The Last Dance part 1
Rimonna POV
This year wasn't much better than last. Legolas was finally single and just as sexy as ever, but was he interested in me? Oh no, of course not.
I was bored of my life here and I was going to try again to fit in, but with a different way. If only I could prove that Emma wasn't the great person everyone thought she was. She had to have some secret that was hidden from her friends or SOMETHING. Maybe all I had to do was BE her friend first...till a time came where I could reveal some horrible truth about Emma.
I shrugged to myself. Just then, someone opened the door. I turned around to see a girl with shoulder length brown hair, looking at me. She had a duffel bag on one arm and a suitcase on wheels behind her. "Hi," she said with a smile. "I'm Monica, you're new roommate."
After all these kids leaving, roommates got switched and all this crazy stuff. "Hi," I say, turning back to my makeup mirror. "You're bed is by the closet."
I noticed that this Monica chick was looking down at my floor in disgust. She walked over my pile of wet towels and went to her bed. It was unmade and had a few things of mine on it. I had had a guy from a club over last night and we'd kinda had some fun in the bed, but Monica wouldn't know. She took the sheets off immediately and put them in the dirty clothes pile.
"Do you clean...ever?" Monica asked, wiping the dust from her small table. "I'm not a neat freak, but I'm sorry. This is ridiculous."
I gave a sharp look at Monica. "If you don't like it, clean it yourself!"
Emma POV
Friday came around and things had been so weird all week. Legolas was spending lots of time with Eomer since they wouldn't be roommates anymore. Everything just sucked major. The only people I knew who were actually unmoved by all of this was Daniel, Ben, and Chris. They still had each other, only because they HAD to stay at this school, or no school, because of their work.
Things between Legolas and me weren't the same. Both of us were officially single, but ya know, I really didn't mind it at all. We'd always be friends and maybe we'd go out again, but that was the way life was. Not everything goes your way and you don't always have a perfect relationship.
Anyways, so I was wearing this old pink dress that was rather plain. It had some flowers on it, but nothing really special about it. I had white platforms and I had gotten my hair cut shoulder length [it had been to my butt] and got it all layered cool. I was going to look kinda cute for this whole dance. I felt kinda weird not having a date...but this dance was to mostly say bye to the people you loved. So, that's what I was going to do. Show Eowyn and the others that I'd miss them.
Talim came in the room in this sleek black spaghetti strapped dress and her chin length hair was flipped out and wild looking. She looked so pretty, but at the same time, so cold and lonely. She hadn't said much these few days, but at least she wasn't constantly bawling like Eowyn. Actually, I'd only seen her cry once and only a little this week. She was brave.
"I wish I had gone out with Eomer instead of playing hard to get," she says quietly. "We would have had more alone, one on one, time together.
I nod and look at her sympathetically. "It'll be all right, Talim. You guys will either be able to make it through and visit on weekends, though it'd be hard, or you if it's not worth it, you can just let him go...you'll really see how much he loves you if he stays with you even so far away."
Talim looked in the mirror and put her earrings in. "That's the thing," she said, almost whimpering. "I don't think he loves me enough to do that. I don't think he'll go through with it. It's five hours to South Gondor High."
I hug her sideways. "Talim, things will be okay. If he can't see that you're worth it, then you'll find someone else who does. You're the school hottie. All the boys like you!"
She huffs. "Not really."
"Um, YES really! All the boys think you are so wild and fun...and gorgeous."
She crosses her arms. "Name ONE guy!"
I smile. "Eomer, of course. Before you two were going out, Faramir and Boromir said so. All the boys check you out! And not long ago I heard Connor say that you were drop dead gorgeous."
"Connor? You mean that guy in Darien's band that is really shy?"
"Yea, and he's an amazing guy," I say. "And he'll be there tonight. But talk to Eomer. See what he thinks about you guys staying together."
"I will," she says, suddenly looking sad. "I love him."
"I know you do," I say.
As soon as Talim and I got into the Ball Hall, Eomer ran up, took Talim by the hand, and led her somewhere private. There were already so many people around, I wasn't sure if any other of my friends were here.
"Hey Emma." I turn around to see Leanna. "Looks like we're finally getting what we've wanted. "We're now going to different schools!"
I gave the coldest smile I could. "Yea... I know I'll be happier."
"I don't know," she shrugs. "I'm gonna miss torturing you. But oh well, I'll find someone else to torture."
"And I greatly pity your next victim," I say. She laughs grimly and walks away. God, I hate her!
Talim POV
Eomer puts his arm around me. "I'm going to miss you, Talim," he says. "I'll miss everything about you."
"Does that mean we'll stay together?"
He pauses, which makes me wonder... "Uh, yea, of course."
I frowned because for some reason that didn't sound reassuring or the slightest bit romantic. Sounded like the very side Eomer I met when he dumped me. I had bad feelings about this.
"You're not being honest," I say, trying not to sound cold. "You won't be able to handle the distance. And you'll fall in love with someone else. You used to tell me nothing could keep us apart."
"Well, actually, I think we should stay broken up. You'll want someone to comfort you when your sad and I won't be able to. And trust me, I want to be for you! I don't want it to hurt so badly when you need your boyfriend, but he's far away. I'd rather see you with someone else and have someone that really could care for you...and unfortunately, I can't be that guy."
I was sad, but I finally understood. "So if you were staying here..."
"I'd want to be with you more than anything. Like in a different school, I'll want to be with you. But it's just better that we move on. We can talk on the phone every week and still stay friends. And I'm gonna go crazy without you for a WHILE...but we can move on. I know we can."
I hugged him tightly around his chest and he hugged me back and placed a kiss on my forehead. "I love you."
"I love you too," I cried.
Emma POV
I'd spent half an hour talking with Eowyn. It seemed that over the summer she had just sort of changed. It wasn't in a bad way or good way, really, she just wasn't the same person I had known. She had gotten a little wilder and over talkative somehow.
I wasn't gonna mind so much the rezoning. It'd be less people to always crowd around. I was going to be able to visit South Gondor every three months so that'd be enough time to see them and we'd get to go to cool places we'd never been.
After I'd talked a little with a few people that were going, I just stood by myself, hoping someone would talk to me. Eomer and Talim were dancing together, Aragorn, Legolas, and Faramir were talking about something, and Arwen was talking with this one girl I'd never seen with brown shoulder length hair and a pretty smile...
And I was just standing all by myself.
"Hey, Em." I turned to see Darien. He was dressed in black pants and a blue button down, which looked very nice compared to his usual outfits. "I haven't talked to you in about a week. How's it going?"
"All right," I nod.
"You and Legolas seem to be cool again. I knew it would work out."
"Yea," I say, smiling. "But we're not dating. So what about you? Any new girls?"
"Yea, well that one girl at the studio...but we tried to get romantic and have a date, but that turned out to be a disaster. Some people are just meant to be friends. So, yea, I'm unfortunately single too."
"Ah, I kinda like being single," I say, laughing. "I'm free to flirt with guys now!"
He laughed too. "That is true."
"So, since we're both just standing around, wanna dance?"
"I can't dance very good to slow songs," he says.
I smile. "Well, I can teach you!"
Legolas POV
I looked over at Emma, dancing and laughing with Darien. Sickening! I stepped forward to cut in right away, and then I shook my head, remembering that Emma and I weren't dating. It was weird to think about us actually having a break and being in the same school. I don't think I minded so much...
I glanced over at them again. Emma was blinking wildly and scratching her eyelid. Then Darien got close to examine her and then removed a piece of hair from her eye. Then they smiled at each other and I swear they were going to kiss, until Darien turned to the side and coughed violently.
I turned to the crowd and wondered if I wasn't dating Emma, who WOULD I date? I never really thought about looking for someone else. My eyes went over Talim, laughing, and then sipping punch. I shook my head and then kept looking around. Well, the truth was, I wasn't interested in anyone else, really.
Talim POV
I took the punch cup away from my mouth and looked around to see where Eomer had gone. I saw him in a far off corner talking with some of his football friends. I sighed and looked around for someone to talk to. Everyone seemed to be talking with someone, till I noticed Legolas standing amongst everyone...just standing and watching everyone.
I literally pushed my way through the crowd to get to him. "Hi," I said.
He looked at me and smiled. "Hey Talim. Why aren't you with Eomer?"
"It's not like I'm his only friend here. He wants to talk to other people before he leaves," I answer. "Why are you just standing here?"
He shrugs. "Because...there's no one to dance with. Do YOU want to dance?"
I nod. "Yea, sure."
Legolas and me walk to the floor and we smile at each other. I'm glad he's not leaving, just because he's been such a great friend and influence in just about everyone's life here.
Arwen POV
"You're rooming with Rimonna?" I say. "The most insecure bitch in the school!"
"Yea, well, I noticed she's a bitch," Monica sneers. "And everything she's said already has gotten on my nerves."
"What a nightmare," I say. "Well, you can hang with me on Monday! You are too nice to hang around someone like her. Seems like she once was nice, but over the time I've known her, she's got worse and worse."
"I'd love to hang with you and your friends!" she exclaims. "I'm new to this school, you know, and it seems that because of the rezoning, no one's noticed I exist."
"Well, you're too cool to be unnoticed! You can definitely hang with me," I say.
She literally glows after I say that. Suddenly, Aragorn appears. "Come on, let's dance!" he says and grabs me.
"I'll see you later, Monica!" I yell. She really does seem like a cool person.
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Rimonna POV
This year wasn't much better than last. Legolas was finally single and just as sexy as ever, but was he interested in me? Oh no, of course not.
I was bored of my life here and I was going to try again to fit in, but with a different way. If only I could prove that Emma wasn't the great person everyone thought she was. She had to have some secret that was hidden from her friends or SOMETHING. Maybe all I had to do was BE her friend first...till a time came where I could reveal some horrible truth about Emma.
I shrugged to myself. Just then, someone opened the door. I turned around to see a girl with shoulder length brown hair, looking at me. She had a duffel bag on one arm and a suitcase on wheels behind her. "Hi," she said with a smile. "I'm Monica, you're new roommate."
After all these kids leaving, roommates got switched and all this crazy stuff. "Hi," I say, turning back to my makeup mirror. "You're bed is by the closet."
I noticed that this Monica chick was looking down at my floor in disgust. She walked over my pile of wet towels and went to her bed. It was unmade and had a few things of mine on it. I had had a guy from a club over last night and we'd kinda had some fun in the bed, but Monica wouldn't know. She took the sheets off immediately and put them in the dirty clothes pile.
"Do you clean...ever?" Monica asked, wiping the dust from her small table. "I'm not a neat freak, but I'm sorry. This is ridiculous."
I gave a sharp look at Monica. "If you don't like it, clean it yourself!"
Emma POV
Friday came around and things had been so weird all week. Legolas was spending lots of time with Eomer since they wouldn't be roommates anymore. Everything just sucked major. The only people I knew who were actually unmoved by all of this was Daniel, Ben, and Chris. They still had each other, only because they HAD to stay at this school, or no school, because of their work.
Things between Legolas and me weren't the same. Both of us were officially single, but ya know, I really didn't mind it at all. We'd always be friends and maybe we'd go out again, but that was the way life was. Not everything goes your way and you don't always have a perfect relationship.
Anyways, so I was wearing this old pink dress that was rather plain. It had some flowers on it, but nothing really special about it. I had white platforms and I had gotten my hair cut shoulder length [it had been to my butt] and got it all layered cool. I was going to look kinda cute for this whole dance. I felt kinda weird not having a date...but this dance was to mostly say bye to the people you loved. So, that's what I was going to do. Show Eowyn and the others that I'd miss them.
Talim came in the room in this sleek black spaghetti strapped dress and her chin length hair was flipped out and wild looking. She looked so pretty, but at the same time, so cold and lonely. She hadn't said much these few days, but at least she wasn't constantly bawling like Eowyn. Actually, I'd only seen her cry once and only a little this week. She was brave.
"I wish I had gone out with Eomer instead of playing hard to get," she says quietly. "We would have had more alone, one on one, time together.
I nod and look at her sympathetically. "It'll be all right, Talim. You guys will either be able to make it through and visit on weekends, though it'd be hard, or you if it's not worth it, you can just let him go...you'll really see how much he loves you if he stays with you even so far away."
Talim looked in the mirror and put her earrings in. "That's the thing," she said, almost whimpering. "I don't think he loves me enough to do that. I don't think he'll go through with it. It's five hours to South Gondor High."
I hug her sideways. "Talim, things will be okay. If he can't see that you're worth it, then you'll find someone else who does. You're the school hottie. All the boys like you!"
She huffs. "Not really."
"Um, YES really! All the boys think you are so wild and fun...and gorgeous."
She crosses her arms. "Name ONE guy!"
I smile. "Eomer, of course. Before you two were going out, Faramir and Boromir said so. All the boys check you out! And not long ago I heard Connor say that you were drop dead gorgeous."
"Connor? You mean that guy in Darien's band that is really shy?"
"Yea, and he's an amazing guy," I say. "And he'll be there tonight. But talk to Eomer. See what he thinks about you guys staying together."
"I will," she says, suddenly looking sad. "I love him."
"I know you do," I say.
As soon as Talim and I got into the Ball Hall, Eomer ran up, took Talim by the hand, and led her somewhere private. There were already so many people around, I wasn't sure if any other of my friends were here.
"Hey Emma." I turn around to see Leanna. "Looks like we're finally getting what we've wanted. "We're now going to different schools!"
I gave the coldest smile I could. "Yea... I know I'll be happier."
"I don't know," she shrugs. "I'm gonna miss torturing you. But oh well, I'll find someone else to torture."
"And I greatly pity your next victim," I say. She laughs grimly and walks away. God, I hate her!
Talim POV
Eomer puts his arm around me. "I'm going to miss you, Talim," he says. "I'll miss everything about you."
"Does that mean we'll stay together?"
He pauses, which makes me wonder... "Uh, yea, of course."
I frowned because for some reason that didn't sound reassuring or the slightest bit romantic. Sounded like the very side Eomer I met when he dumped me. I had bad feelings about this.
"You're not being honest," I say, trying not to sound cold. "You won't be able to handle the distance. And you'll fall in love with someone else. You used to tell me nothing could keep us apart."
"Well, actually, I think we should stay broken up. You'll want someone to comfort you when your sad and I won't be able to. And trust me, I want to be for you! I don't want it to hurt so badly when you need your boyfriend, but he's far away. I'd rather see you with someone else and have someone that really could care for you...and unfortunately, I can't be that guy."
I was sad, but I finally understood. "So if you were staying here..."
"I'd want to be with you more than anything. Like in a different school, I'll want to be with you. But it's just better that we move on. We can talk on the phone every week and still stay friends. And I'm gonna go crazy without you for a WHILE...but we can move on. I know we can."
I hugged him tightly around his chest and he hugged me back and placed a kiss on my forehead. "I love you."
"I love you too," I cried.
Emma POV
I'd spent half an hour talking with Eowyn. It seemed that over the summer she had just sort of changed. It wasn't in a bad way or good way, really, she just wasn't the same person I had known. She had gotten a little wilder and over talkative somehow.
I wasn't gonna mind so much the rezoning. It'd be less people to always crowd around. I was going to be able to visit South Gondor every three months so that'd be enough time to see them and we'd get to go to cool places we'd never been.
After I'd talked a little with a few people that were going, I just stood by myself, hoping someone would talk to me. Eomer and Talim were dancing together, Aragorn, Legolas, and Faramir were talking about something, and Arwen was talking with this one girl I'd never seen with brown shoulder length hair and a pretty smile...
And I was just standing all by myself.
"Hey, Em." I turned to see Darien. He was dressed in black pants and a blue button down, which looked very nice compared to his usual outfits. "I haven't talked to you in about a week. How's it going?"
"All right," I nod.
"You and Legolas seem to be cool again. I knew it would work out."
"Yea," I say, smiling. "But we're not dating. So what about you? Any new girls?"
"Yea, well that one girl at the studio...but we tried to get romantic and have a date, but that turned out to be a disaster. Some people are just meant to be friends. So, yea, I'm unfortunately single too."
"Ah, I kinda like being single," I say, laughing. "I'm free to flirt with guys now!"
He laughed too. "That is true."
"So, since we're both just standing around, wanna dance?"
"I can't dance very good to slow songs," he says.
I smile. "Well, I can teach you!"
Legolas POV
I looked over at Emma, dancing and laughing with Darien. Sickening! I stepped forward to cut in right away, and then I shook my head, remembering that Emma and I weren't dating. It was weird to think about us actually having a break and being in the same school. I don't think I minded so much...
I glanced over at them again. Emma was blinking wildly and scratching her eyelid. Then Darien got close to examine her and then removed a piece of hair from her eye. Then they smiled at each other and I swear they were going to kiss, until Darien turned to the side and coughed violently.
I turned to the crowd and wondered if I wasn't dating Emma, who WOULD I date? I never really thought about looking for someone else. My eyes went over Talim, laughing, and then sipping punch. I shook my head and then kept looking around. Well, the truth was, I wasn't interested in anyone else, really.
Talim POV
I took the punch cup away from my mouth and looked around to see where Eomer had gone. I saw him in a far off corner talking with some of his football friends. I sighed and looked around for someone to talk to. Everyone seemed to be talking with someone, till I noticed Legolas standing amongst everyone...just standing and watching everyone.
I literally pushed my way through the crowd to get to him. "Hi," I said.
He looked at me and smiled. "Hey Talim. Why aren't you with Eomer?"
"It's not like I'm his only friend here. He wants to talk to other people before he leaves," I answer. "Why are you just standing here?"
He shrugs. "Because...there's no one to dance with. Do YOU want to dance?"
I nod. "Yea, sure."
Legolas and me walk to the floor and we smile at each other. I'm glad he's not leaving, just because he's been such a great friend and influence in just about everyone's life here.
Arwen POV
"You're rooming with Rimonna?" I say. "The most insecure bitch in the school!"
"Yea, well, I noticed she's a bitch," Monica sneers. "And everything she's said already has gotten on my nerves."
"What a nightmare," I say. "Well, you can hang with me on Monday! You are too nice to hang around someone like her. Seems like she once was nice, but over the time I've known her, she's got worse and worse."
"I'd love to hang with you and your friends!" she exclaims. "I'm new to this school, you know, and it seems that because of the rezoning, no one's noticed I exist."
"Well, you're too cool to be unnoticed! You can definitely hang with me," I say.
She literally glows after I say that. Suddenly, Aragorn appears. "Come on, let's dance!" he says and grabs me.
"I'll see you later, Monica!" I yell. She really does seem like a cool person.
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