Wow. I really like this chapter. I dunno why. I just think it's really cool. Okay, well, I hope you like it as much as I do:

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Flavia gulped and blushed deeply. Frodo only sat up and looked at her with a smile and laughing eyes. "Have I seen you before? You look familiar... Ah yes, the cow maiden. You have a knack for running into me don't you?" He laughed, and she thought her heart would explode from beating so wildly. "Yes, that was me, sir," she immediately wished she'd left out the last word, it sounded so childish. Again, the blue-eyed hobbit laughed. "I've only known one other hobbit who called me 'sir' and that was Sam, my gardener."

"Yes, he often calls you that..." she instantly realized her mistake and wished she could just disappear. "How do you know? You never accepted my invitation to come and visit...or did you?" Frodo looked at her, his laughing face looking much more serious. Normally under such stress she would have started shaking and stuttering excuses, but somehow, she felt extremely calm and collected. She was about to tell him everything, how she spied on him, her secret love, the cookies she'd left for him, everything. She opened her mouth to speak, when someone yelled, "My dear People." It was Bilbo. Frodo stood up and yelled. "Hear! Hear! Hear!"

Flavia took this moment to depart. She stood alone outside the crowd, listening to Bilbo's speech. He talked about his birthday, his guests, Frodo's birthday, and it seemed like he was getting to the end...when he disappeared! There was a flash of light, and then he was gone! Everyone was frantic, tables were upturned, food was thrown, and it seemed everyone was yelling at someone.

Out of the corner of her eye, she saw something move in the grass. She looked closer, it happened again, about a footstep away. It happened again and again, getting farther and farther away from the party, heading toward Bag End. Curious, she quietly followed the movement. It went on the grass for some time, and than she lost it on the road, about twenty feet from the fate to Frodo and Bilbo's house. She was just going to turn back, excusing it as a trick of the mind, when she saw the gate open, and then close. She took a few cautious steps toward it, and than saw the door open. She thought she say Bilbo materialize out of the air before the door was closed.

Her heart pounded with excitement as she quietly opened the gate and crept to a window. She peered in, she almost gasped aloud. Inside the room stood Bilbo...and Gandalf! She carefully opened the window a crack, as she had learned to do over the years. She pressed her ear against the small opening...and listened.

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Yay! Isn't that cool? I think it is...don't mean to brag or anything though. I just think it's a spiffy chapter. Yay, I got reviews!! Well, one. But still! Okay, since I am bored, I shall respond to it! Yay!

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