✖️Peter✖️

Waiting for Peter

Once I woke in the morning, I was overcome with grief when I saw my father standing next to my bed. "Goodmorning asshole." he said. I turned to my side and closed my eyes. He jerked me back to a sitting position and said "Come on, we're going out." "Where?" I asked. "Why do you care?" He yelled. "I was just wondering." I said, not meaning for him to hear, but he responded anyways. "To the pharmacy, I need some stuff." "What kind of stuff?" I asked intrigued, yet I knew I shouldn't have. "My pills you so of a bitch!" He yelled "Don't ask another god damn question or I'll beat the shit out of you again." I stifled a cry, and got out of bed. I forgot about the fresh cut on my arm, and I tried to cover it up so my dad wouldn't see, but it was too late. "What is this?" He asked pointing to my cut. I replied with "My misery." Even though that picked up my courage near him he brought it down and slapped me so hard everything went black.
The rest of the day was hazy, just driving in the car all day with my father. We stopped at the occasional CVS or Walgreens so my dad could fuck around and annoy the innocent people. He got kicked out everytime. We came home later, when he kicked me to the ground and said "Time for bed." I went upstairs without a word.
At 12:00 exactly I willed my self to believe Peter Pan was just a dream.

I woke up to 2 distant knocks again, at around 3am. I got up excited and went to my window to see a certain boy floating there. I opened my window to see Peter there with a smirk on his face. "What?" I asked curiously. "Aren't you gonna let me in?" He asked. I stepped aside letting him fly into my room and lay down on my bed."Fine, make yourself at home then Peter." I laughed. "No problem." he answered and got under my blankets. I closed my window and got under the blankets with him too. After an awkward silence I blurted out "So, how was your day?" He laughed and looked at me and said "Well if you consider fairies capturing two lost boys, and a pirate bugging me all day to be fun, then I had a Fun day today." he said sarcastically. I looked at him and said "Well that sounds great, do you really have fairies and pirates on Neverland?" He Laid on his back and said "Yes we have many fairies, and one very annoying Pirate who visits the island frequently." "Wow," I said, "Pirates and fairies, it seems so fun!" He pondered and said "Yeah it 'seems' fun, but it isn't, I'm constantly trying to fix things on neverland, but nothing ever cooperates." I stared at him and replied "Why are you trying to fix things? You're only a boy, about 17, why are you taking care of things on such huge island?" "Well you see," he said "there are no kings on neverland.. Just me. No rulers, except for me, neverland is in fact my island."
"So I'm friends with a king?" I asked smiling. "No," he said. "I don't like the term 'King' , It seems pretentious, and snotty. Ruler fits me better."
"Okay, well Neverland seems fun, and it obviously has an amazing ruler. I-" "You should come to Neverland with me!" He said interrupting me. "No no no, I couldn't." I said. "Yes you can," he said " it would be great! You could come stay with me and my lost boys, we could have adventures with the boys and hunt down mermaids and fairies!"He smiled waiting for my response. "I uh.. I don't think so Peter." "Why not?" He asked. "Because I need to stay here with my father, I need to take care of him." I said thinking how big of a lie I just told. If anything I don't need him, he can take care of himself. "Well check on him every other day." he said. "No Peter," I said "he'll notice I'm gone, and I'll regret it if I leave. He isn't exactly the 'perfect father'...." Peter looked at me and said "Well, just come and visit, the lost boys would love you!" He smiled. He looked like an angel, smiling, looking at me. He made me feel special. I could never say no to him, but I did anyways. He looked sad after I told him, but he said "Okay.." understanding why I couldn't leave my world. I snuggled up to him and thought we must stay here. Let's stay in the Now. I slowly fell asleep next to Peter erupting in to amazing dreams of him and I.