Chapter 4
I woke up that night seeing the light was turned on and Lucy jumped onto me, yelling excitedly.
"What is it, Luce?" I asked as she kept shaking me.
"Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe, like I told you! Do you still believe me Nan?" I bit my lip as Susan woke up and Peter and Edmund soon came in our room.
"Oh Lucy, you've been dreaming," Susan said.
"No I wasn't, I saw Mr. Tumnus again! Oh, and this time - Edmund went too." We all turned and looked at Ed.
"You saw the faun?" Peter asked.
"Well, he didn't actually go there with me. What were you doing Edmund?"
The young Pevensie boy hesitated. "I-I was just playing along. You know what little children are like these days, they just don't know when to stop pretending," Edmund said and looked smugly at Lucy. She started to cry and ran out of the room. I ran after her, Susan followed, and Peter did after he shoved Edmund over. "Ow!" Edmund glared at Peter.
Lucy ran down the hall and ran into the Professor, she looked up at him little frightened, then started her crying again and hugged him tighter.
"You children are one shenanigan shy of sleeping' in the stable- oh, Professor! I told them you were not to be disturbed," Mrs. Macready said. She seemed to go from angry to frightened in less than a second once she saw the Professor.
"Oh, it's alright Mrs. Macready- I'm sure there's a logical explanation. But I think this one needs some hot chocolate."
"Yes Professor. Come on, dear." Mrs. Macready led Lucy down the hall. Peter and Susan turned to go but the Professor cleared his throat. The three of us followed him into his office and the Professor sat at his desk and took some tobacco out of it's silver case and put it in his pipe.
"You seem to have upset the internal balance of my housekeeper."
"We're very sorry sir, it won't happen again," Peter said. He tried to get us to leave but Susan and I didn't budge.
"It's our sister sir, Lucy."
"The weeping girl?"
"Yes sir, she's upset."
"Hence the weeping."
"We can handle it!" Peter got ready to go but he was stopped by Susan.
"Oh, I can see that."
"She thinks she's found a magical land in the upstairs wardrobe," I said.
"What did you say!" the Professor asked, shocked. His sudden interest was weird.
"The wardrobe upstairs, Lucy thinks she's found a forest inside," I repeated. Susan, Peter, and I sat on a couch and the Professor sat in a chair across from us.
"What was it like?" "Like talking to a lunatic!" Susan said. I was concerned about Lucy's mental health but then the professor said;
"No, not her- the forest!" We all looked at him as if he had grown another eye.
"You...you actually believe her?" Peter asked.
"Well don't you?"
"Well, logically it couldn't possibly be there!" Susan said.
"What do they teach at these schools?" the Professor muttered.
"Edmund said they were only pretending."
"And he's the more truthful one is he?" I stifled a snort.
"No, this would be the first time."
"Well then, if your sister isn't lying and isn't mad then logically we must assume that she is telling the truth. She's your sister, isn't she? You're a family! It's high time you start acting like one!"
Hey all. I hope you enjoyed this story so far. I posted two chapters today because I'm not sure if I'll be able to these next couple of days. I want to thank you for encouraging me to write some more. It's nice to hear that people think that it's good enough to continue. I will post the next chapter as soon as I can.
~Maethorni