Can Love Be Happiness

Chapter 23: Happy Endings Don't Exist

I’m a day late but HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I’m thankful for all you beautiful readers. Kisses to all. Thank you for reading

                It was just me. Me and the vast sky above. The warm breeze rushed past my face and couldn’t but help to let the smile spread across my face. The world was finally perfect, maybe this was heaven. Everything was bright and it felt like I was walking on air, so it could be heaven. My happiness was broken by a scream, a scream that was so deafening that it can’t easily be described. I got up from my laying position and looked around for the owner as I covered my ears. The scream rattled through my ears. The scream was filled with so much pain, so much suffering, and so much emotion. Tears started to fall down my face.

“Please stop! Please!” I yelled out to no one in particular, I just wanted it to stop. Tears rolled down my face faster as the scream got louder and closer. I was crying so hard that the pit of my stomach clutched and turned with every sob. I closed my eyes and brought my knees to my chest, slowly rocking back and forth. It felt like the person who was screaming was screaming directly in my ears. I lifted my head as it suddenly stopped and I saw him. He was standing there his signature smirk on his face. I quickly got on my feet and ran to him. I ran as fast as I could but I could never get to him, the faster I ran the father away he was to me. I looked at him tears streaming down my face. Tears going to my lips as I stared at him, they tasted salty and bitter.

“Why?” I called out to him but he didn’t respond. “Why?!” I called louder and he had the same reaction. I fell to my knees still asking the question over and over again. This was no heaven this was hell. Showing what I love and teasing me with it.

“Annabelle.” I looked up at his beautiful face. “I love you.” Then the worst thing happened he fell to his knees clutching his chest.

“No!” I stood up and ran to him. He fell face forwards and body grew limp. I reached him and put his head in my lap.

“Don’t you do this to me peter. Stay with me.” I got no response. “Peter I love you, I love you so much, don’t leave me.” Tears dropped on to his colorless face from my tear filled eyes.

“He is gone honey.” I looked up to see who was there. Her voice was a sweet as her face. She had full brown hair, blue eyes, and a soft face. “My, haven’t you grown up.” She smile back at me and it made feel like I have seen it before.

“Who-o are you?” She smiled at me and her white dress flowed with the wind.

“I’m your mother, Jill.” My mother? But she died after I was born.

“My Mother?” She nodded and soon I saw my father appear by her side. “Dad?” he nodded his head and put an arm around my mother’s waist. Tears started to come in my eyes again and I looked back down at Peter.

“You loved him didn’t you?” I looked up at her and not trusting my voice I nodded my head. This one thought was swarming in my head my whole life and now I could finally ask.

“Mom?”

“Hmm.”

“What happened to you? To me?” She and my father gave each other worried glances but my mother turned back to me and sighed.

“The dark one.”

“The dark one?”

“I was dying, right before you were born, and we needed help to at least save one of us. So your father called him right before I went into labor. He told us that he could keep you alive but all magic comes with a price and that price was that you would be his magic apprentice. He thought you would be a male so that’s why he agreed to give you magic. It kept you alive, the magic, but it balances with your rage and anger. Then when he came back for you when he was older and found out you were well a girl he punished your father by forcing you to be alone by making him join the army to fight the giants. He passed away in battle.” Tears started to fall down her cheek and my father pulled her closer. “You need to save him Annabelle.” I frowned but he just died in my arms, how could I save him?  “Now wake up Annabelle, wake up, wake up…”

  

                My head was pounding hard. My thoughts swarmed my head, making it hard to think straight.

“Annabelle wake up!” I blinked a couple of times before Wendy’s face came into view.

“Wendy!” I wrapped my arms around her neck and pulled her close. “Where were you?” I pulled back and looked into her tired eyes and she gave me a weak smile.

 “Um well Pan kept me prisoner.” I let my hands fall to my sides.

“He what?”

“I’m fine don’t worry about me, right now they are going after Pan.” I stood up and looked around, I was on Neverland. I remember everything. My parents, Henry, Bov, the lost boys, capture the flag, the cage, my tattoo, Felix, and I remembered him. The way I first felt about him, the way he kissed me, the way he said when he told me he loved me. Peter who was a total ass-hole but he was mine. My feelings that slowly came around to his flirtatious ways. Bov. Bov put me under some sort of memory loss spell, then made me think that I was in love with him. But peter he saved me, literally, I was lost without him. I stood up and Wendy followed my actions.

“Where is he?” worry rang through my voice.

“Skull Rock.”

                 I eventually found Skull Rock and rowed my way to it. By the time I got there my arms felt like jelly and my fingers were sore. I ran up the steps of the skull and it was silent, you could hear a pin drop it was so quiet. It scared me, what if they hurt Peter? No they couldn’t because he was strong. I reached the top of the stairs and it seemed to be a rock room with large boulders scattered around. It was dark in the room so it was hard to see but a couple of torches were hanging on the walls letting in a little light. In the middle was a blob, it looked like a person. I walked closer to it slowly and noticed it was Peter. I ran to him tears streaming down my face, I put his limp body into my lap.

“Peter it’s me. Wake up peter.” I gently shook his body and got no response. This can’t be happening. What happened to him? “Peter! Don’t leave me.” Tear heavily flew down my face clouding my vision. He couldn’t do to this to me after everything that’s happened. His face was abnormally white and his eyes were closed. His pink lips were slowly losing their color and his body was getting cold, I held him close like I could give him my heat he would miraculously get better.

When I was younger I always thought my life would end up like a fairy tale. I would one day, at the right age, find my prince charming and happily get married and have a family together. That’s was not how this story was ending, I was not a princess or someone who has happy endings. Nothing good happens to evil people. There is no such thing as happy endings or happily ever afters. But you could always undo a spell or a curse with the act of true love. Would it work?

I looked a Peter and put my hand to his face. I can’t get my hopes up if it doesn’t work.

“I love you Peter Pan.” I slowly brought my lips to his cold unmoving ones. I left them there for a couple beats them lifted up and put my head on his chest. I slowly let out my sobs on his green shirt. He was gone forever, I could never live with myself.

“I love you too Annabelle.”