(A/N: Hey there, Roni here. I just wanted to thank everyone who has wasted their precious time reading our inane crap. Thank you for sticking with us and reviewing, Kapper. You don't know how much we appreciate it. Now, I'm going to shut up and let you guys to it...)
The next day Amy watched the drunks sit around on the couch, those who weren't throwing up, watching A Knight's Tale. She sighed that she would be the only one able to make the appointment set for that afternoon. She called for pizza, the only thing she could think of to feed so many people.
The doorbell rang and the scent of pizza filled the room. Roni's stomach growled, then turned. "Nuuuuuu-uggggggghhhhhhh." she moaned. Orlando followed her lead with his own, "Hunnnnnnnnnnnnnnn-uuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh." Billy got up and joined Viggo in the bathroom, puking. Elijah was sprawled in one of the huge, comfy recliners across from the couch, fast asleep, or passed out, one of the two. Dominic got up and joined Amy at the table, tucking in for a slice of pizza. He had been the only sober one last night.
Amy finished her pizza, and after setting the two leftover pizzas in the oven, went around the house, making sure all of the doors were still locked. "Roni!" she called from the kitchen.
Roni answered, sort of, with a high whining sound.
"I have to go out for a while today. You are in no shape to drive, so I called a cab. I should be back around 4 or so. Don't do anything stupid while I am out." She walked out into the living room. "Alright?"
Roni rolled her eyes skyward. The effort too much, she slid her head to the closest available, and comfyest, shoulder, Orlando's. She mumbled something like "...careful..." Amy slammed the door closed, on purpose, then stood outside for a moment, waiting for the oncoming wince and groan.
Roni heard the door slam, winced and then, groaned.
Amy laughed as she walked to the sidewalk to wait for the cab. She was on her way to see how the park was coming along. They had decided to take the sets and build them on a huge lot where people would be able to feel as though they were actually part of the movie. Besides, some of the sets were dangerous, with high winds, or set too far into the mountains.
Roni settled in on Orlando's shoulder, yawned wide and contemplated going back to sleep. She opted to do just that when Orlando slid down to pillow her head on his chest, then manuevered her legs out to the now-empty side of the couch. When Billy came in and found the pair spread out on the couch, he shrugged, yanked a pillow from under Orli's arm, and laid down on the floor in front of them.
Amy paid fare for her cab and walked into the construction zone. She found Peter directing the reconstruction of Rivendell. When he asked where Roni and the other half of the Fellowship were, Amy told him about their night.
"Drunk? And you left them all alone?" Peter laughed.
"Yes sir. They were all hungover when I left. Besides," she smiled slyly as she pulled out a key. "I locked all the liquor in the pantry. Only room they have access to is the bathroom." They laughed as they set out to see if they were needed anywhere in the park.
The sun was sinking low under the horizon when Roni's eyes decided that it was dark enough to attempt opening. They fluttered open and found her still on the couch, with a solid shape under her, and two dark ones on the floor in front of the couch. Mentally brushing cobwebs from her vision, she slowly lifted up her head and fought the rush of nausea. Glancing over to the blue glowing digital numbers on the DVD/VCR player, she groaned. '6:30...' she thought, 'too early...or late...' She reached up and rubbed sleep from her eyes, then remembered the night before and the fact that she had spent most of the day drooling all over Orlando Bloom's bright yellow t-shirt. She sat up with a start, stupid of her, and pushing herself off of Orli, went as fast as she could to the kitchen. Her mind shouted, 'TEA!'
Amy payed for her second cab ride of the day and returned to the house. The light in the kitchen was on, and there was the blue light from the tv in the living room window. Once inside, she was almost run over by Roni. She could see that she wasn't the only one startled by Ron's mad rush to the kitchen, in the living room three rumpled forms were sitting up in the darkness."Have ya'll been sleeping all day?" Amy asked.
"No." Orlando said.
"I think we watched a movie or two..." Billy said from the floor.
Amy shook her head. "Are any of you able to go home yet?" She asked after she was sure all those who had stayed for the night were halfway awake. She got a chourus of no's. "Fine." She sighed as she called out for pizza for the second time that day.
The new pizza, added to the old pizza still in the oven, just fed the ravenous people in the living room. Roni managed to make a new gallon of tea for everyone. It went fast with so many people with dry-mouth. Someone had put on a new DVD. It sounded like "A Night at the Roxbury", but Roni couldn't tell without turning around, and that was just out of the question.
In her room, Amy was paying no attintion to the others. She sat at her desk doing some long overdue book work. (She was only 16.) To drown out the tv that someone had turned up too loud, she had on her cd player. But none of that was loud enough to drown out the sharp crack of thounder outside. Of course, Amy was the only one to see the lightning shoot past her window a split second before the lights went out. She slipped out the flashlight she kept in her desk, and with a mental sigh went to see how the others were, then wait out the storm.
Roni was one of the first people to shriek at the sudden darkness, but at least her head felt better. The tv went off with a snap and the house was plunged into blackness. 'Oh, well,' she thought, shrugging and eating some more pizza. 'It will come on again in a little while. It always does.' Suddenly, the quiet darkness was broken by Amy coming into the room with a flashlight, purposely shining it directly into Roni's eyes. "Owww! That hurt, yo!" Amy apologized halfheartedly and directed the flashlight beam to the ground.
Amy went into the kitchen and found a box of matches, then walked around the house lighting candles. This storm looked bad, like one of the many hurricanes she and Roni had lived through, and her experience told her the power may not be restored for some time. As it was, when she was done lighting the last lightable candle, the power had been out for nearly fifteen minutes. She threw out some old candles that has seen their last flame, Roni was good at not throwing out candles too low to burn anymore, then announced to the room, "If ya'll get bored, there are boardgames and extra flashlights in the entertainment center, in the cabinet under the tv." With that, she disappeared to her room again.
Roni sighed before finishing her slice of pizza, then headed over to the entertainment center. 'What will keep half the fellowship, and little ole' me occupied until further notice?' she thought to herself. She sat down at the cabinet and grabbed a flashlight to inspect it with. She rummaged around, causing the other people in the room to come closer to her and the treasure chest of amusement. She sighed and started calling out games, "We have Lord of the Rings Monopoly, Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit, Lord of the Rings Chess, Lord of the Rings Risk, and Lord of the Rings Scrabble."
She could hear the disproval from the crowd behind her, "Yeah, I guess ya'll have played all of those already..." She went back to searching," There is Life, CandyLand, Chutes and Ladders, Crainum, a deck of cards, UNO, Skip-bo, ummm, Scattergories, Yahtzee, and uh, Upwords. I think there are some more in my room..."
Elijah spoke up, "Let's play CandyLand. I haven't played that in years."
"Alright," Roni said, pulling the game out of the mess, "But I get to be green!"
There was some mumbling and those that wanted to play gathered around the teatable.
After a really quick round in which Elijah won,(seems he was lying about not playing, that CandyLand shark...) they became restless again.
Trying to keep everyone's attention was proving difficult, but Roni couldn't think of any other ways to keep the actors preoccupied...wait...actors?
"Alright, everyone, what do you say to a game of charades?"