The Twisted Wonderland.

|5| Strange and Stranger

~Just as I miss Kurt Kobain I miss you, the thing in common is that I barely know either of you~

Haileys P.O.V

I miss her. It's so crazy - I barely even know her and yet I miss her. Alice is driving me nuts. Every time I see something golden it reminds me of her hair. Or, if I see something aqua blue  I instantly remember her shimmering eyes. Then I think of her amazing smile - it was contagious. Every time she smiled, it was nearly impossible for me to not do the same.

So I got a spy to watch her. I told him that I didn't trust her, just so that he doesn't start any weird rumors. I don't want him questioning me of my motives, of why I want to know. No one is to be trusted. That is my motto.

Today, many of the workers are way too curious and seem to forget that I have the authority to instantly execute them. Whether I hire someone else to do it or get my own hands dirty, through strangulation or stabbing. I've been way too forgiving lately. Unlike my mother. She was known as the cruellest, ruthless woman in all of Wonderland. If she were to ask for something, it would be done without question, in a split second. I miss her terribly. Even though the other inhabitants thought her ruthless, I know she was an amazing, kind-hearted woman to those she cared about. Of course, that included only me.

After 3 days, my spy finally returned. I yelled and tried to fix the most terrifying and fierce look on my face, as best I could. " WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?" He yawned. He YAWNED?!

"I couldn't find them, Your Majesty, and when I did, I found her in a very secluded area. Jake Hatter's secluded area." Then he laughed brusquely, remembering the times when I was fond of Jake.

But that was the last straw. I yelled for the guards. He was still laughing, tears streaming from the sides of his eyes, and joked "What are you gonna do? Kill me?" I looked down from the ceiling. I fized him with an icy stare, dark aura filling my soul. After a moment of silence - you could hear a needle drop - I simply replied "Yes."

Quick as a flash, he turned pale, all life and humour draining from his eyes. I ripped his soul out, his mouth gaping wide open in a scream, yet no sound came from his lifeless body. The guards dragged him out.

It was time to re-establish my reign of terror.

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She was spending her time at Jake Hatters house?! He was my old crush a couple of years ago. He rejected me when I asked him out. Come to think of it, there was something unusual about him. And not the normal kind of weird. His very handsome body had an air of weird, a haunting kind of weird. It wasn't hard to figure out why Alice had fallen for him.

I needed her to come back, but the rabbit was not around. I would have gotten him to retrieve her, but that rabbit got on my nerves too often. Never mind, I have to focus. How can I lure her back? I could force her by using my soldiers, but she would resent me. What else could I do? Pretend to be sick? But she wouldn't come anywhere near me.

Knock, knock.

"You may enter." My personal advisor trudged in, his hunched back and wrinkly skin making him look like a withered, walking armadillo. But he was very sweet, especially to his equally miniscule wife, the royal chef. "My Queen, Prince Julio awaits your presence." I nod and inform him that I'll be down in a few moments. Julio was a beautiful man, but Alice's beauty was ten times more stunning than him. Except that, in this world, it was not right to be attracted to the same gender in that way. Maybe if I spent more time with Julio, I would develop an attraction to him.