University Log:

The end of high school and seven weeks off

Chapter 2.3 (aka, day 3, week 2)

AN: Sorry about the wait guys, I've had like NO time in between coursework, exams, drama productions and auditions but after doing drama since Saturday and doing our first performance of Macbeth last night I've decided to take a day off of classes so instead I'm writing this…here goes…

Note: Most of this is told in the characters point of view just because I think it will get the situations across better.

It was 9:00 in the morning and no one else seemed to be up so Mel decided to carefully get off of the couch he was sharing with Elladan and went to find a loo.

Melpomaen: It started off as a normal morning…well normal in the way that I've just arrived to stay in a friend's house which I've never stayed in before and had just spent the night on a couch with Elladan…but that's beside the point. I woke up and decided I needed the bathroom so, like you do, I got up and found the bathroom…………………unfortunately I met Haldir's younger brother…

The yawning elf was walking down the hall, searching for a bathroom when he caught his first glimpse of Haldir's younger brother Orophin…and Orophin caught his first glimpse of our lovely goth.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH"

Mel: I think I scared the poor bugger half to death, I mean I'm the first to admit that after a night on a couch – before which I forgot to take my black makeup off – I'm a sight that even I don't like looking at. Poor thing. Oh well, I'll just have to make it up to him, in fact I think I have a couple of bottles of vodka in my bag. Everything's good after some Vodka…umm…How old is Haldir's other brother anyway?

Orophin: This morning I witnessed the scariest moment in my life. I met a strange creature with holes in…its face andblack smeared all around its eyes. Not the best way to start a morning.

By Haldir's request everyone was gathered in the front room, including a grumpy looking Rumil, and Orophin who was making sure he was the as far away as possible from the guy dressed head to toe in black.

"Bro's I would like to properly introduce my friends. He grabbed the elf closest to him, this is Lindir and he's a musician and can play like every instrument on middle earth. Oh and he only has that one pair of jeans, so cleaning day is hard with him. He gets his T-shirts made by Elrohir and the have weird things on them."

Everyone looked round to Lindir and sure enough, today his t-shirt said 'Mary Poppins is on crack'

"Once he even nearly got kicked out of school for having a rude one."

"What did it say!" Orophin asked, deciding he liked this elf's fashion choices.

"Fu…"

"Haldir!" Rumil cut in

"Fine. Rumil can leave now because he knows them already and he's being grumpy."

Rumil just grumbled and left.

"Anyway, the twins over there are…"

"The sons of Elrond?"

"Yup, Elladan and Elrohir. You can tell the difference because Elrohir dresses well and Elladan dresses…" He paused trying to find a nice way to put what he wanted to say.

"Like an old man?" Elrohir put in, gaining a whack from his twin and a laugh from Haldir's younger brother.

"Exactly. Elladan's really smart and does things like Maths and Law and Elrohir does like fashion and advertising…I think"

"Yup, and psychology."

"The blonde one's Legolas."

"Well, yeah, everyone knows who he is."

"Yes well I hate to brag but…"

"Then don't" Mel laughed

"And the one in black is Mel."

"We've met." Orophin said

"Yeah, about that" Mel started, "ummm…sorry, didn't mean to scare you; I just…don't look good in the mornings."

"You can say that again," Legolas laughed, "You look like the living dead…well, more than usual."

"Oh very funny."

"It's true."

"Anyway," Haldir spoke again, "I thought we could have like, a relaxing game day today and you know, bond."

Everyone agreed to this, even Orophin although he was still a little weary of Melpomaen.

"Good, let the games begin."

Elladan – I just knew it would be a complete disaster!

Orophin: The first game we played was amazing! I've never been aloud to play computer games before! It was called Pac Man. It was like this little ball thing chasing all these little wobbly jelly fish type things around a maze while eating circles…and sometimes fruit. It was so funny, It was prince Legolas' game and he was obviously in love with it, he was really good at it too. Him and Mel kept shouting at the screen and trying to distract each other by doing this like sitting on each others laps and biting each other at crucial moments, it was hilarious. Although Elladan looked as if he was getting a bit annoyed. Haldir's friends are really cool, even Mel, he dresses weird but he's really funny (especially with Legolas and Elrohir!) and I actually quite like the way he dresses. I had better not tell Rumil that. I haven't had proper fun at home for ages. Rumil sucks!

Legolas: PAC MAN IS THE BEST GAME EVER! Even when you do have a Mel on your lap. Then again I can't talk I kept biting him. He didn't have to push me off of the sofa though. Oh well, I still won.

Mel: I have a huge bite mark on my shoulder!

Haldir: It's always me!Every time! It's always me who makes the tower fall down! Stupid Elrohir, why does his favorite game have to be Jenga anyway, why can't it be something safe? I don't know how many times I've been hit in the head by stupid flying Jenga blocks…It's a silly game anyway.

Elrohir: I love Jenga! Part of the reason I love it so much is due to Haldir, he has the worst Jenga luck ever, no matter how hard he tries, it's always him that makes the tower fall and the blocks always seem to make their way over to him, I don't think many of the games lasted past three minutes.

Orophin: My brothers an idiot.

Mel: Scrabble has got to be the most tedious game on middle earth and Elladan wins the prize for the most competitive. He sat their clutching the dictionary and yelling at us because after about ten minutes we all got bored and started to make words up and pay rude word scrabble. I put down flubadub. Elladan stormed out of the room.

Elladan: Stupid Melpomaen and his stupid fake words.

Orophin: OKAY! MELPOMAEN IS OFFICIALLTY MY NEW BEST FRIEND! The older elves started to teach me how to play poker and Rumil came in and said they weren't teaching me to gamble so Mel stood up and had a go at him for being a boring old bastard and asked why he wanted to grow up so much when really he was barely that much older than them and that he was just a bitter university drop out. Rumil went bright red and if he was a cartoon I bet steam would have come out of his ears! He shouted at Mel and used some language I had better not write down (though he's forever telling me not to use it – hypocrite). So they decided to have a gambling day in the garden tomorrow and Rumil said that I'm dead if I join in and Mel gave him the finger and said that if I wanted to play he sure as hell won't stop me and the others agreed. I love him!

Mel: I may be on Orophin's good side finally, had a bit of a go at his brother and he seemed to like that so, Yay.

Rumil: I hate Haldir's friends! Especially that sick Goth one, he had no right to speak to me like that, I had better keep an eye on him. I don't want Orophin getting any ideas. I already have Haldir to put up with I can't be assed to put up with another irritating brother.

Elladan: I may have stormed off a bit during pictionary. It wasn't my fault, I kept losing! And people kept thinking my drawing was of sheep. IT WAS A CAT!

Lindir: Hahahahahahah!I have got to be THE worst drawer on the face of the planet! I don't know why Elladan got so worked up, he was better than me. I didn't get one point! Hahaha, I'm such an idiot! Although at least I provided some light entertainment.

Legolas: Orophin is really good at art; I don't know why his brother is pressuring him into doing so well at all the academic things, with some practice he could easily get into an arts college.

Elrohir: Lindir is such a twit and my brother is SUCH a bad loser! Luckily I managed to coax him into coming back and calming down for the next game.

Orophin: Legolas and Mel are like the best artists in the world! Elrohir's really good at drawing cartoons and…I WON!

Elladan: Monopoly went on for FOUR HOURS! It's one of the longest and most irritating games ever made! No one seemed to be getting anywhere, so in the end I decided to flip the board off of the table and everyone cheered me for being rebellious. How that works I don't know.

Orophin: Today has been SO fun!

Later that night Orophin had just got out of the shower when he heard guitar music coming from the spare room.

'Which one plays the guitar' he thought, before hearing a tambourine in the background. 'Stupid Haldir,' Orophin smiled.

H walked up to the door and gave it a knock

"Come in"

Inside the room, Elrohir and Legolas had their guitars out, Mel was holding a pair of drum sticks and Haldir his tambourine. Lindir and Elladan were in the corner chatting.

"Wow! You can play the guitar!"

"Really how did you guess?" Legolas laughed sarcastically.

"Oh shut up, that is so cool! I've always wanted to learn. I can play Piano and Violin but Rumil won't let me have a guitar."

"Well we could probably teach you sometime." Elrohir said.

"Yeah we have like another few weeks before we have to leave, why not pass on the knowledge. You can have my old one." Legolas passed Haldir's brother a black and white electric guitar.

"Wow!" Orophin looked at the instrument mesmerized before throwing his arms around Legolas, "Thank you SO much!"

"No problem."

"Yeah, he's got like six." Mel laughed, "Rich bastard"

"Yeah well…shut up."

Everyone laughed

"OROPHIN!" Rumil's voice was heard from downstairs.

"Oh Valar, I had better go to bed. Thanks though, can I gamble with you tomorrow, Rumil's going out so he won't know."

The six all agreed to this and Orophin went to bed to the sound of Legolas and Elrohir's guitar music and actually looking forward to the day ahead of him.

TBC

Next up: GAMBLING DAY and what the hell does Rumil listen too?

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