"I think she's awake!"
"Do you think she is gonna faint again?"
"Don't worry, I won't let her"
There wasn't much light but my eyes still needed to get adjusted. "... So, what happened?" Clearly I didn't imagine everything up since some of the elves where still standing around us. Looking at us curiously. Daaa-yuum.
Those elves where something else. I think one of them got a little freaked out by my staring. "Well apparently we are in middle earth" Adrian said while doing the quotes with his fingers as he said apparently. It pissed me off.
"What do you mean by apparently?! Make up your mind! Are we or are we not in middle earth, and how long are you gonna stare at me instead of helping me up?!" In my defence, I had the right to yell at him. I mean he's my brother right? ".. Someone's PMSing.." Adrian muttered under he's breath, but helped me up anyways.
I looked over at the rest of the elves who were preparing a camp near our truck. So we were all friends now?
"No we are not completely friends, but we trust each other enough now. At least I think so". I stared at Erik.
"How-"
"How did I know what you were thinking? Your facial expression hun."
Adrian grinned "Wicked, you should teach me how to do that man!"
"Are we staying here for the night?" I asked, my close friends knew I had a small problem with camping. I mean it was mostly a problem with mosquitoes. If they weren't in every forest I'd enjoy camping. "Yeah" Adrian said as he started walking towards the blue truck "But we can sleep INSIDE the car, doesn't that make you feel better?"
"Sure" better than sleeping outside.
"Wonderful, well either way, while you fainted Glorfindel over there with the long hair and the blue eyes and.. Damn this description is leading nowhere, GLORFINDEL THINK YOU COULD COME OVER FOR A SEC?" My brother yelled with no shame what so ever.
The leader, as he seemed to be, approached. He no longer bore a look of hatred; he actually looked like an okay guy. "There really is no need to yell, we all could hear all of your conversation without trying" he said with what seemed a sly sense of satisfaction. "Well that's nice to know" I said with a bit of a frown. "Yes very nice, now kind sir do you think you could explain to her what our current predicament is?"
"Yes, well as you were in the care of our healer I talked with your brother and your... Betrothed?"
"Just boyfriend will do" I said with an awkward cough.
"Yes, well it seems you all come from a different... Place" He said with incertitude. A different place alright. "Adrian and Erik had more than enough proof to make us believe how... Peculiar you world is. Tomorrow we will all, including your company, make haste for Rivendell."
Wholly fuck.. That's all I could think. "Like for real!? Straight up!? We are going t-to Rivendell?!" My reaction seemed to cause some amusement among the elves as I heard someone chuckle. "Yes we will depart tomorrow."
"You know what? I think I could kiss you right now, but it would be very inappropriate." It was my time to chuckle at his reaction. "I'll see you all tomorrow, goodnight everyone!" I waved at the elves. "Come on Erik, we gotta get ready for bed and stop frowning at me, is that really necessary?"
"... Yeah, it is." I just rolled my eyes.
We got in the car where Adrian had already fallen asleep on the back seat. That's when I noticed the bandages Adrian and Erik were wearing. "For how long was I out?" I whispered as I inclined my seat back. "For at least an hour, I think you were already sleepy and that fall you took just got you comatose."
Huh.. I was pretty tired after the game.
"Okay, well goodnight baby, asta mañana."
"Yeah, sweet dreams" He said as he gently tucked my hair behind my ear.
I closed my eyes and there was nothing but silence. I swear I was about to fall asleep when...
"Hey baby, do you love me?" I heard Erik whisper. I barely heard it and had it not been as quite as it was I would've missed it. I opened my eyes and smiled a little. "Why would you ask something like that?" He stared at me and got each word out slowly. As if fearing rejection "Well is just... I'm not much compared to those guys out there you know and I mean... I just, I needed to make sure... I was still good enough and all.. You know." Erik had a verbal tic. The "you know" kinda tic. Each time he got nervous he would start repeating it.
Unconsciously of course.
"Erik" I said after a sight, "You are more than enough for me, if anything I should be the one worried. Once you see some of the woman here you might completely forget me and either way all the men here are wayyy to old for me." and out my league but I didn't say that out loud.
He took my hand in his and said "Thank you." I just smiled at him once more and went to sleep. Again.