E/N(Elvy's- no wait! Elvea's note!): Grrrrrrr! Am not in love with Éomer.
Am not. Am not. No, I'm not. He's just cute. And handsome. And really nice.
And he's- oh crap!
Disclaimer: Well, you've read the first one, I hope. Oh, I do own Elvy- I mean Elvea and well, I borrowed Tarcristiel, Annunruthiel and Haealdaiel from my friends, since those are THEIR elven names.
Summary: Just read the bloody story!!!
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Day three, the 9th of Halimath, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Anarya, the 30th of Yávie (Iavas), 2984 T.A. (Calendar of Imladris)
Dear diary,
Today was. well, uhm. I'll just tell the whole story.
I woke up this morning and felt strange. Where in Arda was I? And then I remembered. I was in room G1 of the Imladris High boarding school. I took a look at my alarmclock. 1.00 am. I blinked. It still said 1.00 am. Why wasn't I tired? Yesterday was a long day and it's still early, I had hardly slept yet. This was freaky. Suddenly Éomer walked in. How could he do that? The door was locked!
'Hey babe' he said as he sat down on my bed. I blinked again. Babe? What the?
'Éomer, what the Mordor are you doing in my room at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night?!' I said.
'Kissing you' Blink. Kissing? Pardon me? What's going on?! He gently pulled me towards him and kissed me on the mouth. I kissed back. Wait a sec! I kissed back?! This is weird... We stopped kissing after a couple of minutes.
'Éomer, what the Mordor do you think you're doing?'
'Kissing you again' he said and he did. Hello? What the Mordor is happening?! I pushed him away.
'Stop it!' I said. He looked at me.
'But you said you wanted this!'
'What the? When?!'
'Last night.'
Last night? Now there's something I really don't remember.
'What did we do last night?' I asked, trying to remember.
'Well, we were at the party, and you started kissing me like, WOW!!! And you said that I should be here at 1.00 am.'
Party? What party? What the Mordor is going on?! Éomer started kissing me once again. And I kissed back. And then I woke up. I pinched myself to make sure I was really awake this time. I was. I checked the clock. 1.00 am. HOLY SHIT!!! I stared at the door. Somebody knocked. I immediately sat up straight. Another knock. Suddenly I saw Endomiel getting up.
'Where are you going?'
'None of your business!'
Another knock. Before I could blink she was gone. I pinched myself again. I was definately awake. I decided to follow her. I quickly put on a short black dress, the only black dress I had, but it was necessary because other colors are easily seen in the night. I opened the door, the hallway was empty. I figured she went outside. I went back in and quickly put on my cloak. It's dark green, so that was no problem. After that I quickly went outside.
I saw Endomiel, along with five others. I think they were Estel, Legolas, Boromir, Faramir and Éomer. They were headed to the forest, and after a little while they halted near a cliff. What the Mordor was Endomiel doing outside with five guys in the middle of the night? One guy, okay, let her make out, but FIVE?! I ran quietly after them, and tried to hear what they were saying, but they were speaking very softly and the wind was in the wrong direction. I tried to get a little closer.
Suddenly, I slipped and fell. It didn't hurt, but they had heard me.
'What is it?' Endomiel asked.
'I don't know, could be some kind of nocturnal creature.' Legolas answered.
'Could be.'
'I'll go have a look.' Éomer suggested.
'Be careful, it could be a teacher, or even scarier, a dwarf.' Endomiel said.
'I'll be sure to scream if it's a dwarf.' Éomer said as he started walking to where I was.
Shit! I had to get out of this place before he found me! I tried to get up, but my leg was stuck. Really stuck. It started to hurt. I took off my cloak because it got in my way and I tried to have a better look. It didn't look good. For a moment I completely forgot about everything else.
And then Éomer was standing in front of me, and stared at me in wonder. I knew he was out of the sight of the others. I moaned softly, my leg really hurt.
He sat down and helped me free my leg from the uhm. whatever I was stuck in. 'What are you doing here?' he whispered.
'How about you?' I responded. He didn't answer. My leg was freed after a couple of minutes. I couldn't see it very well, but it didn't look to good.
'There you go. Now go before they find out.' he said to me. He started walking back.
Suddenly he turned around. 'Nice dress' he added, looking at my dress, that reached to just below my knees. I turned incredibly red, but he didn't see, because he quickly ran back to the others. My leg really hurt. I picked up my cloak and put it back on, quietly getting up. I decided to return to the room and get back to bed, before the others decided to check as well.
After what seemed hours of forcing my leg to move I returned to my room. I immediately went to the bathroom and made some light. My leg was. blue and swollen. That couldn't be good. I realized it might be broken. How was I going to explain that? I had to think of something fast. Then I came up with something. If I would fall down the stairs in front of the building. yes, perfect! That's what I was going to do. All I had to worry about is that the other girls wouldn't see my leg before I got dressed. But first I needed some more sleep.
I woke up at 7.30 am. My leg hurt like Mordor, it was awful. The other girls were still sleeping, and Endomiel was sitting against the door, sleeping. I still wondered what she had been doing. Quickly I got up and put on one of my dresses. It was a mint green one, reaching to the floor. It had no sleeves, but 2 loose sleeves to go along with it, so it was sleeveless but not sleeveless, kind of hard to explain.
I put on my favorite necklace, I got it for my 16th birthday from. some elf- prince I think. I don't really remember, actually. But I always wore it. It was a little heart, made of pink quartz, and the necklace itself was made of fine mithril.
I also had a beautiful golden ring, I think it was the same guy who gave it to me on my 16th birthday. It had an inscription, saying "always be with me" in it, in Tengwar, of course. That was another thing I always wore, I don't know why, but it just seems the right thing to do.
After a couple of minutes the others started waking up. I was hungry, so I went to get some breakfast. While walking my leg hurt terribly, I could hardly move it, but I pretended nothing was wrong. Annunruthiel was already having breakfast, so I sat with her.
'Hey girl!' she said.
'Hi Anna!' I said. 'How are you doing?'
'Well alright, I guess. hey, did you hear about On Stage?'
'No, what is it?'
'Well, you get to do a song or something else on stage if you want to.'
'And everyone can enter?'
'Yeah, everyone. even teachers.'
'Sounds fun, except maybe if Elrond goes singing or something...' I said and we started laughing.
'Probably is. They've been doing this for years. Haealdaiel and I are thinking of doing something there.'
'Ooooooh, fun!'
'I was thinking the same thing.'
Just then, Éomer entered. Éomer and I looked at eachother for a moment, and then I saw Haealdaiel walking in. I waved at her and she came sit with us.
'Hey Hally!' I said.
'Hey girl, wassup?!' she answered.
'Too many classes' I said and we laughed.
When Éomer and the others got up to leave for classes, so did I. I said bye to Anna and Hally and went after Éomer... well, I tried and I was lucky that he was walking the last in line.
'Thanks' I said when I caught up with him.
'Hey, no problem, anytime.' he said and smiled at me. We left the building, headed for the school. There were two separate buildings, about two minutes away from eachother on foot. We came to the stairs. Éomer walked right behind me at this point. Now! I thought, and I pretended that I tripped, and fell down the stairs, landing on my leg. I screamed in pain, it hurt like Mordor and worse. Éomer got down right away.
'Elvy, are you alright?' he asked.
'My leg.it really hurts' I said, gasping for breath. The others had stopped and turned to see what was going on.
'Can you walk?'
I tried to get up, but as soon as I stood I fell down again. I think falling on my leg just made it worse. Before I touched the ground Éomer had caught me in his arms, holding me so that I wouldn't fall again. He was holding me really close actually, his arms wrapped around me. Our faces were hardly an inch away from eachother, our lips even nearly touched. It made the butterflies go flying around again. I looked him in the eyes.
I saw concern and care. and something I've never seen before.
I smiled faintly. 'I'm okay' I whispered and he smiled back at me. Endomiel and the guys (except Éomer) from the gang winked at me with grins on their faces. What?!
'Hey, you guys, don't just stand there, get some help!' Éomer yelled at the people around us. Three people, I think Endomiel, Estel and Legolas, immediately ran of to get the school nurse. Éomer bent a little further and lifted me up, the way a groom holds his bride when he takes her into their house. I put my arm around his neck to get a hold. Boromir, Faramir and well, all the guys in Endomiel's gang grinned and winked at me again. Am I missing something?
'Are you sure I'm not too heavy?' I asked.
He started laughing. He's cute when he does that. Oops. 'Come on Elvy, you're an Elf, you weigh like. nothing at all.' he replied, still laughing in the cute way he does.
'But is it smart to pick me up?'
'You have to get to the school nurse somehow'
'Right. thanks. you're the best.' I said.
Éomer started walking towards the school. Even though my leg hurt terribly I felt good. It just felt great, being in his arms. It felt good? What the? No, I don't love him. Do not. Do not. No sir.
It took about four minutes for Éomer to get to the school nurse, since he was walking extra careful. The school nurse was an Elf named Rían, and she had already made a bed ready for me. The three people who had run off to get help left as Éomer and I got there. Éomer put me down on the bed.
'There you go' he said.
'Thank you so much, Éomer'
'Are you her boyfriend?' Rían asked.
Éomer blushed. Why does he blush so much when I'm around? Seriously. not that it's not cute, on the contrary.
'Uhm. no, uhm. not really, no.' he said.
'Well then, I think it is best that you go to class now' Rían continued.
'Okay, I'll go then. good luck Elvy.' he said and he left. I looked at the clock. 8.35. He was 5 minutes late. Rían started taking care of my leg. After a couple of minutes she left the room without saying anything. Hello! Lady in need! What the Mordor does she think she's doing?! She came back with Mithrandir after another couple of minutes.
'It's broken in two places' she said to both me and Mithrandir. Why did she get him?
'Hmmm, I see. well, you know what to do. I'll inform the teachers about her absence.' Mithrandir said and left. Okay, maybe it was a good idea after all to inform the principal.
Rían started to set my leg, or the pieces of it, back together. I tried not to scream. Goddess, that hurts! When she had finished doing that, she started to wrap it up with. whatever it is. Some kind of elvish material.
'This will do the job. You'll be fine in about three weeks' she said when she was done.
'THREE WEEKS?!!! But. but what about freshmen's camp?'
'I'm afraid you'll have to stay here'
'That's so unfair! Can't you just use elf-magic or something?'
'I'm sorry, but those three weeks are the minimum healing period. I'm already using magic. If I wouldn't, this would take at least twelve weeks. I would like to see you again coming Menelya.' Rían said as she gave me a pair of crutches.
Three weeks? Oh man. and that's with magic. wait a sec! I'm a goddess! I have my own magic! I can heal myself! But not right away, or they'll get suspicions and we don't want that to happen, now do we?
I took the crutches and left for class. The first break had already ended, and the third hour was now busy. What class was I supposed to be in? Oh right! Music/Art, from an elf named Celebrían in room uhm. room uhm. 7. I think.
When I got there, everybody was in the middle of singing a song along with Celebrían, and nobody noticed me enter, which was good because I hate annoying questions. I didn't know the lyric so I just sat there in a corner and listened. Legolas definitely has a talent for singing, and so does Arwen. Éomer wasn't doing bad either.
After Music/Art we had Archery from Glorfindel in the gym. I was pretty much looking up to it, since I forgot to go to detention yesterday, and I just hoped Glorfindel wouldn't give me a hard time.
'Well if it isn't Miss Aure. Decided to show up after all?' Glorfindel said as I "walked" in.
'Do you have a problem with that?' I answered, pretty annoyed.
'Not at all. By the way, what happened?' he asked, looking at my leg and crutches.
'I fell'
'Does it hurt?'
'What do you think?!' I said, really pissed.
'Don't give me that tone of voice, young lady!' he said angry.
Young lady? YOUNG lady? As if he's all that old. Not more than 2000 years, if not less. Besides, I'm way older than he is. I've been around since, well, ever.
'Anyway, you'll have to report here at 2.05 pm this afternoon to catch up your detention, and then you're lucky to get away with it.' Glorfindel continued.
'But I can hardly do a thing!'
'I'll think of something you can do. But you still have detention, broken leg or not.'
I sighed. This sucks. Glorfindel's a git. I hate him already, and it's only my second day in school. Damn school, I'm stuck with him for the rest of the year. Good thing it's just a year. I sat down on a stool, and since my own bow and arrows were still in my room, I could borrow Glorfindel's bow. O joy. Damn, his bow is heavy, that is, compared to one of Aman.
I started shooting and following Mr. Poncy's instructions. My first arrow went bull's eye. And since I didn't want to get Mr. Poncy to get mad at me for ruining his precious arrows, my second and third arrow hit the target right next to the first arrow. Suddenly Glorfindel walked over to me.
'You're holding the arrows wrong' he said.
'How can you hold them the wrong way?' I asked.
'You just can and you're doing it'
'I hit my target, what's your problem?'
'My problem is that you're holding the arrow wrong'
'Why don't you just stick that bloody arrow of yours up your ass!!!' I shouted. Damn, that guy can make a huge problem out of nothing and right now he was pissing me off.
'That's it! Another 30 minutes of detention for you! And you're getting away merciful with that' he said and walked away.
Oh man, that guy is such a git. Really, he just hates me or something. in that case, the feeling is also on my side. this really stinks.
After Archery we had our second break of the day. Actually it was my first, since I was with Rían during the first break. As I was walking to my room, Éomer came after me.
'What was that all about?' he asked.
'What?'
'That argument with Glorfindel'
'Oh that. He annoyed me and I told him to stick his arrow up his ass. Guess he didn't like it' I answered, and Éomer started laughing.
'Did you get in trouble?'
'I have detention this afternoon' I said as I walked into my room. Éomer stood in front of the door, not knowing what to do. 'Come in' I added, and he stepped inside, closing the door behind him.
I put down my crutches and sat down on my bed, leaning against the wall, yawning.
'Are you tired?' Éomer asked.
'Yeah, the whole walking with crutches thing costs pretty much energy' I answered.
'So how are you going to carry your books the coming period?'
'I don't know, actually'
'I could do it for you if you want me to'
'Really?'
'Hey, I told you I'd help anytime and I intend to keep my promise.' he said, and sat down next to me on the bed.
'Thanks, it really means a lot'
'No problem' Éomer said, and I'm not sure, but was he blushing again? 'So how come you were a week later in school than the rest of us?' he continued.
I yawned again. 'Long story. I'll tell you some other time' I said, closing my eyes.
I must have dozed off at that point, because when I opened my eyes again, my head was leaning on Éomer's shoulder and he had put one of his arms around me, his other hand going slowly trough my hair. I closed my eyes again, not telling Éomer I was awake. My head tingled wherever Éomer touched it. Once again, the butterflies returned. What is wrong with me? On that exact moment, Arwen walked in.
'Oh my Eru!' she shouted. I opened my eyes. 'Oh my Eru!' she repeated.
'Arwen, what's wrong?' Éomer asked.
'You. you two. you just. oh my Eru!' she stuttered.
'We what?' I asked.
'You two are, well, did you two, you know.' she said.
'No, we don't know' Éomer answered.
'You two have been making out' she said accusingly.
'No we didn't' I replied.
'Yeah right. By the looks of it you two did even more than that.' she said, and suddenly she was gone again. Silly girl. We didn't do anything!
'What time is it?' I asked Éomer.
'We have to be in class in five minutes' he answered.
I told him where my books were and then we went to class. We were just in time for fencing, so I had to face Glorfindel again. Luckily I couldn't fence with a broken leg, so he couldn't pick on me, and I managed to get through the class without getting another detention. After that, we had History, from Gildor. Seriously, that guy just keeps blabbering on about that missing Ruling Ring of that silly Dark Lord. As if that will ever matter again. don't think so.
Anyway, after the most boring 45 minutes of my entire life (and that's a Mordor of an achievement considering the fact that I've been around forever) I had to face Glorfindel *again*. I wondered what kind of punishment he had come up with in the meantime. Probably something terrible, since he obviously hates me.
When I got to the gym he was already waiting for me.
'So you decided to show up this time after all' he said.
'Shut up' I said angrily. That I had to spend 90 minutes a day with that jerk was bad enough, but another 90 minutes? I hope I'll survive.
'Since you can't do much standing, I've come up with something you can do sitting'
'Joy, o joy.' I said, sarcasm dripping all over the place.
'You're going to help me file some things'
Files? How boring can detention be? 'What kind of things?' I asked.
'Grades and stuff like that'
After that we went to his office, and I found out every teacher had his or her own little office, all put together in one hallway. I started filing everything, totally ignoring Glorfindel. After an hour I noticed he was staring at me.
'What are you staring at?'
'You'
'Can't you help me file this stuff?'
'It's YOUR punishment'
I sighed and got back to work. After my 90 minutes of torment were over I left as fast as I could with my crutches. It was somewhere around 3.30 pm, so nowhere near dinnertime yet. Dinner always starts at six, some people like to eat early.
I sat down on the lawn, on the spot Éomer had told me was his place to spend his breaks. I took a look around. It looked really nice, I could understand why he wanted to spend his breaks here. I leaned against a tree and started playing with my necklace. I always do that, like some sort of addiction or something. After a little while I saw Boromir walking towards me. Wasn't he the guy that whistled at me yesterday? Ah well. He sat down next to me.
'Hey Elvea'
'Hey Boromir'
How's your leg?'
'Pretty good I guess, considering the circumstances.'
'Glad to hear that' he said, and then he noticed my necklace. 'What's that?' he asked.
'A necklace'
'I can see that. But what kind of necklace?'
'It's a little heart'
'Who gave it to you?'
'I don't really remember, it's kind of a long time ago.'
'So I don't suppose you're in love with whoever gave it to you?' he asked, and maybe I'm wrong, but I could've sworn there was some sort of jealousy in his eyes.
'No. why are you asking?'
'Oh, just curious. I thought that maybe Éomer gave it to you or something'
'Éomer? Why?'
'Well, it's just this thing Arwen told me, that she caught you two on your bed, and I figured-' he started, but I interrupted him.
'That we are together'
'Yeah, aren't you?'
'No we're not' I said, and we both fell silent for a couple of minutes. So Arwen's been spreading rumors. Just what I really needed. Rumors. Can't that girl figure that you shouldn't go tell everybody everything? She'd probably even tell Sauron that his Ring has been found whenever and if ever that happens.
'So what do you think of him?' Boromir suddenly said.
'Of who?'
'Éomer'
'He's okay' I answered.
'Just that?'
'Why do you want to know?'
'Like I said, I'm just curious.'
'Sure Boromir, and Santa Claus is my mother-in-law'
'Well then you must get an awful lot of Christmas presents' he joked and we started laughing. 'Are you really a princess?' he suddenly asked.
'Yeah, I am'
'So what's it like?'
'Being a princess? Well, it depends on the situation I guess.'
'What do you mean?'
'Well, you have to give the good example, so that can be really annoying. Plus there's the protocol and an overdose of etiquette, so you have to be polite all the time'
'Etiquette? You? Oh please.'
'What do you mean?'
'You, Glorfindel and a very hot temper of a certain High-elven princess'
'I don't have a hot temper!!!' I shouted.
'Sure you don't, and Mordor just froze over' he said.
'Stop it' I said, getting angry.
'No'
'I command you to stop'
'You can't do that!'
'Yes I can, I'm a princess, remember?'
'Oh right. dammit. So I guess that's one of the positive things.'
'Yeah, it is, most of the times. you're allowed to do a lot, and you have practically everything you wish for. Plus you never have to do anything yourself if you don't want to, because you have servants to do it for you. the only thing is you are being watched at almost all of the time, security and such...'
'That must suck. And how about forced marriages? I heard it's very common in the higher stances'
'Yeah, it is. Mainly because the kings and queens of the realms in Aman want their children to marry someone of royal blood just like themselves'
'Aren't you afraid that you'll be forced into marrying some Elf-prince?'
'Not really. My parents know I'll kill them if they do. So far all the Elf- princes I met were pretty stuck-up'
'Including Legolas?'
'Maybe. I'm not sure actually. I just can't seem to figure what's on his mind. He probably has a reason to be the way he is.'
After that I tried to get up, but I couldn't get up by myself, so Boromir helped me get up. We said bye and then I walked back to my room, I promised to write Tarcristiel a letter when I arrived at school and I wanted to finish it before dinner. It was somewhere around 5.30 when I finished writing my letter so I left to find a way to send it. I had just left the building when I ran into Éomer.
'Hey Elvy, uhm, I was just looking for you'
'You were?'
'Yeah, sort of.'
'Can you help me with something?'
'How many times do I have to tell you? Anytime!'
'Right. Listen, uhm. I need to send a letter, do you know where I have to bring it?'
'Yeah sure, follow me' Éomer said, and he turned around. I followed him to a mailbox near the gates of the campus. Funny, I never noticed those gates before. Anyway, I threw my letter in the mailbox and then I turned to Éomer.
'Thanks' I said.
'You know, you really have to stop doing that. By now you should know that's what friends are for'
'But I still can thank you'
'Probably'
'So thanks'
Éomer opened his mouth to say something, then he closed it again. He sighed softly.
'Hey, you said you were looking for me, why?' I asked.
'Oh right! I still have your History book'
'Yeah, you do, I forgot all about it. Did you bring it with you?'
'Uhm, no, it's still in my room.'
'That's okay, we can go get it' I said, and we walked to his room. He was sharing his room with Legolas and four of the hobbits, and my Goddess, their room was a bigger mess than ours. He picked up the book from his uhm. I think it was his bed but I couldn't see it very well below all the junk. We crossed the hallway to my room, and went in. Éomer put down the book where he had found it earlier as I sat down on the bed again.
'So what time should I be here tomorrow?' he asked.
'What do you mean?'
'Well, I was going to carry your books, remember? What time should I be here?'
'Oh right! How about. 7.45?'
'Sure, I'll be there' he said as he walked to the door.
'Great, thanks'
Éomer sighed and walked back to me. 'Stop it, or I'll. I'll.' he started.
'You'll what?'
Suddenly he bent over and gave me a swift kiss on the lips. His face flushed right away. 'I. Am. So. Sorry!' he said, and he left my room before I could even say anything.
I just sat there on my bed, thinking, or actually just staring at nothing in particular. When I checked my alarmclock again, it was 10.30 in the evening, and the other girls had already returned. I thought of Éomer again. I could still feel his lips on mine, even when it was just a second or less that they had touched. My lips were tingling, the butterflies were flying around and my heart was beating way faster than usual. I think I'm infected with some strange virus or something. What if I infected Éomer when he kissed me? What if it's lethal? Oh no!
Wait a sec! Elves don't die! Not very often anyway. Then what is wrong with me? Maybe I have some allergy or something for something here in Middle- Earth? No, that's not it. Why do I have the feeling that the answer is so obvious? But I can't figure it out.
Oh no. no way, not that! No way, definitely not. Nu-uh, absolutely not. No way I'm in love with Éomer. No sir. Definitely no love.
Explain the butterflies and the tingling feelings. oh crap! I'll just go to bed and sleep, no dreams this time! I don't get it. What did the dream mean anyway? Mostly they're trying to tell you something. whatever. Maybe I can think clearly tomorrow morning. I'm off to bed now. Wait, I'm still sitting on it. Right, never mind, I'm just slightly confused.
Kisses, Elvy. Oh man, I have to stop doing that!
Kisses from me. I still think it works best without name. Or something like that. AAAAAARG!!! I'm going crazy!!! I'm just going to sleep, right about now!
Oh and, kisses. From Éomer. Oh dammit. Sleep well. Wait, you're a diary, you don't sleep. never mind. I'm really going to quit now, so uhm. byebye or something.
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Disclaimer: Well, you've read the first one, I hope. Oh, I do own Elvy- I mean Elvea and well, I borrowed Tarcristiel, Annunruthiel and Haealdaiel from my friends, since those are THEIR elven names.
Summary: Just read the bloody story!!!
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Day three, the 9th of Halimath, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Anarya, the 30th of Yávie (Iavas), 2984 T.A. (Calendar of Imladris)
Dear diary,
Today was. well, uhm. I'll just tell the whole story.
I woke up this morning and felt strange. Where in Arda was I? And then I remembered. I was in room G1 of the Imladris High boarding school. I took a look at my alarmclock. 1.00 am. I blinked. It still said 1.00 am. Why wasn't I tired? Yesterday was a long day and it's still early, I had hardly slept yet. This was freaky. Suddenly Éomer walked in. How could he do that? The door was locked!
'Hey babe' he said as he sat down on my bed. I blinked again. Babe? What the?
'Éomer, what the Mordor are you doing in my room at 1 o'clock in the middle of the night?!' I said.
'Kissing you' Blink. Kissing? Pardon me? What's going on?! He gently pulled me towards him and kissed me on the mouth. I kissed back. Wait a sec! I kissed back?! This is weird... We stopped kissing after a couple of minutes.
'Éomer, what the Mordor do you think you're doing?'
'Kissing you again' he said and he did. Hello? What the Mordor is happening?! I pushed him away.
'Stop it!' I said. He looked at me.
'But you said you wanted this!'
'What the? When?!'
'Last night.'
Last night? Now there's something I really don't remember.
'What did we do last night?' I asked, trying to remember.
'Well, we were at the party, and you started kissing me like, WOW!!! And you said that I should be here at 1.00 am.'
Party? What party? What the Mordor is going on?! Éomer started kissing me once again. And I kissed back. And then I woke up. I pinched myself to make sure I was really awake this time. I was. I checked the clock. 1.00 am. HOLY SHIT!!! I stared at the door. Somebody knocked. I immediately sat up straight. Another knock. Suddenly I saw Endomiel getting up.
'Where are you going?'
'None of your business!'
Another knock. Before I could blink she was gone. I pinched myself again. I was definately awake. I decided to follow her. I quickly put on a short black dress, the only black dress I had, but it was necessary because other colors are easily seen in the night. I opened the door, the hallway was empty. I figured she went outside. I went back in and quickly put on my cloak. It's dark green, so that was no problem. After that I quickly went outside.
I saw Endomiel, along with five others. I think they were Estel, Legolas, Boromir, Faramir and Éomer. They were headed to the forest, and after a little while they halted near a cliff. What the Mordor was Endomiel doing outside with five guys in the middle of the night? One guy, okay, let her make out, but FIVE?! I ran quietly after them, and tried to hear what they were saying, but they were speaking very softly and the wind was in the wrong direction. I tried to get a little closer.
Suddenly, I slipped and fell. It didn't hurt, but they had heard me.
'What is it?' Endomiel asked.
'I don't know, could be some kind of nocturnal creature.' Legolas answered.
'Could be.'
'I'll go have a look.' Éomer suggested.
'Be careful, it could be a teacher, or even scarier, a dwarf.' Endomiel said.
'I'll be sure to scream if it's a dwarf.' Éomer said as he started walking to where I was.
Shit! I had to get out of this place before he found me! I tried to get up, but my leg was stuck. Really stuck. It started to hurt. I took off my cloak because it got in my way and I tried to have a better look. It didn't look good. For a moment I completely forgot about everything else.
And then Éomer was standing in front of me, and stared at me in wonder. I knew he was out of the sight of the others. I moaned softly, my leg really hurt.
He sat down and helped me free my leg from the uhm. whatever I was stuck in. 'What are you doing here?' he whispered.
'How about you?' I responded. He didn't answer. My leg was freed after a couple of minutes. I couldn't see it very well, but it didn't look to good.
'There you go. Now go before they find out.' he said to me. He started walking back.
Suddenly he turned around. 'Nice dress' he added, looking at my dress, that reached to just below my knees. I turned incredibly red, but he didn't see, because he quickly ran back to the others. My leg really hurt. I picked up my cloak and put it back on, quietly getting up. I decided to return to the room and get back to bed, before the others decided to check as well.
After what seemed hours of forcing my leg to move I returned to my room. I immediately went to the bathroom and made some light. My leg was. blue and swollen. That couldn't be good. I realized it might be broken. How was I going to explain that? I had to think of something fast. Then I came up with something. If I would fall down the stairs in front of the building. yes, perfect! That's what I was going to do. All I had to worry about is that the other girls wouldn't see my leg before I got dressed. But first I needed some more sleep.
I woke up at 7.30 am. My leg hurt like Mordor, it was awful. The other girls were still sleeping, and Endomiel was sitting against the door, sleeping. I still wondered what she had been doing. Quickly I got up and put on one of my dresses. It was a mint green one, reaching to the floor. It had no sleeves, but 2 loose sleeves to go along with it, so it was sleeveless but not sleeveless, kind of hard to explain.
I put on my favorite necklace, I got it for my 16th birthday from. some elf- prince I think. I don't really remember, actually. But I always wore it. It was a little heart, made of pink quartz, and the necklace itself was made of fine mithril.
I also had a beautiful golden ring, I think it was the same guy who gave it to me on my 16th birthday. It had an inscription, saying "always be with me" in it, in Tengwar, of course. That was another thing I always wore, I don't know why, but it just seems the right thing to do.
After a couple of minutes the others started waking up. I was hungry, so I went to get some breakfast. While walking my leg hurt terribly, I could hardly move it, but I pretended nothing was wrong. Annunruthiel was already having breakfast, so I sat with her.
'Hey girl!' she said.
'Hi Anna!' I said. 'How are you doing?'
'Well alright, I guess. hey, did you hear about On Stage?'
'No, what is it?'
'Well, you get to do a song or something else on stage if you want to.'
'And everyone can enter?'
'Yeah, everyone. even teachers.'
'Sounds fun, except maybe if Elrond goes singing or something...' I said and we started laughing.
'Probably is. They've been doing this for years. Haealdaiel and I are thinking of doing something there.'
'Ooooooh, fun!'
'I was thinking the same thing.'
Just then, Éomer entered. Éomer and I looked at eachother for a moment, and then I saw Haealdaiel walking in. I waved at her and she came sit with us.
'Hey Hally!' I said.
'Hey girl, wassup?!' she answered.
'Too many classes' I said and we laughed.
When Éomer and the others got up to leave for classes, so did I. I said bye to Anna and Hally and went after Éomer... well, I tried and I was lucky that he was walking the last in line.
'Thanks' I said when I caught up with him.
'Hey, no problem, anytime.' he said and smiled at me. We left the building, headed for the school. There were two separate buildings, about two minutes away from eachother on foot. We came to the stairs. Éomer walked right behind me at this point. Now! I thought, and I pretended that I tripped, and fell down the stairs, landing on my leg. I screamed in pain, it hurt like Mordor and worse. Éomer got down right away.
'Elvy, are you alright?' he asked.
'My leg.it really hurts' I said, gasping for breath. The others had stopped and turned to see what was going on.
'Can you walk?'
I tried to get up, but as soon as I stood I fell down again. I think falling on my leg just made it worse. Before I touched the ground Éomer had caught me in his arms, holding me so that I wouldn't fall again. He was holding me really close actually, his arms wrapped around me. Our faces were hardly an inch away from eachother, our lips even nearly touched. It made the butterflies go flying around again. I looked him in the eyes.
I saw concern and care. and something I've never seen before.
I smiled faintly. 'I'm okay' I whispered and he smiled back at me. Endomiel and the guys (except Éomer) from the gang winked at me with grins on their faces. What?!
'Hey, you guys, don't just stand there, get some help!' Éomer yelled at the people around us. Three people, I think Endomiel, Estel and Legolas, immediately ran of to get the school nurse. Éomer bent a little further and lifted me up, the way a groom holds his bride when he takes her into their house. I put my arm around his neck to get a hold. Boromir, Faramir and well, all the guys in Endomiel's gang grinned and winked at me again. Am I missing something?
'Are you sure I'm not too heavy?' I asked.
He started laughing. He's cute when he does that. Oops. 'Come on Elvy, you're an Elf, you weigh like. nothing at all.' he replied, still laughing in the cute way he does.
'But is it smart to pick me up?'
'You have to get to the school nurse somehow'
'Right. thanks. you're the best.' I said.
Éomer started walking towards the school. Even though my leg hurt terribly I felt good. It just felt great, being in his arms. It felt good? What the? No, I don't love him. Do not. Do not. No sir.
It took about four minutes for Éomer to get to the school nurse, since he was walking extra careful. The school nurse was an Elf named Rían, and she had already made a bed ready for me. The three people who had run off to get help left as Éomer and I got there. Éomer put me down on the bed.
'There you go' he said.
'Thank you so much, Éomer'
'Are you her boyfriend?' Rían asked.
Éomer blushed. Why does he blush so much when I'm around? Seriously. not that it's not cute, on the contrary.
'Uhm. no, uhm. not really, no.' he said.
'Well then, I think it is best that you go to class now' Rían continued.
'Okay, I'll go then. good luck Elvy.' he said and he left. I looked at the clock. 8.35. He was 5 minutes late. Rían started taking care of my leg. After a couple of minutes she left the room without saying anything. Hello! Lady in need! What the Mordor does she think she's doing?! She came back with Mithrandir after another couple of minutes.
'It's broken in two places' she said to both me and Mithrandir. Why did she get him?
'Hmmm, I see. well, you know what to do. I'll inform the teachers about her absence.' Mithrandir said and left. Okay, maybe it was a good idea after all to inform the principal.
Rían started to set my leg, or the pieces of it, back together. I tried not to scream. Goddess, that hurts! When she had finished doing that, she started to wrap it up with. whatever it is. Some kind of elvish material.
'This will do the job. You'll be fine in about three weeks' she said when she was done.
'THREE WEEKS?!!! But. but what about freshmen's camp?'
'I'm afraid you'll have to stay here'
'That's so unfair! Can't you just use elf-magic or something?'
'I'm sorry, but those three weeks are the minimum healing period. I'm already using magic. If I wouldn't, this would take at least twelve weeks. I would like to see you again coming Menelya.' Rían said as she gave me a pair of crutches.
Three weeks? Oh man. and that's with magic. wait a sec! I'm a goddess! I have my own magic! I can heal myself! But not right away, or they'll get suspicions and we don't want that to happen, now do we?
I took the crutches and left for class. The first break had already ended, and the third hour was now busy. What class was I supposed to be in? Oh right! Music/Art, from an elf named Celebrían in room uhm. room uhm. 7. I think.
When I got there, everybody was in the middle of singing a song along with Celebrían, and nobody noticed me enter, which was good because I hate annoying questions. I didn't know the lyric so I just sat there in a corner and listened. Legolas definitely has a talent for singing, and so does Arwen. Éomer wasn't doing bad either.
After Music/Art we had Archery from Glorfindel in the gym. I was pretty much looking up to it, since I forgot to go to detention yesterday, and I just hoped Glorfindel wouldn't give me a hard time.
'Well if it isn't Miss Aure. Decided to show up after all?' Glorfindel said as I "walked" in.
'Do you have a problem with that?' I answered, pretty annoyed.
'Not at all. By the way, what happened?' he asked, looking at my leg and crutches.
'I fell'
'Does it hurt?'
'What do you think?!' I said, really pissed.
'Don't give me that tone of voice, young lady!' he said angry.
Young lady? YOUNG lady? As if he's all that old. Not more than 2000 years, if not less. Besides, I'm way older than he is. I've been around since, well, ever.
'Anyway, you'll have to report here at 2.05 pm this afternoon to catch up your detention, and then you're lucky to get away with it.' Glorfindel continued.
'But I can hardly do a thing!'
'I'll think of something you can do. But you still have detention, broken leg or not.'
I sighed. This sucks. Glorfindel's a git. I hate him already, and it's only my second day in school. Damn school, I'm stuck with him for the rest of the year. Good thing it's just a year. I sat down on a stool, and since my own bow and arrows were still in my room, I could borrow Glorfindel's bow. O joy. Damn, his bow is heavy, that is, compared to one of Aman.
I started shooting and following Mr. Poncy's instructions. My first arrow went bull's eye. And since I didn't want to get Mr. Poncy to get mad at me for ruining his precious arrows, my second and third arrow hit the target right next to the first arrow. Suddenly Glorfindel walked over to me.
'You're holding the arrows wrong' he said.
'How can you hold them the wrong way?' I asked.
'You just can and you're doing it'
'I hit my target, what's your problem?'
'My problem is that you're holding the arrow wrong'
'Why don't you just stick that bloody arrow of yours up your ass!!!' I shouted. Damn, that guy can make a huge problem out of nothing and right now he was pissing me off.
'That's it! Another 30 minutes of detention for you! And you're getting away merciful with that' he said and walked away.
Oh man, that guy is such a git. Really, he just hates me or something. in that case, the feeling is also on my side. this really stinks.
After Archery we had our second break of the day. Actually it was my first, since I was with Rían during the first break. As I was walking to my room, Éomer came after me.
'What was that all about?' he asked.
'What?'
'That argument with Glorfindel'
'Oh that. He annoyed me and I told him to stick his arrow up his ass. Guess he didn't like it' I answered, and Éomer started laughing.
'Did you get in trouble?'
'I have detention this afternoon' I said as I walked into my room. Éomer stood in front of the door, not knowing what to do. 'Come in' I added, and he stepped inside, closing the door behind him.
I put down my crutches and sat down on my bed, leaning against the wall, yawning.
'Are you tired?' Éomer asked.
'Yeah, the whole walking with crutches thing costs pretty much energy' I answered.
'So how are you going to carry your books the coming period?'
'I don't know, actually'
'I could do it for you if you want me to'
'Really?'
'Hey, I told you I'd help anytime and I intend to keep my promise.' he said, and sat down next to me on the bed.
'Thanks, it really means a lot'
'No problem' Éomer said, and I'm not sure, but was he blushing again? 'So how come you were a week later in school than the rest of us?' he continued.
I yawned again. 'Long story. I'll tell you some other time' I said, closing my eyes.
I must have dozed off at that point, because when I opened my eyes again, my head was leaning on Éomer's shoulder and he had put one of his arms around me, his other hand going slowly trough my hair. I closed my eyes again, not telling Éomer I was awake. My head tingled wherever Éomer touched it. Once again, the butterflies returned. What is wrong with me? On that exact moment, Arwen walked in.
'Oh my Eru!' she shouted. I opened my eyes. 'Oh my Eru!' she repeated.
'Arwen, what's wrong?' Éomer asked.
'You. you two. you just. oh my Eru!' she stuttered.
'We what?' I asked.
'You two are, well, did you two, you know.' she said.
'No, we don't know' Éomer answered.
'You two have been making out' she said accusingly.
'No we didn't' I replied.
'Yeah right. By the looks of it you two did even more than that.' she said, and suddenly she was gone again. Silly girl. We didn't do anything!
'What time is it?' I asked Éomer.
'We have to be in class in five minutes' he answered.
I told him where my books were and then we went to class. We were just in time for fencing, so I had to face Glorfindel again. Luckily I couldn't fence with a broken leg, so he couldn't pick on me, and I managed to get through the class without getting another detention. After that, we had History, from Gildor. Seriously, that guy just keeps blabbering on about that missing Ruling Ring of that silly Dark Lord. As if that will ever matter again. don't think so.
Anyway, after the most boring 45 minutes of my entire life (and that's a Mordor of an achievement considering the fact that I've been around forever) I had to face Glorfindel *again*. I wondered what kind of punishment he had come up with in the meantime. Probably something terrible, since he obviously hates me.
When I got to the gym he was already waiting for me.
'So you decided to show up this time after all' he said.
'Shut up' I said angrily. That I had to spend 90 minutes a day with that jerk was bad enough, but another 90 minutes? I hope I'll survive.
'Since you can't do much standing, I've come up with something you can do sitting'
'Joy, o joy.' I said, sarcasm dripping all over the place.
'You're going to help me file some things'
Files? How boring can detention be? 'What kind of things?' I asked.
'Grades and stuff like that'
After that we went to his office, and I found out every teacher had his or her own little office, all put together in one hallway. I started filing everything, totally ignoring Glorfindel. After an hour I noticed he was staring at me.
'What are you staring at?'
'You'
'Can't you help me file this stuff?'
'It's YOUR punishment'
I sighed and got back to work. After my 90 minutes of torment were over I left as fast as I could with my crutches. It was somewhere around 3.30 pm, so nowhere near dinnertime yet. Dinner always starts at six, some people like to eat early.
I sat down on the lawn, on the spot Éomer had told me was his place to spend his breaks. I took a look around. It looked really nice, I could understand why he wanted to spend his breaks here. I leaned against a tree and started playing with my necklace. I always do that, like some sort of addiction or something. After a little while I saw Boromir walking towards me. Wasn't he the guy that whistled at me yesterday? Ah well. He sat down next to me.
'Hey Elvea'
'Hey Boromir'
How's your leg?'
'Pretty good I guess, considering the circumstances.'
'Glad to hear that' he said, and then he noticed my necklace. 'What's that?' he asked.
'A necklace'
'I can see that. But what kind of necklace?'
'It's a little heart'
'Who gave it to you?'
'I don't really remember, it's kind of a long time ago.'
'So I don't suppose you're in love with whoever gave it to you?' he asked, and maybe I'm wrong, but I could've sworn there was some sort of jealousy in his eyes.
'No. why are you asking?'
'Oh, just curious. I thought that maybe Éomer gave it to you or something'
'Éomer? Why?'
'Well, it's just this thing Arwen told me, that she caught you two on your bed, and I figured-' he started, but I interrupted him.
'That we are together'
'Yeah, aren't you?'
'No we're not' I said, and we both fell silent for a couple of minutes. So Arwen's been spreading rumors. Just what I really needed. Rumors. Can't that girl figure that you shouldn't go tell everybody everything? She'd probably even tell Sauron that his Ring has been found whenever and if ever that happens.
'So what do you think of him?' Boromir suddenly said.
'Of who?'
'Éomer'
'He's okay' I answered.
'Just that?'
'Why do you want to know?'
'Like I said, I'm just curious.'
'Sure Boromir, and Santa Claus is my mother-in-law'
'Well then you must get an awful lot of Christmas presents' he joked and we started laughing. 'Are you really a princess?' he suddenly asked.
'Yeah, I am'
'So what's it like?'
'Being a princess? Well, it depends on the situation I guess.'
'What do you mean?'
'Well, you have to give the good example, so that can be really annoying. Plus there's the protocol and an overdose of etiquette, so you have to be polite all the time'
'Etiquette? You? Oh please.'
'What do you mean?'
'You, Glorfindel and a very hot temper of a certain High-elven princess'
'I don't have a hot temper!!!' I shouted.
'Sure you don't, and Mordor just froze over' he said.
'Stop it' I said, getting angry.
'No'
'I command you to stop'
'You can't do that!'
'Yes I can, I'm a princess, remember?'
'Oh right. dammit. So I guess that's one of the positive things.'
'Yeah, it is, most of the times. you're allowed to do a lot, and you have practically everything you wish for. Plus you never have to do anything yourself if you don't want to, because you have servants to do it for you. the only thing is you are being watched at almost all of the time, security and such...'
'That must suck. And how about forced marriages? I heard it's very common in the higher stances'
'Yeah, it is. Mainly because the kings and queens of the realms in Aman want their children to marry someone of royal blood just like themselves'
'Aren't you afraid that you'll be forced into marrying some Elf-prince?'
'Not really. My parents know I'll kill them if they do. So far all the Elf- princes I met were pretty stuck-up'
'Including Legolas?'
'Maybe. I'm not sure actually. I just can't seem to figure what's on his mind. He probably has a reason to be the way he is.'
After that I tried to get up, but I couldn't get up by myself, so Boromir helped me get up. We said bye and then I walked back to my room, I promised to write Tarcristiel a letter when I arrived at school and I wanted to finish it before dinner. It was somewhere around 5.30 when I finished writing my letter so I left to find a way to send it. I had just left the building when I ran into Éomer.
'Hey Elvy, uhm, I was just looking for you'
'You were?'
'Yeah, sort of.'
'Can you help me with something?'
'How many times do I have to tell you? Anytime!'
'Right. Listen, uhm. I need to send a letter, do you know where I have to bring it?'
'Yeah sure, follow me' Éomer said, and he turned around. I followed him to a mailbox near the gates of the campus. Funny, I never noticed those gates before. Anyway, I threw my letter in the mailbox and then I turned to Éomer.
'Thanks' I said.
'You know, you really have to stop doing that. By now you should know that's what friends are for'
'But I still can thank you'
'Probably'
'So thanks'
Éomer opened his mouth to say something, then he closed it again. He sighed softly.
'Hey, you said you were looking for me, why?' I asked.
'Oh right! I still have your History book'
'Yeah, you do, I forgot all about it. Did you bring it with you?'
'Uhm, no, it's still in my room.'
'That's okay, we can go get it' I said, and we walked to his room. He was sharing his room with Legolas and four of the hobbits, and my Goddess, their room was a bigger mess than ours. He picked up the book from his uhm. I think it was his bed but I couldn't see it very well below all the junk. We crossed the hallway to my room, and went in. Éomer put down the book where he had found it earlier as I sat down on the bed again.
'So what time should I be here tomorrow?' he asked.
'What do you mean?'
'Well, I was going to carry your books, remember? What time should I be here?'
'Oh right! How about. 7.45?'
'Sure, I'll be there' he said as he walked to the door.
'Great, thanks'
Éomer sighed and walked back to me. 'Stop it, or I'll. I'll.' he started.
'You'll what?'
Suddenly he bent over and gave me a swift kiss on the lips. His face flushed right away. 'I. Am. So. Sorry!' he said, and he left my room before I could even say anything.
I just sat there on my bed, thinking, or actually just staring at nothing in particular. When I checked my alarmclock again, it was 10.30 in the evening, and the other girls had already returned. I thought of Éomer again. I could still feel his lips on mine, even when it was just a second or less that they had touched. My lips were tingling, the butterflies were flying around and my heart was beating way faster than usual. I think I'm infected with some strange virus or something. What if I infected Éomer when he kissed me? What if it's lethal? Oh no!
Wait a sec! Elves don't die! Not very often anyway. Then what is wrong with me? Maybe I have some allergy or something for something here in Middle- Earth? No, that's not it. Why do I have the feeling that the answer is so obvious? But I can't figure it out.
Oh no. no way, not that! No way, definitely not. Nu-uh, absolutely not. No way I'm in love with Éomer. No sir. Definitely no love.
Explain the butterflies and the tingling feelings. oh crap! I'll just go to bed and sleep, no dreams this time! I don't get it. What did the dream mean anyway? Mostly they're trying to tell you something. whatever. Maybe I can think clearly tomorrow morning. I'm off to bed now. Wait, I'm still sitting on it. Right, never mind, I'm just slightly confused.
Kisses, Elvy. Oh man, I have to stop doing that!
Kisses from me. I still think it works best without name. Or something like that. AAAAAARG!!! I'm going crazy!!! I'm just going to sleep, right about now!
Oh and, kisses. From Éomer. Oh dammit. Sleep well. Wait, you're a diary, you don't sleep. never mind. I'm really going to quit now, so uhm. byebye or something.
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