University Log:

The end of high school and Seven weeks off

Me again, THANKS FOR REVEIWS, I love you guys! I'm planning on trying to write around three chapters today cos over the next few weeks I'm gona be examing it up and will probably barely have time to breathe but I will try and keep this updated. We played the card game! It actually worked too! Best game ever! Anyway, I'm over half way into week two WOOHOO!

Most of this chapter is told in Orophin's point of view and dun, dun, dun, it has seriousness in it. Mainly cos non stop stupidity doesn't give much depth to a character. Some of the details in thins are probably wrong but hey it's fiction who cares.

Chapter 2.5 (aka, day 5, week 2)

Orophin-

I've never been irresponsible in my life. Having a brother like Rumil has always ensured that, and more often than not I found myself envying my other brother for his freedom. Haldir never seemed to stay in one place for too long and I always wished that my life could be like that, I always imagined it would be amazing, going against everything Rumil tells me and doing what I wan for a change. Last night I did that. Last night I learned what it was like to be Haldir.

Rumil told us that, that afternoon he was going to be out until really late and as soon as he walked out the room Haldir and his friends (minus Elladan) were planning a huge party with all of Haldir's 'Hippy dudes'..

The party turned out great, we held it in the garden and they made a unanimous decision that I was allowed to attend. Loads of people turned up and there was loads of loud music, and more importantly alcohol, which (also by unanimous decision) I was to have plenty of. I didn't really have a huge amount 'cos I guess what Rumil keeps saying about it making you sick worried me. Stupid brother.

Anyway, I knew a couple of the elves cos they went to my school but when they got a bit too drunk and started…touching me I decided to go and find the others and the fact that said others happened to be older and that a couple of them were trained in marshal arts never crossed my mind…much.

I had mixed luck with them though. I found Elladan in the front room refusing to have any part in what he called the 'defiling of our hosts private property', I attempted to get through to him in my rather tipsy state that I also lived there and I was happy to have a party but he said that any drunk kid would be happy to mix with the bigger boys which I found rather offensive, so I said something about his reminding me of my brother and stormed off.

Legolas was pissed out his head and gambling with some hippies around our garden table and he invited me to play but I ended up being sent away with the price because we both kept winning their money so he decided he would help me find the others.

We found a pretty much paralytic Lindir, or rather Lindir found us and we had a rather interesting conversation that went something like,

Lindir: Clothes, I need clothes!

Me: You're wearing clothes

Lindir: I am? How did that happen?

Me: What?

Legolas: I'm so confused

He then proceeded to fall unconscious to the floor and Legolas threw his head back and let out such a drunken sounding laugh that we were both in hysterics for like half an hour…umm…we just kind of left Lindir to wake up on his own.

A bit later I was engrossed in some sort of conversation about cheese with Legolas when Elrohir came dancing past with a female hippy on each arm, looking rather uncomfortable. Legolas decided it would be funny to stick his foot and trip Elrohir up and when he got up off of the floor the poor elf said something that sounded suspiciously like "too bad that didn't kill me." He was soon pulled off by the girls again but Legolas managed to tug one of them off a thankful looking twin before latching himself onto Elrohir's arm and bitch slapping the other girl. The two then spent the rest of the evening slow dancing extremely badly to extremely bad, fast music.

Haldir I found in the corner with a couple of others, smoking. But I knew for a fact that he didn't smoke. The stuff turned out to be marijuana. I probably shouldn't have taken it when he offered to me but hey, you can't turn back time.

I don't remember much after that. I remember not really being able to tell where I was going. Everything got really loud and colorful and I found it hard to concentrate on anything anyone was saying to me. It was as if I was floating, but I couldn't handle it for too long and everyone's faces started looking distorted. The last thing I remembered was stumbling into a form dressed in black.

"Orophin! OROPHIN!" Mel shouted as the smaller elf started to fall as he passed out. He had alcohol on his breath and his pupils were severely dilated and the elf knew immediately what the little one had done.

Suddenly he heard someone shout "Rumil's home!" and panicked. Rumil would go absolutely mad if he found his younger bother passed out from drugs. Everyone was scrambling about trying to get out through the back gate so Mel picked up his charge and hid behind the door that went from the house to the garden, Rumil opened the door, luckily not noticing who was behind it and Mel managed to carry Orophin through to his room while Rumil was screaming at random elves. He heard him yell at Haldir, Legolas and Elrohir (the only relatively upright elves left) to tidy EVERYTHING up before entering the house, probably to check on his younger brother. He put the still unconscious elf in his bed and dived underneath it just as the door opened.

Mel: I'm a genius really

Later on, after most of the elves were in bed, Haldir found Mel in Orophin's room holding a cold cloth to his forehead.

"You gave your little brother marijuana!" Mel was extremely pissed of and was getting more so at Haldir's apparent lack of caring.

He laughed, "Oh come on, the kids got to learn sometime."

"He's barely sixteen!"

"Yeah well, so what? You're not one to talk; you were drinking by the age of twelve, just cos you had a 'fucked up' family life."

This pushed Mel over the edge, "You have no idea about my family life! So don't lecture me! It's not my fault my parents hate me Haldir!"

"Yeah well at least yours are alive!"

"But when yours were alive they loved you all the same! And you have him Haldir" Mel pointed to the elf lying in the bed, "And Rumil, I don't! And if I did I would respect them, take care of them, and not get my younger bother high!"

"Piss off Mel! I can look after my own family! I don't need some drunken Goth telling me what to do! The way your reacting one would think you like my brother as more than just 'the brother you don't have'.

"Don't you dare…" But Haldir was already out the door and Orophin was starting to stir.

Mel: I hate having arguments with my friends! Thing is all friends argue and so do we but I've never argue like that with anyone. Especially Haldir. It's never a good idea to bring family into arguments and that proves it.

Orophin whined and Mel sat beside him stroking a couple of strands of his hair off of his sticky forehead.

"How are you feeling?"

"mmnghmph"

"Oh great answer"

Orophin smiled, "Not too bad, I feel a bit sick and my head hurts. Sorry I ran into you."

"Don't worry, it's probably a good thing you did, not a minute afterwards Rumil got home."

"Oh god, does he know..."

"Nah, I managed to smuggle you I here. He thought you were sleeping."

"What about the others."

"They had to tidy the garden up. Most of them are in bed now though, it'll be hangovers all round tomorrow I think."

"Aren't you drunk too?" The young elf yawned.

"I hold my drink well. Guess that's what happens when you've been drinking since twelve, but that another story. Get some sleep. I'll be here if you need anything." Orophin's eyes were already beginning to glaze over

"Thanks Mel." He all but whispered

"No problem."

Orophin: Yup, last night I learned what it was like to be Haldir, he not only has the freedom to get drunk and get high (something I never plan on doing again) but he's got the most amazing friends. Especially Mel. I can't believe I was ever scared of him.

So yes, I got high and yes I felt like crap afterwards but I wouldn't have it any other way. I absolutely LOVED IT!

TBC

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Coming up: The grand tour of Lorien.