Market

"KALINA!" a tween hobbit shrieked at the top of her voice.

Almost immediately Kalina rushed over to her, her brown hair flying behind her and as she drew close to the hobbit, she tripped and fell over, landing at the hobbits' feet, who burst out laughing.

"What Rosa?" Kalina asked her best friend, giggling as she stood up and brushed the mud off her dress. A crowd of hobbits suddenly surged past them, almost making Kalina fall over again. This was midday in Hobbiton and there was a market going on, an event that only happened about once a month.

"Look," Rosa gestured the stall she was standing beside, still laughing. "You see this," she picked it up, "this, my dear Kalina, belonged to Mr. Frodo Baggins."

"What is it?" Kalina asked, taking it from Rosa. It was a small circle of glass with a flat bottom, obviously a paperweight, but inside the glass, instead of being a fixed pattern it was a set of changing places, and small flowers kept appearing, and small shapes of bees humming by the flowers.

"A paperweight, you idiot of a Barrows!" she scorned. "But it's an unusual one. I'd say he probably got it from Bilbo who got it from the treasure. Or maybe the Elves crafted it in Rivendell and gave it to Frodo."

Kalina examined it and then her heart quickened. Hastily, she paid for it, and placed it carefully in her bag.

"That's me out of money now!" she grinned, and Rosa rolled her eyes.

"Well I'm not and you're staying with me until I'm out as well!" Rosa ordered. "And then I've been forced to go and buy all the food for the week just because I'm the only daughter in the house! You know, Merry was going to see Pip today and that's passed the shop but nooo, I've got to carry it all back." she sighed. "And he had a pony!"

"I'll help you with that!" Kalina laughed, knowing it was what Rosa had wanted her to say. "But if you're gonna get the food, you better finish here quick cause everyone is wanting to go to the shop and your family ain't gonna be pleased if you don't get any food!"

"I've finished here already!" Rosa said impatiently. "While you were searching for anything pretty or belonging to HIM, I had got all I needed! So ha! Race ya there!"

Rosa instantly dashed off, dodging the shoppers and stalls with Kalina close behind her. It wasn't long to the store but it took a while to get through the constant groups of people and stores. As they finally neared the end of the market, they rushed down a steep hill and Kalina lifted her arms and felt like she was flying.she could feel the air brushing her face, her hair flying behind her.and suddenly she hit the ground, rolling over in a somersault, she managed to get to her feet again and dash after Rosa, who was at a disadvantage as she was shaking with laughter again.

"You idiot!" she gasped. "That's three times you've fell today because of your constant dreaming!"

"And that's three times you've made a fool of yourself Rosa Brandybuck! Didn't you see Tom? He was watching you and everytime he seemed to take a step towards you, you'd dash off cos you were almost crying with laughter!"

"He WAS?!" Rosa gasped. "Oh wow!"

"He was talking to Merry," Kalina continued, as they entered the store and Rosa hastily grabbed all the food they needed. "He was continually looking at you! My mum says he's a perfect gentlehobbit!"

"Oh, he's not perfect. I can remember once, he once ran down a hill, tripped up and landed headfirst in cow manure! That'll be you one day if you're not careful!" Rosa snorted. "Well that's what he thought it was.it was actually mud but no one told him that."

Kalina laughed. "You'll get to speak to him tonight at the party!"

"But what will you do?" Rosa asked.

"I'll talk to all my other friends! You're not the only one you know!" Kalina teased.

"Kalina, you know exactly what I meant," Rosa sighed. "You've got lots of lovely gentlehobbits after you and you take no notice of them at all. You'll just chat animably to them and that's it!"

"The only hobbit I'll ever love like that was Frodo Baggins," Kalina sighed. "I don't want any other."

"KALINA! Frodo's gone! He went to the Havens and no one comes back from there," Rosa said tactlessly. "PLUS there's that whole hatred thing between your family & relatives and the Bagginses!"

"I know that," Kalina said quietly.

"AND you never told him what you felt for him," Rosa continued.

"I know I never! Shut up about him Rosa, or I'll go and set your family on you!" Kalina threatened jokingly, hiding her true feelings, rapidly blinking tears back.

"You dare!" Rosa cried. "If they found out it was me, who broke the chair, I'm doomed."

"Which chair was it?"

"Erm.the one dad always sits in.he'll find out tonight!" Rosa said. "BUT, luckily, I'm gonna be at yours!" she grinned, scanning the list. "That's it! We're done!" She paid, and she and Kalina lugged the bags back to the Brandybucks' hobbit hole.

A/n. I swear it'll get more interesting.Reviews would be welcome! Hehe, just remembered why I wrote about a broken chair.I leapt on this crappy sofa screaming "FRODO!" @ the top of my voice cos I was watching LOTR.(duh) and the thingy collapsed.ops.it wasn't me! Dad was fixing something else on that chair yesterday (very crappy) and he found out.it wasn't me.remember, IT WAS NOT ME! That was.erm, Frodo jumping through the screen to me.;o) -yeah I'm obsessed.