Chapter Four.
At dinner, Alicia made the food while I cleaned. I also wrangled everyone to the living room (the table was too small to fit all of us and it was now Boromir's bed, anyway). As usual, Legolas brought food to the other elves and stayed with them in the meetings while we all ate. It was pizza that night, the best we could do. The hobbits had brought Boromir a band hat they had kept from me, and the warrior wore it proudly, the plume set wrong and the felt scratched.
Later on, Alicia introduced the hobbits to flavored sugar. I even tried to give Gollum some, but he was content with Alicia's shoes and Oz-fur.
The following day was even more exhausting...
To save time and to avoid getting detention, we decided to leave the hobbits at home with Aragorn, trusting him to take care of them.
Bad idea...
Loaded with homework, we dreaded going to Alicia's house, knowing the place would be a mess, but, with the hobbits, who knew what would be there?
"You ate all the food?" I heard Alicia scream from the kitchen.
"Me?"
"No, everyone else!"
"Well, don't come into the bedroom..."
"What did they do?"
"Well, Alicia, I think that we have a long night ahead of us..."
"Are you kidding me? We need to go grocery shopping! We need dinner!"
"You go and I'll clean. I'm good at it when I'm mad and I'm pretty ticked off right now!"
As Alicia grabbed the keys off the wall, I called out to her:
"Take someone with you! I don't care who!"
Alicia got back with Pippin an hour later, groceries in both arms. I had pretty much gotten everything clean, laundry drying and everything as normal as it could get. Once again, we talked in the kitchen, sending Pipping off to find the other hobbits.
"Was he good company?"
"He didn't beg for anything."
"Wow! That's really-"
"He just put what he wanted in the cart," Alicia uninterrupted. "I put nearly everything back, though, so we did end up with decent food."
"Well, I didn't have much luck here, either..."
"Why?"
"Boromir and Aragorn were going around the house, sword fighting, Gimli was playing with Oz, Gollum whipping the shoelaces from your chewed-up boots against the closet door for fifteen minutes and then shreaking that he was hungry..."
"What did Gandalf do?"
"He has been watching soap operas all day. Apparently, he has been learning the names and problems of the characters and explaining it all to anyone who will listen."
"You know what we'll hear about during dinner, then..."
Suddenly, Alicia's eyes got big and she set down the can of peas she was putting away.
"What's the matter?"
"I need to use the tinkler!"
"The what?"
"The tinkler..."
And off she ran. I caught up to her, finding her dancing outside the bathroom door.
"The elves are in there. They have asked us to leave them alone!"
"Well, it's my house and I'm sick of going to the bathroom at school!"
"They let everyone else in there to use the bathroom; we can, too."
Bursting in, Alicia ordered the elves out of the room, slammed the door, and we all heard her sigh in happiness as the toilet flushed. Legolas came up to me and asked what that was all about.
"She needed to use the bathroom."
The three elves had figured out how to go back and the only possible time to transport was at the end of the week, the day our parents came back. Alicia had kicked them out of the bathroom to take a shower, throwing the empty plates and blankets into the hallway. The elves needed another secret study.
They ended up in the laundry room.
That's the end... I don't know what potstickers are really called. If that is what their real name is, I don't own them! All I know is that they are an Asian food that I don't really enjoy. I kept the "tinkler" part because that is typical of my friend. That scene showcases her actual personality and I love her lots! Glomp. Anyway, please review! Thanks!
