Conversations
By:
LiL Pippin Padfoot
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Disclaimer: I don't normally do author shotouts, unless it's in "Bar of Killed Off Characters" or if it's Trisher, who gets special attention cuz she's Trisher, but, Linda Hoyland, I have to say, your review...wow, it was short, but it made me sad. :( GO READ IT EVERYONE!
Sorry, bad Paige! Didn't update before I left for Student Council. Extra long chapter. Happy?
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"Hey! Meeting!" the mothers after they each had thrown back a cold one, were ready to deal with the kids again.
The sun was about to set, and the boys had been in the water all day, and the girls had chilled on the sand. "I thought," said Gilraen, "That me and Finduilas here, would take all of you to the dunes, and you can climb up them. How does that sound?" A murmur of agreement went around.
"Okay, then." aid Gilraen. "Then, Theodwyn and Celebrian are going to stay at the hotel, and order our pizza, and we'll go the dunes for a while. But first, I want to go back to the hotel and change, as I'm sure all of you want to do. Okay?"
The girls got up, and the boys nailed them with algea water.
"I'm going to KILL YOU!" yelled Rosie, and all the other girls followed in pursuit. As soon as they reached the hotel, the boys barricaded themselves in their room, pushing the couch back in front of the door.
The girls stuck their hair under the shower, they weren't covered in algea water, thank the Valar, their towels that they had been wrapped in took the blast of it, so it was mostly their hair.
After they had cleaned up, and changed out of their bathing suits, they heard a knock on their door. Arwen marched up to their door, and threw it open, only to see Aragorn and Faramir. Aragorn opened his mouth, but Arwen slammed the door, much to the happiness of the girls, and disappointment to the boys.
When the girls were ready, they walked out into the hallway, where Gilraen, Finduilas, and the boys were waiting.
"What were you doing in there?" asked Gilraen "Giving facials?"
"No." said Rosie.
"That's for later." finished Estella. The boys were going to roll their eyes at this, but decided that they wanted to get back on the girls' good side, considering that they had almost all the snacks in their room, and they missed their company.
They decided that they would take Finduilas's wagon, as hers was bigger than Gilraen's, though not by much. In fact, Finduilas's wagon could only hold, or was supposed to only hold seven people. Well, they were carting around ten.
Gilraen and Finduilas rode in front, Arwen, Eowyn, and Diamond rode in the middle seats, Rosie, Estella, and Lothiriel rode in the back. In the storage, the very back of the wagon, the boys were hid under a blanket.
"Why are we under a blanket?" asked Faramir, who was muffled by the blanket.
"Because." said Gilraen, shutting the back of the wagon."I don't know if they charge to get in by car or person. And if it is by person, I'm not paying for you two. And if it's by car, well, you're being gentlemen, and letting the ladies have seats."
"Well, that makes this blanket smell better, and makes this space less cramped." muttered Aragorn.
"What was that?" asked Lothiriel.
"Nothing." he muttered back.
Then they took off. The girls were talking and laughing, and the boys had joined in, the girls had forgiven them for the algea joke. Finduilas shushed them when they came to a toll booth.
"We're here to see the dunes." said Finduilas.
"How many people?" asked the bored toll booth man.
"Ten." responded Gilraen, as Finduilas did not want to lie.
"Okay, parking is ten dollars."
"Why did you ask us how many people?" Finduilas asked as she handed him the money.
"I was bored." he replied, popping a bubble with the gum he was chewing. Gilraen rolled her eyes. Just as Faramir began whistling, and Austin began singing, The guy's eyes looked at the innocent girls, whose lips weren't moving, yet some one was singing.
"What's-," but he was cut off, as Finduilas left to go park.
"Stupid boys!" said Diamond, who climbed over the seat to hit them, and they just laughed.
"You could have gotten us in trouble." said Finduilas.
"But they didn't." said Gilraen. "They're just kids." And Gilraen looked back, at the kids, who weren't listening to them, as the girls were playing What's Under That Blanket? Even though, they knew, they felt the urge to poke and hit it.
"Okay Kids!" They pulled into the parking area, and the girls clambered out, leaving the boys stuck in back.
"Poor boys." said Gilraen, opening the back for them to get out. They tossed the blanket into the wagon, and raced after the girls, who had taken off their shoes and were running up a wooden stairway that lead to the dunes.
The boys caught up with the girls who were standing looking up. The boys stopped and did the same. The dunes towered over head, they were enchanting, shining in the lingering sunlight before sunset, the sand slowly shifting, and they felt small and insignificant, as if they too were just a grain of sand in this big pile of sand. They all looked at each other, then grabbed hands, and ran toward it, climbing, and scrambling for a foothold on the mound of sand.
The mothers came a minute or two later, and looked at the pile of shoes at the bottom, and looked to the top where they were all struggling to make it to the top, they weren't racing, they were holding hands, and helping each other up. The mothers smiled fondly, storing this in their memory, then they too began to climb up.
The kids reached the top of the dune just in time to see the sunset. It took their breath away. The sun, a half of a giant orange ball, was setting with blue, purple, and orange hues. "Wow!" breathed Eowyn. Everyone was stunned by the beautiful sunset. The boys were the first to become bored with it.
"Okay." said Aragorn. "I got in touch with my femine side long enough." And with that, him and Faramir began wrestling to push each other down the dune. In their pushin and shoving, they ran into Eowyn, who fell on top of Arwen, who grabbed at Lothiriel, who grabbed at Rosie, and they all started to roll down the dune. Estella and Diamond just laughed and pushed the boys down after the girls.
And that is pretty much all that happened at the dunes: pushing shoving, yelling, boys dumping sand down some shirts. and a whole lot of laughing. The mothers of course, made sure that nothing extrememly horrible went on, but they were chattering to themselves, sitting on the warm sand, and they weren't really paying attention.
Eventually, the sun was gone, and the world was covered in a blanket of darkness, and the stars started to come out.
"Star light, Star bright..." said Aragorn
"Don't even." said Lothiriel.
"First star I see tonight!" cried out Faramir, dramaticly.
"I wish..." said Aragorn. "I wish..with ALL...my...might!" he then collapsed and began rolling down the dune.
"Grant this wish, I wish tonight." and Faramir too, went rolling down the hill.
The girls, inspite that the boys were being idiots, as usual, laughed.
Gilraen and Finduilas got up, and brushed the sand off their clothes. "C'mon, kids. We gotta go back, you guys want some dinner, don't you?"
The girls reluctantly helped the boys back up to the top of the dune, and then they all rolled down to the bottom, and picked out their shoes from the pile, and headed back to the wagon.
The girls resumed their seats, jabbering on about the sand down their shirts, in their pants, in their hair.
The boys just sighed and hopped in the back of the wagon, and Gilraen tossed a blanket over them and shut the door.
When they got back to the hotel, Celebrian and Theodwyn had ordered 6 HUGE pizzas. Two for the moms, and 4 for the girls and boys.
The girls and boys had two plain pepparoni pizzas, and two sausage/bacon/pepparoni/ extra cheese pizzas.
They all (as usual) congregated in the girl's room. Eowyn and Estella had placed the pepparoni pizza between them on the one small table in their room, and sat across from each other, and began eating their pizza. Rosie and Arwen had taken the Meat Lovers pizza and sat it on the bedside table and proceeded to eat on Arwen's bed, while Lothiriel and Diamond took the Cheese Pizza and were eating on the couch. The boys wandered from pizza to pizza, girl to girl.
"So," Faramir said. "Eowyn, how've you been doin?" He tossed her Pepsi
"Before or after I was knocked down a dune?" she asked sweetly, opening the Pepsi.
"Check mate."said Faramir taking a long drink from his Mountain Dew.
Arwen was having trouble with Aragorn. "You know," said Aragorn. "I didn't really mean to dump that sand down your shirt." Arwen snorted and threw a piece of sausage at him. That didn't work to well, considering he threw a handful of Cheez-its at her.
"NO FOOD FIGHTS!" Finduilas had just walked in the room. "Goodness." she said stepping into the room where it was rather dark, considering that they had no lights on, and the shades were drawn.
"Why are the curtains closed?" asked Findiulas, wading through the trashed room toward the curtains.
"DON'T!" yelled Lothiriel
"Why not?" asked Finduilas, hands on her hips.
"There's a creepy lady." said Eowyn
"A VERY creeepy lady." said Rosie
"A perverted creepy old lady who spies on us." said Arwen
Finduilas peeked out throught th curtains. And indeed, there was an old lady sitting in a carriage, just staring into their window.
"We warned you." said Diamond, tossing a crust into the trash can.
"I see." said Finduilas. "Well, I guess nothing bad is going on here, I'm going back. Oh, and in a few minutes, we are all going up town to have some fun, and all of you are coming."
Everyone finished their pizza, changed into unsanded clothes, and made their way into the hallway.
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I'M IN LOVE! JUST ASK TRISHER! SHE GOT MY EMAIL ABOUT IT! AND I'M TALKING FULL OUT LOVE! STOMACH FLIP-FLOPS, AND I JUST WANT TO SMILE WHEN I THINK OF HIM! YEAH! (don't worry, it WILL be a conversation story!)