disclaimer:Lord of the rings does not belong to me.
Worlds Apart
Chapter 3: I didn't mean to fall in love with you
I had to leave 5 weeks from now.
That's 35 days.
I had 35 days left with Kylie and she didn't even know about it.
I invited her over to my house today, I planned to tell her the truth.
The truth about my pointy ears.
My ever pale skin no matter how much sun I'm under.
The reason why I never seem to grow up.
How old I actually am.
That I'm going to leave in 35 days.
And I don't know, maybe get to the point of telling her that I love her.
I was tempted at first to tell her the day before I left so she wouldn't be angry at me for the time being or whatever she would be when I told her.
But I decided that if Kylie were to be that important to me, then she would have to know as soon as possible.
Rain poured heavily outside.
I wondered how she was going to come over.
I looked towards the window when I heard Kylie's climbing.
She jumped into the room and grinned.
She had on a white raincoat.
"Finally!" She said.
"Finally what?" I asked, curious to know what she was refering to.
"You calling me over and not me coming over without your invitation. You never do that anymore." She complained, pretending to be mad at me but I could see that she couldn't hide her smile for very long.
She removed her raincoat and dropped it on the floor.
I scratched the back of my head and frowned.
"Really? Sorry, I didn't realize it."
Kylie stuck out her tongue at me.
"Are you implying something?" She snorted.
I shook my head.
"Soo... thanks for helping me with the geog assignment. I got an B+." she said, plopping herself onto my bed.
"A B+? It seemed to me to be more like an A." I said, shoving my hands into the pockets of my jeans.
"Well, I ahh, had to change some of it. Or the teacher might think I didn't do it myself."She said, looking slightly embarrassed.
"Well, you didn't." I pointed out.
"Now you're making me feel all guilty."she said.
"Sorry."
Kylie looked up at me and frowned.
"Why do you always let me walk all over you? Don't you get tired of it?"
I shrugged.
"I just thought..." I couldn't finish my sentence.
I didn't want to.
I knew the more we talked, the sooner I'd have to tell her.
I grabbed her hand and I pulled her towards the window.
"Come."
"What?"
Kylie exclaimed, shocked but she let me pull her along.
I opened the window and jumped out.
The rain was still as heavy as it was when she came in.
I looked up at my own window.
Kylie shouted at me from there.
"Are you mad? What's wrong with you today Alexander?"
I spread out my arms so she knew I would catch her when she jumped.
She jumped and I caught her.
She moaned.
"You didn't have to grab on my ribcage that tightly!"
I shrugged and took her hand and started to run.
We arrived at the beach at nearly six O' clock.
The rain had gone down slightly and was just a drizzle.
Kylie bent over and grabbed her knees caps as she started to pant heavily.
"If you had wanted to go to the beach that badly, we could have just waited till the rain stopped. Or at least, take the bus! That was a whole mile we ran there!!" She complained.
I stared at her.
She looked great, no, beautiful. I've never noticed it before.
I supposed that it was because she grew out of her short, tan, skinny look and I didn't notice because I saw her almost everyday.
She had shoulder length wavey black hair and dark green almond-shaped eyes. She wasn't that skinny anymore, more like curvey.
She had become alot more fair than she was when she first arrived in Orlando.
She was even more beautiful than some she-elves.
"So what are we doing here?" she asked as she sat herself down on the sand.
I sat down next to her.
I liked going to the beach. It was different from being in Mirkwood.
Mirkwood was just full of trees and squirells and sparrows, such creatures were common, even in this world.
But the beach was full of mystery.
You could stare out at the ocean and wonder when the waves would take you in.
The creatures were strange.
Like the crab, it walked sideways.
And the guppies and dolphins.
No one ever understood why the dolphins always came to me when they were at shore.
But I could talk to them.
Before Kylie came along, I used to come down to the beach whenever I was lonely.
I would sit down on the sand and watch as the sunset drew me into the horizon with it.
It would disappear here and appear on the other side of the world, no longer visible to me.
But I knew it was still there.
And it'll be back again.
I had to do the same to Kylie.
But I fear I would never return.
"Kylie, I just wanted to tell you that I'll be leaving." I said. But I didn't dare look at her.
I just looked straight out into the sun, no, beyond the sun.
"Where are you going? Have you decided to go to college?" She asked me.
I shooked my head.
"No, I'm just going to go to a place where I'll probably never return."
Kylie looked confused.
"Are you moving to another state? Because if you do...I'll go with you. I know my parents wouldn't mind... and I'll... I'll get an apartment nearby...or..or.."
I risked a glance at her and I saw tears starting to form in her eyes.
I grabbed her hand and squeezed it until her tears started to fall.
"Where I'm going, Kylie, you cannot come."I told her.
Inside, I felt like my words were going to shatter.
But I kept a straight face.
Kylie chewed on her lip for awhile.
"You're lying." She finally said.
"You know I wouldn't lie to you and I don't intend to."
I reached my hand up to her face to wipe away her tears but she pushed me away.
"Where could you possibly go that I can't come!" she shouted angrily.
I sighed.
"I found my past."
I could feel my breath shaking when I spoke.
I could tell Kylie realized it as well because she looked at me and she calmed down abit because she knew I felt the same way she did.
She leaned back slightly and waited for my explaination.
"You know how I'm always so unexcited about anything? And my pointy ears and my ever fair skin and the fact that I don't seem to grow old? And the fact that I'm a natural at archery and well practically everything? "
Kylie nodded slowly, "Yeah, so?"
"Well, you see, I'm.. not exactly from around here."
Kylie eyed me suspciously. "Are you an alien? Like superman or something?"
"Not exactly, but somthing like that, I don't come from another planet. I'm from Mirkwood. It's a place in another world called Middle-earth."
"I don't quite believe you. How can there be another world if it isn't in space?"she asked.
"There's a portal that opens every seven years and it leads to another dimension. Earth was the dimension which I landed on when I went through the portal in Middle-earth." I explained, trying to make it sound as simple as possible.
"I don't understand...then if you had to wait seven years to go back... you must have arrived here when you were eleven or twelve. But were you really that young?"
Kylie seemed to believe me and she was looked interested to know more.
It made me feel alittle relaxed.
But would she believe me if I told her my age?
My real age?
"I wasn't very young when I arrived here. Not in human standards at least. I'm not human anyway." I told her.
"So, you were like a hundred or what?"she joked.
I shook my head. "I arrived when I was two thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four. So if you know your math, I'm actually two thousand, nine hundred and forty-one."
Kylie gapped at me.
"You're kidding! And I suppose your name isn't Alexander Monroe really."
"Its Legolas. Legolas Greenleaf."
"And what sort of creature are you?"
"An elf..."
Kylie grinned.
"So that explains it."
I hung my head down and sighed inwardly.
"I'm sorry," I mumbled under my breath.
All this talk about myself only made me wish I was back in mirkwood.
But talking to Kylie made me want to stay on earth.
I wanted to apologize.
But to her or myself, I really didn't know.
"You ought to be!" She screamed as she stood up and kicked sand at me.
"You spent so much time with me! How am I going to let you go now!"
Apparently, she hadn't forgotten the fact that I was still going to leave.
I bit my lip.
And stared down at my shoes.
"I spent so much time with you because I..."
I didn't continue.
My cheeks were getting wet.
And Kylie.
It was like she could read my mind.
She kneeled down in front of me and she kissed my cheeks until my tears were on her lips.
She lifted my head up to look at her and she smiled.
"I love you." she whispered.
I didn't expect to fall in love with anyone that easily, not to mention a human girl and she was only sixteen.
But Kylie drew me under her spell and it felt so perfect I was afraid that something was wrong.
And now I figured out where we went wrong.
We belonged worlds apart.
I smiled back at her.
"I didn't mean to fall in love with you."
end of chapter 3
Worlds Apart
Chapter 3: I didn't mean to fall in love with you
I had to leave 5 weeks from now.
That's 35 days.
I had 35 days left with Kylie and she didn't even know about it.
I invited her over to my house today, I planned to tell her the truth.
The truth about my pointy ears.
My ever pale skin no matter how much sun I'm under.
The reason why I never seem to grow up.
How old I actually am.
That I'm going to leave in 35 days.
And I don't know, maybe get to the point of telling her that I love her.
I was tempted at first to tell her the day before I left so she wouldn't be angry at me for the time being or whatever she would be when I told her.
But I decided that if Kylie were to be that important to me, then she would have to know as soon as possible.
Rain poured heavily outside.
I wondered how she was going to come over.
I looked towards the window when I heard Kylie's climbing.
She jumped into the room and grinned.
She had on a white raincoat.
"Finally!" She said.
"Finally what?" I asked, curious to know what she was refering to.
"You calling me over and not me coming over without your invitation. You never do that anymore." She complained, pretending to be mad at me but I could see that she couldn't hide her smile for very long.
She removed her raincoat and dropped it on the floor.
I scratched the back of my head and frowned.
"Really? Sorry, I didn't realize it."
Kylie stuck out her tongue at me.
"Are you implying something?" She snorted.
I shook my head.
"Soo... thanks for helping me with the geog assignment. I got an B+." she said, plopping herself onto my bed.
"A B+? It seemed to me to be more like an A." I said, shoving my hands into the pockets of my jeans.
"Well, I ahh, had to change some of it. Or the teacher might think I didn't do it myself."She said, looking slightly embarrassed.
"Well, you didn't." I pointed out.
"Now you're making me feel all guilty."she said.
"Sorry."
Kylie looked up at me and frowned.
"Why do you always let me walk all over you? Don't you get tired of it?"
I shrugged.
"I just thought..." I couldn't finish my sentence.
I didn't want to.
I knew the more we talked, the sooner I'd have to tell her.
I grabbed her hand and I pulled her towards the window.
"Come."
"What?"
Kylie exclaimed, shocked but she let me pull her along.
I opened the window and jumped out.
The rain was still as heavy as it was when she came in.
I looked up at my own window.
Kylie shouted at me from there.
"Are you mad? What's wrong with you today Alexander?"
I spread out my arms so she knew I would catch her when she jumped.
She jumped and I caught her.
She moaned.
"You didn't have to grab on my ribcage that tightly!"
I shrugged and took her hand and started to run.
We arrived at the beach at nearly six O' clock.
The rain had gone down slightly and was just a drizzle.
Kylie bent over and grabbed her knees caps as she started to pant heavily.
"If you had wanted to go to the beach that badly, we could have just waited till the rain stopped. Or at least, take the bus! That was a whole mile we ran there!!" She complained.
I stared at her.
She looked great, no, beautiful. I've never noticed it before.
I supposed that it was because she grew out of her short, tan, skinny look and I didn't notice because I saw her almost everyday.
She had shoulder length wavey black hair and dark green almond-shaped eyes. She wasn't that skinny anymore, more like curvey.
She had become alot more fair than she was when she first arrived in Orlando.
She was even more beautiful than some she-elves.
"So what are we doing here?" she asked as she sat herself down on the sand.
I sat down next to her.
I liked going to the beach. It was different from being in Mirkwood.
Mirkwood was just full of trees and squirells and sparrows, such creatures were common, even in this world.
But the beach was full of mystery.
You could stare out at the ocean and wonder when the waves would take you in.
The creatures were strange.
Like the crab, it walked sideways.
And the guppies and dolphins.
No one ever understood why the dolphins always came to me when they were at shore.
But I could talk to them.
Before Kylie came along, I used to come down to the beach whenever I was lonely.
I would sit down on the sand and watch as the sunset drew me into the horizon with it.
It would disappear here and appear on the other side of the world, no longer visible to me.
But I knew it was still there.
And it'll be back again.
I had to do the same to Kylie.
But I fear I would never return.
"Kylie, I just wanted to tell you that I'll be leaving." I said. But I didn't dare look at her.
I just looked straight out into the sun, no, beyond the sun.
"Where are you going? Have you decided to go to college?" She asked me.
I shooked my head.
"No, I'm just going to go to a place where I'll probably never return."
Kylie looked confused.
"Are you moving to another state? Because if you do...I'll go with you. I know my parents wouldn't mind... and I'll... I'll get an apartment nearby...or..or.."
I risked a glance at her and I saw tears starting to form in her eyes.
I grabbed her hand and squeezed it until her tears started to fall.
"Where I'm going, Kylie, you cannot come."I told her.
Inside, I felt like my words were going to shatter.
But I kept a straight face.
Kylie chewed on her lip for awhile.
"You're lying." She finally said.
"You know I wouldn't lie to you and I don't intend to."
I reached my hand up to her face to wipe away her tears but she pushed me away.
"Where could you possibly go that I can't come!" she shouted angrily.
I sighed.
"I found my past."
I could feel my breath shaking when I spoke.
I could tell Kylie realized it as well because she looked at me and she calmed down abit because she knew I felt the same way she did.
She leaned back slightly and waited for my explaination.
"You know how I'm always so unexcited about anything? And my pointy ears and my ever fair skin and the fact that I don't seem to grow old? And the fact that I'm a natural at archery and well practically everything? "
Kylie nodded slowly, "Yeah, so?"
"Well, you see, I'm.. not exactly from around here."
Kylie eyed me suspciously. "Are you an alien? Like superman or something?"
"Not exactly, but somthing like that, I don't come from another planet. I'm from Mirkwood. It's a place in another world called Middle-earth."
"I don't quite believe you. How can there be another world if it isn't in space?"she asked.
"There's a portal that opens every seven years and it leads to another dimension. Earth was the dimension which I landed on when I went through the portal in Middle-earth." I explained, trying to make it sound as simple as possible.
"I don't understand...then if you had to wait seven years to go back... you must have arrived here when you were eleven or twelve. But were you really that young?"
Kylie seemed to believe me and she was looked interested to know more.
It made me feel alittle relaxed.
But would she believe me if I told her my age?
My real age?
"I wasn't very young when I arrived here. Not in human standards at least. I'm not human anyway." I told her.
"So, you were like a hundred or what?"she joked.
I shook my head. "I arrived when I was two thousand, nine hundred and thirty-four. So if you know your math, I'm actually two thousand, nine hundred and forty-one."
Kylie gapped at me.
"You're kidding! And I suppose your name isn't Alexander Monroe really."
"Its Legolas. Legolas Greenleaf."
"And what sort of creature are you?"
"An elf..."
Kylie grinned.
"So that explains it."
I hung my head down and sighed inwardly.
"I'm sorry," I mumbled under my breath.
All this talk about myself only made me wish I was back in mirkwood.
But talking to Kylie made me want to stay on earth.
I wanted to apologize.
But to her or myself, I really didn't know.
"You ought to be!" She screamed as she stood up and kicked sand at me.
"You spent so much time with me! How am I going to let you go now!"
Apparently, she hadn't forgotten the fact that I was still going to leave.
I bit my lip.
And stared down at my shoes.
"I spent so much time with you because I..."
I didn't continue.
My cheeks were getting wet.
And Kylie.
It was like she could read my mind.
She kneeled down in front of me and she kissed my cheeks until my tears were on her lips.
She lifted my head up to look at her and she smiled.
"I love you." she whispered.
I didn't expect to fall in love with anyone that easily, not to mention a human girl and she was only sixteen.
But Kylie drew me under her spell and it felt so perfect I was afraid that something was wrong.
And now I figured out where we went wrong.
We belonged worlds apart.
I smiled back at her.
"I didn't mean to fall in love with you."
end of chapter 3