The Lost Kids

Chapter Three- Greetings

A/N: This chapter tends to get really repetitive, Sorry :( also WARNING for mentions of death

        "Hello? Hello? Rise and shine princess"- A stranger's ringing voice teased. Pier slowly opened her eyes, her head hurt and it was really bright. She could see the silhouettes of four people gathered around her, as well as hearing a few other people talking in the background. "How did you know I was a princess?" Pier asked groggily, she felt as though she had just woken up from the longest slumber of her life. "I don't know maybe because you are wearing a gown and just happen to have a crown sitting impossibly perfectly on your head " a light voice responded.

"Here, let me help you up," said a silhouette to her left, offered with a hand, "I'm Kyle Woods, but everyone calls me Kye"-they said as they helped haul Pier up from the soft moss on the ground. Kye had a comforting and mature energy around them despite looking to be around the same age as Heath and the youngest. "Hello I am Princess Pier Idea-" Pier began to state " Like the butterfly?" the lanky boy to her right quietly interrupted Pier, he uttered a quick sorry after catching a stern scowl from Kye "Um I do not know, but I am the Princess of Lepidoptera, soon to be queen, where am I? Where is Meadow? Where is my family? How is my kingdom, we were going through an earthquake when, when I- no, No that simply cannot be right. I am awake, I am talking to all of you!" Pier expressed gaining pitiful looks from the teens that surrounded her. Kye and the lanky boy brought her over to the nearest log and had her sit down." Look I hate to be the one to tell you this but sweetheart your dead" the light voice from earlier said. "No that can't be, unless-" Pier trailed off.

"Oh, wow" she muttered shocked that what had happened was not just some messed up dream, that she would never be able to see her family again, her kingdom, her subjects, her pets, her... Her. Hot tears unknowingly started to roll down her cheeks as she realized that she was without her sweet love, how Pier started to ache for her sweet voice, her warm hugs, her herself, her flowers, her sweet Meadow. "Um, do you mind telling me um where I am and who everyone else is?" Pier managed to whisper but even that had been a struggle for her to get out as her mind continued to be flooded with memories of her Meadow. " Okay.. well fret not princess, you aren't the only one here who is dead" the lanky boy chuckled earning him a confused stare from Pier then as she gazed around at teens that surrounded her some with somber expressions, some with sly grins like Kye, and then some who could care less and were just staring up at the sky and only moving their focus to Pier when they felt her eyes on them to greet Pier with a comforting smile, Pier let out a soft "oh" as the realization crashed into her like a giant wave.

The lanky boy chuckled again as he saw her expression slowly change upon realization. "I know your probably dying to know-" the lanky boy started before getting a stern stare from Kye who then glanced over at the tear-stained face of Pier " I guess too soon then, well I'm gonna guess you are wondering a lot of things right now, for example, who are we? Well, I'm Jasper but feel free to call me Jas if you want, I could care less to be honest. I'm straight but if you're not that's cool and I go by he/him pronouns. I'm seventeen, well died when I was seventeen." Jasper said with a smile, "Oh and I also died in 2008." Jasper added. "As you know I'm Kye, I go by they/them pronouns, I'm gay, I died when I was 13, I died in '77, and I've been here the longest" Kye stated very straightforwardly. 

 "Hello," the light voice from earlier drawled "I am Iris Hallow, I go by they/she pronouns and I'm a lesbian. Look I died when I was 15 and in 2016, that should be it, who's next? Pete?"- the light voice that apparently belonged to Iris added. "Fine then I guess I will go next," said apparently a person named Pete with an over the top eye roll " So I think you figured that I'm Pete, I go by he/they pronouns, which we really need to thank Bowie and Iris for explaining to the rest of us, I am bisexual, and The year was '87 and I was just about to turn nineteen when I died" Pete explained with a melancholy smile. Pier wanted to reach out and give him a hug but another voice quickly started talking 

 "Okay, Okay my turn. I'm Nea Miller, I go by they/them pronouns and I drowned in the 1940s, oh and I'm 14, Bowie or Rhea one of you has to go next, I don't care who, I just want to tell my story and I was the fifth one to get here" Nea quickly spit out. "Oh hush Nea, You are just making me want to take my sweet time at this point," one of the last two said as they stuck out their tongue at Nea "Hey, I'm Bowie Pierce. I'm 15 and I died in 2021, I go by she/they pronouns and I'm bisexual" Bowie said with a smile. "Well I guess I can't put off talking any longer," Rhea said with a nervous laugh "I'm Rhea Crowe, I go by she/her I'm bisexual and I died in a fire in 1998" Rhea finished. 

"To answer one of your questions, you are in Neverland- A place of total and complete freedom and a place for teens and kids to roam free after death, a paradise." Iris said enthusiastically "We don't know where your Medow is, or where your family is I'm sorry." Iris said pitifully "If you can talk to anyone when you miss them, we've all been separated from loved ones too soon like you." Pete said solemnly looking around at the people who surrounded him. "I'm guessing you probably want to know more about us. Since I've been here the longest I guess I'll tell my story first" Kye stated.