Second Love to the Right (Neal Cassidy/Baelfire Love Story)

Chapter 11: Neverland

After the boy finishes up with Neal, he turns to me.

"And who's this?" he asks with a smirk.

He starts walking around me like a wolf checking out his prey. It made me feel uncomfortable.

"Stay away from her" Neal says sternly.

The boy simply chuckles.

"I gotta admit Baelfire, you could do better. You should just stick with Emma. Oh wait, you can't because she will never forgive you" he says.

Neal is about to go after the boy, but due to his hands being tied, he couldn't do much.

The boy looks back at me, holding more rope in his hand.

"Your turn, sweetheart. Pan's been dying to meet you" he says.

As the boy walks towards me with rope, I back away a little.

I look at Neal and he nods a bit giving me a signal. He then kicks the boy causing him to fall over in pain.

"Go Molly! Run! Run now while you have the chance!" Neal yells.

"Neal I can't leave you!" I yell back.

"I promise I'll be fine. Just run!" Neal says.

I look at the boy about to get up again and then look at Neal. I bite my lip, but I decide to listen to him. I turn the other way and start to run through the lush forests of Neverland.

As I'm running, I hear the boy yell, "You can't run forever! Pan will find you!"

I run as fast as I can and as far as I can. I eventually stop to take a deep breath. After I catch my breath, I look all around me. There was no sign of Neal or anything. Nothing but thick forests and darkness. I dropped to the ground. I was lost. Not just in any old forest, but in a forest Neverland. Who am I kidding, the entire freaking island is forest! I'll never be able to find Neal or anyone. I crawl up next to tree and I'm on the verge of tears. Just as I'm about to I hear a voice say, "Are you alright?"

I look up to see who said it. However, I see no one.

"Hello?" I ask.

"It's alright. You don't have to be scared" the voice says.

The only thing I was able to deduce from the voice was that it belonged to a young man. And that he was British too.

"Where are you?" I ask.

I looked all around me but saw no sign of a person. Then suddenly I turn around and see a young man. He was maybe my height or taller. He had light brown hair with green eyes.

"I saw you crying. I thought you maybe were hurt" he says.

"I wasn't hurt, I'm just lost" I say.

"I can help you if you'd like" the boy offers.

For some reason, it didn't strike me as odd that I've seen two young boys alone on this island. Also for some reason, I found nothing odd about this boy wanting to help me. I mean, he's a young boy, what's he going to do? Suddenly before I could agree to the boy's offer, I felt something on my shoulder almost like a little shove. And that's when I heard, "Molly wake up."

My eyes immediately open and the first face I see is Neal. My first reaction was to embrace him into a hug.

"Neal I was lost, I didn't know where I was" I sob into his shoulder.

"It's alright, your safe now" he says.

I pull away from the hug.

"Do you know how long I was asleep for?" I ask.