Chapter 7: Going Home
It was close to noon by the time I got up to move around. When I got up I realized that Pippin wasn't next to me. So I raised myself off the couch and walked into the kitchen knowing I'd find at least one hobbit in there. Instead I found two.
Merry and Pippin were talking in hushed voices in the far corner of the kitchen and immediately stopped talking when I entered the room.
"Hello, guys," I said. "Where are Frodo and Sam? I need to talk to them."
"Hello, Nessa. Ummm… they went home to change, but they'll be back later," Merry said.
"Oh. Pippin, is it OK if I go into the library to get something to read?" I asked.
"Ai," was the only response I got so I left. Something was up so I stayed by the door to hear what they were talking about.
"It is folly! She has a life and it is not here. She must go back some time."
"No! I love her. She can't go back."
"I knew that coming. You fell in love with her. She must go back and it's going to break your heart, I'm afraid."
I had to get away from the door. I couldn't bear to listen to my hobbit talk about me leaving. I knew I couldn't stay forever but I never really thought about leaving. "I must leave tonight," I thought. I decided to tell everyone tonight when Frodo and Sam came back.
About an hour later I had remembered the spell to get me back home and I was prepared to leave. I gathered everyone into the main room and prepared to give them my announcement.
"You all know I love each and everyone of you but I feel that it's time for me to go back home," I said with a sigh trying to keep the tears from falling. I looked at the hobbits and they were either looking at the ground or out the window. Pippin on the other hand just looked up at me as if he would cry too. "I will come back. It's just, I can't leave my home, my friends, and my life behind. I'm still in school; I want to finish that before I settle down somewhere permanent. Besides, my parents are probably worried about me."
I gave the three older hobbits hugs and then walked over to Pippin. "I'm leaving now," I said to him. He didn't reply so I turned and started to walk away.
"You will come back?" Pip asked me.
"Of course. Spring Break when I don't have to worry about missing any school."
He ran over, hugged me, and said, "I'll miss you."
"Me too. All of you. See ya." I repeated the spell to get me home, closed my eyes, and with another loud bang I was gone.
When I opened my eyes I was in my front yard. My mom came outside to see what the noise was. She saw me and strolled over.
"I was wondering when you would come home," she said to me. "We thought Christy's parents didn't let her have many friends over."
"Ummm… we were working on a project together."
"Oh. Well, come on inside; dinner's ready."
Months passed but not a day went by when I didn't think about my adventure to Middle-Earth.
~ ~ ~At School (day after I came back) ~ ~ ~
"Nessa! You're back! How did Merry look? Did you tell him about me? What happened to your head?" she asked looking at the bruise on the side of my head.
"I saw Merry. Pippin was cuter. I didn't tell him about you. And I was kicked in the head by a horse. I'll tell you everything in time."
"Nessa, you freak! How was your nerd convention you missed school for?" my enemy Katy asked coming down the hall.
"I left the most beautiful place in the universe to come to a high school in the middle of a cow pasture? I left someone who loved me for Katy?!" I asked Christy.
"It looks that way," she answered.
"I think I'm sick."
A/N: That's it! I've done it! I've finished my 1st solo fic! So didja like it? I need some feedback people!