Chapter 1

Sit back, relax and enjoy but I do not own Twilight or Peter Pan

A marvelous thing

To have joy

Never-ending happiness

No responsibility

No sadness

No worries of what's to come

But the gift is always lost

In the moments of time

To lose something beautiful

Is to lose our innocence.

'Rose, Alice. Hurry he's at the door!'

Quick! Quick! Oh...why must I have to be such a klutz causing us to run late? Great it's already 6 o'clock. My heart beat even faster when I heard the keys in the door. They were meant to be hiding and I was meant to be waiting in my room for him, by now.

The metal key determines my fate unlocking the brass lock. He always takes 1 minute to unlock and open the door, another to drop his coat and brief case by the door, 3 to untie his leather boots, 30 seconds to throw them across the corridor, and lastly 2 in front of grandmother's mirror where he checks himself out, no doubt. That gives me 7 and a half minutes to hide the girls.

Smash

My world stops but my heart beats even faster.

Bang

He slammed the door. So he either heard or is in his usual mood. I didn't know what to do and there was so little time but I couldn't move. All I could do was stare at the scattered pieces of the glass vase. He was going to be worse today and now I wouldn't be the only one under the fangs of that monster.

'Bella'

I raised my eyes and there stood the only constants in my life besides the pain and suffering.

Two pairs of different eyes stared at me. One crystal blue and the other almost the colour of coal, but both with the same understanding that mine held.

'Bella' Rose whispered, this time in a quivering voice.

We were all in tremendous danger this time. I failed. I tried so hard to keep them away. Away from this monster. I lifted my head resisting the waterfall that would show the little hope. There was nothing I could do. They are so full of innocence that should never be taken away. They should be playing in a meadow filed with daisies or swinging each other on the swings at the park. They deserve a better a life. I have to do something and something quick. But what?

It will take to long to get them in the usual hiding places and the attic was a no no. Last time he found them there and I will never let them go through the consequence he bestowed upon them.

So being the rational person I am. I turned the doorknob of my room.

'Bella, where are you? I been waiting for you all day my sweets.' He yelled, sending shivers down my spine.

Oh my god he was already in the upstairs corridor. He will find us soon.

'BELLA' he yelled again.

'BELLA'

'I WILL NOT BE PATIENT TONIGHT YOU BITCH'

'YOU'RE A WORTHLESS COW'

'NOW GET YOU YOUR HORE ASS IN THIS CORRIDOR SO I CAN SHOW YOU HOW WORTHLESS YOU ARE'

His words hurt even more than the first time he spoke them. Though all I cared about any more at this moment was protecting the girls. My hands held their ears closed, their small bodies pushed hard against my sides.

As I heard him get closer we huddled together against my wall.

Both their bodies were shaking as if they had the Spanish influenza.

I could feel their fear, almost hear their small frightened hearts beating rapidly and to see my eyes, was to see hatred greater than the devil himself.

'BELLA'

A frail wooden door kept us apart.

We leaned further into the wall hoping it would further the distance between us.

And then as I saw the doorknob turn we were covered in darkness.

'Bella, the wall ate us'

'Stupid Rose, it did not eat us, we are inside the wall'

'Alice the'

Recovering from the shock, I covered both their mouths with my hands in time to hear his shouts that followed with the destruction of my room. Well, I guess I will not have a bed and a bookshelf for a while. Thanks Phil, I really appreciate it.

Removing my hands from their mouth, I took them in my embrace, holding them tight against my chest. We were together, we survived together, and we had a strong bond that should be shared between mother and daughter but rather shared between sisters, trapped in a world that will never be touched by the light of joy and happiness. We can hide, though we will never be truly free.

'What are we going to do?' whined Rose.

'Shhh…. The monster might hear us' Alice scolded.

I couldn't help my giggle and then, as if we weren't hiding in a wall we were filled with quiet giggles. However, as all good things stop, our giggling halted and there was silence and darkness.

'Alice do you have our backpack?' Rose enquired.

I saved the little money I had to buy the girls the present on their sixth birthday last month. As twins and used too little attention, they did not mind sharing a present and not celebrating. I brought them a small backpack filled to the top of supplies that would be handy in any situation, ranging from band aids to small snacks. I decided on that present after the attic incident. I just could never be to sure if they would need it and I wouldn't be around. Of course, to two six year olds it was like giving them a box full of adventure and fun.

'Yeah. Why?'

'Look for a torch silly.'

I smiled proud at Rose.

'Great thinking, Rosie' I told her and she just looked up at me with a sparkle in her crystal blue eyes.

'Found it'

Alice turned it on and we were brought into the light again but a place I rather not be in. Spider webs covered almost every section of the wall, thick dust floated in the air and black furry creatures ran across the floor.

Do not scream. Do not scream. It will not hurt you. It is smaller than you are.

Alice jumped in my lap at the sight of a spider.

'It's going to eat me' she cried quietly.

I looked at Rose and she just rolled her eyes and then started crawling.

What. Wait. Where is she going?

'Rose!'

'This must be secret passage like that movie, we just have to find the end and we will be out of here'

She has a point. Mmm…What a smart child.

As much as I hated it in here, it was better than being out there with the real monster but it felt like we were not even in our house anymore.

We had crawled round so many corners I could not even determine what part of the house we were in anymore.

Rose led the way with Alice perched on my back as if I was her own horse but suddenly Rose stopped.

And there in front of us was an old wooden ladder.

We all looked at each other and without a word Rose begun the climb followed by Alice and then me.

We came to a room that smelled oddly familiar. Like mothballs and layers of year old dust.

I bent down eyelevel to the curious girls and whispered,

'My wall ate us up but we must have tasted bad because she gave us to the attic.'

I sat on the edge of the bed, tucking Rose and Alice in the small bed of the secret attic.

I never noticed but the actual attic was smaller, this was a room walled off but we discovered a trap door that leads the actual attic but for safety, we decided to stay in the secret one and it had a bed, acting as a hidden bedroom. How strange.

'Bella, can you please tell us a bedtime story? Please.'

'Yeah Bella. Please'

With a sigh, I begun the bedtime story of Cinderella but never getting the chance to finish, as they were sound asleep the time she was at the ball.

'Goodnight sweethearts.'

If only things could be different. I would not be worthless. Alice once told me it is the beauty on the inside that counts, but what if you are like me and you are not beautiful on the outside or on the inside.

Glazing out of the window into the starry night, I dreamed to be part of the beautiful and peaceful sight. I looked back at the sleeping figures.

'I wish you had a mother, I wish you had a better life. I use to hope it would never be this way. I will never forgive myself, I will never protect you enough, I will never give you both joy, I will never be the older sister I should be, I will never have my innocence back and I will never be able to stop the monster that will take yours.'

A tear fell straight from my heart and ran down my cheek, stopping by a cold touch and a soft whisper of velvet against my ear.

'There is always love and joy in my world, smiles to warm your heart, adventure to be free, to have innocence, don't grow up, never be part of this world of despair, be beautiful, be happy.'

His words warmed my heart and let it flutter beating a song for him throughout my body that slouched against his.

'But there is no such place'

Cast under his spell my heart jumped in hope for once in years when he replied with one word.

'There is, Neverland'

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