A/N: This is a repost...the first chappies are still the same, but I'm fixing later ones, apparently I broke a rule somewhere...I writing this for my own enjoyment and for the enjoyment of people who liked it before...This is probably a Mary-Sue, so concider yourself forewarned...and feel free to flame me, I really don't care...But if you don't like this story just stop reading it...it isn't that big of a deal.

Rae Anne

Chapter 1: Life Before

As far as looks are concerned, Rae Anne would not have considered herself as extremely pretty girl. Sure, her parents said that she was, as well as a few friends, but she lights, sapphire blue eyes and alabaster skin with few freckles, she wasn't really the kind of girl who would stand out in a crowd. She knew many girls at school whom the boys were fighting over, heck, a few of them were her friends. She herself, however, had never even had a real boy friend. She had many boys who were friends, but no boyfriends.

Rae Anne's grades at school weren't the best, and she was struggling to pass her College Algebra course. She had few friends, and those that she had weren't really interested in Rae Anne's favorite story, The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. As far as Rae Anne was concerned, Tolkien's Middle Earth was the only escape that she had to get away from the hassles at school. Tired of constantly being called things like 'ugly' and 'fat' and 'retard', Rae Anne escaped with The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit every chance that she got.

At home, Rae Anne could always look forward to the long list of chores and her annoying and instigating younger brother, Ramey, to greet her. Her father, James, was a doctor at the local hospital where he took care of children. Her mother, Anne, was a secretary at the local High School where Rae Anne had graduated from last year.

"Rae Anne! Have you started your homework yet?" her mother called from downstairs.

"Not yet, Mom, I just got home!" Rae Anne hollered back from her room.

It was 3:20 and Rae Anne had only walked into the house five minutes ago.

"Well get a move on! You still have to do your chores! Oh, and don't forget you have to baby-sit Ramey tonight!" her mother yelled up the stairs, irritably.

"Alright, alright, I'll get started!" Rae Anne yelled back, exasperated.

"Don't get smart with me, young lady!" her mom called back.

"I'm not!" Rae Anne answered.

Closing the door, she added, quietly:

"Why can't they just leave me alone! Ramey's ten now, he shouldn't need a baby-sitter anymore! I wanted to go to Jamaica's house tonight! Argh! I'm nineteen and I still don't have a life!"

She said this to nobody in particular, hoping that her mother couldn't hear her. Rae Anne turned on her stereo and put her The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring CD into the CD drive and turned the volume up. As Howard Shore's music poured out from the speakers, Rae Anne pulled out her homework and began to complete that day's assignments.

By the time she had finished all of hr homework, the last song on the CD, Enya's 'May It Be' had begun to play.

"God, am I glad that that's over. Now I have to go do my chores. That'll take at least another hour and a half." Rae Anne thought.

Later that night, Rae Anne was getting ready for bed.

"If I have to baby-sit that little monster one more time…If they need a baby-sitter, why don't they call a baby-sitting service?" Rae Anne thought frustrated.

She had basically spent the night perpetually cleaning up after her younger brother's messes. Ramey seemed to think that Rae Anne was his personal slave whenever his parents left her in charge. Her last thought as she went to sleep was more or less a plea to go to Middle Earth.

"I wish I could go to Middle Earth. But it will never happen, I just wish with all my heart that it would."