She casually took her book from Frodo's hands and turned to leave. Frodo grabbed her shoulder.
"Diamond, I know you can do it."

Diamond nodded, but his words really set in. Could she really write something from her heart? She didn't even have the courage to delve inside her own heart and see what was there, how could she write about it? She sighed heavily. She had had enough partying for one night and she headed towards the main road. It was quiet in Hobbiton, the stars were just coming out. A cool breeze blew through her hair. However, the tranquility did not last long. There was a crash in the bushes to her left and a "whoa!" Diamond turned and poked about near the bushes. Merry suddenly came stumbling out.
"Merry? What are you doing?"

"Trying to get Pip home, that's what. Those gulps of ale he took have made him just about plumb drunk! I think the ale was made too strong."
Diamond shook her head.
"Lemme see 'im."

She followed Merry into the bushes to a very intoxicated Pippin, flat on his back. Diamond crouched down beside him and held up two fingers.
"Pip, no games, tell me how many fingers you see."
Pippin stared long and hard at her hand for a while before answering,
"What fingers?"

Merry and Diamond glanced at each other.
"Come on then," Merry said, "we'd best start carrying him."
With Diamond at his head and Merry at his feet, they slowly began to bear Pippin down the road. He seemed to be slowly coming to, and they could eventually let him walk, but with help. Though his thought train seemed to be coming back, he still had an interesting shade.
"Merry, he's not gonna make it to the Smials. Even if he does, his mother is going to go balistic."
"Good point, Bag End's not far, we can take him there."
Pip obviously had no say in the matter, so the three all stumbled along to Bag End.
"Merry, Bilbo's either gonna welcome us or slam the door in our faces."
"I know that, just keep your chin up and hope its the former."

They approached the round green door of Bag End and Merry struggled to get a hand free and knocked. After a few minutes, Bilbo came to the door. He looked them up and down for a few minutes. He stared especially at Pippin, who wasn't doing a very good job of trying to look completely sober. Before Merry or Diamond could give a word of explanation, Bilbo stood aside to let them in.
"You three can stay here tonight. I know Miss Eglatine would probably blame it all on you if you tried to take 'im home."

Once Pippin was put in a spare room and dead asleep, Merry and Diamond sat in front of the fireplace for a while. Merry spilled the whole story about Pippin's plan. Diamond only shook her head again.
"I was expecting something to happen at the party. Pippin's been a trouble maker for every day of the 17 years I've known him. Makes me wonder sometimes why I even bother to correct him sometimes, since I know that he's never going to give up."

At that moment, Frodo walked in and joined them.
"I visited Pip. Sleeping like a hobbit-babe, I don't envy the headache he'll have when he wakes up."

And indeed, Pippin did wake up with a headache. An extremely awful one. He sat up and put one hand to his forehead. He recognized that he was in Bag End, but how he got there was beyond anything he could remember. His head continued to pound and throb and he looked around for some blunt object so he could knock himself out. At that moment, the door squeaked open and Diamond waltzed in.

"Comfortable, Pip?"
"If comfortable means a splitting headache, then yes, quite."
Diamond giggled and sat down beside him. He leaned his head back on the pillow and looked up at her.
"Di, I-I'm sorry for being hypocritical yesterday."

"It's alright. The criticism lets me know what mistakes to correct."

Pippin nodded and a thick silence filled the room. It was broken suddenly when Merry burst into the room. He was quickly followed by Frodo, who was in turn followed by Frodo's friend, Samwise. Merry skidded to a stop, but Frodo ran into his back, as did Sam, and all three fell head over heels onto the bed. All of them laughed and soon it turned into a rough play fight between the four hobbit boys. Pretty soon they had all fallen off the bed and were wrestling on the floor, kicking, shoving, and laughing. Diamond tried to sneak around them unnoticed, but to no avail. Pippin looked up and saw her.
"Hey! Where do you think you're sneaking off to?"

He grabbed her ankle and the next thing she knew, she was in the midst of it all. She played along, laughing the whole time. Eventually, they all got tired out and stopped. They were too exhausted to get up, so they stayed in a pile. Diamond smiled. Pippin was underneath her stomach, Frodo was sprawled across her back, Sam had a hold on her foot, and Merry was flopped on top of the whole pile. She could hardly breathe, but she was happy.