University Log:
The end of high school and seven weeks off
AN: OMW SECOND WEEK! SECOND WEEK! Thanks for the reviews from Tami, Hypalegolovers and Elven Dragon Rider.
Chapter 2.1 (aka, day 1, week 2)
"I need to stop."
"What! Again?"
"I need to go to the bathroom!"
"But you've been like NINE times today!"
"Yes and now I'm telling you that I need to go again!"
Elrohir sighed and started struggling to remove his mobile phone from his pocket while his brother yelled at him about keeping his eyes on the road. The younger twins' patience had been severely tested throughout the day and he was slowly but surely losing it and decided to make a mental note to get Mel to join him and throw Elladan in Legolas' car.
The group had been travelling since yesterday night. It was now night time on the next day and they had barely gotten anywhere other than gaining the knowledge that Elladan had bladder problems and Haldir's van liked to break down.
They had now stopped a total of thirteen times!
"Phone the others and tell them to stop at the next rest stop."
"But they'll yell at me!"
"And you think I care, why?"
"Oh god Legolas!"
"What?"
"Phone call!"
"From?"
"Elladan!"
"Damn it Mel!"
"It's not my fault!"
"Yeah, but there's no one else here!"
"Oh, that elf doesn't need to stop again does he," Haldir whined. "Dude, that is sooo not cool."
Ten minutes later, the group had reached a rest stop.
"Oh thank goodness" Elladan said running off.
"Legolas!" Mel shouted before he closed the auto lock door of the Cortina, "You got the keys"
"Yeah!"
"Umm…guys?"
"Yes Haldir" Lindir asked cautiously, by the tone of his friends voice he knew the hippy didn't have anything particularly good to tell them.
"The campervan's dead."
"Oh not again!"
"No, it's actually dead. As if, you won't see this thing start again for a while"
Legolas, Mel and Elrohir just sighed
"But never fear!" Haldir shouted sticking his arm in front of him in a rather supermanish way, "I'm a member of the AA"
Everyone just sighed again
"Where are they?" Elladan whined, "We've been waiting for hours!"
"Don't worry," Haldir told him, "If you had seen the advert you would know that they can come to you no matter where you are."
Melpomaen: No way, that would be stupid I thought and totally dismissed that idea, Haldir could never be that brain-dead I thought. sigh I just HAD to ask.
"Ummm, Haldir" Mel started, "Have you even phoned the AA"
"No, I forgot the number but it said on the advert that." He stopped to think for a moment… "Oh."
"Damn it Haldir! We're going to die here!" Elladan screamed
"Well…I thought…it's just that…sorry."
"Maybe I could drive to the nearest service station and see what I can do," Legolas suggested.
"Good idea, I'll come with you." Elrohir said, desperate to get away from his whiney sibling.
"Cool, Mel can I have the keys."
"I thought you had them"
"No, when we got out the car you shouted, got the keys"
"No I asked you, got the keys?"
Realisation suddenly dawned in Legolas' face, "My baby!" He ran too his car and looked through the the window to see the keys in the ignition. He turned to Melpomaen, "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!"
"ME! I didn't do anything! You're the one with hearing problems!"
"How is that? You're the one who said you had my keys when you didn't!"
"That's because you SAID you had them!"
"NO I DIDN'T!"
"Legolas?"
"WHAT…oh sorry Ro"
"How about we take my car, and get someone who can get into yours as well as start up Haldir's."
"Fine, but if anything happens to her" he pointed at Mel, "I will do something to cause you such immense pain."
"Come on 'Las"
Legolas turned to the younger twin "I'm coming, I'm coming," he look at Mel, "let that be a warning" and with that the prince jumped into Elrohir's car and they drove of in search of a service station.
"He's exactly like Elrohir"
"Elrohir can get like that too?" Mel asked, still in shock.
"Yep"
"Oh my god he hates me!" Mel suddenly cried
"Don't worry, he doesn't. He's just freakishly obsessed with his car," Lindir said, putting an arm around the distressed goth, "He'll get over it and you'll be friends again in no time."
"I hope so; I really thought he had them."
Legolas: I'm such a bitch
"Now this is something I like to call, 'failure to communicate' " Elladan said
"If you don't stop it I'll fail to communicate with your face!" Mel waved a fist at the older twin who shrank backwards.
"Sooooooo," Lindir said, wanted to change the subject before another argument broke out, "Prison, what's that like Mel?"
What?" Haldir and Elladan looked confused, Lindir just laughed.
"Mel went to prison last week"
"I did not!" Mel said when Haldir and Elladan turned shocked faces his way"…it was custody"
"Same difference" Lindir giggled, "So how did that happen"
"The shopkeeper thought I was shoplifting, even though they found absolutely no proof. He said it was because I worshiped the devil. So the next day I dressed up as a chav and stole a t-shirt and a ring from the same shop and didn't get caught…" He was interrupted by fits of laughter
"You…a…chav…" Haldir managed to get out through fits of laughter.
"I can't even imagine it" Elladan laughed and Lindir didn't say anything as he was now almost crying.
"It's not that funny" Mel said in a small voice when the laughter had died down.
"No, really, it is" Lindir corrected, "What else did you do last week."
"Not much, I locked myself in my room and my parents didn't feed me for the first couple of days 'cos we had like six arguments."
"No change there then" Elladan said
"No. What about you Haldir, as we all know about Elladan and fat boys' weeks"
"Shut up, it's not my fault my sister had a big break up."
"Wait, how do you know what I did last week?"
"Oh…umm. Elrohir told us." Lindir said
Haldir laughed, "I've never known anyone complain so much, except maybe you, but still Elrohir was…" He was stopped by Lindir's hand over his mouth.
"Haldir!" Mel snarled in warning
"He complained?"
"Like mad, he called it hell; he said you were the most…"
"HALDIR!"
"…lovely person in the world." Haldir tried but was stopped by seeing Elladan's crestfallen expression.
"I can't believe it. What did he say?"
Elladan- I can't believe he felt like that
"He said…"
"You know what, how about I tell him" Lindir said, once again putting his hand over Haldir's mouth to muffle his words.
"He just said that what you did…well…they wouldn't have been his choice of activities."
"Yeah, just in more words." Melpomaen added
"Oh."
Before they could talk anymore on the subject they saw a truck pull up with Elrohir's car closely following.
"Hey dudes' Elrohir said as he and Legolas dropped down to join the circle, "You alright?" He asked when he saw the melancholy look that had found its way onto his brothers' face.
"Oh, yeah I'm fine" Elladan gave his brother a grin but the younger twin could tell that something was wrong. 'He's probably just bored' he thought.
"Sid and Ted said that he would be at least an hour" Legolas said dropping down next to Mel and laying his head on the other elf's shoulder. "Love you" he said in childlike voice. Mel just laughed and told him that he better do.
Melpomaen: Legolas is defiantly one of those people you just can't be mad at
"So what did you do last week Legolas?"
"Get beaten up"
"What?"
"My dad beat me up…that actually sounds a bit child-abuseish"
"How?"
"Oh you know, golf balls, boats…trees."
"Trees!"
"Well that wasn't exactly his fault; it was more of an indirect accident."
"Right" The others didn't seem convinced
"Are you sure your not just REALLY clumsy" Haldir asked
"Yes! Well he threw me out of the boat, hit me with the golf balls, was speeding off on his bike causing me to chase his which therefore caused me to cycle into a tree. I had an awesome shopping spree and we went to a football match.."
"Yeah, I saw you in the paper" Lindir said. "You and your dad take a great picture"
"Yeah, and I did end up having a lot of fun with him…when he wasn't causing me injuries…oh, and I experienced naked twister."
"Naked twister?" Was the answer he got from everyone.
"Yeah, it's pretty self explanatory. But it was my dads' advisors doing it."
"Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwww"
"I know. I'll have nightmares forever."
"And I thought I had a bad week."
"What did you do last week?"
"Yeah, tell us what you did Hal"
"Kay. Well I spent a lot of the time outside in a tent or just kicked out but I made the most far-out invention."
"Why were you in a tent?" Elrohir asked
"Because Rumil kicked me out, he's way too up tight."
"Is that all or did you have any big adventures we should know about? If you know what I mean." Melpomaen asked, winking
"Nope, well I did watch Wallace and Grommit and they were playing football and Grommit blew himself up to the size of a balloon so that Wallace couldn't get any goals and Wallace told him that that just wasn't cricket."
At that Legolas and Lindir burst into laughter.
"Well, there's definite selective humour there" Elrohir smiled as the two tried to calm themselves down, "what the hell is that anyway."
"Apparently is a saying, Orophin said that when something wasn't good people sometimes say it's not cricket." This caused more laughter to come from Legolas and Lindir.
"That is genius" Legolas said through his laughter, "We need to tell the world."
"We should write a book!" Lindir shouted
"Yeah…and call it 'what's not cricket!"
Again the two burst into laughter
"Umm, we're done with you're cars" One of the mechanics said cautiously, a bit afraid of the mad laughing teens. But Legolas soon snapped out again.
"My baby!"
And soon they were driving again. But before they got into the Aston Martin Elrohir stopped his brother to make sure he was okay. He knew Elladan sometimes didn't find the same sort of things funny as the rest of the group did but normally he would at least voice his distaste. But his twin had been completely silent.
"Elladan?"
"Yeah?"
"You alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine, I just…nothing."
"Okay." Elrohir said, opening the car.
"Ro?" Elrohir was stopped again before he got into the car.
"Yeah?"
"I'm sorry."
"For what?" Elrohir was generally surprised, 'what does he have to apologise to me about He looks really upset.' He thought.
"I'm sorry I made you're week hell."
The penny dropped, 'oh my word, who told him'
As if reading his twins mind, "Haldir said that you complained and Lindir told me why…I really am sorry Ro I didn't mean to make you want to kill yourself." Elladan looked as if he was about to cry.
Elrohir let out a laugh and went to hug his twin, "Elladan, your stupid you know that. It wasn't that bad, you know how overdramatic I am but you put you with me jut like I put up with the fact that how we spend our time is a just a bit different."
Elladan gave a short laugh, "You sure?"
"Course I am." Elrohir grinned, "Now we better get going before they leave without us." The two got in the car, "Oh and Elladan, you couldn't do me a favour could you?"
"I don't know, what is it?"
"Could you try…just try…not to need the bathroom again."
"Can't make any promises" Elladan laughed
"Damn it!"
And off they went
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