CHAPTER SEVEN
Wendy awoke in the ravine where she had first met Peter. All she remembered was telling Peter she didn't know if she could stay or not.
"Peter! Peter are you here?"
With no answer, Wendy stood up and brushed herself off. Wait- it didn't hurt, she was no longer in pain. She looked in her compact mirror and the bruises were gone. Peter took her pain away, and she created his. Suddenly she felt a cold, empty space inside of her, and looked around. She fell down and resisted crying, she had shed enough tears in the past few days.
Wendy felt as if she no longer belonged anywhere. Everything had changed and now she had nobody to go to for advice, because who would believe in Neverland? Then she remembered her grandmother. She ran out of the ravine and sprinted to Lisa's house.
She rushed through the door straight to the kitchen where her grandmother was, "Grandma, I need to talk to you about something."
"Wendy, are you alright?" Lisa's mom gasped.
"I will talk to you after, I need to talk to my grandma."

The next week went by slowly. Wendy went back to the ravine every night and met Peter there. Every night he asked her the same thing, if she would stay, and every night, Wendy gave the same answer, that she didn't know.
"Peter?"
"Yes Wendy?"
"What makes you love me?"
"If you really must know, it's your sense of spirit and imagination. You are so pretty yet so kind, and your heart, I can sense it so clearly, your heart is so pure and full of life."
"Me full of life? Gosh, I guess there's a first time for everything, huh?"
"Wendy you choose to hide from that life you can have because you are afraid of it, it all comes with destiny and fate."
"There's no such thing as fate or destiny. It is all choices that makes you do the things you do, that makes you end up where you are supposed to be."
"Sounds like somebody else's words, don't you think?"
"Why do you keep doing this?"
"Doing what?"
"Telling me who I am."
"I am trying to help you realize it, you think less of yourself then what you actually are. You hide from things because you don't want to have a bad outcome, am I right?"
Wendy looked at Peter, and he looked back, "You know you're right Peter, I am afraid of life, but can you blame me?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that I am afraid of life because I don't belong anywhere anymore, and I have gotten used to that feeling, then you come along and make me fa- fall in love with you, when all I want is my old life back. I guess that's not possible now."
"Wendy you do belong. Everybody belongs somewhere, I used to think that way, but now I have Neverland, and I finally belong somewhere. Wendy, you belong, you just haven't found where you belong yet."
"Peter you're so beyond belief. You make me feel so many things I have not felt for a very long time. You make me realize that I am a person and that I am hiding from the things I fear, nobody has ever been able to do that before."
"Wendy, I have never been so confused at people's words before."
"It means you're special Peter. Only one other person has ever been able to make me feel good about myself, what I feel I mean, and well, I can't help being scared because last time I felt that way, the person got taken away from me and I don't want it to happen again."
"Wendy I will always be with you, no matter what anybody says. I love you and nobody can change that and..."
"And what?"
"And that's why I have decided to come with you to the mortal world."
Wendy felt a strange twinge in her gut, "Peter, are you sure? I wouldn't want to take you away from your home."
"I have put a lot of thought to it, and I already told the boys, so it's all set. I am positive I want to do this."
"Okay, but there are a few things you have to know first. People in the mortal world aren't accustomed to seeing people fly, so you will have to give that up as long as people are out in the streets, and you can't go wearing that around town or people will begin to get curious, so you will have to wear something different. You can't speak of the lost boys, the mermaids, the faeries, or anything magic around other people or they will think you are crazy."
"Okay, sounds easy enough."
Peter was lying, but for Wendy, he would do anything. He didn't want her to think she was taking away part of him, so he stayed quiet about his feelings.
"Is that all?"
"One more thing, you will have to get a haircut, just a small one so you don't look as... as..."
"As wild?"
"Well yes, I like it... just you have to look like a normal guy, well a normal city guy."
Peter looked up and down Wendy and finally realized she was way different from all the girls on Neverland. She was clean and her hair wasn't messy and she wore different clothes.
"So Wendy, the only thing left is when we leave."
"When's good for you?"
"Well, why don't you go back and wait at Lisa's house, and I will come there all made up. I have to say my goodbyes to everything, I should be there later on tonight."
"Sounds good. So I will see you later."
"Of course, bye Wendy."
"Bye Peter."
Wendy kissed Peter and then he sent her off back to Lisa's.

Wendy heard a knock on the door. She ran to it and opened it; it was a very handsome young man. He had blonde hair that was nicely spiked and he was wearing jeans along with a t-shirt.
"Hey Wendy, what do you think?"
"Peter"
"Yah, who else would it be?"
"Oh my gosh, you look so good."
Wendy leaned over and kissed Peter on the doorstep for a while and then was interrupted by Lisa.
"Wendy, who's this?"
"This is Peter, Peter this is Lisa."
"Nice to meet you Lisa."
"Nice to meet you too. Wen, why didn't you tell me you had a boyfriend?"
"I-he's..."Wendy trailed off. She was scared to think of Peter as her boyfriend, but if he wasn't her boyfriend, who was he?
"We wanted to keep it quiet for awhile," Peter said, noticing Wendy's expression.
At the same moment, Ash appeared by Lisa's side.
"Who's this?" Ash asked, but his smile turned into a frown when he saw Wendy's hand in the other guy's, "Oh, I see," Ash held out his hand, "Hi I'm Ash, and you are?"
"Oh, hi, I'm Peter, Wendy's boyfriend."
"Listen, it was really nice to meet you but I have to-have to go."
Ash stormed off down the road without even a good bye to anyone.
"Lisa, what's wrong with Ash?" Wendy asked.
"Wen, I need to talk to you, alone for one second."
Lisa pulled Wendy in the house and shut the front door on Peter.
"What was that all about with Ash, Lisa?"
"He likes you, can't you see that? He's like you for over a year, he never told you because he knew you'd never give him the time of day. You never gave anyone the time of day, but he didn't know that."