Thank you dream lighting and Blackrose3107 for reviewing the last chapter, and to answer the former's question, I'm not promising anything, but I don't consider Wendy evil in this story either. I only think she's gone into puberty more than the others, knowing teenagers. I don't own Peter Pan, I only own my OC!It was night. John, Michael and I were in the boys' room. John was doing something on his laptop, I was drawing yet another sketch while sitting on their toys' box and Michael was singing happily. Who could blame him? His birthday was tomorrow after all! I was actually drawing Captain Muscles, intending it to be my cousin's birthday present.
Letting out a sigh, I looked at an open window. Apparently, after I got unconscious the last time we were in Neverland, I missed half of the fun with a machine gun, Hook and awesome Talking Trees. What was even worse, I lost my Never Tree sketch. I've been working so hard on it! John and Michael assured me how I'd draw another one easily though.
"Red cars, guns…." Michael was counting on his fingers in euphoria. I smiled in amusement, a pencil in my right hand. "Are you done, Liz?" Michael wanted to see my drawing. I quickly put it out of his sight. "Not yet." "Please, please let me see it!" "Not a chance!" Michael was chasing me around the room, both of us laughing.
Michael wasn't the only one whose birthday was soon though. In fact, today was Peter's birthday! Michael and I agreed to organize a party in Neverland for the boy who would never grow up, and now, we were waiting for our plan to start.
Suddenly, Wendy opened the door, coming in the room. Michael and I immediately stopped our chase. "Michael, Liz, not so loud! All that noise will bring mum in here, we can't have her in here, not when Peter's on his way!" She shushed us. This time, I had to agree with her, not really wanting my Aunt to come up.
"Yeah, good luck Wendy, he's happier to go to his birthday than Christmas, so…" John joined in a conversation, taking headset off his ears. "Tomorrow's my birthday, happy birthday to me!" I chuckled, joining Michael in singing. "Tomorrow's your birthday, happy birthday to you!"
At that moment, I looked at those two stars, and saw someone coming through our window! "Did I hear someone mention birthdays?" Peter entered with Tinker Bell, giving a 'hi five' to Michael. "That's crazy talk, Michael, Liz, birthdays are stupid!" he stated in the air.
I raised an eyebrow. "And you won't catch me having one!" Peter landed in front of Michael, Wendy and me. "What are you talking about, Peter?" I asked him in surprise. How could he say that? If anything birthdays were fun, there was always laughter, singing, cakes….
"Come on, birthdays are brilliant!" Michael grinned. "Lots of presents, cakes…" I started. "I said they're stupid, so they are!" Peter cut me off, everyone gasping, shocked at his words. I felt like someone's slapped me in the face, so I stayed quiet. "In fact they're forbidden in Neverland!" he then crossed his arms turning his back to us and looking outside the window. But why? We wanted it to be a surprise party!
"Maybe you don't want to come, Wendy, that wouldn't be a problem!" Tinker Bell stated, her arms crossed and sitting on a toy. "Well?" Peter asked, looking at us, mostly Wendy expectantly. "Let's go!" Peter then took Tinker Bell, sprinkling all of us with a fairy dust. We were flying out of the room one by one, passing the Tower Bridge, London Eye…
Michael and I were a bit behind the others when we were passing Big Ben. "What are we going to do now, Liz?" my youngest cousin asked me. I bit my lip, looking at four of the people in front of us. What was the point now if Peter thought they were stupid, let alone banned? But, he had no idea how wrong he was!
"We're going to give him the best birthday party ever!" I decided, earning a smile from Michael. We were going to do it Peter, like it or not! When we landed in front of the Never Tree, some of the Lost Kids like Chubs, Ficelle and Baby joined us.
I greeted them along with my cousins. "When does our plan start? Tell me Liz!" Michael said excitedly, but I quickly shushed him. "We can't let Peter find out, so we need to get him out of the way." I stated, looking at the birthday guy flying in the air with Ficelle, Chubs and Baby talking to him.
But, how were we going to do that all by ourselves? No, we needed help. "What are you doing?" Wendy joined us, seeing we were talking about something. "Wendy, we need your and Tiger Lily's help." I explained to her our plan.
After what seemed like an eternity, Lily joined us. "Hi Lily!" "So, why did you call me?" she asked. "We want to give Peter a birthday party but we can't do it while he's here near the Never Tree!" I explained to her, the girl smirking.
Four of us got in a circle, whispering to each other ideas. "That'll work." Wendy said, all of us agreeing. We then headed to a log where Peter and John were sitting. "Peter, are you ready?" Lily asked. "Always, Lily, always! Ready for what?" he then landed in front of Lily, Wendy and me.
"Silly, today's the day you have to go fetch Walkenahoo!" Nice name, Lily! "The what?" Baby asked flummoxed, walking to us. "The Walkahoohoo thingy!" Peter somehow managed to say it different. "Obviously I haven't forgotten that, actually, I was about to take off!" Who was he fooling around? He had no idea what we were talking about! That was a point though.
"Just to get this right, what does it look like, Lily?" "You don't know what Walkenahoo looks like?!" I asked as if it was the end of the world. "You see, it's kind of like…" I started, the boy grinning at us, for some reason making my heart beat faster and giving me more trouble in making up a good lie. What was wrong with me? "Big!" Wendy was showing some motions behind Peter. "No, not big enough!" I decided not to look directly into his brown eyes. If I was going to lie, I'd better do it properly without any dispersion!
"You know what? It's like a big rock!" Lily beat me to it. "The most sacred treasure of this island!" I added, knowing I was exaggerating. "Oh yeah, stone treasure, I knew that, obviously!" Peter smiled at Lily and me, and I felt my knees feeling a bit weak. What was this?
"Everyone knows that!" Wendy added, coming closer to us and causing Lily to start bickering with her quietly when Peter turned to look at us again. "Where exactly is the Cowatotoo?" all three of us were grinning like idiots.
"Just to be sure, you know." He smiled. What was even worse, my heart rate didn't seem to slow down. I had to do something to calm down, even though I had no idea what was wrong with me in the first place! I also felt something like butterflies in my stomach.
"At the mount Highcone of course!" Lily stated. John showed us a peak in the Great Book. "Easy, I'll fly to the mountain, grab the stone, and be back before you can blink!" Peter, who was flying in the air landed.
"NO!" I said rather loudly, causing everyone to flinch. He couldn't come back that fast! "No flying allowed!" I explained my reaction. "Because then, it would lose its sacred power!" Wendy then said. "Everyone knows that!" I added.
The Lost Kids then said how they knew it as well. "Fine! Fine, I'll go on foot, I'll walk!" Peter said with a bit of annoyance in his voice, showing the walking gesture with his fingers before lowly walking away. "I'm Peter Pan! Me, walking? Ridiculous!" I would have laughed at his grunting because I found the thing we got him into pretty ironic, but I felt relieved he was finally gone.
"Listen, guys! That mission we sent him on is totally fake; we just want to set up a birthday party for him!" Wendy explained to everyone. "We thought birthdays were outlawed." Baby stated. "Besides, Peter says they're stupid!" Cynthia told Wendy.
"But he's never had one! If he did, he'd realize how fun they are! Now, we have a chance to show him that!" I declared. Everyone then agreed to do the job. We were then planning, putting on decorations, making cake, everything!
"We can put the table with cakes right there!" Wendy said. At that moment, Tinker Bell flew in front of me and my cousins. "What exactly is going on here?" she demanded. "We're tidying up a bit because it's so dirty in here!" I covered up.
I knew my lie was a total disaster though. Everyone knew my opinion when it came to cleaning, knowing what happened the last time! "Don't tell Tinker Bell, she can't keep a secret for anything!" Wendy whispered. Tinker Bell seemed to believe the lie after my cousin said something else though.
We were near the finish, and while I was carrying one present, I saw petals being released from a net! Seeing the fairy dust, I knew who did it. Nearing the table with cakes, I saw Tink stepping on one! "What do you think you're doing?!" I demanded.
"I don't care; at least you can't hurt Peter now!" I let out a laugh. "Us, hurt Peter? It's for his birthday!" I exclaimed in disbelief. Tinker Bell then turned to look at me in surprise. "Why didn't you say so?! All fairies love birthdays!" she exclaimed excitedly.
"But this is all your fault Elizabeth, why didn't you say so?" ""We can still manage to get it on time if we work together!" Tinker Bell was really excited, helping us along the way.
All of us hid to wait for Peter. "I've got the stone thingy!" All of us got out to see him with a stone in his left hand and a dagger in his right. John and Michael hugged Peter and all of us were cheering. "Thanks, must admit it wasn't easy, but I've got the Dodoo thingy!"
"Peter, it wasn't for the stone, it was for your birthday!" I joined the trio, explaining the situation. Suddenly, Hook came crashing in with his pirates. What a party breaker! "My birthday and you invited Hook and his pirates?" Peter asked me in disbelief. I had no idea what to say. "Not that we know of!" Wendy said.
Jaro charged at Peter, but he flew out of the way, and the fun began. Tink released the petals, cakes were in the air. I caught one cake, tasting it. It was strawberry, my favorite flavor! I then watched the others fighting for the dumb rock.
At one moment, Hook was holding for Peter. Looking at a frying pan with a rock on it in my hand, I threw the rock at the Captain, making him fall. Hook caught the rock, racing back to the Jolly Roger with the pirates after him.
Peter wanted to go with them too though! He was risking it all for a dumb rock! Luckily, Tink stopped him just as we ran after them. "Forget it Peter, let's go back!" Wendy shouted. "But ity's the sacred stone!" Peter flew in front of her. "It was just a silly rock." I said.
"We wanted you far away while we set up your birthday party! You were right, birthdays are stupid!" Wendy looked down. "If this is what they're like, they're fantastic!" Peter put a hand on her shoulder, making my stomach twist for a no good reason.
I paid no attention to what was happening around me, only acknowledging others while cheering when Peter allowed the birthdays again; because it turned out they were outlawed because you'd turn a year older! Anyway, you could now stay the same age, and I saw Peter hugging Wendy. "Thanks Wendy for the party." He smiled at her.
I felt a bit left out and hurt. It was Michael and my idea to set up the party! My heart was beating fast again, much to my annoyance. It didn't matter whose idea at the end it was though. Of course, Wendy would end up as the golden girl again.
I gave Michael my finished sketch when we got back to London, wanting to go to sleep and thinking about those weird feelings today.