The Chronicles Of Narnia - The Missing Queen

Chapter Four

The house, in my opinion, was creepy at night. I could barely sleep.

One night I kept tossing and turning in my bed trying to get to sleep but it was impossible. It was dark so I could barely see anything. The only light was the candle light next to Lucy. I did end up falling asleep but, because I am easily woken up, I shot up when I heard the creeking of floorboards. I noticed that the light was gone so I assumed that Lucy had gotten out of bed. I decided that because I wasn't going to get back to sleep that I would go to the toilet.

As I walked out of the bedroom, I saw Lucy turn the corner with Edmund following her. Lucy was going to the wardrobe. Out of curiosity, I followed them both to the room. Because I was so far behind them, Edmund had disappeared into the wardrobe just as I reached the room. Then they rushed out of the wardrobe and someone crashed into me. I was invisible in the darkness so they had no idea I was there. "Oh Ivy, are you okay?" Lucy asked. Edmund was laying on the floor next to me while Lucy was kneeling on the floor to see who I was. "Yes I'm fine." I answered, helping myself and Edmund up. "We went to Narnia! Go and look, it's really there!" I walked up to the wardrobe, opened it and saw nothing. It was a normal wardrobe. "I'm sorry Lucy, there's nothing there." Lucy had a horrified look on her face and looked for herself. "Oh no. But you believe me don't you? Tell her Edmund." I looked at Edmund but he didn't respond. "The others will believe us. Let's tell them." Then Lucy ran out of the room with us running after her.

Lucy ran into the rooms, waking up both Peter and Susan. "It's there, it's really there!" Lucy shouted as she shook Peter awake. I leaned against the wall watching everything unfold.. "Edmund went too! Everyone turned to look at Edmund. "You saw the faun?" Peter asked. Edmund went silent for a moment but then laughed as if at his own joke. "I was just messing around. I'm sorry Peter, I shouldn't have encouraged her but you know what children are like these days. They just don't know when to stop pretending." He gave Lucy a sly grin. Lucy started to cry then ran out of the room with Peter and Susan following her - Edmund didn't because he had been pushed onto his bed by Peter. I also followed them.

Lucy ran away from us but then crashed into someone. The professor. She hugged the professor and he just stood there awkwardly, not knowing what to do. "You children are one shenanigan shy of sleeping in the stables!" Mrs Macready shouted as she also joined us. "Professor, I'm sorry. I told them you were not to be disterbed." She gave Lucy a weird look as if she wanted to shout at her but couldn't. "It's alright Mrs Macready." The professor reasurred. "I'm sure there's an explanation. First of all, I think this one is in need of a little hot chocolate." He pushed Lucy off of him and passed her to Mrs Macready who took her away. The three of us were about to walk away when the professor coughed, signalling for us to turn back around.

We were taken to the professor's study where he sat at his desk with a pipe. "You seem to have upset the delicate internal balance of my housekeeper." He said.

"We're very sorry sir. It won't happen again." Peter said, pulling Susan away. But she pushed him off of her and turned back to the professor. "It's our sister sir, Lucy." She said.

"The weeping girl." The professor said, looking up from his pipe.

"Yes sir, she's upset."

"Hense the weeping."

"It's nothing. We cn handle it." Peter argued.

"Oh I can see that."

"She thinks she's found a magical land sir." I explained.

"In the upstairs wardrobe." Susan added. The professor looked up one last time with a surprised look on his face. He stood up and led us to some chairs. "What did you say?"

"The wardrobe upstairs. Lucy thinks she's found a forest inside." Peter explained.

"She won't stop going on about it." Susan said.

"I found her there again tonight." I said.

"What was it like?" The professor asked.

"Like talking to a lunatic."

"I think he means the forest." I corrected. Both the Pevensies looked at me then back to the professor.

"You're not saying you believe her, do you?" Peter questioned.

"And you don't?" The professor asked back.

"Well, of cource not. I mean logically it's impossible." Susan argued.

"What do they teach children in school these days?" The professor mumbled.

"Edmund was with Lucy when they came out of the room." I said.

"But he said that they were only pretending." Peter also said.

"And he's normally the more truthful one?" The professor asked.

"No this would be the first time."

"Well if she's not mad and she's not lying then, logically, you must assume she's telling the truth."

"You're saying we should just believe her?"

"She's your sister isn't she? You're her family and friends. You might just try acting like them." The professor dismissed us and we went to our rooms.

Before I reached my room, Peter stopped me in the hallway. "Just let us deal with this Ivy. You don't need to get involved."

"I'm not trying to Peter. I think, if I can give my opinion, you should try and help her get over this instead of telling her that this place isn't real. Just leave her be." I walked into my room before Peter could stop me again and got into bed. I really hoped that Lucy felt okay. Despite me not knowing the Pevensies that well, I felt like they needed help to keep their family sane.