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Chapter 3

I ate silently thinking about the previous conversation. When the bell rang for our first class I got up to throw my plate away. I dropped it into the trash and turned around to leave and bumped right into someone. I fell back, my arms flailing to catch my balance and I landed on the ground.

“Ow” I mumbled rubbing my back where I had hit the ground.

“I’m sorry, I didn’t see you there” I heard a familiar voice say. I looked up and saw Kili standing there, his hand extended to help me up. I took it and he pulled me up. He was pretty strong, for still being a young dwarf.

“There is no need to apologize, it was my fault, I wasn’t paying attention” I told him and smiled.  

“Hey, what is your first class. I have no idea where I am going, and I can’t seem to be able to find my brother” Kili told me.

“I have History of Middle Earth, but I don’t exactly know either” I admitted.

“I have that class too, I guess we can get lost together” Kili said grinning. I couldn’t help but laugh.

“Yeah I guess so” I said, still laughing.

 

The two of us left trying to find our next class. We weren’t exactly doing to well, but on the bright side the bell hadn’t rung yet.

“We are so lost right now” I sighed.

“Kili, there you are!” Someone called from behind us. We both turned around to see who had called.

He was about Kili’s height, he had blonde hair, which had braids in it. He had a small beard and a moustache, which also had braids in it.

“Hey Fili” Kili said as him and his brother hugged.

“Who is this?” Fili asked.

“Fili, this is my friend, Grace. We are trying to find our first class, but we are lost” Kili told him.

“What is your class?” Fili asked.

“History of Middle Earth” Kili told him. “We both have it” He added quickly.

“Well, then you are going the wrong direction” Fili informed us. We both looked at each other and laughed. “I’ll show you” Fili sighed and led us to our class, where we arrived just as the bell rang.

 

The teacher wore all grey with a grey pointy hat on his head. He was facing the board so I couldn’t see his front, all I could see was his back. There was also a brown wooden staff leaning on the board next to him. I grinned when I knew who it was. My teacher was Gandalf! I followed Fili and Kili over to the available seats. I sat on Kili’s left and Fili sat on his right.

“Hello class. I’m am your teacher for this class, but you can all just call me Gandalf” He said as he turned around. Written across the board was Middle Earth Quiz and below it was written slightly small, Teams:, and there was black space for the team names. “I want you to get into teams of three or four. Try to pair up with someone you don’t know as well” He instructed.

I was in a group with Fili and Kili and we moved our desks so we could all talk.

“I want all of you to come up with a team name” Gandalf instructed.

Without even consulting me Fili and Kili looked right at each other and simultaneously said “The line of Durin!” Loud enough for Gandalf. Gandalf wrote it under the first. I looked around at the other groups. In one group there was Faramir, Boromir, Aragorn, and Arwen. In another group was Frodo, Sam, Merry, and Pippin. In a third group was Eowen, Eomer, and Theodred. In the fourth and final group was Bofur, Ori, Gimli, and Nori. The class only had nineteen students.

“When I call you group you will answer the question given, if you answer wrong the next group will answer until one of the groups get it right, if none of the groups get it right then we move onto the next question. The questions will start out easy and get harder as we move on. We will start with The line of Durin. How many Silmarilli were there and who was their creator?” Gandalf asked us.

Fili and Kili looked so lost. They were dwarves though, and the creator, Feanor, was an elf. I raised my hand to answer the question and Gandalf pointed at me.

“The creator was Feanor and there were three Silmarilli” I told him.

“That is correct” Gandalf said and he put a tally under our team name.

“Next group” He turned to face Aragorn, Arwen, Faramir, and Boromir’s group. “What are the months in the Shire Calendar?” He asked them. They talked amongst themselves for a minute. “You have five seconds left” Gandalf told them, but when none of them had an answer he moved onto the hobbits.

“Afteryule, Solmath, Rethe, Astron, Thrimidge, Forelithe, Afterlithe, Wedmath, Halimath, Winterfilth, Blotmath, and Foreyule” Merry said

“Correct” Gandalf said and he went to the next group. “What was the year that Smaug took Erebor?” He asked them. It was obvious that they would know that answer.

“2770” Bofur said and he was correct.

 

The game continued on like that until the bell rang. Our group was tied for first with Aragorn, Arwen, Faramir, and Boromir. I packed my bag on the table with the books that Gandalf had given us. He had decided to start at the beginning since all of us knew different things about different time periods for different areas. In short, None of us knew the same things.

“Hey are you doing anything after school today?” Kili asked me.

“Just getting Sarah from Doctor Watson” I told him.

“Do you wanna hang out after school today? Just as friends of course, but it would be fun to hang out and get to know each other better” He said.

“Yeah that would be great!” I responded grinning.

“So meet me in front of the school around three thirty?” He asked.

“Yeah I’ll see you then” I smiled.

I was walking backward toward the door while I was talking and didn’t notice where I was going. Before I knew it I was toppling over someone and was lying on the ground next to them.

“Oh my god, I’m so sorry! That was totally all my fault was not paying attention at all” I said standing up.

I extended my hand to help them up. He took my hand. I could tell he was a guy despite his almost shoulder length blonde hair. He had blue eyes, which stared into me when I helped him up, and slight stubble on his chin and around his mouth. In my mind I was shouting Shit, I would be the the one to walk into two of my favorite characters.

"It's fine, no harm has been done" he said with a smile.

"I'm Grace by the way, Grace Shurly" I told him.

"Faramir" he told me in response.

"Come on Faramir, we have to get to our next class" His brother said as he came over.

"I'm coming Boromir" he said looking over at his brother.

"Hello, I'm Boromir, you appear to have already met my brother" Boromir held out his hand.

"Yes I have, I accidentally knocked him over. I'm Grace Shurly" I told him and shook his hand.

"Hello Grace. Come on Faramir, we have fathers class next and he will have our heads if we are late" Boromir said as he walked away

"Probably just my head, and plus I don't think he even let me in his class because I don't have him this year" Faramir called back to him and then he turned to face me. "It was nice to meet you, I'll see you in class Wednesday" He said to me and he ran off after his brother. I left too and headed to my next class which was sword use.