A/N: alright, i got another awesome review(: thank you (my second reviewer!)! i decided to be nice and update tonight(: im screwed though, i left my science paper at school, two papers actually. and i just got done studying on quizlet for my history test:/ wish me luck! this is a long chapter(: i thought thi chapter's name was pretty funny, if u get it(;
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Chapter 4: The Underhill Sisters of Buckland
Diamond and I headed back to where Merry lived. It was called Buckland, and he was letting us stay in Brandy Hall. The Brandybuck's were a nice family, and treated us like family. We had told Merry that we had left our families for personal reasons, so we didn't want to go back to our hobbit holes. See, I learned a lot through this small period of about, oh, three hours!
"You two can stay in here. Help yourselves to anything you like! And as for your clothes..." Merry began, holding back laughter at our brightly colored, large pajamas. "There are some clothes in the dresser."
"Thanks." I said. Merry left us alone.
I turned to Diamond, glaring, mad. She was going through the dresser, picking out a beautiful green dress.
"How did you know that there were Underhills here?" I screamed.
"Calm down okay? I don't know, I just, knew... It all just came to me right then and there!" Diamond defensively said.
"Why didn't you tell me! What else do you know?... And why were you acting like we do live here!"
"I thought that if we acted like we lived here, they wouldn't abandon us because we were crazy!" Diamond trailed off. As if on cue, someone knocked on the door. "Oh, and I learned something about, a grey wizard? Gardalf, or somethin' like that..."
Merry came in again, "If you two want to, Bilbo Baggins, Frodo's uncle, is having his birthday party tonight. You could come if you like!" Merry beamed a grin in our direction. I smiled and nodded,
"Sure! But, Merry? What do we wear?" I asked.
"Any of those dresses..." he said pointing to the drawer.
He left us and I made my way to the mirror. My hair was so long, and in perfect ringlets to! And, my ears, they were... pointy! Giggling at how I looked, Diamond walked over next to me, changed into a beautiful green and yellow dress that stopped at her ankles. She gasped at her hair and ears, just as surprised as me.
"Karolyn... We look, so much older and beautiful." Diamond said dreamily. We looked at least twenty eight, or thirty.
"Diamond, I think we'll be here for awhile, I'm gonna like this place."
We got ready and headed out the door. I found a pretty blue and red dress, with a white vest type thing and it stopped at my ankles. Our hair was down and loose, and we found some cheek color to put on. I guess you could say blush, if that's what they called it. We were greeted at the door by Merry, who was speechless.
"Very lovely! Lovely indeed..." he said smiling. He held out his elbows, and I linked arms with his right arm and Diamond with his left. This guy was so polite, and so freaking adorable! We walked to a big open field, with a humungous tree in the middle of it all! There was a few tents, and lanterns hung everywhere. People were slowly arriving and there was dancing, so much dancing! There was A LOT of food to, which was a good thing because I was STARVING.
Merry sat us down at a table and ran off somewhere with his friend Pippin, who grinned at Diamond, who blushed and grinned back, before leaving.
"Oooh you like him!" I said nudging Diamond in the side. She blushed, and it was so obvious!
"No! He's just nice is all." she replied, becoming bored. I looked over and saw Frodo talking to a friend of his. I heard what his name was, Sam, and he pushed Sam into the arms of a girl that was dancing around. I laughed and Frodo heard me. Making his way over to us he sat down next to us, and smiled.
"Having fun?" he asked with a bright smile. He stood up, and began to dance like an idiot in front of us. It was so embarrassing! But so funny, he was a horrible dancer!
"Yes! Better than any parties Freddie had, or the twins!" I exclaimed, and Diamond nodding her head in agreement.
Frodo, however, frowned as he sat back down, "Freddie? I haven't heard of anyone named Freddie in the Shire. Never heard the name at all in fact..." he said trailing off.
I rolled my eyes, "I told you, were not from here."
Diamond cleared her throat and elbowed me in the back, "What?" I said though my clenched teeth. "He has got to know by now were not from here!" I whispered.
"Your not a very good whisperer. And yes, I have figured out by now you two aren't from the Shire. Where are you from anyways?" Frodo asked.
"Well! Were from-" Diamond began, when suddenly there was an explosion from one of the tents.
It went whizzing into the air, with fire following it and many bright colors. Everyone screamed and we all stood up in a scramble. Frodo ran off to somewhere, and Diamond and I shrieked and ran for our lives.
"Misses! Get down!" a voice said from behind us. He pushed us down and he landed on top of us. A dragon of fire passed over our heads, and I closed my eyes as tight as I could. It passed and we all looked up, and it exploded! A great huge firework appeared and was soon followed by a spectacular show of twirls, squeaks, whistles, and colors of many smaller fireworks around it. We all cheered and I turned around, it was Sam, Frodo's friend that had pushed us down. Sam was fat, no offense! He had pudgy, cute little eyes and brown curled hair.
I looked behind him, and to my entertainment, Pippin and Merry were covered in soot and ash. An old, tall, grey man appeared from behind them and pinched their ears. That must have been the old wizard Diamond was talking about earlier! They were sent to wash dishes as their punishment. I laughed and turned back to Sam.
"Hey! Sam, right?" Diamond asked, holding out her hand.
Sam hesitated, stood up, and pulled her up, "Yes miss. Samwise Gamgee's my name, but yes, call me Sam!" he said as he pulled me up. I smiled and stuck out my hand to.
"What, ever done a handshake before?" I asked.
"Yes miss. Just, not with a hobbit lass..." he said. He barely shook my hand and eyed us suspiciously.
"Are you the two girls Merry, Pippin, and Mr. Frodo found on the road? In big clothes?" he asked.
Diamond nodded her head, "That would be us!"
"Oh, well. Nice to have met you! Um..."
"Karolyn. Karolyn Had- Underhill." I stopped myself from saying Hadley, remembering only Frodo knew we weren't really from here.
"Diamond Underhill." Diamond said.
Sam shook his head and quickly walked away. He was, odd...
"Speech!" someone cried out. After that, everyone began to say it to. Bilbo stood up and made his way to the front and quieted everyone. Frodo smiled at me before heading to sit down in the front, while me, Diamond, and Sam sat in the back.
"My dear Bagginses and Boffins! Tooks and Brandybucks! Grubbs! Chubbs! Hornblowers! Bolgers! Bracegirdles! And Proudfoots!" Bilbo shouted as he stood before us.
"Proudfeet!" an older hobbit shouted at him.
"Today is my one hundred and eleventh birthday! Yes, and alas... Eleventy-one years is far too short a time to live among such excellent and admirable hobbits! I don't know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!" there was a lot of confused murmurs when he said that.
"Do you get it?" I asked Diamond.
"I lost him at 'I don't know half of you'." she replied, obviously still trying to figure out what he had just said.
"I have... Things to do and, I have put this off for far too long, I regret to announce, this is the end. I am going now, I bid you all a very fond farewell!" Bilbo muttered "Goodbye." to someone in the crowd, and vanished!
I screamed, Diamond gasped, and Sam stood up to find Frodo. Everyone was in a panic, the old tall man stood up and vanished quickly as well. Diamond stood up, grabbing my hand as she went, and pulled me to Merry and Pippin.
"Did you two see that?" she shrieked.
"Yes! Where did he vanish off to?" Merry asked, stopping his work.
"I don't know, that's why we asked you." I replied.
"Well, he was always sort of weird..." Pippin said.
Sam came up behind us, everyone seemed to settle down by now. He told us Frodo had gone back to his hobbit hole and said he though he saw Gandalf there with him. It was a very strange night, definitely like no other party I had been to.
Diamond and I were hanging out with Pippin and Merry more often now. But I was mostly dragged around by Diamond, who always wanted to see what Pippin was up to. We were at the Green Dragon, and Sam and Frodo sat at a table with some of the older hobbits.
Bilbo was gone now, only Frodo lived in Bag End now. I honestly felt bad for him! It must have been lonely living by himself all that time. The pub was closing up, and I decided to walk with Sam and Frodo to Bag End.
"Hullo Miss Underhill." Sam said, a little drunk.
"Hey."
"Goodnight!" said a really pretty hobbit as we exited the pub. Sam grinned sheepishly and blushed.
"Who was that?" I whispered to Frodo.
"Rosie Cotton, and in case you couldn't tell, Sam is in love with her. But I'm sure you could tell." he said with a laugh.
Sam waved back at Rosie an we headed for Bag End. Sam was more sober now and said he would take me home. We left Frodo at the path leading up to his house, when suddenly, San stopped dead in his tracks.
"What's wrong?"
"Did you hear that?"
"What!"
"Follow me!" Sam said, pulling me to one of Frodo's windows.
"What are we doing, we look like creepers!"
"Shush!"
"I'm not going to until you tell me what's wrong!"
"I heard raised voices, alright? What if Mr. Frodo is in trouble? Now SHUSH!" Sam finally said.
Suddenly, something hit Sam's head an he winced, and a hand reached out and pulled him in through the window. I shrieked and stood up.
Frodo caught my eye and motioned for me to come in. I shook my head in fear, no way was I going in there when a scary old wizard was holding Sam down on a table, pointing his staff at him no less!
"Confound it all Samwise Gamgee! Have you been eavesdropping? And you to, Karolyn Hadley!" Gandalf demanded, spinning around at me as I cowered.
"I ain't been dropping no eaves sir! Honest! I was just cutting the grass under the window there, if you follow me!"
"Me either Mr. Wizard!" I said as he grabbed me and pulled me in, setting me on the floor.
"A little late for trimming the verge don't you think?"
"We heard raised voices..."
"What did you hear? Speak!"
"N-N-Nothin' important! That is, I heard a good deal about a ring, and a Dark Lord, and something about the end of the world but, please, Mr. Gandalf, sir, don't hurt me! Don't turn me into anything... unnatural!"
"Oh Sam, just stop talking now, he knows everything..." I said surrendering, Frodo threw me a laugh and smile.
"No?" Gandalf smiled menacingly, but jokingly.
"Perhaps not. I've thought of a better use for you. And you to Miss Hadley!"
Next thing I know I'm being dragged around by this old man. We were going on some quest with Frodo. Gandalf had explained it all to us, and it was still confusing. All I know is that there was a ring made a long time ago, and it controlled a bunch of other rings to. Bilbo found the ring in a cave on one of his adventures, and now Frodo had to destroy it in the very place it was made. We weren't allowed to use Frodo's last name, and we were to meet Gandalf at some place called the Prancing Pony in Bree. Gandalf left us in a clearing in the forest, and of course, Sam now had the opportunity to get on me for keeping secrets.
"Why didn't you tell us you weren't from here!" he screamed in rage.
"I never said I wasn't! What makes you think I'm not?" I yelled back.
Frodo stepped forward, "Its okay Karolyn, he was bound to find out sooner or later! Can we please be a little bit more quiet to?"
"Mr. Frodo, you knew she wasn't from here?"
"Yes Sam. We didn't want to stir up an trouble amongst everyone, someone not from our world has come to Middle Earth would make a lot to gossip about. Plus, that might have drawn outsiders into the Shire, bad folk."
I sighed, thank you Frodo! He saved the day by saying that. Sam shook his head and merely just said, "Okay." and with one last glare at me, we were off. We traveled for, who knew how many days! Through woods and fields, under trees and over rocks. One night, we were camping in a clearing in the woods, and I began to sing a favorite song of mine.
Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans,
Way back up in the woods among the evergreens...
There stood a log cabin made of earth and wood,
Where lived a country boy name of Jonny B. Goode...
He never ever learned to read or write so well,
But he could play the guitar like ringing a bell.
Go, Go, Go Jonny Go, Go
Go Jonny Go Go
Go Jonny Go Go
Go Jonny Go Go
Johnny B Goode
He used to carry his guitar in a gunny sack
And sit beneath the trees by the railroad track.
Oh, the engineers used to see him sitting in the shade,
Struming with the rhythm that the drivers made.
People passing by would stop and say
Oh my that little country boy could play
Go, Go, Go Jonny Go, Go
Go Jonny Go Go
Go Jonny Go Go
Go Jonny Go Go
Jonny B. Good
His mama told him someday he would be a man,
And you will be the leader of a big old band.
Many people coming from miles around
To hear you play your music when the sun go down
Maybe someday his name would be in lights
Saying Jonny B. Good tonight.
Go Go Go Jonny Go
Go Go Go Go Jonny Go
Go Go Go Go Jonny Go
Go Go Go Go Jonny Go
Go Jonny B. Good
"Miss Und- I mean, Hadley?" Sam asked suddenly.
"Yea?"
"What is that song?"
"Johnny B. Goode."
"What's it bout?" he asked curiously.
"A country boy that wasn't educated, but could play the guitar very well!" I said, smiling at the memories of that song...
"Guitar? What's that? An instrument from your world?" he asked.
"Yes Sam."
There was a long silence, and Frodo joined or conversation, "Would you sing it again?" Sam asked.
"I think I'll go with Sam, it had a good tune. But I don't know what a guitar is, or a railroad track... And what's a gunny sack?" Frodo asked.
"I honestly can say I don't know! But I can say this, I played guitar very well back home, and I never carried it in a gunny sack." I said laughing. Frodo lifted an eyebrow and Sam sat patiently. I sang the song again, and soon, we were all tired. I slept in the middle of the two, and Sam kept tossing and turning! He complained that he couldn't sleep, and Frodo told him to imagine he was back home. I tried that, it didn't work. And apparently it didn't work for Sam either, because he went right on complaining! This was going to be a VERY long journey, and I didn't even have Diamond here to suffer through Sam's annoyance with me.
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