"Bye Wendy!!!" Michelle called from the bus. "Call me when you get home, right?!"
"I will! Bye!!" Wendy yelled back. She smiled as Michelle tried to pull her head back through the bus window, promptly smacking it into the top of the bus. "Smooth!" she called after the bus. Michelle's hand stuck out the window making an obscene gesture in Wendy's direction.
Wendy chuckled to herself as she walked home, shivering slightly from the crisp, England autumn air. "Why did summer have to end so soon?" she thought, pulling her jacket tighter around her thin frame.
A shadow flew above her. Instinctively, she looked up, but it was only a sparrow.
Wendy sighed. It had been five years since her trip to Never Land, and now it seemed only a childish dream. Still, she couldn't help but wonder if someday, Peter would keep his promise and return to her.
She was so wrapped up in her thoughts that she didn't realize where she was going.
"Oof!" she said as she ran into a passing stranger. "Sorry about that sir." The man didn't answer, but simply stared at her for a moment, then walked on. Wendy shivered. She didn't like the way those coal black eyes made her feel.
She was so fightened by the strangers odd actions, that she ran the few blocks to her house and didn't stop until she was safely inside the door.
"Wendy? Is that you?" her mother called from the kitchen.
Wendy didn't answer at first as she panted, trying to catch her breath. "Yea mum!" she said finally. "
"Oh, well, how was your day darling?" she asked, coming into the foyer.
"Eh, it was." she said, shrugging one shoulder. "I've got loads of homework though, so I'll be upstairs if you need me."
"Alright honey, I have to go pick up Michael from school, and then we are going to go see John's school play. Your father won't be home until tommorow so you'll be by yourself tonight." she said, taking a quick look in the mirror before grabbing her jacket and kissing her eldest daughter on the cheek. "Goodbye love, there are leftovers in the fridge."
"Bye mum. Have fun." Wendy said before she closed the door after her mother and ran upstairs to her room.