Author's note:
Not a very long chapter here, I know, but the next one will probably be pretty long. :) I'll try to get the next chapter up really soon. Happy reading! --Forest
Chapter 3
I reached my home in the middle of the night. I was exhausted, physically and emotionally, and drenched from the thunder storm that had shaken the forest. I could barely open the entrance to the Burrow.
The Burrow is a large room underneath a tree. The entrance is a large piece of bark that can be pulled upward to reveal a wooden slide that leads into the main room. The ceiling is made of twisted roots from the old tree above. Everything smells of wood, a rather soothing smell to me.
A large table sits in the middle of the room, surrounded by chairs. The lost boys used to sit in these chairs when we ate together. Various objects were scattered around the room; swords, rocks, sling-shots, a few gold coins, candles.
I turned to the left towards where I slept. My bed was made up of leaves and moss. It was hidden away in a small corner of the room, a curtain of dead leaves shielding it from the rest of the Burrow.
I pulled back the curtain and collapsed onto my bed.
Within a few minutes, I was asleep.
I awoke late the next day. I lay in my bed, wanting sleep to come back to me, but knowing that it wouldn't. I wasn't physically tired anymore, just emotionally worn out.
After a while of giving myself reasons to get up and go outside, I got the energy to do it. I headed out into the forest by myself on foot, searching my head for happy thoughts.
I walked for about a half an hour when I started thinking about the girl I had seen on the earth. What had she said again? "Why couldn't you be real? Come take me away."
Curiosity set in. What had she meant by this? Why did she want to leave? Was something bad happening? I thought about how happy I had been when I had other people around me.
I was unhappy.
She was unhappy.
I needed company.
She seemed to need company as well.
Perfect.
Thinking of having someone with me made me smile. Maybe we could find some more Lost Boys…and girls. I guess girls aren't so bad. We could play games together, we could fight pirates, we could visit the mermaids, and watch the faeries dance. She could tell the Lost Children stories like Cinderella and Snow White…We'd have so much fun together.
Suddenly, I was breaking through a cover of leaves out into the blue sky.
"Yeah!" I shouted, doing a back-flip in midair. I swooped down into the forest, dodging trees with practiced skill. "Tinkerbell!" I called out into the trees. "Where are you, Tink?"
A small ball of light came flying out of the trees, pulling up beside me.
"Come on, Tink," I said to the faerie. "Lets go back to earth."
