Ch. 6 -- Fireworks



Gilly laughed as she sat back down at her table, that dancing thing wasn't so bad! Not bad at all, when she wasn't tromping all over someone's feet.

Gilly grabbed her ale glass and took a swig, someone bumped her from behind and she swallowed the ale down the wrong way. She coughed and sputtered, and someone pounded her on the back.

"Thanks," Gilly croaked before making a face, "it figures," she grumbled. She looked around the crowded feild which was filled with tables and chairs and hobbits. All laughing all having a great time, many were dancing, visiting with friends, or simply getting drunk.

Gilly scanned the crowd for Merry and Pippin, they were no where to be seen.

"That's funny," Gilly said to herself, "I could have sworn..." She'd just left them at the ale. Gilly pushed herself to her feet, "now, if I were Merry and Pippin...where would I be?" A loud eruption of beautiful fireworks exploded over her head and Gilly shook her head.

"I should have known."


Gilly crept up to the tent, she could hear Merry and Pippin whispering frantically, she held her breath, being careful not to step on anything that might give her away. She peeked her head into the tent. Merry and Pippin were trying to figure out a plan without much luck. Gilly took a deep breath, threw back the flap and leapt into the tent.

"Oy!" She shouted, Merry and Pippin spun around, their eyes wide with fear.

Gilly was about to laugh when Merry tackled her. "Oomph!" She cried out as she landed on the hard ground, he held his hand over her mouth and Gilly glowered at him. She pulled his hand away, "get off!" She cried out, slapping him away.

"Ssh!" Pippin said leaping from one foot to the other, "someone might have heard you!"

"No one heard me Pip," Gilly reassured him, "besides you both should get caught for not asking me to help you."

"We didn't want you to ruin your dress," Merry said pushing himself to his feet.

Pippin leaned over and heaved Gilly to her feet.

"Come on, we haven't got much time."

Gilly, Merry and Pippin all crowded around the corner of the tent where a hole was torn just large enough for them to be able to see Gandalf's wagon full of his fireworks for Bilbo's eleventy-first birthday.

"Okay," Pippin said straightening his coat, "on three. One, two -- three!"

The three of them scrambled under the tent and looked around quickly before standing up behind Gandalf's wagon.

"Okay," Merry said, and Pippin got ready to climb into the wagon.

"Make sure it's a big one!" Gilly whispered.

Merry shoved Pippin into the wagon and he grabbed the first firework he could get his hands on, "this one?"

"No! Bigger," Merry said.

"Come on Pip! Hurry up!" Gilly said and Pippin turned around, holding the biggest firework Gilly had ever seen. Pippin climbed down off the wagon and the three of them scrambled back under the tent flap.

"I can't believe we did it!"

"This is going to be so good!"

"Okay, now light it quickly."



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