BETWEEN THE REAL
AND
THE NEVERLAND
Real Life is Real Life
Neverland isn’t Called Never Land for
Nothing
Chapter 5 : Neverland and Its People
Poor little Alexis, she
didn’t know Justin had the ability to sense human blood. Justin knew she was
standing in the door since he leaned to a wall but he just didn’t want to give
a crap about it but since he got a little annoyed after the queen whispered
something he would love to better not hear. He then thought of playing around
with Alex instead of rushing out of the queen’s mansion.
Alex turned around,
facing him
“How the hell could he
knew?” she asked herself.
“I.. I I was just
walking trying to find Cristy and then I heard voices..”
“that’s not really what
I asked I guess” Justin cut her off
“uhm..”
“you look cute when
you’re upset” he said, cutting her off again, smirking at the end.
Meanwhile, Alex
couldn’t help but blush. She couldn’t even say a word and she didn’t even know
why. He just had that effect on her apparently. And that only made Justin smirk
wider than before at the fact that he could get her easily.
It was rare that Justin
could make her blush that easy when Joey took half a year to be able to do that.
“well, just forget
about my question. I don’t care, anyway” he finally said after he studied her
face that she wouldn’t say a word any time soon.
He then got closer to
her and the next second was he went kissing her. Alex was surprised with his
sudden move. She almost did him the favor back but then she remembered how this
boy dared to kiss her all he wanted and besides, she still hurt from hearing
that he only cared about her blood which she had no idea why so without a
second thought, she slapped him in the face and she felt like her hand was
broken. His face was like a solid ice. Very sturdy and cold and it was
impossible for human could be that sturdy and cold or he indeed was not a
human?
“Ouch!! Oh my God!!”
she said after slapping him, holding her hand.
He stopped kissing her
and stared at her with confusion and anger. No girls would dare to lay a hand
on his face no matter how much of an asshole he was becoming at the time. His
anger could rise rather quickly and effortlessly. Alex just hit his button and
she didn’t even have idea about it.
“how dare you fucking slapped
my face???!!” Justin said straight to her face, his voice was an octave higher and
sounded deadly. He looked furious. His eyes intimidated her.
Alex jumped out of her skin. She was afraid to death
of him at that right time. She could feel tears in her eyes that could tickle
down her cheeks in any minute. No one ever yelled at her like that. No one was
ever rude to her. No one was ever that furious of her. But it seemed like that
no one had become someone and that someone meaning no other than Justin.
Justin caught that and he tried to die down his
anger. He didn’t even get it as to why he would try to die it down when
normally if somebody hit his button, he just let himself explode.
“Now look, your hand
must be broken” he finally said back to his normal voice.
Alex tried to pull herself
together and say some words. She didn’t want Justin win this time.
“why would you even
care of my hand being broken though huh? You don’t even care of my soul! all
you care about is this blood of mine. Didn’t I say this already? I hate you!!
And I don’t want to see your face ever again!” she said full of emotions, anger
and sadness were written clear in her eyes without she even realized it.
She then sprinted out
back to the kitchen. She should’ve stayed in the kitchen so she didn’t need to
hear his conversation only then she could think of the happiness things for she
would be home the next day, she thought. On the other hand, Justin remained
still there. He didn’t understand how she could be that mad at him when it
should’ve been him who had a right to be mad at her for lying a hand on his
face. At least that was what he thought. And then he was like.. “why would I
even care about it?” so he left it at that and left the mansion.
Meanwhile, Cristy had
been looking for Alex the whole downstairs. She decided to go back to the
kitchen hoping that she would be there and she indeed was.
“oh my God Alexis!! I
thought something bad happened to you!!Where have you been? I’ve been looking
for you the whole downstairs you know” Cristy said as soon as she found Alex in
the kitchen, sitting
“you’re right” Alex’
mind and heart responded.
“sorry, Cristy.
Actually, I’ve been looking for you too. Queen Mertha said you’d meet me in the
kitchen but you didn’t show up so I decided to look for you but then I got
tired so I came back here” Alex lied.
“oh sorry! I was hungry
so I went out to eat something. Okay
let’s just forget about it. we’re here now and you’re okay anyway” Cristy said,
smiling showing her teeth.
Alex could sense
something strange when she said “eat something” and she had no idea why and
didn’t have any intention to ask about it because she had a feeling she
wouldn’t answer so Alex just left it at that.
Alex had Cristy’s
accompany in her room for the night because there was no other choice to ask
anybody else. Liz? She could possibly have been busy. Forrest? He might have
too, besides, she didn’t really talk to him. The Queen? That wasn’t a good idea
to ask a queen to be somebody you spend the night with. Justin? She was clearly
in no mood to even see his face. So the choice only seemed to be Cristy since
she didn’t know so many people in the land and Alex herself had no problem with
it because Cristy was basically the most friendly in the land. Alex decided to
go to bed late since she would leave Neverland the next day and probably
wouldn’t ever come back there, she thought.
Then, an idea came to
her head. She asked Cristy to go out with her and take her to the most cool
place in Neverland but Cristy wasn’t in line with her. Cristy didn’t want her
to go out since it would be dangerous for her knowing that everybody in
Neverland went out at night and it wouldn’t be good if people noticed she’s
human and of course Cristy didn’t tell her that, instead she told her that she
should’ve just taken a rest because the next day might have been a long journey
but Alex insisted and Cristy couldn’t come
up with her best reason anymore to say no so she decided Alex should ask
the queen’s permission first. The queen was kind of surprised hearing that but
then she just let her go and told Cristy that Alex’ hers if somebody out there tried
to take Alex from Cristy.
They both were walking
down the street. Alex was enjoying everything such as the wind and the almost
crowded street. The city didn’t look much different from hers. The only difference
was, Neverland wasn’t that crowded at night and Neverland was like a dead land
in the daylight. Or maybe it really was and she was oblivious to it? Meanwhile,
Cristy was fighting with her mind for where she should take Alex. Cristy
couldn’t just take Alex to the coolest place there like café or club since the
possibility of Alex would be freaking out was real. There’s no such place for
humans there. and then something popped up in her head.
“why do you take me to
a park?” Alex was asking, a little confused but she was smiling. she found it
cute how Cristy took her to a park.
“I love park. And this
is the coolest park here. so yeah I’m taking you here” Cristy said, smiling.
She did love park but
she actually loved club the most but she couldn’t just take Alex to her
favorite club where there must be so many of activities that would look strange
and didn’t make sense for human’s eyes and would make tons of questions pop up
in Alex’ head. The park was the most safe place than the rest. The activity
would look normal but actually if somebody really pays attention, it would look
far from normal, actually when somebody steps their feet in Neverland,
everything is already obvious that it’s far from normal. Only if they really
pay attention.
How the people in
Neverland walked so fast.. how they had red like red blood in their eyes.. how
they never showed up in the daylight.. all of those didn’t make sense..
Alex was that type of
person who didn’t like to pay much attention towards things and that was why
she didn’t even realize until then that since she looked into Justin’s eyes,
all the feelings, the strange feelings that had been hitting her heart and mind
since she was 10 was all gone. How could it be so? No. Justin was not something
or somebody that she had been waiting to come to her. But was he somebody that she was looking for?
It wasn’t really like that too.
Soon Alex would realize
it herself or perhaps through somebody telling her or both. But for that night
she realized one thing.
She was just there in
the park with Cristy talking about random stuff, girls’ stuff to be exact and
having some jokes. They were really having a good time. But then Alex’ eyes
noticed something in her surroundings, which was quite full of teenagers..
“hey Cristy how can all
of these people kiss and never break in?” Alex’ said speaking what was on her
mind,
Meanwhile Cristy was
kind of surprised hearing so. Oh she noticed, Cristy minded.
“hmm they must be
really love kissing and a pro at it.” Cristy
replied, chuckling.
“lovebirds” she said
again, shrugging her shoulders and smirking.
“oh yeah right!” Alex
replied, chuckling, and to Cristy’s worry, Alex didn’t leave it at that..
“but Cristy, as much as
somebody loves kissing and how much of lovebirds they are, I guess they still
so have the needs to breathe and you know they can’t risk that” Alex said
what’s on her mind again
“haha why so care about
‘em huh?” Cristy replied, trying to laugh, trying to sound as normal as
possible.
“oh lemme tell you a
secret, teenagers in here are wild” she said again, this time she was smirking
and winked at Alex and Alex couldn’t help but chuckling and soon Cristy
followed.
But in actuality, her
mind didn’t buy it. she sensed that what Cristy had just said had another
meaning but she just couldn’t comprehend that at the time. So she just left it
at that, in the corner of her head in the weird stuff about the Neverland. But
then another question popped up in her head and Alex couldn’t help anymore to
spill it out
“Cristy, why’s Neverland
look so dead in the daylight and so alive at night?”
Again, Cristy was surprised
by her questions, she didn’t expect her to ask so much questions but she also
didn’t expect herself to give the answers, the clear answers.
“maybe because we love
nights better?” Cristy replied, smirking, and alex was just mouthing “oh right”
and smiling.
That was actually not the
answer she expected to hear and then she figured, it was typical of Neverland’s
people to never talk clear or to make it short, they talked mysteriously. So
again, she left it at that in the corner of her head.
It was already 10.30
pm. They both decided to go back to the mansion.
The cold breezy wind
was hitting their bodies hard. but Cristy, of course, didn’t have any problem
with it at all and obviously it went the otherwise for Alex. She felt like she
was going to be frozen in any minute in the middle of walking. Cristy didn’t
notice that, since she was too busy of smells that were surrounding them.
“Cristy, why do I feel
like somebody’s watching us or stuff?” Alex said, she may not be able to smell
but she sure could sense.
“not somebody but some
people I guess” Cristy replied still focusing on the smells.
She figured that those
were smells of newborns and only with that she felt kind of panic. There
shouldn’t be newborns. They’re not allowed to exist. They’re anything but good
news.
“what do you mean?
There really people following us?” Alex said, got a little panic
“shhh..I’m trying to
concentrate” Cristy said still focusing on the smells because it got nearer by
the minutes. Meanwhile, Alex got confused with the response she got.
“What the heck are you
trying to concentrate for?” Alex asked. Confusion and worry washed over her
“shhh just shut up
Alex” Cristy exclaimed with seriousness in her voice and Alex got that and then
she noticed how panic Cristy looked and how she looked like she was trying to
sense smell. Alex then tried to sense smell around her just like Cristy was
doing but she could only smell nothing but the fresh breezy air.
Meanwhile the smells of
newborns were getting nearer by the seconds and that only made Cristy panic
even more. They must’ve been the army Maria had been creating. No one was
newborns there but those who with Maria were. That only meant one thing, Alex
was in a great danger. And Cristy was afraid she couldn’t do much about it
since fighting against newborns seemed kind of impossible for anyone but the
queen and especially Justin.
“Alex, we gotta go. We
gotta move fast” Cristy ordered Alex and herself and they began to move quick.
“but what’s going on,
Cristy? Why do you look like you’re panic and why did you look like you’re trying
to sense smell huh?” Alex was speaking what was supposed to be on her mind.
“we gotta reach the
mansion real quick. C’mon Alex! Move faster!” Cristy said ignoring the
questions she got from Alex.
She then held Alex’
hand and made her walk faster, actually faster for Alex but not that faster for
Cristy herself because that was just how fast she normally walked. Alex felt
like she was running no actually she felt like she was being dragged. Not only
that, she felt like she was held by an ice man.
“oh my God! Cristy my
hand hurts from your hold! And I can’t even feel my feet right now! Really,
what’s going on?” Alex couldn’t help it anymore. She was out of breath. But
Cristy never released her hand from her hold and they kept on running.
“I’m sorry. But we
gotta move fast and reach the mansion.” Cristy said still focusing on the
smells that were following behind. She was getting panic by the minutes.
“Damn! How could we
walk too far from the mansion?!” Cristy asked, it sounded more like she was
asking herself than anybody else.
Alex was really out of
breath that she couldn’t even respond to Cristy anymore. Alex really had no
idea of what was going on. But she got the feeling that it wasn’t something
good.
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Author : Lintang Puspitasari / twitter :
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