The Lost Girl

Prelude: Terrified

Running through the forest all I could feel was the pain of thorns leaving gashes in my legs. As I ran I dreaded what would happen when they found me. Nobody leaves. Nobody escapes. Finally I found a spot in a tree where I could hide. I slump down into the tree... I stare down at my trembling hands. I cannot cry because Pan says that shows weakness. Yet I cannot bring myself to be strong either. I had no idea what was happening to me. I stare blankly at my hands trying not to focus on my beating heart. I tried to focus on something else but all I could think about was the last five minutes. One minute I think I'm a normal girl who lost everything, then the next a boy is dead because of me.
      I look up to try to see where I'm but all I see is blackness. I hear people talking and I sink further down into the tree hoping I'm unnoticeable. The voices suddenly stop, so do the footsteps, they start again getting quieter as they go further away. Finally I can breathe again. I think about all the places on the island that the lost boys don't go so I can figure out where I am then maybe I can get out of here, find him and finally escape. I hope he's okay and not freaking out trying to find me. He can be so protective sometimes. I mean who wouldn't be when I'm five years old. Who wouldn't freak out if their five year old sister disappears into the woods after killing someone.
      Since I'm calmed down... mostly let me introduce myself. I'm Deancea but you can call me Dea (Pronounced Dee). I'm five years old and I live on Neverland as a lost girl. I don't really know how I got here. Pan says he found me here as a baby with my name sewn onto a  blanket, so I have no idea who I am or where I come from. At least I have my best friend Kai. He's like a big brother to me. He's so protective over me... Kai, I need to find him before he starts murdering people. I start frantically thinking about where he would go first to look for me. The camp, no river, no that's too obvious, the echo caves, no why would I go there. The treehouse! Of course pan doesn't know about it yet the only question is how do I get to it from here.
      I poke my head out from the tree so I can look around I realize where I'm and why the lost boys walked away instead of investigating the tree. I'm on the south end of the island. One of the few places pan has forbidden anyone to step foot in, at least I know I'm safe for now. I collect myself and exit the tree, I have no idea how long I have before they find me. I manage to find the direction in which I need to go and start walking west towards the treehouse. "Ow," Okay that hurts I almost completely forgot about my legs, I don't have time for pain so I press on trying to not think about it.
      An hour passes by and I've almost gotten to the treehouse I can see it in the distance. At this point my legs are numb. I refuse to look at them in fear of seeing the damage. I get to the treehouse and climb up. Just as I suspected there's Kai. "KAI!" I yell and tears begin to well in my eyes . "Dea!" Kai runs over to me picking me up. "Dea I'm so happy that you're alright!" He says in his big brother protective tone. "OWE!" I scream in agony. All he has to do is look at my legs and he knows what happened.
       "Come here and sit down let me help you." Using his worried voice. I sit down and look at my legs... no wonder they hurt. I have blood dripping from my thighs down. Kai grabs the rum that we have for emergencies as well as some bandages. He gets to work trying to bandage my legs. I end up having to bite down on a cloth otherwise I was gonna scream my head off, but he gets the blood to stop and then cleans my wounds, long story short don't use rum to sanitize wounds. It hurts a lot.