Peter Pan

Chapter 3

We arrive at the camp fire and Peter gestures me to a rock and I sit. He sits next to me and takes something out. "What is that?" I ask puzzled. "It's my pipe. You can only hear it if you feel like you're unloved, unwanted." He starts to play and I hear the sweet sounds it makes. "You can only hear it if you feel like you're unloved, unwanted...", those words keep replaying in my head.

We leave the camp site and head back to the cabin. Once we are there, I lay down as soon as we enter. To my surprise I fall asleep quickly, but before I do I hear Peter mumble something. It sounded like "...do love her." Then I trailed off to sleep.

I wake up to an empty cabin. "He must have left to do some of his 'island business'." I say rubbing my eyes. I pull my hand away and I noticed that my face was wet. "Oh shit. I must have cried during my dream." Peter walks in and smiles at me. "So. I think it's time you tell me about what was wrong yesterday." He says as I'm playing with my fingers. "Oh. Yeah. Umm. You see my life back in California wasn't the best." I feel the tears in my eyes develop as I keep talking. "I did some bad things and my boyfriend go mad at me-" He cuts me off before I could say anything. "Boyfriend? You have a.." His voices gets quieter "boyfriend.." I look at my hands "well I used to. You see I woke up the next morning on my way to the bathroom when I found a note on the door. It was saying.." My voice cracks and tears fill my eyes. "It was saying that I was a waste of time and that I was just another moody teenager. And after that my parents started to yell at me for my grades which needed improvements but they didn't care that I was hurt. All they care about if my grades and my little sister!!" I start to yell and my voice gets shaky. I curl into a ball and sob. Peter takes a deep breath and I look at him. He has tears in his eyes. He looks at me and I sit up wiping away the tears. "Sorry I didn't mean to make you cry." I say looking back down at my hands. "It's okay", he starts toward me like he's gonna give me a hug but he stops and pulls himself back. "It's okay. I would like a hug." I say, my voice shaking. He hugs me, "it's going to be okay. I promise." His words make me hug him tighter.

Walking on the way to camp, Peter stops me. "What?" I say looking at him. " I just wanted to say..I will be here for you. You can tell me anything. It's safe with me." He says then continues to walk. "Hey. Peter. Thanks I really need to get that off my chest." I smile at him and walk to camp.