chapter 4

The pair woke up the next morning and immediately hit the tea that was waiting in the fridge. Roni complained of the fact that she could only see out of one eye, for some strange reason, and, of course, her killer-evil-owies high hells, I mean, high heels, from last night and the pain her feet were in now.

"OOOWWWW!" she cried, propping her feet up on the teatable in front of the couch. "Why'd I wear those shoes?"

"You asking me?" Amy asked from her bedroom. She was holding two shirts up for inspection. "Which one?!" She called out to Roni.

"Fuck that! I'm not getting dressed yet. I haven't even taken a shower! You see those feet, those are staying right there. Me, up? Nah-uh. I stay here for while."

"Whatever." Amy says as she tosses the shirts onto the unmade bed and starts to root around in the closet that she had time the night before to put in her things. "Couch potato!" She yells before dashing into the bathroom to steal the shower from Roni.

"Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew! I want to be a po-tat-to! You get to be Gollum!" she laughs hestircally at her own stupidity. "I need sleep!" she whines. With no one but the walls to talk to anymore, she reaches across the couch and grabs the remote, flipping through the channels until she finds something that interests her. Amy comes out of the shower to witness the 48 time Roni has seen The Fellowship of the Ring.

Amy leans over the back of the couch and says in a soft voice, "Roni, it's 9:30. We've got to meet Billy at Valentriea's in an hour." Then she yells. "Get your butt off the couch!"

Roni turns her head to Amy, eyes still glued to the screen, and sticks out her tongue. She turns back to the screen and watches one of her favorite scenes, the one where the Fellowship goes over the hilltop and the wind blows their hair and they all look gorgeous, except for Gimli. Begrudingly, she turns of the t.v. and goes into the bathroom to turn on the shower. 15 minutes later, she steps out of the bathroom in a towel and goes into her bedroom to get clothes on. A few minutes later, a scream is heard.

"Wha, What's wrong Roni?!" a concerned step-sister asked through her door.

"I found my Lucky Bear!!! 'Member how I thought I had left it at home?" She comes out brandishing the bear, dressed in an olive green shirt with the said bear and his friend Grumpy Bear on it, and a pair of black jeans.

The so-called concerned step-sister rolls her eyes. "Next time scream only if it's an emergency. You know what that is, don't ya?" She storms off to her room.

"Yeah, but that cuts down on at least 56 percent of my vocabulary!" Roni yelled after her before going into her room, with a glass of tea, to finish getting ready. She knocked on Amy's door 15 minutes later. "It be time to go."

Amy slipped on her old, worn out sneakers and grabbed her laptop. This time she would not lose her shoes on the way to the car. "Ready when you are."

Scoping up her purse from the couch, and sliding on her pair of dark blue flip-flops, Roni led the way to yet another adventure.

They were supposed to meet Billy at 10:30. They were at the small restuarant a half an hour early. Don't know how, but they were. No, really, they were early for once. They spent 15 minutes sitting in the car, listening to CD's and the radio. After that got boring, they walked into the restaurant and chose a table close to the restroom.

"Waaa. You drug me out of the house to come sit in a cold restaurant and wait on a Hobbit. You are lucky he is hot, or I would have left by now."

Amy looked up from her laptop on which she was playing some game that she had gotten into. "Huh? Oh man! I just got killed! Thanks a lot, Roni."

"You are so welcome." Roni yawned as she got up from the table. "I'm gonna go potty. I'll be right back." She walked toward the bathroom, leaving Amy to start a new game.

Just as Roni disappeared into the bathroom, Billy walked in. Amy turned off her pc and stood to greet him.

"Hello. I'm Amy. My compainion just went to the restroom for a second." She said with a polite smile.

"Why, so polite for an American. I thought that they were all the same, bleched and farted in public, picked their noses and flicked boogers on people. Oh, listen to me, you are more polite than I am." Billy shook Amy's outstretched hand, then helped her into her seat. "To make up for my rudeness." he explained. As he was getting ready to sit down himself, he was ran smack into.

"Oh, I'm sorry!" Roni apologized to the man standing by their table, thinking it just another person who was always in her way. When Billy turned around to accept the apology, she felt stupider than she had ever felt in her life.

"It's quite alright. He's my favorite." Billy said with a smile.

"Wha?" Correction, now she felt stupider than she ever had before.

"Lucky Bear. He is my favorite." Billy explained simply, pointing to her shirt.

"Oh! Yeah, he is my favorite, too."

Roni decided it was safer to just shut up while Billy helped her to her seat and sat next to her.

With a funny look on her face, Amy said "Billy, this is my clutzy step-sister Roni. 'Bout the only things she is good for is driving me around, making tea, and sitting on the couch watching Lord of the Rings."

Roni looked from Amy to Billy and said, "Yeah, pretty much. Sometimes I do more, but that's the jist of it."

Amy sat up straighter, now back to her normal little-nonsense self. "Roni and I are making a theme park for Lord of the Rings. We were wondering if you would like to help. At this moment we have enlisted the help of Viggo and Orlando also."

"Orli's doing it? I'm there."

The two girls looked at the 30-some-year old with surprise.

"Are you sure? You haven't seen the plans yet." Amy asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure. What are we doin'?"

Roni bust out laughing. "That rules you in, Pip!"

Billy started to laugh with her. "Ha, that's funny!"

Laughing, Amy rolled her eyes. "Roni, will you get a new hobby that does not involve learning every line from the movies?"

Still laughing, Roni points to Amy. "You know what, hobby sounds kinda like hobbit! And I do have other hobbies, like getting a pet Elf, learning everything about everyone, memorizing every line from the added scenes, and the extras, plus learning Elvish. I have a busy schedule."

"Just hope you can get off the couch Saturday." Amy says under her breath.

"What?" Billy asked.

"Nothing." Amy said. "So, would you like to see the plans?"

"Can we eat first!?" Billy burst out.

"Yeah, can we?" Roni echoed. As everyone knows, Roni likes echoes.

"Yeah. Let's eat." Amy said.

"Yeah!" Billy and Roni shouted in unison, then raced up to the breakfast bar, Amy trailing behind them, shaking her head slowly.

Their meetings with Dominic Monaghan, Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Sean Bean, Sir Ian McKellen, John Rhys-Davies, and the director and writers went well. They all said 'Orli's doing it? I'm in!'.

"It's too bad we can't consult J.R.R. Tolkien." Amy sighed on their way home the next evening.

"Well, if you want, I can break out the Ouija board and see if he says, 'Orli's doing it? I'm in!' Everyone else did. Actually, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. Scence!! Break out the voodoo. You remind me of the babe."

"What babe?" Amy asked.

"The babe with the power." Roni started to laugh.

"What power?" Amy joined her.

"The power of voodoo."

"Who do?"

"You do."

"Do what?"

"Remind me of the babe!" Roni finished as she pulled into their driveway. Laughing, she and Amy climbed up the stairs, glad to be home and done with half of the preliminary work.

"Tomorrow is Saturday! We get to sleep in!" Amy sang out as Roni opened the door. "Just not too late, I've got something planned for both of us."

Roni yawned as she dropped her stuff on the couch and started walking to her room, "What's that? More meetings? We can't have more meetings, tomorrow is November the 14th. We can't have meetings on my 21st birthday. We gotta go do something fun!" You could hear a whining fit on its way.

"No, you'll like this surprise. Just like you liked my first surprise when we first arrived." Amy said as she departed for her room. Pj's and a warm bed sounded nice right now. Halfway there she changed direction to the kitchen to get a bottle of tea to help with the suspenseful last pages of her book.

"Mmmmmmm...Orlando..." Roni said before closing the door to her room and hitting the sack. Nice dreams...