My Wilted Heart- Chapter 2

Yes, it was raining. Again.

She walked through the hallway of her school, her shoes leaving a trail of rainwater and mud behind her. She carried no umbrella and her clothes stuck to her like a second skin and her hair was plastered to her head. She would have been a pleasing sight to look at for any testosterone within eyesight, had she not of been who she was.

Leah Kerringway. Social outcast.

Leah was not ugly, heavens no, had she not been so hostile towards human contact, all the boys in her school would be cowering at her feet begging her to "disrespect" them. She was quite pretty as a matter a fact. Her hair was long chocolate brown that she usually kept up in a ponytail, and her eyes were deep green with flecks of gold. Eyes that windowed the coldest of her heart.

She didn't have any friends nor did she want any. She wrote once, for she doesn't wish to speak, that friends were just the means of human contact that was meant to and in some futile dispute, end. She was alone in the world, and frankly, quite enjoyed it that way.

She sat in her class's quite and placid taking notes on their subjects. Then when the final bell rang, she slung her bag over her shoulder and headed home. There was no rain, but the sky still held its dark ominous presence.

But the sun did shine if you knew where to go. The second star to the right and straight on till' morning. There, you will find sun and happiness and it all seemed to emanate from one person.

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Peter enjoyed flying. It was the greatest sensation he ever felt. The wind in your hair, the ground hundreds of feet below you and all worries gone. Besides, what worries did he have?

"None!" He exclaimed as he soared through clouds at the beginning of another day. He dived heading towards the water to discuss his most recent quarrel with Hook to his mermaid friends. As he skimmed a foot above the water, he stared down at his reflection and abruptly halted and stared more. Well, maybe he did have one problem.

After meeting Jane and seeing Wendy again, Peter was prone to visit them more. A lot more. It had been about fifteen years or so since he met Jane and he enjoyed watching her get married and have a daughter of her own, and in doing that, he became oblivious to what spending so much time away from Neverland would do to him. Well he knew now.

Staring down into the water, Peter didn't look like the innocent twelve-year-old Jane met anymore; he looked like the equivalent of a seventeen-year-old. He sighed and returned on his journey to the mermaid's cove. How little he knew what this new aging would do to him in mind and body.

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Leah sat at the chair in front of her keyboard, with blank sheet music and a pencil in her lap. She slowly stretched her fingers and then rested them on the keys in a soft chord. She let her nimble fingers dance upon the keys before she paused and wrote the beginnings of the song she composed. After an hour, she placed her complete song in front of her and once again began to play, but this time exercising her voice with the soft lyrics of the song. She let her room fill with the mingling sounds unbeknownst to the spying ears listening in on her outside of her window.

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"Such beauty and talent gifted upon one person is quite rare, don't you think so Smee?" Captain James Hook questioned to his right-hand man as they stood on the bow of their ship ported unknowingly next to Leah's window.

"Yes Cap'n. She is quite the rare gem." Smee answered.

"Perfect for the entertainment of our crew." Hook motioned to other pirates that were near, and the quickly scaled the side of the ship and in through the window. A few crashes we heard before a pirate emerged carrying an unconscious Leah. He handed her to Hook who carried her to his quarters and laid her down upon the satin sheets of his bed. "Sleep now pretty one, for in the morning your duties will begin." He exited, closing the door behind him. "Haul anchor! We will port in Neverland by first light!"

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Well, here's the second chapter. Sorry it took so long! See! Told you it was a Peter Pan story!