E/N: Hi everyone!!! I'm back! (I don't know if you're supposed to be glad
about that…) Anyway, I've thought I would be having my writers-time-off
this week, but it turned out to be a writer-makes-overtime trip. (I was
sitting next to Amanfalathiel in the bus, and it was a 5-½ hour drive…) The
good thing is, I've got a lot of inspiration there, and I've got a lot of
ideas about what will happen in the next few chapters. Alcohol sure helps
writing :) O, a message for people who ready both my and Amanfalathiels
story, our stories differ at certain points, like dialogs and descriptions
of places, but they will be the same at crucial points, and the 'Plot'
(Which plot? Do I have a plot?) will be the same. And the funniest thing
happened, in Germany, I found this comic book series called 'Oh! My
goddess'!! It's pretty cool really. Oh well, on with the disclaimer…
Disclaimer: I don't own any LotR characters and my paperclip broke this morning, 'cause I tried to put to many sheets of paper in it… NOOOOO!! Not the paperclip! Anything but the paperclip!! Why? Why did you take the paperclip? It wasn't his time yet! I'm sure… :'( oh, and a lot of the characters in other classes aren't mine either, I borrowed them from other people. Okay, that's it for today.
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Chapter 10 (OMG-ess! I reached ten!): About nightly adventures, a shower incident and cereal
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Halimath 9th, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Hi there readers.
How're you doing? I'm uh, fine, I guess. Well… just read what happened today.
It was 12:49, I was awake, lying on my bed, waiting for the knock on my door. Come on, knock already! 12:51… How come time goes fast when you want it to go slow, and slow when you want it to go fast? I turned around again. Suddenly, Elvea sat up. She looked around in shock. Why was she awake? I hoped she was still kind of asleep. She laid back down, but her eyes were still open. A knock on the door. She sat up again. Damn, she really was awake… I got out of bed and changed to my clothes.
'Where are you going?' She whispered.
'None of you business.' Another knock. 'I'm coming guys.' I rushed out of my room and closed the door. I hoped Elvea wouldn't come after us.
'What took you so long?' Boromir whispered.
'Elvea's awake.'
'How do you mean awake?'
'She asked me were I was going.'
'What did you tell her?'
'That I was going to a ruin in the secret valley behind the school.'
'Your not supposed to tell her that! You ruined the whole secret part!'
'I'm not stupid, I told her it was none of her business.'
'Okay. C'mon, lets go.' We walked out of the building, down the stairs, and to the backside of the school building. We were about to go to the trail, when Legolas and I heard something.
'What is it?' I asked him.
'I don't know, could be some kind of nocturnal creature.'
'Could be.'
'I'll go have a look.' Éomer suggested.
'Be careful, it could be a teacher, or even scarier, a dwarf.' I said.
'I'll be sure to scream if it's a dwarf.' Éomer said as he walked off into the night. A few minutes later, he returned. 'I couldn't find anything.'
'Are you sure?' Estel asked him.
'Totally.'
'Let's go then.' We walked down the path, climbed down the cliff, walked across the plateau, jumped of the second cliff and ran over to the river. I walked to the other side holding the rope, Legolas right behind me. On the other side, I tied the second rope to the tree, some 1.5 meters above the first one.
'It's save.' I said. The guys started climbing across the river one by one.
'How long do you think it'll take the first one to reach this side?' Legolas asked me.
'Something around uhm, 3 or 4 minutes.'
'Plenty of time alone.' He said as he kissed me. We slowly move to the other side of the tree. That way, if one of them would reach this side without us noticing, he wouldn't be able to see us. Pretty cleaver huh? :) After some 3 minutes, Estel reached our side. He didn't even have to see us, to know what we were doing.
'Cut that out.' He said. 'Faramir is next to reach this shore, and he doesn't know yet.'
'He… won't see… us.' Legolas said in between kisses.
'Yes he will, because the tree isn't as big as you two think it is and I could see you two long before I reached this side.' Legolas stepped back and walked over to Estel. I sat against the tree. Damn this whole secrecy thing. A few minutes later, everybody was on the other side. We walked into the woods, to the hole Faramir had fallen in the day before yesterday. Estel tied a rope to a tree and threw the other side down the hole. Legolas climbed down first.
'What can you see down there?' Éomer asked him.
'Same as last time, some building like things, just come down and have a look yourself.' We climbed down too. Faramir turned his flashlight on.
'Let's split up.' I said.
'I'll go that way with Éomer.' Faramir said.
'I'll go that way with Boromir.' Estel said as he smiled at me.
'What?' I said.
'Nothing girl, nothing. Give a yell if you find anything.' They took off in the direction Estel pointed out.
'I guess I'm stuck with you.' I said to Legolas. 'Let's go that way.' We walked off in the opposite direction Estel and Boromir took off in.
'Then we'll go this way.' I could hear Faramir say behind me. They walked off too. Legolas and I walked into a small alley. It was a dead end. I leaned against the wall. Legolas kissed me. I guess that was too much for the old wall… It gave in. The wall collapsed behind me.
'AAAAHHHHH!!' I yelled as I fell backwards, pulling Legolas with me. I landed on the pile of rocks. That hurt… Legolas landed on me too. Faramir and Éomer came running around the corner.
'What happened?' Faramir said, a concerned look on his face. 'Oh, I see.' He laughed.
'This is so not funny.' I said as I tried to get up. My poor back… and arms… and legs… Just look at me! I was covered in sand and dust. My arms were covered with scratches and blood. My legs weren't that bad, my jeans had protected them from the rocks I landed on. My back was bleeding a little too, I fell on a pointy rock. Legolas helped me up. He was doing pretty good, since he fell on top of me and didn't hit the rocks. I took a look around the room I was in. It was pretty big actually.
'What were you doing?'
'Legolas was looking around, he thought he had seen something, and I was just standing there, leaning against that wall, when suddenly it collapsed.'
'Just like that?'
'Yeah, just like that.'
'And how did Legolas end up on top of you?'
'Uhm, when I fell, I grabbed his arm and tried not to fall over, but he lost his balance too, and landed right on top of me.'
'Sure he did.' Estel said. He and Boromir had arrived too.
'Yeah, he did. You don't have to believe me, but it is the truth.' I walked around to the other side of the room. What was that? It looked like some shiny piece of metal. 'He guys, have a look at this!' Legolas reached it first. 'What do you thing it is?'
'It could be some kind of jewellery.' He said. Look, this room covered with shiny things.' We looked around.
'Hey, it is.' I said. Most of the stuff was covered with dust and spider webs, and didn't really shine, but that one thing I saw, was shining like it was brand-new. I walked through the room, but didn't touch anything. I didn't want the roof to collapse on me too…
'What time do we have to be back?' Boromir asked.
'Around 2:30.' Estel answered.
'Then we'd better be heading back, it's 2:13.'
'Okay guys, time to leave again. We can come back this afternoon.' We all walked out of the room, except Legolas.
'C'mon Legolas!' I shouted. 'We're leaving.'
'I'll be there in a sec.' He said.
We walked over to the hole and climbed out. Legolas followed about a minute later.
'What were you doing back in there?' I asked him.
'Nothing.'
'Didn't find anything?'
'Nope.'
'Are you sure? Didn't unlock any mysteries?'
'Not that I know.'
'Okay…' We crossed the river and climbed out of the valley. The guys ran over to the building, Legolas and I walked behind them.
'Are you okay?' He asked me.
'I'm fine.'
'Sure you didn't break anything?'
'Totally sure.'
'I'm sorry for landing on top of you…'
'I didn't feel a thing.' We laughed.
'You look pretty scratched up, how are you going to explain that tomorrow?'
'I don't know yet, but I'll think of something.'
'Okay.' We walked to my room, not saying anything, just enjoying each other's company. 'See you tomorrow.' Legolas said as he kissed me goodnight.
'Goodnight.' I whispered. I walked into my room and closed the door behind me. I leaned against the door, slowly slid down it, eventually sat down against it. I sat there for about an hour, thinking about nothing. I fell asleep, and that's how they found me the next morning. My wounds were mainly healed, I heal very fast because of my powers, but I still had some scar-like things on my arms.
'Good morning.' Arwen said. I looked up.
'O, hi.' I said as I stoop up and walked over to my bed. I collapsed on my bed.
'Had a wild night, didn't you?'
'Yeah, you could say that.'
'I thought so.' She smiled.
'Not that way! I decided to have a walk last night, and I ran into uh, Elrond, he was patrolling campus or something. I had a hard time getting back here.' I hoped she'd believe that…
'Oh.'
'What time is it?'
'7:30, time for breakfast, are you coming?'
'I'll be there in a sec, gotta change my clothes first…' I put on an other pair of baggy jeans and a sky blue T-shirt with a white cloud on it, and an arrow pointing to it with 'Cloud' writing beneath it in a childish handwriting. I packed my bag, threw it on my bed and walked over to the mess. The guys were all there, talking to each other, looking like, really bad. Except Legolas and I of course, we Elves don't need sleep.
'Hey guys, how're you doing this wonderful morning?' I cheerily said.
'Fine.' Boromir mumbled.
'Hm? Did you say something?'
'We're fine.'
'Looks like you guys haven't had enough sleep.'
'Now don't go telling us all about elves and how they don't need sleep and go on with whatever they're doing all night and stuff, I'm not in the mood to hear anything now.'
'What happened to him?' I asked Legolas.
'He got up on the wrong side of the bed, I guess.'
'Did not!' Boromir said.
'Sure you didn't.' Legolas continued eating whatever it was that he was eating.
'What are you eating?' I asked him.
'Cereal.'
'It doesn't look like cereal as I know it.'
'That's because it's Elfish cereal.'
'If you say so…' I stared at his cereal. I'd never seen anything like it in my whole life! It looked like some kind of green/grey/brownish something. It was watery, but with little hard thingies drifting in it.
'You want some?'
'I dunno, is it safe?' Faramir and Éomer chuckled. Boromir made some kind of "I'm still angry at you, but I'm laughing at your joke too" kind of smile. A quite funny site to see. :)
Legolas pushed his bole over to me. I grabbed a spoon and stuck the tip in the cereal.
"SSSMMMUUUSSSHHH" The cereal did.
'Iwww!' I shouted as I dropped the rest of the spoon in the cereal. The cereal went all over the place. Legolas and Faramir got covered in cereal.
'Thank you very much, that's just what I needed, to get covered with cereal.' Legolas said, sarcasm and cereal dripping all over the place. Éomer, Boromir and I were practically rolling on the floor, laughing. 'It's not funny you know, now I have to change clothes all over again.' Legolas looked pretty pissed.'
'By Eru, now you have to make a whole new ensemble…' 'Éomer said, roaring with laughter. That did it. Now, Legolas was really pissed.
'To Mordor with you!' He said as he stood up and walked to the exit of the mess.
'I guess Boromir isn't the only one who got up on the wrong side of the bed…' We started laughing again.
'I heard that!' Legolas shouted as he left the mess.
'Somebody had better go after him and apologize.' Estel said.
'Any volunteers?' I said, still laughing.
'I think you should go.' Boromir said.
'Why me?'
'Well you're his…' I kicked Boromir in the shin. 'Auw!'
'You got that coming.'
'What's this all about?' Faramir said.
'Nothing.' I said as I stood up. 'I'll talk with him.'
'See you in class!'
'See you there.' I left the room and walked over to Legolas' room. I knocked.
'Who is it?' Pippin said.
'Endomiel, can I come in?'
'Sure.' I opened the door. 'Who're you looking for?'
'Legolas.'
'He's I the bathroom, taking a shower. Something about cereal in his hair.' I started laughing again. 'What?' Pippin asked.
'Well, during breakfast, I accidentally dropped a spoon in his cereal…'
'How did you do that?'
'I wanted to have a bite, but the cereal made a sound and I dropped the spoon.'
'Oh, okay.'
'As I was saying, I dropped a spoon in his cereal, and the cereal went flying all over the place…' Pippin started laughing. 'And the guys and I, well, we started laughing at him, oh and Faramir, he got cereal all over himself too, just like you're doing.'
'And what's his problem? It's just a joke right?'
'Yeah, I think he just got up on the wrong side of his bed this morning, because he got pretty pissed and left the laughing bunch of us and went over here.'
'That brings us to the, why are you here part.'
'Exactly. Well, I came here to apologise, because it actually is my fault.'
'Well, as I said, he's in the shower, so he'll be out in a few seconds.'
'I'll wait here.'
'That's okay with me, but I'm going to have breakfast, so I'll see you in class.'
'Bye!'
'Bye!' Pippin left the room. Funny, this room is the complete opposite of our room. I knew that from last time I walked in, but still. Anyway, I started looking around in the room. I walked over to the window. They sure had a nice view, it's better then ours. I heard the door open behind me, and I turned around. There was Legolas, wearing only a towel. I could feel my mouth slightly open. I suddenly noticed that his body looked pretty good… a few seconds passed, then he turned around. Now, he saw me…
'AAH!' Legolas yelled. He jumped back into the bathroom. 'What the Mordor are you doing here?' He shouted.
'I was just making sure that you're okay.'
'I won't die because of a cereal-attack.'
'And I came to apologize for splashing the cereal all over you.'
'That's okay.' He stuck his head out of the bathroom and slowly stepped back out. I could see he was having trouble keeping the towel at its place. Poor guy. 'Could you, uh, hand me those clothes?' he said, pointing at the clothes, laid out on his bed.
'You mean these?'
'Yeah.'
'Here you go.' I said as I handed him the clothes.
'I kind of have my hands full, could you put them in the bathroom?' He said, desperately clasping the towel.
'Sure.' I put the clothes on the side table next to the sink.
'Thanks.' He said as he made his way back into the bathroom and closed the door.
'Did the cereal come out of your hair?' I asked him.
'Yeah, it did.'
'Oh.'
'Do you know what time it is?'
'I don't have a watch.'
'Oh.' A few minutes of silence… 'There's a clock next to Frodo's bed.'
'Oh.' I took a look on the clock. 'It's 8:07'
'Thanks.' Legolas stepped out of the bathroom. We looked at each other. My face flushed and I looked down. 'When I stepped out of the bathroom a few seconds ago, were you staring at me?' He asked.
'Uh…' My face flushed even more. 'Maybe a little bit…'
'Why?'
'I've never seen anything like you before.' By Eru, that didn't come out the way I wanted it to…
'How do you mean?' Legolas smirked.
'I grew up surrounded by hobbits and an occasional human, I've never seen an elf before, especially not one, uh…'
'As naked is I just was.'
'Exactly.'
'Why didn't you stare at me and the guys when we went swimming a few days ago?'
'Well, I didn't notice uh, it then.'
'Oh.' I noticed I was staring at him again. I quickly changed subject.
'Hey, I'm sorry 'bout the cereal, I didn't mean to laugh in you face…'
'Oh well, I guess it was pretty funny…'
'Yeah, it really was, I mean, there you and Faramir were, nasty look on you faces, dripping with cereal…' I started laughing again.
'Okay, the funny part's right about over now…' He said.
'I'm sorry…' I grinned.
'Apology accepted.' He said as he wrapped his arms around me and kissed me. We just stood there a few minutes, enjoying each other's company, not really doing anything. 'We'd better go to class some time soon, or we'll be late.'
'Okay.' We walked out of the room. The guys were walking to the exit, probably heading for class too.
'Hey Endomiel, Legolas.' Faramir said.
'Hi.' I said.
'You two sure took a long time making up, or should I say, making out?' He grinned. Annoying guy. Luckily for us, he doesn't know half how right he is… I punched him in the shoulder. 'Hey, stop that!' We walked down the stairs. Suddenly, that new girl, Elvea, fell down the stairs, landing on her leg. It looked pretty painful…
'Elvea, are you alright?' Éomer was the first to get to her, since he was walking right behind her.
'My leg… it really hurts…' She moaned.
'Can you walk?'
'I don't know, I'll try…' She tried to stand up, but fell over again. Éomer could just catch her before she hit the ground. Éomer scooped her. We grinned. We all knew what was happening, I mean, like that's not obvious! He's falling for her, and according to the look in her eyes, same for her. I thought something like that was happening when I saw them walking around on campus yesterday.
She looked at us. We grinned even wider. I could see the question in her eyes. "What?" she seemed to be asking. Oh man, like she didn't know!
'Hey, you guys, don't just stand there, get some help!' Éomer shouted at us.
'Time for action guys.' I said as I ran to the school nurse. Legolas and Estel were right behind me. We stormed into the nurses' office.
'Calm down kids, what's your problem?' She said.
'A girl, Elvea, she fell down the stair and now she can't walk anymore.'
'Where is she?'
'Éomer is bringing her here.'
'Okay. Now help me, I need some details on this girl. Name?'
'Something very long, I don't quite remember, her last name is Aure, we call her Elvea.'
'Class?'
'F:d.'
'Room?'
'G1.'
'Blood group?'
'I don't know, that's actually everything I know about her.' At that moment Éomer walked in with Elvea in his arms.
'Is this her?'
'Yeah.'
'Okay, thank you kids, you can go now, other wise you'll be late for class.'
'Okay, bye.'
'Bye kids.' We walked to our classroom.
'Do you think she'll be alright?' Faramir asked.
'Well, she's an Elf, so she'll probably survive the crash.'
'Okay.' We entered the classroom and walked to our seats. Legolas and I sat way in the back, just as always. Sitting next to Legolas wasn't as bad as it seemed after all. :) The first two hours, Westron and Geology, were actually pretty boring. I won't annoy you with those two classes, to long… Neeh, just kidding, I'll skip describing the classes and go straight to brunch.
The first break was pretty boring. We were all outside, eating our meals. I was eating some of the cereal Legolas was eating during breakfast. It was pretty good actually. It tastes like, uh cinnamon and the little chunks are like apple, except that it's not apple, Legolas told me, and the cinnamon tasting thing isn't cinnamon.
'What is it?' I asked him.
'You don't want to know.'
'Yeah, I do, what is it?'
'I don't know…'
'How do you mean, you don't know?'
'Well, I knew it, but whatever it was, it looked yucky, and I forgot…'
'Typical.'
After I'd finished my meal, we just sat there, doing nothing. We sure did a lot of that 'doing nothing' stuff today. I sat next to Legolas the rest of the lunch break, my head on his shoulder, and his arm around my shoulders. Got some strange looks from Faramir, didn't understand them then, I sure do now… I hope he didn't connect the dots…
Next two hours went by pretty fast too, Music/art and Archery that is. Music and Art was fun. We did a lot of singing in Quenya this lesson, last week we did some painting or stuff.
Finally, the second break arrived. (Funny, how can a break arrive?) We grabbed our food and sat outside. Éomer stayed inside with Elvea, we all know why…:) I ate another bowl of cereal. Legolas told me I'd better stop eating it, because you can get addicted to it. Yeah right. Told him to give me my cereal, or else… I'm not addicted to cereal! But he'd better not try and take my cereal from me.
I also braided Legolas' hair again. He's not that good in braiding, and he had to take the braids out his hair this morning in order to get the cereal out, and the braids he had made in his hair were, uh, different. You should have seen the look in Faramir's eyes when I sat down Indian style and Legolas practically laid his head in my lap. :) Was that jealousy? I don't hope so, because I'm having a nice time with Legolas, and I'm not giving him to Faramir. :) What I mean is, as long as I'm having fun with Legolas, and Legolas doesn't get all serious, we'll stay together, I think. If he starts getting serious, I'm afraid I'll have to break up with him. I've got this kind of bondage-fear, 'cause when you start getting serious together, you start depending on the other to be there for you, always. And if you start depending on somebody, you've got a weak link, and a weak link, well that could be fatal…
And I need my freedom. This probably sounds selfish, but I'm really attached to my freedom. In a serious relationship you always have to have time for each other, I want time for myself. I'm a loner, and I like it. I like being around people, but I like my time alone too.
Oh well, we're not I a serious relationship anyway. I think we'll stay together for a long time. If it's up to me, we will.
The next two classes were boring too. Fencing and History. Glorfindel and Gildor. Oh well, I'll survive. After these two boring classes, we went to the valley again. Boromir and Éomer stayed at campus, Boromir still had to do some stuff, and Éomer was probably going to hang around Elvea again, I dunno.
It was beautiful in the valley. Faramir and Estel went hiking in the woods, probably looking around in the ruins again. Legolas and just sat against the tree by the river, you know, the tree we were sitting at when Boromir found us a few days ago. Legolas kissed me.
'Don't do that.' I said.
'Why not?'
'Cause, everybody can see us.'
'No they can't, nobody comes here, and besides, Estel will see us long before Faramir does, and he'll keep Faramir away.'
'If you say so…' I kissed him again.
Nothing really happened, some kissing (Some kissing? Oh, you can count on more then just some…), some talking, no important stuff, some climbing, we climbed the tree and sat in it, just to be sure Faramir didn't see us. I'm a real watch-o-phobe, or whatever you want to call it, I can't stand people watching me. Oh man, I know how Legolas must have felt this morning when he got out of the shower… :) Staring is the worst kind of watching.
We returned just on time to eat dinner. We quickly worked dinner into our system, or stomach, whatever you want to call it, and walked over to the lawn in-between the mess & rooms building, and the school building. You know, the piece of grass we always sit on. Anyway, we went and sat over there again, just like we do a lot of times. We laid down and looked at the stars. Around a hour later, it was getting cold. The sun had gone under a little while ago, and I was starting to shiver too.
'Are you cold?' Legolas asked me. We were the only ones outside. Everybody had gone back in, either because they were cold or because they had some business to do.
'A little bit.' I whispered.
'Here, come lay with me.' He said. I moved over to him and laid my head on his chest.
'You're nice and warm.' I said. Guys have a fast digestion, and therefore they can generate more body heat with less food, or something like that, and that's why boys usually have a higher body temperature. Legolas wrapped his arms around me. I could stay like this forever… but it wasn't meant to be. A half an hour later, I started yawning.
'Are you tired?'
'Yeah…' * Yawn* 'I slept sitting against a door yesterday night.'
'Not a great way to sleep.'
'Not really. I don't really need sleep, but I'm used to sleeping every night, so this was pretty hard on…' *Yawn* 'Me.'
'I guess so. Here, I'll walk you to your room.'
'Sure.' I said as I stoop up. We walked over to my room.
'See you at breakfast girl.' Legolas said while he ruffled my hair. 'Try to get some sleep okay?'
'I'll try. Bye-bye!'
Well, that's all for today, I don't know if I'll be writing the next few days, 'cause schooldays are pretty boring, and it is said to be a busy week, but I'll see,
Namarië,
Endomiel.
E/N: Hi there! Did you like my chapter? Please R/R!!! And remember, mailing list is open to everybody who'd like me to mail them when my next chapter is released, it'll make life a lot easier (okay, maybe not a lot) 'cause you'll get an e-mail when my next chapter is up, and you won't have to check the updates-list every time you check at FF.net Anyway, enough of my yaddering, I still have the request for names and stuff pending, I need a lot of guys. Got quite a few girl-names, now for the guys… See you all in my next chapter!
Disclaimer: I don't own any LotR characters and my paperclip broke this morning, 'cause I tried to put to many sheets of paper in it… NOOOOO!! Not the paperclip! Anything but the paperclip!! Why? Why did you take the paperclip? It wasn't his time yet! I'm sure… :'( oh, and a lot of the characters in other classes aren't mine either, I borrowed them from other people. Okay, that's it for today.
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Chapter 10 (OMG-ess! I reached ten!): About nightly adventures, a shower incident and cereal
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Halimath 9th, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Hi there readers.
How're you doing? I'm uh, fine, I guess. Well… just read what happened today.
It was 12:49, I was awake, lying on my bed, waiting for the knock on my door. Come on, knock already! 12:51… How come time goes fast when you want it to go slow, and slow when you want it to go fast? I turned around again. Suddenly, Elvea sat up. She looked around in shock. Why was she awake? I hoped she was still kind of asleep. She laid back down, but her eyes were still open. A knock on the door. She sat up again. Damn, she really was awake… I got out of bed and changed to my clothes.
'Where are you going?' She whispered.
'None of you business.' Another knock. 'I'm coming guys.' I rushed out of my room and closed the door. I hoped Elvea wouldn't come after us.
'What took you so long?' Boromir whispered.
'Elvea's awake.'
'How do you mean awake?'
'She asked me were I was going.'
'What did you tell her?'
'That I was going to a ruin in the secret valley behind the school.'
'Your not supposed to tell her that! You ruined the whole secret part!'
'I'm not stupid, I told her it was none of her business.'
'Okay. C'mon, lets go.' We walked out of the building, down the stairs, and to the backside of the school building. We were about to go to the trail, when Legolas and I heard something.
'What is it?' I asked him.
'I don't know, could be some kind of nocturnal creature.'
'Could be.'
'I'll go have a look.' Éomer suggested.
'Be careful, it could be a teacher, or even scarier, a dwarf.' I said.
'I'll be sure to scream if it's a dwarf.' Éomer said as he walked off into the night. A few minutes later, he returned. 'I couldn't find anything.'
'Are you sure?' Estel asked him.
'Totally.'
'Let's go then.' We walked down the path, climbed down the cliff, walked across the plateau, jumped of the second cliff and ran over to the river. I walked to the other side holding the rope, Legolas right behind me. On the other side, I tied the second rope to the tree, some 1.5 meters above the first one.
'It's save.' I said. The guys started climbing across the river one by one.
'How long do you think it'll take the first one to reach this side?' Legolas asked me.
'Something around uhm, 3 or 4 minutes.'
'Plenty of time alone.' He said as he kissed me. We slowly move to the other side of the tree. That way, if one of them would reach this side without us noticing, he wouldn't be able to see us. Pretty cleaver huh? :) After some 3 minutes, Estel reached our side. He didn't even have to see us, to know what we were doing.
'Cut that out.' He said. 'Faramir is next to reach this shore, and he doesn't know yet.'
'He… won't see… us.' Legolas said in between kisses.
'Yes he will, because the tree isn't as big as you two think it is and I could see you two long before I reached this side.' Legolas stepped back and walked over to Estel. I sat against the tree. Damn this whole secrecy thing. A few minutes later, everybody was on the other side. We walked into the woods, to the hole Faramir had fallen in the day before yesterday. Estel tied a rope to a tree and threw the other side down the hole. Legolas climbed down first.
'What can you see down there?' Éomer asked him.
'Same as last time, some building like things, just come down and have a look yourself.' We climbed down too. Faramir turned his flashlight on.
'Let's split up.' I said.
'I'll go that way with Éomer.' Faramir said.
'I'll go that way with Boromir.' Estel said as he smiled at me.
'What?' I said.
'Nothing girl, nothing. Give a yell if you find anything.' They took off in the direction Estel pointed out.
'I guess I'm stuck with you.' I said to Legolas. 'Let's go that way.' We walked off in the opposite direction Estel and Boromir took off in.
'Then we'll go this way.' I could hear Faramir say behind me. They walked off too. Legolas and I walked into a small alley. It was a dead end. I leaned against the wall. Legolas kissed me. I guess that was too much for the old wall… It gave in. The wall collapsed behind me.
'AAAAHHHHH!!' I yelled as I fell backwards, pulling Legolas with me. I landed on the pile of rocks. That hurt… Legolas landed on me too. Faramir and Éomer came running around the corner.
'What happened?' Faramir said, a concerned look on his face. 'Oh, I see.' He laughed.
'This is so not funny.' I said as I tried to get up. My poor back… and arms… and legs… Just look at me! I was covered in sand and dust. My arms were covered with scratches and blood. My legs weren't that bad, my jeans had protected them from the rocks I landed on. My back was bleeding a little too, I fell on a pointy rock. Legolas helped me up. He was doing pretty good, since he fell on top of me and didn't hit the rocks. I took a look around the room I was in. It was pretty big actually.
'What were you doing?'
'Legolas was looking around, he thought he had seen something, and I was just standing there, leaning against that wall, when suddenly it collapsed.'
'Just like that?'
'Yeah, just like that.'
'And how did Legolas end up on top of you?'
'Uhm, when I fell, I grabbed his arm and tried not to fall over, but he lost his balance too, and landed right on top of me.'
'Sure he did.' Estel said. He and Boromir had arrived too.
'Yeah, he did. You don't have to believe me, but it is the truth.' I walked around to the other side of the room. What was that? It looked like some shiny piece of metal. 'He guys, have a look at this!' Legolas reached it first. 'What do you thing it is?'
'It could be some kind of jewellery.' He said. Look, this room covered with shiny things.' We looked around.
'Hey, it is.' I said. Most of the stuff was covered with dust and spider webs, and didn't really shine, but that one thing I saw, was shining like it was brand-new. I walked through the room, but didn't touch anything. I didn't want the roof to collapse on me too…
'What time do we have to be back?' Boromir asked.
'Around 2:30.' Estel answered.
'Then we'd better be heading back, it's 2:13.'
'Okay guys, time to leave again. We can come back this afternoon.' We all walked out of the room, except Legolas.
'C'mon Legolas!' I shouted. 'We're leaving.'
'I'll be there in a sec.' He said.
We walked over to the hole and climbed out. Legolas followed about a minute later.
'What were you doing back in there?' I asked him.
'Nothing.'
'Didn't find anything?'
'Nope.'
'Are you sure? Didn't unlock any mysteries?'
'Not that I know.'
'Okay…' We crossed the river and climbed out of the valley. The guys ran over to the building, Legolas and I walked behind them.
'Are you okay?' He asked me.
'I'm fine.'
'Sure you didn't break anything?'
'Totally sure.'
'I'm sorry for landing on top of you…'
'I didn't feel a thing.' We laughed.
'You look pretty scratched up, how are you going to explain that tomorrow?'
'I don't know yet, but I'll think of something.'
'Okay.' We walked to my room, not saying anything, just enjoying each other's company. 'See you tomorrow.' Legolas said as he kissed me goodnight.
'Goodnight.' I whispered. I walked into my room and closed the door behind me. I leaned against the door, slowly slid down it, eventually sat down against it. I sat there for about an hour, thinking about nothing. I fell asleep, and that's how they found me the next morning. My wounds were mainly healed, I heal very fast because of my powers, but I still had some scar-like things on my arms.
'Good morning.' Arwen said. I looked up.
'O, hi.' I said as I stoop up and walked over to my bed. I collapsed on my bed.
'Had a wild night, didn't you?'
'Yeah, you could say that.'
'I thought so.' She smiled.
'Not that way! I decided to have a walk last night, and I ran into uh, Elrond, he was patrolling campus or something. I had a hard time getting back here.' I hoped she'd believe that…
'Oh.'
'What time is it?'
'7:30, time for breakfast, are you coming?'
'I'll be there in a sec, gotta change my clothes first…' I put on an other pair of baggy jeans and a sky blue T-shirt with a white cloud on it, and an arrow pointing to it with 'Cloud' writing beneath it in a childish handwriting. I packed my bag, threw it on my bed and walked over to the mess. The guys were all there, talking to each other, looking like, really bad. Except Legolas and I of course, we Elves don't need sleep.
'Hey guys, how're you doing this wonderful morning?' I cheerily said.
'Fine.' Boromir mumbled.
'Hm? Did you say something?'
'We're fine.'
'Looks like you guys haven't had enough sleep.'
'Now don't go telling us all about elves and how they don't need sleep and go on with whatever they're doing all night and stuff, I'm not in the mood to hear anything now.'
'What happened to him?' I asked Legolas.
'He got up on the wrong side of the bed, I guess.'
'Did not!' Boromir said.
'Sure you didn't.' Legolas continued eating whatever it was that he was eating.
'What are you eating?' I asked him.
'Cereal.'
'It doesn't look like cereal as I know it.'
'That's because it's Elfish cereal.'
'If you say so…' I stared at his cereal. I'd never seen anything like it in my whole life! It looked like some kind of green/grey/brownish something. It was watery, but with little hard thingies drifting in it.
'You want some?'
'I dunno, is it safe?' Faramir and Éomer chuckled. Boromir made some kind of "I'm still angry at you, but I'm laughing at your joke too" kind of smile. A quite funny site to see. :)
Legolas pushed his bole over to me. I grabbed a spoon and stuck the tip in the cereal.
"SSSMMMUUUSSSHHH" The cereal did.
'Iwww!' I shouted as I dropped the rest of the spoon in the cereal. The cereal went all over the place. Legolas and Faramir got covered in cereal.
'Thank you very much, that's just what I needed, to get covered with cereal.' Legolas said, sarcasm and cereal dripping all over the place. Éomer, Boromir and I were practically rolling on the floor, laughing. 'It's not funny you know, now I have to change clothes all over again.' Legolas looked pretty pissed.'
'By Eru, now you have to make a whole new ensemble…' 'Éomer said, roaring with laughter. That did it. Now, Legolas was really pissed.
'To Mordor with you!' He said as he stood up and walked to the exit of the mess.
'I guess Boromir isn't the only one who got up on the wrong side of the bed…' We started laughing again.
'I heard that!' Legolas shouted as he left the mess.
'Somebody had better go after him and apologize.' Estel said.
'Any volunteers?' I said, still laughing.
'I think you should go.' Boromir said.
'Why me?'
'Well you're his…' I kicked Boromir in the shin. 'Auw!'
'You got that coming.'
'What's this all about?' Faramir said.
'Nothing.' I said as I stood up. 'I'll talk with him.'
'See you in class!'
'See you there.' I left the room and walked over to Legolas' room. I knocked.
'Who is it?' Pippin said.
'Endomiel, can I come in?'
'Sure.' I opened the door. 'Who're you looking for?'
'Legolas.'
'He's I the bathroom, taking a shower. Something about cereal in his hair.' I started laughing again. 'What?' Pippin asked.
'Well, during breakfast, I accidentally dropped a spoon in his cereal…'
'How did you do that?'
'I wanted to have a bite, but the cereal made a sound and I dropped the spoon.'
'Oh, okay.'
'As I was saying, I dropped a spoon in his cereal, and the cereal went flying all over the place…' Pippin started laughing. 'And the guys and I, well, we started laughing at him, oh and Faramir, he got cereal all over himself too, just like you're doing.'
'And what's his problem? It's just a joke right?'
'Yeah, I think he just got up on the wrong side of his bed this morning, because he got pretty pissed and left the laughing bunch of us and went over here.'
'That brings us to the, why are you here part.'
'Exactly. Well, I came here to apologise, because it actually is my fault.'
'Well, as I said, he's in the shower, so he'll be out in a few seconds.'
'I'll wait here.'
'That's okay with me, but I'm going to have breakfast, so I'll see you in class.'
'Bye!'
'Bye!' Pippin left the room. Funny, this room is the complete opposite of our room. I knew that from last time I walked in, but still. Anyway, I started looking around in the room. I walked over to the window. They sure had a nice view, it's better then ours. I heard the door open behind me, and I turned around. There was Legolas, wearing only a towel. I could feel my mouth slightly open. I suddenly noticed that his body looked pretty good… a few seconds passed, then he turned around. Now, he saw me…
'AAH!' Legolas yelled. He jumped back into the bathroom. 'What the Mordor are you doing here?' He shouted.
'I was just making sure that you're okay.'
'I won't die because of a cereal-attack.'
'And I came to apologize for splashing the cereal all over you.'
'That's okay.' He stuck his head out of the bathroom and slowly stepped back out. I could see he was having trouble keeping the towel at its place. Poor guy. 'Could you, uh, hand me those clothes?' he said, pointing at the clothes, laid out on his bed.
'You mean these?'
'Yeah.'
'Here you go.' I said as I handed him the clothes.
'I kind of have my hands full, could you put them in the bathroom?' He said, desperately clasping the towel.
'Sure.' I put the clothes on the side table next to the sink.
'Thanks.' He said as he made his way back into the bathroom and closed the door.
'Did the cereal come out of your hair?' I asked him.
'Yeah, it did.'
'Oh.'
'Do you know what time it is?'
'I don't have a watch.'
'Oh.' A few minutes of silence… 'There's a clock next to Frodo's bed.'
'Oh.' I took a look on the clock. 'It's 8:07'
'Thanks.' Legolas stepped out of the bathroom. We looked at each other. My face flushed and I looked down. 'When I stepped out of the bathroom a few seconds ago, were you staring at me?' He asked.
'Uh…' My face flushed even more. 'Maybe a little bit…'
'Why?'
'I've never seen anything like you before.' By Eru, that didn't come out the way I wanted it to…
'How do you mean?' Legolas smirked.
'I grew up surrounded by hobbits and an occasional human, I've never seen an elf before, especially not one, uh…'
'As naked is I just was.'
'Exactly.'
'Why didn't you stare at me and the guys when we went swimming a few days ago?'
'Well, I didn't notice uh, it then.'
'Oh.' I noticed I was staring at him again. I quickly changed subject.
'Hey, I'm sorry 'bout the cereal, I didn't mean to laugh in you face…'
'Oh well, I guess it was pretty funny…'
'Yeah, it really was, I mean, there you and Faramir were, nasty look on you faces, dripping with cereal…' I started laughing again.
'Okay, the funny part's right about over now…' He said.
'I'm sorry…' I grinned.
'Apology accepted.' He said as he wrapped his arms around me and kissed me. We just stood there a few minutes, enjoying each other's company, not really doing anything. 'We'd better go to class some time soon, or we'll be late.'
'Okay.' We walked out of the room. The guys were walking to the exit, probably heading for class too.
'Hey Endomiel, Legolas.' Faramir said.
'Hi.' I said.
'You two sure took a long time making up, or should I say, making out?' He grinned. Annoying guy. Luckily for us, he doesn't know half how right he is… I punched him in the shoulder. 'Hey, stop that!' We walked down the stairs. Suddenly, that new girl, Elvea, fell down the stairs, landing on her leg. It looked pretty painful…
'Elvea, are you alright?' Éomer was the first to get to her, since he was walking right behind her.
'My leg… it really hurts…' She moaned.
'Can you walk?'
'I don't know, I'll try…' She tried to stand up, but fell over again. Éomer could just catch her before she hit the ground. Éomer scooped her. We grinned. We all knew what was happening, I mean, like that's not obvious! He's falling for her, and according to the look in her eyes, same for her. I thought something like that was happening when I saw them walking around on campus yesterday.
She looked at us. We grinned even wider. I could see the question in her eyes. "What?" she seemed to be asking. Oh man, like she didn't know!
'Hey, you guys, don't just stand there, get some help!' Éomer shouted at us.
'Time for action guys.' I said as I ran to the school nurse. Legolas and Estel were right behind me. We stormed into the nurses' office.
'Calm down kids, what's your problem?' She said.
'A girl, Elvea, she fell down the stair and now she can't walk anymore.'
'Where is she?'
'Éomer is bringing her here.'
'Okay. Now help me, I need some details on this girl. Name?'
'Something very long, I don't quite remember, her last name is Aure, we call her Elvea.'
'Class?'
'F:d.'
'Room?'
'G1.'
'Blood group?'
'I don't know, that's actually everything I know about her.' At that moment Éomer walked in with Elvea in his arms.
'Is this her?'
'Yeah.'
'Okay, thank you kids, you can go now, other wise you'll be late for class.'
'Okay, bye.'
'Bye kids.' We walked to our classroom.
'Do you think she'll be alright?' Faramir asked.
'Well, she's an Elf, so she'll probably survive the crash.'
'Okay.' We entered the classroom and walked to our seats. Legolas and I sat way in the back, just as always. Sitting next to Legolas wasn't as bad as it seemed after all. :) The first two hours, Westron and Geology, were actually pretty boring. I won't annoy you with those two classes, to long… Neeh, just kidding, I'll skip describing the classes and go straight to brunch.
The first break was pretty boring. We were all outside, eating our meals. I was eating some of the cereal Legolas was eating during breakfast. It was pretty good actually. It tastes like, uh cinnamon and the little chunks are like apple, except that it's not apple, Legolas told me, and the cinnamon tasting thing isn't cinnamon.
'What is it?' I asked him.
'You don't want to know.'
'Yeah, I do, what is it?'
'I don't know…'
'How do you mean, you don't know?'
'Well, I knew it, but whatever it was, it looked yucky, and I forgot…'
'Typical.'
After I'd finished my meal, we just sat there, doing nothing. We sure did a lot of that 'doing nothing' stuff today. I sat next to Legolas the rest of the lunch break, my head on his shoulder, and his arm around my shoulders. Got some strange looks from Faramir, didn't understand them then, I sure do now… I hope he didn't connect the dots…
Next two hours went by pretty fast too, Music/art and Archery that is. Music and Art was fun. We did a lot of singing in Quenya this lesson, last week we did some painting or stuff.
Finally, the second break arrived. (Funny, how can a break arrive?) We grabbed our food and sat outside. Éomer stayed inside with Elvea, we all know why…:) I ate another bowl of cereal. Legolas told me I'd better stop eating it, because you can get addicted to it. Yeah right. Told him to give me my cereal, or else… I'm not addicted to cereal! But he'd better not try and take my cereal from me.
I also braided Legolas' hair again. He's not that good in braiding, and he had to take the braids out his hair this morning in order to get the cereal out, and the braids he had made in his hair were, uh, different. You should have seen the look in Faramir's eyes when I sat down Indian style and Legolas practically laid his head in my lap. :) Was that jealousy? I don't hope so, because I'm having a nice time with Legolas, and I'm not giving him to Faramir. :) What I mean is, as long as I'm having fun with Legolas, and Legolas doesn't get all serious, we'll stay together, I think. If he starts getting serious, I'm afraid I'll have to break up with him. I've got this kind of bondage-fear, 'cause when you start getting serious together, you start depending on the other to be there for you, always. And if you start depending on somebody, you've got a weak link, and a weak link, well that could be fatal…
And I need my freedom. This probably sounds selfish, but I'm really attached to my freedom. In a serious relationship you always have to have time for each other, I want time for myself. I'm a loner, and I like it. I like being around people, but I like my time alone too.
Oh well, we're not I a serious relationship anyway. I think we'll stay together for a long time. If it's up to me, we will.
The next two classes were boring too. Fencing and History. Glorfindel and Gildor. Oh well, I'll survive. After these two boring classes, we went to the valley again. Boromir and Éomer stayed at campus, Boromir still had to do some stuff, and Éomer was probably going to hang around Elvea again, I dunno.
It was beautiful in the valley. Faramir and Estel went hiking in the woods, probably looking around in the ruins again. Legolas and just sat against the tree by the river, you know, the tree we were sitting at when Boromir found us a few days ago. Legolas kissed me.
'Don't do that.' I said.
'Why not?'
'Cause, everybody can see us.'
'No they can't, nobody comes here, and besides, Estel will see us long before Faramir does, and he'll keep Faramir away.'
'If you say so…' I kissed him again.
Nothing really happened, some kissing (Some kissing? Oh, you can count on more then just some…), some talking, no important stuff, some climbing, we climbed the tree and sat in it, just to be sure Faramir didn't see us. I'm a real watch-o-phobe, or whatever you want to call it, I can't stand people watching me. Oh man, I know how Legolas must have felt this morning when he got out of the shower… :) Staring is the worst kind of watching.
We returned just on time to eat dinner. We quickly worked dinner into our system, or stomach, whatever you want to call it, and walked over to the lawn in-between the mess & rooms building, and the school building. You know, the piece of grass we always sit on. Anyway, we went and sat over there again, just like we do a lot of times. We laid down and looked at the stars. Around a hour later, it was getting cold. The sun had gone under a little while ago, and I was starting to shiver too.
'Are you cold?' Legolas asked me. We were the only ones outside. Everybody had gone back in, either because they were cold or because they had some business to do.
'A little bit.' I whispered.
'Here, come lay with me.' He said. I moved over to him and laid my head on his chest.
'You're nice and warm.' I said. Guys have a fast digestion, and therefore they can generate more body heat with less food, or something like that, and that's why boys usually have a higher body temperature. Legolas wrapped his arms around me. I could stay like this forever… but it wasn't meant to be. A half an hour later, I started yawning.
'Are you tired?'
'Yeah…' * Yawn* 'I slept sitting against a door yesterday night.'
'Not a great way to sleep.'
'Not really. I don't really need sleep, but I'm used to sleeping every night, so this was pretty hard on…' *Yawn* 'Me.'
'I guess so. Here, I'll walk you to your room.'
'Sure.' I said as I stoop up. We walked over to my room.
'See you at breakfast girl.' Legolas said while he ruffled my hair. 'Try to get some sleep okay?'
'I'll try. Bye-bye!'
Well, that's all for today, I don't know if I'll be writing the next few days, 'cause schooldays are pretty boring, and it is said to be a busy week, but I'll see,
Namarië,
Endomiel.
E/N: Hi there! Did you like my chapter? Please R/R!!! And remember, mailing list is open to everybody who'd like me to mail them when my next chapter is released, it'll make life a lot easier (okay, maybe not a lot) 'cause you'll get an e-mail when my next chapter is up, and you won't have to check the updates-list every time you check at FF.net Anyway, enough of my yaddering, I still have the request for names and stuff pending, I need a lot of guys. Got quite a few girl-names, now for the guys… See you all in my next chapter!