Chapter 3: Swimming Hobbits

A/N: I'm on the bus home so this chapter will be kinda weird.

Disclaimer: I haven't been putting this in. I'm a bad hobbit. I own nothing except maybe me. It's kinda sad really but Tolkien owns everything good in this story. Well, on we go!

        I was falling for about 60 seconds in darkness. Everything around me was black. I wanted to scream but I was afraid of who would hear me. Would it be a teacher who ran up and scolded me or would I simply awake in my room from a nightmare?

        Then I landed hard on something though I didn't know what. I started to look around but then I heard a "Grroff!" The something I had landed on was a someone.

        "OMG! I'm so sorry!" I cried as I tried to help the stranger I had landed upon up.

        As the mysterious stranger got up and dusted himself off I realized that in fact this person was a hobbit by the name of Samwise Gamgee.

        "Sam?!" I cried incredulously. "Can it be?"

        "Ai, Samwise Gamgee at your service. I wish not to sound rude but I know not who you are, my lady."

        "I'm Vanessa," I said to the curious hobbit. "Hey, ummm... do you think you could show me around The Shire?"

        "Alright, but I'm on my way home. I'll show you everything on my way."

        "Ok," I said. "I hope I get to see Pippin," I thought to myself.

        Sam showed me around and along the way we met Frodo Baggins sitting by a tree reading a book.

        "Hullo, Mr. Frodo," Sam greeted the hobbit.

        "Greetings, Sam," he replied. "Who's this you've found?" he asked looking at me,

        "This is Vanessa. I found her. Well, she found me actually. She kinda fell and landed on me."

        "Let's go find Merry and Pippin. They should be interested in her too," Frodo said off-handedly.

        Off the three of us walked in search of Frodo's cousins. We found them by the lake swimming.

        "Oi! Merry! Pippin! Come on over we have someone we want you to meet!" Frodo called.

        Merry looked over, saw that I was a she and quickly covered up with a shirt.

        "Pip, it's a girl, put some clothes on," he quickly whispered to his cousin and best friend.

They ran up soaking wet (Pippin was looking incredibly hott).

        "Hello, Frodo, Sam," Merry said. "Who's this?" he asked looking at my strange attire (to him it was weird, but to me I was dressed for school).

        "Allow me to introduce a new friend of ours, Lady Vanessa."

        "Howdy," I said shaking each of the hobbit's hands.

        "Howdy? I haven't heard that one before," Pippin said looking confused.

        "Why don't we head over to Pippin's house?" Merry asked. "It's the closest and Pip and I can dry off."

        "Fine with us," we agreed.