Yet Another Dumb Teenager Falls Into Tortall
by an anonymous geek
A/N: ya know, writing this fic has really made me depressed. I wanna go to Tortall!!
Sorry, I'm a freak and I've fallen in love with Neal, Joren (ya gotta love that jerk), Jon, George, Gary, Dom, and tons of other guys made up by the O-so-brilliant-Tamora Pierce. Let's bow down and worship her. JK. lol. I'm odd, plus I'm unloved.
I am so unpopular! Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I'm not gunna eat a worm, but I should! I also look like a dung-covered monkey. *sighs* AAAAAAANNYYYway, I'm in love with half a million guys, and most of them are made up people, and the rest are actors that I will not even MEET! A select few are people I've seen before and don't even know their names. My life stinks.
Whoa, once again I went into my total self-pity mode!
NOTICE TO KEL/JOREN FANS: if you wanna read some good kel/joren stories, I recommend "Disillusionment" by Arimel and "They Danced Anyway" by Machiavella of Kingsport. Those are awesome stories. or you could check out "When the Unexpected Happens" written by the O-so-talented me! yeah, RIGHT!
NOTICE TO KEL/NEAL FANS: if ya wanna read a good kel/neal story, I recommend "Warrior Soul" by Silksteel. That story makes me feel warm and fuzzy all over! OR, you could check out the first chapter of "Everybody Loves Kel" by me! or "Mission:Undercover" by me
NOTICE TO KEL/DOM FANS: hmm, I don't read much of these, so I only have a few, but they're both good. There's "Lady Kel" by, oh, great, I might get this wrong, Lady Bee? Did I get that right? Was the story name right? Gee, I dunno. Wait, no, was that one a Kel/Neal? I can't remember! aaaaaahhhh! My memory is leaving me. This is what comes from school. ANYWAY, there's also "A Yamani Warrior" by PsychoLioness13 (I think that's her name). OR, you could check out the third chapter on "Everybody Loves Kel" written by me. But that one sucks.
If I forgot one of your excellent stories, please tell me in the review and i will broadcast it on the next chapter! Okies?
Okay, on with the chappie. . .
WARNING: this chappie's gunna be fluffy. hehe. just wanted to warn ya.
disclaimer- I don't own nothin' (wow, that one's gettin' mighty old)
Chapter Two
[Lauren's POV]
After Sarah had been introduced to everyone, including the king, I started to wonder if anyone else would be brought into this wondrous land. A few days after Sarah had come, I started to notice a difference in Neal. He seemed a bit more nervous all the time, especially in the company of Sarah. She, of course, seemed to be oblivious to all of it, but I came up with the strange theory that Neal like Sarah in a romantic way. He was always really civil and gentle around her, not that he wasn't anyway, but it seemed as if he were doing everything for her. I personally thought it was rather cute. Sarah obviously was smitten with Neal; she had been ever since she had met him, and he seemed to be hopelessly in love with her. This is just too perfect. I couldn't pass this up; I needed to do something. I confronted Kel with my ideas. I found her in her room, reading a book.
"Kel?"
She looked up. "Yes."
"Well, have you noticed Neal's change in behavior lately?"
She sat up straight and put the book down. "Yes."
"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
"I might be."
"I've got an idea."
Kel smiled. "This sounds interesting. Tell me your plan."
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[Sarah's POV]
I was sitting in my room, reading a book, when Lauren burst in. She had tears all over her face. "Sarah," she said.
I stood up abruptly. "What is it?" I asked urgently.
"It-it's Neal. He's been hurt bad. I think he may be dying." My whole world crashed down around me when I heard those words. Neal. . .was dying! "He's in the healer's infirmary. Go to him. I need to go tell the others." I ran out of the room, not hearing Lauren's cackling.
As I ran into the healer's ward, I became really confused. Where was everybody? Suddenly, the door burst open, and Neal came running in. "Neal?" I asked. He looked perfectly fine to me.
"Sarah?" His eyes were wild, as if he had just heard something very disturbing and terrible. "You're-you're alive?!"
"I could ask the same thing." We both stood there, staring at each other, trying to figure out the problem. Then it clicked. "Lauren, that dirty little idiot! Oh, she is SO going to get a beating when I get my hands on her!"
Neal looked at me, a small smile on his face. "What?"
I almost screamed in rage. "That-that girl is the worst excuse for a human being! She lied to me and told me that you were dying! Of course, she always was a good actress. I should've known. So she told me that you had been hurt and were dying, so I ran all the way down here and-"
"I never knew you cared that much," Neal said, looking at me intently, with a look in his eyes that made me feel REALLY uncomfortable.
"Well, umm," I looked down at my feet, then continued and said, "Why are you here?"
He smiled. "Same thing, practically. Kel came to me and told me YOU were dying. Those two must have been in on it together. That would explain their little mischievous faces all today. I should've guessed that they were up to something."
There was a long time of silence, then he continued, "Well, we might as well go to them and give them a piece of our minds."
I smiled, "That sounds good to me."
We walked over to the door, and I twisted the knob, but it wouldn't move. I did it again, with the same result. Neal tried it too, but it wouldn't work with him either. He tried to open it with his magic, but it was a really complex spell that had been put on it.
"Those girls! They probably got Numair in on this too, to put this spell on the door," I said, angered. Then it clicked in my mind. Lauren was trying to set us up! Now I was completely enraged. I leaned against a wall and rubbed my head to ease a headache that had just formed. Neal noticed my discomfort, and held his palm up against my forehead, and green fire gently eased the pain.
"Thanks," I said, blushing, conscious of the fact that his face was so close to mine. He looked at me with a really strange look in his gorgeous green eyes. I couldn't look away. My eyes were locked with his. He pushed back a stray hair that had fallen from my braid and into my face. The sensation of his skin touching mine made me shiver. We were still really close to each other, and before I could know it, that space in between us had vanished and his lips touched mine in a gentle, but passionate, kiss.
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Ew, Ew, EW! I do NOT like writing fluff, well, actually I do, but sometimes it's just sickening, since I write it all the time.
In the next chapter, the plot will start, I hope. I just needed to get this little romance in, 'cuz Sarah's been shrieking at me to put more on. She just finished the first book, and now is madly in love with Neal. I'm proud to say that it was THIS story that had convinced her to read the POTS books.
HAPPY, SARAH? enough romance for you?
oh, yeah, and Joren comes back in the next chappie. OOO, I love that jerk sooo much. I just can't help it. I've always had a weakness for hot evil blond guys. lol.
