AN: I greatly appreciate the feedback everybody! I thrive on reviews and
it's always a surprise when I get them. By the way, I'm glad to see
everyone's going to try red Skittle water!
Oracle: Thanks! I'll try to keep typing this out as fast as I can.
TwinkieFreak: It will be, kind of and not in the way you're thinking. Its set post Return of the King (which comes into play later on). I'll try to make the chapters longer.
Lomiothiel: Thanks for the two reviews! How she gets left will be revealed later. I'll try to tie up all those ends by the end. Sorry about the cliffhanger. It just seemed like a good place to leave off. I do agree with you on that I'd be really happy if I found out I was an elf.
PixiePea000: Spiro will eat anyone's candy, no matter the type. You'll have to wait on that character, though. Oh by the way, GOLLUM!
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for a handful of made up characters. Tolkien thought up the concept and, as such, it belongs to him. I'm just playing in his world. I'm broke and in college. All I own are Pointe Shoes.
Lee took a deep breath and let it out slowly. He was prepared for whatever response this child was going to give him.
He tapped her on her shoulder, because her back was to him.
She turned around and, seeing who had touched her, made to run for the door.
"Excuse me," Lee requested, before she could run, "may I talk to you?"
Emma removed her headphones and looked at Lee, half curious, half afraid. She hung her ear phones around her neck.
"Please, I will not hurt you. All I want to do is talk," Lee added, trying to calm the skittish child.
He sounded so sincere that Emma felt she could, at least, listen to what he had to say. She sat back down on the floor, near her dance bag.
Lee's sensitive ears picked up on the music Emma was listening to. It was instrumental in nature, not like the other types of music he had heard during the dance lessons he observed.
"What are you listening to?" he asked the child.
"It's from this movie called Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. We're dancing to it in ballet," Emma answered.
Then she added, "That reminds me.."
She pulled a large brown envelope out of her bag, checking to be sure that it wasn't bent or folded in any way.
"What is that?" the elf-disguised-as-a-dancer asked.
"Pictures," Emma replied, "Spiro's going to assign us our characters even though we're supposed to have jazz." Emma placed the envelope on top of her dance bag, balancing it with the utmost care. She knew Spiro would be a little annoyed if the pictures were not in perfect condition. Then again, he got annoyed when anything, from the state of someone's pointe shoes to the combination he taught, was not perfect.
The two were quiet, lost in their own thoughts. Legolas was busy puzzling out where he had heard the title Emma was referring to. It dawned on him that, to the people in this world that title created images of fantasy, of a world that did not exist. To him, of course, that title referred to a quest he and eight others had undertaken.
"What character would you like to be given the role of?" he asked, suddenly.
"I'd like to have a lead role-maybe like Frodo or something-but I probably won't. Miss Michelle would never let Spiro give me a good part. I think I know the part they are going to give me," Emma answered.
"Which part is that?" Lee questioned.
Emma sighed and answered, "I'm going to get the role of this elf named Legolas."
"Is that a bad thing? Was he not a main character?" the real Legolas asked.
"He was but he's not going to be the focus character. That part will go to either Kim or Andrea. About my part though, it's a yes and no sort of thing. It's going to be a really fun part to play because of all the stunts I can do in character. It's not a good thing because I know I'm being given this part out of spite. Miss Michelle and the others think that it'll be funny to, I guess, embarrass me like this," Emma explained.
"For what my comment is worth, I think you would make a lovely elf," Lee commented, hoping he could use this as an opening to break the truth to Emma.
Emma blushed and mumbled her thanks.
"Do you believe in elves, Emma?" the actual elf asked.
Emma gave Lee an odd look but answered, "I guess. It's a really big universe and we're really only a tiny part of it."
Before he could ask any other questions, there was a loud stiff knock at the upstairs door.
"That would be Spiro," Emma said.
Kim, who had been coming up the stairs, streaked past Lee and Emma.
She raced to the door and opened it.
Spiro, curtly, thanked Kim and then asked, "Is everyone here?"
"Yeah, everyone's here. Laura even stayed to get her part," she said out loud.
In an undertone, which both Emma and Lee heard though they were not meant to, "Lee's back to have another look at the class. He's been talking to Lucky Charms over there the entire break."
Spiro shook his head and told Kim to call the rest of the class. He had some business to attend to first.
Oracle: Thanks! I'll try to keep typing this out as fast as I can.
TwinkieFreak: It will be, kind of and not in the way you're thinking. Its set post Return of the King (which comes into play later on). I'll try to make the chapters longer.
Lomiothiel: Thanks for the two reviews! How she gets left will be revealed later. I'll try to tie up all those ends by the end. Sorry about the cliffhanger. It just seemed like a good place to leave off. I do agree with you on that I'd be really happy if I found out I was an elf.
PixiePea000: Spiro will eat anyone's candy, no matter the type. You'll have to wait on that character, though. Oh by the way, GOLLUM!
Disclaimer: I own nothing except for a handful of made up characters. Tolkien thought up the concept and, as such, it belongs to him. I'm just playing in his world. I'm broke and in college. All I own are Pointe Shoes.
Lee took a deep breath and let it out slowly. He was prepared for whatever response this child was going to give him.
He tapped her on her shoulder, because her back was to him.
She turned around and, seeing who had touched her, made to run for the door.
"Excuse me," Lee requested, before she could run, "may I talk to you?"
Emma removed her headphones and looked at Lee, half curious, half afraid. She hung her ear phones around her neck.
"Please, I will not hurt you. All I want to do is talk," Lee added, trying to calm the skittish child.
He sounded so sincere that Emma felt she could, at least, listen to what he had to say. She sat back down on the floor, near her dance bag.
Lee's sensitive ears picked up on the music Emma was listening to. It was instrumental in nature, not like the other types of music he had heard during the dance lessons he observed.
"What are you listening to?" he asked the child.
"It's from this movie called Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. We're dancing to it in ballet," Emma answered.
Then she added, "That reminds me.."
She pulled a large brown envelope out of her bag, checking to be sure that it wasn't bent or folded in any way.
"What is that?" the elf-disguised-as-a-dancer asked.
"Pictures," Emma replied, "Spiro's going to assign us our characters even though we're supposed to have jazz." Emma placed the envelope on top of her dance bag, balancing it with the utmost care. She knew Spiro would be a little annoyed if the pictures were not in perfect condition. Then again, he got annoyed when anything, from the state of someone's pointe shoes to the combination he taught, was not perfect.
The two were quiet, lost in their own thoughts. Legolas was busy puzzling out where he had heard the title Emma was referring to. It dawned on him that, to the people in this world that title created images of fantasy, of a world that did not exist. To him, of course, that title referred to a quest he and eight others had undertaken.
"What character would you like to be given the role of?" he asked, suddenly.
"I'd like to have a lead role-maybe like Frodo or something-but I probably won't. Miss Michelle would never let Spiro give me a good part. I think I know the part they are going to give me," Emma answered.
"Which part is that?" Lee questioned.
Emma sighed and answered, "I'm going to get the role of this elf named Legolas."
"Is that a bad thing? Was he not a main character?" the real Legolas asked.
"He was but he's not going to be the focus character. That part will go to either Kim or Andrea. About my part though, it's a yes and no sort of thing. It's going to be a really fun part to play because of all the stunts I can do in character. It's not a good thing because I know I'm being given this part out of spite. Miss Michelle and the others think that it'll be funny to, I guess, embarrass me like this," Emma explained.
"For what my comment is worth, I think you would make a lovely elf," Lee commented, hoping he could use this as an opening to break the truth to Emma.
Emma blushed and mumbled her thanks.
"Do you believe in elves, Emma?" the actual elf asked.
Emma gave Lee an odd look but answered, "I guess. It's a really big universe and we're really only a tiny part of it."
Before he could ask any other questions, there was a loud stiff knock at the upstairs door.
"That would be Spiro," Emma said.
Kim, who had been coming up the stairs, streaked past Lee and Emma.
She raced to the door and opened it.
Spiro, curtly, thanked Kim and then asked, "Is everyone here?"
"Yeah, everyone's here. Laura even stayed to get her part," she said out loud.
In an undertone, which both Emma and Lee heard though they were not meant to, "Lee's back to have another look at the class. He's been talking to Lucky Charms over there the entire break."
Spiro shook his head and told Kim to call the rest of the class. He had some business to attend to first.