E/N: Hi readers!!
Still reading huh? Did you like my musical chapter?? Hope you did. I personally think it is to much singing…Anyway, I'll get to writing now, because Amanfalathiel is threthning me over MSN-Messenger. Yes, I have MSN, wanna talk to me? Add me! I'lll talk to anyone!! Really! endomiel@hotmail.com I'm phatetic, aren't I? Well, people just ignore me! They're never online when I am. Only Amy, but she scares me with her treaths. Well, not really scares me, because if this body I'm in dies, I'll just be reincarnated, but the thing that scares me is, that if I die now, Orlando Bloom and I will be 25 years apart… that's just too much… : (
Oh, and don't forget to Review!!!! Or mail me if you prefer that! Suggestions are always welcome, and I need flames! Sitting behind the computer all day makes my hands cold…Now, on to the disclaimer…
Disclaimer: I don't own any LotR characters, only the paperclip (my precious…) and the sheets of paper I clipped it on. O, and I guess my bag is mine. You know, my school bag.
OHOH!! Be sure to check out my newest fic!! It's what happnes when Amanfalathiel and I are walking through the halls in our school (our REAL school) (did I just give away part of my, yes MY, story?) (that means the story is my idea, and certainly not the new girls idea, she stole it from me and turned into a romance story… NOOOOO!! I wanted it to be a humor& a little bit of romance story…) and she talks about Elijah Wood and his 'preformance' in Flipper, and I sort of mess it up with Jaws and Free Willy… :o) Well, read my new fic if you want to know what you get when that happens… That is whithout question my weirdest fic ever!! Oh, it may not be posted yet when you read this, because amy made me write this first.. otherways she'll kill me on school tomorrow… thank Eru we're not in the same class!
Anyway, on with the chapter! (I have no clue at all, what this chapter will be about, but I will be killed if I don't keep writing, so I'll write…) (are you feeling guilte yet, Amanfalathiel??) (You really should!!)
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Chapter 8, the chapter about complete nonsence, and a day in the valley, and my secret plans which I'm not likely to tell anyone yet…But I told them to you in this chapter anyway, DAMN, and the return of the voice in my head. "Yes, I'm back!!" "Go away!" "No." "Damn."
Halimath 7th, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Hi readers!!
Still reading huh? (are you having a déja vu now?)
Anyway, today was one of these confusing days again. I'm still pretty screwed up, even now, late at night. I actually fell asleep, and woke up again remembering I still had to write in my diary. So, I'm doing that now, and I'll go back to sleep after that.
Like I said, I'm still pretty screwed up. People have been giving me mixed signals. And that means not only the one you think of first… Anyway, as you all know, because I was writing in my diary at 6:57, I woke up early today. I wanted to be in the valley before everybody else go there. I got dressed in another pair of baggy jeans and a white T-shirt saying 'Don't just stare, buy me a drink' on the front in black lettres. This was one of my fafourite shirts, because it was comfortable as a T-shirt, but still was tight as a tank top. I grabbed my bag and stuffed a towel in it. I stood there a while, trying to deside wether to bring my bathingsuit or my bikini, and decide to bring both. I'll deside wich one I'll wear later today. I snuk out of my room. I was about to close the door behind me, when I heared Arwen say something. I opened the door a little, to hear what she said.
'I know you're there Endomiel, and yes, I was talking to you.' I entered the room. 'How are you doing?' She asked me.
'Quite good actually.'
'Why are you packing your stuff?'
'Because I'm going swimming.'
'The pool's open today?'
'Isn't the pool open every day?'
'I guess so. I think I'll go for a swim too later today.'
'You do that, maybe I'll see you around.' Not. Luckily, she doesn't know I'm not going to swim in the pool today.
I ran over to the mess, but I had to go past Boromir and Estel's room first. Their door was slightly opened, and I could see someone sitting right behind the door. Probably Boromir, by the looks of it. Better not try to move past their door. What to do now… I looked in my bag. I still had some food left from yesterday. Some Lembas, a bottle of lemonade, I love that stuff, and a lot of candy. Of all the things I bought yesterday, I only ate ony lollypop, and I gave 2 away, so I still had a lot of food, uh, candy. I could also skip breakfast and lunch today. My stomach rumbeled at the thought of not eating breakfast… I walked out of the building, down the stairs and silantly ran to the back of the school. I tried to find the trail Estel pointed out yesterday, and after a few minutes of searching, I found it. The others probably found out I was gone, because Estel and Boromir were walking down the trail too, and when they reached the cliff, I could hear them talk.
'I can't see her Estel, do you think something happned?'
'No, I think she knows we're waching her. She just slipped away. She'll be there at 9:00.'
'But how do you explain Legolas's disapearance?'
'Maybe they took of together…'
'Maybe.' Boromir said.
'She's obviusly not here, so we'd better go and look in and around the school. Let's go.'
They left. I krept out of the bushes, and walked to the cliff. I climbed down as fast as possible. Almost fell, but managed to land on my feet. And the fact that I was about 10 cm from the ground made things a lot easier. I looked up. The climb must have been at least 20 feet. (confusing huh? Using cm and feet at the same time? :P ) What was that? Were that feet sticking over the edge? I gues so, because somebody started climbing down the cliff. I ran towards the bushes and dove in. That hurt… But it worked! Legolas didn't see me. That's who it was, Legolas. Why would he be here? Did he follow me?
Maybe he did…
Maybe he was running from the others too…
Maybe he was just looking for some privacy, just like me!
He looked around. Obviusly searching for something…
"Or someone…" I thought.
"No, I'm the only one here, he's not looking for me, is he?"
"Maybe he is…"
"Stop with the maybe's already!"
"Okay, okay… anyway, you have to be really careful now. This is something else then playing hide and seek with the hobbits."
"How do you mean?"
"He has elven hearing and abilitys, just like you remember?"
"O, right, I forgot."
"So don't make any sounds!"
"Okay. I'll try to remember that."
"Go get him tiger."
"What?!?"
"Wrong time wrong sentence, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, then how's, uhm, watch you back?"
"That's okay."
"Cool. I'll be off now."
"You'll be in my head when I need you, right?"
"Of course."
"Byebye!"
"Bye!"
Hey? Where did Legolas go? He wasn't around here… I krept over to the edge of the cliff I was on. I stuk my head over the edge. There he was. At the riverside. What was he doing? Looking around obviusly. Suddenly, he turned around. "Shit!" I thought as I tried to hide. It didn't work… He saw me, I know it., I just do. I tried to run for cover before he got up here, but he was here faster.
'What are you doing here?' He asked.
'I, uh, I wanted some time for myself, you know, to explore the valley, sit in a tree, just thinking about my life.'
'Why?'
'Because they all follow me around on, uh, let's call it campus.'
'Oh. So you didn't follow me here?'
'I was here before you were.'
'You were?'
'Yeah, I was behind the bushes. I just reached the bottom when you climbed over.'
'Why did you stay up there? You could have come done and talk to me.'
'No, I didn't really feel like talking to people, so I stayed up here.'
'Oh. I could just stand next to you saying nothing, you know.'
'That's not it. You would't understand.' I said and I jumed off the cliff. No, this isn't the cliff we climbed down a few minutes ago, this is the cliff beneath that one, where legolas and I sat yesterday, and where we'd put our bags. Anyway, I walked over to the river. After a few moments of just standing there, I started to throw rocks in the river. As I was about to throw another rock in, Legolas grabbed my hand.
'You're disturbing the river.' He said. I glared at him.
'Leave me alone.' I said. I didn't want him to toy with my mind again, like he did yesterday.
'Hey, I'm sorry 'bout yesterday.' Can this guy read my mind, or is it really that obvius?
'No, that's not it.' I lied.
'I can see it is.' So it is that obvius… : (
'Why did you back away?' I asked him trying to surpress the angry tone in my voice.
'I… you just… and then… and everybody was…'
'Just tell me if you feel I'm not good enough for you.'
'Believe me, that's not it.'
'Oh, of course it's not. It's probably the classic "I like you but not in that way, I got stuck in the moment, it will never happen again, but we can still be friends" story, am I right?'
'No! Of course not. I like you, really I do, but there are issues, things I can't tell you about, yet.' He touched my face.
"KISS HIM!!!" the voice screamed.
"NO!"
"Why not?"
"What if he backs away again?"
"He wont."
"I'm not gonna kiss him."
"You'll regret it…"
"i'll just wait for him to make the first move. Besides, it's not like I'm in love with the guy."
"Do as you wish." The voice said.
"I'm NOT in love with him! Really!"
Then suddenly, it was gone. Annoying voice. Always shows up on the most impossible times. Who is that voice? Why did it show up this week? Could'n it come a few weeks earlier, so I could get used to it?
Legolas looked me in the eyes. He seemed to be waiting for something. Maybe the voice was right… Neh. Besides, I would notice that, right? He drew his hand back from my face. I could feel my skin glow. Why was that? How many times do I have to tell myself I'm not in love with him? This is NOT working. Damn mind.
He turned around and walked to a tree, sat down against it.
'Wait a sec Legolas!' I shouted as I ran towards him. I sat down, leaning against the tree and Legolas. 'I desided to accept your offer of just sitting here saying nothing.' He put his arm around my shoulders.
'Okay.' He said. I layed my head on his shoulder, wich was actually quite comfortable because he is taller then I am, and he was sitting slightly uphil. His shoulder makes a good head-resting-spot. : )
We sat there about half an hour, just thingking about stuff. Well, actually I was trying not to think about anything, just concentrate on my and Legolas' breathing. Suddely, he spoke.
'It's my dad.' He said. 'As a prince of Mirkwood, I can only date girls of royal stance, who are aproved by my father. My dad promised me to thid girl, and vice versa, and her dad kind of, uh, really wants us to end up together.'
'Is it normal, this exchange marrige thing?'
'In the higher classes it is, but in the lower classes, usually you'r allowed to get married to who ever you want.'
'Oh. Can't you just say no?'
'I could, but my dad and her dad will probably make me change my mind back to marrige.'
'Is it that bad?'
'Yeah, and besides, as prince, I have to show faith in our rules, laws and customes. I have to set the good example.'
'It suddenly doesn't sound very appealing to me to be a princess…'
'It's a lot of fun, really, it just has it's downsides, that's all.'
'If being a prince is that much fun, then why are you on school here?'
'I'm trying to outrun my futur wife. If I have to spend the rest of my life with her, I want to spend my youth without her.'
'Aha. Now I understand.'
'See, it isn't you, just the stupid customes and stuff.' While saying that, he slowly moved his head towards mine. Exactly at the 'moment surpreme' I heared a twig snap. I backed away as fast as I could. I hoped no one had seen us, 'cause I had always been 'the tough She-elf who doesn't fall in love' back in the Shire and this whole 'I like you' thing was completely new to me. Besides, what if they found out the tough she-elf nextdoor had fallen in love, witch I hadn't, my reputation would go crashing down like, uh, like Pippin when he jumped out of a tree flapping his arms believing he could actually fly. I told him, only birds fly, but did he believe me? Of course not! Silly hobbit.
'Tumb-werstling again?' Boromir asked.
'No, we were talking.' I said.
'Sure.' Boromir grinned his I-know-there's-more-grin.
'Really!'
'Estel, Éomer, Faramir! I've found them!' Boromir shouted into the woods.
'Why were you looking for us in the first place?'
'Because it's 9:15, and you two were supposed to be at the river 15 minutes ago.'
'Oh.'
'Where they here all along?' Faramir asked his brother.
'Yeah, they were little bro.'
'What were you two doing here?' He asked us.
'Talking.'
'I doupt that, but I'm sure it was some kind of mouth activity.' Faramir laughed.
'Boys…' I said and I rolled my eyes. 'Can't you think of anything else?'
'Well, that is what you were doing, right?'
'NO!' I said as I softly punched Faramir against his upper arm.
'Hey!' He laughed.
'Let's go to the river and swim across, that's what we're here for.' Estel said.
'Cool with me.' Éomer said. We walked over to the rive. The guys all had their swimming-suits under their clothes, so they just started undressing and jumped in. I just stood there, looking at them, kind of woundering what I was going to do…
'Aren't you coming in?' Faramir asked.
'She wants to have a look first.' Boromir laughed.
'At what?'
'What do you think?'
'Oh, now I get it!' Faramir laughed.
'That's not it!' I said. 'I'm still trying to deside wether to wear my bikini or my bathingsuit, but I have made my decision now.'
'You're not wearing it yet? I have to tell you, there aren't any changing booths around.' Estel said.
'I know that.'
'Okay.'
I walked over to the woods. I walked in quite far, and climbed in a tree. We Elves are good in climbing you know. As I was saying, I climbed in a tree, as hihg as I could, and started changing. All went well, untill the guys came looking for me.
'Hey, are you okay?' I heared Estel shout. 'You've been away a long time, are you gonna come back?'
I turned around to see where they were, but my hand slid of the branch. In a last effort of staying up in the tree, I tried to grab the tree with my other hand, dropping my jeans and shirt.
'Shit.' I whispered. Estel walked over to the tree I was in.
'Are you up there?'
'Yeah.'
'Why are you in a tree?'
'Bacause I don't trust the ground.'
'You don't trust the ground?'
'You neve now what's down there.'
'And you do know whats up there?'
'Yeah, and besides, I've got a beautiful view.'
'Are you gonna come down any time soon.'
'Yeah.' I said as I jumped down from the tree. 'Here I am.'
'Nice suit.' Estel said as I grabbed the stuff I dropped and we walked back to the river.
'There you are.' Éomer said. 'We thought you had left.'
'She was in a tree.' Estel said. The guys shot strange looks at me.
'What? Elves are tree-dwellers.' I said.
'Are you gonna come in or not?'
'Of course!' I said and I walked in. 'Hey, the water's pretty good today.' Suddenly, I felt two arms around my waist, and two hands around my ankels.
'There you go.' Faramir said in my ear.
'NOOOOO!' I screamed as they turned me upside down. When I came back up, they were all laughing at me. 'Not funny!' I laughed. 'I'll get you for this!'
'Sure you will.' Boromir laughed. He was the one that pulled my feet away.
'I really wil!'
'Hey, anybody in for a game?' Estel said.
'What kind of game?' Éomer asked him.
'Well, I was thinking of tying a rope to that branch hanging over the water over there, and look who can reach the other side without getting wet.'
'I'm already wet.' I said.
'Hahaha, very funny. Okay, let's change that to getting wet again.'
'Okay.' I said we got out of the water. Estel grabbed a rope from his pack and gave it to Legolas.
'Here, you tie it to that branch, okay?'
'Sure.' Legolas climbed the tree and tied the rope to the branch.
'Is it safe?' I asked.
'Of course, you trust Legolas, don't you?'
'I guess so.' I said as I took a leap and grabbed the rope. I made a gigantic swing, but the rope was slipperyer (how are you supposed to write that?) then I thought… My hands slipped, and I landed in the water. Laughing, I reached the shore again.
'At least you were over the half.' Boromir laughed.
'You try and beat it. It's harder then it looks, really.' I laughed. Boromir grabbed the rope and took a few steps back. He ran, jumped, slipped and landed in the water. 'Told you so!'
We had a lot of fun, and after some 3 hours fooling around in the water, drowning eachother, making a rops-swing with two people on the rope, and with three, and four, we desided that we were going to have a look on the other side of the river. I re-packed my bag and swam across with my bag above my head. I learned that back in the Shire. The most of the Hobbits don't swim, but my parents teached me how to swim when I was little, and the also thought me how to get my stuff to the other side whithout getting it wet, so that's what I did. Legolas and Estel didn't have any problems getting their stuff to the other side, but Boromir, Faramir and Éomer, well let's just say it didn't work out that good for them. : ) I guess they aren't that good swimmers after all.
'C'mon guys, you can go much faster, right?'
'Not we can't!' Boromir sputtered. We, Legolas, Estel and I, laughed. When they finnaly reached the other side, we had already put our clothes back on over our swimming-stuff. After they finnaly got, uh, dressed we walked into the woods on that side. We walked around for half an hour, then I heared something.
'Did you hear that?' I asked Legolas.
'Yeah, what do you think it was?'
'It sounded like a horse.'
'A wounded one.'
'Could be.'
'What is it?' Éomer asked.
'I think I heared something, and so does Legolas.'
'Legolas thinks you heared something?'
*sigh* 'No, Legolas thinks he heared something too.'
'Aha. What did you hear?'
'I dunno.'
'Then let's have a look. Where did the sound come from?'
'Over there.' Legolas pointed to a slightly open spot in the woods.
We walked over there. After around 15 minutes of searching, we found a horse. A beautiful brown horse with a white spot kinda thingy on her nose. I walked over to the horse, but she tried to walk away. I stepped back, and started talking to her.
'It's okay. I won't hurt you. It's okay, really.' I walked back over to her and started stroking her nose. As I walked around her, I saw the problem. Something had hurt her left backlegg. Probalby ran into a bush or tree or something, by the looks of it. But why? Why would she just run into a tree? She would only do that if she'd been chased, but there are not predators around here. Strange. I walked the horse back to the river, wich was faily closeby, because we obviusly had been walking in circles the past half an hour. I cleaned the wound with water from the river. It wasn't that bad really. After cleaning her leg, I told her to run along, but she kept following us around. We walked around for another hour, when the horse started making noise again. She walked of in a direction, then walked back to us, and back in the direction again.
'I think she wants us to follow her. 'Legolas said.
'That could be it.' Faramir said and he walked to where the horse walked. 'I don't see anything.' He shouted back as he did a few more steps foreward. We heared a scream, and Faramir was gone. We ran over to where Faramir had been standing, and saw him lying in a big hole in the ground.
'What happened?' Boromir shouted down.
'One moment I was standing up there, and the next the ground just collapsed under my feet!' Faramir shouted back.
'Are you allright?'
'Yeah, I'm okay.' He stood back up. 'There's something down here, but it's to dark to see.' He said as he looked around. Legolas and I climbed down as fast as we could.
'What can you see?' Faramir asked us.
'A building, it looks old, and there's something over there too.' Legolas said. The rest of the gang climbed down. We walked around the place, but made shore not to wander to far from the opening. Some time later, the light started fading. It was getting dark.
'We'd better go back to campus and get some lights.' Estel said.
'We also could go back now, and not tell anybody about this place, and come back tomorrow night with lights.' I said.
'Why not tonight?'
'Wouldn't they suspect somethng if we snuk out every day and night? If we lay low for a night, they won't suspect us from leaving.'
'Good plan Endomiel. Let's do that.'
'Hey, I was just kidding, really!'
'I like your plan, let's do it. What time are we going?' Boromir asked.
'Around 01:00, is that okay with everybody?'
'Yeah sure.' They all aproved of my plan. It isn't a plan! I tried to convince them that it was a bad idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I started to like it. In the end, we desided 01:00 would be a good time to go. Everybody would be asleep and we still had plenty of time to get some stuff together.
'01:00 it is.' I said. 'But how are we going to get our stuff to the other side?'
'We could tie a rope across the river tomorrow and leave it there, that way, when we return at night, either you or Legolas can walk across with another rope, and tie that one above it, and we can walk across too.' Éomer said.
'Okay, it's a deal. Tomorrow night, outside Endomiel's room, 01:00.' Estel said.
'Why outside my room?'
'Cause I say so.'
'Okay…'
We walked back to the river, swam across, and walked to the big cliff. We climbed out of the valley. I took a last look at it. It sure looked beautiful in the glow of the setting sun.
'Come on Endomiel, we're going.' Legolas called.
'I'm coming!' I said as a turned around and caught up with the group. It was dinnertime now, and it was very buisy in the mess when we walked in. I grabbed a tray and a plat and started filling it with food. I sure was hungry, not eating breakfast and only eating a litlle in the afternoon. I sat at the table whith the rest of our class, next to Legolas.
'How was your day?' Arwen asked me from across the table.
'Pretty good. I had fun.'
'I'm sure you had.' She laughed as she winked at Boromir. Oh no! Did he tell everyone already? Nothing happned! How many times do I have to tell them that?
After dinner we went outside again. We just sat there doing nothing. I had I talk with Frodo, Merry and Pippin. Sam was nowhere to be seen. Come to think of it, so was Rosie. Hmhmhmhm…
We talked about what we liked about Rivendell, they told me they had been to the village. They bought some Shire mushrooms there. They wanted to same some for me, but they were so good they ate them all. I thanked them and asked them howmany fingers I was holding up.
'Three.' Pippin said.
'Good boy. I guess these were the good mushrooms after all.' I said.
After lying there a while, it had gotten late and dark. Everybody was leaving, but I didn't feel like going to my room yet. If I'd enter my room now, I would have a lot of explaining to do… *Yawn* By Eru, I was getting tired. I noticed somebody had come to lie next to me. I turned my head, and saw it was Legolas. That figuered.
'Aren't the stars beautiful tonight?' I asked him, while looking at the stars.
'I'm not looking at the stars.'
'What are you looking at?' I asked while turning my head back to him. He was looking at me. Okay, that was pretty logical actually, since we were the only people outside. (yes, 'people' is just a figure of speech) Did he have to lie this close to me? Suddenly he leaned over and kissed me. I guess he did have to be this close…
'You.' He said and he kissed me again.
'Legolas, don't…' I said inbetween kisses.
'Why not?' He stopped.
'You know it's not right.'
'No one will know.'
'Yes they will, I can see Estel looking at us from here.'
'Damn.' Legolas said and he sat up.
'I think I'll go to my room.' I said and I stood up.
'Wait a sec, I'll walk you there.' Legolas said as he stood up and he walked to my room with me. The walk too less time then I wanted it too… *sigh*
'Here we are. This is my room.' I said when we reached my door.
'I know.' Legolas said. 'See you tomorrow.' He kissed me goodnight. I did a step backwards and walked into the door.
'Legolas…' I said. He looked at me with that sad irresistable 'what-did-I- do?' look. 'Bye.'
'Bye.' He said. I walked into my room and looked for my bag. Where was it? I must have left it in the mess after dinner. I ran out to the mess.
'Where are you going?' I heared Éowyn shout at my back. I ran to the mess. There was my bag, exactly where I left it. I turned around and walked to the exit. Suddenly, Estel stood in front of me.
'What?' I said.
'I know about you and Legolas.' He said.
'it's nothing, really, it…'
'I hope you know what you're getting into.'
'I know, he told me.'
'The risk's on you now.'
'How do you mean?'
'We'll still kep an eye on you, but we won't stop you now you know.'
'Could you guys try and keep your noses out of my life? I can handel these things myself. It's pretty annoying to have somebody waching you all day long.'
'You know?'
'I noticed it yesterday, or the day before. It gives me the creeps.'
'We'll stop. But you have to watch your back, there are a lot of people who don't know about you two, and they'd better not know, because if Legolas's father finds out…'
'I'm in deep shit. I know Estel. Thanks for worrying about me, but I can handle it. I told you, it's nothing.'
'Did you tell Legolas?'
'Not in those exact words, but I think he gets my point.'
'You'd better tell him tomorrow.'
'I'll work on it. And Estel, don't go telling anyone, okay? Not even the guys. Actually, especially not the guys.' I said as I walked to my room. 'Bye Estel!'
'I won't. Bye…'
They're obviusly worried about me. No need to do that, I can deal with it. Legolas knows it won't work. I'll tell him again tomorrow, if I get the chance and have the guts. I'll see.
Namarië!!
Endomiel
E/N: did you like it or not? Anyway, starting right about now, you can read the new girl's POV, written by Amanfalathiel. Keep sending me names and stuff, I still need a lot of Hobbits, Humans and Dwarves, and a few Elves. Thanx!! Endomiel.
Still reading huh? Did you like my musical chapter?? Hope you did. I personally think it is to much singing…Anyway, I'll get to writing now, because Amanfalathiel is threthning me over MSN-Messenger. Yes, I have MSN, wanna talk to me? Add me! I'lll talk to anyone!! Really! endomiel@hotmail.com I'm phatetic, aren't I? Well, people just ignore me! They're never online when I am. Only Amy, but she scares me with her treaths. Well, not really scares me, because if this body I'm in dies, I'll just be reincarnated, but the thing that scares me is, that if I die now, Orlando Bloom and I will be 25 years apart… that's just too much… : (
Oh, and don't forget to Review!!!! Or mail me if you prefer that! Suggestions are always welcome, and I need flames! Sitting behind the computer all day makes my hands cold…Now, on to the disclaimer…
Disclaimer: I don't own any LotR characters, only the paperclip (my precious…) and the sheets of paper I clipped it on. O, and I guess my bag is mine. You know, my school bag.
OHOH!! Be sure to check out my newest fic!! It's what happnes when Amanfalathiel and I are walking through the halls in our school (our REAL school) (did I just give away part of my, yes MY, story?) (that means the story is my idea, and certainly not the new girls idea, she stole it from me and turned into a romance story… NOOOOO!! I wanted it to be a humor& a little bit of romance story…) and she talks about Elijah Wood and his 'preformance' in Flipper, and I sort of mess it up with Jaws and Free Willy… :o) Well, read my new fic if you want to know what you get when that happens… That is whithout question my weirdest fic ever!! Oh, it may not be posted yet when you read this, because amy made me write this first.. otherways she'll kill me on school tomorrow… thank Eru we're not in the same class!
Anyway, on with the chapter! (I have no clue at all, what this chapter will be about, but I will be killed if I don't keep writing, so I'll write…) (are you feeling guilte yet, Amanfalathiel??) (You really should!!)
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Chapter 8, the chapter about complete nonsence, and a day in the valley, and my secret plans which I'm not likely to tell anyone yet…But I told them to you in this chapter anyway, DAMN, and the return of the voice in my head. "Yes, I'm back!!" "Go away!" "No." "Damn."
Halimath 7th, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Hi readers!!
Still reading huh? (are you having a déja vu now?)
Anyway, today was one of these confusing days again. I'm still pretty screwed up, even now, late at night. I actually fell asleep, and woke up again remembering I still had to write in my diary. So, I'm doing that now, and I'll go back to sleep after that.
Like I said, I'm still pretty screwed up. People have been giving me mixed signals. And that means not only the one you think of first… Anyway, as you all know, because I was writing in my diary at 6:57, I woke up early today. I wanted to be in the valley before everybody else go there. I got dressed in another pair of baggy jeans and a white T-shirt saying 'Don't just stare, buy me a drink' on the front in black lettres. This was one of my fafourite shirts, because it was comfortable as a T-shirt, but still was tight as a tank top. I grabbed my bag and stuffed a towel in it. I stood there a while, trying to deside wether to bring my bathingsuit or my bikini, and decide to bring both. I'll deside wich one I'll wear later today. I snuk out of my room. I was about to close the door behind me, when I heared Arwen say something. I opened the door a little, to hear what she said.
'I know you're there Endomiel, and yes, I was talking to you.' I entered the room. 'How are you doing?' She asked me.
'Quite good actually.'
'Why are you packing your stuff?'
'Because I'm going swimming.'
'The pool's open today?'
'Isn't the pool open every day?'
'I guess so. I think I'll go for a swim too later today.'
'You do that, maybe I'll see you around.' Not. Luckily, she doesn't know I'm not going to swim in the pool today.
I ran over to the mess, but I had to go past Boromir and Estel's room first. Their door was slightly opened, and I could see someone sitting right behind the door. Probably Boromir, by the looks of it. Better not try to move past their door. What to do now… I looked in my bag. I still had some food left from yesterday. Some Lembas, a bottle of lemonade, I love that stuff, and a lot of candy. Of all the things I bought yesterday, I only ate ony lollypop, and I gave 2 away, so I still had a lot of food, uh, candy. I could also skip breakfast and lunch today. My stomach rumbeled at the thought of not eating breakfast… I walked out of the building, down the stairs and silantly ran to the back of the school. I tried to find the trail Estel pointed out yesterday, and after a few minutes of searching, I found it. The others probably found out I was gone, because Estel and Boromir were walking down the trail too, and when they reached the cliff, I could hear them talk.
'I can't see her Estel, do you think something happned?'
'No, I think she knows we're waching her. She just slipped away. She'll be there at 9:00.'
'But how do you explain Legolas's disapearance?'
'Maybe they took of together…'
'Maybe.' Boromir said.
'She's obviusly not here, so we'd better go and look in and around the school. Let's go.'
They left. I krept out of the bushes, and walked to the cliff. I climbed down as fast as possible. Almost fell, but managed to land on my feet. And the fact that I was about 10 cm from the ground made things a lot easier. I looked up. The climb must have been at least 20 feet. (confusing huh? Using cm and feet at the same time? :P ) What was that? Were that feet sticking over the edge? I gues so, because somebody started climbing down the cliff. I ran towards the bushes and dove in. That hurt… But it worked! Legolas didn't see me. That's who it was, Legolas. Why would he be here? Did he follow me?
Maybe he did…
Maybe he was running from the others too…
Maybe he was just looking for some privacy, just like me!
He looked around. Obviusly searching for something…
"Or someone…" I thought.
"No, I'm the only one here, he's not looking for me, is he?"
"Maybe he is…"
"Stop with the maybe's already!"
"Okay, okay… anyway, you have to be really careful now. This is something else then playing hide and seek with the hobbits."
"How do you mean?"
"He has elven hearing and abilitys, just like you remember?"
"O, right, I forgot."
"So don't make any sounds!"
"Okay. I'll try to remember that."
"Go get him tiger."
"What?!?"
"Wrong time wrong sentence, huh?"
"Yeah."
"Okay, then how's, uhm, watch you back?"
"That's okay."
"Cool. I'll be off now."
"You'll be in my head when I need you, right?"
"Of course."
"Byebye!"
"Bye!"
Hey? Where did Legolas go? He wasn't around here… I krept over to the edge of the cliff I was on. I stuk my head over the edge. There he was. At the riverside. What was he doing? Looking around obviusly. Suddenly, he turned around. "Shit!" I thought as I tried to hide. It didn't work… He saw me, I know it., I just do. I tried to run for cover before he got up here, but he was here faster.
'What are you doing here?' He asked.
'I, uh, I wanted some time for myself, you know, to explore the valley, sit in a tree, just thinking about my life.'
'Why?'
'Because they all follow me around on, uh, let's call it campus.'
'Oh. So you didn't follow me here?'
'I was here before you were.'
'You were?'
'Yeah, I was behind the bushes. I just reached the bottom when you climbed over.'
'Why did you stay up there? You could have come done and talk to me.'
'No, I didn't really feel like talking to people, so I stayed up here.'
'Oh. I could just stand next to you saying nothing, you know.'
'That's not it. You would't understand.' I said and I jumed off the cliff. No, this isn't the cliff we climbed down a few minutes ago, this is the cliff beneath that one, where legolas and I sat yesterday, and where we'd put our bags. Anyway, I walked over to the river. After a few moments of just standing there, I started to throw rocks in the river. As I was about to throw another rock in, Legolas grabbed my hand.
'You're disturbing the river.' He said. I glared at him.
'Leave me alone.' I said. I didn't want him to toy with my mind again, like he did yesterday.
'Hey, I'm sorry 'bout yesterday.' Can this guy read my mind, or is it really that obvius?
'No, that's not it.' I lied.
'I can see it is.' So it is that obvius… : (
'Why did you back away?' I asked him trying to surpress the angry tone in my voice.
'I… you just… and then… and everybody was…'
'Just tell me if you feel I'm not good enough for you.'
'Believe me, that's not it.'
'Oh, of course it's not. It's probably the classic "I like you but not in that way, I got stuck in the moment, it will never happen again, but we can still be friends" story, am I right?'
'No! Of course not. I like you, really I do, but there are issues, things I can't tell you about, yet.' He touched my face.
"KISS HIM!!!" the voice screamed.
"NO!"
"Why not?"
"What if he backs away again?"
"He wont."
"I'm not gonna kiss him."
"You'll regret it…"
"i'll just wait for him to make the first move. Besides, it's not like I'm in love with the guy."
"Do as you wish." The voice said.
"I'm NOT in love with him! Really!"
Then suddenly, it was gone. Annoying voice. Always shows up on the most impossible times. Who is that voice? Why did it show up this week? Could'n it come a few weeks earlier, so I could get used to it?
Legolas looked me in the eyes. He seemed to be waiting for something. Maybe the voice was right… Neh. Besides, I would notice that, right? He drew his hand back from my face. I could feel my skin glow. Why was that? How many times do I have to tell myself I'm not in love with him? This is NOT working. Damn mind.
He turned around and walked to a tree, sat down against it.
'Wait a sec Legolas!' I shouted as I ran towards him. I sat down, leaning against the tree and Legolas. 'I desided to accept your offer of just sitting here saying nothing.' He put his arm around my shoulders.
'Okay.' He said. I layed my head on his shoulder, wich was actually quite comfortable because he is taller then I am, and he was sitting slightly uphil. His shoulder makes a good head-resting-spot. : )
We sat there about half an hour, just thingking about stuff. Well, actually I was trying not to think about anything, just concentrate on my and Legolas' breathing. Suddely, he spoke.
'It's my dad.' He said. 'As a prince of Mirkwood, I can only date girls of royal stance, who are aproved by my father. My dad promised me to thid girl, and vice versa, and her dad kind of, uh, really wants us to end up together.'
'Is it normal, this exchange marrige thing?'
'In the higher classes it is, but in the lower classes, usually you'r allowed to get married to who ever you want.'
'Oh. Can't you just say no?'
'I could, but my dad and her dad will probably make me change my mind back to marrige.'
'Is it that bad?'
'Yeah, and besides, as prince, I have to show faith in our rules, laws and customes. I have to set the good example.'
'It suddenly doesn't sound very appealing to me to be a princess…'
'It's a lot of fun, really, it just has it's downsides, that's all.'
'If being a prince is that much fun, then why are you on school here?'
'I'm trying to outrun my futur wife. If I have to spend the rest of my life with her, I want to spend my youth without her.'
'Aha. Now I understand.'
'See, it isn't you, just the stupid customes and stuff.' While saying that, he slowly moved his head towards mine. Exactly at the 'moment surpreme' I heared a twig snap. I backed away as fast as I could. I hoped no one had seen us, 'cause I had always been 'the tough She-elf who doesn't fall in love' back in the Shire and this whole 'I like you' thing was completely new to me. Besides, what if they found out the tough she-elf nextdoor had fallen in love, witch I hadn't, my reputation would go crashing down like, uh, like Pippin when he jumped out of a tree flapping his arms believing he could actually fly. I told him, only birds fly, but did he believe me? Of course not! Silly hobbit.
'Tumb-werstling again?' Boromir asked.
'No, we were talking.' I said.
'Sure.' Boromir grinned his I-know-there's-more-grin.
'Really!'
'Estel, Éomer, Faramir! I've found them!' Boromir shouted into the woods.
'Why were you looking for us in the first place?'
'Because it's 9:15, and you two were supposed to be at the river 15 minutes ago.'
'Oh.'
'Where they here all along?' Faramir asked his brother.
'Yeah, they were little bro.'
'What were you two doing here?' He asked us.
'Talking.'
'I doupt that, but I'm sure it was some kind of mouth activity.' Faramir laughed.
'Boys…' I said and I rolled my eyes. 'Can't you think of anything else?'
'Well, that is what you were doing, right?'
'NO!' I said as I softly punched Faramir against his upper arm.
'Hey!' He laughed.
'Let's go to the river and swim across, that's what we're here for.' Estel said.
'Cool with me.' Éomer said. We walked over to the rive. The guys all had their swimming-suits under their clothes, so they just started undressing and jumped in. I just stood there, looking at them, kind of woundering what I was going to do…
'Aren't you coming in?' Faramir asked.
'She wants to have a look first.' Boromir laughed.
'At what?'
'What do you think?'
'Oh, now I get it!' Faramir laughed.
'That's not it!' I said. 'I'm still trying to deside wether to wear my bikini or my bathingsuit, but I have made my decision now.'
'You're not wearing it yet? I have to tell you, there aren't any changing booths around.' Estel said.
'I know that.'
'Okay.'
I walked over to the woods. I walked in quite far, and climbed in a tree. We Elves are good in climbing you know. As I was saying, I climbed in a tree, as hihg as I could, and started changing. All went well, untill the guys came looking for me.
'Hey, are you okay?' I heared Estel shout. 'You've been away a long time, are you gonna come back?'
I turned around to see where they were, but my hand slid of the branch. In a last effort of staying up in the tree, I tried to grab the tree with my other hand, dropping my jeans and shirt.
'Shit.' I whispered. Estel walked over to the tree I was in.
'Are you up there?'
'Yeah.'
'Why are you in a tree?'
'Bacause I don't trust the ground.'
'You don't trust the ground?'
'You neve now what's down there.'
'And you do know whats up there?'
'Yeah, and besides, I've got a beautiful view.'
'Are you gonna come down any time soon.'
'Yeah.' I said as I jumped down from the tree. 'Here I am.'
'Nice suit.' Estel said as I grabbed the stuff I dropped and we walked back to the river.
'There you are.' Éomer said. 'We thought you had left.'
'She was in a tree.' Estel said. The guys shot strange looks at me.
'What? Elves are tree-dwellers.' I said.
'Are you gonna come in or not?'
'Of course!' I said and I walked in. 'Hey, the water's pretty good today.' Suddenly, I felt two arms around my waist, and two hands around my ankels.
'There you go.' Faramir said in my ear.
'NOOOOO!' I screamed as they turned me upside down. When I came back up, they were all laughing at me. 'Not funny!' I laughed. 'I'll get you for this!'
'Sure you will.' Boromir laughed. He was the one that pulled my feet away.
'I really wil!'
'Hey, anybody in for a game?' Estel said.
'What kind of game?' Éomer asked him.
'Well, I was thinking of tying a rope to that branch hanging over the water over there, and look who can reach the other side without getting wet.'
'I'm already wet.' I said.
'Hahaha, very funny. Okay, let's change that to getting wet again.'
'Okay.' I said we got out of the water. Estel grabbed a rope from his pack and gave it to Legolas.
'Here, you tie it to that branch, okay?'
'Sure.' Legolas climbed the tree and tied the rope to the branch.
'Is it safe?' I asked.
'Of course, you trust Legolas, don't you?'
'I guess so.' I said as I took a leap and grabbed the rope. I made a gigantic swing, but the rope was slipperyer (how are you supposed to write that?) then I thought… My hands slipped, and I landed in the water. Laughing, I reached the shore again.
'At least you were over the half.' Boromir laughed.
'You try and beat it. It's harder then it looks, really.' I laughed. Boromir grabbed the rope and took a few steps back. He ran, jumped, slipped and landed in the water. 'Told you so!'
We had a lot of fun, and after some 3 hours fooling around in the water, drowning eachother, making a rops-swing with two people on the rope, and with three, and four, we desided that we were going to have a look on the other side of the river. I re-packed my bag and swam across with my bag above my head. I learned that back in the Shire. The most of the Hobbits don't swim, but my parents teached me how to swim when I was little, and the also thought me how to get my stuff to the other side whithout getting it wet, so that's what I did. Legolas and Estel didn't have any problems getting their stuff to the other side, but Boromir, Faramir and Éomer, well let's just say it didn't work out that good for them. : ) I guess they aren't that good swimmers after all.
'C'mon guys, you can go much faster, right?'
'Not we can't!' Boromir sputtered. We, Legolas, Estel and I, laughed. When they finnaly reached the other side, we had already put our clothes back on over our swimming-stuff. After they finnaly got, uh, dressed we walked into the woods on that side. We walked around for half an hour, then I heared something.
'Did you hear that?' I asked Legolas.
'Yeah, what do you think it was?'
'It sounded like a horse.'
'A wounded one.'
'Could be.'
'What is it?' Éomer asked.
'I think I heared something, and so does Legolas.'
'Legolas thinks you heared something?'
*sigh* 'No, Legolas thinks he heared something too.'
'Aha. What did you hear?'
'I dunno.'
'Then let's have a look. Where did the sound come from?'
'Over there.' Legolas pointed to a slightly open spot in the woods.
We walked over there. After around 15 minutes of searching, we found a horse. A beautiful brown horse with a white spot kinda thingy on her nose. I walked over to the horse, but she tried to walk away. I stepped back, and started talking to her.
'It's okay. I won't hurt you. It's okay, really.' I walked back over to her and started stroking her nose. As I walked around her, I saw the problem. Something had hurt her left backlegg. Probalby ran into a bush or tree or something, by the looks of it. But why? Why would she just run into a tree? She would only do that if she'd been chased, but there are not predators around here. Strange. I walked the horse back to the river, wich was faily closeby, because we obviusly had been walking in circles the past half an hour. I cleaned the wound with water from the river. It wasn't that bad really. After cleaning her leg, I told her to run along, but she kept following us around. We walked around for another hour, when the horse started making noise again. She walked of in a direction, then walked back to us, and back in the direction again.
'I think she wants us to follow her. 'Legolas said.
'That could be it.' Faramir said and he walked to where the horse walked. 'I don't see anything.' He shouted back as he did a few more steps foreward. We heared a scream, and Faramir was gone. We ran over to where Faramir had been standing, and saw him lying in a big hole in the ground.
'What happened?' Boromir shouted down.
'One moment I was standing up there, and the next the ground just collapsed under my feet!' Faramir shouted back.
'Are you allright?'
'Yeah, I'm okay.' He stood back up. 'There's something down here, but it's to dark to see.' He said as he looked around. Legolas and I climbed down as fast as we could.
'What can you see?' Faramir asked us.
'A building, it looks old, and there's something over there too.' Legolas said. The rest of the gang climbed down. We walked around the place, but made shore not to wander to far from the opening. Some time later, the light started fading. It was getting dark.
'We'd better go back to campus and get some lights.' Estel said.
'We also could go back now, and not tell anybody about this place, and come back tomorrow night with lights.' I said.
'Why not tonight?'
'Wouldn't they suspect somethng if we snuk out every day and night? If we lay low for a night, they won't suspect us from leaving.'
'Good plan Endomiel. Let's do that.'
'Hey, I was just kidding, really!'
'I like your plan, let's do it. What time are we going?' Boromir asked.
'Around 01:00, is that okay with everybody?'
'Yeah sure.' They all aproved of my plan. It isn't a plan! I tried to convince them that it was a bad idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I started to like it. In the end, we desided 01:00 would be a good time to go. Everybody would be asleep and we still had plenty of time to get some stuff together.
'01:00 it is.' I said. 'But how are we going to get our stuff to the other side?'
'We could tie a rope across the river tomorrow and leave it there, that way, when we return at night, either you or Legolas can walk across with another rope, and tie that one above it, and we can walk across too.' Éomer said.
'Okay, it's a deal. Tomorrow night, outside Endomiel's room, 01:00.' Estel said.
'Why outside my room?'
'Cause I say so.'
'Okay…'
We walked back to the river, swam across, and walked to the big cliff. We climbed out of the valley. I took a last look at it. It sure looked beautiful in the glow of the setting sun.
'Come on Endomiel, we're going.' Legolas called.
'I'm coming!' I said as a turned around and caught up with the group. It was dinnertime now, and it was very buisy in the mess when we walked in. I grabbed a tray and a plat and started filling it with food. I sure was hungry, not eating breakfast and only eating a litlle in the afternoon. I sat at the table whith the rest of our class, next to Legolas.
'How was your day?' Arwen asked me from across the table.
'Pretty good. I had fun.'
'I'm sure you had.' She laughed as she winked at Boromir. Oh no! Did he tell everyone already? Nothing happned! How many times do I have to tell them that?
After dinner we went outside again. We just sat there doing nothing. I had I talk with Frodo, Merry and Pippin. Sam was nowhere to be seen. Come to think of it, so was Rosie. Hmhmhmhm…
We talked about what we liked about Rivendell, they told me they had been to the village. They bought some Shire mushrooms there. They wanted to same some for me, but they were so good they ate them all. I thanked them and asked them howmany fingers I was holding up.
'Three.' Pippin said.
'Good boy. I guess these were the good mushrooms after all.' I said.
After lying there a while, it had gotten late and dark. Everybody was leaving, but I didn't feel like going to my room yet. If I'd enter my room now, I would have a lot of explaining to do… *Yawn* By Eru, I was getting tired. I noticed somebody had come to lie next to me. I turned my head, and saw it was Legolas. That figuered.
'Aren't the stars beautiful tonight?' I asked him, while looking at the stars.
'I'm not looking at the stars.'
'What are you looking at?' I asked while turning my head back to him. He was looking at me. Okay, that was pretty logical actually, since we were the only people outside. (yes, 'people' is just a figure of speech) Did he have to lie this close to me? Suddenly he leaned over and kissed me. I guess he did have to be this close…
'You.' He said and he kissed me again.
'Legolas, don't…' I said inbetween kisses.
'Why not?' He stopped.
'You know it's not right.'
'No one will know.'
'Yes they will, I can see Estel looking at us from here.'
'Damn.' Legolas said and he sat up.
'I think I'll go to my room.' I said and I stood up.
'Wait a sec, I'll walk you there.' Legolas said as he stood up and he walked to my room with me. The walk too less time then I wanted it too… *sigh*
'Here we are. This is my room.' I said when we reached my door.
'I know.' Legolas said. 'See you tomorrow.' He kissed me goodnight. I did a step backwards and walked into the door.
'Legolas…' I said. He looked at me with that sad irresistable 'what-did-I- do?' look. 'Bye.'
'Bye.' He said. I walked into my room and looked for my bag. Where was it? I must have left it in the mess after dinner. I ran out to the mess.
'Where are you going?' I heared Éowyn shout at my back. I ran to the mess. There was my bag, exactly where I left it. I turned around and walked to the exit. Suddenly, Estel stood in front of me.
'What?' I said.
'I know about you and Legolas.' He said.
'it's nothing, really, it…'
'I hope you know what you're getting into.'
'I know, he told me.'
'The risk's on you now.'
'How do you mean?'
'We'll still kep an eye on you, but we won't stop you now you know.'
'Could you guys try and keep your noses out of my life? I can handel these things myself. It's pretty annoying to have somebody waching you all day long.'
'You know?'
'I noticed it yesterday, or the day before. It gives me the creeps.'
'We'll stop. But you have to watch your back, there are a lot of people who don't know about you two, and they'd better not know, because if Legolas's father finds out…'
'I'm in deep shit. I know Estel. Thanks for worrying about me, but I can handle it. I told you, it's nothing.'
'Did you tell Legolas?'
'Not in those exact words, but I think he gets my point.'
'You'd better tell him tomorrow.'
'I'll work on it. And Estel, don't go telling anyone, okay? Not even the guys. Actually, especially not the guys.' I said as I walked to my room. 'Bye Estel!'
'I won't. Bye…'
They're obviusly worried about me. No need to do that, I can deal with it. Legolas knows it won't work. I'll tell him again tomorrow, if I get the chance and have the guts. I'll see.
Namarië!!
Endomiel
E/N: did you like it or not? Anyway, starting right about now, you can read the new girl's POV, written by Amanfalathiel. Keep sending me names and stuff, I still need a lot of Hobbits, Humans and Dwarves, and a few Elves. Thanx!! Endomiel.