Merry ran down the hill, filled with rage and worry, he had to alert the others to what has happened. He arrived at the picnic to where all the other hobbits were relaxing in the sun, drinking pink lemonade.
"Sam! Sam! Pip! Our children have gone into the woods!" he shouted, leaping over the mountains of dirty plates. Sam and Pippin, dropped whatever they were eating in horror and their wives asked what had happened.
"My sons were having some disagreement with Faramir and one or more of your daughters, Sam, and they ran off into the Old Forest." Merry gasped. Rose burst into tears as Sam fumbled for the whistle he used to summon his children. They came, most of them, two of them were missing: Frodo and Goldilocks.
"When was the last time any of you saw Goldilocks or Frodo? Speak up!"
There was a list of mumblings from every child, but Merry Gamgee raised his hand.
"Goldy, me and Pippin were playing tag on the grass up there," he pointed at the lawn before the hedge, "Goldy tripped and ripped her dress. We thought that she would have come down by now." He admitted bashfully.
Sam nodded and reprimanded them for not helping their sister, but was concerned that nobody had seen Frodo since that morning.
"Did he even come?" Elanor asked, "I did not seem him on the wagon. I think. I can't even remember if he ate with us."
Sam marched to the wagon, and saw the hat that Frodo always wore sitting upon a small bale of hay on which his jacket hung. A trick of the light would have convinced anyone that he was lying there, his rough blonde hair sticking out in all directions under his cap. He now had a missing son as well as a daughter.
"He's gone!" he cried in dismay, and then he turned to Merry, "how long have they been gone?"
"Five, perhaps ten minutes. They would have come out by now." He said. Sam leapt upon the pony, Bob (a descendant of Bill), and galloped bareback up to the Hedge Gate.
Merry and Pippin also found a horse and followed Sam into the woods.
Rose comforted Diamond, as the loss of her only son seemed greater than a loss of 16 of her children.
"They'll be back, Diamond. Our children aren't silly and our husbands are great. They'll be back soon." she said in a cheerful voice that contradicted her thoughts.
I like the idea of hobbits with pink lemonade, though I doubt that it would be fizzy. The whistle was an idea from the Sound of Music, though Sam would not be strict. I wanna be a Gamgee!