NEVERLAND AWAITS
*3rd Person POV*
Jessi was awoken early on Thursday morning and by early, we're talking about fifteen minutes until she had to be at school early. So really, it wasn't at all that early.
"Jessi!" Her eight year old foster brother, Matt, yelled as he ran into her room and jumped on her bed. Fortunately landing on Jessi as well.
"Matt, go away!" Jessi mumbled into her pillow as she grabbed the pillow next to her and threw it at the boy. Smiling as she heard the satisfying noise of the pillow making contact with his face.
"But Jessi, don't you have to be at school by 8am?" Matt questioned, which was followed by a, "Yeah, so?" From Jessi.
"It's 7:45am." Matt said as Jessi quickly shot out of bed and looked at the clock.
"What?!" Jessi shouted before picking up the alarm clock in confusion, "Why didn't my alarm go off?"
Looking over at Matt she saw him failing at hiding his grin as he giggled. "Matt.." Jessi glared at him as he turned and ran out of her room and down the hall. Leaving only his giggles to follow after him.
Sighing, she threw her clock on her bed, "I'm gonna kill that kid one day." Muttering she made her way to her draws in the corner of the room and threw on a sweater and ripped jeans with knee high boots and finished off the look with a messy bun. "Guess this is going to have to do." Picking up her school bag and throwing it over one shoulder, she left the room which was pretty plain with only six beds and a few draws.
Reaching the top of the stairs, Jessi stopped and sighed as she heard her foster parents yelling at each other. Every morning this would go on, one of them would come home drunk and take it out on the other. Honestly, Jessi was sick of it and she was sick of the younger kids, especially Matt being subject to this every morning. As soon as she could leave she would be taking Matt with her.
Meeting up with Matt at the front door, she asked him, "You got everything?" To which Matt replied with a nod and they left.
As they arrived at the primary school where Jessi would drop Matt off, she knelt down to be at his level. "You be good, okay? And remember, if anything happens you can come talk to me." Seeing as they didn't really have a mother figure, Matt looked up to Jessi as someone he could trust with school issues.
"I've got to go." Jessi said as she heard the bell ring.
"Bye Jessi!" Mat waved before turning and running into the building along with the other kids.
Jessi smiled and waved back as she turned and started running towards her high school. It would take her a good five minutes to get there so she will defiantly be late. Turning the corner to run up the stairs and into the build, Jessi stopped in her tracks as she collide with someone's chest. "I'm so sorry." Jessi quickly apologised, bending down to pick up the books she had knock out of his arms.
"It's fine." A voice with what Jessi could only guess as a british accent replied. Looking up, she was shocked to find that she didn't recognise him. He must be a new student. She had never really taken an interest in guys before but something inside her just wouldn't let her look away.
"Hey, you okay?" The boy chuckled as Jessi's cheeks turned red when she realised that she had been staring.
Clearing her throat, Jessi quickly looked away as she stood up, "Yeah, I just haven't seen you around before. Are you new?"
"Yeah, I am." He smiled as Jessi gave him his books back. "I was actually looking for room 46."
Jessi covers the shocked look on her face as she replies, "Really? Looks like we are in the same class."
"Awesome!" Peter says as the both walk into the empty halls. Jessi didn't think she was that late but obviously she was wrong. "I'm Peter by the way."
"Jessi." She smiles at him, which he returns and Jessi can stop the butterflies in her stomach as they shake hands. Stopping by her locker, she grabs her books and they continue to the classroom.
Sighing, she brings her hand up to turn the door handle. As the door swings open it lets out a creak, which causes everyone to turn and look at her and Peter. "Jessica, late again." The teacher muttered from his desk up the front.
"Sorry Mr Smith, I was helping the new kid." Jessi said gesturing to where Peter stood next to her.
"Fine, just try to be on time next time." Mr Smith sighed as Jessi and Peter sat down at a couple of spare desks at the back.
"Trouble maker." Peter whispered to Jessi as he sat down next to her.
Jessi glared at him, "It was your fault."
"Jessica." Mr Smith said when he saw her talking.
"Sorry." Jessi mumbled, hearing Peter snicker from next to her she shot him another glare.
It was now Friday and Jessi was getting ready to go to a party that Tiffany was hosting. Jessi never went to parties but ended up getting invited because Peter told Tiffany that he would only go if Jessi got to go too.
So here she was now struggle on decided what to wear, she had never been one for appearances but this was her first actual party so she wanted to look presentable. Sighing, she finally decided on jeans, a t-shirt and her doc martins. Finishing off the look with her hair out and a bit of lip gloss, she took one more look in the mirror before heading downstairs.
"Where do you think you're going?" Jessi heard her foster mother say as she reach the door.
"Out." Jessi muttered making sure to slam the door behind her.
As she was walking down the street towards Tiffany's, she heard someone shout her name before Peter was next to her, "Hey stranger." He joked with a small shove and smile.
"Hey." Jessi smiled growing nervous as they neared the house.
"You ready?" Peter held out his hand. "By the way, you look great." Peter winked with a smirk.
"Thanks." Jessi chuckled with a blush, "You don't look too bad yourself."
Taking his hand they ascended the steps towards the front door. Loud music could be heard as they opened the door and walked inside, "Hey, Peter!" Tiffany yelled as she wobbled over towards them, obviously already a bit tipsy even though it only start twenty minutes ago.
"Where do we go?" Jessi asked Peter, raising her voice over the music.
"This way." Peter dragged her pass the people dancing to the patio out the back. Jessi sighed as she sat down on a bench and looked up at the sky.
"It's so beautiful..." Jessi breathed, "Do you ever wonder what else is out there? Like, this can't be all there is."
"Yeah, you know there's a legend about a certain star." Peter said as he sat down next to her.
"Really? Which one?" Jessi questioned looking at Peter as he looked at the sky.
"That one over there, to the right." Peter guided her eyes to the right star. "Any wish that is wished upon that star comes true."
"Yeah, right." Jessi rolled her eyes.
"At least try it for a laugh." Peter smirked as they looked at each other, knowing that he had won.
Jessi rolled her eyes and muttered, "Fine." Shutting her eyes she wished to escape this world and go somewhere where she wouldn't have to follow any rules and worry about trying to fit in. A place where she belonged. Opening her eyes Jessi was shocked to see that she appeared to be at some sort of camp, "What..." Looking beside herself, she was relieved to find Peter still there but was confused to see that his appearance had changed. No longer was he in jeans and a t-shirt, but instead old threadbare clothes and a darker smirk that in some way looked evil.
Jessi felt the world around he darken as she fell unconscious. Only hearing the words, "Welcome to Neverland, Jessi." Before everything went completely black.
Hey! As promised, here is the next chapter! This is not that different from the original, but the next chapter and the ones after that will be. I'm planning on getting to the part where Henry arrives a lot quicker and then focus more on Regina finding out that Jessi's there and so on.
Please let me know what you think and I'll have another chapter up next week! :) At this stage I will not be able to update any quicker because of school but if I do manage to get ahead, then maybe I might sneak and update in during the week.
