A Better Life

Chapter 2 The Big Shock

"Ohhhhh," I mumbled.

My head hurt so badly. I felt as if I had been put into a blender and mixed around. My eyes were still closed. I felt to weak to open them. All I new was that I was lying on something very comfy and soft. But before I was about to fall asleep I heard a door open, then a voice, one I didn't recognize.

"Up up up you lazy lasses, get up before I dump a pail of water on you," the voice warned.

What? I groggily opened my eyes and looked to my left. There on a fluffy bed was Tori. She was sitting upright and looked very shocked. I then sat up and looked in the direction she was looking. The first thing I realized was that this was not my house nor was it Tori's. The second thing was a woman with long curly plain brown hair standing in the front of the room staring at us intently.

"Well it's about time you two woke up now get dressed and come for breakfast," the woman said angrily.

The woman then left the room and slammed the door behind her. A third thing I noticed was the door was round. After the woman's leave a couple minutes of silence came. Then Tori spoke.

"Kara, why was that woman wearing no shoes and why may I ask were her feet so hairy, that is so wrong."

I couldn't help but laugh. It all made sense now. I'd read about it before how people wrote stories of them going to Middle Earth. They had of course just been stories. But Tori and me. Well this was for real. I was no longer confused or worried. On the contrary I was ecstatic with glee and showed so when a big grin spread across my face. Tori just looked more worried, but it soon passed and instead a mix of confusion and anger replaced it.

"Why are you laughing, I see nothing funny about this. One we don't know where we are, two we don't know how we got here or who that woman is and three...we don't know where we are!" She said very angry.

Then the weirdest look appeared on her face. I can't describe it. She then jumped up onto my bed and faced me.

"Wait, hobbits have feet like that, they have curly hair like that woman, and they they...they're hobbits aren't they Kara?" She said looking at my face seriously.

I then noticed something I should have noticed before. Tori's hair was done up in ringlets. Her hair was sometimes curly, but not in this way. Also she was more tanned then usual. It kind of gave her a goddess like look. Another thing. Her feet. They were huge. I grinned again then answered her.

" I think you should take a look at yourself first, " I said on the verge of laughing. "Maybe that will answer your question."

She looked at me funny then got up and went over to a tall mirror standing by the door. Right when she looked into it she gasped and fell backwards onto the bed. I laughed and laughed, then laughed louder as she finally spotted her big, not to mention hairy feet and screamed in shock. She then calmed herself by taking deep breaths. Looking over at me she glared daggers then suddenly as if the world changed, she grinned evilly. Oh how I hated that grin.

"You shouldn't be laughing. Care to take a look at yourself?" She grinned even more evilly, if that's possible.

I gulped. I had forgotten about me. Surely I was a hobbit to. Oh no I thought! What if I was even fatter? What if...if.. well I couldn't think. So I got up and walked over to the mirror. Slowly I stepped in front of it and almost screamed in shock at what I saw.