Legolas's Panic Attack
After two weeks, things go back to normal. I'm out of the hospital and everyone is being really sweet to me. The police said they never found the criminal, but they're still keeping a look out for him. His file says that he has committed rape three times at least. Scary, I know!
Legolas is watching me all the time. It's kinda getting on my nerves, because I want some space, but I know he has good intentions for me. Cashdoggie is getting a little big now!
I hug him and he wags his little stubby tail.
"Emma, I'm getting my license today! It's about time," Talim says.
"Why? You don't even have a car!"
"I know," she shrugs. "But Eomer is getting one."
I frown. Legolas's car is a complete wreck and his dad was really mad. My mom and dad have been calling me twice a day since that guy kidnapped me. They wanted me to quit Gondor High, but there was no way I could just go to another school!
I sigh. "I wish things were back to how they used to be. I miss Rome and I wish I could really, REALLY know my brother. When I think of him I think about the blond kid that used to cause trouble when I was eight! He's not like that anymore. I miss Elise too. She's really busy these days."
Talim nods. "Yea, things are hard right now. It always gets better eventually."
"Eventually," I echo, stroking Cash's head. "Hopefully that'll be soon."
Boromir POV
I shake my head trying to rid all thoughts of Elise. Shaking your head doesn't change anything though.
"What's going on with you, bro?" Faramir asks. "You've been acting like a zombie all day."
I glance at Eowyn's arm on Faramir as they walk alongside me. "Um, nothing. Bad day," I huff. Damn, I'm so jealous! I hate when this happens! My brother getting a girl and me, all alone? Since when does something like THAT happen?
"I need a job," Faramir says, stopping at a bakery with a 'Help Wanted' sign. "Dad is hardly sending us ANYTHING. I kinda want to get a job!"
"At a bakery, Faramir?" I say. "You MUST be joking! Have you ever heard of the steward of Gondor's sons working at a bakery..."
All of the sudden a girl with bouncy, curly-brown hair comes out with a tray. "Would you like some samples?" she asks. I look straight into her big green eyes.
"Uhh........." I say. "...yea, sure."
Faramir looks at me as if I've grown horns and takes a sample himself.
"I would like to fill out an application," I say without even thinking twice about it.
The girl smiles. "Sure, I'll go get you one!" she says and hurries off.
"Wow," I say to myself. "She's really something!"
Emma POV
I hear a knock on my door just as I get done making my bed. My room is finally all clean!
"Who is it?" I holler. Silence. I sigh and open the door.
"SURPRISE!!!!!" I leap backwards and start laughing. "Rome! Elise! Edoran!" I scream. "Oh my god, you're here!"
"For the weekend," says Elise, giving me a tight squeeze. "We are so glad you are ALIVE!!"
"I'm so glad you're here!" I say, hugging Edoran and then Rome. "You guys are like my best friends!"
"And we have three songs already completely done," says Edoran with a smile.
"Our job is really, really fun, but we're still a little low on money. We got about a four thousand dollars each when we did one concert with Greenwings last week," says Elise. "But how far will that go when we don't have a concert in like two months!"
"Why don't we do a concert here?" Rome says. "We can already play six of our own songs and we know how to play lots of Greenwings and Gray Tattoo songs! We could play outside the school and just have a little bucket where people can drop money in!"
"Hey that would be FUN. But I don't think we'd get all that much money, for some reason," Elise says.
"I'll watch you guys!" I say excitedly. I love to hear them play.
"Let's dye our hair," Rome says.
"Huh?" I say.
Edoran puts his hand on his head. "No way, mine is staying black."
"And I put streaks in mine last week," Elise says fingering her pink- streaked hair.
"We are Pandemonium. We have to have some sort of a trademark that makes us labeled 'pandemonium'," Rome says. "Like hair color...a tattoo?"
"Haha, you've got to be kidding! In order to get a tattoo you have to be SEVENTEEN and even then you must have an adult's 'okay'," I say.
"I'm an adult!" Edoran chimes in.
"You've never seen this one before?" Rome turns around and lifts his shirt, revealing a pirate's flag tattoo about the size of my fist. "And I'm only sixteen." He turns around. "My cousin is in the tattoo business. We could all get a tattoo and that would be the 'pandemonium sign' and we could even put it on our CD! What do you say, Emma?"
"ME?" I squeak. "I'm not even in the band!"
"Yes, but the CD is NAMED after you!" Rome says.
"Oh, Emma, it sounds cool!" Elise says. "Getting a tattoo before the legal age! HA! Haven't you always wanted a tattoo?"
"Uh, no!" I say.
Edoran starts rummaging through a whole bunch of pictures in a plastic box that he has in his suitcase. "This is my 'pics of Emma box'...Where is it? AH! Here it is!"
HE flings a picture towards me. It's me when I was nine and I have fake tattoos, a fake nose ring, and blue marker drawn in my hair. Then next to me is Edoran with his hat on sideways, black eyeliner on, and a fake tattoo on his neck.
"See you wanted a tattoo!" Edoran says.
"No, you dressed me up like that cause I wanted to go to the show at the Rivendell Coliseum," I object. "...but if the tattoo is hidden, I wouldn't mind getting it..."
"YAY!!!" says Elise. "Let's start picking out designs!"
By Saturday I have a tattoo on the hidden side of my right arm in between my elbow and armpit. It says Pandemonium in small black letters and then there are five cartoon heads, left to right: Rome, Yonic, Elise, Rollend, and Edoran. Then below it, there's black letters: 'Emma' and below that is a little cartoon version of me! But that sh*t HURTS!!!
"They could have made me look less like a Barbie Doll or something. I look... 'cute'," Rome says, inspecting his wrist. [He got the same one on his wrist]
Legolas comes in. "Rome, did you just say something's cute?" Legolas asks, coming in and sitting on the couch. "I swear I've never heard you say something like THAT before."
"Uh, no, my cousin made my tattoo too cute. It's all right I guess. No use whining about it when it's not coming off."
"Lemme see," Legolas says, leaning towards Rome. "It's...cool. What is Emma doing on there?"
"In honor of our first CD, we all have a tattoo," says Elise.
"Even Emma got it!" Yonic says excitedly. I swear every time he talks he sounds excited.
"Emma?!" Legolas looks at me. His face is unreadable. Shocked, but I'm not sure if it's for good or bad!
"Uh-oh, Emma! Your in trouble with your boyfriend now!" says Rollend tossing his shaggy blond hair out of his eyes and giving an amused chuckle.
"Let me see it!" Legolas says.
I turn my arm around. "Wow, It's cool, though I never thought you of all people would get one!" Legolas says.
"What do you take me for, a sissy?" I ask a little shocked by HIS shock.
Legolas shakes his head, making his hair look like liquid silk in the light. "No, just thought that wasn't your thing," he says.
I frown. "Oh, well your right, it never was my thing, but now it is," I start smiling. "I'm getting into this whole punk rock thing."
"Yeaaa," Rome says, slapping hands with me.
"Go Emma it's yo birthday!" Yonic starts singing, standing on my bed.
"We gonna party like it's yo birthday!" Elise and I chime in. We all laugh, except Legolas that is. Before I get to ask him what's wrong, he nods and slips out.
"Why is he so pissed off?" Rome says.
"It's not like Leg to be so uptight!" Elise says. "Did we do something wrong?"
"I don't know," I shrug. "But I'm sure he'll be fine, whatever happened. I'm with you guys for this weekend and I'm with Legolas all the time. So let's PARTAY!!"
Yonic howls and Rollend rolls his eyes.
Then out of nowhere, Cashdoggie howls. Then Yonic. Then Cashdogg.
"I knew it all along! Yonic is NOT human! He's an animal for Christ's sake!" Rollend yells. We all start laughing. Yep, these are definitely SOME of my best friends! Legolas and Talim cross my mind. But those two are my truest best friends.
Legolas POV
I walk out the door and just lean on it. This weekend totally sucks. I know I could hang out with Eomer and Faramir today, but some reason I just wanted to be with Emma. I don't feel near as welcomed with them as Emma does, I'm sure.
And Rome...UGH!!! I used to think he was so cool, but lately...okay, today...I feel like he's taking her away from me! They're so damn close...too close. It just doesn't seem right. I'm sure he likes her! I'm SURE!
'But Emma would never blow me off,' I think to myself. 'She loves me. She would never choose someone over me...'
"It's not like Leg to be so uptight!" Elise says. "Did we do something wrong?"
"I don't know," says Emma. "But I'm sure he'll be fine, whatever happened. I'm with you guys for this weekend and I'm with Legolas all the time. So let's PARTAY!!"
My mouth suddenly goes dry. "What?" I whisper to myself. I just stomp away, probably looking like a five year old with a bad attitude, but I don't care! I deserve to be mad! I'm not allowed to be there when OUR friends are in town or something?
[Aragorn's POV]
"I can't believe your going to make me do this!" I say. "This is so second grade."
"All I need you to do is somehow get Rome out of there! I need to see if Emma acts different when Rome isn't there," Legolas says.
I shake my head. Why is Legolas being such a dumbass?! "What am I supposed to do? Take his guitar and run off going, 'you can't catch me!'?" I say.
"Ugh!" Legolas says. "NO! Ask him if he'll teach you how to play a song on his guitar."
"WHAT?!" I say.
"Just do it!"
"Rome, could you teach me how to play a song for Arwen?" I ask, popping my head into the room. I can feel my cheeks going REAL red.
"Um..." Rome looks like he doesn't want to. I don't want to make him! I don't want to even play a song!
"It's okay," I say. "You REALLY don't have to."
"That's okay, I'll help you out," Rome says. He picks up his guitar. "Where could I play?" Rome asks.
"SH!!!" Talim says. I just notice that she's there. "This show is good!"
"We could take it to my room," I whisper.
I turn to show him where my room is. I would rather be spending time with Arwen or Boromir than getting a guitar lesson on a Saturday. This sucks. Legolas is gonna have to pay me back somehow!
Legolas POV
I slip in when Rome and Aragorn are gone. I slip onto the tiny couch between Emma and Elise. Talim gives an annoyed look my way as she gets squished into the couch arm. She ends up just sitting on the floor.
Emma leans into me and I smile. Then I pause. Wait a minute! When Rome was here she didn't care if I was alive or not. Now that he's gone she's okay with me. Is it possible that she cares what Rome thinks? Does she look up to him and doesn't want to be seen leaning on some preppy-looking guy's arm? Could it be possible...that Emma liked Rome?
I tried to tell myself there could be no way that Emma would like Rome...but then again, she likes all different kinds of people so why shouldn't she be attracted to Rome? He's a good-looking guy, I guess, if he takes off that eyeliner. Emma had punk friends so that meant she was punk? So that would mean she would want to date punk boys?
My mouth felt dry and I felt like I'd swallowed a bowling ball. Was it possible that Emma was gonna break it off with me? She had been acting less interested in me since Rome and her friends came over. I wanted to spend every moment with her! I wanted her to want to spend every moment with me! Was that selfish?
"Legolas, what's wrong? You keep on making all these weird faces!" Emma says. Then everyone tears their eyes away from the TV to look at me. "Nothing," I say quickly.
Is Legolas just imagining this stuff? Or do Emma and Rome secretly have something for each other? You'll find out!!! Even though I'm sure what I want to do, who would u like Emma to be with?
-Lauren
After two weeks, things go back to normal. I'm out of the hospital and everyone is being really sweet to me. The police said they never found the criminal, but they're still keeping a look out for him. His file says that he has committed rape three times at least. Scary, I know!
Legolas is watching me all the time. It's kinda getting on my nerves, because I want some space, but I know he has good intentions for me. Cashdoggie is getting a little big now!
I hug him and he wags his little stubby tail.
"Emma, I'm getting my license today! It's about time," Talim says.
"Why? You don't even have a car!"
"I know," she shrugs. "But Eomer is getting one."
I frown. Legolas's car is a complete wreck and his dad was really mad. My mom and dad have been calling me twice a day since that guy kidnapped me. They wanted me to quit Gondor High, but there was no way I could just go to another school!
I sigh. "I wish things were back to how they used to be. I miss Rome and I wish I could really, REALLY know my brother. When I think of him I think about the blond kid that used to cause trouble when I was eight! He's not like that anymore. I miss Elise too. She's really busy these days."
Talim nods. "Yea, things are hard right now. It always gets better eventually."
"Eventually," I echo, stroking Cash's head. "Hopefully that'll be soon."
Boromir POV
I shake my head trying to rid all thoughts of Elise. Shaking your head doesn't change anything though.
"What's going on with you, bro?" Faramir asks. "You've been acting like a zombie all day."
I glance at Eowyn's arm on Faramir as they walk alongside me. "Um, nothing. Bad day," I huff. Damn, I'm so jealous! I hate when this happens! My brother getting a girl and me, all alone? Since when does something like THAT happen?
"I need a job," Faramir says, stopping at a bakery with a 'Help Wanted' sign. "Dad is hardly sending us ANYTHING. I kinda want to get a job!"
"At a bakery, Faramir?" I say. "You MUST be joking! Have you ever heard of the steward of Gondor's sons working at a bakery..."
All of the sudden a girl with bouncy, curly-brown hair comes out with a tray. "Would you like some samples?" she asks. I look straight into her big green eyes.
"Uhh........." I say. "...yea, sure."
Faramir looks at me as if I've grown horns and takes a sample himself.
"I would like to fill out an application," I say without even thinking twice about it.
The girl smiles. "Sure, I'll go get you one!" she says and hurries off.
"Wow," I say to myself. "She's really something!"
Emma POV
I hear a knock on my door just as I get done making my bed. My room is finally all clean!
"Who is it?" I holler. Silence. I sigh and open the door.
"SURPRISE!!!!!" I leap backwards and start laughing. "Rome! Elise! Edoran!" I scream. "Oh my god, you're here!"
"For the weekend," says Elise, giving me a tight squeeze. "We are so glad you are ALIVE!!"
"I'm so glad you're here!" I say, hugging Edoran and then Rome. "You guys are like my best friends!"
"And we have three songs already completely done," says Edoran with a smile.
"Our job is really, really fun, but we're still a little low on money. We got about a four thousand dollars each when we did one concert with Greenwings last week," says Elise. "But how far will that go when we don't have a concert in like two months!"
"Why don't we do a concert here?" Rome says. "We can already play six of our own songs and we know how to play lots of Greenwings and Gray Tattoo songs! We could play outside the school and just have a little bucket where people can drop money in!"
"Hey that would be FUN. But I don't think we'd get all that much money, for some reason," Elise says.
"I'll watch you guys!" I say excitedly. I love to hear them play.
"Let's dye our hair," Rome says.
"Huh?" I say.
Edoran puts his hand on his head. "No way, mine is staying black."
"And I put streaks in mine last week," Elise says fingering her pink- streaked hair.
"We are Pandemonium. We have to have some sort of a trademark that makes us labeled 'pandemonium'," Rome says. "Like hair color...a tattoo?"
"Haha, you've got to be kidding! In order to get a tattoo you have to be SEVENTEEN and even then you must have an adult's 'okay'," I say.
"I'm an adult!" Edoran chimes in.
"You've never seen this one before?" Rome turns around and lifts his shirt, revealing a pirate's flag tattoo about the size of my fist. "And I'm only sixteen." He turns around. "My cousin is in the tattoo business. We could all get a tattoo and that would be the 'pandemonium sign' and we could even put it on our CD! What do you say, Emma?"
"ME?" I squeak. "I'm not even in the band!"
"Yes, but the CD is NAMED after you!" Rome says.
"Oh, Emma, it sounds cool!" Elise says. "Getting a tattoo before the legal age! HA! Haven't you always wanted a tattoo?"
"Uh, no!" I say.
Edoran starts rummaging through a whole bunch of pictures in a plastic box that he has in his suitcase. "This is my 'pics of Emma box'...Where is it? AH! Here it is!"
HE flings a picture towards me. It's me when I was nine and I have fake tattoos, a fake nose ring, and blue marker drawn in my hair. Then next to me is Edoran with his hat on sideways, black eyeliner on, and a fake tattoo on his neck.
"See you wanted a tattoo!" Edoran says.
"No, you dressed me up like that cause I wanted to go to the show at the Rivendell Coliseum," I object. "...but if the tattoo is hidden, I wouldn't mind getting it..."
"YAY!!!" says Elise. "Let's start picking out designs!"
By Saturday I have a tattoo on the hidden side of my right arm in between my elbow and armpit. It says Pandemonium in small black letters and then there are five cartoon heads, left to right: Rome, Yonic, Elise, Rollend, and Edoran. Then below it, there's black letters: 'Emma' and below that is a little cartoon version of me! But that sh*t HURTS!!!
"They could have made me look less like a Barbie Doll or something. I look... 'cute'," Rome says, inspecting his wrist. [He got the same one on his wrist]
Legolas comes in. "Rome, did you just say something's cute?" Legolas asks, coming in and sitting on the couch. "I swear I've never heard you say something like THAT before."
"Uh, no, my cousin made my tattoo too cute. It's all right I guess. No use whining about it when it's not coming off."
"Lemme see," Legolas says, leaning towards Rome. "It's...cool. What is Emma doing on there?"
"In honor of our first CD, we all have a tattoo," says Elise.
"Even Emma got it!" Yonic says excitedly. I swear every time he talks he sounds excited.
"Emma?!" Legolas looks at me. His face is unreadable. Shocked, but I'm not sure if it's for good or bad!
"Uh-oh, Emma! Your in trouble with your boyfriend now!" says Rollend tossing his shaggy blond hair out of his eyes and giving an amused chuckle.
"Let me see it!" Legolas says.
I turn my arm around. "Wow, It's cool, though I never thought you of all people would get one!" Legolas says.
"What do you take me for, a sissy?" I ask a little shocked by HIS shock.
Legolas shakes his head, making his hair look like liquid silk in the light. "No, just thought that wasn't your thing," he says.
I frown. "Oh, well your right, it never was my thing, but now it is," I start smiling. "I'm getting into this whole punk rock thing."
"Yeaaa," Rome says, slapping hands with me.
"Go Emma it's yo birthday!" Yonic starts singing, standing on my bed.
"We gonna party like it's yo birthday!" Elise and I chime in. We all laugh, except Legolas that is. Before I get to ask him what's wrong, he nods and slips out.
"Why is he so pissed off?" Rome says.
"It's not like Leg to be so uptight!" Elise says. "Did we do something wrong?"
"I don't know," I shrug. "But I'm sure he'll be fine, whatever happened. I'm with you guys for this weekend and I'm with Legolas all the time. So let's PARTAY!!"
Yonic howls and Rollend rolls his eyes.
Then out of nowhere, Cashdoggie howls. Then Yonic. Then Cashdogg.
"I knew it all along! Yonic is NOT human! He's an animal for Christ's sake!" Rollend yells. We all start laughing. Yep, these are definitely SOME of my best friends! Legolas and Talim cross my mind. But those two are my truest best friends.
Legolas POV
I walk out the door and just lean on it. This weekend totally sucks. I know I could hang out with Eomer and Faramir today, but some reason I just wanted to be with Emma. I don't feel near as welcomed with them as Emma does, I'm sure.
And Rome...UGH!!! I used to think he was so cool, but lately...okay, today...I feel like he's taking her away from me! They're so damn close...too close. It just doesn't seem right. I'm sure he likes her! I'm SURE!
'But Emma would never blow me off,' I think to myself. 'She loves me. She would never choose someone over me...'
"It's not like Leg to be so uptight!" Elise says. "Did we do something wrong?"
"I don't know," says Emma. "But I'm sure he'll be fine, whatever happened. I'm with you guys for this weekend and I'm with Legolas all the time. So let's PARTAY!!"
My mouth suddenly goes dry. "What?" I whisper to myself. I just stomp away, probably looking like a five year old with a bad attitude, but I don't care! I deserve to be mad! I'm not allowed to be there when OUR friends are in town or something?
[Aragorn's POV]
"I can't believe your going to make me do this!" I say. "This is so second grade."
"All I need you to do is somehow get Rome out of there! I need to see if Emma acts different when Rome isn't there," Legolas says.
I shake my head. Why is Legolas being such a dumbass?! "What am I supposed to do? Take his guitar and run off going, 'you can't catch me!'?" I say.
"Ugh!" Legolas says. "NO! Ask him if he'll teach you how to play a song on his guitar."
"WHAT?!" I say.
"Just do it!"
"Rome, could you teach me how to play a song for Arwen?" I ask, popping my head into the room. I can feel my cheeks going REAL red.
"Um..." Rome looks like he doesn't want to. I don't want to make him! I don't want to even play a song!
"It's okay," I say. "You REALLY don't have to."
"That's okay, I'll help you out," Rome says. He picks up his guitar. "Where could I play?" Rome asks.
"SH!!!" Talim says. I just notice that she's there. "This show is good!"
"We could take it to my room," I whisper.
I turn to show him where my room is. I would rather be spending time with Arwen or Boromir than getting a guitar lesson on a Saturday. This sucks. Legolas is gonna have to pay me back somehow!
Legolas POV
I slip in when Rome and Aragorn are gone. I slip onto the tiny couch between Emma and Elise. Talim gives an annoyed look my way as she gets squished into the couch arm. She ends up just sitting on the floor.
Emma leans into me and I smile. Then I pause. Wait a minute! When Rome was here she didn't care if I was alive or not. Now that he's gone she's okay with me. Is it possible that she cares what Rome thinks? Does she look up to him and doesn't want to be seen leaning on some preppy-looking guy's arm? Could it be possible...that Emma liked Rome?
I tried to tell myself there could be no way that Emma would like Rome...but then again, she likes all different kinds of people so why shouldn't she be attracted to Rome? He's a good-looking guy, I guess, if he takes off that eyeliner. Emma had punk friends so that meant she was punk? So that would mean she would want to date punk boys?
My mouth felt dry and I felt like I'd swallowed a bowling ball. Was it possible that Emma was gonna break it off with me? She had been acting less interested in me since Rome and her friends came over. I wanted to spend every moment with her! I wanted her to want to spend every moment with me! Was that selfish?
"Legolas, what's wrong? You keep on making all these weird faces!" Emma says. Then everyone tears their eyes away from the TV to look at me. "Nothing," I say quickly.
Is Legolas just imagining this stuff? Or do Emma and Rome secretly have something for each other? You'll find out!!! Even though I'm sure what I want to do, who would u like Emma to be with?
-Lauren
