnd that I was a fol of a Tok(crossed out) Fool of a Took but it wille nevr hapn eva agin or I will (there was a space left here). I do love u so much and Merry iss thee only one who dusnt undeerstnd thiz but we bothe do so I don't love him like that waye ARGH SHITE SHITE Y ME???
Again, it finished there. Diamond twigged what was going on. She'd read enough. She looked up to the branches, and one more bit of paper whirled out past her face. She caught it and read:
SHITE SHITE I CARNT RITE THIS DOWN IT DUSNT MAKE NO SENS TOO PUT IT ON PAPER. Y me? YYY? If I had notte let my best frend in my trousers noone of this wud hav hapnd o grate now I have riters blok y dont I jst die and save everyone I am a.. And here there was a string of swearwords to horrible to repeat. Diamond read it through three times with some amusement, then folded it up and put it in her apron pocket with the other two. She smiled.
Diamond thought long and hard about what to do next. It was early evening. Malva did offer to lend her some night-things and let her stay as long as she wanted, but Diamond thanked her and decided she'd need to be alone for a while. Alone somewhere she could think, somewhere where she wouldn't be disturbed and could plan out how to go talk to Pip. If him and Merry aren't still busy rutting each other, that is, she thought nastily.
Where would be a good place to go? She headed for the tree. Where they'd met, and proposed, and Valar sakes, it seemed total Donkey at that moment in time.
She sat down underneath the branches, watching the Sun get even lower, and sighing, snivelling slightly. Something hit her on the head. At first she thought it was just a clump of leaves. She looked at whatever had hit her, crumpled on the ground. It was a scrunched-up wedding invite. She looked up. Nothing there except branches. She opened it, curious, knowing that her own invites didn't suddenly fall out of the sky. It was in Pip's handwriting, and read:
Deerest (crossed out) My dearest (crossed out) Diamond, I donnt no how too say what I have too. It is hard too xpresse. Im not jist sorry, I regrrette it so bad it hertz. U are thinkin I am a fol of a Took and u are rite, I think so as wel. It was alle my falt too give in wen he askd me if I remememberd wen we wer litl and I sed yes so he tried too kisse me and so did I and it wos Not Nise but I cudnt stap so ArgH DAMMIT!
And it ended there. Diamond was more than a little confused. This was the genuine Pippin article, misspellings, virtually illegible handwriting and all. It was to her, but it wasn't finished, and he'd certainly never throw it at her by way of delivering it.
She heard a noise. Spooked (she had thought she was alone in the field), she stuck her head round to try and see who or what it was. There was a voice coming from the branches of the tree. It was muffled, but she could make out horrendous swearing. Another piece of paper dropped out of the foliage and bopped her on the nose. She unscrewed it and read it:
Diamond(crossed out) My love, I cant say how sorry I am on a stoopid bit of payper. I want too xplain evrythin so u undeerstnd that I was a fol of a Tok(crossed out) Fool of a Took but it wille nevr hapn eva agin or I will (there was a space left here). I do love u so much and Merry iss thee only one who dusnt undeerstnd thiz but we bothe do so I don't love him like that waye ARGH SHITE SHITE Y ME???
Again, it finished there. Diamond twigged what was going on. She'd read enough. She looked up to the branches, and one more bit of paper whirled out past her face. She caught it and read:
SHITE SHITE I CARNT RITE THIS DOWN IT DUSNT MAKE NO SENS TOO PUT IT ON PAPER. Y me? YYY? If I had notte let my best frend in my trousers noone of this wud hav hapnd o grate now I have riters blok y dont I jst die and save everyone I am a.. And here there was a string of swearwords to horrible to repeat. Diamond read it through three times with some amusement, then folded it up and put it in her apron pocket with the other two. She smiled.