My Very Unexpected Vacation

CHAPTER 2

"So, if I have this correct, I am not in Middle Earth, but in a world where girls are freakishly obsessed with me and everyone knows about the war of the ring?"

I nodded. Legolas and I where sitting in my living room, him drinking water and me drinking coffee, trying to figure out what we where going to do. At first I hadn't wanted to tell him about the fan girls, but what was I supposed to do, Try and explain when we got mobbed? It was bound to happen sometime. I dreaded it already. I was still trying my best to avoid him going into my room for fear of him seeing my posters of the lord of the rings everywhere, not to mention the one's of him. I sighed. Legolas sighed too.

"So what do you plan to do?" he asked. I shook my head. "I really have no idea. We could try a series of things I guess, but I doubt that they will work."

He really looked sad. I wondered how long after the return of the king it was in ME. I guess I could ask him, but it didn't really seem appropriate.

"If you tell me exactly what you where doing before you woke up here, that could help."

He frowned. For a moment I dreaded that he had forgotten, but then he started talking. "I was in Rivendell, on my way to visit Aragorn in Gondor." He looked at me to make sure I was still with him. "Go on."

"I was walking through a forest I had never seen before when I tripped--" he looked at the floor sheepishly— "And I started falling." I cocked my head. "Well, duh. You usually fall when you trip." But Legolas shook his head. "I didn't just fall to the ground. I kept falling, until I grew unconscious and woke up to you."

I sighed. "Well, that didn't get us any farther. Not that I'm not happy that you're here, but why the hay did you go through a forest if you'd never seen it before?" I tried not to sound too mean.

"I was curious. After all, if you don't explore once in a while--"

"You never know what's out there. I know, I know." He looked at me curiously.

"My dad is always saying that. Like, I mean always. It gets kind of annoying after a while."

"How can something so true get 'annoying', as you call it?"

I looked at him blankly. "Never mind. Well, uh, I need to tell you this. When I found you my sister called—her name is Anna but I call her Lissy—she had just found Merry and Pippin."

Legolas looked at me in utter surprise. Then he jumped up--

"Why did you not tell me before?" and kind of yelled. I pulled my legs up toward me and hugged them.

"Be-because...we needed to talk. I wanted to find some things out first..." I answered timidly. It didn't feel to good having an elf angry with you—especially an elf with weapons on him.

He realized that he had yelled kind of loudly and sat back down. "I apologize. I shouldn't have reacted that way. But you need to tell me these things."

I nodded. "I guess...I guess I'll call Anna now."

He frowned. "Call? How will you do that?"

I pulled my cell phone out of my pocket. That's when I realized what I was wearing. A black camisole, some polka dotted PJ pants and my purple fluffy robe. The embarrassment was so strong I didn't even blush.

I showed him my cell phone. "I can call her with this—it's a device we commonly use here. One moment please."

After turning the volume up so that Legolas could hear everything that was said, I quickly punched in the number and held it to my ear. It dialed.

"Hello?"

"Hey, Lissy—its me. How's it goin' over there?" There was silence. "Its ok I guess..."

I frowned. "What's going on?"

Anna sighed. "Pippin just kind of ate me out of everything and right now I'm showing a rather fascinated Merry how to cook potatoes over a stove after treating Pippins not-so-bad burn. Please don't ask."

I looked at Legolas. His face was scrunched up in a hilarious way as he heard Anna's voice come out of the phone. I burst out laughing.

"Its not funny, T! I didn't think it would be like this...it's supposed to be fun."

I smiled. "It sounds like fun, Anna! Don't take everything so seriously. Legolas and me are getting along fine. Hey, you wanna talk to him?"

"What's this I hear about Legolas? Where is he? Let me see him!" it was Merry's voice. It seemed he had heard me, and at the look of Legolas' face, he had heard Merry too.

"Do you think we should let Merry at the phone?" Anna asked timidly. I giggled. "Why not. Hey Legolas—do you want to talk to Merry?"

He nodded. After both of us showed our companions how to use the phone (or at least how to hold it right) they started talking.