Just........... Here you go.

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Chapter 3: Rumors

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There was a loud commotion outside of Swane's door; a hiss and a pitiful meow soon followed it. Swane sat up in bed and looked at the clock. It was 3 am! She must have fallen asleep while she was listening to her BSB cd. She walked over to her cd player and turned it off first, and then she quickly changed into P.J.'s and turned the light out.

As she groped in the darkness for her bed she felt a tear roll down her cheek. She didn't know why, she just did. Outside of her room her cat ran into something again. She smiled faintly and crawled back into bed. She only had about 3 more hours before she had to wake up.

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Frodo pulled away quickly. Merry had shocked him beyond all belief. As he sat there staring at his MALE COUSIN, he couldn't stop the thoughts running through his head.

'This is Merry!' his mind yelled, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you telling him what's wrong? You can never tell him what's wrong. You've just kissed your MALE COUSIN! What are you doing?? This will only make things harder!!! Are you an idiot??? You must be because look at you, you haven't said a word and there he is sitting there!'

Frodo looked at Merry, and Merry looked at Frodo. Not a word was said, but it was all understood. Neither knew what had just happened, and it was best not to talk about it. After all, things happen like this all the time, young hormonal hobbits just experimenting with their sexuality. It's a normal thing, right?

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Swane rolled over and slapped her buzzing alarm clock. 10 more minutes would be fine. She curled up under the covers trying to keep the warmth that she had created over the night. As she tried to fall back to sleep she had the strangest image pop into her head. It was two short people, children almost, sitting in a room. They were males, at least she hoped so, and they sat on a bed staring at each other. One was talking but she couldn't catch what he was saying, but suddenly out of nowhere one of them kissed the other. This made Swane open her eyes. As if on cue her alarm clock rang again.

A little estranged by her minds choice of visions Swane got up and went to the bathroom. After relieving herself, brushing her teeth, and washing her acne deprived face; she stood facing the most evil things she could ever imagine. Her contacts.

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Merry got up and left, as he was just out of the room he turned and looked back at Frodo. He could feel his heart almost break in two for his older cousin.

"Frodo, whatever this is, I just hope it's not too bad, and that you can find some way to deal with it," Merry sighed. He walked out of the room and left his dear beloved cousin staring at the door.

Merry mentally slapped himself. He couldn't believe what he had done. Merry was a GUY! He couldn't do this. This wasn't what guys did. Was it? He didn't know, he was just confused and dazed, and excited, and anxious all at the same time.

As he turned a corner he saw his other cousin who was visiting from across the Brandywine, Pippin. Suddenly he put on the biggest smile you had ever seen and promptly tackled his dear cousin.

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Swane blinked forcing the contact to fall onto the sink. She sighed picked it up and placed it in a bowl-like shape again, making sure it wasn't inside out. She again tried to 'gently place' it on top of her eyeball. Finally with a suction-like seal it popped on causing her to blink in discomfort. She looked down at the sink where the one for her left eye was waiting.

"Alright, you beast of annoyance," she muttered, "feel my wrath."

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"Merry!" Pippin yelped jumping up and down.

"What are you doing here?" Merry asked.

"I came to see Frodo, there's a rumor going around that came down from Hobbiton," Pippin exclaimed.

"What is it?" Merry asked frantically.

"I heard that Frodo was going up there to live with Bilbo!"

"That can't be true!"

"I don't know, the old guy's here isn't he?" Merry thought for a moment.

"That's what it was?" he asked himself.

"That was what?" Pippin asked.

"Nothing!" he lied, "Frodo's asleep right now, but he'll be up later."

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Swane walked into the school. She journeyed past the popular clique and past the jock clique to the far corner of the lobby. A cheerleader stopped her before she could reach her destination.

"Hey!"

"What?" she asked as if nothing was wrong.

"So when's everything final?" the blonde asked.

"What do you mean?"

"You know. The divorce!" Swane stood in the middle of the room shocked. How did this 'cheerleader' who she didn't even talk to find out! She hadn't even told her friends! Well, except one. But she trusted her with her life! This wasn't right! Swane did the only thing she could think to do. She ran into the girl's bathroom.

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Yup, there you go! DB:-/