Far From Neverland

Chapter One- The Family

    
Chapter 1
     Wendy is awoken by the sun rays shining in from the window beside her. As she rolls over to look for her husband, he is missing. She can't help but wonder where he could be this early in the morning. She sighs at the thought of getting out of bed. She finally gets up and walks out of the bedroom. She walks to her right down the hallway. She peaks in and notices her beautiful children are still asleep in the nursery.
     Wendy had 3 beautiful. She had a set of twin boys aged 6 and a daughter aged 4. She watched them sleep so peacefully. She then shut the door and proceeded to walk down the stairs. Once down the large stair case, she finds her husband Jack Lloyd.
      "Jack what are you doing?" Wendy asks Jack, whom is working on some contraption.
     "You'll see.." Jack tells her. He can't tell her why he needs the contraption quite yet. He knows he needs to tell her his secret, but he just isn't ready.
    "Well okay, better be careful," Wendy warned him as she waltzed off.
     Jack had a terrible secret. He knew Wendy would hate him if she knew. He had to tell her eventually, but he couldn't until the time was right. He played out how to tell her in his mind a million different ways but none of them were right. He just couldn't do it. 
     Jack gave up on his contraption and decided to go eat. He walked in to the kitchen and made himself breakfast. He was startled by his two sons coming into the kitchen and screaming and laughing.
     "Boys, boys settle down a little bit. Go get ready for school," he instructed the boys.
    "Father we need to eat!" The one boy, Arthur complained.
     "Yes father please?" The other boy, Daniel, begged his father.
     "Okay, but after this you must get ready for school. And please keep the noise down because your sister is still sleeping," Jack agrees.
     The boys ate breakfast with their father, and rather quiet for two six-year-old boys. While the boys were eating, Wendy was upstairs in the nursery with her daughter, Margaret. She was just waking up. Margaret didn't have to go to school since she wasn't old enough yet but her mother would not allow her to sleep all day. She needed to keep busy.
     "Mother can I help you make lunch today?" Margaret asked Wendy. Wendy usually stayed home while Jack went to work. Wendy cleaned the house and made the family meals. Since Margaret didn't go to school yet, she helped Wendy with chores and cooking.
     "Of course you can, sweetheart." Wendy loved that her and her daughter were so close.
     Wendy took Margaret down the stairs and to the dining room where Jack and the boys were already eating the lovely meal that Jack had made for all of them. Wendy sat and ate with her family. She always admired her family but this day she noticed something different. Something she had never noticed before. Arthur and Daniel both look a lot like the boy that had stollen her first kiss, Peter Pan. She shook her head of those thoughts.
     Thinking of Peter Pan brought her sadness and heart break. Her first love. Her first kiss. Her first heart break. He promised to return, to hear her stories but he never returned. She told her children of his stories. She was always the story teller. Her children loved her stories, but their favourite was always Peter Pan. Telling the stories broke her heart a little bit every time. She always wondered what happened to him. She always wondered if he was okay, or if something had happened to him. She always asked herself why he never came back to her even though he promised. She always blamed it on him being a boy. Too childish to care.
     Wendy never thought she could love again until she met Jack. Something about his boyish charm made her smile. It was the first time she had forgotten about Peter. She was twenty years old when they met. It was eight year after she had met and fallen in love with Peter. She was finally ready to move on. A year after their meeting, they got married. She loved him. One year later she had two beautiful boys. And after that a beautiful daughter. She had a family, and she was happy but she never forgot about her first love.
     The boys went to school and Jack went to work. He was an accountant. He didn't enjoy his job at all but he needed to provide for his family because that's what a man does.
     Jack's day was going on like every other day. The clock struck 13:00 hour and he was getting tired. He always though of his family to keep him going. Happy thoughts kept him going. Jack was struck out of his thoughts with a loud bang.
     "Peter Pan," a voice yelled in anger and spite. Jack spun around, surprised by who was standing in the door way. He though he was dreaming but this was reality.