Key.

Sentences/ wordsthat are bold,and are in italics, are direct thoughts .

Random italic words in a sentence are emphasis.

"Italics with speech marks" signify that what is being said within the speech marks is some distance away.

Bold is Onomatopoeia.


Disclaimer- see previous chapter
Chapter 2- Kisses and Apologies.

"Well." Said the girl, eyeing Laurel whose lips were locked with Legolas'. "You finally got yourself a man. Doesn't matter. If I want him, I'll have him." She told Laurel in a poisonous voice, laying her hand with its extremely long red nails on Legolas' shoulder.

The elf pulled away from Laurel and gave the other girl a look just as poisonous, something Aragorn didn't expect from an elf.

"My name is Dee Dee." She said, grabbing Legolas' face and placing a smacker on his lips. Then, she flounced away, after giving Laurel a haughty look.

"Legolas, laddie. Will you be all right?" Gimli questioned. "You look as though yeh'll be sick."

"I do feel rather nauseas," Legolas swallowed, before hurtling into the bathroom and throwing up.

"Your name's Laurel, right?" Gandalf asked the girl, who was holding the towel to herself.

"Yes."

"And the other girl?"

"My cousin, Dee Dee," she said with a shudder.

"Tell me," Aragorn spoke. "Why would a girl kiss an Elvin Princeling just because her cousin appears? It's not something one usually does. Especially to a stranger."

"And why did you not scream when Legolas appeared out of thin air and landed in your bath?" Pippin added. "Girls always scream at things like that, don't they, Merry?"

"They do. Girls scream at things like that."

"Well, I don't." Laurel said. "I'm not like most girls. And I kissed him because I knew my cousin would go after him, and I couldn't let that happen. I've seen what she does to men- it's not pretty."

"But why did you kiss him?" Eowyn questioned over the background of Legolas spewing.

Laurel sighed and tightened her hold on her towel, which was threatening to slip. "I thought she'd leave him alone if she thought he was taken. She's done it before."

Just then, Legolas came out of the bathroom looking pale.

"There you are!" Came a happy shout from the stairwell. A few seconds later, an attractive older woman with greying hair had latched onto Legolas, kissing him on the lips.

"Why do people keep doing that!" Legolas demanded of the woman who ignored him and carried on bouncing up and down on the spot.

"Mom!" Laurel cried, embarrassed.

"Laurel dear, I'm so happy you found yourself a man. I was beginning to think you swayed the other way." She said cheerfully, not noticing that Laurel had gone red with embarrassment. Turning to Legolas again, she beamed, causing Legolas to back away. "I know you'll make a great husband for my little girl. Dee Dee told me you were handsome, but she never told me you looked like an angel! So, dear, white or cream?"

"What?" Legolas said, unable to think clearly with all that was going on.

"Laurel's dress. White or cream?"

"Cream." Legolas said, hoping she'd go away if he gave her an answer.

"You are so right!" She chirped, turning and bounding down the hallway to go back down the stairs.

Laurel was frozen on the spot. Her mom was actually serious about the marriage thing? She groaned when she heard her mother tell someone, presumably on the phone, that her only daughter was getting hitched. She blushed as she noticed everyone's gazes on her.

"Sorry." She said, addressing Legolas. "My mom's a bit eager. She's been wanting to marry me off since I turned eighteen, which was a month ago." She shrugged in apology.

"Honey!" Laurel's mom shouted from downstairs. "I called a bunch of people and we're going to have a party tomorrow night, okay?"

Laurel groaned, and turned to the others. "I'm going to go get dressed, then you can tell me why you're here."


The end of another chapter- the next one will hopefully be posted quicker than this one. I'm busy doing history and German coursework as well as my usual amount of homework, and my key skills communication level 3 portfolio I have to complete.

I'm also doing exam practice for German, and tomorrow I've just done a week of work experience at a local hospital, which means I have to catch up on a whole weeks worth of schoolwork.

At least it's Easter holidays now up till the 12th of April- yay!

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