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Worlds Apart
Chapter 22
Kiss and make up
Branwen's POV
"KABOOM, eat shit and die!" I found myself yelling at the computer, my fingers clicking furiously at the mouse. Counterstrike, a horribly enertaining game, once started, it cannot be stopped. I like to imagine all my enemies are filthy orc buggers, which really isn't hard. I have a fantastic imagination. It was nine O'clock and Mom had gone to work ealier in the morning. She told me to take Legolas around the city when he wakes up, give him a little culture shock. But first, I had to get him something to wear.
I sighed as I remembered that Mom told me to call Colin, ask him if I could borrow some clothes for Legolas. I could not believe she would ask me to do something like that when she knows that we're not speaking to each other anymore. Well, just me anyway. I reluctantly pressed the escape button and shut down the computer.
Pressing the receiver against my ear, I dialed my ex-bestfriend's number. His grandmother picked it up.
"Hey, Mrs P., its Branwen. Is Colin home?"
"Oh Branny, dear. Its been such a long time since you called. Colin's been rather depressed. Wait, I'll get him."
"Thanks." He's been depressed? Because I haven't called? And all this while I was depressed.
"Branwen. Listen I..."
"No, wait. Can you come over now?" I cut him off, I didn't want to hear any apologizes or explainations and I certainly didn't want to give any.
"Huh? Like now?" Came his puzzled voice.
"Yup, and bring some jeans and some shirts." I said quickly, not giving him a chance to think.
"What?" he exclaimed.
"Talk to you later. Bye!" I put down the receiver as fast as I could and thought how well that went.
I put down the phone and turned to find Legolas at my bedroom door.
"Good morning." I greeted him. "Had a good rest?"
He was silent for a moment and then he smiled and nodded. "Rest. Yes, thank you. But where is your mother?"
"Work. She did tell me to take you around, like the mall or something, when you woke up. We're waiting for your clothes to arrive though." I told him. He had on my mom's big 'I LOVE NEW YORK' T-shirt which she wore to sleep and her baggy bermudas. His long blonde hair was tied into a low ponytail and the more I look at him, the more I look at him, the more its seems as if I'm peering into a mirror.
"My clothes? To arrive?" He asked, confused. His eyebrows furrowed and then he shrugged. "Okay."
"Yup, anyways. Is there any place you wanna go? Anything you want to see? Oh, how about breakfast?" I asked, getting up from the computer chair and leading him into the kitchen. I didn't really want to admit it but I was quite excited about taking Legolas out. I was glad that I had my Dad all to myself, for once. I mean, sure it'd be great if Haldir was here but I think he'd just freak out if he were to come to Earth. I know I've had Haldir all to myself a lot of times when I was in Middle-earth, I'll always remember Mom telling me that he had told her to go out with the other she-elves and have some fun or something.
He thought he would be able to survive the whole day with me. But how wrong he was! When Mom came back, the whole flet had food splattered all over the floor and tables and chairs were overturned and I think he had no idea how my nappy should be put on, so he put them on backwards. But by the time Mom got home, he had managed to put me to bed. After that, he never volunteered to stay home with me until I was a little older.
" Well, I already had some breakfast, while you were busy blasting the terrorist on your computer." He laughed as he pushed a wayward strand of hair out of his eyes. It was true that my eyes were exactly like his, or maybe his were slightly deeper with age.
"Do you want to watch TV? Like the news or something? Maybe you'll catch up on whatever you missed out for the past years you were gone."
"Yes, please, if its not any trouble. Is Bill Clinton still the president?"
"Nope. George Bush is." I switched on the television just in time to catch some of George Bush giving a speech about terrorists.
"Terrorists? Is that why you like blasting them so much?"
"Well, no. Its just out of plain fun. I like sneaking up on people... surprising them. I remember when I was younger, I used to hide behind some bushes and try to give Ada a scare. It never worked. He could hear me from a mile away. But I never stopped trying...I still do it to my mother, because I can hear her footsteps outside my door before she comes into my room. I'll stand at the door and go 'boo!'. Gets her everytime." I said. I could still remember how he would grin at me and joke about how I sound like an elephant trying to walk on two legs. Of course, after that he would receive a punch or two, which were all fruitless to him.
"I was always the center of attention when we were in Lothlorien because there were no other children around. I had so many babysitters because babies weren't horrible things that cry a lot, they were a blessing. I had never met another kid in my life. But when I came to earth, there were so many other kids. It was so overwhelming and my mother had such a hard time trying to get someone to look after me," I told him, I could almost remember it like it was yesterday. Mom was always on the phone, looking for some teenager who would be willing to give up their weeknights to look after me.
"It was quite hard at first, to settle in. Get me into a school. We even looked for your parents to help us. And they knew I was your kid as soon as they saw my ears. But everything is fine now, I guess."
Legolas nodded. "And how is school? Are you doing well? Making lots of friends?" He asked. He then proceeded on to ask me some more questions about my life.
I wondered if he and Mom would get married. I wouldn't mind, I'd like to have a father figure again and he is, afterall, my real father. But I'll never forget Haldir. He'll always be my Dad, the one I called Ada.
The doorbell rang and I knew it was Colin. He always had his significant triple bell ring. I hated it when he did that but at least I knew it was him before I opened the door.
"Hey, Colin. Thanks for coming, even though I made you angry and everything. I didn't mean to and well, yeah. Sorry." I said as I greeted him at the door. He was carrying a big bag of his clothes and lookin as cute as ever with his curly hair.
"Its okay. I was just waiting for you to call, I was really glad you did. Even though, it was kind of a rush." He said, handing the bag to me. He looked up and saw Legolas. "Who's he?"
I could feel myself smiling from ear to ear. "This, Colin." I started and then I put my hand on Legolas' shoulder, "Is my father!"
"Really? So he's the mystery guy you've been waiting all your life to meet? He's here. Wow. I really see the resemblence huh! But he looks a little young to be your Dad, doesn't he?" Colin asked, stretching his hand out for Legolas to shake. "Hullo, Mr. Monroe. How'd you do?"
"Fine, Thanks. Colin, isn't it? That is your name?"
"C'mon." I took Legolas by his arm and led him to the bathroom and shoved the bag of clothes in his arms. "Here are your clothes, DAD!" I said, stressing the last word. He snorted. "You make me sound so old."
"You are. Now go get changed so I can take you out."
I went back to where Colin was. He was standing there, hands in his pockets, eyes roaming around the place like he's never been here before. When he finally rested his gaze on me, he smiled.
"So... he's seems pretty cool." Colin said. I think he was just trying to make conversation because it must have been the lamest thing I've ever heard him say. Colin's a guy of few words most of the time but when he does talk, he says really profound stuff.
"He is. I've been looking for him all my life, not knowing he has been too. Well, looking for my mom actually. But its the same thing I guess."
"Where's he been?"
"Another universe. I don't know. Didn't ask, don't care. He's back, that's all I need to know." I said, shrugging.
"Uh huh."
"Uh huh."
There was a moment of silence between us and we just had nothing to say to each other. Should I tell him that I like him?
"So, another universe, huh."
"Shut up."
"Yeah, okay. I'm just gonna leave now."
He turned to leave but then stopped and turned back. "Branwen."
I kissed him and looked at him straight in the eye. "Thanks."
He smiled and nodded. "You're Dad's a blonde."
"So? You're blonde too."
"Well, I'm supposed to be the only blonde guy in your life!"
"You don't have anything to say, do you?"
"No. Yeah, I'm just gonna go." He kissed me on my cheek. "See ya, babe."
I stared at the door as he closed it behind him and felt my heart leap out of my mouth. Did he just kiss me? Oh man, he just kissed me! Now all I can see is butterflies and pink hearts! Wheeeeee! That isn't really true but I like the sound of it.
Legolas came out of the bathroom, looking extremely uncomfortable. The clothes looked fine though. A clean blue T-shirt and grey pants, very nice.
"Branwen. You didn't get me any underwear."
"Oh, I forgot, I can't be thinking about underwear all the time, geez, what do you think I am? Doesn't matter anyway, we can get them later. And you didn't even wear them when you were in middle-earth, why are you complaining?"
"But I can't..." I pressed a finger against my lips to hush him and with my other hand, I grabbed my purse. "We're going to get you some, Okay?"
Shopping had been great, we went from store to store and I must say, he has very good taste on women's wear. We got him a couple of jeans and shirts and of course, his underwear. Geez, I really don't know why he fusses about that all the time, he insisted that that had to be the first thing we bought.
Anyways, we ended up at the Baskin Robins Ice cream place where he could hardly remember what chocolate tasted like. He when he remembered, I think he had three large scoops of it.
We sat down and didn't speak for a while but when I was finally going to say something, the ultimate bimbotic three came to our table. What luck...
"Hey Bernice, whose the major hottie? Your brother?" Grace, the dumbest of them all asked. Well, she didn't really ask, it sounded more like she was talking normally. She always speaks as if she was asking a question, which can get quite annoying.
"Its Branwen. And no, he's not my brother." I snapped.
It was Rachel's turn to pick on me. Rachel had to be the prettiest amongst them with her light blonde hair and fair skin, they say she spends more time in front of the mirror than she does with books. Her father's this really rich tycoon and I hear he buys her grades. I won't be surprised if that's true, I don't even think she can spell her own name. I'm exaggerating her disablities but she's really dull and I have her as my lab partner in school. I always end up doing everything for her.
"Why would he wanna hang out with you? He's too good for you." She said. Then she turned to Legolas and said in her honey-sweet voice. "You should be hanging out with us, cutie."
Its really gross listening to her talk about my father like that. I wanted to push her to the ground and slap her silly. I could tell Legolas felt extremely uncomfortable at this point. He was leaning very back into his seat, his hands clasping and unclasping the armrests. He was about to say something before Hannes interrupted.
Hannes gave me the creeps. She never said much and is ever watchful. She was always watching me like a hawk. I know something about Hannes and that she isn't someone you would want to mess around with. She's very clever and she had Rachel and Grace under her control without them knowing it. Grace thinks she's the leader but in actual fact, Hannes really is.
I remember when we were in 5th grade and she would tell Grace to tie my hair to the chair and when the teacher found out who did it, Hannes was never caught.
"Branwen, you'd better not let Colin... know about your little affair." She said coldly, but with a smile on her face. "I'm sure he'll be so heartbroken."
Blackmail. I could have just laughed. She was trying to blackmail me with Legolas. She thinks I'm dating him. I decided that if I was gonna get my telepathic powers back, I might as well use it for the good of all mankind. Or well, at least, for myself.
Let's see, what do we have in your mind Hanne?
Hanne's POV
Why do you keep picking on Branwen?
Because she's so beautiful and she's smart and she doesn't care what anybody thinks. She doesn't care if she has any friends or what people say about her. She's even got the cutest boy falling for her.
Branwen's POV
Is that what she thought of me? Is that why she was always picking on me? I decided that I wouldn't be a smartass this time and just let her do what she wants.
"I'm sorry. Hanne, this is my Dad. He's in town for a while." I said politely. I turned to Legolas and said."Come on, let's go. I'm done with my ice cream."
The three of them stood there gaping as we got up and left the ice cream place. It had been the first time I had not tried to fight my way out of one of their spites and it felt good.
Suddenly, my cellphone rang and I quickly picked it up.
"Branwen, its Claire." Claire was my mother's assistant in the Cafe and I was surprised that she called.
"What's up?"
"Its your mother, she's in the hospital."
Legolas' POV
Branwen's face turned pale and she nodded gravely. When she hung up she turned to me and what she said made my heart sink to the ground.
"Its Mom. She...she's in the emergency room."
end of chapter 22
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Plasmolysed cell membrane: Hullo! looks like I won't be ending so soon..hehh hehhe.... anyways, this isn't the last chapter so don't you worry...ummmmm...yeah. thanks for the reviews, ta!
This one is for Denise.
Worlds Apart
Chapter 22
Kiss and make up
Branwen's POV
"KABOOM, eat shit and die!" I found myself yelling at the computer, my fingers clicking furiously at the mouse. Counterstrike, a horribly enertaining game, once started, it cannot be stopped. I like to imagine all my enemies are filthy orc buggers, which really isn't hard. I have a fantastic imagination. It was nine O'clock and Mom had gone to work ealier in the morning. She told me to take Legolas around the city when he wakes up, give him a little culture shock. But first, I had to get him something to wear.
I sighed as I remembered that Mom told me to call Colin, ask him if I could borrow some clothes for Legolas. I could not believe she would ask me to do something like that when she knows that we're not speaking to each other anymore. Well, just me anyway. I reluctantly pressed the escape button and shut down the computer.
Pressing the receiver against my ear, I dialed my ex-bestfriend's number. His grandmother picked it up.
"Hey, Mrs P., its Branwen. Is Colin home?"
"Oh Branny, dear. Its been such a long time since you called. Colin's been rather depressed. Wait, I'll get him."
"Thanks." He's been depressed? Because I haven't called? And all this while I was depressed.
"Branwen. Listen I..."
"No, wait. Can you come over now?" I cut him off, I didn't want to hear any apologizes or explainations and I certainly didn't want to give any.
"Huh? Like now?" Came his puzzled voice.
"Yup, and bring some jeans and some shirts." I said quickly, not giving him a chance to think.
"What?" he exclaimed.
"Talk to you later. Bye!" I put down the receiver as fast as I could and thought how well that went.
I put down the phone and turned to find Legolas at my bedroom door.
"Good morning." I greeted him. "Had a good rest?"
He was silent for a moment and then he smiled and nodded. "Rest. Yes, thank you. But where is your mother?"
"Work. She did tell me to take you around, like the mall or something, when you woke up. We're waiting for your clothes to arrive though." I told him. He had on my mom's big 'I LOVE NEW YORK' T-shirt which she wore to sleep and her baggy bermudas. His long blonde hair was tied into a low ponytail and the more I look at him, the more I look at him, the more its seems as if I'm peering into a mirror.
"My clothes? To arrive?" He asked, confused. His eyebrows furrowed and then he shrugged. "Okay."
"Yup, anyways. Is there any place you wanna go? Anything you want to see? Oh, how about breakfast?" I asked, getting up from the computer chair and leading him into the kitchen. I didn't really want to admit it but I was quite excited about taking Legolas out. I was glad that I had my Dad all to myself, for once. I mean, sure it'd be great if Haldir was here but I think he'd just freak out if he were to come to Earth. I know I've had Haldir all to myself a lot of times when I was in Middle-earth, I'll always remember Mom telling me that he had told her to go out with the other she-elves and have some fun or something.
He thought he would be able to survive the whole day with me. But how wrong he was! When Mom came back, the whole flet had food splattered all over the floor and tables and chairs were overturned and I think he had no idea how my nappy should be put on, so he put them on backwards. But by the time Mom got home, he had managed to put me to bed. After that, he never volunteered to stay home with me until I was a little older.
" Well, I already had some breakfast, while you were busy blasting the terrorist on your computer." He laughed as he pushed a wayward strand of hair out of his eyes. It was true that my eyes were exactly like his, or maybe his were slightly deeper with age.
"Do you want to watch TV? Like the news or something? Maybe you'll catch up on whatever you missed out for the past years you were gone."
"Yes, please, if its not any trouble. Is Bill Clinton still the president?"
"Nope. George Bush is." I switched on the television just in time to catch some of George Bush giving a speech about terrorists.
"Terrorists? Is that why you like blasting them so much?"
"Well, no. Its just out of plain fun. I like sneaking up on people... surprising them. I remember when I was younger, I used to hide behind some bushes and try to give Ada a scare. It never worked. He could hear me from a mile away. But I never stopped trying...I still do it to my mother, because I can hear her footsteps outside my door before she comes into my room. I'll stand at the door and go 'boo!'. Gets her everytime." I said. I could still remember how he would grin at me and joke about how I sound like an elephant trying to walk on two legs. Of course, after that he would receive a punch or two, which were all fruitless to him.
"I was always the center of attention when we were in Lothlorien because there were no other children around. I had so many babysitters because babies weren't horrible things that cry a lot, they were a blessing. I had never met another kid in my life. But when I came to earth, there were so many other kids. It was so overwhelming and my mother had such a hard time trying to get someone to look after me," I told him, I could almost remember it like it was yesterday. Mom was always on the phone, looking for some teenager who would be willing to give up their weeknights to look after me.
"It was quite hard at first, to settle in. Get me into a school. We even looked for your parents to help us. And they knew I was your kid as soon as they saw my ears. But everything is fine now, I guess."
Legolas nodded. "And how is school? Are you doing well? Making lots of friends?" He asked. He then proceeded on to ask me some more questions about my life.
I wondered if he and Mom would get married. I wouldn't mind, I'd like to have a father figure again and he is, afterall, my real father. But I'll never forget Haldir. He'll always be my Dad, the one I called Ada.
The doorbell rang and I knew it was Colin. He always had his significant triple bell ring. I hated it when he did that but at least I knew it was him before I opened the door.
"Hey, Colin. Thanks for coming, even though I made you angry and everything. I didn't mean to and well, yeah. Sorry." I said as I greeted him at the door. He was carrying a big bag of his clothes and lookin as cute as ever with his curly hair.
"Its okay. I was just waiting for you to call, I was really glad you did. Even though, it was kind of a rush." He said, handing the bag to me. He looked up and saw Legolas. "Who's he?"
I could feel myself smiling from ear to ear. "This, Colin." I started and then I put my hand on Legolas' shoulder, "Is my father!"
"Really? So he's the mystery guy you've been waiting all your life to meet? He's here. Wow. I really see the resemblence huh! But he looks a little young to be your Dad, doesn't he?" Colin asked, stretching his hand out for Legolas to shake. "Hullo, Mr. Monroe. How'd you do?"
"Fine, Thanks. Colin, isn't it? That is your name?"
"C'mon." I took Legolas by his arm and led him to the bathroom and shoved the bag of clothes in his arms. "Here are your clothes, DAD!" I said, stressing the last word. He snorted. "You make me sound so old."
"You are. Now go get changed so I can take you out."
I went back to where Colin was. He was standing there, hands in his pockets, eyes roaming around the place like he's never been here before. When he finally rested his gaze on me, he smiled.
"So... he's seems pretty cool." Colin said. I think he was just trying to make conversation because it must have been the lamest thing I've ever heard him say. Colin's a guy of few words most of the time but when he does talk, he says really profound stuff.
"He is. I've been looking for him all my life, not knowing he has been too. Well, looking for my mom actually. But its the same thing I guess."
"Where's he been?"
"Another universe. I don't know. Didn't ask, don't care. He's back, that's all I need to know." I said, shrugging.
"Uh huh."
"Uh huh."
There was a moment of silence between us and we just had nothing to say to each other. Should I tell him that I like him?
"So, another universe, huh."
"Shut up."
"Yeah, okay. I'm just gonna leave now."
He turned to leave but then stopped and turned back. "Branwen."
I kissed him and looked at him straight in the eye. "Thanks."
He smiled and nodded. "You're Dad's a blonde."
"So? You're blonde too."
"Well, I'm supposed to be the only blonde guy in your life!"
"You don't have anything to say, do you?"
"No. Yeah, I'm just gonna go." He kissed me on my cheek. "See ya, babe."
I stared at the door as he closed it behind him and felt my heart leap out of my mouth. Did he just kiss me? Oh man, he just kissed me! Now all I can see is butterflies and pink hearts! Wheeeeee! That isn't really true but I like the sound of it.
Legolas came out of the bathroom, looking extremely uncomfortable. The clothes looked fine though. A clean blue T-shirt and grey pants, very nice.
"Branwen. You didn't get me any underwear."
"Oh, I forgot, I can't be thinking about underwear all the time, geez, what do you think I am? Doesn't matter anyway, we can get them later. And you didn't even wear them when you were in middle-earth, why are you complaining?"
"But I can't..." I pressed a finger against my lips to hush him and with my other hand, I grabbed my purse. "We're going to get you some, Okay?"
Shopping had been great, we went from store to store and I must say, he has very good taste on women's wear. We got him a couple of jeans and shirts and of course, his underwear. Geez, I really don't know why he fusses about that all the time, he insisted that that had to be the first thing we bought.
Anyways, we ended up at the Baskin Robins Ice cream place where he could hardly remember what chocolate tasted like. He when he remembered, I think he had three large scoops of it.
We sat down and didn't speak for a while but when I was finally going to say something, the ultimate bimbotic three came to our table. What luck...
"Hey Bernice, whose the major hottie? Your brother?" Grace, the dumbest of them all asked. Well, she didn't really ask, it sounded more like she was talking normally. She always speaks as if she was asking a question, which can get quite annoying.
"Its Branwen. And no, he's not my brother." I snapped.
It was Rachel's turn to pick on me. Rachel had to be the prettiest amongst them with her light blonde hair and fair skin, they say she spends more time in front of the mirror than she does with books. Her father's this really rich tycoon and I hear he buys her grades. I won't be surprised if that's true, I don't even think she can spell her own name. I'm exaggerating her disablities but she's really dull and I have her as my lab partner in school. I always end up doing everything for her.
"Why would he wanna hang out with you? He's too good for you." She said. Then she turned to Legolas and said in her honey-sweet voice. "You should be hanging out with us, cutie."
Its really gross listening to her talk about my father like that. I wanted to push her to the ground and slap her silly. I could tell Legolas felt extremely uncomfortable at this point. He was leaning very back into his seat, his hands clasping and unclasping the armrests. He was about to say something before Hannes interrupted.
Hannes gave me the creeps. She never said much and is ever watchful. She was always watching me like a hawk. I know something about Hannes and that she isn't someone you would want to mess around with. She's very clever and she had Rachel and Grace under her control without them knowing it. Grace thinks she's the leader but in actual fact, Hannes really is.
I remember when we were in 5th grade and she would tell Grace to tie my hair to the chair and when the teacher found out who did it, Hannes was never caught.
"Branwen, you'd better not let Colin... know about your little affair." She said coldly, but with a smile on her face. "I'm sure he'll be so heartbroken."
Blackmail. I could have just laughed. She was trying to blackmail me with Legolas. She thinks I'm dating him. I decided that if I was gonna get my telepathic powers back, I might as well use it for the good of all mankind. Or well, at least, for myself.
Let's see, what do we have in your mind Hanne?
Hanne's POV
Why do you keep picking on Branwen?
Because she's so beautiful and she's smart and she doesn't care what anybody thinks. She doesn't care if she has any friends or what people say about her. She's even got the cutest boy falling for her.
Branwen's POV
Is that what she thought of me? Is that why she was always picking on me? I decided that I wouldn't be a smartass this time and just let her do what she wants.
"I'm sorry. Hanne, this is my Dad. He's in town for a while." I said politely. I turned to Legolas and said."Come on, let's go. I'm done with my ice cream."
The three of them stood there gaping as we got up and left the ice cream place. It had been the first time I had not tried to fight my way out of one of their spites and it felt good.
Suddenly, my cellphone rang and I quickly picked it up.
"Branwen, its Claire." Claire was my mother's assistant in the Cafe and I was surprised that she called.
"What's up?"
"Its your mother, she's in the hospital."
Legolas' POV
Branwen's face turned pale and she nodded gravely. When she hung up she turned to me and what she said made my heart sink to the ground.
"Its Mom. She...she's in the emergency room."
end of chapter 22
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Plasmolysed cell membrane: Hullo! looks like I won't be ending so soon..hehh hehhe.... anyways, this isn't the last chapter so don't you worry...ummmmm...yeah. thanks for the reviews, ta!
This one is for Denise.