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Chapter Four-- Visiter

The next morning I was standing in my bathroom in front of my mirror wrapped in a towel, brushing out my hair while brushing my teeth at the same time. The mirror was fogged up from the hot water that had been running only minutes ago, the air is steamy and it's making my face turn slightly pink. I held my hair away and spit out the toothpaste from my mouth. Placing the brush on the counter I turned on the water faucet and rinsed out my mouth.

It is only eight-thirty or so and I decided to take a quick shower while Maeci was still sleeping. I moved her onto my bed so that I could check on her from my bathroom every once in a while. Music was playing from some speakers that I had connected to my Ipod. I stood there, straightening my hair while singing my favorite songs. Right now 'To Eternity' was playing. I do not know who sings it, but it's country and it is the best love song I have ever heard. All I can say is that if a guy sang this to me, I would cry.

From here to eternity
I'm asking you to share your life with me
Now and forever, I guarantee
I'll always stay by your side
I promise my love to you...

I sang tilting my head to the side and running the straightener through my hair slowly. My long black hair was hanging loosely down to my lower back. I had to decide whether or not to wear it up or down today, but if that is the worst of my problems I am doing well. I smiled to myself and then looked up into my reflection and the smile was replaced with a frown. A bruise encircled a large cut on my forehead and it looked quite gruesome. I am going to guess that I got it from falling on the hard sidewalk last night. I hissed quietly as I placed a hand up to it and touched it gently.

Like Arwen had told me, my mother sill hasn't returned home. A part of me still thinks that she is just going to show up out of no where like always. I just hope that someone doesn't notice she's missing before I call the police today. If that happened I could get in trouble for not reporting her missing. That's what I'm going to do today, I think. Call the police and tell them she's been gone for three days and hope that they don't think it's suspicious.

I don't know what Arwen, Aragorn, and Legolas are planning to do to help my mother out. I mean she's in another world for heaven sakes! How can we save her while we are here. From what they told me, we are going to have to go to their world to help her. I am going to have to go with them to help out. The only problem with that idea is that I do not want to take Maeci with us. She could get hurt, sick, or worse the evil guy will find her and take her away. Still part of me argued that I needed to go for my mother and that Maeci would be fine with the elves.

-Flashback-

" What are you?" I asked carefully, not wanting to offend any of them. Arwen's sweet smile slowly faded and she looked worriedly over at Legolas and Aragorn. They both nodded there head and turned to face me with serious faces.

" Kaydin, do you believe what we have told you so far?" Arwen asked. I wasn't sure how to answer, I don't know if I believe it quite yet. For the sake of it I nodded.

" Both Legolas and I," She paused for a moment. " We are elves." Both of my eyebrows raised. This has been the most interesting day of my life by far. First three strange looking people appear in my kitchen and now they are telling me that they are fictional species. How much weirder can this get?

" That's the reason for you pointy ears?" I asked skeptically. They both nodded. I took a deep breath and shrugged. What the heck? Might as well play along, after all they could be telling the truth...

END FLASHBACK

I still do not know for sure if I believe all that I heard that morning. I mean all of it seemed so far-fetched. Middle Earth, elves, evil lord, it just sounds like it came out of some book somewhere. (heeheehee) I frowned in confusion, I don't know what to believe. What they have told me about my mother not coming home came true at least, that's got to count for something. Will you just stop wasting time and accept the fact that you believe them! My mind scolded me. What if I don't believe them? I questioned mysteriously. You believe them, if you didn't you wouldn't have trusted Maeci with them last night! My mind countered. I nodded, it was true. Something about them seemed familiar to me, like I know them from somewhere.

" Kaydin? Are you in here?" Someone asked knocking on the door. I snapped out of my reverie and looked back at the door.

" Yeah, I'll be out in a minute. What do you need?" I asked setting down the straightener.

" Someone is at the door asking for you." My eyes widened at what Aragorn said.

" Okay, tell them to come in and I'll be out in a moment." I said waiting until I heard the door to my bedroom close. I unlocked and opened the bathroom door. I rushed over to my dresser and pulled out a pair of jeans, a white tee shirt that said 'God sees no color', and some underwear and a bra. I rushed back into the bathroom and threw on the clothes as fast as I could. When I came out of the bathroom I was dressed with my hair dry and hanging down straight. I glanced over at Maeci and then walked out of the bedroom to go see who my visitor was.

I gasped when I saw Michelle standing in my living room with an awkward smile on her face. I smiled as she turned to face me. It has been so long since I have seen her! After three years I am surprised that she remembers who I am. Michelle Jones and I were good friends when I was going to public school, than I started homeschool and it was difficult to stay in contact. Sad, really.

She squealed slightly and ran over to me, engulfing me in a bear hug. I laughed and wrapped my arms around her shoulders as we rocked back and forth.

" I haven't seen you in forever, Yannabulls." I snickered when I heard her say my old nickname. We were trying to come up with a good nickname for me, and the best she could come up with was Yannabulls? I was angry for a long time after that, but it was all just playful banter.

" Giggles! What are you doing here?" I asked hugging her one more time. I haven't seen any of my old friends in forever, it's so weird that she's here.

" I came to see how my best friend in the whole world is doing?" She said excitedly. I smiled and the sound of a throat clearing came from the opposite side of the room. We both looked over to see Aragorn, Legolas, and Arwen standing in the doorway. I slapped my forehead, they were still wearing their weird clothes.

" Chellie, this is Aragorn, Arwen, and Legolas." I said motioning toward each of them. She looked at them with a smile on her face. She waved at them with her prom queen wave and then turned to me.

" Who are they?" She whispered. I looked over at them quickly and frowned.

" Um, they are friends of my mom?" I said insecurely, but hid it well. Her mouth made an 'o' shape and she nodded slowly.

" How is your mom anyway? Is she here?" I shook my head.

" I don't know where she is. Aragorn, Arwen, and Legolas are watching over me and Maeci until we find out where she is..." I said improvising. A shocked look graced Michelle's face.

" Oh my goodness! How long has she been gone?"

" Two days." I said faking sadness, though it wasn't very hard.

" Have you talked to the police?" I shook my head. "Why not?"

" I'm going too, today actually. She's done this before so I was just waiting to see if she'd come home today." Michelle nodded. She knew about how my mother went off for days at a time and left me with Maeci.

" Do you need anything? I've got my car outside." I totally forgot that Michelle was 16 already. That is so cool! She has a car!

" No we are fine. Thank you for asking." She nodded. Silence came and we just stood there awkwardly. Michelle broke the silence.

" Well I just stopped by to see how you were doing on the way to soccer practice. I'll see you later, ok? Call me when your mom gets home." She said embracing me one more time before walking over to the door. I nodded.

" Of course. I'll see you later." I waved to her and she was out the door. I turned around and faced them with a hand on my hip.

" Next time that happens, please don't come out here." I said trying to lay it down as nicely as I could.

" Why not?" Legolas asked confused. I shrugged and raised my hands palms up so that my elbows were by my sides.

" You guys...you guys don't..." How do you explain this to them? " You guys don't look normal. That's not a bad thing, no of course not! You just aren't wearing 'normal' clothes." I said quickly. I clasped my hands together and placed them in front of me. They were all looking at me with scrunched foreheads. I took a deep breath and opened my mouth to talk, then closed it.

" Let's just go find you some clothes." I said walking over to them and leading them down the hallway towards my mother's room. Arwen might fit in my mother clothes, she looks about the right size. They might be a tad to big, but nothing we can't fix with a belt.

I ushered them into my mother's bedroom and sat them down on the bed. Then facing them, strutting back in forth with a hand on my chin trying to think of what to do. Then it hit me, my mother's 'friends' always left some article of clothes. I grinned and ran into my mother's walk in closet grabbing two pairs of mens pants I found on the shelves.

Then looking around some more, I found one black shirt, and one blue one. They looked kind of preppy, but they weren't bad. It's not like Aragorn and Legolas would care.

Smiling in triumph I pulled out a pair of my mothers jeans and a plain red t-shirt that would awesome with Arwen's complexion. I whistled happily as I skipped out of the closet, proud of my accomplishment. I help up the clothes in front of them and laughed.

" It's time that we made you look like you're from here." I said throwing the ball of clothes on the bed. I looked at Legolas carefully. His long blonde hair wouldn't be a problem, I would just have to take out the braids and cover his ears somehow. " We are going to have to take out the braids Legolas." I told him truthfully. He nodded and began to tug at his hair, pulling out the braids.

" Aragorn, I think that you should wear the blue, and Legolas the black." I said throwing each of them a shirt. Aragorn stared blankly down at the shirt, lifting it up and examining it closely. I laughed and handed them each a pair of the pants.

" It's a good thing that my mom isn't picky about her men. Otherwise we wouldn't have different sizes of pants. Aragorn you look slightly bigger than Legolas, no offense." I said handing him the bigger pair. He shook his head.

" None taken." he said taking the pants with a nod of his head. The I handed Arwen the pair of pants and the red shirt. She smiled at me and also held up the clothing inspecting it. I laughed.

" Now, we have three bathrooms so this will be perfect. Someone can go into my mothers bathroom," I pointed at the bathroom door on the other side of the room. Arwen stood up and walked over to my mother's bathroom and closed the door.

" If you need any help, just give a shout!" I called to her.

" I will." She shouted back. I turned to the two guys who were waiting.

" Okay, there is a bathroom in the hall, and there is one in my bedroom. So you guys can choose whichever." They both nodded and I led them out to the hall and showed them where the bathroom was. Aragorn walked into it, his clothes in his hands and his head held high. I laughed as he bowed deeply than walked into the bathroom closing the door behind him.

" Guess you're using mine then." I said. He nodded.

" It appears so." he responded. I nodded and showed him to my room.

I opened the door as quietly as I could just to make sure I didn't wake up Fez. I stepped in and opened the door for Legolas ushering him in. He stepped in and looked around the room cautiously. I laughed and picked up the towel that I had left on the floor of my room. I threw it over my computer chair.

" The bathroom is over there." I said pointing over to the door. He nodded and went over and closed the door behind him. I rolled my eyes and looked over at Maeci whose eyes just began to flutter open. I looked up at the clock. 9:30, not to bad. I walked over to her and smiled as she rubbed her eyes.

" Good morning, Fez." I said picking her up and placing her on my lap. She yawned and leaned her head against my chest.

" Let's wait for everyone to get finished getting dressed, and then we can give you a bath! Cause you need it, you haven't got a bath in two days! Eww. Stinky-pew." I said pinching my nose and scrunching my face. She only yawned.

" You are really sweet with her." A voice came from behind me. I looked over my shoulder. There was Legolas clad in the clothes I had given him. His shirt wasn't buttoned up so I could see his very muscular chest. I looked away blushing slightly. He was very quick, and he put the clothes on right. I was very impressed.

" Thank you, she is my favorite Fez every, huh?" I said kissing the top of her head. He chuckled.

" Why do you call her Fez if her name is Maeci?" He asked walking over to me while buttoning up his shirt. I shrugged.

" It's just a nickname. It's actually a character off of 'That 70's Show'." I said squeazing Maeci tight, making her giggle. " Kind of like how most of my friends call me Kayd, when my name is Kaydin."

" I see. I can tell that she loves you very much, you are a great sister for what you do." He said kindly. I smiled up at him.

" Thank you, I needed that." I said looking down at my little sister.An eerie silence filled the room. I couldn't take it anymore and I broke the silence.

" It's time for Maeci's bath. Let's go see if everyone else is done getting dressed." I said standing up from the bed and walking out of the room.

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