Chapter 4: When Cell Phones Attack
~ ~ ~ At Pippin's house ~ ~ ~
Pippin and Merry had dried off and we were all sitting around the table eating (I missed lunch and it had been 3 hours since the hobbits last ate). Pippin was sitting next to me and had been following me around ever since I had met him. Oooo… I was loving it.
"So how exactly did you get here?" Frodo asked me. I explained to him everything I could. As soon as I was finished I realized that the hobbits were staring at me.
"What? Do I have spinach in my teeth?"
"No," Pippin said breaking the silence. "It's just that we've never met anyone from Earth before."
"Ok… Oh! What time is it?" I asked.
"6 o' clock," Sam answered.
"I was supposed to call my friend Christy, like, 3 hours ago!" I exclaimed taking out my cell phone and calling my best friend. "Christy?" I asked as she answered the phone.
"Vanessa, you should know better than to call me this early," she yawned.
"Early?!" It's 6 o' clock!"
"Ummm… that would be a no. It's 3 am."
"Oh, sorry. There must be a time difference."
"Where are you?" she asked me.
"Christy, you better sit down because you're not going to believe this. I'm in Middle-Earth!!"
"You lie! No way!" she screamed. "Is Merry there? If he is you better keep your grubby hands off of him."
"Don't worry. I've got my eye on someone else. I got to go. I don't think my long distance company is going to be very happy. Well maybe they will. This call is going to cost me a fortune! Bye, tell my mom that I'm sleeping at your house, Ok, thank you!" I hung up the phone and yet again the hobbits were staring at me.
"What you never seen a phone before? Oh, I guess not."
Immediately the hobbits just about pounced on me. They tried to grab my phone which I had placed in my back pocket. Let me tell you, I didn't hate it when Pippin grabbed my phone.
"Let me see it!" "No!" "Give it to me!" "Hey! Give that back!" "Get your foot outta my face!" "Oww… That hurt!" they argued.
"Stop it!!!" I yelled. And they froze in their tracks. "Give me my phone, now." Sam handed me the phone and they each sat down in their chairs without a word still staring at me as if I were the devil. "You don't ever touch my phone. Ya hear? My friend Tim tried that once, and he'll never do it again." I sat back down. "Carry on with whatever you were talking about."
It quickly became dark and I was getting quite tired.
"I don't want to sound rude, but where am I going to stay tonight? I don't know how to get home still."
"You can stay with me," and "Come with me," were shouted from each of the hobbits.
"Whoa. I only need one place to stay, not four. It honestly doesn't matter to me where I stay just to let you know."
"Me, me! Stay with me!" and other phrases of the same sort were shouted.
"Ok. Well I can't make up my mind when you all shout at the same time!" I said. "Well let's go in order oldest to youngest or whatever."
"I'm the oldest," Frodo said. "Stay with me, I live right down the road."
"I found you. I've known you the longest," Sam put in.
"My home is the biggest," Merry said.
"Well, you're already here," Pippin commented. "You wouldn't have to walk anywhere."
After a few moments of thinking I decided to stay with Pippin. The other hobbits went home after saying their good-byes.
Once outside, Merry said to Sam, "She only chose to stay there because Pippin touched her butt."
Pippin showed me to the guest room and I headed in and started to get undressed (I didn't have any pajamas!) when I heard a knock at my door. "One minute," I called. I opened the door and Pippin was standing there in my doorway.
"Yes?"
"Oh, yeah, my rooms right next door if you need anything."
"Ok, thank you, good night."
"And the washroom is right across the hall."
"Alright, 'night."
I finished getting undressed and I hopped into my bed. "I think I'm going to like it here," I thought to myself while drifting off to sleep.