An- So yeah, it's been awhile! I'd warned you abou that last chapter, though, so it's not so bad. Well, the next chapter SHOULD (keep fingers crossed)be up sooner than this one, cuz as of yet, I have nothing coming up...but ya never know...but tanyway, enjoy this chapter!

Chapter 49

The next morning, Jane awoke in her own room with no idea how she'd gotten there, and no recollection of the previous night. Her head throbbing, she slowly pulled the blankets over her head.

"So this is what it's like to have a hangover", Jane muttered miserably, fighting down a wave of nausea and pulling her pillow over her head to block out the sunlight streaming in her open window.

"God! You're finally awake," a voice said loudly from across the room, startling Jane and causing her head to hurt more.

Niori was propped up on her bed, reading a book she had found in Carla's bag. The girl looked happy about something.

"So, don't you just LOVE having a hangover?" Niori said sweetly, shutting her book and looking at Jane, who had just appeared from beneath her fortress of blankets.

"Shut up," Jane grumbled," Shut up and close the damn window…my head really hurts!"

Niori turned her head towards the open window, but made no motion to close it. "It's about lunch time." The girl added, taking pleasure at the fact her friend looked so miserable.

Jane crawled to the edge of her bed and glared at Niori. "Why are you so mean to me?" She wined.

"Well, you made fun of me when I had a hangover (multiple times), so, I'm making fun of you," Niori said smugly, "The difference is, you got loaded over a guy, I only get loaded cuz it's fun!"

Jane thought of a better response to that (it involved Legolas) but decided it was best she not bring that up again. Silently, she stood up and the room started spinning. Quickly, Jane sat back down. The girl opened her eyes, and realized she was in her "Normal" clothes from the night before.

Casting a glance at Niori, who had went back to her book, Jane shed her clothes and quickly changed into a clean dress. Once she had finished she asked Niori a question that had been on her mind since she had woken up.

"Uh… Did I do something last night I may regret today?"

Without taking her eyes off her book, Niori's face changed to a pained expression. "I never knew you could be such a slut…I thought I was bad when I was drunk…"

Jane's eyes widened in surprise, "WHAT!" she cried, cringing at the new pain in her left temple.

Niori looked at Jane sympathetically; "Um…I didn't hear too much…but I think you…told Aragorn…" she trailed off.

"What the hell did I tell Aragorn?" Jane asked quietly, her eyes wide with horror.

"You told him he'd probably be better in bed than Legolas," Niori said skeptically. Then she added, "Which I doubt."

Jane's face went ghostly pale," I'm going to die from embarrassment now," she said through tears that were forming in her sky blue eyes.

"I don't know if you said much more before you passed out," Niori said sympathetically, "But I do know that he carried you to your bed." she said.

"So...if he did that, he might not be mad at me?" Jane asked hopefully, wiping away her tears.

Niori looked at her friend skeptically, "I think he's very embarrassed and mad at you, and I doubt he'll be forgetting last night anytime soon."

With a moan, Jane jumped up and ran to the water basin where she was violently sick, much to Niori's disgust.

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Erin sat at the large dining table, rocking Elijah in her arms. Even though it was nearly noon, she had yet to see any of her friends. Just before dawn, Elijah had woken up, and since like Frodo had kept him while she had attended Niori's party, Erin had gotten up with the baby.

So here she sat hours later, entertaining her son and waiting for someone (anyone!) to show up.

Minutes later, the doors leading into the room flew open and Niori walked in, a grin of amusement all over her face.

" Hey!" she spoke, her face lighting up even more as she saw Erin sitting at the table with Elijah.

" Hey Niori," Erin replied with a small laugh.

Niori made her way across the room, pulled out a chair next to Erin and sat down on it over dramatically.

" Why are you so happy?" Erin asked, raising an eyebrow suspicion.

" Jane's having the hangover of all time," Niori replied with a little malicious laugh.

" And you're making it ever so worse, right?" Erin laughed, shaking her head. Instead of replying, Niori just gave Erin an evil smirk.

Then, the doors to the room again opened and Carla stood in the doorway. She saw the other two girls sitting at the table and gave them an amused hesitant look.

" Do I even want to know where Jane is?" she asked them as she moved towards them.

" Hungover as hell," Niori replied contently while smirking, " and by the way, where the hell were you last night? 'Cuz when I went to bed you weren't there, and when I woke up again today, you still weren't there!"

Erin's mouth dropped open in a surprised smile " So, I'm guessing you're talk went VERY well then," she spoke with a knowing look.

A rosy blush traveled up Carla's cheeks, but a small, shy smile crossed her lips. She moved her eyes away from Erin cleared her throat uncomfortably.

" Yeah…I guess you could say that…" she replied, biting down on her lower lip to try and stop herself from smiling.

" What are you two-" Niori started, but then her eyes widened when she realized what it was, " Oh my God! I know that look! It's the I-got-laid look! No wonder you didn't show up at the room, you spent the night in Eomer's!"

" Oh shut up Niori!" Carla cried with a small laugh, " It's not like you and Legolas haven't-"

" As a matter of fact," Niori cut her off, " we haven't,"

" Well we sure screwed up what our roles were supposed to be," Erin spoke to herself with a laugh, and drew the confused gazes of both Niori and Carla.

" What are you talking about?" Carla asked her, tilting her head to one side in confusion.

" Well," Erin told them, " Just before school ended this year, Kate-Lynn and Delaney (An- Luv you guys!) decided what our 'life roles' would be. It was actually pretty funny what they thought up. I was supposed to be the one who went to university; Jane was supposed to be the first one married, Carla was supposed to be the first one to commit a felony, and Niori was supposed to be the one who turned out to be an un-wed mother. But as you can see, we threw all those out the window. Jane can't even seem to get a guy, Niori's the one who's NOT sleeping with someone and I'm the un-wed mother,"

" What about me?" Carla asked, wondering how in the name of God Erin remembered stupid things like this.

" Honestly Carla," Erin told her with a laugh, rolling her eyes, " If there was such thing as a felony here, you'd be the first to commit one,"

Niori burst out laughing while Carla stared at Erin, not knowing if she should be offended or complimented.

Meanwhile, outside the door leading into the room, Merry and Pippin sat crossed legged on the floor in front of the door.

" So…you think we should go in?" Merry asked, looking momentarily at the door.

" Nah," Pippin replied, listening for a moment as a loud burst of the girls' laughter came through the door, " they'll only yell at us to leave. Besides, isn't listening to them out here funner than listening to Niori yelling at us in there,"

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Jane's head was still pounding and if she moved the wrong way, she threw up, even though by now, there was nothing left in her stomach.

Almost twenty minutes after Niori had left her alone, Jane miserably crawled out of her bed and lumbered out of her room. She was going to find Niori, because she prayed that the other girl would have some advice about how to make this damn hangover go away. Niori, on most weekends back in their world, was more drunk/hungover than she was sober, so if there was anyway to get rid of this thing, Niori would be the one who knew.

So she walked miserably through the large halls, a hand poised close to her mouth just in case, and yet she couldn't even find a trace of her friend. Niori hadn't told Jane where she was going. After Jane had thrown up (the first of many times), Niori had told Jane to just lie back down and had then left.

She heard footsteps moving towards her, and prayed with all her might that it was Niori. Unfortunately, this was not the case. Who came around the corner, was Aragorn.

Momentarily, Jane forgot what Niori had told her what she had said, and opened her mouth to ask if he had seen Niori. The sudden anger in his eyes made Jane take an instinctive step back…and make her remember what Niori had told her earlier.

Oh God, Jane thought a lump growing in her throat, what could I have said to make him that mad…he looks like he's ready to kill me…

" Aragorn I-" Jane spoke the words out hurriedly, wanting to apologize for what ever she had said or done.

" How dare you!" he cut her off angrily, his eyes full blazing angrily and his voice full of fury.

Jane stared at him dumbfounded, not understanding his fury. What could she have done to invoke this much anger?

" I don't-" Jane tried to speak, but let her words die as she saw that is only made him angrier.

" How dare you?" he repeated, " After what you did last night, how dare you even show your face! Throwing yourself at me was one thing, but threatening Arwen was another matter entirely!"

Jane's breath caught in her throat and her eyes widened in complete and utter horror. Oh My God…what had she done…

" I don't remember!" Jane cried desperately, pleading, " I'd never do that! I swear!"

" But you did!" Aragorn spoke, his voice now just an angry hiss, " It doesn't matter that you said it while drunk, because if you thought it drunk, you must have thought about killing the woman I love while sober too!"

Jane felt like her world was spinning around her. Her head pounded and she felt like she was going to be sick again. She couldn't even collect her own thoughts…only enough to think that Aragorn, the man she loved with all of her heart, hated her. Then, she did the only thing that seemed sensible…she turned and she ran away.

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An- Well, there it is! What will ever befall our lovely Jane? Will she ever find love? Will Aragorn forgive her? Will her hangover ever go away? Stick around for the next chapter and find out!