Chapter 4- Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust.
Peter pan laughed as they stared at the swarm of lost boys coming towards them. At first, Rebecca was too distracted by the young boys parading around in shorts and torn hats to notice the two older boys walking with them. It was ridiculous really, most of the boys looked like they had lost to a war with a dragon, their shirts were torn and covered in mud, but they had silly smiles on their faces like a cat that ate the canary. There were a rare few that wore clean trousers and shirts, probably the newer lost boys she assumed. The two older lost boys however stood out like a sore thumb, whether it was the fact they towered over the other lost boys or the fact they were grim and silent was hard to say. Behind them, trailed a young girl, a short thing with a bob that ended at her shoulders. She had a delicate build, and it looked like a single touch would break her, but her face lit up at the sight of new guests. "Finally, some more girls!" she shrieked running up to Nellie whose eyes widened in surprise.
"Hey, get off me!" she shrieked. For a moment Rebecca felt a sting of anger. Hey, what was she chopped liver?! But then she realized just as the girl's eyes turned to her that she was supposed to be a boy. And she supposed she looked the part with her short hair, she blew her wispy red bangs out of her face and tried to slouch. She was tall for her age so she hoped that would help, but compared to the older lost boys she looked like a midget. All well, that couldn't be helped.
"Hey there. What's your name? Mine's Sarah." The short, bubbly girl said smiling.
"Reb-Robert." She stumbled, managing to deepen her voice.
"Come with me!" Sarah said, boldly taking her hand.
"I thought you were excited about there being more girls! Replacing me already?" one of the older boys called.
"Oh shush Trey!" Sarah giggled. She turned to Rebecca. "That's my friend Trey, we joke around like that all the time, but don't worry about him he's really nice."
"What about the other one?" Rebecca mused.
"Oh him? I don't know, James is pretty quiet. He's really cute thou." She blushed. Looking closer at Sarah, Rebecca guessed her to be around 12, and Trey and James to be more around her age 13. She looked up surprised to see James staring at her. It surprised her, and she hadn't realized she had stopped walking until Sarah pulled at her hand impatiently. She watched his solemn face fade away till she could only see the green specks of his eyes glowing in the night sky.
"Hey, wait for me!" Nellie squealed. Rebecca laughed, apparently Nellie was popular with the lost boys who despite being around 5, 7, and 9, and 12 years old found Nellie to be quite pretty. There were mud prints all over her dress, and one boy had apparently put his dirty torn hat on Nellie's head as a gift, but obviously Nellie didn't see it that way.
"What about Peter Pan?" she asked as Sarah led them away.
"He said he had to do some hunting." Nellie pouted.
"Well, that just means more work for us tonight then."
"Work?" Rebecca asked.
"Oh, not for you!" Sarah said quickly. "For Nellie and me. Someone has to cook these meals! That's the only reason Peter lets me stay here. Netherland is really more of a place for Lost Boys. "
"Don't you mind?" Rebecca asked.
"No of course not! It's a fair trade. I get to stay here and I am the one who suggested it anyways. Besides, it will give us more bonding time, right Nellie?"
"Hey! Who said I was helping you cook?" she scoffed. "I've got more important things to do." She adjusted her hair, and straightened.
"More important than seeing Peter's stash of pixie dust?" Sarah said, smiling devilishly at the pair.
"He's got a secret stash?!" Rebecca asked, "But he's got tinkerbell. Why does he need an entire stash?"
"You never know when you might need pixie dust." Sarah laughed. "Now come on!"
In a cave by the sea shore, so that's where a 14 year old boy would hide pixie dust. Rebecca was surprised by how lit up the cave was, the golden powder glowed and there was a gigantic pile of it at the back of the cave. It was impossible to think she hadn't noticed the glow from outside, she reached to touch it and felt something above her head. She looked up to see Sarah floating about her, her smiling face illuminated by specks of gold powder that blended into her skin like bronzer. And specks of gold powder falling around her own head. Without even realizing it she had already floated a few feet above the ground.
'Come on Nellie!" Sarah shrieked.
"No way, I like my feet on the ground." Nellie sniffed. "Besides, I don't want to get my clothes dirty."
"Really? Cuz Peter loves the smell of pixie dust. It drives him crazy." Sarah said winking at Rebecca.
"Well, I suppose I could try a bit." Nellie said, picking up a pinch of the pixie dust in her hands and squeezing her eyes shut and grimacing as she dropped it on her neck. "There!" she sad triumphantly.
Sarah nudged her, and Rebecca catching on gathered a handful of dust in her hands and together she and Sarah dropped the pile on Nellie's head. They both laughed as she shrieked and ran out of the cave.
"There goes my kitchen buddy." She sighed. "Oh well, it was worth it." Her face froze as she looked around the room. "Oh no! Nellie knocked over Peter's vase, he'll know someone was here!"
Rebecca stared at her. "Peter doesn't know you know where his stash is, does he?"
"No. I'm not supposed to know, no one is." Sarah admitted. "Peter says he made a deal with the fairies he wouldn't let anyone else use the dust in Netherland. But you don't mind, do you Tink?"
"Tink?" Rebecca asked.
Sarah blushed and crossed the room, standing in the corner of the room was a cloth which she lifted and in the cage underneath was a small glowing fairy with golden locks, and stunning blue eyes.
