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THUNDER RUMBLED OVER the valleys of the country. The pitter patter of rain against the window echoed through the room and every once in a while there was a single flash of lightening. Eliza sat beside Edmund, while he laid under a table, carving his name into the dark wood.
"Gastrovascular" Susan spoke, looking up from the book, "Come on Peter, Gastrovascular!".
"Well is it Latin?" Peter asked, obviously fed up with this so called 'game'. Eliza had managed to opt out of Susan's god awful idea of fun, as she read her own book.
"Yes." Susan answered, taking the game completely seriously even though it bored the living hell out of the rest of them.
"Is it Latin for, worst game ever invented?" Edmund questioned sitting up from his position, Peter and Eliza chuckled at Susan's face falling slightly as she slammed the book closed.
"W-we could play hide and seek?" Lucy suggested, getting up from her seat at the window, and walking towards her siblings.
"Oh, but we're already having so much fun!" Peter replied her voice dripping with sarcasm as he looked up at his little sister.
"C'mon Peter, please?!" Lucy begged, tugging on his arm, "please?". Peter sighed loudly, reluctant to disappoint his little sister.
"One...Two...Three" Peter began counting with a grin, as Lucy jumped up in excitement, making Edmund grumble in complaint.
"C'mon Ed," Eliza encouraged the boy, "It's better than listening to Susan read out words from a dictionary." Edmund placed the tool he was using to carve, down on the table, as all the siblings ran off in different directions to hide.
Eliza ran through the halls, passing Susan jumping inside a box. The girl turned a corner to another unexplored hallway, looking for any place she could hide and win the game. Eliza passed her siblings bedrooms and turned another corner only to spot a small door that probably led to a storage room. She twisted the door knob, and crawled into the small room, which was filled to the brim with boxes and other knick knacks. The whole room was covered in layers upon layers of dust, Eliza shifted some boxes so there was room for her to sit and now all the girl had to do now was sit silently in the dark and wait to be found.
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AFTER ANOTHER FEW minutes of hiding, Eliza heard voices down the hall. Thinking she was the last one to be found, she crawled out of her dusty hiding spot and retraced her steps to where the voices were coming from. She turned the final corner and saw a very disgruntled Edmund, standing beside Lucy who looked very confused, Susan stood beside Peter looking quite happy.
"Does this mean I win?" Eliza grinned, walking down the set of stairs to join her siblings, coming to a halt beside Edmund.
"Liza, you're covered in dust." Susan said wrinkling her nose at the piles of dust and cobwebs covering the girl, Eliza merely shrugged and brushed them off carelessly.
"I don't think Lucy wants to play anymore." Peter informed Susan and Eliza.
Lucy's eyebrows scrunched together, "But I've been gone for hours..." she spoke up, as the rest of the Pevensies looked at her in bewilderment. Lucy led them all to the so called 'other land', which turned out to be a wardrobe full of fur coats.
"Lucy, I don't see any snow." Eliza skeptically remarked, her arms folded, as Susan rummaged through the wardrobe, rapping on the back of it, as Edmund went around the other side and knocked back.
"Lucy, the only wood in there is the back of the wardrobe." Susan told the smaller girl,
"One game at a time Lu, We all don't have your imagination." Peter added, as Eliza walked towards the door, followed by the rest of her siblings.
"BUT I WASN'T IMAGINING!" Lucy exclaimed, making the four stop and look back at her.
"That's enough Lucy." Susan warned the smaller girl, making Lucy's face drop.
"I wouldn't lie about this!" Lucy continued, obviously on the verge of tears. Edmund stepped forward, making Eliza groan internally as if predicting his next few words.
"Well- I believe you." Edmund started, earning hard glares from Peter and Susan.
"You do?" Lucy asked skeptically, tilting her head at the possibility that her brother might actually believe her.
"Yeah, of course, didn't I tell you about the football field in the bathroom cupboard?!" Edmund mocked.
"Oh you just can't stop" Peter hissed, walking closer to Edmund, "You just have to make everything worse don't you?".
"Peter, stop." Eliza interjected, stopping Peter from getting any closer to Edmund, "It's ridiculous. This whole thing. Lucy was daydreaming. Leave her be, but don't blame this on Ed."
"It was just a joke." Edmund defended himself, making Susan scoff in annoyance.
"When are you going to learn to grow up?" Peter sneered, shaking his head in disappointment.
"SHUT UP, you think your dad, BUT YOU'RE NOT." Edmund snapped, running out of the room, leaving a gobsmacked- but furious Peter behind.
"Great Job, nicely handled." Eliza spat, "When are you going to learn to control your temper." The girl turned around in rage and raced after her brother, followed by Susan, to make sure Ed was alright.
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"LIZA, LIZA, WAKE UP!"
It was later that night that, Eliza shifted in her bed tiredly, as someone tried to shake her awake, she cracked her eyes open and her eyes landed on Lucy and Edmund at her beside.
"W-What? Why are you waking me up?!" Eliza yawned, rubbing her eyes as she sat up.
"COME ON!" Lucy yelled beginning to run off again, Eliza turned to Edmund with a questioning look. The boy shrugged and threw her, her night gown and slippers. Suddenly feeling wide awake, Eliza and Edmund followed Lucy down the hall to Peter and Edmunds shared room. The smaller girl had flicked on the light and was shaking Peter awake, Susan soon appeared by the twins side, looking like a tired mess.
"Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe, like I told you!" Lucy yelled, jumping up and down, trying to stir Peter from his sleep.
"You were probably just been dreaming Lucy." Susan sighed, as Eliza drifted towards the bedside, leaving Edmund by the door.
"But I haven't! I saw Mr. Tumnus again and this time Edmund went too!" Lucy explained, everyone's eyes drifted to Edmund, and Eliza raised a concerned brow.
"So let me get this straight, You went to Narnia and didn't invite me? Edmund, I'm ashamed." Eliza said, sarcasm lacing her tone, making Edmund stick out his tongue at her and Susan to elbow her.
"Y-you saw the faun?" Peter questioned, now sitting upright in bed, looking towards his younger brother. Edmund shook his head in response, so Lucy jumped in, instead.
"Well... he didn't actually go there with me." Lucy began, before turning towards the boy in confusion. "W-what were you doing there, Edmund?"
Edmund sighed, "I was just playing along" he replied, looking at Susan and Peter but avoiding Elizas questioning look, "I'm sorry Peter, I shouldn't have encouraged her, but- y'know what little children are like these days. They just don't know when to stop pretending."
Lucy's face screwed up as Edmund slowly sat on the bed. The smallest Pevensie burst into tears and sprinted out of the room, Susan and Peter following after, pushing Edmund back onto the bed.
Eliza walked slowly over to the boy. "Ed?" She asked quietly, "Sometimes you really need to know when to stop.." and with that the girl walked out the doorway, only to be once again stopped by Edmund clutching onto her wrist.
"Can I come?- Peter's really mad and I don't want to deal with it tonight" Edmund whispered quietly. No matter how annoyed she was at her brother, she would never leave him or stay mad at him for long. "Fine." She agreed, "but you better not take my half of the covers."
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