A/N: woo hoo! I have updated my friends! Be happy! I got off my lazy butt and stopped READING the fanfiction and actually POSTED it. Mwuaha.

Disclaimer: you can go to the 1st chapter and read it, or be lazy and read this one: I DO NOT OWN Lord of the Rings.but daaaaamn I wish I did.I would have Pip and Leggo!!!!

Chapter 3~The Photograph

Nenime walked into the Main Office and sat down to wait until the secretary called her name. When her name was called, she was escorted to the principal's office. (for new student business and stuff)
"Well," started Principal Wutia ((woo-sha) that's actually a name of a teacher from when I was in elementary school. Don't you love my imagination?) "7 schools in 8 years.wow. Is one of your parents in the military or something?"
"No," replied Nenime who started getting uncomfortable in her seat. "I am in.foster care." She really didn't like this subject, but she figured that Mr. Wutia would end up asking anyway.
"Oh, foster care. I see" Mr. Wutia said as he sifted through Nenime's registration papers. "Here you go, your class schedule, locker number and combination. Have a nice day. If you need anything, talk to Mrs. Terens, the secretary you saw when you came in." Then he turned around in his chair to answer a ringing phone behind him. Nenime grabbed the papers he handed to her and walked out of the office. **There are no classes going on right now, it's a period called Advisement. It's like homeroom, but not..so Nenime isn't missing any classes.** As she walked out of the office, a bell rang, signaling the end of Advisement. Looking down at her schedule she saw that she had Algebra first period.
"Ooh, math," she said quietly. "Now, where is room 59C?"
"It's down that hallway, there, first room on the left. I have that class right now too!" came Maruka's little voice as she looked up at Nenime, who smiled at her.
"Amin naa." Nenime starts replying in Elvish, but then realizes what she's doing, and continues in English (or Common Speech.still haven't decided WHERE they are yet) "I mean.I'm glad that I won't be alone in Algebra now." Maruka slightly nodded, but had a shocked look on her face.
"I knew it." she whispered, quietly to herself, but loud enough for Nenime to hear.
"Knew what?" asked Nenime, who looked down, confused.
"Come with me quickly." Maruka said as she grabbed Neni's wrist and dragged her to the girls' bathroom, her backback almost falling off her shoulder. Once in the girls' bathroom, Maruka checked the stalls to see if other people were in there, nobody was.
"Let me see your ears," Maruka said to Nenime.
"What?"
"Bend down and let me see your ears," Maruka replied. Nenime did as she was told and Maruka slowly brought her hand up to Nenime's long blonde hair and pushed it aside. She gasped and backed away.
"It's true! I knew it! You're an elf!" Maruka said, pleased with herself. Nenime stood back up again and said "Is that.bad? Does it bother you?"
"Oh no! Not at all! I just thought..that all the elves were.gone. That's all."
"No.not all of us, most, yes, but not all," said Nenime who started to get a sad look in her eyes.
"Well, I have something to tell you then. Nobody else knows this, I am sure they assume it, but none know for sure, but look" Maruka said as she moved her hair out of the way, (which takes quite some effort because she has a lot of poofy hair) and took off one of her tennis shoes and socks. You see, Maruka is not very good at multitasking, so she lost her balance and fell onto the floor. Lifting herself up she said, "I am a hobbit."
"Oh.oh..oh my gosh." stuttered Nenime. "Wow, a hobbit.I am friends with a real live hobbit.I never thought tha-" suddenly the two-minute warning bell rang, cutting Nenime off. The elf and the hobbit looked at each other briefly, realizing that they were on the completely other side of the school of their classroom.
"AHHHH!" they both screamed as they shot out of the bathroom door and down the halls, nearly knocking over 5 students, the gym teacher, and the band director. Nenime STILL has her backpack on..because she either couldn't figure out her locker combo, FIND her locker, or she just forgot to go to it.
After that..erm.ordeal in the hallway..Neni and Maruka dash into their classroom right as the bell rings. Maruka sits in her assigned seat while Neni just kind of stands at the front of the room.obviously waiting for Mrs. Blackford to ackknowledge her presence. (wooo..big words! I'm on a roll today!) It took about 10 minutes for Mrs. Blackford to realize that there was someone standing in front of the class. In fact, she had almost started the lesson without knowing she had a new student. (Aren't teachers supposed to get memos about this stuff?) "Oh, hello dear, you must be." She looked down at a slip of paper. "Ninimee?" Some of the students snickered.
"No, it's Nenime" Neni correctedSome of the class still snickered at
that.it didn't bother Nenime the least bit because she was used to
being laughed at, or ignored completely.
"You can sit in any open seat you want, dear," said Mrs.
Blackford who had turned to face the board and was writing down
assignments. Nenime thought to herself, 'she calls me dear one more
time.oh she's going to get it.,' as she found an open seat that was
conveniently right next to Maruka. Class went on, like any other
normal day, Maruka and Neni passing notes to each other when Mrs.
Blackford wasn't looking. *which really wasn't that hard because she
was always facing the board. Some 'teacher'.* After an hour and a
half of using the quadratic formula, the bell rang.
"Woo, hoo! LUNCH!" Maruka said.
"I'm really not that hungry, but I have this.." Nenime said as
she pulled a brown paper bag out of the backpack she still had with
her. She opened it up and looked inside. "Peanut butter sandwich,
potato chips, a cookie and a juice box. Whoopdee doo."
"Hey, if you don't want it, I'll eat it." Maruka said with a
grin appearing on her face.
"Be my guest," Neni answered as she lightly tossed the bag to
Maruka. The two found a table that was empty and sat down.
"Hey, Neni, you've got something sticking out of your pocket,
it's going to fall out." Maruka said. Nenime reached for her pocket
and grabbed the picuture out that she had stuffed in there earlier.
Now it was very crumpled from her walking and sitting.
"Oh..it's my picture.." Nenime sounded very upset. "It's the
only one I have!" Tears appeared in her eyes as she set her head down
on the table.
"Picture of what?" Maruka asked as she tried to get Nenime to
look up.
"My.my father," the elf replied. "I have never seen him, my
mother gave me this picture.right before she.." Then the elf started
to cry.
"Don't cry!!!! It's only a couple of creases! We can fix it!" Maruka
tried to get her friend to stop getting the table wet with her tears.
"Can I see it? The picture I mean." Nenime lifted her head from the
table again, "oh..sure." She handed the picture to the hobbit. Maruka
grabbed the photo, which was actually torn from the rest of a
picuture. She took one look at it and her eyes got wide.
"ooooh my gosh..oooooh my gosh.I have the rest of this
picture!!" she said and she opened up one of her folders and took the
full picture out. It was a picture of the Fellowship of the Ring in
Rivendell. "Your father.is Legolas Greenleaf?" (hehe.I love Leggo!)
"I never knew his name, it was never told to me." Neni replied,
"but, how do you have the same picture? I don't have the rest of it,
just this piece, my mother ripped it out from the full picture."
"Well," started Maruka, "that hobbit there, *she pointed to
Pippin*, was my great-great grandfather. (I love Pip too!) My mother
gave me this picture, who got it from her father, who got it from his
father who was Peregrin Took., youngest member of the Fellowship of
the Ring." Maruka seemed proud that she knew all this information and
could tell it to someone and they would actually care. "But, why did
your mother rip the picture? Do you know?"
"No..*heavy sigh*, well, I do know that she and my father
fought..a lot. She would tell me about the fights they had and that
she started most of them, and she felt that she was the reason that he
left for the Havens. She wanted so bad to apologize, that she left.
This was like 1,000 years ago though. Something like that. I remember,
I was very little. I don't remember much, just how different things
used to be."
"Wow.." Maruka thought aloud, "how old are you? I don't want to be
rude or anything, I just think it's so cool how elves are immortal.."
Nenime smiled, not at all bothered by the question, she was used to
it. "1,642 years, I think my birthday is next week.I can't keep
track."

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Hate to end there, but I am tired..and I am working on my other story.
If I am doing something terribly inaccurate, please tell me. My one
big problem, is that Maruka is only Pip's great-great-grandfather, and
Nenime is 1,000some years old..the fact that great-great-
grandfatherism doesn't take 1000 years...I just want there to be a
close connection between Maruka and Pip, so that it isn't WAY out
there..complicated family tree stuff. Minor details..
To my ONE reviewer:
Hobbit-Hugger: So glad you like! Read your bio.because I was bored..I
have a bunch of Wiccan friends.I think its really cool. I want to dye
my hair blue and green, but my mom.won't.let.me..HAHA! I'll do it
anyway!!! Ireland???? THAT IS SO COOL!!! I.live..in.Wisconsin.really
boring state. Despite the fact that everyone is DRUNK all the time
because we make so much beer.still very boring. Do you have a
screenname? Of course you do.you have an AOL email address. Not to
sound stalker-ish again, but I think it would be really cool to talk
to you online sometime. If you care at all, my screenname is
Elvish67081

~Halla