The Real Neverland

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Part 2: the end

Maddie POV

So what happened? You are probably wondering. What happened to the lost boys? What happened to me? Soon as we go to the enchanted forest, I fell to my knees; everything hit me. I will never see him again. I will never get to make new memories with him; instead, I have to just get by with the ones that I had, the ones I will always remember. I won't be able to see his smile, and I won't get to hear his laugh, and watch his nose scrunch up when he does so, the way his muscles flexed, the way his voice would be deep and crackly in the morning, his eyebrows going up as he talked, I won't feel his soft lips on mine. I will never see his eyes sparkle when I say the three words, and I love you. And I will never hear him say those words to me...

I made a home for the lost boys, Felix stayed away for a couple of days, he never left his room. Until he came and said that all he could think about was how Peter told him to look after the lost boys, so he did. He was there for them, more then I was. I would wake up, help out for a bit then sit outside watching the flames of the fire dance in the wind. It had been three months since Peter passed, every night I would leave the window open and stare out it waiting for Peter to get me, just like how I pictured it when I was younger.

Today was the day. The day I would tell them, they knew this was coming. They just don't know it was happening tomorrow. I walked into the room, with our big long table full of hungry, lost boys eating their breakfast. I sat down at the end and cleared my throat.

"Um boys", I say, their heads turned to me, and they stopped eating and talking.

"You knew this was happing but um... I'm leaving tomorrow, to my world", I let out, they're mouths dropped, and I jump and the sound of Felix's fork dropping on his plate.

"Excuse me", he says and gets up, his chair scraping on the wooden floor. He walked quickly out the door and slammed it shut.

"I'll be right back", I say, I get up also, following Felix. When I walk outside, he was standing near the lake. I walk closer and see him throwing rocks into the lake.

"Felix, you knew I was going to leave", I say and stand by him grabbing some rocks myself.

"I didn't think you were going to go, and I didn't think I would lose you too. I didn't think you wanted to leave us", he says and throws another rock before looking down at me.

"You're not losing me, Felix, I will see you again. I don't know when or how but I will, Felix. I need a fresh start, I thought you out of all of them would have understood that", I say getting quieter.

"I'm just going to miss you", he mumbles. I sigh and turn my entire body to him. I turn him around and hug him. He was shocked at first but hugged me back.

"What about your magic?" he asks me.

"I don't know, and I don't even know if I will have it where I'm going."

"Where are you going?"

"New York"

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~two years later~

My feet travelled across the floorboards towards my kitchen; I grabbed a mug and got my coffee ready. I yawned and looked out the window, looking down at the busy streets of New York.

'I am a lost boy from Neverland Usually hanging out with peter-'

I picked up my ringing phone and answered it, "Hello?"

"Maddie! You're up! I tried calling you three times! I'm coming up!" Lain hangs up before I have a chance to speak, and I chuckle and then groan and grab some Panadol.

What's going on? What happened? Well... I am in New York and... I became an author, yeah. Lain is my publisher. Last night was a celebration for my book, and I had got 100,000 books sold in three days! And today I am doing a speech at the book store and signings.

What is my book called?

The Real Neverland.

I wrote everything that happened, from me arriving in Neverland, me going to Wonderland, me turning into a mermaid, kissing Peter, my friendship with Felix, Killian, Henry, everyone! And everyone went crazy about it, Peter Pan evil? They had to know what would happen.

I still think about him... every day. The number of times I cried while writing this book was unbelievable...

I heard a knock on the door, and I quickly went and opened it. Lain rushed in and smiled widely.

"Morning, now I know you must have a bit of a hangover. But you need to quickly get dressed into something comfy or whatever and head down, to get you ready; your dress is down there", she smiles I nod and pour my coffee into a travel mug and rush to get ready.

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"Nervous?" Amy asks, my editor/ friend.

"Uh-huh", was all I could say, I rubbed my sweaty palms on my black dress. And licked my red lips.

"You will be fine, and all those people out there love you! They came for you!" she comforts me until it was time for me to go out. Lain introduces me, and when I walked out, they erupted into applause and cheers. Wow.

I walk out and get handed the microphone. "Hello, everyone! Thank you so much for coming!" I say, they cheer again, and a huge smile spreads on my face.

"This book.. means so much to me; I have been through a lot. And I would be lying if I didn't say I cried while writing some parts of this book. Peter Pan was a huge deal for me and still is. I have a wild imagination, and when I was younger, I got put down because of it, never stop believing, whether it believes in yourself, others, the tooth fairy", I say. Everyone laughs, "Or even Peter Pan himself... thank you, everyone, you have made my dream come true", I finish, and they lead me to my table where I begin to do my signing.

I met so many beautiful people, and I have never been so faltered. It was nearly finishing up, and I have the most significant hand cramp and am starving, I have only had nibbles of Amy's cookies.

A book gets placed in front of me, and I open the book. "Hello, what's is your name", I ask about to look up.

"Robbie... Robbie Kay"

My breathing stops. My eyes widen. My pen drops, and I slowly look up and gasp.

"Peter?"

"Hey Maddie"

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Don't hate me!!!!

I always wanted it to end like this, so sorry if it is short, it leaves you on edge yet relieved. Before any of you comment MAKE A SEQUEL PLEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some of you may hate me, some may understand. But there isn't a second book, there was, but there isn't anymore. I didn't delete it, and I unpublished it. I'm sorry, but so much is happening in my life, not all bad it's just crazy everyone is happening so fast, I just couldn't deal with the pressure of making the second book, I didn't want to let it go, but I have now, Peter Pan and Maddie will always be apart of this was the first book I created and finished. I have all of you who supported, thank you so much.... you may hear from me again in the future with a new book, thank you guys.

Shameless plug here (Maddie from 2021) so amazing to see so many people are still enjoying the story I wrote back when I was only 13, means a lot.
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Sincerely,

Maddie