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Chapter 13: Spin the *hick* bottle…
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The 14th of Halimath, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Hi again.
Today was the first day of camp. Oh yay… I'm truly thrilled… anyway, just look how *great* my day was…
7 A.M. I woke up. Wanted to sleep because I had a tough night. Heck, I wanted to sleep forever, a nice dreamless sleep… But it was time to go, I had to wake up, camp was starting in like, uhm, I don't know how late, and I didn't want to know. There they went, my last few minutes of the week without Legolas. Annoying son of a… uhm, king I guess. ARG! Why couldn't I just yell at that guy? Why couldn't I just say I hated him, and really mean it?
I got up and got dressed. As far as I'm concerned, everybody could know that I was pissed, really pissed. I put my dark blue skate jeans on and a black T-shirt with a big thundercloud on it, and a bolt of lightning. You know what I need? I shirt saying "Seriously Pissed" in gigantic letters.
Anyway, I got up and walked to the mess. I sat with Vebor, he got me some food. Ooh, cereal! I poked the cereal, it made a *SCWOOOSHHH* sound. It reminded me of that day, when we had a lot of fun. I didn't really feel like eating cereal anymore. Oh well, I needed to get off cereal anyway.
I poked the cereal some more.
'Aren't you going to eat it?' Vebor asked.
'I don't feel really hungry…'
'You have to eat something? You hardly ate anything yesterday! Come on, just a few bites!' I took a bite. 'Good girl!' he put his arm around my shoulders. Hmhm, this stuff was actually pretty good… I took another bite, and another… before I knew it, it was all gone. 'Wow, you sure were hungry.'
'I guess so!' I laughed. That felt good, food in my stomach and a smile on my face. That's when I saw the guys on the other table. Something was going on, they were talking, laughing and it seemed like a lot of fun. The smile disappeared again. I missed hanging around with the guys. Legolas sure was close to Elvea… 'I'm sorry Vebor, I got to go…' I said as I ran to my room, into the bathroom. I puked everything out again. Not good, not good at all… I really needed to eat something… A knock on the door. 'Who is it?'
'It's me, Arwen, are you okay?'
'Yeah, I'm okay…' She walked into the bathroom.
'What happened?'
'I uh, didn't really feel good, I guess.'
'Are you sure that's all?'
'Yeah why?'
'Well, you're tired, mood swings, puking, you look like you don't really feel good…'
'Arwen, nothing happened, really.'
'So it's not as drastic as I think it is?'
'Nope, I just couldn't bare the sight of Legolas and Elvea, together like that.'
'You'll be okay, right? I mean, you do have to spend 4 days with them in a small camp…'
'I'll survive, I can always run off to the forest, or get some food or something, to keep them off my mind.'
'I'm there if you need, me, okay?'
'I'll keep that in mind.'
'And try to keep your food in your stomach for a wile next time.'
'Yes mother.'
'Hey! Don't call me that! I'm not that bad, am I?' We started laughing. 'It's time to go.'
'What time is it?'
'8 o'clock.' Arwen lead the way to the stables. I walked over to Loome.
'Suilad sermo amin. Sut naa lle? (1)' I pet him on the nose. Loome snorted. I guess that's his way of saying, hey you've been neglecting me! 'Isto-nyë Loome. Isto-nyë. (2)'
The horse in the box next to Loome was still there. Whose horse was it anyway? I pet it's nose.
'Hey.' I spun around as fast as I could. It was Faramir.
'Hey.' I said.
'How're you doing?'
'I'm okay.'
'I saw you running away from breakfast this morning, what happened.'
'I remembered something I still had to do, and I really had to do that quick.'
'Do what?' Faramir asked as he saddled his horse.
'None of your business.'
'Oh. I understand.'
'You understand what? There's nothing to understand.'
'Of course there isn't.' He padded me on my shoulder. I didn't get it. What was there to understand?
I climbed onto Loome, and rode off to the meeting place. There they were, holding hands. Did they really have to do that? I hoped he'd fall off his horse or something, but we all made it to the camping place in one piece. :o(
'Three girls, three tents, I say one girl per tent.' Vebor said.
'I've got I better idea.' I said, a grin on my face. 'What if Vebor and me take that tent, and you guys figure something out for the other tents?' Hah! That hurt him! I could see it in his eyes.
'It's good with me.' Legolas finally managed. 'As long as I get to sleep in the same tent as Elvea.' Like that was gonna happen.
'Let's keep guys and girls separated, okay?' Estel said in an effort to keep the peace.
Legolas, Estel and Boromir took the first tent, Faramir, Éomer and Vebor the second, and Arwen, Elvea and I took the third. I dumped my stuff on the left side of the tent, Arwen took the middle and Elvea the right side. I glared at her. Stuck up 'I'm all high and mighty, look at me, I'm so great' elven princess.
'Is something wrong?' She asked us.
'Like you don't know.' Arwen spat. Elvea did her 'I don't know, I'm an innocent high elf' look. She's really beginning to annoy me now… Elvea left the tent.
'There you are! I've been looking for you!' I heard Legolas say. I stepped out of the tent and glared at Legolas. Our eyes made contact for a split second, but long enough for him to see how mad I was, and for me to see the death-glare he sent me. It really scared me… He didn't really… did he? He swiftly kissed her on the lips. It felt like someone just stabbed a dagger in my chest… maybe he did…
'Hey, what do you guys want to do now we're here?' Estel said.
'Let's go swimming!' Faramir said. 'There's a little river nearby.'
'Oh no, now way.' Legolas protested. 'I'm not letting her in that tent again! I can't live that long without her!' Oh, come on, he's clearly overreacting! He's not even in love with her! I can see it in his eyes, there's no trace of love in them! Only anger, hate, disappointment…
'Then what do you suggest we'd do?' Vebor asked the group.
'I don't know about you guys, but I think I'm going for a stroll through the woods with Elvea.' Legolas said as he kissed her again. I turned around, didn't want to look at it.
'Hey Legolas, what about the secrecy thing?' I asked, my voice as cold as possible. And that's really cold. I looked over my shoulder.
'Why do you think I'm taking her for a walk?' Legolas spat, his voice as cold as his eyes, while he looked straight in mine. The anger was worse, disappointment almost gone, hate was still there, and was that a trace of desperateness I saw? He turned around and walked to the forest with Elvea. He should know by now, the jealousy-thing wasn't working on me. I mean, it couldn't be real, right?
'So, what do you want to do?' Vebor asked me.
'I don't know, maybe you could start a fire.'
'But it's not even dark!'
'You'd better start before it gets to dark to see anything.'
'It's 9:30 in the morning!'
'So?' I had to keep him busy. I put a spell on the fire, so that every time it started to burn, it would choke and go out again. He won't be able to start a fire for a long time… :o) Hey, I *am* the goddess of evil!
I grabbed my bow and arrow and walked over to the river. Might as well get some food for the group, because Estel, Arwen and Boromir are exploring the surroundings, Vebor and Faramir are *trying* to make a fire, I couldn't count on Legolas and Elvea, and Éomer, well, I don't even know where Éomer is actually.
I reached the river and climbed on a rock. Oh, so that's where Éomer is! He was sitting at the bottom of the rock, crying. I wanted to talk to him, but I was afraid I'd only make things worse. I spotted a group of fish in the distance, so I tied a rope to my arrow, aimed and shot. Hit! Of course. We Elves never miss. Éomer looked up to where I was standing.
'Hey…' he said.
'Hey.' I said as I pulled the rope with the fish in. I took the arrow out of the fish, tied the fish to another piece of rope, tied the other and to a rock and threw the rock in the river. Not too far, of course, I still had to be able to get it out.
'What did you do that for?' Éomer asked me.
'If I keep the dead fish in the water, it'll stay fresh. My dad thought me that.'
'Oh.' I shot another fish and drew it in. I took the rock out of the water, tied the other fish to the same rope, and threw the rope back in.
'How're you doing?' I asked Éomer.
'Fine…' He started crying again. I know, stupid question.
'Hey, things will get better, really.' I said as I slid down the rock and sat next to him.
'They will?' He looked at me with his bright blue eyes.
'They always do.'
'If you say so.'
I continued like he never said anything. 'It's just that I can't see the sun shining behind the clouds these days.'
'What's your problem?'
'I think the same as yours…' I sighed.
'You think?'
'Yep.'
'Love sick too?'
'I'm dieing…'
'Me too.' We just sat there a few minutes, and then Éomer started talking.
'It's all my own fault…' He said.
'How do you mean?'
'I ended it myself.'
'Oh. What happened?'
'I saw her kiss Legolas in the afternoon…' Éomer said. I clenched my fists. Wait a sec, afternoon? So they kissed even more that day? Éomer continued. 'That evening, we were sitting on the lawn, and we kissed, and I felt she was wearing a necklace, and it was a little heart, and I asked her, where did you get it? And she told me she got it from a guy in the country she comes from, and I asked her if she loved him, and she said she didn't even know him, but I panicked, and I told her this wasn't a good idea, and I ran… But now… I really regret it… I want her back you know?!?'
'Man, sad story…'
'What happened to you? You and Legolas seemed so happy together! I mean, the first days, he hardly said anything, and he didn't really seem happy, but after a few days, he started talking, and I noticed a change in him. He was happier, and looked less exhausted and stuff like that. I guess that's about the time you two got together, am I right?'
'Yeah, it started a little more than a week ago, that's when we started getting closer to each other…'
'I figured something like that. But how come you two broke up?'
'Well, remember last Sunday?'
'Yeah, that's when we found Legolas, crying on the grass in the valley.'
'He was crying?'
'Yeah.'
'I never knew that…'
'Well, he was. And if it wasn't for Boromir, he'd never have gone up to talk to you, and things would've never gotten better.'
'Well, it's the coming upstairs that made me break up with him…'
'Oh…'
'You could actually say that's what did it… That's when he pushed me over the line I had drawn, and I pushed him. I pushed him, and he gave in. That's what scared me the most, he actually gave in, like he didn't care any more…' A tear rolled down my cheek. Éomer wiped the tear of.
'Hey, don't cry, everything's going to be alright, like you said, the sun is always shining behind the clouds.'
'I just can't see it these days, Éomer, I just can't see it.'
'That's because it's behind the clouds, you can't see what's behind the clouds.'
'You think?'
'Of course.' He wrapped his arms around my shoulders. 'Everything's going to be alright.' He said. 'Someday…'
We sat there a while, his arms around my shoulders, and my arm around his wait. My head on his shoulder, just sitting there, as friends. Maybe even good friends.
'You never told me why you broke up?' He said after a while. 'What did he say to you, that day in the valley?'
'He… he said… he said that he loved me.' I whispered. 'But he didn't.'
'How do you mean, he didn't?'
'He didn't love me.'
'And how could you know? Have you read his mind?'
'N…No… but…'
'Then what happened? Why couldn't he tell you he loved you?'
'I didn't… I couldn't… it was just to much for me to handle…'
'So you yelled at him and told him to find someone else?'
'No! Well, yeah, but I didn't think he'd really do it.'
'If there's one thing I learned this past week, it is to never call a bluff on Legolas, for he will test you, and he will call your bluff.'
'I found that out the hard way…'
'I guess you did.' More tears rolled down my face. 'You're not the only one that's having a hard time coping, talk to him, tell him how you feel, he'll be really happy if you'd only take him back.'
'It's not that easy Éomer.'
'Why not?'
'Because… Because I'm afraid for him...'
'You know he'll never do anything to hurt you!'
'That's not what I'm afraid for, I'm afraid I'll depend on him, and something will happen to me, or even worse, that he'll depend on me, and when I'm not looking, something will happen to him…' I sighed. 'I'll never be able to forgive myself…'
'If that's all, you shouldn't worry! He'll be able to survive on his own, he's 1600…'
'1632.'
'1632. Anyway, he'll be fine, really, and he'll be even better if you'd just talk to him, tell him what you just told me.'
'I don't think I'll be able to just sit there, and tell him.'
'Why not?'
'We never just sat…' A smile appeared on my face.
'Okay… I really didn't have to know that…' Éomer did a 'IIIWW!" face.
'What?' I laughed.
'I think it's time to go back now, or they'll get suspicious.'
'So? Let them be suspicious! It may even help us.'
'That's not the way to get him back Endomiel.' Éomer said.
'I know, it's not working anyway…'
'How do you mean?'
'We're both trying it, Vebor and I, Elvea and Legolas.'
'How do you know?'
'I saw it in his eyes today, there's no love, only hate, anger, and … and disappointment.'
'Oh.'
'Hey, you can go back if you want, I'm going to catch some more food.'
'Good idea. I'll see you'round.'
'Yeah.' Éomer headed in the direction of camp. I could hear him talking to someone in the distance.
'Yeah, she's somewhere on the rocks over there catching food or something.' I heard Éomer say.
'Okay. I'll see if I can give her a scare.' Now what was he up to? I could feel, and clearly hear, someone sneaking up behind me. I pretended to aim an arrow at something in the water. When I heard the footsteps right behind me, I turned around. Boromir got the arrow right in his face…
'AHHH!!' He jumped backwards. He laid there, breathing heavily, at the bottom of the rock. 'What did you do that for?' He said.
'What did you sneak up to me for?'
'How did you know I was here?'
'A human breathes so loud I could shoot one in the dark.' I said, my voice as cold as possible, arrow still pointing at his chest.
'You scared me there…' He softly said, looking at the tip of my arrow. I slid down the rock. 'Can you put the arrow away?'
'I could, but I don't really feel like it.' I said, my arrow hovering pretty close in front of his face. I did a step backwards. Boromir stood up.
'Come on, put the arrow away…'
'No.'
'Why not?'
'I don't feel like it.' Boromir looked at me like I was some murderous Elven warrior.
'Are you going to shoot me?'
'Maybe.' He got up and backed away. I tightened my grip and pulled the string farther backwards. He looked pretty scared. I shot, making the arrow miss his head by an inch, hitting the tree behind him, the rope rushing past his face. I bursted in laughter. 'Got you scared there didn't I?' I said.
'What?'
'Do you think I was really going to shoot you? I heard you talk to Éomer "I'll see if I can give her a scare". Well, you had it coming to ya.' I laughed.
'Not funny! I was really scared you know!' Boromir shouted, but he also started laughing. 'Never ever scare me like that okay?'
'Only if you're asking for it.' I climbed back up the rock and scanned the river for fish.
'What're you doing?' Boromir asked me.
'Fishing.'
'Aren't you supposed to do that with a fishing pole?'
'This is faster.' I shot a fish and drew it in. Tied it to the rope with the other fish.
'Can I try?'
'Sure.' I handed him the bow. 'You do know how to shoot? Right?'
'Of course!' He aimed at the fish, and shot. 'Damn, missed.'
'You have to keep in mind that the fish isn't exactly where you see it.'
'How do you mean?'
'The fish is under water, and therefore, you can not see it's exact location when you're looking at it from above.'
'Oh. Then where is it?'
'It's always a little to the left, and a little further away.'
'Okay.' He aimed again, shot and missed.
'Remember to always aim in front of the fish, because it's swimming, and the current will drag your arrow so you'll never hit the exact spot you aim at.' He aimed again, shot, and missed.
'You do it.' He said as he stuffed the Bow in my hands. I drew the arrow back in, aimed at a group of fish, closed one eye and shot. Hit. 'How'd you do that?'
'Same way as you did, except that I hit.' He looked pretty frustrated. Humans…
I drew the fish back in, grabbed the other three and walked to a shallow spot in the river. I tied the fish to a rock and hung them in the river. They'll stay fresh until this evening. Boromir borrowed my bow and arrow and insisted on staying until he had shot at least one fish. Does he ever learn?
I walked back to camp and sat down on a log near the 'fire'.
'How's the fire coming along?' I asked Vebor, who sat next to me.
'Not too great… I guess you're right, making a fire is harder than it seems.' I smiled. I think I'll allow the fire to burn… When it starts to get dark. :o)
'No sparks yet?'
'Well, we got it burning once, but it stopped burning, just like that.'
'Strange. Hey guys, are we going to eat lunch, or are we skipping that?' I asked the rest of the guys and Arwen. Boromir had returned empty handed, and had hung my bow in a tree next to my tent. Estel and Arwen had returned from their exploring stroll through the forest a little while ago, and Faramir was still here trying to make a fire. Poor guy.
'I'd like lunch.' Faramir said.
'Yeah, me too.' Estel replied. 'What have you got for us?'
'Well, fish, and I'll go find some herbs in the forest, and some berries and stuff, maybe I'll find some wild carrots or potatoes or something like that.' I said.
'That's cool with me.'
'Anyone want to help me find some herbs and stuff?'
'Aren't we going to wait for Legolas and Elvea?' Faramir asked.
'No, it's their own fault if they miss lunch.' I said. Well, it is!
'I'll help.' Boromir said.
'You can shoot them if you want Boromir, these will be easier to hit.' I said.
'Very funny. I'm laughing my lungs out, really.' Boromir said.
'What was that all about?' Faramir asked.
'Nothing.' Boromir grunted.
'Your brother has a problem shooting fish.'
'Why? He doesn't want to hurt them?'
'No, he can't hit them.' Faramir started laughing.
'Shut up twerp!' Boromir shouted.
'You can't even shoot a fish?' Faramir laughed. He was practically rolling on the ground. Boromir grabbed my bow and threw it to Faramir.
'Hey! Be careful with my bow, will you!'
'You try, little one! Don't even dare to come back without fish.'
'I'll show you how it's done.' Faramir stood up and walked to the river.
'He's going to be gone for a long time.' Boromir smiled.
'Maybe.' I said.
'What are you trying to say? That he's a better bowman then I am?'
'Come on, let's go find the herbs and stuff.'
'This is not the last you've heard about this young lady.' Young lady? YOUNG lady? He doesn't even know half how old I am! I'm older than the eldest Elf, older than the foundations of the earth! (E/N: whose quote was that again? Galadriel's?) He has no idea how old I am…
We walked to the forest.
'If you go to the left, I'll go to the right.' I said.
'Okay.'
'You know what you're looking for, right?'
'Not really…'
'Herbs, like oregano, parsley, time, basil, rosemary, you know?'
'Yeah, anything else?'
'Wild potatoes, carrots, anything eatable.'
'Okay.'
'Be back in the camp in half an hour, okay?'
'Okay.' I started searching the ground of the forest.
Half an hour later, I was back in the camp, and so was Boromir. I counted what we'd got. 2 potato plants with potatoes, a bit of rosemary, bit of time, a few carrots, a bit of basil. Just enough to prepare the fish. Hey, Faramir came walking back from the river, carrying three fish on a rope.
'I caught three fish!' he shouted. I could see Boromir kick a tree trunk. Guys…
'Pretty good Faramir!' I said.
'Thanks.'
'Now, we've got six fish!'
'We do?'
'Yeah, I caught three earlier today.'
'You did?'
'Yep.'
'Oh…'
'I'll go get them right away.' I walked off to the river. When I reached the rock, I could see someone had moved it, for it was next to the river. Faramir… I ran back to the camp. 'Faramir, where did you get those fish?' I yelled.
'I caught them in the river.' Faramir said as he turned around.
'Are you sure?' I asked, using my nicest voice.
'Uhm… Well, I may have found them tied to a rope in the river…'
'And how do you suppose they got there?'
'I tied them there?'
'Try again.'
'You tied them there?'
'That's better.'
'Is "oops" the good word to use here?' Faramir asked me.
'Not really Faramir.'
'Oops…'
'What are you going to do to him?' Boromir asked me.
'I think he'll have to get some punishment.' I said as I walked closer to Faramir and looked him in the eyes. I reached up to touch his face.
'Something tells me that I might like this punishment…' Faramir smiled.
'You think?' An evil grin appeared on my face.
'Uh-oh…' Faramir whispered.
'How would this pretty boy enjoy cleaning the fish?' I said.
'That's not quite what I expected…' Faramir said.
'Too bad.' I said as I pushed the slimy fish into his hands. 'Follow me, you're going to help me clean the fish.' Boromir started laughing.
'Way to go, little brother!' he cheered.
'There are three fish, Boromir, if you don't shut up, you can help to.' Faramir chuckled.
'Way to go, big bro.' He said.
'Shut up and walk Faramir.' I said. We reached the river in no time. I handed Faramir one of the knives I brought. 'Do you know how to clean a fish?' I asked him.
'Uh, no… we never had to do the dirty stuff.' He said as he put the fish down on a rock.
'Well, then I'll teach you.' I said. 'First, you have to cut the fish open. Remember, your knife goes into the belly right under his head, and comes out at the tail.' I grabbed a fish, stuck the knife in it, and opened the belly.
'Iwww…' Faramir said. I handed him a fish.
'Now's your turn.' He carefully stuck his knife into the fish.
'It isn't going to bleed all over me, is it?'
'No, the blood all came out while it hung in the river.'
'Oh.' He opened the fish. 'This is so gross…'
'Okay, then, lay it on the rock.' We put our fish on the rock. 'And fold it open.'
'What's this?'
'That's his stomach.'
'And this?'
'His liver.'
'Oh. What's next?
'You grab its guts and pull them out.' I pulled the guts out of my fish.
'With my hands?'
'What else? Your teeth?'
'Iwww…' He grabbed the guts and started pulling. 'They're stuck.'
'Either pull harder, or use your knife.'
'Okay…' He used his knife. 'And now?'
'Clean the spine.'
'How do you do that?'
'Run your thumb over the inside of the spine.'
'Do I have to?'
'Yep.'
'Iwww…'
'Don't be such a baby! It's just a fish! Next, cut the head off.'
'Okay, that's not that bad.'
'Now, pull the skin off.'
'Pull the skin off?'
'Yep.'
'How am I going to do that?'
'Grab a piece of skin where the head used to be attached, and pull.'
'Hey, this isn't that bad!'
'I know.'
'How do you know all this stuff?'
'My dad taught me.'
'Oh.'
'Remember to do the other side too.' I said as I pulled the skin off the other side of my fish.'
'Okay, next?'
'Remove the bones form the inside of the fish.'
'Okay.' We started picking the bones off.
'You missed one there.' I said.
'Oh, thanks.'
'You missed one there too.'
'Oh.'
'And there.'
'And there.' Boromir pointed at the third fish.
'Hey Boromir, you finally came to help us?'
'No, I came to laugh at Faramir.'
'I'm having quite a lot of fun really.' Faramir said.
'So am I.' Boromir said. 'Just look at you, you hands covered in fish blood and stuff. Totally gross.'
'At least he's not afraid to do it.' I said.
'Are you stating I am?'
'Yep.'
'I'll show you!' Boromir said as he grabbed the other fish. 'Can I borrow someone's knife?'
'Sure, take mine. I don't need it anymore.' I said as I handed him my knife. 'Be careful little boy.'
'I can handle a knife.' (E/N: we all know what happened when he held the shards of Narsil, right?) Boromir started cleaning the fish, and tried to make it as clean as mine. Faramir's still had this occasional something in there. I'll have to clean that one out later.
'Okay, after you cleaned out everything, and removed the skin and head, you have to wash the fish in the river.' I Said as I held my fish in the river and started over-doing all the tings I had just done.
'Why?' Faramir asked.
'To make sure you didn't miss a spot.'
'Okay.' The fish came out totally clean.
'Hurry up Boromir, we want to get to the cooking soon.'
'Working on it, working on it…' He said.
We washed our fish in the river until Boromir was down cleaning his fish. He made a real mess.
'Oh, Boromir…' I said. 'You really had to make such a mess?' Boromir looked up from his fish.
'Oops… At least the fish is clean!'
'Not really…'
'How do you mean?'
'I can still see a few pieces of skin, the stomach is still half there, you still have to remove the head, the spine is still dirty, so I think you should clean that first.'
'Oh.' He started fixing the things I noted. The fish looked pretty good after he was finished.
'Okay, now, repeat everything you just did, while holding it in the river. And don't let the fish go.'
'Why not? Will it swim away?'
'No, it'll float away on the current.'
'Oh.' A few minutes later, he was finished.
'Okay, now, cut the spine out of the fish, so you get two clean filets.'
'That's easy.' Faramir said.
'It is.' I said. 'But be sure to remove all the vertebras, and the extra tissue, and cut straight, or you'll waste flesh.' It turned out to be not as easy as they thought. Oh well, too bad.
'Now, put each filet on a leaf, and sprinkle it with fine cut rosemary, time and basil.'
'Okay.' The guys replied as they did what I told them to do.
'Now, roll the fish in the leaf.'
'And after that?'
'Grab another one and do it again.'
'Okay.' We all did two filets, and then we'd done them all.
'Now, it's time for the carrots and potatoes. Boromir, you do the carrots, Faramir and I will do the potatoes.' A few minutes later, we were done. 'Boromir, can you get a big kettle from camp?'
'Did you bring one?'
'No, but they're supposed to be there.'
'Okay.' Boromir went off to get the kettle, and Faramir and I cleaned up the rest of the mess we made here. When Boromir returned, we filled the kettle with water and some of the herbs, and threw the potatoes in. Boromir and Faramir carried it back to camp, while I put the fish, carrots and remaining herbs in the basket and carried it to camp.
When we reached the camp, it was somewhere around 11:00. Still pretty early. Vebor still hadn't made fire, so I decided to help him. I touched the fire and made it burn.
'How'd you do that?'
'Oh, it's not that hard really.' I said as I hung the kettle above the fire. I put the leaves on the barbeque-thingy next to the kettle.
'What are those?' Arwen asked as she poked the leaves with a stick.
'Don't do that, that's our lunch.' I said. 'You're ruining my masterpiece!' Arwen laughed.
'Are we really going to eat that?' she asked.
'Well, if you don't want it, I'll eat it.' I said. 'I love this.'
'Where did they teach you to make this?'
'Where do you think?'
'Oh, right, Hobbits love food.'
'Yep.' Half an hour later, it was done. 'Dinner's ready!' I said as I banged the kettle.
'Ah, finally!' Estel said as he sat down at the table. 'Where are the plates?'
'Over here.' I said. 'Grab a plate and get you lunch.' Estel grabbed a plate and walked to the fire. I put a leaf, a few potatoes and a few raw carrots on his plate.
'Ooh, smells good!' He said.
'Have a taste before you judge my cooking.' I said. Meanwhile, the other guys had arrived and I gave them their food. I took the kettle off the fire and sat at the table with the rest of them. Faramir opened his leaf.
'Hey, this actually looks good!' He said.
'You're not supposed to open it Faramir.' I said. 'The leaf is part of the meal.'
'It is?'
'Yep.'
'What kind of fish is it anyway?' Estel asked while he took a bite. 'Ooh, hot!'
'It's rainbow trout.' I answered while I carefully took a bite.
'Ow. It tastes really good!'
'Thanks.' I laughed. During lunch, we all had a nice chat. Well, it was nice until Faramir changed the topic that is.
'Where are Elvea and Legolas?'
'I don't know, and I don't care.' I said. 'Besides, we don't have enough fish too feed two extra mouths.'
'You could have just caught one more.' Boromir said.
'And they didn't help prepare dinner either.' I continued.
'Estel, Arwen and Vebor didn't do anything either.'
'Vebor did the fire, and Arwen and Estel could always do the dishes.'
'Anyway, I caught them "up in the act" when I was searching for herbs earlier today.' Boromir said.
'Who?' I asked while I took another bite.
'Elvea and Legolas of course.' I froze. I tried to swallow my food, but didn't really feel hungry anymore. I swallowed anyway.
'Oh.' I continued to eat.
'Are you okay?' Arwen whispered.
'I'm fine.' I whispered back.
'I don't believe it.' Faramir said.
'Why not?' I asked him.
'Because…' Estel elbowed him. 'Just because.' Something was going on here…
I finished dinner and left the table.
'Where're you going?' Vebor asked as he grabbed my hand.
'To the river.' I said.
'Okay.' I walked to the river.
'Hey Endomiel! Wait up!' Faramir came running towards me. 'Do you mind if I walk with you?'
'Nope.' I said.
'Cool.' We walked to the riverbanks and climbed onto the rocks. I sat down on the top of one, while Faramir was still climbing. After a while, he also reached the top. We sat there a while, and walked around a while, not really saying much. I didn't want to find myself crying on some ones shoulder again. When we returned in camp, Legolas and Elvea still hadn't returned. This was really getting to be annoying, I mean, they were gone for about 4 hours now! What were they doing? My questions were soon to be answered…
I could see two people walking to camp from the forest. I didn't really have to look to see who it were. Her head was on his shoulder, happy smile on her face. His arm was around her shoulder, and a happy smile on his face as well. They didn't… did they? I don't want to know, actually.
'Oh my god…' Faramir whispered. I turned around, my back facing the two "lovebirds".
'Told you so!' Boromir said.
'So uhm, what have you two been doing?' Vebor asked them. I tried my best not to hear what they were going to say.
'Uhm talking mostly.' Legolas said. I looked at Arwen, who was sitting in front of me, looking at them. I did a nice "I gotta puke" gesture, aka: opened my mouth and stuffed my finger half way in it. She laughed.
'It makes me sick too.' She whispered.
'Yeah right.' Several people said to Legolas. Arwen did an "IWW" face.
'What happened?' I asked her.
'He kissed her.' She whispered back. I did an "IWW" face as well. I turned around. Legolas walked back to his tent, Elvea sighed, and walked back to hers. I sat there for a moment. Poking the fire. Suddenly, I got a diabolical master plan. I started throwing pinecones on Legolas' tent. Hah, serves him right. Some five minutes later, something in the tent moved. I turned around and started poking the fire again. Legolas stepped out of his tent.
'Who's been throwing stuff on my tent?' He asked.
'Not me.' It came from several directions. I turned around and looked at him. He shot me a deadly look. What? I didn't do nothing! Legolas walked over to the fire. I turned around and started poking the fire again, nasty look on my face. He started throwing little sticks in the fire.
'How's you day coming along?' He asked me.
'Fine.' I grunted.
'What've you been doing?'
'Caught fish, made lunch, ate it, had a walk with Faramir, oh and one with Boromir, and one with Éomer.'
'Oh.' He grabbed another stick and started poking the fire as well. I threw my stick into the fire, stood up, walked over to the table, and sat down next to Vebor.
'What's the matter hunny?' He asked me.
'Nothing, I just felt like sitting with someone that cares about *my* feelings.' I said, just loud enough for Legolas to hear what I was saying. In the corner of my eye, I could see Legolas freeze. Just a second, but I saw it.
'Okay.' He wrapped his arm round my shoulders. Faramir walked over to the fire and sat on a log.
'How're you doing?' He asked Legolas.
'Okay.'
'Okay.'
'You?'
'Pretty good.'
'Okay.'
'You look tired.'
'I am.'
'Oh. How come?'
'Exhausting week.'
'I guess you're not the only one having that kind of problems.'
'How do you mean?'
'Elvea's in her bed, I think, Éomer's not to awake today, Endomiel looks like she's going to fall asleep any second now, and then there's you, who doesn't only look like he's tired, but it also looks like you've got a big problem on your mind.'
'I don't want to talk Faramir.'
'You don't have to talk to me, talk to her.'
'To Elvea?'
'You know who I mean.' Faramir stood up and walked towards Vebor and me. 'Who's going to make dinner?'
'I don't know.' I said. 'I could make fish again.'
'That's what I hoped.'
'But only if someone helps me clean the fish again.'
'I'll help.' Faramir said.
'Better go catch some fish now.' I said as I got up and walked over to the tree and grabbed my bow and arrows. I grabbed the extra piece of rope and threw it to Faramir. 'You gonna help?'
'Sure.'
'Can I come?' Legolas asked.
'Did you bring your own bow and arrows?'
'Yeah…'
'Sure, you can help shoot the fish.' I said. We walked to the river and climbed up on the rock. 'If you shoot from that rock, I'll shoot from here. Faramir'll tie the fish to the rock. Okay?'
'Sure.' I aimed at a fish and shot. Hit. I pulled the rope. Nothing happened. Oh, come on… I pulled again.
'Faramir, can you help?'
'What's the problem girl?' He said as he came running over.
'I think the arrow's stuck in the bottom, can you help pull the arrow loose?'
'Sure.' He grabbed the rope and we pulled. The arrow moved. 'One more time…' We pulled. The arrow shot loose. We went rolling down the rock. Legolas came running over.
'Hey, are you alright?' He asked.
'Fine…' I moaned as I got up. He didn't even look at me.
'What happened?' He said as he pulled Faramir up to his feet. Hello? Damsel in distress over here! There was I big tear in my shirt, right across my stomach, and I was slightly bleeding. Faramir didn't have anything.
'I'm okay.' Faramir said as he turned to me. 'Are you okay?'
'Yeah, except for the scratch on my stomach, all's fine.' I said as I examined the scratch. 'At least we got the fish.' I turned around. 'What are you staring at?' I said to Legolas.
'Nothing…'
'Then move it will you.'
'I can stand here if I want.'
'No, you can't. Buzz off.'
'You got a problem with me standing here?' He stepped towards me.
'Yeah!' I did a step towards him.
'Yeah?'
'Yeah!' I looked him in the eye, moving closer with every word. Eventually, we were standing there with about two inches between us.
'Yeah?' He whispered.
'Yeah.' I whispered back.
'I'll uh, be going now…' Faramir said as he did a few steps backwards. We didn't respond. 'Okay, bye!'
'Wait a sec.' I said, not breaking the eye contact with Legolas. 'Did you put the fish in the water?'
'Uh… no, I'll do that first.'
'Good. Are you going to move anytime soon?' I asked Legolas.
'No.'
'Well, neither am I.' We stood there quite some time, when he finally moved. Well, not really moved, but he looked away. I won. I walked over to the spot where I had left my bow and arrow, and bumped into Legolas while trying to do so. He grabbed my wrist. I turned around and glared at him. He quickly let go of my wrist again. I picked up my bow and started shooting some more fish. He just stood there a while, I guess watching me or something. When I turned around again, he was gone. Now where did he go?
I caught two more fish, witch made a total of 4 fishes, and we cleaned them. I cut them in little pieces and we walked back to camp. Vebor was sitting at the table, playing cards with Boromir. Arwen and Estel were sitting at the fire, talking.
'Hey guys.' I said as I walked over to Estel and Arwen.
'Hey.' They greeted me with a cheer.
'Are you going to make dinner?' Estel asked.
'Yep.' I said as I threw some more wood on the fire. I put the fish in a pan and asked Faramir to get some more water. He did. When he returned, I had the potatoes ready and I started cooking them. The fish was done in no time.
'Arwen, could you tell everyone that dinner's ready?'
'Sure.'
'And Estel, could you and Faramir put all the plates and stuff on the table?'
'Sure.' Dinner was served shortly after. We ate it sitting around the fire, because… Well, I don't know why, the table's fine with me, but I guess the rest decided to sit around the fire. Everyone was there, except Legolas. Finally, he came out of his tent. Lazy guy. He sat next to Elvea.
'Hi love, hi guys.' He greeted us while he gave Elvea a peck on the cheek. I divided the food over the plates, and Éomer handed everyone a plate.
'Thanks.' Elvea said. He shot her a nasty look. Okay… Somewhere during dinner, Legolas tried to make a conversation.
'Man, I sure am hungry!' He said.
'That's because we had lunch, and you didn't.' Estel said.
'What did you have for lunch?' Elvea asked.
'Endomiel and I prepared fish.' Faramir said with a smile.
'I'm so glad I missed lunch.' I shot her a nasty look. I'm not a bad cook! 'What? I hate fish.'
'I still don't get it Legolas, how can you be hungry, if you've been eating Elvea's face all day?' Boromir asked with a grin. Elvea's face flushed. Boromir should really learn when to keep his big mouth shut. But then again, he did have a point.
After dinner, we all walked to the river and did the dishes. And we walked back to the campfire. We all sat back down. Of course, Elvea was next to Legolas again. Arwen shot her a nasty look. Estel whispered something in her ear.
'We need to talk.' She said to Elvea. They stood up and walked away. I just sat there, not saying anything. After a while, Arwen and Elvea had already returned, we all started talking to each other.
'People, I think it's time for a scary story.' Estel said. 'Anyone know one?' Boromir started telling about this scary lake-monster in Gondor, but Faramir kept interrupting him to tell everyone that Boromir was telling it all wrong. So, the story turned out to be a lot funnier then they had hoped. Oh well. After that, Estel told a story, witch did turn out to be fairly scary. But not to me. I've seen much scarier things, witch they didn't had to know about. Somewhere along the story, marsh-mellows showed up. Who brought them anyway?
It was somewhere around 10:00, when Vebor walked over to his tent and started searching his bag. He came back with a bottle of Elfish liquor he had bought in Rivendell.
'Who'd want a drink?' He asked us.
'I'll have some.' Éomer was the first to reply. Vebor opened the bottle and gave it to Éomer. Éomer took a swig. 'Oh, nice stuff.' He took some more.
'Hey, save some for me!' I said as I grabbed the bottle from his hands. I took a swig. Éomer was right, this was pretty good stuff! A little while later, the bottle was empty. I think out of the whole group, the only one who drank more than I was Éomer, but then again, we did have a good reason. :o(
'Do you have any more?' Éomer asked Vebor.
'Not for tonight pal. We have to save some for tomorrow.'
'Then what are we going to do next?'
'We could play a game.' O god, Vebor and one of his lame-ass ideas.
'Like what?' Faramir asked.
'Spin the bottle, but with real kissing.' Since we all were in a fairly good mood (aka: a little bit drunk…) we agreed on playing his silly game, but no guy-guy or girl-girl couples.
'Okay, who's first?' Faramir asked.
'I'll go first.' Estel grabbed the bottle and spun it. Boromir. Faramir. Estel again. This could take a while… Arwen. Estel's face flushed. What did he do that for? They kissed. Some 5 minutes later, they stopped. And then they kissed again. Okay… Aren't you supposed to kiss one time?
'Uh, guys, you only have to kiss once, you know?' Boromir finally said. They stopped kissing right away, but both of their faces flushed. Nice couple, tomato red Estel and strawberry pink Arwen. :o)
Arwen spun. Elvea. She spun. I decided to help Éomer a little, so I made sure the bottle pointed at him when it stopped. When Elvea looked up, she looked right into his eyes. Neither of them moved.
'Hey, you have to do it.' Vebor said. Finally, Éomer stood up and walked to Elvea. Good boy. He sat next to her.
'Let's get this over with.' He said. A few seconds later, they kissed. And kissed, and kissed, and… Well, you get the point. Were they going to stop any time soon? After a while, Boromir pulled Éomer's head backwards.
'Finally! Are you guys deaf or something?' He said.
'What do you mean?' Elvea said. Like she didn't know!
'You mean you don't know?' Of course she does!
'Man, you've been kissing for at least ten minutes, and we've been trying to stop you two since eight minutes ago, we shouted, waved… tried everything, even shouted that your hair was on fire and still no response…' Faramir said, a wide grin on his face.
'Yeah right, I would never kiss *her* that long!' Éomer said, trying to keep a cold voice, but I could hear it shake. He took his arms away from around her waist.
'Sure you won't. Anyway, it's your time to spin.' He spun. Elvea. Hehehe…
'What a coincidence.' Estel said. I grinned.
'I don't believe in coincidence.' She said, looking straight into my eyes. Creepy… She turned to Éomer.
'Hey guys, keep it short this time will ya?' Faramir said, grinning very widely.
'Let's see if you can do better than that lousy kiss a few minutes ago.' Éomer said.
'Look who's talking.'
'Oh yeah? Bring it on.' And whatever happened last time they kissed, it happened again? This time it was Estel who stopped them.
'I think you to had quite enough or now.' He said. 'If you two match each other again the next spin, we'll skip it.'
'Please do so.' Elvea said as she glared at Éomer.
'Oh come on, it looked like you were going to set the forest on fire! Spin already.' Elvea spun the bottle. Damn, it stopped at me. Now I had to spin. Without saying a word, I took the bottle and spun it. It stopped in front of Legolas. This couldn't be coincidence… I think my heart actually skipped a beat there, but I was not about to show it.
'Do I have to kiss her? Can't I just kiss Elvea instead?' He said. If I didn't have a good grip on myself, my jaw would have dropped to the ground by now. Jerk!
'I'm sorry Legolas, but everybody plays fair, so you have to too.' Boromir said. Yeah right.
'Like I don't suffer from this traumatic experience I'm about to get!' I said.
'Like you're the best kisser in the world.' Legolas replied.
'Better then you are.'
'Give it your best shot.' We both stood up and walked a few steps towards each other. Then our lips met. I could feel his right hand against my cheek, while his left hand was on my hip. My right hand was in his hair, and my left on his chest. We just stood there, kissing, for a small eternity. It seemed like the whole world had paused and was waiting for us to realise that this was it. This was what I missed for about a day. A day? It seemed so much longer… Then suddenly, Legolas drew back. Either that, or the fact that Boromir was slowly pulling us away from each other.
'Alright, I think that's about enough.'
'Thanks for making him stop Boromir.' I said while I looked deep in Legolas' eyes. Desire, passion, maybe even… His eyes were full of it. He turned away.
'She's the one that didn't let go!' Legolas spun the bottle. Boromir. Elvea. They kissed. Not long, not short, normal actual. That made it even more obvious that she still loved Éomer. She sun again. Arwen. Estel. They kissed again. Just once this time. Estel spun. Faramir. Me. Oh well. We kissed, it wasn't that bad really, quite good actually… :o) I spun. Legolas again? Okay.
'Oh man, not again…' He moaned. If I had my bow and arrow anywhere near me, he wouldn't be alive anymore, elf or no elf!
'Like I don't suffer!' I said. He walked over to me. We looked into each other's eyes.
'Oh, shut up.' He said as he kissed me. My hand slid through his hair, while his went up and down my back. I don't mind playing this game every evening… His right hand moved to my stomach.
'Auw…' I moaned. He stopped kissing me.
'What?' I could see the concern in his eyes.
'The cut…'
'Oh, right.' We kissed again. Somewhere around the road, somebody pulled us apart. Oww… He spun the bottle. Me! Joy-o-joy :o) uh, I mean, not again… Without complaining, we kissed. This time, we didn't kiss that long. I don't know why, but I suddenly remembered why we broke up, and pulled away. I spun the bottle. Arwen. She spun. Vebor. Oww, poor girl! They kissed, and their kiss must have been the shortest one in the history on romance, because man, it was over before I knew they were kissing. I missed it all! Vebor spun. Éomer. Time for my magic! Hah! Elvea. Good.
'Do I have to kiss that?' Elvea said while she pointed in the direction of Éomer. That gotta hurt.
'Like it's fun for me to kiss you!' Ooh, good response!
'Well at least I don't need to spin the bottle to get to kiss someone, right Legolas?' Okay… she got a point there…
'Of course you don't! Not as long as I can be with you anyway.' Legolas smiled a weak smile. You know, some reason or another, I don't believe him anymore. He leaned in to kiss her. I coughed. That distracted them. :o)
'You're supposed to kiss Éomer, not Legolas.' Faramir said.
'Can't I just skip this time?' Elvea sulked.
'No, you can't.' Estel said.
'But I don't want to kiss him…' Of course she didn't. Like they didn't have fun last time they kissed.
'Like I want to kiss some stuck up high-elven girl!' Éomer said. Oh, come on!
'That's your highness to you.' She snorted. There they go again…
'Just kiss already!' I shouted. They walked over to each other.
'Well, *your highness*, let's get this thing over with.' They kissed. Oh man, they went on for ages again, truly, will they ever learn? After a few minutes, Estel pulled Elvea's hair. Aww… I wanted to do that! Suddenly, Legolas stoop up and walked to Elvea.
'My turn.' He said.
'Legolas, what do you think you're doing?' Faramir said.
'I'd like to have a real kiss now, not one of those lame excuses for kisses from Endomiel.' Okay, that did it! Somewhere inside me, my rage exploded. He was going to get it now! That goddess-damned-son-of-a-bitch!
'Why are you doing this to me? To yourself?' I yelled.
What the Mordor are you talking about?' He said.
'This whole thing with Elvea.'
'What? You dumped me, and now I can't go on?'
'This isn't "going on", this is fake, a big charade.'
'And how would you know?'
'What? Do you think I'm that stupid? I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I know you better than that.'
'You don't know me at all. I am with Elvea, and there's no way you'll be able to change that!'
'NO?'
'NO!'
'You know what? Go ahead, marry your princess, I don't care! I bet she was your fiancée all along, I was just a replacement until she showed up, wasn't I?'
'No! You know that! I loved you!' He yelled. I walked over to him.
'And I loved you, but hey, love hurts.' I punched him in the jaw. I turned around and ran off to the forest. I could hear Legolas say a few last words
'Eru, I did it again…' I ran into the forest, and I could hear someone following me. I hid behind a tree. The person/elf walked past me, and then suddenly, he stopped. I could see the person had long hair. It must be Legolas then. I stepped out from the dark shadow of the tree.
'Why did you follow me?' I said.
'There you are. I was looking for you.' He did a step towards me.
'Stay away, for your own safety.'
'I'm not afraid, and it's worth the risk.' He did another step towards me.
'I'm sorry if I hurt you…' I whispered. A single tear rolled down my cheek.
'It's okay, I'm alive.' He wiped the tear of my cheek. 'Don't cry, it's not your fault.'
'Then whose fault is it?' I said as a stared at the ground.
'It's nobody's fault. Not mine, and certainly not yours.'
'But I was mean, I even punched you…' I looked up, and was surprised to look straight into his eyes. I reached up to touch his face. I rubbed his jaw where I punched it.
'It's okay, really, no damage done.'
'Your jaw is swollen…'
'It'll go away.'
'You lip, it's bleeding.' I touched his lip. He winched. 'Sorry…'
'It'll heal.'
'All will heal.'
'Even your heart?'
'It was never broken.' I said. He stared into my eyes, and I stared back into his. Some 5 minutes later, 5 minutes that seemed like eternity, I looked and walked away. I brushed past him. He grabbed me wrist, just like he did this afternoon, but this time I looked up with another look in my eyes. No death glare, but tears were in my eyes.
'It will be okay.' He said as he pulled me toward him. 'All will be okay.' He kissed me again, but this time, no one was watching. And this time, we didn't stop after a few minutes. We stood there quite a while, his hands roaming over my back, while my left hand slowly moved over his chest, and my right hand moved through his hair. His beautiful hair.
'This, I missed.' He said in-between kisses.
'So did I.' I said. 'So did I.'
'Here, take this.' He took my hand from his chest and handed me the necklace.
'Legolas…'
'You don't have to wear it, it's just that, I can't stand looking at it, and have it remind me of that day, and tell me that I could have you, instead of the necklace. I couldn't stand it if anyone but you would wear it.'
'Let's just keep this secret okay?'
'What? The necklace?'
'Everything, the necklace, this…' I kissed him again.
'And that we're back together.'
'Are we?'
'I don't know, are we?'
'You tell me.'
'It's your call.'
'I'm going to let you decide.'
'You broke it up, so you tell me.'
'If it's okay with you.'
'It is okay with me.'
'It's okay with me too.'
'But it's secret.'
'Right.'
'Then we're back together.'
'We are?'
'We are, right?' Legolas asked me with doubt in his voice.
'I'm calling it. We are.' We kissed again.
'I think it'll be best if we return one by one.'
'Who goes first?'
'I'll go first, I'll just tell them I wasn't able to find you.'
'Okay.'
'Okay.'
'So, nothing in public?'
'No…'
'Oh…' Legolas looked disappointed.
'Hey, we can always go and 'take a walk in the woods" tomorrow.'
'Tonight.'
'The night is almost over Legolas, and I'd like to get a good night rest for a change.'
'You haven't been sleeping well either?'
'No, not since…'
'Me neither.'
'I'm so glad you're back.' I hugged Legolas.
'So am I. But it's time to go now. You wait two minutes, then go back too, okay?'
'Okay.' A last kiss, and he was gone. Gone, just like that. I missed him already… by Eru, am I really this bad? Am I this deep in love? Love… o Eru… this was bad… Oh well, I'll give it a try for a change.
Two minutes later, I walked back to camp. I entered the circle of tents.
'Hey, she's back!' Faramir stood up and walked towards me.
'Hi Faramir.' I whispered.
'Hi.' He put his arm around my shoulders. 'Are you okay?'
'Yeah, I'm fine.'
'Legolas just came back, he was looking for you. He said he couldn't find you, but he returned with tears in his eyes and a happy smile on his face. He's in his tent if you need him.' I looked into Faramir's eyes. 'Okay, I'll shut up now.' I did a few steps away from Faramir and sat down on a log. I grabbed a stick and started roasting marshmallows.
'How are ya?' Vebor asked as he sat next to me. I looked him n the eyes.
'I'm sorry Vebor.' I said.
'Oh... I understand.' He moved a bit away from me. I ate the marshmallow, got up and walked to my tent. That's kind of where I am now. I can hear the others outside my tent. I think they think that I'm asleep. Anyway, they're talking about Legolas and me.
'Did you see them kissing? Man, there certainly is something between them!' Faramir said. I smirked. If even they could see it…
'I knew they would get back together at some point.' Estel said.
'Yeah, but what now? I mean, they can't hide it forever?' Boromir joined the conversation.
'They'll have to figure that one out themselves.' At that point, I decided I still had to write in my diary, and I turned a little light on. Suddenly, outside, all was silent. And it still is. Well, I'll keep you up-2-date, I'm going to sleep now,
Namarië!
Endomiel
(1): 'Hello friend of mine. How are you?'
(2): 'I know Loome. I know.'
E/N: Hi! Sorry for the gross part, just had to do that! :o) And I'm sorry for the mushy stuff, I promise, next chapter will be funny again! Anyway, thanks for reading this, and keep reviewing!! And keep the names coming! And good ideas… and, well, I'll stop now… buh-bye!
Disclaimer: Nope, don't own any LotR characters, I don't even own all the other characters! A special thank to all the people who sent in names! Keep the good stuff coming! (I need more guys!) I don't own anything, so don't even try to sue me!
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Chapter 13: Spin the *hick* bottle…
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The 14th of Halimath, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Hi again.
Today was the first day of camp. Oh yay… I'm truly thrilled… anyway, just look how *great* my day was…
7 A.M. I woke up. Wanted to sleep because I had a tough night. Heck, I wanted to sleep forever, a nice dreamless sleep… But it was time to go, I had to wake up, camp was starting in like, uhm, I don't know how late, and I didn't want to know. There they went, my last few minutes of the week without Legolas. Annoying son of a… uhm, king I guess. ARG! Why couldn't I just yell at that guy? Why couldn't I just say I hated him, and really mean it?
I got up and got dressed. As far as I'm concerned, everybody could know that I was pissed, really pissed. I put my dark blue skate jeans on and a black T-shirt with a big thundercloud on it, and a bolt of lightning. You know what I need? I shirt saying "Seriously Pissed" in gigantic letters.
Anyway, I got up and walked to the mess. I sat with Vebor, he got me some food. Ooh, cereal! I poked the cereal, it made a *SCWOOOSHHH* sound. It reminded me of that day, when we had a lot of fun. I didn't really feel like eating cereal anymore. Oh well, I needed to get off cereal anyway.
I poked the cereal some more.
'Aren't you going to eat it?' Vebor asked.
'I don't feel really hungry…'
'You have to eat something? You hardly ate anything yesterday! Come on, just a few bites!' I took a bite. 'Good girl!' he put his arm around my shoulders. Hmhm, this stuff was actually pretty good… I took another bite, and another… before I knew it, it was all gone. 'Wow, you sure were hungry.'
'I guess so!' I laughed. That felt good, food in my stomach and a smile on my face. That's when I saw the guys on the other table. Something was going on, they were talking, laughing and it seemed like a lot of fun. The smile disappeared again. I missed hanging around with the guys. Legolas sure was close to Elvea… 'I'm sorry Vebor, I got to go…' I said as I ran to my room, into the bathroom. I puked everything out again. Not good, not good at all… I really needed to eat something… A knock on the door. 'Who is it?'
'It's me, Arwen, are you okay?'
'Yeah, I'm okay…' She walked into the bathroom.
'What happened?'
'I uh, didn't really feel good, I guess.'
'Are you sure that's all?'
'Yeah why?'
'Well, you're tired, mood swings, puking, you look like you don't really feel good…'
'Arwen, nothing happened, really.'
'So it's not as drastic as I think it is?'
'Nope, I just couldn't bare the sight of Legolas and Elvea, together like that.'
'You'll be okay, right? I mean, you do have to spend 4 days with them in a small camp…'
'I'll survive, I can always run off to the forest, or get some food or something, to keep them off my mind.'
'I'm there if you need, me, okay?'
'I'll keep that in mind.'
'And try to keep your food in your stomach for a wile next time.'
'Yes mother.'
'Hey! Don't call me that! I'm not that bad, am I?' We started laughing. 'It's time to go.'
'What time is it?'
'8 o'clock.' Arwen lead the way to the stables. I walked over to Loome.
'Suilad sermo amin. Sut naa lle? (1)' I pet him on the nose. Loome snorted. I guess that's his way of saying, hey you've been neglecting me! 'Isto-nyë Loome. Isto-nyë. (2)'
The horse in the box next to Loome was still there. Whose horse was it anyway? I pet it's nose.
'Hey.' I spun around as fast as I could. It was Faramir.
'Hey.' I said.
'How're you doing?'
'I'm okay.'
'I saw you running away from breakfast this morning, what happened.'
'I remembered something I still had to do, and I really had to do that quick.'
'Do what?' Faramir asked as he saddled his horse.
'None of your business.'
'Oh. I understand.'
'You understand what? There's nothing to understand.'
'Of course there isn't.' He padded me on my shoulder. I didn't get it. What was there to understand?
I climbed onto Loome, and rode off to the meeting place. There they were, holding hands. Did they really have to do that? I hoped he'd fall off his horse or something, but we all made it to the camping place in one piece. :o(
'Three girls, three tents, I say one girl per tent.' Vebor said.
'I've got I better idea.' I said, a grin on my face. 'What if Vebor and me take that tent, and you guys figure something out for the other tents?' Hah! That hurt him! I could see it in his eyes.
'It's good with me.' Legolas finally managed. 'As long as I get to sleep in the same tent as Elvea.' Like that was gonna happen.
'Let's keep guys and girls separated, okay?' Estel said in an effort to keep the peace.
Legolas, Estel and Boromir took the first tent, Faramir, Éomer and Vebor the second, and Arwen, Elvea and I took the third. I dumped my stuff on the left side of the tent, Arwen took the middle and Elvea the right side. I glared at her. Stuck up 'I'm all high and mighty, look at me, I'm so great' elven princess.
'Is something wrong?' She asked us.
'Like you don't know.' Arwen spat. Elvea did her 'I don't know, I'm an innocent high elf' look. She's really beginning to annoy me now… Elvea left the tent.
'There you are! I've been looking for you!' I heard Legolas say. I stepped out of the tent and glared at Legolas. Our eyes made contact for a split second, but long enough for him to see how mad I was, and for me to see the death-glare he sent me. It really scared me… He didn't really… did he? He swiftly kissed her on the lips. It felt like someone just stabbed a dagger in my chest… maybe he did…
'Hey, what do you guys want to do now we're here?' Estel said.
'Let's go swimming!' Faramir said. 'There's a little river nearby.'
'Oh no, now way.' Legolas protested. 'I'm not letting her in that tent again! I can't live that long without her!' Oh, come on, he's clearly overreacting! He's not even in love with her! I can see it in his eyes, there's no trace of love in them! Only anger, hate, disappointment…
'Then what do you suggest we'd do?' Vebor asked the group.
'I don't know about you guys, but I think I'm going for a stroll through the woods with Elvea.' Legolas said as he kissed her again. I turned around, didn't want to look at it.
'Hey Legolas, what about the secrecy thing?' I asked, my voice as cold as possible. And that's really cold. I looked over my shoulder.
'Why do you think I'm taking her for a walk?' Legolas spat, his voice as cold as his eyes, while he looked straight in mine. The anger was worse, disappointment almost gone, hate was still there, and was that a trace of desperateness I saw? He turned around and walked to the forest with Elvea. He should know by now, the jealousy-thing wasn't working on me. I mean, it couldn't be real, right?
'So, what do you want to do?' Vebor asked me.
'I don't know, maybe you could start a fire.'
'But it's not even dark!'
'You'd better start before it gets to dark to see anything.'
'It's 9:30 in the morning!'
'So?' I had to keep him busy. I put a spell on the fire, so that every time it started to burn, it would choke and go out again. He won't be able to start a fire for a long time… :o) Hey, I *am* the goddess of evil!
I grabbed my bow and arrow and walked over to the river. Might as well get some food for the group, because Estel, Arwen and Boromir are exploring the surroundings, Vebor and Faramir are *trying* to make a fire, I couldn't count on Legolas and Elvea, and Éomer, well, I don't even know where Éomer is actually.
I reached the river and climbed on a rock. Oh, so that's where Éomer is! He was sitting at the bottom of the rock, crying. I wanted to talk to him, but I was afraid I'd only make things worse. I spotted a group of fish in the distance, so I tied a rope to my arrow, aimed and shot. Hit! Of course. We Elves never miss. Éomer looked up to where I was standing.
'Hey…' he said.
'Hey.' I said as I pulled the rope with the fish in. I took the arrow out of the fish, tied the fish to another piece of rope, tied the other and to a rock and threw the rock in the river. Not too far, of course, I still had to be able to get it out.
'What did you do that for?' Éomer asked me.
'If I keep the dead fish in the water, it'll stay fresh. My dad thought me that.'
'Oh.' I shot another fish and drew it in. I took the rock out of the water, tied the other fish to the same rope, and threw the rope back in.
'How're you doing?' I asked Éomer.
'Fine…' He started crying again. I know, stupid question.
'Hey, things will get better, really.' I said as I slid down the rock and sat next to him.
'They will?' He looked at me with his bright blue eyes.
'They always do.'
'If you say so.'
I continued like he never said anything. 'It's just that I can't see the sun shining behind the clouds these days.'
'What's your problem?'
'I think the same as yours…' I sighed.
'You think?'
'Yep.'
'Love sick too?'
'I'm dieing…'
'Me too.' We just sat there a few minutes, and then Éomer started talking.
'It's all my own fault…' He said.
'How do you mean?'
'I ended it myself.'
'Oh. What happened?'
'I saw her kiss Legolas in the afternoon…' Éomer said. I clenched my fists. Wait a sec, afternoon? So they kissed even more that day? Éomer continued. 'That evening, we were sitting on the lawn, and we kissed, and I felt she was wearing a necklace, and it was a little heart, and I asked her, where did you get it? And she told me she got it from a guy in the country she comes from, and I asked her if she loved him, and she said she didn't even know him, but I panicked, and I told her this wasn't a good idea, and I ran… But now… I really regret it… I want her back you know?!?'
'Man, sad story…'
'What happened to you? You and Legolas seemed so happy together! I mean, the first days, he hardly said anything, and he didn't really seem happy, but after a few days, he started talking, and I noticed a change in him. He was happier, and looked less exhausted and stuff like that. I guess that's about the time you two got together, am I right?'
'Yeah, it started a little more than a week ago, that's when we started getting closer to each other…'
'I figured something like that. But how come you two broke up?'
'Well, remember last Sunday?'
'Yeah, that's when we found Legolas, crying on the grass in the valley.'
'He was crying?'
'Yeah.'
'I never knew that…'
'Well, he was. And if it wasn't for Boromir, he'd never have gone up to talk to you, and things would've never gotten better.'
'Well, it's the coming upstairs that made me break up with him…'
'Oh…'
'You could actually say that's what did it… That's when he pushed me over the line I had drawn, and I pushed him. I pushed him, and he gave in. That's what scared me the most, he actually gave in, like he didn't care any more…' A tear rolled down my cheek. Éomer wiped the tear of.
'Hey, don't cry, everything's going to be alright, like you said, the sun is always shining behind the clouds.'
'I just can't see it these days, Éomer, I just can't see it.'
'That's because it's behind the clouds, you can't see what's behind the clouds.'
'You think?'
'Of course.' He wrapped his arms around my shoulders. 'Everything's going to be alright.' He said. 'Someday…'
We sat there a while, his arms around my shoulders, and my arm around his wait. My head on his shoulder, just sitting there, as friends. Maybe even good friends.
'You never told me why you broke up?' He said after a while. 'What did he say to you, that day in the valley?'
'He… he said… he said that he loved me.' I whispered. 'But he didn't.'
'How do you mean, he didn't?'
'He didn't love me.'
'And how could you know? Have you read his mind?'
'N…No… but…'
'Then what happened? Why couldn't he tell you he loved you?'
'I didn't… I couldn't… it was just to much for me to handle…'
'So you yelled at him and told him to find someone else?'
'No! Well, yeah, but I didn't think he'd really do it.'
'If there's one thing I learned this past week, it is to never call a bluff on Legolas, for he will test you, and he will call your bluff.'
'I found that out the hard way…'
'I guess you did.' More tears rolled down my face. 'You're not the only one that's having a hard time coping, talk to him, tell him how you feel, he'll be really happy if you'd only take him back.'
'It's not that easy Éomer.'
'Why not?'
'Because… Because I'm afraid for him...'
'You know he'll never do anything to hurt you!'
'That's not what I'm afraid for, I'm afraid I'll depend on him, and something will happen to me, or even worse, that he'll depend on me, and when I'm not looking, something will happen to him…' I sighed. 'I'll never be able to forgive myself…'
'If that's all, you shouldn't worry! He'll be able to survive on his own, he's 1600…'
'1632.'
'1632. Anyway, he'll be fine, really, and he'll be even better if you'd just talk to him, tell him what you just told me.'
'I don't think I'll be able to just sit there, and tell him.'
'Why not?'
'We never just sat…' A smile appeared on my face.
'Okay… I really didn't have to know that…' Éomer did a 'IIIWW!" face.
'What?' I laughed.
'I think it's time to go back now, or they'll get suspicious.'
'So? Let them be suspicious! It may even help us.'
'That's not the way to get him back Endomiel.' Éomer said.
'I know, it's not working anyway…'
'How do you mean?'
'We're both trying it, Vebor and I, Elvea and Legolas.'
'How do you know?'
'I saw it in his eyes today, there's no love, only hate, anger, and … and disappointment.'
'Oh.'
'Hey, you can go back if you want, I'm going to catch some more food.'
'Good idea. I'll see you'round.'
'Yeah.' Éomer headed in the direction of camp. I could hear him talking to someone in the distance.
'Yeah, she's somewhere on the rocks over there catching food or something.' I heard Éomer say.
'Okay. I'll see if I can give her a scare.' Now what was he up to? I could feel, and clearly hear, someone sneaking up behind me. I pretended to aim an arrow at something in the water. When I heard the footsteps right behind me, I turned around. Boromir got the arrow right in his face…
'AHHH!!' He jumped backwards. He laid there, breathing heavily, at the bottom of the rock. 'What did you do that for?' He said.
'What did you sneak up to me for?'
'How did you know I was here?'
'A human breathes so loud I could shoot one in the dark.' I said, my voice as cold as possible, arrow still pointing at his chest.
'You scared me there…' He softly said, looking at the tip of my arrow. I slid down the rock. 'Can you put the arrow away?'
'I could, but I don't really feel like it.' I said, my arrow hovering pretty close in front of his face. I did a step backwards. Boromir stood up.
'Come on, put the arrow away…'
'No.'
'Why not?'
'I don't feel like it.' Boromir looked at me like I was some murderous Elven warrior.
'Are you going to shoot me?'
'Maybe.' He got up and backed away. I tightened my grip and pulled the string farther backwards. He looked pretty scared. I shot, making the arrow miss his head by an inch, hitting the tree behind him, the rope rushing past his face. I bursted in laughter. 'Got you scared there didn't I?' I said.
'What?'
'Do you think I was really going to shoot you? I heard you talk to Éomer "I'll see if I can give her a scare". Well, you had it coming to ya.' I laughed.
'Not funny! I was really scared you know!' Boromir shouted, but he also started laughing. 'Never ever scare me like that okay?'
'Only if you're asking for it.' I climbed back up the rock and scanned the river for fish.
'What're you doing?' Boromir asked me.
'Fishing.'
'Aren't you supposed to do that with a fishing pole?'
'This is faster.' I shot a fish and drew it in. Tied it to the rope with the other fish.
'Can I try?'
'Sure.' I handed him the bow. 'You do know how to shoot? Right?'
'Of course!' He aimed at the fish, and shot. 'Damn, missed.'
'You have to keep in mind that the fish isn't exactly where you see it.'
'How do you mean?'
'The fish is under water, and therefore, you can not see it's exact location when you're looking at it from above.'
'Oh. Then where is it?'
'It's always a little to the left, and a little further away.'
'Okay.' He aimed again, shot and missed.
'Remember to always aim in front of the fish, because it's swimming, and the current will drag your arrow so you'll never hit the exact spot you aim at.' He aimed again, shot, and missed.
'You do it.' He said as he stuffed the Bow in my hands. I drew the arrow back in, aimed at a group of fish, closed one eye and shot. Hit. 'How'd you do that?'
'Same way as you did, except that I hit.' He looked pretty frustrated. Humans…
I drew the fish back in, grabbed the other three and walked to a shallow spot in the river. I tied the fish to a rock and hung them in the river. They'll stay fresh until this evening. Boromir borrowed my bow and arrow and insisted on staying until he had shot at least one fish. Does he ever learn?
I walked back to camp and sat down on a log near the 'fire'.
'How's the fire coming along?' I asked Vebor, who sat next to me.
'Not too great… I guess you're right, making a fire is harder than it seems.' I smiled. I think I'll allow the fire to burn… When it starts to get dark. :o)
'No sparks yet?'
'Well, we got it burning once, but it stopped burning, just like that.'
'Strange. Hey guys, are we going to eat lunch, or are we skipping that?' I asked the rest of the guys and Arwen. Boromir had returned empty handed, and had hung my bow in a tree next to my tent. Estel and Arwen had returned from their exploring stroll through the forest a little while ago, and Faramir was still here trying to make a fire. Poor guy.
'I'd like lunch.' Faramir said.
'Yeah, me too.' Estel replied. 'What have you got for us?'
'Well, fish, and I'll go find some herbs in the forest, and some berries and stuff, maybe I'll find some wild carrots or potatoes or something like that.' I said.
'That's cool with me.'
'Anyone want to help me find some herbs and stuff?'
'Aren't we going to wait for Legolas and Elvea?' Faramir asked.
'No, it's their own fault if they miss lunch.' I said. Well, it is!
'I'll help.' Boromir said.
'You can shoot them if you want Boromir, these will be easier to hit.' I said.
'Very funny. I'm laughing my lungs out, really.' Boromir said.
'What was that all about?' Faramir asked.
'Nothing.' Boromir grunted.
'Your brother has a problem shooting fish.'
'Why? He doesn't want to hurt them?'
'No, he can't hit them.' Faramir started laughing.
'Shut up twerp!' Boromir shouted.
'You can't even shoot a fish?' Faramir laughed. He was practically rolling on the ground. Boromir grabbed my bow and threw it to Faramir.
'Hey! Be careful with my bow, will you!'
'You try, little one! Don't even dare to come back without fish.'
'I'll show you how it's done.' Faramir stood up and walked to the river.
'He's going to be gone for a long time.' Boromir smiled.
'Maybe.' I said.
'What are you trying to say? That he's a better bowman then I am?'
'Come on, let's go find the herbs and stuff.'
'This is not the last you've heard about this young lady.' Young lady? YOUNG lady? He doesn't even know half how old I am! I'm older than the eldest Elf, older than the foundations of the earth! (E/N: whose quote was that again? Galadriel's?) He has no idea how old I am…
We walked to the forest.
'If you go to the left, I'll go to the right.' I said.
'Okay.'
'You know what you're looking for, right?'
'Not really…'
'Herbs, like oregano, parsley, time, basil, rosemary, you know?'
'Yeah, anything else?'
'Wild potatoes, carrots, anything eatable.'
'Okay.'
'Be back in the camp in half an hour, okay?'
'Okay.' I started searching the ground of the forest.
Half an hour later, I was back in the camp, and so was Boromir. I counted what we'd got. 2 potato plants with potatoes, a bit of rosemary, bit of time, a few carrots, a bit of basil. Just enough to prepare the fish. Hey, Faramir came walking back from the river, carrying three fish on a rope.
'I caught three fish!' he shouted. I could see Boromir kick a tree trunk. Guys…
'Pretty good Faramir!' I said.
'Thanks.'
'Now, we've got six fish!'
'We do?'
'Yeah, I caught three earlier today.'
'You did?'
'Yep.'
'Oh…'
'I'll go get them right away.' I walked off to the river. When I reached the rock, I could see someone had moved it, for it was next to the river. Faramir… I ran back to the camp. 'Faramir, where did you get those fish?' I yelled.
'I caught them in the river.' Faramir said as he turned around.
'Are you sure?' I asked, using my nicest voice.
'Uhm… Well, I may have found them tied to a rope in the river…'
'And how do you suppose they got there?'
'I tied them there?'
'Try again.'
'You tied them there?'
'That's better.'
'Is "oops" the good word to use here?' Faramir asked me.
'Not really Faramir.'
'Oops…'
'What are you going to do to him?' Boromir asked me.
'I think he'll have to get some punishment.' I said as I walked closer to Faramir and looked him in the eyes. I reached up to touch his face.
'Something tells me that I might like this punishment…' Faramir smiled.
'You think?' An evil grin appeared on my face.
'Uh-oh…' Faramir whispered.
'How would this pretty boy enjoy cleaning the fish?' I said.
'That's not quite what I expected…' Faramir said.
'Too bad.' I said as I pushed the slimy fish into his hands. 'Follow me, you're going to help me clean the fish.' Boromir started laughing.
'Way to go, little brother!' he cheered.
'There are three fish, Boromir, if you don't shut up, you can help to.' Faramir chuckled.
'Way to go, big bro.' He said.
'Shut up and walk Faramir.' I said. We reached the river in no time. I handed Faramir one of the knives I brought. 'Do you know how to clean a fish?' I asked him.
'Uh, no… we never had to do the dirty stuff.' He said as he put the fish down on a rock.
'Well, then I'll teach you.' I said. 'First, you have to cut the fish open. Remember, your knife goes into the belly right under his head, and comes out at the tail.' I grabbed a fish, stuck the knife in it, and opened the belly.
'Iwww…' Faramir said. I handed him a fish.
'Now's your turn.' He carefully stuck his knife into the fish.
'It isn't going to bleed all over me, is it?'
'No, the blood all came out while it hung in the river.'
'Oh.' He opened the fish. 'This is so gross…'
'Okay, then, lay it on the rock.' We put our fish on the rock. 'And fold it open.'
'What's this?'
'That's his stomach.'
'And this?'
'His liver.'
'Oh. What's next?
'You grab its guts and pull them out.' I pulled the guts out of my fish.
'With my hands?'
'What else? Your teeth?'
'Iwww…' He grabbed the guts and started pulling. 'They're stuck.'
'Either pull harder, or use your knife.'
'Okay…' He used his knife. 'And now?'
'Clean the spine.'
'How do you do that?'
'Run your thumb over the inside of the spine.'
'Do I have to?'
'Yep.'
'Iwww…'
'Don't be such a baby! It's just a fish! Next, cut the head off.'
'Okay, that's not that bad.'
'Now, pull the skin off.'
'Pull the skin off?'
'Yep.'
'How am I going to do that?'
'Grab a piece of skin where the head used to be attached, and pull.'
'Hey, this isn't that bad!'
'I know.'
'How do you know all this stuff?'
'My dad taught me.'
'Oh.'
'Remember to do the other side too.' I said as I pulled the skin off the other side of my fish.'
'Okay, next?'
'Remove the bones form the inside of the fish.'
'Okay.' We started picking the bones off.
'You missed one there.' I said.
'Oh, thanks.'
'You missed one there too.'
'Oh.'
'And there.'
'And there.' Boromir pointed at the third fish.
'Hey Boromir, you finally came to help us?'
'No, I came to laugh at Faramir.'
'I'm having quite a lot of fun really.' Faramir said.
'So am I.' Boromir said. 'Just look at you, you hands covered in fish blood and stuff. Totally gross.'
'At least he's not afraid to do it.' I said.
'Are you stating I am?'
'Yep.'
'I'll show you!' Boromir said as he grabbed the other fish. 'Can I borrow someone's knife?'
'Sure, take mine. I don't need it anymore.' I said as I handed him my knife. 'Be careful little boy.'
'I can handle a knife.' (E/N: we all know what happened when he held the shards of Narsil, right?) Boromir started cleaning the fish, and tried to make it as clean as mine. Faramir's still had this occasional something in there. I'll have to clean that one out later.
'Okay, after you cleaned out everything, and removed the skin and head, you have to wash the fish in the river.' I Said as I held my fish in the river and started over-doing all the tings I had just done.
'Why?' Faramir asked.
'To make sure you didn't miss a spot.'
'Okay.' The fish came out totally clean.
'Hurry up Boromir, we want to get to the cooking soon.'
'Working on it, working on it…' He said.
We washed our fish in the river until Boromir was down cleaning his fish. He made a real mess.
'Oh, Boromir…' I said. 'You really had to make such a mess?' Boromir looked up from his fish.
'Oops… At least the fish is clean!'
'Not really…'
'How do you mean?'
'I can still see a few pieces of skin, the stomach is still half there, you still have to remove the head, the spine is still dirty, so I think you should clean that first.'
'Oh.' He started fixing the things I noted. The fish looked pretty good after he was finished.
'Okay, now, repeat everything you just did, while holding it in the river. And don't let the fish go.'
'Why not? Will it swim away?'
'No, it'll float away on the current.'
'Oh.' A few minutes later, he was finished.
'Okay, now, cut the spine out of the fish, so you get two clean filets.'
'That's easy.' Faramir said.
'It is.' I said. 'But be sure to remove all the vertebras, and the extra tissue, and cut straight, or you'll waste flesh.' It turned out to be not as easy as they thought. Oh well, too bad.
'Now, put each filet on a leaf, and sprinkle it with fine cut rosemary, time and basil.'
'Okay.' The guys replied as they did what I told them to do.
'Now, roll the fish in the leaf.'
'And after that?'
'Grab another one and do it again.'
'Okay.' We all did two filets, and then we'd done them all.
'Now, it's time for the carrots and potatoes. Boromir, you do the carrots, Faramir and I will do the potatoes.' A few minutes later, we were done. 'Boromir, can you get a big kettle from camp?'
'Did you bring one?'
'No, but they're supposed to be there.'
'Okay.' Boromir went off to get the kettle, and Faramir and I cleaned up the rest of the mess we made here. When Boromir returned, we filled the kettle with water and some of the herbs, and threw the potatoes in. Boromir and Faramir carried it back to camp, while I put the fish, carrots and remaining herbs in the basket and carried it to camp.
When we reached the camp, it was somewhere around 11:00. Still pretty early. Vebor still hadn't made fire, so I decided to help him. I touched the fire and made it burn.
'How'd you do that?'
'Oh, it's not that hard really.' I said as I hung the kettle above the fire. I put the leaves on the barbeque-thingy next to the kettle.
'What are those?' Arwen asked as she poked the leaves with a stick.
'Don't do that, that's our lunch.' I said. 'You're ruining my masterpiece!' Arwen laughed.
'Are we really going to eat that?' she asked.
'Well, if you don't want it, I'll eat it.' I said. 'I love this.'
'Where did they teach you to make this?'
'Where do you think?'
'Oh, right, Hobbits love food.'
'Yep.' Half an hour later, it was done. 'Dinner's ready!' I said as I banged the kettle.
'Ah, finally!' Estel said as he sat down at the table. 'Where are the plates?'
'Over here.' I said. 'Grab a plate and get you lunch.' Estel grabbed a plate and walked to the fire. I put a leaf, a few potatoes and a few raw carrots on his plate.
'Ooh, smells good!' He said.
'Have a taste before you judge my cooking.' I said. Meanwhile, the other guys had arrived and I gave them their food. I took the kettle off the fire and sat at the table with the rest of them. Faramir opened his leaf.
'Hey, this actually looks good!' He said.
'You're not supposed to open it Faramir.' I said. 'The leaf is part of the meal.'
'It is?'
'Yep.'
'What kind of fish is it anyway?' Estel asked while he took a bite. 'Ooh, hot!'
'It's rainbow trout.' I answered while I carefully took a bite.
'Ow. It tastes really good!'
'Thanks.' I laughed. During lunch, we all had a nice chat. Well, it was nice until Faramir changed the topic that is.
'Where are Elvea and Legolas?'
'I don't know, and I don't care.' I said. 'Besides, we don't have enough fish too feed two extra mouths.'
'You could have just caught one more.' Boromir said.
'And they didn't help prepare dinner either.' I continued.
'Estel, Arwen and Vebor didn't do anything either.'
'Vebor did the fire, and Arwen and Estel could always do the dishes.'
'Anyway, I caught them "up in the act" when I was searching for herbs earlier today.' Boromir said.
'Who?' I asked while I took another bite.
'Elvea and Legolas of course.' I froze. I tried to swallow my food, but didn't really feel hungry anymore. I swallowed anyway.
'Oh.' I continued to eat.
'Are you okay?' Arwen whispered.
'I'm fine.' I whispered back.
'I don't believe it.' Faramir said.
'Why not?' I asked him.
'Because…' Estel elbowed him. 'Just because.' Something was going on here…
I finished dinner and left the table.
'Where're you going?' Vebor asked as he grabbed my hand.
'To the river.' I said.
'Okay.' I walked to the river.
'Hey Endomiel! Wait up!' Faramir came running towards me. 'Do you mind if I walk with you?'
'Nope.' I said.
'Cool.' We walked to the riverbanks and climbed onto the rocks. I sat down on the top of one, while Faramir was still climbing. After a while, he also reached the top. We sat there a while, and walked around a while, not really saying much. I didn't want to find myself crying on some ones shoulder again. When we returned in camp, Legolas and Elvea still hadn't returned. This was really getting to be annoying, I mean, they were gone for about 4 hours now! What were they doing? My questions were soon to be answered…
I could see two people walking to camp from the forest. I didn't really have to look to see who it were. Her head was on his shoulder, happy smile on her face. His arm was around her shoulder, and a happy smile on his face as well. They didn't… did they? I don't want to know, actually.
'Oh my god…' Faramir whispered. I turned around, my back facing the two "lovebirds".
'Told you so!' Boromir said.
'So uhm, what have you two been doing?' Vebor asked them. I tried my best not to hear what they were going to say.
'Uhm talking mostly.' Legolas said. I looked at Arwen, who was sitting in front of me, looking at them. I did a nice "I gotta puke" gesture, aka: opened my mouth and stuffed my finger half way in it. She laughed.
'It makes me sick too.' She whispered.
'Yeah right.' Several people said to Legolas. Arwen did an "IWW" face.
'What happened?' I asked her.
'He kissed her.' She whispered back. I did an "IWW" face as well. I turned around. Legolas walked back to his tent, Elvea sighed, and walked back to hers. I sat there for a moment. Poking the fire. Suddenly, I got a diabolical master plan. I started throwing pinecones on Legolas' tent. Hah, serves him right. Some five minutes later, something in the tent moved. I turned around and started poking the fire again. Legolas stepped out of his tent.
'Who's been throwing stuff on my tent?' He asked.
'Not me.' It came from several directions. I turned around and looked at him. He shot me a deadly look. What? I didn't do nothing! Legolas walked over to the fire. I turned around and started poking the fire again, nasty look on my face. He started throwing little sticks in the fire.
'How's you day coming along?' He asked me.
'Fine.' I grunted.
'What've you been doing?'
'Caught fish, made lunch, ate it, had a walk with Faramir, oh and one with Boromir, and one with Éomer.'
'Oh.' He grabbed another stick and started poking the fire as well. I threw my stick into the fire, stood up, walked over to the table, and sat down next to Vebor.
'What's the matter hunny?' He asked me.
'Nothing, I just felt like sitting with someone that cares about *my* feelings.' I said, just loud enough for Legolas to hear what I was saying. In the corner of my eye, I could see Legolas freeze. Just a second, but I saw it.
'Okay.' He wrapped his arm round my shoulders. Faramir walked over to the fire and sat on a log.
'How're you doing?' He asked Legolas.
'Okay.'
'Okay.'
'You?'
'Pretty good.'
'Okay.'
'You look tired.'
'I am.'
'Oh. How come?'
'Exhausting week.'
'I guess you're not the only one having that kind of problems.'
'How do you mean?'
'Elvea's in her bed, I think, Éomer's not to awake today, Endomiel looks like she's going to fall asleep any second now, and then there's you, who doesn't only look like he's tired, but it also looks like you've got a big problem on your mind.'
'I don't want to talk Faramir.'
'You don't have to talk to me, talk to her.'
'To Elvea?'
'You know who I mean.' Faramir stood up and walked towards Vebor and me. 'Who's going to make dinner?'
'I don't know.' I said. 'I could make fish again.'
'That's what I hoped.'
'But only if someone helps me clean the fish again.'
'I'll help.' Faramir said.
'Better go catch some fish now.' I said as I got up and walked over to the tree and grabbed my bow and arrows. I grabbed the extra piece of rope and threw it to Faramir. 'You gonna help?'
'Sure.'
'Can I come?' Legolas asked.
'Did you bring your own bow and arrows?'
'Yeah…'
'Sure, you can help shoot the fish.' I said. We walked to the river and climbed up on the rock. 'If you shoot from that rock, I'll shoot from here. Faramir'll tie the fish to the rock. Okay?'
'Sure.' I aimed at a fish and shot. Hit. I pulled the rope. Nothing happened. Oh, come on… I pulled again.
'Faramir, can you help?'
'What's the problem girl?' He said as he came running over.
'I think the arrow's stuck in the bottom, can you help pull the arrow loose?'
'Sure.' He grabbed the rope and we pulled. The arrow moved. 'One more time…' We pulled. The arrow shot loose. We went rolling down the rock. Legolas came running over.
'Hey, are you alright?' He asked.
'Fine…' I moaned as I got up. He didn't even look at me.
'What happened?' He said as he pulled Faramir up to his feet. Hello? Damsel in distress over here! There was I big tear in my shirt, right across my stomach, and I was slightly bleeding. Faramir didn't have anything.
'I'm okay.' Faramir said as he turned to me. 'Are you okay?'
'Yeah, except for the scratch on my stomach, all's fine.' I said as I examined the scratch. 'At least we got the fish.' I turned around. 'What are you staring at?' I said to Legolas.
'Nothing…'
'Then move it will you.'
'I can stand here if I want.'
'No, you can't. Buzz off.'
'You got a problem with me standing here?' He stepped towards me.
'Yeah!' I did a step towards him.
'Yeah?'
'Yeah!' I looked him in the eye, moving closer with every word. Eventually, we were standing there with about two inches between us.
'Yeah?' He whispered.
'Yeah.' I whispered back.
'I'll uh, be going now…' Faramir said as he did a few steps backwards. We didn't respond. 'Okay, bye!'
'Wait a sec.' I said, not breaking the eye contact with Legolas. 'Did you put the fish in the water?'
'Uh… no, I'll do that first.'
'Good. Are you going to move anytime soon?' I asked Legolas.
'No.'
'Well, neither am I.' We stood there quite some time, when he finally moved. Well, not really moved, but he looked away. I won. I walked over to the spot where I had left my bow and arrow, and bumped into Legolas while trying to do so. He grabbed my wrist. I turned around and glared at him. He quickly let go of my wrist again. I picked up my bow and started shooting some more fish. He just stood there a while, I guess watching me or something. When I turned around again, he was gone. Now where did he go?
I caught two more fish, witch made a total of 4 fishes, and we cleaned them. I cut them in little pieces and we walked back to camp. Vebor was sitting at the table, playing cards with Boromir. Arwen and Estel were sitting at the fire, talking.
'Hey guys.' I said as I walked over to Estel and Arwen.
'Hey.' They greeted me with a cheer.
'Are you going to make dinner?' Estel asked.
'Yep.' I said as I threw some more wood on the fire. I put the fish in a pan and asked Faramir to get some more water. He did. When he returned, I had the potatoes ready and I started cooking them. The fish was done in no time.
'Arwen, could you tell everyone that dinner's ready?'
'Sure.'
'And Estel, could you and Faramir put all the plates and stuff on the table?'
'Sure.' Dinner was served shortly after. We ate it sitting around the fire, because… Well, I don't know why, the table's fine with me, but I guess the rest decided to sit around the fire. Everyone was there, except Legolas. Finally, he came out of his tent. Lazy guy. He sat next to Elvea.
'Hi love, hi guys.' He greeted us while he gave Elvea a peck on the cheek. I divided the food over the plates, and Éomer handed everyone a plate.
'Thanks.' Elvea said. He shot her a nasty look. Okay… Somewhere during dinner, Legolas tried to make a conversation.
'Man, I sure am hungry!' He said.
'That's because we had lunch, and you didn't.' Estel said.
'What did you have for lunch?' Elvea asked.
'Endomiel and I prepared fish.' Faramir said with a smile.
'I'm so glad I missed lunch.' I shot her a nasty look. I'm not a bad cook! 'What? I hate fish.'
'I still don't get it Legolas, how can you be hungry, if you've been eating Elvea's face all day?' Boromir asked with a grin. Elvea's face flushed. Boromir should really learn when to keep his big mouth shut. But then again, he did have a point.
After dinner, we all walked to the river and did the dishes. And we walked back to the campfire. We all sat back down. Of course, Elvea was next to Legolas again. Arwen shot her a nasty look. Estel whispered something in her ear.
'We need to talk.' She said to Elvea. They stood up and walked away. I just sat there, not saying anything. After a while, Arwen and Elvea had already returned, we all started talking to each other.
'People, I think it's time for a scary story.' Estel said. 'Anyone know one?' Boromir started telling about this scary lake-monster in Gondor, but Faramir kept interrupting him to tell everyone that Boromir was telling it all wrong. So, the story turned out to be a lot funnier then they had hoped. Oh well. After that, Estel told a story, witch did turn out to be fairly scary. But not to me. I've seen much scarier things, witch they didn't had to know about. Somewhere along the story, marsh-mellows showed up. Who brought them anyway?
It was somewhere around 10:00, when Vebor walked over to his tent and started searching his bag. He came back with a bottle of Elfish liquor he had bought in Rivendell.
'Who'd want a drink?' He asked us.
'I'll have some.' Éomer was the first to reply. Vebor opened the bottle and gave it to Éomer. Éomer took a swig. 'Oh, nice stuff.' He took some more.
'Hey, save some for me!' I said as I grabbed the bottle from his hands. I took a swig. Éomer was right, this was pretty good stuff! A little while later, the bottle was empty. I think out of the whole group, the only one who drank more than I was Éomer, but then again, we did have a good reason. :o(
'Do you have any more?' Éomer asked Vebor.
'Not for tonight pal. We have to save some for tomorrow.'
'Then what are we going to do next?'
'We could play a game.' O god, Vebor and one of his lame-ass ideas.
'Like what?' Faramir asked.
'Spin the bottle, but with real kissing.' Since we all were in a fairly good mood (aka: a little bit drunk…) we agreed on playing his silly game, but no guy-guy or girl-girl couples.
'Okay, who's first?' Faramir asked.
'I'll go first.' Estel grabbed the bottle and spun it. Boromir. Faramir. Estel again. This could take a while… Arwen. Estel's face flushed. What did he do that for? They kissed. Some 5 minutes later, they stopped. And then they kissed again. Okay… Aren't you supposed to kiss one time?
'Uh, guys, you only have to kiss once, you know?' Boromir finally said. They stopped kissing right away, but both of their faces flushed. Nice couple, tomato red Estel and strawberry pink Arwen. :o)
Arwen spun. Elvea. She spun. I decided to help Éomer a little, so I made sure the bottle pointed at him when it stopped. When Elvea looked up, she looked right into his eyes. Neither of them moved.
'Hey, you have to do it.' Vebor said. Finally, Éomer stood up and walked to Elvea. Good boy. He sat next to her.
'Let's get this over with.' He said. A few seconds later, they kissed. And kissed, and kissed, and… Well, you get the point. Were they going to stop any time soon? After a while, Boromir pulled Éomer's head backwards.
'Finally! Are you guys deaf or something?' He said.
'What do you mean?' Elvea said. Like she didn't know!
'You mean you don't know?' Of course she does!
'Man, you've been kissing for at least ten minutes, and we've been trying to stop you two since eight minutes ago, we shouted, waved… tried everything, even shouted that your hair was on fire and still no response…' Faramir said, a wide grin on his face.
'Yeah right, I would never kiss *her* that long!' Éomer said, trying to keep a cold voice, but I could hear it shake. He took his arms away from around her waist.
'Sure you won't. Anyway, it's your time to spin.' He spun. Elvea. Hehehe…
'What a coincidence.' Estel said. I grinned.
'I don't believe in coincidence.' She said, looking straight into my eyes. Creepy… She turned to Éomer.
'Hey guys, keep it short this time will ya?' Faramir said, grinning very widely.
'Let's see if you can do better than that lousy kiss a few minutes ago.' Éomer said.
'Look who's talking.'
'Oh yeah? Bring it on.' And whatever happened last time they kissed, it happened again? This time it was Estel who stopped them.
'I think you to had quite enough or now.' He said. 'If you two match each other again the next spin, we'll skip it.'
'Please do so.' Elvea said as she glared at Éomer.
'Oh come on, it looked like you were going to set the forest on fire! Spin already.' Elvea spun the bottle. Damn, it stopped at me. Now I had to spin. Without saying a word, I took the bottle and spun it. It stopped in front of Legolas. This couldn't be coincidence… I think my heart actually skipped a beat there, but I was not about to show it.
'Do I have to kiss her? Can't I just kiss Elvea instead?' He said. If I didn't have a good grip on myself, my jaw would have dropped to the ground by now. Jerk!
'I'm sorry Legolas, but everybody plays fair, so you have to too.' Boromir said. Yeah right.
'Like I don't suffer from this traumatic experience I'm about to get!' I said.
'Like you're the best kisser in the world.' Legolas replied.
'Better then you are.'
'Give it your best shot.' We both stood up and walked a few steps towards each other. Then our lips met. I could feel his right hand against my cheek, while his left hand was on my hip. My right hand was in his hair, and my left on his chest. We just stood there, kissing, for a small eternity. It seemed like the whole world had paused and was waiting for us to realise that this was it. This was what I missed for about a day. A day? It seemed so much longer… Then suddenly, Legolas drew back. Either that, or the fact that Boromir was slowly pulling us away from each other.
'Alright, I think that's about enough.'
'Thanks for making him stop Boromir.' I said while I looked deep in Legolas' eyes. Desire, passion, maybe even… His eyes were full of it. He turned away.
'She's the one that didn't let go!' Legolas spun the bottle. Boromir. Elvea. They kissed. Not long, not short, normal actual. That made it even more obvious that she still loved Éomer. She sun again. Arwen. Estel. They kissed again. Just once this time. Estel spun. Faramir. Me. Oh well. We kissed, it wasn't that bad really, quite good actually… :o) I spun. Legolas again? Okay.
'Oh man, not again…' He moaned. If I had my bow and arrow anywhere near me, he wouldn't be alive anymore, elf or no elf!
'Like I don't suffer!' I said. He walked over to me. We looked into each other's eyes.
'Oh, shut up.' He said as he kissed me. My hand slid through his hair, while his went up and down my back. I don't mind playing this game every evening… His right hand moved to my stomach.
'Auw…' I moaned. He stopped kissing me.
'What?' I could see the concern in his eyes.
'The cut…'
'Oh, right.' We kissed again. Somewhere around the road, somebody pulled us apart. Oww… He spun the bottle. Me! Joy-o-joy :o) uh, I mean, not again… Without complaining, we kissed. This time, we didn't kiss that long. I don't know why, but I suddenly remembered why we broke up, and pulled away. I spun the bottle. Arwen. She spun. Vebor. Oww, poor girl! They kissed, and their kiss must have been the shortest one in the history on romance, because man, it was over before I knew they were kissing. I missed it all! Vebor spun. Éomer. Time for my magic! Hah! Elvea. Good.
'Do I have to kiss that?' Elvea said while she pointed in the direction of Éomer. That gotta hurt.
'Like it's fun for me to kiss you!' Ooh, good response!
'Well at least I don't need to spin the bottle to get to kiss someone, right Legolas?' Okay… she got a point there…
'Of course you don't! Not as long as I can be with you anyway.' Legolas smiled a weak smile. You know, some reason or another, I don't believe him anymore. He leaned in to kiss her. I coughed. That distracted them. :o)
'You're supposed to kiss Éomer, not Legolas.' Faramir said.
'Can't I just skip this time?' Elvea sulked.
'No, you can't.' Estel said.
'But I don't want to kiss him…' Of course she didn't. Like they didn't have fun last time they kissed.
'Like I want to kiss some stuck up high-elven girl!' Éomer said. Oh, come on!
'That's your highness to you.' She snorted. There they go again…
'Just kiss already!' I shouted. They walked over to each other.
'Well, *your highness*, let's get this thing over with.' They kissed. Oh man, they went on for ages again, truly, will they ever learn? After a few minutes, Estel pulled Elvea's hair. Aww… I wanted to do that! Suddenly, Legolas stoop up and walked to Elvea.
'My turn.' He said.
'Legolas, what do you think you're doing?' Faramir said.
'I'd like to have a real kiss now, not one of those lame excuses for kisses from Endomiel.' Okay, that did it! Somewhere inside me, my rage exploded. He was going to get it now! That goddess-damned-son-of-a-bitch!
'Why are you doing this to me? To yourself?' I yelled.
What the Mordor are you talking about?' He said.
'This whole thing with Elvea.'
'What? You dumped me, and now I can't go on?'
'This isn't "going on", this is fake, a big charade.'
'And how would you know?'
'What? Do you think I'm that stupid? I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I know you better than that.'
'You don't know me at all. I am with Elvea, and there's no way you'll be able to change that!'
'NO?'
'NO!'
'You know what? Go ahead, marry your princess, I don't care! I bet she was your fiancée all along, I was just a replacement until she showed up, wasn't I?'
'No! You know that! I loved you!' He yelled. I walked over to him.
'And I loved you, but hey, love hurts.' I punched him in the jaw. I turned around and ran off to the forest. I could hear Legolas say a few last words
'Eru, I did it again…' I ran into the forest, and I could hear someone following me. I hid behind a tree. The person/elf walked past me, and then suddenly, he stopped. I could see the person had long hair. It must be Legolas then. I stepped out from the dark shadow of the tree.
'Why did you follow me?' I said.
'There you are. I was looking for you.' He did a step towards me.
'Stay away, for your own safety.'
'I'm not afraid, and it's worth the risk.' He did another step towards me.
'I'm sorry if I hurt you…' I whispered. A single tear rolled down my cheek.
'It's okay, I'm alive.' He wiped the tear of my cheek. 'Don't cry, it's not your fault.'
'Then whose fault is it?' I said as a stared at the ground.
'It's nobody's fault. Not mine, and certainly not yours.'
'But I was mean, I even punched you…' I looked up, and was surprised to look straight into his eyes. I reached up to touch his face. I rubbed his jaw where I punched it.
'It's okay, really, no damage done.'
'Your jaw is swollen…'
'It'll go away.'
'You lip, it's bleeding.' I touched his lip. He winched. 'Sorry…'
'It'll heal.'
'All will heal.'
'Even your heart?'
'It was never broken.' I said. He stared into my eyes, and I stared back into his. Some 5 minutes later, 5 minutes that seemed like eternity, I looked and walked away. I brushed past him. He grabbed me wrist, just like he did this afternoon, but this time I looked up with another look in my eyes. No death glare, but tears were in my eyes.
'It will be okay.' He said as he pulled me toward him. 'All will be okay.' He kissed me again, but this time, no one was watching. And this time, we didn't stop after a few minutes. We stood there quite a while, his hands roaming over my back, while my left hand slowly moved over his chest, and my right hand moved through his hair. His beautiful hair.
'This, I missed.' He said in-between kisses.
'So did I.' I said. 'So did I.'
'Here, take this.' He took my hand from his chest and handed me the necklace.
'Legolas…'
'You don't have to wear it, it's just that, I can't stand looking at it, and have it remind me of that day, and tell me that I could have you, instead of the necklace. I couldn't stand it if anyone but you would wear it.'
'Let's just keep this secret okay?'
'What? The necklace?'
'Everything, the necklace, this…' I kissed him again.
'And that we're back together.'
'Are we?'
'I don't know, are we?'
'You tell me.'
'It's your call.'
'I'm going to let you decide.'
'You broke it up, so you tell me.'
'If it's okay with you.'
'It is okay with me.'
'It's okay with me too.'
'But it's secret.'
'Right.'
'Then we're back together.'
'We are?'
'We are, right?' Legolas asked me with doubt in his voice.
'I'm calling it. We are.' We kissed again.
'I think it'll be best if we return one by one.'
'Who goes first?'
'I'll go first, I'll just tell them I wasn't able to find you.'
'Okay.'
'Okay.'
'So, nothing in public?'
'No…'
'Oh…' Legolas looked disappointed.
'Hey, we can always go and 'take a walk in the woods" tomorrow.'
'Tonight.'
'The night is almost over Legolas, and I'd like to get a good night rest for a change.'
'You haven't been sleeping well either?'
'No, not since…'
'Me neither.'
'I'm so glad you're back.' I hugged Legolas.
'So am I. But it's time to go now. You wait two minutes, then go back too, okay?'
'Okay.' A last kiss, and he was gone. Gone, just like that. I missed him already… by Eru, am I really this bad? Am I this deep in love? Love… o Eru… this was bad… Oh well, I'll give it a try for a change.
Two minutes later, I walked back to camp. I entered the circle of tents.
'Hey, she's back!' Faramir stood up and walked towards me.
'Hi Faramir.' I whispered.
'Hi.' He put his arm around my shoulders. 'Are you okay?'
'Yeah, I'm fine.'
'Legolas just came back, he was looking for you. He said he couldn't find you, but he returned with tears in his eyes and a happy smile on his face. He's in his tent if you need him.' I looked into Faramir's eyes. 'Okay, I'll shut up now.' I did a few steps away from Faramir and sat down on a log. I grabbed a stick and started roasting marshmallows.
'How are ya?' Vebor asked as he sat next to me. I looked him n the eyes.
'I'm sorry Vebor.' I said.
'Oh... I understand.' He moved a bit away from me. I ate the marshmallow, got up and walked to my tent. That's kind of where I am now. I can hear the others outside my tent. I think they think that I'm asleep. Anyway, they're talking about Legolas and me.
'Did you see them kissing? Man, there certainly is something between them!' Faramir said. I smirked. If even they could see it…
'I knew they would get back together at some point.' Estel said.
'Yeah, but what now? I mean, they can't hide it forever?' Boromir joined the conversation.
'They'll have to figure that one out themselves.' At that point, I decided I still had to write in my diary, and I turned a little light on. Suddenly, outside, all was silent. And it still is. Well, I'll keep you up-2-date, I'm going to sleep now,
Namarië!
Endomiel
(1): 'Hello friend of mine. How are you?'
(2): 'I know Loome. I know.'
E/N: Hi! Sorry for the gross part, just had to do that! :o) And I'm sorry for the mushy stuff, I promise, next chapter will be funny again! Anyway, thanks for reading this, and keep reviewing!! And keep the names coming! And good ideas… and, well, I'll stop now… buh-bye!