Middle Earth High

Part II: First Day Freak

Jumping up and down madly in a desperate attempt to navigate himself, Gimli was on the brink of sanity.

"Move out of my way! I came to find Aragorn but he's obviously not here so if you don't mind, I want to get to my room so I can play Club Penguin!"

The arrivals around him turned to fix him a you're-a-weirdo stare until Legolas came crashing in.

"I knew it!" he bellowed.

Gimli feigned confusion. "Knew what?" he probed.

"That you were playing Club Penguin yesterday!"

Gimli looked uncomfortable. "Yeah... okay, I admit. I was. I made you an account..." he added, eyes on the ground.

"Seriously?" Legolas' mouth was arranged in a perfect 'O'.

Spinning on his heel excitedly, Gimli turned to face his friend. "Let's add each other!" he squealed.

Legolas didn't want to upset his friend so, pale-faced as ever, he nodded.

"Amagad!" screamed Gimili.

Legolas forced himself to ask... "What's my username?"

"Leggy!"

Suppressing bounds of laughter, Legolas smiled, "You're kidding, right?"

"No... what's wrong with it? It's short for Legolas."

"Leggy?" Legolas was baffled. "Think Gimli. What does leggy mean?"

"Nothing! It's just..." Gimli trailed off uncertainly. "Oh...oops..."

Legolas shook his head. "Can I just make my own account?"

"Er...well...I kind of bought membership for Leggy already..."

Legolas slapped his forehead adding to the huge bruise on his hand and head.

"Hey, how did you get those bruises?" Gimli asked; attempting to change the subject.

From hanging around you, thought Legolas bitterly. "You don't wanna know."

"Hey, come on, tell me. I'll beat up the bully who hurt you!"

Legolas slapped his forehead again. His bruises were getting worse and worse. Trying to save himself from more self-induced pain, he bent down to Gimli's ear.

"Elizabeth's joining the school she's coming as a new student," he whispered.

"Elizabeth? As in Elizabeth Swann?" Gimli shouted incredulously.

Stopping himself just from slapping his own forehead again, Legolas sighed. "Can you keep it down?"

"Oh, sorry," Gimli whispered. "Elizabeth Swann as in the girl you spent the summer holidays with? 'Will Turner''s girlfriend?"

"Shh! I'm thinking of telling her the truth, you know, quitting the whole double life charade."

"NO WAY, DON'T DO IT!" Gimli suddenly shouted. "You NEVER tell a woman the truth when you've done something wrong!"

"I think I'm gonna spend some more time with her so I get some time to think. See you later."

"I STILL THINK YOU SHOULD KEEP LYING TO HER!" Gimli screamed after him.

Elizabeth Swann was lost. As much as she hated to admit it, she was. A living mass of streaming students surrounded her and soon, she found herself moving along with the crowd, powerless against the pressuring push of hurried bodies.

After about ten minutes of being pushed about, she saw an opening. One tiny pathway that led to the edge of the stairway… if only she could get there…

"Move it buster!"

She felt the wind streaming in her hair as she leapt above a group of completely-freaked-out dwarves. Performing an impressive forward summersault, she landed two feet together in the very centre of the path. Without pausing a moment, she continued to run; eyes squinted against the wind and focused entirely on that opening. But it was closing… she could feel it. The bodies around her were closing it up, pushing further and further inwards until, in a hasty move of desperation, Elizabeth crouched to the ground and forward-rolled herself out from underneath an extremely startled Legolas.

As soon as the pair had recovered, Elizabeth jumped to her feet, inspecting Legolas carefully.

"Do I know you from somewhere?" she asked, brow furrowed.

"Uh…" Legolas coughed madly, "I… don't know what you're talking about…! Hm, what's that Gimli?" Immediately he made a run for it, leaving a startled Elizabeth to rummage through her memories.

"I could have sworn I knew him… that was weird…"

Legolas' legs were shaky after his startling encounter. He walked up the stairway to his dorm, longing for some peace and quiet.

As he entered the dorm, he saw Gimli - once again on the computer. But this time Gimli was screaming: "I CAN'T BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING!"

Legolas suddenly felt overwhelmingly dizzy.

The first day always made for at least a few freak outs.

END OF CHAPTER

Coming Up Soon... Breakfast Bully