A/N Before you read chapter seven I should explain who Natalie is.Natalie is from my story "Belonging" she is Peter's best friend and the Pevensie's next door neighbour.
Are you sitting comfortably? Good now for chapter seven
Chapter seven
The phone rang an hour after breakfast .Peter picked it up,delighted to hear his best friend and neighbour's voice ,
"Can you come over" Natalie asked after the hellos were exchanged
"I'll have to ask Mum first,hang on " Peter said putting the phone down and looking for his mother,he found her in the kitchen hemming Susan's dress,Lucy and Edmund were finger painting.
"Mum,Natalie called can I go over until lunch" Peter asked
Mrs.Pevensie nodded her mouth full of pins
"Be back before lunch" she said sticking a pin in the dress "and don't forget your coat and gloves" she called after him as he left the kitchen.
Peter grabbed his coat and gloves from the coat tree by the front door and cut across the garden into the McDansen garden.
Ringing the doorbell ,he stepped back waiting for Natalie to come to the door.
The door opened and Natalie stepped out dressed in hat, coat , mittens and scarf .Basket tucked under her arm.
she smiled and closed the door "Do you want to come to the store with me " she asked "Daddy wants me to pick up some stuff for dinner"
"Okay" Peter said following her ,they began walking toward the marketplace
"How's boarding school" Natalie asked
Peter frowned "I hate it "
Natalie looked sideways at him "Really? I t can't be that bad,I'm sure" she said sliding across a little patch of ice.
"I t is" Peter replied "You're lucky your father doesn't make you go away to school" he said
Natalie wrinkled her nose"That reminds me,I have horrid news" she said
Peter stopped walking"You're not moving are you?!" he asked in horror,he couldn't stand it if Natalie,they'd been best friends for a long time.
Natalie to his surprise giggled slightly"No,nothing as bad as all that ,it's just that Daddy's going to ask my Great Aunt Katherine to live with us,he thinks I need a female influence in my life"
"What's she like,your Aunt I mean"Peter asked
"Prim and proper,it's going to be awful,I just know it" Natalie sighed
Mum and Dad say you ought to give things a try before declaring their awful,but that's what they say to get us to eat our vegetables" Peter said "I suppose this means you'll be wearing lacy dresses and going to teas" he said
Natalie snorted "Catch me doing that! " she shuddered.
"When does she arrive" Peter asked .
"Today on the five-o-clock train"Natalie sighed,they reached the market and went in after purchasing the groceries,they headed back home.
"Natalie" Peter said suddenly "When you look at me,what do you see"
Natalie appraised him"What sort of silly question is that,you look like a normal eleven and a half year old boy and my best friend."
Peter picked up a snowball,crushing it between his fingers,letting the cold white powdery substance fall to the ground,he said "Some of the boys at school think I should go to Germany and be in the Hitler Youth.They call me Jerry and Hitler's little boy" he frowned
"Why do they call you that" Natalie asked not fully understanding.
"It's because I have fair hair and blue eyes,no one else in my family does,I mean Susan and Lucy have blue eyes,but they all have dark hair .Why do you think that is?" Peter wondered
Natalie shrugged "Perhaps it's nothing" they reached her house "Are you coming in" she asked standing on the step
Peter shook his head "Can't I promised Mum I'd be home for lunch,are you coming over next week"
"What's next week" Natalie teased knowing full well what next week was.
"You know perfectly well what next week is Miss Natalie McDansen" Peter said pretending to be mad.
Natalie giggled "Course,I do.I do wish your birthday was in spring or summer sometime when it was warmer." she opened her door "Come over tomorrow and bring your sled,okay" she instructed.
Peter nodded cutting across the hedge that separated the two gardens
"Peter!" Susan waved him over "Come help us were building a snowman"
Between the four of them they managed to make a fairly decent snowman complete with hat and eyes,mouth and nose.Stepping back Susan looked at it "I think it's a smashing looking snowman"Edmund spoke up
"I don't like it" Lucy pouted arms crossed and lower lip thrust out
"Why not" Susan asked .
"I want a girl snowman ,not a boy snowman don't like boy snowmen " Lucy frowned
"Don't be stupid you can't have a girl snowman no such thing" Edmund said firmly
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Stop it!" Susan and Peter stepped in ,Peter turned to Edmund "Don't be such a little beast ,Ed .I think if Lu wants a snowgirl we could make one'
"Right" Susan nodded "We'll just borrow some of Mummy's hats and scarves she doesn't use,she'll be a proper snowgirl"
They spen the rest of the mroning making snowmen and snow angels until Mrs.Pevensie called them inside for lunch.