Hey everyone, thanks for all the wonderful reviews, so.. ya here's the next chapter so- enjoy! (Ps. Just wanna make something clear to all you people, I definitely wasn't talking about Sarcastic Sadistic Sadie in the previous note- no way! She cracks me up all the time!) Anyway, back to the story...
Laurelin's POV:
I heard the bell in the courtyard sound and woke up with a start. What on earth had happened last night? For some reason, I had woken up with a splitting headache and felt like I had a hangover. "Argh..." I shook my head repeatedly, trying to get rid of the stupid sheep that were insistently dancing around my head. Stupid sheep. What time was it again? I tried to sit up but then, again, I found that I could not. Stupid Elladan and Elrohir. What had they done to me this time? Probably tied me to the bed AGAIN. Man, these elves really needed some original ideas, all their pranks got pretty boring after they repeated them a few times. I had always been an easy target compared to Serinde and Anarrima, and they never let me forget that. I was constantly the butt of their non-existant jokes. However, this turned out to be a good thing, and I quickly became their guinea-pig-cum-sister. I smirked and strained my head, looking for the ropes, so that I could cut them. You know, when I thought of that, it never really occurred to me that I might actually need a knife to cut a rope. Anyway. When I was straining my head, I suddenly realized that my body suddenly looked really weird under the covers. I got suspicious and whipped the sheets off my body but nothing prepared me for the shock I was going to get.
So, I did the only thing I could have done.
I screamed.
And screamed.
And screamed and screamed.
Then, I finally realized that I wasn't really helping matters and calmed myself. Slowly, I tried to use my hands to pinch the body connected to my head that right now I wasn't so sure was mine. The weird thing was, instead of moving normally, my hands moved backwards and pinched myself. I almost screamed again. I cursed myself, why on earth did I have to pinch so hard? I sighed, I really am stupid. Just like my mother told me...
Start Flashback
"What have you done?" Laurelin's mother yelled angrily. She thought that letting her daughter work at the pottery would give her some meaning in life, not just wondering around aimlessly in the gardens admiring the flowers as she used too. Instead, she could not do anything properly, no she could not. Laurelin's mother shook her head and sighed heavily, disappointed. She had to go and break a whole year's work of the potters'. Needless to say, they were definitely not happy with her. She wanted to teach Laurelin a lesson, she had gone for to long as a carefree girl, it was time to let her know the consequences of her actions, and as they walked back from the pottery to their house, she let her know that.
"I am sorry, mother, it wasn't my fault! The ..."
"Don't try and make excuses, you are really so stupid sometimes, you know!" Her mother retorted furiously, not listening to reason and in her anger throwing things on the floor and she walked into the house, slammed the door behind her.
"But..."
"No buts! Do you know how hard your father and I have to work already? Now, we have a huge debt to pay off and because of you, we are going to have to work even harder and overtime just to right your wrongs!" With that, Laurelin's mother stormed off, too angry to care that her daughter had tears streaming down her eyes. That very day, Laurelin had packed her bags and went to stay with her friends. She refused to be a burden to her parents and she was sure that she could make it on her own. From that time on, she hardly ever saw her parents, except for the occasional letters.
End Flashback
"Maybe if I wasn't so stupid, I would still be seeing my parents daily, and not living here all alone by myself" A single tear slid down my eye and I hurriedly brushed it away- or tried to. Then I remembered that my head was apparently on backwards. After all, I think a very telling sign is when you can't even wipe away a tear on your face.
Back to the Marauders:
It was then, at that time, that the Marauders finally arrived at Laurelin's talen. Looking at Laurelin vigorously thrashing in the bed, trying to at least get out of the bed, they all stifled a laugh. Seriously, it was really funny. If you wanted to know how it looked like, just visualize a human with her body facing down but head facing up, obviously struggling and moving fast and awkwardly. It's not just funny. It's a vision. Well, she quickly got her wish to get out of the bed as she soon found herself on the floor with a thud! She swore loudly and gritted her teeth. She was not going to act like a baby and scream for help just because of this. It was then that her worst nightmare got even worse.
"Ahem, my lady, you seem to be in some distress. How may we be of help to you?"
Laurelin rolled her eyes and gave no answer. Seriously, how thick were those guys? Wasn't obvious? And what great luck she had. Instead of a prince in shining armor, she got a group of buffoons. Okay, make it three buffoons. At least, what was his name? Oh yeah, at least Remus had the decency to look a bit ashamed. Although she couldn't think of a reason for him to be ashamed, but whatever. She currently had much more urgent and bigger problems.
"You know, my lady. Despite how wonderful and brilliant we are, we are not telepathic and unfortunately cannot read your mind. So, unless you are going to tell us what is wrong, I'm sorry to say we cannot help you." Sirius said, faking sadness.
Laurelin glared at him, damn humans, she normally didn't mind humans, but this human she could not stand. She too faked a smile and said in a voice that appeared to be sweetened by artificial sugar "Oh, I'm sorry that I apparently overlyestimated you. It seems that apparently you are not as brilliant as you claim to be." At this, Sirius glared at her, gritting his teeth. Remus hid a smile, it was not often that a girl was able to win THE Sirius Black in a battle of wits. Seeing that her words had gotten the desired effect, she continued, "I am currently having trouble trying to stand up", they snickered at this, "and I would really appreciate it if you guys would give me a hand."
"Well, let's get to work then, boys!" With that, all four of them, pulled Laurelin up to her feet.
"Wow, do you know how heavy you are? What do you eat everyday, rocks?" James asked innocently. Well, of course Laurelin wasn't able to stand this insult and took a step forward to try and intimidate him and give him back his money's worth. "Well, at least I don't... Ahhh!" She stopped in mid-sentence, as she found that instead of taking a step forward, she walked backward and then got mixed up about where she wanted to go and tripped ov3er herself.
The marauders all burst into laughter- even Remus couldn't help himself- it was just too funny. "Now that" Sirius said, pointing to James, "Is what I call falling head over heels for us!"
"You stupid humans, get me up from here at once!" Now, Laurelin was close to tears again. But of course, they being boys and irritating and insensitive, didn't realize that. So, they just continued laughing their heads off.
"My, my, my, where are your manners?" Peter chided softly, with suddenly a weird glint in his eyes.
"You know, for once I totally agree with you Pete, you really should be more respectful to the only people who are willing to help you."
Laurelin snorted uncharacteristically and almost laughed out loud. "Don't tell me that you guys think that I am sooo pathetic that I don't even have anybody other than you to help me? My, that's absolutely the cleverest thing I've heard you guys say before!"
At this, Sirius really got angry and sick of her insulting them. So, he said angrily: "Ok, so if you don't need us, we will just get going now, won't we?" With that, the four Marauders stalked out of her talen, with no one other than Remus giving her a second glance.
To this, Laurelin just stuck up her nose and acted like she did not care. Then, after a while, she slowly began to worry. Today was a weekday and Anarrima and Serinde would probably only think she was missing until like, six days later, when they were off duty. Three days, the more she thought about it, the more she got worried, what if nobody found her or even came looking for her until it was too late? She was too young to die... ... wasn't she?
Haha... a big cliffy, will anyone find Laurelin before she dies of starvation, dehydration, or whatever? Haha.. review and guess whether she will die... muhahaha.. or who will come and save her.. the person who gets it right will get their favourite elf packed in a box and sent to them! Haha.. just kidding.. I wish that was possible... anyway review!!! Smile.. Amirel