Disclaimer: I have the sudden and unnecessary need to state the obvious so here it is. . . I don't own Lord of the Rings, or anything of Tolkien's . . . . okay then? I've done it . . . Happy now? Oh yeah refer to this in later chapters. Okay now ON With the STORY:o)

Though My Eyes

Chapter 1

Unwanted Visitors

Beep Beep . . . . . Beep Beep. Ugghhh. I rolled over and pulled my pillow over my head trying to block out the sounds of my alarm clock. No matter how far I burry myself under my pillow I can still hear it getting louder and louder, so unless I wanted to listen to that for the rest of the morning I have to actually move out of bed and turn it off. With my pillow still on my head I felt around for it. Ah ha, found it. I shoved the dial over from buzzer to radio. I have been doing this for the past two years so I didn't need to see what I was doing. Eeeehhh nothing good on, just the normal boring old news. The I heard it some news that actually concerned me.

"The following county public schools and colleges have been closed due to a sudden unknown snowstorm with record measurements . . . . ." Weird but hey possibility of no school. Oh please, oh please. " . . . . . . Orange County, Paramus College– " 'sweet no school, now I can go right back to sleep' I thought as I turned off my alarmclock.

"Sam . . . Sam can you come here for a second," shouted my room mate, Laura, from down the hall, she was probably in the kitchen making coffee for us. "Now what" I thought annoyed at the fact that im up at eight on a snow day when I don't have to be.

"Yeah, sure, hold on" I said finishing my response with a yawn. I took the palm of my hands and wiped my eyes. "As long as I can make it down the hall, into the kitchen, and get a cup of coffee I will be fine," I thought. I was defiantly having second thought about getting up. I finally told myself that I promised Laura I would be down there, plus after im done I can just watch movies all day.

"Sam?"

"Im coming, Im coming" I called out to Laura knowing how impatient she was. I have known Laura practically my whole life. I met her when I went to an orphanage at six and we grew attached at once. I felt like she was so smart and she was defended me when I was being picked on. She was like the older sister I never had even though we were the same age. I went to the orphanage at six because my parents left me. They had been acting strange for a while and then one early morning they got up and left me to fend for myself. At the time I though they were just going out to the store, but by the end of the day, even at the age of six, I knew that they were never coming home. A neighbor said that she still saw a small child in the house even after the family left. So I was sent to an orphanage where I met Laura, whose parents died in a car accident. When we graduated from highschool we both decided to go to the same college and are still roommates as well as best friends.

I reluctantly pulled myself out of my nice cozy bed and grabbed my hair brush and quickly brushed my hair and then thought " Im not going to class today so why am I bothering to brush my hair?" I pulled one of my hair bands from my wrist and tied my hair into a ponytail. I took one last stretched and slipped my feet into my slippers. I opened my door and flipped over the sign that said "the princess is sleeping." I dragged my feet down the hall and into the kitchen. "Made it" I thought as I poured a cup of coffee into my favorite cup that said "The BIG man's cup" which my old boyfriend, Josh gave me three Christmas's ago. Now I was ready for whatever morning had to offer since I had my coffee.

"Laura where are you?" I asked slightly loud trying to be heard over the sound of the churning coffee pot, as I turned to leave the kitchen.

"Oh Sam, Im over here, yeah, sorry," I heard Laura say calmly somewhere behind me on the other side of the kitchen. I turned around and saw her beckon me to follow her.

"Ok, all righty then" I said using my favorite saying, making her smile and then role her eyes because she was sick of me using it so much. I followed her into the family room somewhat annoyed at her for making me get up this early, but she was the kind of person you couldn't stay mad at for more then five minutes. "So what is soo important that you couldn't wait until a decent hour to show me?" I asked her with a hint of mirth in my voice.

"This" she said solemnly almost with no expression on her face. "Wow she really needs to lighten up either that or she hasn't had her coffee this morning." I thought with a chuckle that I caught before it left my lips. I walked into our family room and saw about a half a dozen people sitting, or standing, as I should say because that's just what they did when we entered the room. They were dressed as thought they had just dropped out of the med-evil period. 'Wacko's' I thought to myself as I scanned the room. They all tried to make eye contact with me but their clothing drew way too much attention for me to notice anything else.

"Ahhh . . L . .La . . Laura ca . . can I speak to you. . ." When I saw that she wasn't moving I added "Now." I was finally able to stammer out. We stepped just out side of the door but not closing it behind us. I wanted to be able to keep an eye on them. "What the heck were you thinking inviting those nut cases into our apartment." I asked her.

"They were friends of your parents and they came to–" she was saying but I cut her off.

"Oh great, so not only did my parents leave their only child, they were also mentally insane" I said trying not to take my anger for my parents out on her, but by now it was getting really hard. She knew this was hard for me to bring up my parents again because it was one of those things that remained unspoken.

"Come on lets go back in, they will explain everything." she told me in a comforting motherly voice. I just nodded in a response. I blinked my eyes a few times to stop any of the tears that usually came at this subject, but this time they didn't. I guess it was because I was really ticked off at them to feel sad. At least now I had a real reason why they left me, they were crazy and im really better off with out them I told myself. We walked back into the room and once again every one stood up. Now this was just getting plain annoying that I couldn't help myself.

"Could you just stop, ok?" I said eyeing them and thinking wow I cant believe they knew these people. They looked at each other as if they had never been asked something like this before and they had no idea what to do. One finally got the courage to stand up and explain why they were acting this way.

"Please, milady, it is custom where we come from to stand when a lady enters the room." he explained He had blonde hair that hung to his shoulder and crystal blue eyes. "Gorgeous" I thought "not too bad except for the fact that he's psycho and wears really weird clothes out in public.

"Well we aren't there now, now are we," I replied cooly. I wasn't going to take my anger out on Sarah but I never said I wasn't going to take it out on them. He seemed surprised that I spoke to him this way that he just shut his mouth and sat down shocked. The silence was deafening, but I think that they were to worried to say anything to me again only to make matters worse. Laura finally spoke and broke the silence wanting to get to the point of this sudden meeting and all eyes were on her.

"Sam, twenty years ago just after you were born a portal from middle earth to earth ripped and you and your parents were went here. Six years later your parents needed to return to middle earth for their duties to the King of Eryn Vorn. They liked earth so much for its simplicity that hey thought you would be better off here then back at home so they left you behind. I was sent her by your parents to make sure you were safe. Now you are needed to return to middle earth because you affect its future some how." She explained with a serious look on her face. I just suddenly burst out laughing. Everyone looked at me like I was the one that was crazy.

"Your joking right. This is all just a joke, none of this is really true. I have to admit you guys were very good, and to think that I actually almost believed you that it was true." I said my voice full of mirth.

"Sam, Im not joking, why would I joke about something like this?" she said looking me in the eye as if trying to tell me with them that this was no joke. I felt my heart drop to my stomach and suddenly I felt extremely queasy.

"This cant be happening, this can not be happening! . . . why me?" I said in a whisper. Scared that this was no joke after all.

"It is," replied Laura, she turned my head to the side reviling my ear to her. "You have already begun. The process has started." she started with a smile. I pulled my head away from her hands and stared at her with a horrid look on my face at what she was saying. I stepped back and turned and ran down the hall towards the bathroom to see myself in the mirror. I looked to see what Laura was indicating on the side of my head. When I say my perfectly normal ear had changed from being rounded to being tipped. I let out a wail of disappointment. I let myself drop to my knees and buried my face into my hands and began to cry. After a few minutes when the initial shock was over I saw feet at the door and looked up to see who was there. Everyone from the room was looking down at me with a sad, somber look in their eyes. I singled Laura out of the group.

"Forget to mention something?" I yelled at her furious that she never once told me. "What the heck am I? I cant go to school looking like a freak. Heck I cant even go out in public anymore looking like this. What did you do to me!"

"One we didn't do anything to you, you are a Silvan elf like them" emphasizing the word 'are' while indicating the other elves over her shoulder. "And two we are leaving this weekend, so in fact you won't be going back to school. We want to get you back to middle earth as soon as possible, for we fear to linger here any longer," she said trying not to show the hurt she felt from me. She never thought that I would react

"Did anyone ever asked me what I wanted?" I asked trying to hold in the tears that were threatening to spill. "Im not going, and you cant make me" I whispered but it still held the force that I was trying to get across. This was more thrown at all of them standing in the doorway then just Laura.

I just needed to get away from everyone and be by myself and rational what just happened. I squeezed by everyone in the doorway and ran down the hall into my room, locking the door behind me. I grab my blue teddy bear that my parents left me and hugged him tightly, feeling so alone and lost once in my life. I flopped down on my bed, curled up with my face in my pillow, and cried.