Chapter 3: Little Maimie
Peter kept on trying to think of a happy thought so that he could fly, but no matter how hard he tried one just couldn't come to him. He also kept on having flashes going through his head he wasn't sure what they were of but none of them were very happy. As he walked around with everything around him looking exactly the same, he came across two small children.
"You better stop it Tony or I will unleash my invisible goat on you"
"I though you gave your invisible goat away?"
"Well I got a new one and if you don't stop it is going to attack you"
"You don't frighten me Maimie nothing ever frightens me, I am the bravest boy there ever was"
Just then the sounds of a goat could be heard and Tony looked around trying to figure out where it was coming from.
"What is that?" Tony asked
"That is my invisible goat" Maimie said "and it is going to get you"
More sounds could be heard and Tony started to get really scared
"I'm sorry for picking on you Maimie, I won't do it again I promise," he then turned and ran away
"You better not or next time you will be sorry" Maimie called after him
Just then Maimie turned around to see a very tall and much older boy dressed in leaves laughing gleefully
"The bravest boy there ever was, I think I just proved him wrong" Peter said with his cocky grin
"Thank you for helping me" Maimie said "you are a clever boy"
"Oh the cleverness of me" Peter said with his fists on his hips
"I am Maimie and what is your name"
"I am Peter Pan" Peter said smiling
"Peter Pan" Maimie said excitedly
"You have heard of me" Peter said proudly
"Of course I have heard of you, did you get my letters and my invisible goat, did you like it?"
"I don't get any letters and I have never gotten any invisible goat"
"But I sent them to you, you must have gotten them?"
Peter looked at the small girl strangely, "do I know you?" he asked
"I'm Maimie, I was lost in Kensingten Gardens and you found me"
"I did?" Peter asked confused
"Yes you did, I was crying and you told me not to cry, I taught you how to play games correctly and I told you about the people outside of the gardens, you must remember don't you?"
"I remember Kensingten Gardens, I remember the fairy court but I don't remember you" Peter said
"Oh Peter how could you forget me, we were such good friends"
"We were?" Peter asked
"Yes we were but I suppose you forget things as you get older"
"What?"
"When you get older you must have forgotten me when you got older, how very like a boy" Maimie said
"Are you accusing me of growing up?" Peter asked sternly
"Well you have when we were friends you were the same age as me, now you are so much older and bigger"
"I have not grown up and I will never grow up, I am a boy and I will always have fun" Peter screamed at her
Peter then stormed off leaving Maimie standing there completely bewildered, but Maimie being the strange girl that she was decided to follow him. Peter turned to look back at her and looked rather annoyed
"Why are you following me?" Peter asked
"Because I think there is something wrong with you" Maimie responded back
"There is nothing wrong with me and I do not know you, now go away" Peter said meanly
"I will not go away and when did you become so mean, my betwixt and between was the nicest and bravest boy I had ever known"
"What is a betwixt and between?" Peter asked
"It is what you are, part bird and part boy, which is what you told me you were"
"If you know so much about me girl, then why don't you tell me something that I actually would know" Peter said challenging her
"I remember that you don't like mothers, you believe they are overrated persons"
"And why would I think that?" Peter said challenging her some more
"Because your mother had another boy that she replaced you with and that you had been forgotten"
Peter gave Maimie a look of total shock, "how did you know about that?" Peter asked completely confused
"Because you told me" Maimie said
Peter bent down and came eye to eye with the little girl, there was something very familiar about her but he didn't know what, suddenly some more flashes started to come into his head off a little girl all alone and crying.
"Did I really know you?" Peter asked
"Yes you know me" Maimie told him
"So you really knew Peter Pan?" Michael asked Solomon
"A long time ago, back when we both lived in Kensingten Gardens" Solomon told him flying over head
"I thought Peter had always lived in Neverland" John said
"No the fairies found him when he was only a baby and he lived with them in the Kensingten fairy court, I was always near by and we use to be good friends"
"What was he like?" Wendy asked
"Very different then what you have told me" Solomon said "I knew I should have watched him more closely, for those fairies can never be trusted"
"You children don't have to come with me" he told them "there he is a good chance he might have forgotten you"
"Well Peter is our friend despite our disagreements" Wendy said
Just then everyone heard what sounded like Peter's voice talking to someone they followed the voice and saw Peter sitting on the ground with a very small girl who was about four/five years old.
"Why would I sail around on a boat, why wouldn't I just fly?"
"Because you could not fly anymore" Maimie told him
"I fly all the time" Peter said "well I do in Neverland anyway"
"Peter?" three voices all said at once, Peter turned to see three children in nightgowns all staring at him
Just then more images started to flash inside Peter's mind, he could see a nursery with three children playing and the girl was telling stories about pirates, but he still couldn't really make sense of any of them
"Who are you?" Peter asked
"I'm Wendy these are my brothers, John and Michael, don't you remember us?"
"No" Peter said simply he then turned to Maimie "do I know them"
"If you did you knew them after you knew me" Maimie told him
"But you did know him" she said pointing up to Solomon
Peter looked up and saw Solomon sitting up in a tree
"So I do know him?" Peter asked her
"That is wise old Solomon the crow, at least that's what you said about him"
Peter was confused, his mind was a big jumbled mess, and nothing was making sense anymore, just then another forgotten image started to creep into his mind he took a long hard look at Wendy.
"Red Handed Jill" he screamed angrily
To be continued