There's No Such Thing as Elves
Chapter 2
Arwen had had to listen while her teacher droned on and on. Retelling a story she, as most people in the city, had heard at least a million times before. The meeting under the trees in Rivendell, the war and all the big happy ending. After an hour of constant ridicule she began to become thankfully immune. At last the bell went to signal the end of history and she trudged out of the class.
Her next class was science and she was in it with Charlotte and that pesky little boy whose name she could bear to even think of. She took a seat at the back with Charlotte and to Arwens' great annoyance the pesky boy sat with them. And next to him sat a girl Arwen did not know, a new student in the school perhaps. She had black hair in a waist length plait down her back and bright blue eyes that contrasted starkly with her dark skin. Immediately Aragorn jumped up and offered the seat next to him. Charlotte rolled her eyes but the girl accepted "hi my name is Venus"
"Hey, we have something in common," commented Arwen "our names both mean 'the evenstar'. My name is Arwen" when Aragorn told her his name she laughed "let me guess, you guys are together?"
"No!" Arwen replied so forcefully that Venus looked shocked "obviously hit a nerve" she murmured to Charlotte nodded "yeah, they've been getting grief about that since he arrived at this school" Venus rolled her eyes "oh purleaze, that is so immature" Arwen smiled, she could see they were going to be great friends.
The next day they found themselves once again going into history. "Now class," began the teacher "Yesterday we discussed the legends of Gondor, more specifically the legend of Arwen and Aragorn. Now then who here can tell me whether or not that story is true?" all of the class either rolled their eyes or laughed in disbelief, surely he didn't think that a class of 13 yr olds still had trouble distinguishing fact from fiction. "Of course it's complete nonsense!" Arwen practically yelled "would you all agree with this young lady" their was a murmur of assent throughout the class. "And what would you all say if I told you, you were wrong"
"Laugh" said Aragorn with his eyebrows raised grinning. Arwen and Charlotte rolled their eyes; this sort of immaturity did not impress them at all. Venus on the other hand giggled appreciatively. Aragorn grinned at her "you will soon find out that many of our teachers are a little bit strange" once again Venus giggled a flighty little laugh. Charlotte noticed this behavior and raised her eyebrows at Arwen "you don't think…" she begun "but why?" Arwen replied "it isn't possible" Charlotte returned "it's probably just a fleeting thing, she'll get over it." Arwen agreed.
"Now if we can return to the subject" the teacher once again attempted to bring back the classes attention, and he managed to, for the most part. "most people believe the legend of Aragorn and Arwen to be pure fancy, but the idea that it is not true is in fact the only myth involved" the class stared at their teacher, they had always known he was a bit weird but they hadn't realized that he was totally insane. He grinned round at their confused faces "in fact Arwen was very much a real queen of Gondor. Archeologist have recently uncovered some new books in the middle of Old Minas Tirith that accurately record all the happenings from that age, although of course you must understand that the 'elves' are not magical beings at all, they are simply a separate race of human beings. They were not more primitive then us at all though, if anything they were more advanced. But they were, totally real." Arwen went red "that's stupid; of course it can't be true! If that's true then I suppose you believe in magic rings as well!"
"Stories can be embroidered over time, but we can usually distinguish the fact from the propaganda." Arwen stared at him and fumed. "Well maybe it is true, but I think I can safely say that history does not always repeat!" she threw a dark look at Aragorn, he grinned "oh come on, you know you want me!"
"I'd rather date a sea slug".
Laughter rippled through the class and Aragorn went red. He opened his mouth trying to think of something to say, but failing, closed it again. Arwen turned to Charlotte and slapped a high five.
After class Arwen and Charlotte sat with Venus in the courtyard "I mean come on, he thinks he's so hot, but he's so not. I don't understand why everyone thinks I like him; I'd have to retarded to fall for someone like him." Arwen was saying "Well that explains why everyone thinks you've fallen for him then" snickered Charlotte and Arwen hit her over the back of her head with her palm "I don't know," Venus argued "I reckon he's pretty cute actually" Arwen and Charlotte turned to Venus and gave her death stares. She fell silent.