4: Pretty Lady (PART TWO)

Arden quietly sipped the soda left over from the movie with Anakin. She had been extraordinarily close to wretching several times during the movie but could not give the slightest hint that it was anything was wonderful. For Anakin would sigh at the romantic moments, yell at the angry moments of climax, and cry at the sad moments (which, from under that helmet seemed very odd indeed, yet after he blew up the first man to tell him to shut it, no one made any further efforts). At least dinner can't get much worse, she thought. Oh how wrong she was…

The Sith apprentice drove them to a Burger King, ordering two BK meals.

"Why not just get the normal double-cheeseburger?" she asked him.

"Because," he said, sounding exasperated and annoyed. "Then you don't a get a cool Star Wars toy!"

"Oh, silly me."

8:30 PM ((Because the author is pretending the RotS is only an hour long and it only took them a few seconds to eat their dinner, drive everywhere, etc.))

"Maybe Frodo will be a more… traditional date," she thought. Still, she couldn't help but feel a little disappointed. All of that work had been for a few lame insights into his childhood as a junkyard slave between mouthfuls of fast food. Oh well, better than nothing… right?

She drove up to the little hobbit-hole and saw Frodo anxiously smoking his pipe on the front lawn. Ew, she disliked smoker's breath. But if she could sit through Star Wars and swallow down a double, then a little bit of bad breath should be easy.

"Lilly!" Frodo smiled with a(n) (attempted) Rico Suave accent. Oh dear…

She beamed at him and hopped out of the car to greet the wee man. Frodo hugged her around the waist, making Arden slightly uncomfortable with the aforementioned height difference. When the hug began to last a little too long, she had to practically get out a crow-bar to pry him off. Must be the hobbit-weed or something, she told herself.

"Why don't you come on in, Lilly!" Frodo said, swaying a little bit. He motioned for the hobbit-hole. "I got something to show ya," he winked obviously and passed out there at Arden's feet.

"Great."