Can Love Be Happiness

Chapter 17: I See You

                I ran the rest of the way to my treehouse. I didn’t want to be around anybody. I hate my life! Why does it have to be so damn complicated? I miss the days in the enchanted forest when it was just me and my thoughts. But I did hate being alone for all those years, what if that happened again? I couldn’t be alone that’s what made me have those thoughts and John purified me. I was never going to turn out like that again. It will be alright Anna just have faith.

                I was adding wood to my slowly dying fire as the sky showed it was late at night. I wasn’t tired because I slept most of the time in the cage to waste time. So I stayed up looking at the stars trying to forget about the short lived “family” I had. I laid down in the dirt, not caring if I got dirty, and stared out at the clear sky above. I heard a rustle in the bushes and I quickly sat up and reached for my dagger at my hip. The rustling came closer and out emerged a beautiful woman with blond hair tied in a lose bun on the top of her head. She walked closer and smiled at me.

“Whoa no need to use that, I’m not here to hurt you.” She said to me as she sat on the log by the warming fire.

 “Who are you?” I asked my voice cracked at the end, what I was locked in a cage for thirteen days not able to talk to anyone.

“My name is Tinkerbell.”

“Why are you here Tinkerbell?” She laughed and looked at me with caring eyes.

“I heard about Pan making you leave and I thought you would be lonely.”

“Thank you, but you don’t have to pity me. I will be fine on my own.”

“Oh come on everybody needs friends.”

“Friends? You consider me as a friend?”

“Yes I do and I’m not going to let my friend be alone. You also have been with a bunch of teen boys for over a month so I thought you might want to have so girl time.” I laughed, she had no idea how much I wished to have another girl with me, but did she say a month?

“Um Tinkerbell…”

“Please call me Tink, since now we are friends.” I nod my head and continue to find my words.

“Why haven’t I… you know…had my girl problem like that yet?”

“Oh, yes good question. Well since this is Neverland and it holds magic sometimes it gives off that magic to the people on it. For girls in that case, since time stands still, your bodily functions stay with the day you stepped on the island. So you don’t have your period if you came without it but if you did then the fairies have a potion to make it stop.”

“What if you get pregnant?”

“I really hope you don’t do that soon because you are too young.” I roll my eyes “But if you do get pregnant then you sprinkle pixie dust on your stomach that way the baby will grow to a certain age. It isn’t a known age it all is decided by fate.”

“What other kind of magic is there?”

“Well since you’re not magical…” She scrunched her face and tapped her chin like she was thinking hard. “Oh if you think of something really hard it will actually appear.”

“Oh that makes a lot more sense.” We laugh together and just talk about our lives outside of Neverland. Tink was actually a fairy before blue, the queen of the fairies, took her wings and power away from her. She said it was all because of this evil woman Regina, Regina betrayed Tink and she got I trouble for it. Tink also told me that she wishes that she could have Regina pay for what she did. I started to hate this Regina chick, just the way Tink described her made her sound like a total bitch. Tink eventually had to leave but we said we meet up tomorrow to show me her home. I waved her goodbye and went to go get some deserving sleep.

~~~One Month Later~~~~

Tink and I have been hanging out with each other every day since we met. She showed me Wendy and at first we weren’t nice to each other but eventually made up and all of us three girls are friends. Wendy told me that Pan brought her and her brothers to Neverland one day. Pan told them that he was going to make them apart of the lost boy family. She fell in love with him for being so kind but he hated the thought of love on the island. She tried to get her and her brothers to escape but only her brothers made it out and she became a prisoner to the island. She never saw her brothers again and Pan won’t tell her anything about them. I felt so bad for her, she was alone on this island and Pan turned her down. She was my friend now and I tried to comfort her.

                I had to go to the stream to get water for the stew that Tink was going to make with the deer that I shot yesterday. So I carried the big pot to the stream holding it in my arms. I got there and it was so peaceful, the birds chirped and the animals played by the water. I bent down to get the rushing water into the pot. I noticed something move on the other side of stream and looked up. I saw a boy on one knee bring his hands full of water to his mouth. After he drank the water he looked at me and smirked. It was Pan and he was actually looking at me! What the hell is wrong with you he broke your friend’s heart. He waved at me and I waved back and smiled at him. I need to stop this. I picked up the pot of water and looked back up, he was gone but on the ground was his pipe. I put the water back down and hopped on the rocks to the other side of the stream. I walked over to the pipe and picked it up stuffing it into my back pocket. It stuck out a little but I covered it with my new clothes that I had made appear a week ago. I went across once again and walked back to the camp with the heavy water in my hands.

                Later that night after we ate the amazing stew the girls were asleep in their homes. Tink magically brought Wendy’s and her home closer to mine with the little pixie dust she had a while back ago. I sneak out of my house and quietly run to the forest. I walk towards to the lost boy’s camp trying to be quite as possible. When I’m almost there I hear muffled voices I hide behind a tree listening and trying to look without being caught.

“I’m sooo glad I found the rumm that hook hid on the islandd.” Pan slurred as though he was drunk. I looked over and saw Pan and Felix sitting on the log facing towards the fire pit.

“Yeah Pan I think we neededd a load off.” Felix was drunk too, dumb asses.

“I can’t believe I saw herrr today, shee was gorgeous.” Pan said to Felix. Aw Pan was being so nice.

“Ignore her Pan shhee will neverrr be as loyal as me.”

“Your right, you willl always be a brother to me.” Pan leaned forward and kissed Felix on the forehead and patted him on the back and Felix got up and staggered to his tent. I walked towards Pan, not really caring if he saw me, he would probably not even remember me being here in the morning. I tapped his shoulder and he turned around and smiled at me.

“My lost girl!” he yelled.

“Shhh” I put my finger on his lips and he chuckles and starts to lick it. I pulled it away and whipped it on his shirt.

“Pan I’m here to give this back to you.” I reached in my back pocket and handed him his pipe. He smiled and tucked behind him.

“Are you sure that’s the reason you came back.”

“Yes Pan that’s why I came back. I need to go back now so goodbye Pan.” I turned and started to walk back to my camp.

“Now that’s what I missed.” I turned around and faced him, I probably looked puzzled and he just smirked back at me.

“What?”

“That lovely little ass of yours.” I turned back and fast walked back to the camp. My cheeks felt so hot and my stomach was doing flips. It was just the rum, it was just the rum, it was just the rum talking.