Angel

Chapter 8: Day One

Authoress' Notes: Hello!!!! I told you this chapter would be up sooner than the last one! Thank you again to all that reviewed, it is much appreciated. ^^ And this chapter is longer, so please don't hurt me.

"Do you think she's dead?" Frodo asked, poking Tersa's shoulder.

"No, she just sleeps like Sam does, like a log." Merry smirked.

"Do you think she'll wake up? I mean, she's been asleep forever!" Pippin looked at the sleeping girl curiously. "You'd think she'd notice four hobbits sitting on her bed waiting for her to wake up."

"We're probably going to scare her to death though." Sam said, not noticing Tersa's eyes slowly blinking open.

"GAHHHHHHHHH!!!" Tersa screamed and fell off of the bed to the guest bedroom floor as she saw the four other hobbits staring down at her. "YOU BUNCH OF PSYCHOS! ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?! HAVEN'T YOU BEEN TAUGHT NOT TO SCARE A LADY LIKE THAT?!"

"Well, you're really not a lady. You're actually just a girl." Merry said matter-of-factly. "And you shouldn't sleep past noon."

"AND YOU SHOULDN'T BE IN MY BEDROOM!" Tersa shouted back irritably.

"What's all the fuss about in here?" Bilbo asked, opening the door to the guest bedroom to find four hobbits sitting on the bed, and one wrapped in a pile of sheets on the floor.

"These psychos were staring at me while I was asleep!" Tersa snapped, glaring at the four boys.

"Well, she wouldn't get up! Its past noon Bilbo!" Frodo argued, pointing at the small clock on the bedside table. "We had to make sure she wasn't dead!"

"So what?!" Tersa crossed her arms stubbornly. "You could have just woken me up instead of scaring me to death!"

"We already tried! You sleep like a bloody log!" Pip exclaimed irritably.

"I beg your pardon-"

"Hush!" Bilbo commanded sternly, and the room fell silent. "You lads go and get lunch ready so Tersa can get washed up. I'm afraid I don't have any thing that would be exactly proper for a young lady like yourself to wear, but you can borrow something from Frodo if you like."

Frodo opened his mouth to say something, but quickly shut it again when he saw Bilbo's 'don't argue in front of company!' look. Instead he, Pippin, Merry, and Sam went off to the kitchen to fix lunch.

"Sorry about them scaring you like that earlier." Bilbo chuckled. "They don't mean any harm."

"Sure they don't." Tersa muttered as Bilbo left the room, shutting the door behind him.

"GAK!"

"She looks like a female Frodo!" Merry exclaimed.

"Again, GAK!" Frodo cried, scrambling up onto a countertop. "Back, back you impostor!" He said, waving a wooden spoon at Tersa.

"Oh thank you." Tersa snorted. "Look, it's not my fault I look like you."

"How do we know that?" Pippin asked suspiciously.

"Leave her alone guys." Sam said, not looking up from the book he was reading at the kitchen table. "We've put her though enough this morning." He looked up at Tersa and smiled sweetly at her before turning back to his book. 

"You're no fun Sam." Merry said, as Frodo hopped off the countertop. "No fun at all."

"Hm." Sam replied, not really paying attention to anything but his book.

"Hey, where'd Tersa go?" Merry asked, looking around. "I don't see her in here anymore…"

"No! No! No!" Tersa repeated to herself, hitting her head against the wall. "You do not like him! He was just being nice and you know it! You've told yourself a thousand times before it would never work, and it wouldn't! He's 21 and you're sixteen! No no no!" She paused. "But he's so sweet and- NO! No no no!" She banged her head against the wall again.

"Are you alright Tersa?" Bilbo inquired, looking over at Tersa curiously. " I can hear you out here in the hallway hitting your head against the wall and talking to yourself."

"WHAT?!" Tersa exclaimed, whirling around. "Don't tell them don't tell them please please please don't tell them!"

"Tell them what lass?" Bilbo replied, becoming more and more puzzled. 

"You didn't hear?!" Tersa asked, stopping her pleading for a moment.

"I heard something about a 'him' and how you don't like him, but that was all." Bilbo answered, and then it dawned on him.

"You fancy one of the boys don't you?"

"Mmmmph!" Was Tersa's response as she collapsed on her temporary bed and hid her red face in a pillow.

"Is that it?" Bilbo asked.

Instead of saying anything, Tersa opened the diary laying on the bed and pointed to one of the pages.

It took all of the self-control Bilbo had to keep from laughing at what he saw.

The page was completely filled with nothing but name Samwise Gamgee surrounded by hearts.

YAAAAYYY! So now you know who she likes! Isn't that just spiffy! How will she survive? This is only the first day at Bagend, and we all know she's going to be there for a week! How embarrassing can it get? I shall be back with the answer to that question in chapter nine of Angel!

Hehehe… I know, another evil cheesy ending.^^