Highschool Mordel's POV.
Disclaimer: I sadly don't own LOTR.
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"Yo, Mordel, you gotta wake up." Eowyn said.
"Why? Its 4 in the morning." I said rolling over.
"I know but I couldn't sleep. I have a bad feeling." She said. I sat up immediately. When Eowyn has a bad feeling something usually happens. The worse the feeling is the sooner it happens.
"How bad?" I asked biting my lip.
"Not very. It feels like in a month or so." She said trying to shake the feeling off.
"Well, now that we're up, what should we?" I asked.
"Wanna sneak into the gym and play a game of basketball?" She suggested.
"Sure, you want to borrow a pair of my sweats?" I replied.
"Yea."
I put on black sweats and a white shirt that in black letters said 'got game?' Eowyn borrowed a pair of blue sweats and a white shirt that said 'Back off! It's game time.' We put our hair in ponytails, grabbed my basketball and snuck into the hallway. We crept silently down the stairs. We finally got to the gym. Someone was in there. It wasn't a teacher so we went in anyway.
"What are you doing here?" I asked. The guy got really startled.
"I'm waiting for someone." He said nervously.
"Who?" Eowyn asked raising her eyebrow. We walked closer. He seemed kind of like a dork when he spoke. He wasn't good looking. He was decent. He looked as if he was a track sprinter.
"Some guys." He answered feeling a little more comfortable. He was an elf.
"Planning on vandalizing the gym?" I asked as I shot the basketball, which went in effortlessly.
"Not exactly, no." The guy said.
"Let me guess, they're going to beat you up or you're already running from them." Eowyn said.
"Are they after you too?" He asked.
"Hell no. Nobody ever goes after me. I'm the infamous Mordel Celebnar." I said.
"You'll tell them where I am." He said as he tried to take off running. I caught his shoulder.
"What do you mean? I don't know who you or they are." I demanded.
"You hang out with them though." He said all freaked out.
"Will you calm down?" Eowyn asked. He calmed down a little. I heard a door creak open. I grabbed Eowyn's arm and we hid in one of the equipment closets. The guy tried to run but two or three guys came from every door.
"Did we interrupt a conversation with your invisible friends?" I heard a cold taunting voice say. I knew that voice. It was Mardil. I still can't believe Legolas would be in a ban with him. I was ready to go beat him up. Eowyn grabbed me. She probably is right.
"I thought I heard footsteps running somewhere before we got here." I heard another voice say. That couldn't be who I think it was. I peeked out the door. I was right. It was Legolas. I looked at Eowyn and mouthed his name. She looked out the door. She was just as shocked as I was. I gave her a look that said, 'come on let me go out there and bust on him.' She nodded reluctantly. They apparently didn't notice us. I grabbed a football out of the equipment closet and hit Mardil in the back of the head.
"Can't you ever be nice to anyone?" I asked him. He didn't even have to turn around. There had been a lot of hostility ever since we dated.
"Mordel, what a pleasure to see you again." He said mockingly. I looked at Legolas and gave him a glare.
"What did that kid ever do to you?" I asked.
"This doesn't concern you." Mardil said turning and looking at me.
"It did the second you involved Legolas and when we came in to play basketball." I snapped at him. I noticed out of the corner of my eye Eowyn grab two baseball bats out of the closet.
"Get them." Mardil said. A couple of his cronies headed towards us. Eowyn handed me at bat. I always make the school softball team. They hesitated a little when they saw the baseball bats. I smacked the first one that came towards me. We hit our way towards Mardil. He landed a punch in my stomach. He had bronze knuckles. I looked to Legolas he stood there transfixed with horror. The guy this started over took off while we had their attention. I turned my back to a door. This was a down hill battle. There was no way we could win. I exchanged a glance with Eowyn. We walked backwards hitting anyone who came near us. Once we reached the door we threw the bats at them and took off running. We ran to my dorm. We were heavily breathing by the time we were safe.
"That wasn't fun. I'm going to take a shower. You can use Celebwen's." I said. Now it's 5 in the morning. I looked at my stomach there was a pretty bad bruise. It'll be gone fairly soon. I'm an elf. We took showers and got back into our pajamas. It was only 5:30. We don't have anywhere to be for another couple of hours.
"So, any ideas on what we should do for the Karaoke show? I heard Malelen talking. She, Celebwen, and Eilin have an act." Eowyn said.
"We got to keep our tradition of doing provocative songs. We've been doing it that way since eighth grade. We've done Lady Marmalade, Slave for you, Whenever Wherever, and My neck my back. We also appeared in thong song and Baby got back." I said.
"How about Dirrty or B R ight?" She suggested.
"Well, since I can't stand Trina so I guess Dirrty." I said. I hate Trina. I have issues.
"I have the Cd, but it's in my dorm." Eowyn said.
"We can use Celebwen's. I already know the dance pretty well." I said. I got the Cd. We put it in. The music came on. We started imitating the video from memory. We started coordinating our moves. By 7:30 we had the dance nailed.
"Let's get breakfast. I got detention at 9." I said. We got dressed and did our makeup. I put on my favorite pants. They are old broken in camouflage baggy pants. I got them when I was 15. They were really big. I grew into them. They used to belong to my friend, but when he and his parents were going through Rohan he was killed by wargs. I put on a black shirt and left my hair down. I pulled on my combat boots and we headed down to breakfast. We passed Legolas coming out of his dorm.
"I need to talk to you two." He said. I pulled his hair. I heard him swear we just kept walking. We sat at a table. Slowly, people were entering the room. Faramir came in he was still asleep by the looks of it.
"Tired?" I asked.
"Yes, didn't you hear the two maniacs playing the guitar until about one and then were running down the hall?" He asked sleepily.
"That was us." Eowyn said as we started to laugh.
"I should've known." He grumbled.
"Lighten up will you. I can't have so much gloom before detention." I said.
"So, what do we think today's breakfast is?" Eomer said as he sat down.
"Taste kind of like mud with a hint of grass." I said pushing it away. I had the special. I'm going to get a real brand cereal, not the other generic type they serve. I came back with some real cereal. Legolas sat down at our table. Eowyn and I sent him death glares. The others shot each other uncertain glances.
"Don't you have someone to beat up?" Eowyn said acidly.
"I need to talk to you two about that." He said.
"Fine, talk, but I can't guarantee we'll listen." I said.
"Mordel, you know I don't usually do those things." He said pleadingly.
"No, Legolas, I apparently don't know you anymore. You keep surprising me. You used to be a friend who cared about your friends, was usually nice to everybody and gave people benefit of the doubt. Now, your just another stuck up prep that could careless about others." I said viciously. He looked really hurt. After we just made up, of course something like this would happen. This just isn't our year. He just stood up and left. I kind of felt bad, but then I remembered the look on that guys face. I hung out while the rest of my friends ate. We were talking. Taralomeion sat down. He looked as if he hadn't slept in weeks.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"Yea, the girls across the hall from me were having a sleepover. They kept me up. They were playing all these annoying pop songs all night. Once I finally got to sleep two whacks ran down the hall really loudly." He grumbled.
"Hear that Eowyn, we're whacks!" I said with fake enthusiasm.
"That was you?" He asked lifting his head.
"Yea, sorry about that." I said. I looked at the clock. It was 8:45.
"I got to go to detention. See you guys later." I said standing up. I started walking to the room we were having detention in. I saw Elrond standing there, looking way too happy.
"Good to see you Miss Celebnar. Today we will be doing something a little different." He said smiling. I felt my jaw drop. Last time, we did something different I got stuck painting over the graffiti on a couple walls. I hate it when Elrond is this happy. Elrond was handing out sheets of paper with assignments and partners on them. No, he can't be serious. I looked at my paper again. He made me and Estel partners. We both glared venomously at him. We had to help the kitchen make second breakfast and lunch. Cooking for hobbits.
"Miss Celebnar I gave most the kitchen crew off until dinner so you won't have much help." He said mockingly. Estel and I headed off to the kitchen.
"This is so unfair." I said the second I saw how much help we'd have. 5 people were in the kitchen.
"He's got to be kidding?" Estel said astonished.
"When it comes to punishment Elrond never kids." I said putting on an apron. The kitchen staff immediately started barking orders. On a lot of it, Estel and I just stood there because we had no idea what they were talking about. We finally finished second breakfast when all the hobbits entered. I was stuck serving.
"Mordel, why are you working in the kitchen?" Pippin asked.
"My detention. Estel's here too." I said glumly.
"That's our kind of detention." Merry said happily.
"I hate cooking." I said.
"Well, have fun." They said as they went to pay.
"How can I have fun? This is detention." I called after them. After serving the hobbits and making lunch I was dismissed. Estel had to stay and help serve because he didn't serve at second breakfast. Stupid human. I went to my dorm. I saw Eowyn sitting on the couch. I suddenly remembered Taralomeion's girlfriend was going to play for us.
"She didn't come yet did she?" I asked.
"Nope." Eowyn said flipping through a magazine.
"Aren't you going to get lunch?" I asked. I hadn't seen her down there.
"No, I brought some food."
"I had to cook second breakfast and lunch. I also had to serve second breakfast. I was supposed to serve lunch, but Estel didn't help serve second breakfast, he had to serve lunch by himself." I said plopping down on the couch. There was a knock on the door. Before Eowyn and I knew it, Celebwen had already thrown open the door. She walked away kind of disappointed. We walked over to the door.
"Are you Mordel and Eowyn?" A human girl asked.
"Yea, that's us." Eowyn said.
"My name is Iriana. I'm Taralomeion's girlfriend." She said and extended her hand. We both shook it. She had curly brown hair down to her mid back. She had plain brown eyes. I think she might be from Bree. I know she's not from Rohan. She was wearing a jean skirt, a plain white t-shirt with some dirt stains, and a pair of beat up sneakers. She had her bass in case and a medium sized bass amp in her other hand.
"We're going to have to go to your room because I don't have a drum set up here." I said to Eowyn.
"Yea, go get your guitar and amp." Eowyn said. She and Iriana started talking. I could hear some of their conversation, thanks to my elvish hearing. It was mainly about prior band experience and such. I know Eowyn wanted to win pretty badly. Every year a band of seniors have beaten us. Now, that they've graduated, we can probably win. All of our friends have started bands now though. We headed to Eowyn's dorm. There were still a couple of the preps there. We'll probably blow their perfect little ears out.
Once we got everything set up. I gave Iriana a piece of paper with the bass part on it. She read it over a couple of times. We let her get a little used to it first. She told she was ready. We warmed up a little. I turned up the amps pretty loud and we started playing. I was really listening to the bass part. I know Eowyn was to because I heard the drums miss a beat. Eowyn never misses a beat. Once we finished paying. We started talking. Well, after all the remaining girls from the party came in and yelled at or insulted us. It was pretty funny. They seemed kind of drugged. One of them was Arwen. I'm always pleased to tick her off.
"So, have you ever played in a band before?" I asked.
"Yes, it disbanded because of creative differences between the guitarist and drummer." She replied. We talked for some time. Not just about the band. She left.
"What do you think about her?" I asked Eowyn.
"She was pretty good. Not the best, but we should take what we can get." Eowyn said. Iriana was good with some practice she'll be great.
"Yea, I guess so. Are we going to look for another guitarist?" I asked.
"Can we decide tomorrow? I'm kind of tired." She said with a yawn.
"Sure. Bye." I said grabbing my stuff. I put it in my dorm and rode into the city. My friend, Malalph, lives in the city. He usually always has a party. I could hear the music from down the street. I walked in the door and said, "Hit me." A soda was immediately given to me. I walked in and I talked to some people I knew.
"Hey Mordel." Malalph said.
"Hey. How have you been?" I asked. I hadn't seen him in a long time.
"You know me. I've been good just hanging out. How's school?" He asked. I banged my head on the wall. I told him everything that's happened. He was so surprised when I was talking about with Legolas and I. I could feel my eyes water the tiniest bit. I blinked them and I was fine.
"I'm always here, Mordel. You can always just come and hang out. Eilin has always been kind of flaky. Deep down she does care. You'll probably be friends again eventually. Nimaglar is your sister. She might have gotten a little hatred for you from her parents. You might have to speak to her again. I can't believe Legolas would do that. It doesn't seem like him." Malalph said reasonably. He was always good at giving my advice. That's why we dubbed him the group therapist. Suddenly, Some people bust in the door.
"Who are they?" I asked.
"They're a group of kids from the public high school. They cause al most as much trouble. I told them to not come over anymore." He said as he grabbed a baseball bat. He went over to them.
"I told you not to come over here anymore." He said. Some of the party murmured in agreement.
"I can never miss out on a great party." Said a guy who seemed to be the leader. I grabbed one of Malalph's bats.
"Are you deaf? What part of your not invited don't you get?" I asked irritated. The guy stepped forward.
"Who do we have here?" He said putting his arm around me. I whacked him in the stomach with the bat.
"Your worst nightmare." I answered.
"Next time, you don't get a bat." Malalph said taking my bat. I looked at the guy I hit. A giant bruise was forming.
"Well, he shouldn't have fucking put his arm around me." I snapped.
"Eru save your school." He said rolling his eyes.
"They haven't left yet." I said stating the obvious.
"They might want revenge because you hit him with a bat." Malalph said. Why is he always right?
"Fine, I can take them." I said. Most of them were guys and were rather big. I kind of regret what I had said.
"You're the only person who has actually hit me with a baseball and then challenge my friends and I to a fight." said the guy rubbing his stomach.
" I'm not one to fit in." I said.
"Why don't you come hang out with us?" He asked. I looked at Malalph. He shrugged.
"Sure, but I'm bringing the bat." I said taking the bat. It probably wasn't a good idea to go.
"Careful, Mordel. I don't want to tell Eowyn and Legolas, you're dead because then I'll be dead." Malalph said.
"Aren't I always careful?" I asked.
"No." He said shaking his head. His dark curly hair was shaking back and forth. He reminded me of a dog.
"I will be this time." I said as I walked out. I was wary of these people. One of the girls glared vehemently at me. She was an elf. She had long blond hair. She had on a blank red t-shirt and a black skirt. She was wearing some sort of boot. She didn't look like she fit in with these guys. There were five girls, including me.
"So what are we going?" I asked with the bat over my shoulder.
"I don't know." They said.
"So basically just wandering around." I stated. I heard some mumbles, but no definite answer. I rolled my eyes and just went along with it. We came to the back of a club. My friend, Gaelen, was a bouncer at.
"Inella, you climb first." The guy said. The girl who had been glaring at me nodded and started to climb.
"Okay, well, I'll meet you inside." I said. Like hell I'm climbing in when I can walk in.
"What is the little girl scared?" Inella said tauntingly. I turned and was glaring at her.
"Why climb when I can line jump?" I asked her.
"How could you line jump?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
"I now a bouncer into almost every club in the city. My friend is working tonight. He'll let me in. You can go head and climb in. Whoever wants to come with me can." I said sharply. Inella scowled at me. The other girls came over with me. The guys were so sure I didn't know the bouncer they decided to climb. Inella started climbing.
I headed to the door followed by the other girls. I started waving to Gaelen. He smiled.
"Hey Mordel. Heard you've been hanging out at Saeros' club." He said.
"I got spread out. Let everyone have the honor of being with me. Plus, you know you're my favorite." I said smiling.
"You got to come around more often. Go head in." He said as he let us in.
"Wow, you do know the bouncers." One girl said. She was pretty. She was a human with curly brown hair. Her hair had pink streaks in it.
"What's your name?" One of the other girls asked.
"I'm Mordel. Who are you?" I answered.
"My name is Laiquareiel, you can call me Lai. This is Encaliel aka Cali and that is Vanametiel we call her Vana." The girl with pink streaks said. Cali was an elf. She had her tongue pierced. She was wearing a black halter with a black skirt that was shredded up until her mid thigh. She had on boots similar to mine. Vana was a human with red hair that reminded me of Eilin. She had on a green crop top with really baggy torn jeans. She had her lip pierced. They seemed pretty cool.
"Now lets go find Inella and the guys." Lai said. We each got a beer and headed to where they should be climbing in. I like the occasional beer. I usually have tequila, but tonight I just don't feel like it. We stood there a couple minutes when Inella came into sight. We waited until she got down.
"What took you so long?" I asked. She stared at us. We waved. The guys looked a little shocked when they saw us.
"I told you I knew the bouncer." I said. Inella scowled.
"Mordel?" I heard a voice say behind me. I turned and saw Legolas.
"What?" I asked.
"Who are they?"
"Why do you care?"
"I'm your friend and I want to know."
"That doesn't mean I'll tell."
"You should though."
"Let me think about it.........No."
"I don't think you should be hanging out with them. Why do you have beer? I told you no more alcohol."
"You're not the boss of me. You can't take away my alcohol. I felt like beer instead of my tequila. Don't tell me who to hang out with. I don't think you should beat up some poor terrified guy who did nothing to you. I don't think you should hang out with Mardil. I think you should try to help me and Eowyn when we run for our lives." I said acidly. I turned and walked off with my new friends. They all finished introducing themselves.
"So, who was that guy? He was kind of cute." Lai asked.
"He usually is my best friend, but this year we've only fought. He has got a bitchy girlfriend named Arwen."
"You don't mean Undomiel do you?" Cali asked with fire in her eyes.
"Yea, do you know her?" I asked.
"We can't stand her." Vana answered.
"You must be that girl she always talks about then. You're not a loser like she said. She goes on and on about how she hates you and apparently made up stuff. Do you really have the school detention record?" Lai said interested.
"Of course. I live in detention. I wouldn't be allowed out, but I don't always get caught. Hey look there's Arwen now." I said pointing to Arwen. She was out dancing with Legolas.
"I feel like dancing." Vana said. The four us each grabbed a guy and went to dance. We went right near Arwen and Legolas. We accidentally spilled beer on Arwen. We also accidentally pushed her, hit her, stepped on her feet, screamed in her ear, started moshing causing her to be trampled, and humiliated her. It felt good Legolas will probably kill me though. It was worth it.
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A/N: Review!
Disclaimer: I sadly don't own LOTR.
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"Yo, Mordel, you gotta wake up." Eowyn said.
"Why? Its 4 in the morning." I said rolling over.
"I know but I couldn't sleep. I have a bad feeling." She said. I sat up immediately. When Eowyn has a bad feeling something usually happens. The worse the feeling is the sooner it happens.
"How bad?" I asked biting my lip.
"Not very. It feels like in a month or so." She said trying to shake the feeling off.
"Well, now that we're up, what should we?" I asked.
"Wanna sneak into the gym and play a game of basketball?" She suggested.
"Sure, you want to borrow a pair of my sweats?" I replied.
"Yea."
I put on black sweats and a white shirt that in black letters said 'got game?' Eowyn borrowed a pair of blue sweats and a white shirt that said 'Back off! It's game time.' We put our hair in ponytails, grabbed my basketball and snuck into the hallway. We crept silently down the stairs. We finally got to the gym. Someone was in there. It wasn't a teacher so we went in anyway.
"What are you doing here?" I asked. The guy got really startled.
"I'm waiting for someone." He said nervously.
"Who?" Eowyn asked raising her eyebrow. We walked closer. He seemed kind of like a dork when he spoke. He wasn't good looking. He was decent. He looked as if he was a track sprinter.
"Some guys." He answered feeling a little more comfortable. He was an elf.
"Planning on vandalizing the gym?" I asked as I shot the basketball, which went in effortlessly.
"Not exactly, no." The guy said.
"Let me guess, they're going to beat you up or you're already running from them." Eowyn said.
"Are they after you too?" He asked.
"Hell no. Nobody ever goes after me. I'm the infamous Mordel Celebnar." I said.
"You'll tell them where I am." He said as he tried to take off running. I caught his shoulder.
"What do you mean? I don't know who you or they are." I demanded.
"You hang out with them though." He said all freaked out.
"Will you calm down?" Eowyn asked. He calmed down a little. I heard a door creak open. I grabbed Eowyn's arm and we hid in one of the equipment closets. The guy tried to run but two or three guys came from every door.
"Did we interrupt a conversation with your invisible friends?" I heard a cold taunting voice say. I knew that voice. It was Mardil. I still can't believe Legolas would be in a ban with him. I was ready to go beat him up. Eowyn grabbed me. She probably is right.
"I thought I heard footsteps running somewhere before we got here." I heard another voice say. That couldn't be who I think it was. I peeked out the door. I was right. It was Legolas. I looked at Eowyn and mouthed his name. She looked out the door. She was just as shocked as I was. I gave her a look that said, 'come on let me go out there and bust on him.' She nodded reluctantly. They apparently didn't notice us. I grabbed a football out of the equipment closet and hit Mardil in the back of the head.
"Can't you ever be nice to anyone?" I asked him. He didn't even have to turn around. There had been a lot of hostility ever since we dated.
"Mordel, what a pleasure to see you again." He said mockingly. I looked at Legolas and gave him a glare.
"What did that kid ever do to you?" I asked.
"This doesn't concern you." Mardil said turning and looking at me.
"It did the second you involved Legolas and when we came in to play basketball." I snapped at him. I noticed out of the corner of my eye Eowyn grab two baseball bats out of the closet.
"Get them." Mardil said. A couple of his cronies headed towards us. Eowyn handed me at bat. I always make the school softball team. They hesitated a little when they saw the baseball bats. I smacked the first one that came towards me. We hit our way towards Mardil. He landed a punch in my stomach. He had bronze knuckles. I looked to Legolas he stood there transfixed with horror. The guy this started over took off while we had their attention. I turned my back to a door. This was a down hill battle. There was no way we could win. I exchanged a glance with Eowyn. We walked backwards hitting anyone who came near us. Once we reached the door we threw the bats at them and took off running. We ran to my dorm. We were heavily breathing by the time we were safe.
"That wasn't fun. I'm going to take a shower. You can use Celebwen's." I said. Now it's 5 in the morning. I looked at my stomach there was a pretty bad bruise. It'll be gone fairly soon. I'm an elf. We took showers and got back into our pajamas. It was only 5:30. We don't have anywhere to be for another couple of hours.
"So, any ideas on what we should do for the Karaoke show? I heard Malelen talking. She, Celebwen, and Eilin have an act." Eowyn said.
"We got to keep our tradition of doing provocative songs. We've been doing it that way since eighth grade. We've done Lady Marmalade, Slave for you, Whenever Wherever, and My neck my back. We also appeared in thong song and Baby got back." I said.
"How about Dirrty or B R ight?" She suggested.
"Well, since I can't stand Trina so I guess Dirrty." I said. I hate Trina. I have issues.
"I have the Cd, but it's in my dorm." Eowyn said.
"We can use Celebwen's. I already know the dance pretty well." I said. I got the Cd. We put it in. The music came on. We started imitating the video from memory. We started coordinating our moves. By 7:30 we had the dance nailed.
"Let's get breakfast. I got detention at 9." I said. We got dressed and did our makeup. I put on my favorite pants. They are old broken in camouflage baggy pants. I got them when I was 15. They were really big. I grew into them. They used to belong to my friend, but when he and his parents were going through Rohan he was killed by wargs. I put on a black shirt and left my hair down. I pulled on my combat boots and we headed down to breakfast. We passed Legolas coming out of his dorm.
"I need to talk to you two." He said. I pulled his hair. I heard him swear we just kept walking. We sat at a table. Slowly, people were entering the room. Faramir came in he was still asleep by the looks of it.
"Tired?" I asked.
"Yes, didn't you hear the two maniacs playing the guitar until about one and then were running down the hall?" He asked sleepily.
"That was us." Eowyn said as we started to laugh.
"I should've known." He grumbled.
"Lighten up will you. I can't have so much gloom before detention." I said.
"So, what do we think today's breakfast is?" Eomer said as he sat down.
"Taste kind of like mud with a hint of grass." I said pushing it away. I had the special. I'm going to get a real brand cereal, not the other generic type they serve. I came back with some real cereal. Legolas sat down at our table. Eowyn and I sent him death glares. The others shot each other uncertain glances.
"Don't you have someone to beat up?" Eowyn said acidly.
"I need to talk to you two about that." He said.
"Fine, talk, but I can't guarantee we'll listen." I said.
"Mordel, you know I don't usually do those things." He said pleadingly.
"No, Legolas, I apparently don't know you anymore. You keep surprising me. You used to be a friend who cared about your friends, was usually nice to everybody and gave people benefit of the doubt. Now, your just another stuck up prep that could careless about others." I said viciously. He looked really hurt. After we just made up, of course something like this would happen. This just isn't our year. He just stood up and left. I kind of felt bad, but then I remembered the look on that guys face. I hung out while the rest of my friends ate. We were talking. Taralomeion sat down. He looked as if he hadn't slept in weeks.
"Are you ok?" I asked.
"Yea, the girls across the hall from me were having a sleepover. They kept me up. They were playing all these annoying pop songs all night. Once I finally got to sleep two whacks ran down the hall really loudly." He grumbled.
"Hear that Eowyn, we're whacks!" I said with fake enthusiasm.
"That was you?" He asked lifting his head.
"Yea, sorry about that." I said. I looked at the clock. It was 8:45.
"I got to go to detention. See you guys later." I said standing up. I started walking to the room we were having detention in. I saw Elrond standing there, looking way too happy.
"Good to see you Miss Celebnar. Today we will be doing something a little different." He said smiling. I felt my jaw drop. Last time, we did something different I got stuck painting over the graffiti on a couple walls. I hate it when Elrond is this happy. Elrond was handing out sheets of paper with assignments and partners on them. No, he can't be serious. I looked at my paper again. He made me and Estel partners. We both glared venomously at him. We had to help the kitchen make second breakfast and lunch. Cooking for hobbits.
"Miss Celebnar I gave most the kitchen crew off until dinner so you won't have much help." He said mockingly. Estel and I headed off to the kitchen.
"This is so unfair." I said the second I saw how much help we'd have. 5 people were in the kitchen.
"He's got to be kidding?" Estel said astonished.
"When it comes to punishment Elrond never kids." I said putting on an apron. The kitchen staff immediately started barking orders. On a lot of it, Estel and I just stood there because we had no idea what they were talking about. We finally finished second breakfast when all the hobbits entered. I was stuck serving.
"Mordel, why are you working in the kitchen?" Pippin asked.
"My detention. Estel's here too." I said glumly.
"That's our kind of detention." Merry said happily.
"I hate cooking." I said.
"Well, have fun." They said as they went to pay.
"How can I have fun? This is detention." I called after them. After serving the hobbits and making lunch I was dismissed. Estel had to stay and help serve because he didn't serve at second breakfast. Stupid human. I went to my dorm. I saw Eowyn sitting on the couch. I suddenly remembered Taralomeion's girlfriend was going to play for us.
"She didn't come yet did she?" I asked.
"Nope." Eowyn said flipping through a magazine.
"Aren't you going to get lunch?" I asked. I hadn't seen her down there.
"No, I brought some food."
"I had to cook second breakfast and lunch. I also had to serve second breakfast. I was supposed to serve lunch, but Estel didn't help serve second breakfast, he had to serve lunch by himself." I said plopping down on the couch. There was a knock on the door. Before Eowyn and I knew it, Celebwen had already thrown open the door. She walked away kind of disappointed. We walked over to the door.
"Are you Mordel and Eowyn?" A human girl asked.
"Yea, that's us." Eowyn said.
"My name is Iriana. I'm Taralomeion's girlfriend." She said and extended her hand. We both shook it. She had curly brown hair down to her mid back. She had plain brown eyes. I think she might be from Bree. I know she's not from Rohan. She was wearing a jean skirt, a plain white t-shirt with some dirt stains, and a pair of beat up sneakers. She had her bass in case and a medium sized bass amp in her other hand.
"We're going to have to go to your room because I don't have a drum set up here." I said to Eowyn.
"Yea, go get your guitar and amp." Eowyn said. She and Iriana started talking. I could hear some of their conversation, thanks to my elvish hearing. It was mainly about prior band experience and such. I know Eowyn wanted to win pretty badly. Every year a band of seniors have beaten us. Now, that they've graduated, we can probably win. All of our friends have started bands now though. We headed to Eowyn's dorm. There were still a couple of the preps there. We'll probably blow their perfect little ears out.
Once we got everything set up. I gave Iriana a piece of paper with the bass part on it. She read it over a couple of times. We let her get a little used to it first. She told she was ready. We warmed up a little. I turned up the amps pretty loud and we started playing. I was really listening to the bass part. I know Eowyn was to because I heard the drums miss a beat. Eowyn never misses a beat. Once we finished paying. We started talking. Well, after all the remaining girls from the party came in and yelled at or insulted us. It was pretty funny. They seemed kind of drugged. One of them was Arwen. I'm always pleased to tick her off.
"So, have you ever played in a band before?" I asked.
"Yes, it disbanded because of creative differences between the guitarist and drummer." She replied. We talked for some time. Not just about the band. She left.
"What do you think about her?" I asked Eowyn.
"She was pretty good. Not the best, but we should take what we can get." Eowyn said. Iriana was good with some practice she'll be great.
"Yea, I guess so. Are we going to look for another guitarist?" I asked.
"Can we decide tomorrow? I'm kind of tired." She said with a yawn.
"Sure. Bye." I said grabbing my stuff. I put it in my dorm and rode into the city. My friend, Malalph, lives in the city. He usually always has a party. I could hear the music from down the street. I walked in the door and said, "Hit me." A soda was immediately given to me. I walked in and I talked to some people I knew.
"Hey Mordel." Malalph said.
"Hey. How have you been?" I asked. I hadn't seen him in a long time.
"You know me. I've been good just hanging out. How's school?" He asked. I banged my head on the wall. I told him everything that's happened. He was so surprised when I was talking about with Legolas and I. I could feel my eyes water the tiniest bit. I blinked them and I was fine.
"I'm always here, Mordel. You can always just come and hang out. Eilin has always been kind of flaky. Deep down she does care. You'll probably be friends again eventually. Nimaglar is your sister. She might have gotten a little hatred for you from her parents. You might have to speak to her again. I can't believe Legolas would do that. It doesn't seem like him." Malalph said reasonably. He was always good at giving my advice. That's why we dubbed him the group therapist. Suddenly, Some people bust in the door.
"Who are they?" I asked.
"They're a group of kids from the public high school. They cause al most as much trouble. I told them to not come over anymore." He said as he grabbed a baseball bat. He went over to them.
"I told you not to come over here anymore." He said. Some of the party murmured in agreement.
"I can never miss out on a great party." Said a guy who seemed to be the leader. I grabbed one of Malalph's bats.
"Are you deaf? What part of your not invited don't you get?" I asked irritated. The guy stepped forward.
"Who do we have here?" He said putting his arm around me. I whacked him in the stomach with the bat.
"Your worst nightmare." I answered.
"Next time, you don't get a bat." Malalph said taking my bat. I looked at the guy I hit. A giant bruise was forming.
"Well, he shouldn't have fucking put his arm around me." I snapped.
"Eru save your school." He said rolling his eyes.
"They haven't left yet." I said stating the obvious.
"They might want revenge because you hit him with a bat." Malalph said. Why is he always right?
"Fine, I can take them." I said. Most of them were guys and were rather big. I kind of regret what I had said.
"You're the only person who has actually hit me with a baseball and then challenge my friends and I to a fight." said the guy rubbing his stomach.
" I'm not one to fit in." I said.
"Why don't you come hang out with us?" He asked. I looked at Malalph. He shrugged.
"Sure, but I'm bringing the bat." I said taking the bat. It probably wasn't a good idea to go.
"Careful, Mordel. I don't want to tell Eowyn and Legolas, you're dead because then I'll be dead." Malalph said.
"Aren't I always careful?" I asked.
"No." He said shaking his head. His dark curly hair was shaking back and forth. He reminded me of a dog.
"I will be this time." I said as I walked out. I was wary of these people. One of the girls glared vehemently at me. She was an elf. She had long blond hair. She had on a blank red t-shirt and a black skirt. She was wearing some sort of boot. She didn't look like she fit in with these guys. There were five girls, including me.
"So what are we going?" I asked with the bat over my shoulder.
"I don't know." They said.
"So basically just wandering around." I stated. I heard some mumbles, but no definite answer. I rolled my eyes and just went along with it. We came to the back of a club. My friend, Gaelen, was a bouncer at.
"Inella, you climb first." The guy said. The girl who had been glaring at me nodded and started to climb.
"Okay, well, I'll meet you inside." I said. Like hell I'm climbing in when I can walk in.
"What is the little girl scared?" Inella said tauntingly. I turned and was glaring at her.
"Why climb when I can line jump?" I asked her.
"How could you line jump?" She asked raising an eyebrow.
"I now a bouncer into almost every club in the city. My friend is working tonight. He'll let me in. You can go head and climb in. Whoever wants to come with me can." I said sharply. Inella scowled at me. The other girls came over with me. The guys were so sure I didn't know the bouncer they decided to climb. Inella started climbing.
I headed to the door followed by the other girls. I started waving to Gaelen. He smiled.
"Hey Mordel. Heard you've been hanging out at Saeros' club." He said.
"I got spread out. Let everyone have the honor of being with me. Plus, you know you're my favorite." I said smiling.
"You got to come around more often. Go head in." He said as he let us in.
"Wow, you do know the bouncers." One girl said. She was pretty. She was a human with curly brown hair. Her hair had pink streaks in it.
"What's your name?" One of the other girls asked.
"I'm Mordel. Who are you?" I answered.
"My name is Laiquareiel, you can call me Lai. This is Encaliel aka Cali and that is Vanametiel we call her Vana." The girl with pink streaks said. Cali was an elf. She had her tongue pierced. She was wearing a black halter with a black skirt that was shredded up until her mid thigh. She had on boots similar to mine. Vana was a human with red hair that reminded me of Eilin. She had on a green crop top with really baggy torn jeans. She had her lip pierced. They seemed pretty cool.
"Now lets go find Inella and the guys." Lai said. We each got a beer and headed to where they should be climbing in. I like the occasional beer. I usually have tequila, but tonight I just don't feel like it. We stood there a couple minutes when Inella came into sight. We waited until she got down.
"What took you so long?" I asked. She stared at us. We waved. The guys looked a little shocked when they saw us.
"I told you I knew the bouncer." I said. Inella scowled.
"Mordel?" I heard a voice say behind me. I turned and saw Legolas.
"What?" I asked.
"Who are they?"
"Why do you care?"
"I'm your friend and I want to know."
"That doesn't mean I'll tell."
"You should though."
"Let me think about it.........No."
"I don't think you should be hanging out with them. Why do you have beer? I told you no more alcohol."
"You're not the boss of me. You can't take away my alcohol. I felt like beer instead of my tequila. Don't tell me who to hang out with. I don't think you should beat up some poor terrified guy who did nothing to you. I don't think you should hang out with Mardil. I think you should try to help me and Eowyn when we run for our lives." I said acidly. I turned and walked off with my new friends. They all finished introducing themselves.
"So, who was that guy? He was kind of cute." Lai asked.
"He usually is my best friend, but this year we've only fought. He has got a bitchy girlfriend named Arwen."
"You don't mean Undomiel do you?" Cali asked with fire in her eyes.
"Yea, do you know her?" I asked.
"We can't stand her." Vana answered.
"You must be that girl she always talks about then. You're not a loser like she said. She goes on and on about how she hates you and apparently made up stuff. Do you really have the school detention record?" Lai said interested.
"Of course. I live in detention. I wouldn't be allowed out, but I don't always get caught. Hey look there's Arwen now." I said pointing to Arwen. She was out dancing with Legolas.
"I feel like dancing." Vana said. The four us each grabbed a guy and went to dance. We went right near Arwen and Legolas. We accidentally spilled beer on Arwen. We also accidentally pushed her, hit her, stepped on her feet, screamed in her ear, started moshing causing her to be trampled, and humiliated her. It felt good Legolas will probably kill me though. It was worth it.
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