Rebecca was tortured always with dreams of Peter. She dreamed of many things that might have happened to him, and of the times that they shared when they were together. Her dreams were getting more and more vivid, and she could swear that this was a sign that something big was going to happen, her hope that they would find each other was so much higher than it ever had been. Something was pounding at her to take some sort of action, to find him. How common of a last name can Pevensie be? Actually, it's so uncommon that I never found any one with that last name, even when I frantically called on everyone that I could that might know. "Rebecca, are you there?" There was a knock on Rebecca's door, and a voice that she knew, but not too well called to her.

"Yes, I'm here, come in." Mr. Riley, her neighbor came to check up on her every now and then just to make sure she was ok; he and Mrs. Riley acted like grandparents towards her.

"So, how have you been this week?" asked Mr. Riley.

"I've been good, between school and everything else I'm busy, but other than busy, I'm great."

"That's good, and how is Constance? She seems to be around an awful lot lately."

"Yeah, sorry if there's been noise, she's been trying to get me out, but I've just been to busy, tonight I could have gone with her, but I'm tired and I wanted to stay in."

"Fun, where's she going?"

"I actually have no idea, some dance or something probably, that's what she usually does, anyway, do you and Carla want to come over for some dinner?"

"No, that's alright, she's having some friends over, I actually have to go entertain, but thank you for the offer."

"Thank you for coming up." Mr. Riley left, and Rebecca curled up on her bed, not asleep, just lying there, trying to completely clear her mind.

When the time came for the dance, Peter wasn't sure whether he regretted his decision or not. Bryan seemed so social and ready to have a good time. He fit right in to everything, and so did Susan and David. Susan and David started dancing right away, they knew all the steps to everything, even the more complicated stuff. Bryan waited for a swing song, then he took a girl for a spin. Peter just sat there, not really sure of what he should do. Once the song was over, Bryan brought whoever it was that he had been dancing with over to where Peter was sitting. "You really should get some exercise, it might be good for you."

"I don't really know what to do." Peter was completely honest with his friend, and very unsure of himself.

"It's not that hard, you just single someone out, and ask them for a quick spin. Then, if you like them, you dance again, it's really easy. If you want, you can take Constance out for one song, then I want her back." Bryan was smiling at the girl he had just found.

"How do you know who she is? You have only danced one dance."

"You can talk while you're dancing, so do you want a dance or not?"

"Why not? Hi, I'm Peter." Peter took Constance's hand, and they went out for a dance. They spoke a little, but not much as Peter was concentrating on trying to dance. When the dance was over, Peter took Constance back over to Bryan. "Thank you, and here is your dance partner."

"Thank you, how good of a dancer is he?" Bryan asked Constance.

"He is really quite awful, but we made it through." Constance laughed, and she and Bryan headed out to tear up the floor some more. The rest of the night, Peter danced a couple more times, while Bryan and Constance dances all the time, as did Susan and David. When the time came to go home, Peter was more then ready.

"So, I was talking to Constance, and she says she has a friend who could use a little fun in life, like you, and would you like to meet her." Bryan spoke to Peter as they walked home, giving Susan and David some time alone.

"I'm not really interested, life's busy right now."

"That's interesting, well, Susan thought that you might be interested, she said that it might definitely be a good idea. "

"Well, I don't know what Susan was thinking, if Constance described her to you, I'll bet she's not my type of girl."

"That's exactly the opposite of what Susan said. You need to meet her, Susan said you had an interest in her name, I don't understand what it means, but I intend to find out." Peter's heart skipped a beat.

"What's her name?" Peter could barely get the words out, he was hoping for the absolute best.

"Rebecca Marlowe." Peter was shocked. He didn't know whether to be happy, or worried. It's probably someone you already met, don't worry about it. He tried to calm himself down, but it wasn't working.

"Well, maybe I'll meet up with her once." Peter tried to sound emotionless al around about it, but he knew he wasn't doing a very good job.

"I thought you would, well Susan thought you would, so then I thought you would. There is another dance in a couple of weeks, so we thought we'd all meet up there, but if you're impatient, we could try to make t sooner." Bryan noticed Peter's sudden interest, and excitement. Susan said that he used to know someone named Rebecca Marlowe, but hadn't seen her in awhile, and thought that it would be nice to see her, she never said that he would get this excited.

"I can wait," said Peter, trying to be nonchalant.

"I'll arrange it earlier, I can tell that you don't want to wait on this, I'm your best friend, I can tell these things."

"Yeah, well, no use hiding it then?"

"No, Susan said you were friends when you were much younger, she said before you and I met, before the war even." Peter instantly appreciated Susan's making them sound like childhood friends, and not an ex romance interest.

"Yeah, it was a really long time ago, but it's a pretty common name, it's probably not her."

"Peter, look on the bright side of things, his could be what you've been waiting for since you were young." Bryan wanted to see Peter really happy again, like he had been before the war, right after they'd met. Before he left for the evacuation, Peter had been a fun, nice person, now he seemed somehow mature and stressed out.