I was so tired I could hardly keep my eyes open. It was nearly four am, and we were still at the theater. The midnight premiere that we had just seen had ended nearly five minutes ago, and I was beat. I could barely keep my eyes open.

"Dude, Emma… that. Was. Amazing!" My friend Rebecca cried as we swooned down the hallway of the theater.

I barely had a decent grip on my popcorn, and I looked back to see that I had left a trail of popcorn down the hall. I managed to let out a barely audible giggle, but felt my eyelids slowly drooping over my eyes.

"I'm not gunna make it," I said as I clutched my gut. It was at that moment that I realized I really had to use the bathroom.

"Huh? Watchya mean, Emma?" Rebecca asked as we leaned on each other. "Let's just… st-stop moving for a second, huh?"

"But I… I really gotta use the bathroom!" I said nervously at that moment.

The pain in my bladder was starting to wake me up a bit, and I forced myself to stay awake and started down the hall and towards the bathroom door. I moved as quickly as my sleepiness would allow me, my eyes still half open.

I hurried into a stall and finished my business, and still half awake and still trying to stay awake, I neared the sink and washed my hands. I glanced up into the mirror to take a look at myself. I looked awful-I really needed to get some sleep. I splashed some cold water on my face and took one last look at myself in the mirror, and that's when the lights went out.

I blinked to see if my eyes would adjust, but there really wasn't any difference if I had my eyes closed or not.

I turned to try and find the crack of light beneath the bathroom door that would lead to the hallway, but it was nowhere in sight.

My heart began to increase in pace-I didn't like being stuck in the dark for long, and in this stupid bathroom, it was pitch black. I stuck my hands forward as if I were blind, trying to feel my way for the door. As I took a few steps forward, I suddenly felt a change in temperature. It was suddenly… warmer?

That was when my foot hooked over something and I flew forward, nearly doing a forward flip as I crashed into something… soft? In the women's bathroom?

That's when I started to loose it almost. I reached forward to touch what I crashed into, and it felt… soft and mossy…?

Oh, God, what was happening? Was my lack of sleepiness causing me to go crazy in the women's bathroom at the cinema?

I pulled myself to my feet, brushing whatever it was that had dirtied my jeans, and suddenly saw… a light! Yes!

I practically ran towards it and turned around a corner to expect myself to step back out into the gleaming hallway of the theater-

Only it was the exact opposite. I had stepped into what looked to be the forest of a jungle. I blinked, frozen, my hand clutching the nearby bark of a tree. My knees were buckling underneath me as my feet dug into mud. My mouth hung open as I stared up into large canopy trees and saw sunlight streaming through the leaves. The temperature seemed to have increased even further-I thought I was in a sauna.

Flowers of all kinds surrounded me, and I gazed at a hummingbird that buzzed softly around my head.

"What is going on?" I asked out loud.

I must've fallen asleep in the women's bathroom and was dreaming somehow. Where was I? The Jungle Book?

I pushed past a few leaves and through the maze of trees and saw a nearby pool of water that seemed to stretch on for forever. I rubbed my eyes and blinked multiple times. I gave myself a few pinches as well. I couldn't be dreaming… could I? This all looked too real!

It was then, in the nearby lagoon, that I saw a splash. I nearly jumped out of my skin and hid behind a nearby tree trunk, poking my head around the corner.

I heard female voices speaking. They sounded somewhat friendly, and I poked my head further around the corner to see a few girls swimming in the lagoon. The one closest to me had fiery red hair, and my eyes widened when her stare fell on me.

"Hey, who's that?" she asked the girls nearby her.

I ducked back behind the tree trunk, wondering what was going on.

"Come on out! Don't be scared!" a voice called to me.

I gulped and decided to give it a shot. If this was a dream, what's the worst that could happen?

I stepped out from behind the tree and neared the lagoon shyly. I didn't know whether I should be intimidated by these beautiful looking girls or not. But as I neared the lagoon even closer, I noticed one of the girls resting on a rock in the middle of the lagoon.

The odd thing about her was her legs-that was the thing, she didn't have any legs. I stared at her, my eyes bugging out of my head as my mouth dropped open.

"Y-y-you're a mer-mermaid!" I cried, clapping a hand to my mouth as if I had just screamed out a dirty swear word. I stared at her waistline, which slowly turned scaly and stretched into a long, green fishtail with two fins at the end.

"You're a human girl!" a black-haired mermaid exclaimed.

I couldn't stop staring at the brunette that sat on the rock, her green fishtail slapping the water. "I can't believe what I'm seeing!" I exclaimed.

"Why not?" the blonde asked with an eye roll.

"Well… mermaids aren't…" I was about to say "real," only the four mermaids howled out loud and sent me death glares.

"Mermaids aren't real? Is that what you were about to say?" the fiery red-head cried, becoming angry.

"N-no!" I protested. The last thing I ever wanted to do was upset a mermaid. "In fact, I've always wanted to be a mermaid."

"What on earth are you wearing?" one of the mermaids asked me as she crossed my arms.

"Looks quite… hokey, doesn't it?" one of the mermaids mocked.

Hokey? How dare she!

I stared down at my outfit, which I found to be quite cute, thank you very much. I was dressed in dark denim skinny jeans with my favorite floral cami and quarter-sleeve black cardigan. I had my sand colored Uggs on too, which were causing my feet to sweat like crazy. I felt like peeling my cardigan off, too.

I didn't think my hair looked messy at all either. I had it done in a sideways braid that came around my shoulder. My mother had always told me that my hair was the color of coffee beans.

The mermaids seemed to exchange glances. "Come closer! We want to have a look at you," the brunette explained.

I gave a skeptical look as I neared the water's edge.

"A little closer," said the blonde.

I bit my lip nervously as I began to jump on the rocks that led out further into the lagoon. "Um, alright," I said softly. I bent nervously towards the water's edge as I stared at one of the mermaid's fishtails. Hers was scaly and blue. It almost looked slimy.

It was then that a splash of water flew into my face-it was the biggest wake-up call from the half-awake state I was in. Coughing and spurting water, I shielded my face as I tried to block the continued fire of water.

"C'mon in, dear! Don't you want to go for a swim?" one of the mermaid's cried at me nastily. She had grabbed me by the wrist and was trying to yank me into the water.

"No, please-stop!" I cried as I struggled to step away from her grasp. It was then that I lost my balance on the water, and I fell head first into the lagoon. I heard another one of their nasty laughs before I was fully submerged within the water.

I surfaced, coughing and choking as I tried to pull myself back on the rocks. They wouldn't stop splashing. "Please, stop it! What's the matter with you all-"

It was then that a sudden rooster call interrupted the air of the laughing mermaids. The splashing stopped suddenly, and I finally managed to pull myself back onto the rock.

"Oh, Peter!"

"Oh, hello, Peter!"

I was angry at the mermaids for their cruelty, and I stood up on the rock and rung out my long, chocolate locks of hair, my braid coming undone. I had worked very hard on that braid! Wiping water from my face, I looked up to see who they were greeting.

I was just as surprised as I was seeing the mermaids, because now a boy floated before me in midair. His flaming red hair was hidden underneath a pointed green cap with a red feather poking out from it. He was dressed in a green jumpsuit, a dagger at his waist as he held his hands on his hips and stared at me curiously. If I hadn't recognized him for a second, I probably would've laughed silly at his outfit.

"Wait a minute… y-you're…?" I started incredulously.

"Who's this, girls?" the boy asked the mermaids as he flew towards them and floated above the water, sitting Indian style.

"Oh, Peter… some human girl!" the blonde explained as she eyed me questioningly. "She just appeared! We've no idea where she came from."

The red haired boy, who still floated in mid-air, flew-yes, flew!-towards me so quickly, that if I had blinked, I wouldn't have seen him move at all. I nearly fell off the rock again as he came face-to-face with me. He grabbed my arm just in time before I fell backwards.

"Who're you?" he asked me as he rubbed his chin in confusion.

That green hat? The boy who could fly? The character from the Disney movie I had watched so many times in my childhood? Wait a minute!

"Y-y-you're… Peter Pan!"

Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed that! Please review and let me know what you think. I have some funny and exciting chapters coming up! If I get good feedback I'll post the next chapter soon! :)