2. In a World of my Own (From "Alice in Wonderland")
When I'm lonely in a world of my own
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Louis sighed as he wiped cake from his eyes. He had been in Neverland for... he didn't even know how long, but it never ceased to amaze him how messy they could get.
Lost Boys, and even the girls sometimes, had the awful habit of starting food fights very often, and Louis loved it.
This is why he ran away with Peter Pan and became a Lost Boy, because he absolutely loved being apart of a group of people who all wanted the same thing. Fun.
And there were so many of them now, the tree house had been expanded into almost a tree kingdom. Over the years, more and more boys and girls had joined them, so much so that there were more Lost Kids than pirates now.
And Louis loved all of them, the 50-odd kids were his family.
Louis let out a laugh as he looked over at Liam, sitting opposite him, with cream all over his face.
"Li!" He laughed, "Li, you've got-"
He broke off with another loud chuckle as Liam wiped it off and flung it at Niall who did the same thing before throwing it on to Zayn.
"Oi!" the latter exclaimed, getting a handful of mash potato from his plate and flinging it back.
However, Niall ducked just in time, making it fly past the blonde and hit Zayn's long-time crush, Perrie, in the back of the head.
"Shit!" He cursed, running behind Louis to hide just as Perrie turned around to see him cowering behind his friend.
"Zayn!" She yelled with a grin, shaking her hair out so most of it fell off. She shook her head with a devilish smile.
She reached across her friend to scoop a handful of green peas to throw back just when Louis moved.
"Nup!" He said, ducking and moving away so the little green peas hit Zayn directly in the face.
"Per!" He yelped. The girl just giggled and hid behind her friends as the fight went on.
Louis smiled at the sight of everyone in their element, even the girls were having a ball getting all dirty and brawling.
Usually, Pan would stop them before they could get too out of control and wake up the fairies, who really needed their beauty sleep, but he wasn't on the island that night.
No, when Pan left Neverland to recruit a new kid or something like that, the island got cold and it became winter.
Not quite snowing, but it was foggy and chilly all time, because his emotions controlled the weather.
Louis wasn't sure whether or not that was a good thing though, he was usually happy so the island was lovely and warm, but when he left it was very, very cold.
So as they threw food at each other, Louis sat there shivering as he watched and hoped Pan would be back soon.
"Jesus, Zayn." He laughed, nudging his friend. "Flirt much?"
"Shut up." He blushed and looked away as Louis chuckled at him. "S'not like you couldn't do the same if you wanted to."
"Um," Louis pointed to himself. "Gay, remember?"
Zayn rolled his eyes and gave him a playful shove. "I meant with guys." He clarified. "You're allowed to flirt with guys if you wanted to."
"Yeah," Louis shook his head. "But there aren't any guys here that I'm interested in. I'm all about the fun. I shall have childish fun for as long as I can." He added with a grin.
Zayn grinned back and nodded along. "I know. And so will the rest of us, that's why we're here. But why not have a special someone to add to that?"
"Whatever," Louis waved him off, scooping some mash potato in his hands behind his back where Zayn couldn't see.
"Seriously, why don't you just-" He was cut off by a face full of potato. "LIAM!"
The brown eyes guy let out a howl of laughter as he hit is target directly in the face.
Louis rolled his eyes and laughed as Zayn scampered off to continue in the fight, leaving Louis to watch in amusement.
He would've joined in, but he preferred to watch the others instead.
Before he ran away when he was 15, he'd always felt like something was missing. He came from a big family and never felt loved or like any one appreciated him, though he didn't remember his family at all, he'd been away too long.
So when Peter Pan came to take him away, of course he agreed. He thought that that would be his opportunity to fit in and finally find where he belonged.
Neverland was like a world of his own, but he still felt lonely sometimes.
He was eternally grateful, however, there was still a tiny voice inside of him that told him he was missing something.
Or maybe someone, he didn't know.
But there really wasn't anyone in Neverland he thought he could fall in love with and he wasn't willing to leave it all behind just to attempt to fill the missing piece.
So he stayed and he enjoyed the fun and he desperately tried to ignore the feeling.
Plus, he'd made the best friends in the whole universe and he really did love the island. It was home.
"Louis!" Niall yelled, running towards him. "Lou! Help!"
Louis smiled as Niall grabbed his shoulders and used him as a shield. "What's up, Ni?"
"Zayn's coming!" Niall whispered as he looked around in fear. "He's gonna kill me cause I made him hit Perrie with that potato."
"Then let's get him, yeah?" Louis whispered back, a glint of cheekiness in his eye.
Niall frantically nodded as Louis told him the rest of his plan. Once they were ready, they ducked behind the table, a bowl of custard in Louis' arms and a bowl of cream in Niall's.
They saw Zayn's feet approach slowly, then, when Louis gave the signal, they jumped out behind him.
"GOTCHA!" Louis shouted as Niall dumped the cream over his head and Louis threw the custard over his shoulders, covering his front and back.
Zayn froze, his mouth wide. He felt the cream and custard running down his body and turned slowly to see the two boys trying to stifle their laughs.
"Niall." He said in a calm voice. "Louis."
They took a few steps backwards as Zayn advanced on them.
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!" He screamed as he launched himself at them.
Niall laughed manically as the two sprinted away together, Zayn chasing after them with the desserts dripping down his back.
They found Liam again and sat down at the table with him, pretending like nothing had happened.
"Y-You," Zayn said, out of breath once he'd caught up. "Y-You guy-ys su-ck!"
Louis and Niall leaned into each toher and snickered as Liam shook his head, putting two and two together when he saw Zayn's state and figuring out what had happened.
Zayn sat down next to Niall, really close so their shoulders were touching, before he started to rub his shoulder against Niall, trying to get some of the mess on him to.
"Ew!" Niall exclaimed, trying to push him away but getting stuff on his hands instead and then trying to wipe them on Louis.
"Yeah," Zayn nodded. "How do you like that? Hm?"
"Ugh!" Niall complained and Louis laughed, despite Niall having covered him in the custard from his hands.
"ALRIGHT!"
Everyone stopped what they were doing and looked up to Peter Pan's second in command, Dodge.
He was standing on the end of the long table, looking down at everyone with a smile and covered in food.
"We've had our fun, now get to bed. Training is tomorrow at 8." He said with a grin, potato clinging to his hair. He jumped down as everyone started moving towards the dorms. They didn't mind sharing rooms, they were practically brothers anyway.
The four boys got up, said good night to the girls before heading off.
"Goodnight," Niall chimed from his bed once they were all tucked in.
"Goodnight, Ni." Liam answered. "Night boys."
"Night guys." Louis replied through a yawn.
They looked over to Zayn's bed, but it really wasn't a surprise to see it empty.
He and Perrie often took a while saying goodnight to each other and they'd gotten used to it.
"Night," Louis sighed to himself, rolling over to look out the window at the star that brought him to the island.
He smiled to himself at what it represented before closing his eyes and going to sleep.
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