Underground

Falling Down

"Aaahhhhh!" I scream. I'm falling down so fast I can't see a thing. I feel like I'm on one of those rides at the amusement park where you just drop. Without warning, you're falling. That's exactly what it feels like now.

I'm falling so fast I can't handle it until everything stops. Then I start falling a bit slower, but the pace is still quick. I start seeing things: a piano, a necklace, and a chair. And then it hits me. A hardback book comes flying at me in full speed and before I can dodge it, it hits me in the head.

"Ow!" I say and turn to see the book, Little Women right next to my face.

"Is this punishment for never reading this book?" I shout into nothingness. "I'm sorry, but the plot just didn't sound interesting."

When it seems like this journey will never end, I start to see the bottom, or think I do. It's actually just an illusion; of course. I fall right through it. I mean, this is a magical rabbit hole, right? It would have ended by now if it was just an ordinary one.

Finally, I start to slow down and reach the bottom. I collapse on the floor, somehow tired from the fall.

I am in a room full of doors, some big and some small. I see one about my size and try to open it. Of course; it won't open. Then I try a big door and that doesn't work either. Finally, annoyed and exhausted, I turn the handle on a tiny door and it opens. I don't know how I'm going to get through it because, I don't know, I'm BIGGER THAN THE DOOR. But then, either the door is growing, or I'm shrinking. Option two, I tell myself, I'm shrinking.

Surprisingly, my outfit, which consists of skinny jeans and a Forever 21 T-Shirt, shrinks with me. When I am small enough, I fit through the door and step outside.

I don't know what I expect to see; I don't even know where I am. Then the thought hits me: a rabbit hole, flying stuff, me shrinking. I'm in Wonderland.