A/N: New story upload! Is it Peter Pan again, Victory? Why, yes, it is! Aren't I mature?

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Ahem. Well. Anyway, Peter Pan is my entire poetic writing life, so y'all can suck it up and read it anyway, because I am PROUD of it. Also, is this the same Cara Darling as in the story, Waiting for the Stars by victory.x? Why, it could be. That's for you to decide. Anyway, I'd really appreciate it if you guys read Waiting for the Stars. Probably my favorite story I've ever written, and that story has almost become a part of me, of who I am. I really appreciate your reviews and favorites and follows.

This is written for a boy I knew, who recently committed suicide. Depression is the hardest, most painful thing in the world. You cannot understand it if you have never felt it. That is the selfishness in the world today.

I wish only peace on his family.

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Peter Pan, nor the Lost Boys, or Tinkerbell or Neverland or the concept of kisses. I do, however, own Cara Darling and Starwater Island.

the hidden kiss.

CHAPTER ONE: THE FIRST STAR.

Now, to understand Peter Pan, you must understand kisses.

Not everybody is born with a kiss, it is a gifted, lucky thing. Not that it gives you any sort of advantage over anything at all, really, except for growing up.

That is the tricky part, you see, for people with kisses do grow up. They'll grow up physically, and taller and wiser and that sort of thing, but they will never quite lose their innocence. A child's innocence is the most valuable and pretty part of them, and to lose it, is to lose childhood itself.

Then, are children without kisses not children at all? Of course they're children, just children without kisses. Kisses make the innocence so much purer and prettier, and kisses can help make decisions too, when they're needed. Some kisses are rash, but others are careful. It depends what luck you have. Usually, most children don't have them at all.

Kisses are not visible in the sense of seeing them, either. I suppose if you look closely enough at another's mouth, you can discern if they have a kiss or not. A kiss is usually concealed in the sweetest up-turn of a person's mouth, the slightest curl of lip. You can't see it, but you know it's there.

Why, then, you might ask, does Peter Pan not have a kiss of his own?

It's a good question, but I really don't know. I guess you might have to ask Peter Pan himself, and you won't gain much in that. He'll tell you something made up, the stuff of stories, and we can't cram too many tales in one story. No, we don't need that.

Anyways, Peter Pan has a collection of kisses, kisses given to him for free in the act of love. Peter did so love being admired. Now, I won't take the time to explain the act of giving kisses, because that's much too complicated. All you must know is that Peter Pan earned many, many kisses, and unlike a sensible, matured person would do, Peter Pan did not keep those beloved kisses. In fact, he lost them, and they are scattered about the Neverland, clad in tears, waiting for the day that he will remember them. Alas, he does not, and all he does is forget even more.

However, he holds one kiss near to his heart. It is the kiss of Wendy Darling, and although he does not remember who she was, he knows there is something very special about her kiss. And there is, for Wendy Darling was the only one who truly kissed him with her mouth, and her kiss left her, stripping her of childhood for years of adventure with Peter Pan. He wears the kiss in an acorn about his neck, but he does not know why. When he tries to remember, he grows dizzy and then forgets about remembering. In a way, his wearing the kiss keeps the memory of Wendy Darling alive.

Sometimes kisses are not given away at all, but are lost in the same time where a child loses it's innocence. When the child starts growing up, the kiss becomes parched and dry, and slowly withers away until it is there no longer.

Before it's death, the moon takes it up to live amongst the stars, in a place Peter Pan calls Starwater, because the rivers and oceans glitter with real stars, and you can scoop them up and put them in your pocket. Stars make lovely friends.

Starwater is the second star to the left, and straight on till morning, or in other words, the first star. It is a lovely place, home of kisses and the lazier stars, and wonderful creatures most cannot even imagine. Peter visits often, but because he is so accustomed to beauty, he does not even notice it anymore.

All retired kisses live at Starwater Island, and you can only enter the island with a kiss of your own, or if you are with someone with a kiss. Because Peter has Wendy's kiss, he visits any time he wants.

Wendy's kiss yearns for rest in Starwater, but it will never get it's wish. Peter will never grow up, will never lose his innocence, and the kiss will stay forever around his neck and partake in his never-ending adventures.

It doesn't seem so disappointed, anyway. I don't think any kiss would.