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Pippin's First Love Chapter Two
Pippin's head peered around the edge of the corn field before nodding to Merry and Diamond. Diamond casually walked into the field rolling her eyes at the stealthy way Merry was attempting to get over the small fence. Diamond hopped over the fence and held her hand out sweetly to Merry who was perched precariously on the rickety old fence post.

"Lay off." he grunted. He hopped over the fence and sneered at Diamond who was grinning smugly at the cousins. Once again she snatched the canvas bags from Merry's hands and began to binge vegetables before their very eyes.

"Potatoe." she warned. She halted and dug up a small weed with a potatoe on the end of it. Soon the patch was about twenty potatoes shorter than it had been ten minutes earlier. They left just as cautiously as they had come and stowed their food in the crook of the tree in time to play some tackle ball.

Diamond collapsed into the small patch of grass near the river. She sighed and began to chew on a strand of her hair and think. A small noise made her jerk her head towards the shore. Her eldest brother held Pippin by the neck about four inches from the ground. Pippin winced in pain as the elder shook him.

"Who's he?" he asked commandingly. Diamond scrambled to her feet.

"Nob! Drop him!" she screeched. He dropped the lad onto his hands and knees. "He's just a friend!" she whined. Nob shrugged and slumped off into the hole. Merry crept around the corner of the patch of grass.

"Brilliant Pip, just brilliant." he shook his head. "Really. Didn't you listen when she warned us not to come in her front yard?" he frowned at the Took who was busy rubbing his red neck and wincing.

"Coast was clear." he muttered. Diamond hauled the lad to his feet and shook her head.

"I have eight brothers, and four younger sisters, my parents are dead. The coast will never be clear." she warned a little sadly. Merry glanced at his feet.

"So. Are you going to May Sandyman's birthday party?" Merry asked.

"Of course!" Diamond cried. "So is Estella. And Rosie." she looked at Merry a little funny. He raised his eyebrows. "You'll like Estella." she told him. Merry blushed and glanced at his feet again.

"Well. Seeya tomorrow at her party then, we're invited too." Pippin shouted over his shoulder as he led Merry home. Diamond waved and sighed, she was going to have to set Merry and Estella up, so help her.

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"Estella!" shouted Rosie seeing her friend talking to Diamond. "Come here!" The two travelled over to the table where Rosie sat, clutching onto Sam Gamgee's arm. He was blushing and trying not to blush anymore. Diamond giggled, she thought his head was going to boil over.

"Say Estella, have you met Merry?" Diamond asked sweetly. Estella was caught off guard by this question.

"Once, at a party down in Buckland." she told her friend. "Why?"

"Because you're dancing with him. Right now." she said matter-of-factly. Estella's eyes went wide as Diamond leeched onto her arm and led her over to the table where Pippin was seated.

"Where's Merry?" asked Diamond hastily. Pippin swallowed the food in his mouth.

"Over there. Who's that?" he questioned, eyes curiously watching the nervous twitch in her face and eyes.

"His date." Rosie said, jumping into the conversation. They led Estella over to the next table where Merry was being swamped by four lasses with some major weapons. They held onto his arms and one tried to kiss him.

"Diamond!" Merry cried, relief evident in his voice. He watched the two girls he didn't know smirk at Diamond who was rolling her eyes at the hobbit trapped by the lasses armed with their lips and the fact they travel in packs.

"Need some help?" she asked him sweetly. He nodded in defeat. She sighed and plunged a hand into the crowd of girls, yanked Merry out of the pack and promptly placed one hand in Estella's, and the other on her hip. She shoved them into the crowd. They looked uncertainly at each other and their friends standing out on the edge of the dancefloor.

"Revenge is sweet!" he reminded her. He danced for three hours before approaching Pippin. "Hey, wanna find a date?" he asked his kin. Pippin nodded and looked around for a girl who wasn't dancing when Merry took his arm and led him over to where Diamond was pilfering a bottle of wine. She opened it and poored the drink into glasses for her friends and herself.

"Diamond, care to dance?" Merry asked her in an devilish tone. She looked up slowly and saw the demonic smile on his face, and the adults seeing Pippin standing before a group of girls, terrified he might have to dance with someone he knew. He just prayed he wouldn't trip as she rose to her feet.

"Promise you won't tell?" she asked Merry as she took Pippin's hands, referring to the sine she had stolen. He nodded and grinned.

"Three dance minimum Diamond, or I might have to tell your brother." he blackmailed her onto the dancefloor. She sneered but she found herself out there for seven dances instead of just three. Pippin did nothing but watch his feet as they danced. She reached out and tilted his face up towards hers and smiled.

"Hey. I'll sacrifice saving my feet to teach you how to dance." she offered.

"That'd be great Diamond!" he said excitedly. For six more dances she taught him how to count in his head and to watch his feet more discreetly. By the end of the night, they were bothed dead tired.

"Too tired to make it home." she said to no one in particular. Pippin took her arm and began to lead her home when she stopped and sat down on the ground. "Estella's house is closer." she told Pippin. He nodded and took her arm once more, flagging down Merry they got her to Estella's before she fell asleep walking.

"Merry. Be a dear and tell Nob that Diamond is spending the night, would you?" Estella's mother asked the hobbit before her.

"Of course Mrs. Bolger!" he trudged off towards Diamond's home with Pippin at his side. Pippin knocked on the door of the hole and yawned.

"WHERE IS SHE!?" screamed Nob when he wrenched the door open. Merry and Pippin retreated backward into the shadows before speaking.

"She was too tired to make it home, so Mrs. Bolger sent us to tell you she's staying at Estella's house tonight." Pippin said quietly. Nob snarled in disgust and slammed the door.

"Speaking of sleeping, where are we going?" Merry asked his cousin as they walked back out to the road.

"I don't know. Maybe we'll just sleep in the field outside the Chubb's house." Pippin suggested. And so they did. They were too far from Pippin's house to walk and make it before the sun came up.

"Wake up!" came an alarmed voice. A sharp kick in the side awoke Pippin, as for Merry, he was still snoring on the ground. Pippin shook Merry and glanced up at his hobbit sized alarm clock.

"Diamond! Please, what time is it?" he whined and rubbed his eyes. Merry groaned and sat up groggily. He glared at Diamond who glared back.

"Don't give me that look Meriadoc. Oh, it's noon." she said, flipping her hair and glaring at Merry some more.

"NOON!?" cried Pippin. He scrambled to his feet and looked around. The shade of the tree had kept the sun's rays from awakening the hobbits until someone intervened.

"Yessir. And if you don't get out of there soon, I do believe Mr. Chubb will capture first, and ask questions later." she told the two groggy lads. They scrambled out of the shade and into the bright sunlight. A short walk later revealed the river was rising again. Much to the distress of the hobbits nearby the river, they didn't swim. Merry smiled and turned towards Diamond, detirmined to beat her at something.

"If you want to prove yourself worthy of our company," Diamond rolled her eyes but let him continue. "you must swim across the river." he didn't realize the impact of the words. She gulped and nodded.

"When?" she asked, voice shaking.

"Tomorrow." he told her.