Cherry Meets Peter Pan

chapter 4

The five kids were fast asleep as today was rather exhausting. While they were all asleep, they were visited by two figures, one much bigger than the other. Another one of them glowed like a firefly. The two figures came in through the open window like Wendy had predicted.

The five kids were asleep and unaware of what was going on in the room as they were visiting their dreams tonight. At least, for now... The other figure looked rather strong and where both figures were starting to search for something. The glowing figure revealed to be a pixie and she opened a music box that played music.

"Tink!" the one figure who nearly looked like an elf scolded.

The pixie put the music box top down to stop the music.

"Stop playing! We've gotta find my shadow." The elf told the pixie.

The pixie nodded, then went to explore with the elf boy. The two of them continued to look for the shadow without being seen. Eventually, the shadow was spotted and the elf boy tried to chase after his shadow.

Cherry woke up from that and she looked to see who was in the room. "Peter Pan...?" she wondered, based on the stories she had heard and had her own imagination of what he looked like, already assuming this was a dream, then rushed over to him. "Oh, hello there..." she smiled rather dreamily. "You're just like how I imagined..."

"Huh?" Atticus asked. "Peter Pan?"

"Oh, I knew you'd come back." Wendy rushed over too.

Cherry looked a little angry that her cousin interrupted their meeting.

"I saved your shadow for you," Wendy told the unfamiliar boy. "Oh, I hope it isn't rumpled..."

Cherry folded her arms and tapped her foot.

"Cherry, why are you angry?" Atticus asked his best friend.

Cherry didn't answer his question and looked rather green-eyed. Wendy sat Peter down and tried to help sew his shadow back on while talking with him, but she seemed to go on and on and on...

"Girls talk too much." Peter finally said.

"Yes, girls talk too--" Wendy was about to agree until she realized what he said and stopped talking.

"That was rather rude." Atticus said.

"Well, get on with it, girl!" Peter held his shadow up.

"Erm... My name is Wendy..." the brunette girl introduced herself. "Wendy Moira Angela Darling."

"Wendy's enough." Peter said as he took out his pan pipes.

"And that's my cousin Cherry Butler and her friend, Atticus Fudo." Wendy then introduced.

"Hi..." Cherry smiled calmly and not coldly like usually to Peter.

"Hey." Atticus said, extending his right hand to Peter.

Peter looked like he liked Atticus better than Cherry or Wendy and put into his hand before shaking with Atticus's. Atticus liked him, but didn't like how rude Peter was towards Wendy, but couldn't change this boy.

"You sure are a strong boy, Atticus, possibly as strong as me or maybe even more." Peter smiled.

"You have no idea." Atticus said quietly.

"Oh, but how did Nana get your shadow, Peter?" Wendy asked.

"It jumped out at me the other night at the window." Peter replied.

"What were you doing there?" Cherry asked.

"I came to listen to Wendy's stories." Peter said.

"My stories?" Wendy asked. "But they're all about you."