"AHHH!" Screamed the girls.
"Huh?" Frodo, who was just getting off Gandalf's wagon, said looking up.THUMP!
The three girls fell on the little hobbit.
"Ugh!"
"Uh!"
"Eeep!" Moaned Carolyn, Katie and Caitlin in that order.
"OWE! Would you please get off me?!" Frodo yelled as over three times his weight crushed him.
"Sorry!" Caitlin sputtered for them all.
"Well this is something you don't see every Christmas!" Exclaimed Carolyn staring bug-eyed at Frodo.
"Oh lord!" Frodo grunted as he clumsily sat up. "Well here's another three to put on the list of disturbers of the peace for the Bagganses."
Katie, being the first one on her feet, helped Frodo up. She was bigger than he was but still exceptionally small for a human. She stared at him for a minute, her red hair in a frizzy mess on her head.
"Hey guys! Look! Someone older, yet SMALLER than me!" She said laughing and pointing at Frodo. She didn't realize whom she was talking about. She doubled over in laughter.
Carolyn was the next on her feet. She was tall for a human making her a good 3 inches taller than Katie. "Katie, Caitlin...I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.""We never WERE in Kansas!" Caitlin scoffed, "We're not in Carolyn's living room anymore would've been more accurate."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!" Katie and Carolyn shrieked in unison.
"Duh! We're in Middle-Earth stupid!"
"How?" Carolyn asked still in shock. She was staring at Frodo in disbelief. One of her favorite characters from the movies…and he was standing right in front of her.
"Do I have to explain everything to the two of you?!" Caitlin asked."Of course you do. You're the oldest, therefore knowing the most stuff and having the most experience. We turn to you in our time of need, danger, and stupidity." Katie explained as if this should be obvious."Speak for yourself!" Carolyn snapped.
Caitlin slapped herself on the forehead.
"The purple gunk on
the back of the cover in Carolyn's book was not an actual substance. It was a
break in the time-space universe divide."
The three listening to her stared blankly at her.
"SIGH It was a
portal! Carolyn's and our will to go and see the movie, or in this case LIVE
the movie, was so strong that when Carolyn threw the book at me it ripped the
lining of the dimension that we wanted to go to and created a portal or 'rip'
that we could go through to get there."
She inhaled deeply for she had said this all in one breath.
"How do you know all this?" Katie said in awe.
"I read too many scfi books and watch the scfi channel too much and have tried to prove other dimensions exist to NOT know." She shrugged her shoulders.
"So when I chucked the book at you it hit the 'lining' that divides the dimensions and put a rip in it?" Asked Carolyn.
"To an extent yes,"
Caitlin said as if this was something that happened everyday, "And if my theory
is correct the fabric or 'lining' will fix itself." She stared up at the sky
like she was expecting something, "There is it is...yep, I was right."
As they looked up they saw a blobby purple thing in the sky shrinking into
nothing.
"WELL THIS IS JUST GREAT!" Screamed Carolyn, "NOW how are we going to get home?" She threw her hands in the air and let them fall at her sides.
"We have to wait until another portal opens." Caitlin said matter-of-factly. "The dimensions will eventually realize that there's something, or in this case THREE things, missing. Then the dimensions will do some sort of search. When they find us the fabric will open up again and let us back in our own world...unless..." She trailed off.
"Unless what?" Katie asked.
"Unless we were sent here for some reason. You know, to do something so the space-time continuum doesn't get messed up. Like to make sure Frodo doesn't get killed before he finds out about the-," She stopped.
Frodo was standing there bug-eyed at this girl like she was from outer space. Although they were speaking the same language he understood about 20% of what she was saying. He suddenly realized his name had been mentioned and they were now staring at him in silence.
Caitlin had stopped because she realized that she shouldn't give anything away that Frodo shouldn't know yet. Carolyn realized that too. Katie, on the other hand, didn't."You mean about the rin-," Carolyn slapping her hand over her mouth cut her off.
"I can't tell you two anymore because that's all I know. I suggest that we stay with Merry, Pippin, Sam, Frodo or Gandalf. At least whom they are...except..." Caitlin didn't want to say too much in front of Frodo. "At least for Bilbo's party. We can't go with Gandalf after all. Soro...I mean HE would realize how important we are and kill us on the spot. So maybe we should stick with Pippin, Merry, Sam, and Frodo." She started to pace. She always paced when she took charge of a situation."I'll go with Frodo to keep an eye on everything," Caitlin finally said, "Katie, you can go with Merry and Pippin since you're small enough and would enjoy that prank they're going to pull later." Katie jumped up and down. She always wanted to set off huge firework that threw a whole party into pandemonium.
"And that leaves me with Sam. Why ME?" Carolyn shrieked.
"You're good at sneaking around." Was all Caitlin said. Carolyn, seeing the sense in that, agreed.
"HOLD UP!" Yelled
Frodo, "Who are you people and how do you know me, Sam, Merry, and Pippin?"
"I'm Caitlin!" Proclaimed Caitlin cheerfully totally changing moods.
"The names Carolyn." Carolyn said making the peace sign with her index and
middle fingers.
"My name's Katie, lord of stupidity, hey how you doing?" Katie said sticking out her hand. Frodo stared at her blankly. She pulled her hand back and rolled her eyes.
"We're from another dimension. And we're...best friends...with the yous in our world." Caitlin lied.
"Ok...but how did you know we were in this dimension?" Frodo sighed."Because we...have uh...powers of prediction!" Caitlin said quickly.
"GREAT save." Carolyn said sarcastically. "Bravo." She clapped unenthusiastically."SHUT UP! And my powers tell me..." Caitlin said quickly, "You will have more than one big surprise tonight." She fibbed again.
"Well..." Said a very confused Frodo, on. I'll show you to Merry, Pippin, and Sam. Now...uh...who's staying with me again?"