The wheels are rolling.
That was the only sound that Alice was hearing. The wheels are rolling. She is lying down on a stretcher with its wheels rolling. She got carried by a nurse and lies down on a bed. Alice listened to her mother saying she has a sickness she doesn't know about.
"Doctor," Alice asked, with a nervous tone in her voice, "What's happening?"
"Oh. You're going to have a salivary gland removal because your mother says you have a tumor," The doctor said, "Don't worry. You'll be just fine. Just relax and we'll put you to sleep."
Alice slowly closed her eyes as she got a mask on to put her to sleep and she hugs her teddy bear.
Alice has Muscular Dystrophy, Leukemia, Asthma, Epilepsy, and Respiratory issues... at least, that's what Maggie claimed. Ever since she got a medical degree from college, she knows to know what diseases are, what are the causes, and what are the treatments. Maggie knows that the doctors can trust her word on what illnesses that she says Alice has, and they still do the treatments... even though Alice is perfectly healthy.
Maggie doesn't like Alice looking healthy... she likes her looking sick.
After the treatment was done, Maggie placed Alice on the bathroom sink with a razor in one hand and scissors in the other. She cuts and shaves the hair of her child, her child, just to do the facade of Alice having cancer.
"Don't worry about your blonde hair," Maggie said, "It's gonna fall off anyway, so let's keep it nice and neat."
Alice had Blonde hair like her father. Maggie only has brown hair, and she knows that shaving her daughter's golden locks will not only keep up with the facade of her having cancer but also never remind Maggie of her ex-husband ever again.
Sometimes, Tears welled up in Alice's brown eyes. She loved her hair. It made her feel like a princess from the Disney Movies she loved like Snow White. Sometimes she wondered which Disney Princess she relates to.
'Maybe I relate to Snow White because she is caring and kind like me,' Alice thought, 'No... I relate to... Cinderella. She always stays home. No, she does her chores and I can't do them since I can't walk. Maybe I relate to it... Rapunzel.'
She can relate to Rapunzel... she had always been locked in a tower by her mother.
Days bleed into years, as Alice goes through numerous surgeries and medications she never knew that she doesn't need.
Alice had not only her head shaved by her mother and a wheelchair that was given to her, but she also had a feeding tube. Alice knew she could eat, but Maggie insisted that she should have a feeding tube and she did. Alice hated the feeding tube as much as she hated the word "Fragile." Every time Maggie feeds Alice in the feeding tube, she mixed all kinds of foods with medicines... as an easy way of the mother poisoning the daughter.
Maggie loves taking away parts of Alice that made her seem like the healthiest girl alive. Those things she took away are: Walking freely, letting her hair blow in the wind... and even the biggest smile in the world.
A while back, Alice had her teeth removed by doctors due to a medication reaction. She felt devastated when she looked in the mirror, her teeth were gone. Thankfully, her mother gave her dentures on a special award that Alice had received that is called the "Youth of the Decade award," an award that was never deserved if they knew what was behind the curtains.
If they pulled back and see the truth earlier, they would've saved the poor girl from her toxic mother... but they chose to believe the lies.
