Once Again : Part 1 : Home In Wondeland

Part 13 : Mallyumkun

Everyone was sitting at the tea table, as usual, but Mally was faced back to Hatter. Hatter was sitting at the table trying to find out why Mally was so brashed. She was officially NOT talking to him.
"Mally, if you would just tell me what is wrong then I might be able to fix it!" Hatter tried.
"Did he say something?" Mally asked Cheshire. "My Mad Hatter phone has gone blank." Cheshire sighed.
"He asked what's wrong..." Cheshire answered reluctantly. "I agree that you should just maybe SAY SO?" Mally crossed her arms. "Again Mally, you can't BLAME him."
"Can so!" Mally argued. "Not once did he ever notice!"
"Notice what?" Hatter said frustrated in a sad way. "Why are you being so off?" Mally looked at Alice, then sighed at Cheshire.
"He wants to know what he didn't notice." Cheshire's ears folded. Piper sipped his tea. Everyone was silent.
"Don't be so pissed for a reason like that, Mally." Piper said finally.
"You don't understand how it feels." Mally snarled. Piper rolled his eyes and put his teacup down.
"Besides," He continued, disregarding Mally's comment. "You are a mouse. I wouldn't feel the same whether I was part animal, or human."
"Oh, come now, Mally!" Hatter complained. "What did I do, and if it was so bad, why haven't you poked me with your hatpin?" Mally huffed, and continued to face her back to him. "Alice, do you know why she's angry with me?" Before Alice could answer, Mally growled.
"She'll be of least help this time, Tarant." Hatter put his hands on the table.
"Now you can hear me? Finally!" He sounded sarcastic, but it was hard to tell.
"Mally, cut the act, just tell him already." Piper groaned. Mally climbed into her teapot.
"Not. A. Chance." She growled. Hatter looked at Piper. Piper made a heart shape with his hands, and then pulled his hands apart, breaking the heart shape.
"About what?" Hatter whispered. Piper poked Hatter in the forehead. Hatter squinted at him.
"You." Piper whispered back. Hatter sat back in his chair. He sat there, thinking for a moment. Hatter's pupils dilated once he realized what he meant.
"Oh, Mally, why... you didn't..." Hatter looked at the teapot. "I'm not exactly... in the same state of mind..."
Mally's head popped out of the teapot.
"Now you tell me!" She complained.
"You could have said something, and besides, we're not really that compatible." Hatter took his hands off the table in fear of being stuck by her needle. "And, NO, that does not mean that I don't think we're good friends, just not-"
"I've known you longer anyhow!" Mally interrupted, slamming the lid to the teapot. Hatter blinked.
"Why do I have the feeling she's plotting revenge?" Hatter sat back again. Mally grumbled, and jumped out of the teapot. Mally stomped her way to a fallen log with a tiny door a few feet from the tea table. Her house. She slammed the door and shut the windows. Hatter sighed. He looked at Piper.
"How long?" Hatter asked Piper.
"What?" Alice had been about to take a bite of a scone. He thought for a moment and then realized Hatter's question. "Oh... from what I can remember...at least since you were fifteen..." Hatter looked back and forth from the log, to Piper at least 4 times.
"That would be about... 13 years ago..." Hatter looked at his teacup, with a stunned look on his face. "But if she had just said something... I would have told her..." Alice put her hand on Hatter's shoulder and sighed.
"Try going and talking to her." Alice suggested.
Hatter, Alice, and Piper all stood in front of the log. Piper turned into a mouse sized and looking creature, but with his cat tale. Piper knocked on the door.
"Come in, Piper..." Mally grumbled. Piper opened the door and walked in. Once the door was closed, the tension got deep. After a moment of hearing the muffled speaking in the log, Piper got out, and turned into his human form, blushing badly.
"So...?" Alice said cautiously.
"I told her he wanted to talk..." Piper looked at Hatter. "She says you're a... booly-geber..." Hatter gave the log an irritated look. "Aye... but she did also say that if Alice wants to talk, that's fine." Alice sighed, and then nodded. Piper handed her a small bottle. Pishsalver.
"I don't have any smaller clothes, though." Alice looked at Hatter and Piper. Hatter handed her a small scrappy looking dress.
"I made it for special occasions a while ago." He explained. Alice drank the liquid in the bottle, and changed into her dress(Which was the slightest bit big) while she was still covered by the pile of now humongous clothes. She climbed out of the pile, and walked to the door.
"Mally?" She called? The door opened. Mally stood there, and waited for Alice to walk in.
"Why did you not tell Hatter something?" Alice asked as she sat down.
"You would think that he would have noticed." Mally answered.
"If you had just told him at some point, though, it could have been better for the both of you." Alice got up to let Mally sit in the chair.
"Maybe..." Mally said sadly. "But honestly, I wanted him to ask me first..." Alice sighed as she leaned against the wall, not noticing the life sized mirror behind her. Alice slipped through as she came in contact with the mirror. Alice fell through the mirror so quickly that it took her a moment to understand what was happening.
She heard Mally call after her faintly while she fell down what seemed oddly like the rabbit hole. Alice slammed into the floor of a room. THE room. The room that had originally begun her adventures in underland.

To Be Continued...