Finding Neverland
Summery: Charlie Fayer was torn away from Neverland when she was 8, By the New Pirate Captain. Now 4 years later Neverland has come back to bring her home. But will Charlie be able to remember her past in time to save it.
Chapter 13: Finding Neverland
It was Janes last night in the house. Tomorrow she would move out and live with her husband, Dale. She had packed most of her things and spent the night sitting on her bed, facing the window, and staring at the ring on her finger.
She was married!
She couldn't believe it, she was so happy. She had waited a whole year since Dale's proposal and the day had finally past. She sighed, then reluctantly resumed packing. She folded her garments into one suitcase, and other little treasures in another. As she was rapping up a delicate little box which was decorated in shells and flowers and smelt sweetly of an unexplainable scent, that she had received for her 8th birthday anonymously, her ring wedding ring slipped from her finger and darted under the bed. In a rush she bent down to retrieve it. But she didn't just find her ring, but also a book. She pulled out the book. It was dusty and by its cover, old. She blew off the dust from the cover.
Finding Neverland
It read. She opened the pages carefully. They creaked and protested, but she managed to force it open. She stared at the writing. It was her handwriting. She was about to read the first page, when her father walked in.
"Dinner's ready darling." He announced.
"Ok." She picked up her dress from around her feet, and walked past him. Setting the book down on her bed.
But Nathan didn't follow her. He walked into her room and bent down to look at the book she had been holding. He frowned when he read the title.
"Can't have that now, can we." And he carried it out, and hid it, by what he thought, quite artfully in the cupboards in his room. But which was latter found by Wendy, and returned to Jane the next morning. But Jane didn't have the time of day for the book that morning. So she just left it on the book shelf, with her other childish toys which she would be leaving behind. As Jane was being taken off into the streets, she glanced up at her window. The window was open, and the curtains were flowing loosely in the wind. But she couldn't remember even opening it. The sun reflected off the windows and the house was basked in orange light. She sighed again and turned away. Simling she set her eyes on the road ahead, and didn't look back.
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"Oh mother, read us a book. Please!" Children tugged at the sleeves of Janes dress.
She smiled, "Oh ok… Ok, only if you sit patiently on the floor while I choose."
Like the obedient children, Jane's children had become, they obeyed her. Sitting Indian style on the rug before the old nursery rocking chair. Jane walked gracefully over to the book shelf. She had collected many books since marrying Dale. She loved to read, she had always found it interesting and yet somewhat memorial. She flicked through the book titles, some of which had been rubbed off from age, because they had dated back to her mothers childhood. As she was choosing, she came across a book, which she had not seen before. As if it had been hiding waiting for this day to be read. She smiled, something new she thought, she loved reading different books. She drew it out and read the cover.
Finding Neverland
She thought she remembered the name, she thought she had read it somewhere before. She carried this thought back with her, to the rocking chair. She sorted out her dress and sat down. The pages wrinkled underneath her fingers as she read to her children. Her children, especially Margaret, her daughter. Were entranced by its plot. All through the story Jane was sure she had read it before, or even, by some weird chance, lived it. But she knew she couldn't have. Not with the advanced technology it talked about, and the unethical explanation of a person defying gravity. She finished the story and tucked her children safely into bed. They asked her many questions, like what Charlie had looked like? Why Charlie had been unfairly robbed of her decision to go back? Each of these questions, Jane found her self answering, not from guessing, but from knowing. As if she had met Charlie before.
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That night Jane dreamt of a girl, she was talking to her, telling her things, taking her places, that she had never visited, never even thought of before. She said her name was Charlie. She told Jane that she had lived for many year, longer than any human being, and that she had been tossed from realms of reality to the unbelievable, many times and even travelled in the forth dimension, time. Jane was intrigued. She even saw flashes of her past future. Yet, she didn't understand how. She dreamt of a flying boy, flying her off, beyond the stars, to a world where everything was possible. She smiled that night, as she relived her life.
But that was not all that conspired that night. Back in the nursery where all dreams came true. Where all adventure stopped and then ended. The window blew open…