Angel
Chapter 5: Home Life
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"Where have YOU been all day?" Brigina Took asked as her daughter skipped happily into the kitchen of the family's small hobbithole.
"Out and about." Tersa answered absently, now sitting on one of the many counter tops. "You know, freezing to death, waiting for the apocalypse, that sort of thing!"
Brigina narrowed her eyes at her offspring. Something was different. "Alright, out with it."
"Whatever it is I didn't do it!" Tersa cried with mock fear, covering her head with her hands. "Dun hurt me!"
"You're not fooling anyone you little sneak. And I know you didn't do anything." Brigina laughed. "You're just too cheerful. Usually you come in here dragging your feet and you mope for at least an hour before you're like this. You haven't killed anyone have you?"
"No, surprisingly." Tersa grinned. "But I DID meet someone. Well, four someones actually."
"Ooo. Were they BOYS?" Tersa's sister Aiana teased from the kitchen table, where she sat reading. Aiana was nearly thirty-three and had a place of her own, but she still managed to come home and keep her parents and little sister company occasionally.
"Yes they were as a matter of fact." Tersa sniffed. "They were the four I met at Bilbo's party."
"You met them at a PARTY hmm? Do you fancy any of them?"
"Aiana!"
"You want to know just as badly as I do mother, and you know it." Aiana laughed, then turned back to her sibling. "Well?"
"No I don't fancy any of them! They're just my friends!" Tersa glared at her older sister.
"Don't get all offensive about it. If you keep acting that way you'll just make it obvious." Aiana smirked.
"GAH!" Tersa covered her ears and ran off to her room. "AIANA LEAVE ME ALONE!"
"You cannot help but torment your sister can you?" Brigina smacked Aiana over the head with a potholder. "You know she doesn't have many friends. You could at least keep from teasing her so."
"She'll live." Aiana smoothed her brown hair back down, only to have Brigina ruffle it with her hand and undo Aiana's work. "Mother!"
"You'll live." Brigina leaned back on one of the countertops and looked around the kitchen with a sigh. "I just do not understand it." She murmured.
"Oh good grief mother, you're not puzzling yourself about Tersa's lack of friends again are you?" Aiana frowned. "You can't force people to like her!"
"I know, I know." Brigina sighed again. "Aiana?"
"Yes mum?" Aiana answered, groaning inwardly. 'Here it comes, the famous question…'
"Why do you think your sister doesn't have many friends?"
"Because she doesn't go 'Baa baa' like the rest of the sheep." Aiana muttered shutting her book.
"What was that?" Brigina asked, a bit confused. "Something about a sheep?"
"Tersa is just different." Aiana said, turning in her chair so she faced Brigina. "She's an intelligent little thing, and shy too. She stays away from most of the other hobbits her age, so they view her as being odd. It's as simple as that. People did that to me when I was her age too, and I came out of it just fine. Just give her a little time, she'll make friends, I promise."
^_^ There you are my nice readers! Another chapter of my first serious LOTR fic, Angel! I hope you enjoyed it, and if you did (or even if you didn't and want to give me some constructive criticism) review! See ya next chapter!