Lost in Neverland

Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Peter

When we get home I run to the kitchen and instantly start packing food in a little basket. "You were out late. what were you doing", I jump at the voice and turn around to see my brother Ben.

"What do you want", I ask turning back to finish what I started.

"I want you to answer me, Peter", he replies spitting out my name.

"I'm was out with Alice and I'm packing us dinner for our date"

"Ha, you got a date? Who's Alice anyways, a fake girlfriend or something?"

"I'm real", Alice replies. she was leaning against the doorway. "I went to tell my mom I was back, ends up she didn't even know that I'd been missing", she continues. I look over at my brother, knowing how he was. He was checking her out, typical Ben.

"So your Alice?", he asks.

"Depends on who's asking", she challenges.

"Oh I see. I'm Peter's brother"

"Then yes, I'm Alice", she replies coldly. "Come on", she says, grabbing my hand," I'm starving", and we leave. I turn back once to glare at my brother, all he does is laugh as he walks away.

"Sorry about that", I say once we're outside.

"Are you sure that he's your brother? you two look nothing alike"

"Sadly", I reply. We didn't look alike. Everyone in my family were brunettes and had brown eyes except for me. I ended up getting all the recessive genes, though I liked being different.

"So how many siblings do you have?", she asks taking out some carrots.

"Four though I'm exactly in the middle, two older siblings and two younger siblings. What about you? Is Clara your only sibling?"

She nods taking out some chicken wings. What are their names and how old are they?", she asks.

"There's Micah who's twenty three, Kimberly who's twenty, me and I'm seventeen, Ben and he's fifteen and finally Danny, she's six.

"Cool I'm sixteen, Clara's twenty. Um what's your favorite color? Mine is green", she asks with a mouthful of chicken.

"Mines blue. Favorite book"

"That's easy, Frankenstein, you?"

"Peter Pan, what else", I say in a duh voice. She giggles, lightly punching me. We continue on for an hour but then we're just laying there looking for constellations.

"I see that guy's belt", I say pointing up at it.

"You mean Orion's Belt", she giggles.

"Yeah, that guy"

"It's late, I'm gonna call it a night". She looks over at me expectantly and I nod my head and start to get up. I hold out my hand and help her up but I don't let go. She turns to go and I pull her back. She looks at me expectantly with a question written across her face. I grab both of her hands and lean down and kiss her forehead. She looks at me and I let go, letting her walk away. I sit back down and sigh. Why'd I like her so much? How was she different?

***

I wake up to the sound of Danny's squeal. Mom must have picked her up from the party. I turn to see what time it was and immediately hop out of bed when I see it was a little past one. My mom never let me sleep that late. I stretch and walk out of my room in my pajamas that exists of bottoms, that was it. I groggily stumble through the house and grab a poptart and head back to my room when I hear muffled laughter. I turn around wondering who could be here when I remember Alice. My eyes widen when I see her sister giggling and her googling at me. my cheeks flush with embarrassment and I run to my room quickly putting a shirt and eating my poptart in misery. How embarrassing can I be? I groan at what I was going to have to face, mom's scolding and Alice making fun of me.

I walk out, ashamed. "Thank you so much Laurel for letting us stay here", I hear Mrs.Ford tell my mom.

"Oh it is my pleasure", my mother replies.

"Well I called my sister canceling the California plans. We've decided to just stay here, though we are going to stay in a hotel"

"No no no! I will not allow that! Don't waste your money on a hotel. Stay here as long as you want", my mother offers.

"I think we'll take you up on that offer. thank you so much"

"It is absolutely no problem! I love having guests", my mother replies and soon they are talking about their woman gossip or whatever. I stop eavesdropping and walk out to go find Alice.

I go inside the kitchen and see her and Ben talking. All of a sudden I'm angry. I never liked Ben, all he did was flirt and have his fun and he was not going to do that to Alice as long as I was around. He looks over and sees me, giving me a smirk when we make eye contact. I didn't know what he was up to but I was going to find out.