Prophecized Royalty

Chapter Four

I walked around talking to different individuals while watching my sister and Hamish dancing. I frown seeing Hamish look upset talking to my sister and then dragging her off the dance platform. Hamish walked away only for the twins to talk up to her grinning. I smirked to find that those twins remind me of those chatty twin boys in Alice's dreams. I shook my head and went searching for my mother, waiting for the gazebo proposal. I'm just going to ignore everything because Alice won't agree to it. 

*Timeskip*

I stand in the front with my mother and Margaret. Glaring at Lowell, Margaret elbows me. She mouths, 'stop it' at me, and I roll my eyes. I've seen him with Hattie and the only reason I can't say anything is because Margaret is madly in love with her husband. Hamish gets down on one knee and opens the ring box at Alice, she looks at me with betrayal and I shake my head. 'I'm sorry,' I mouth. "Alice Kingsleigh-" I zone out immediately because I hate everything going on at the moment. I zone back in to find that Alice is running off into the hedge maze. 

I follow her in concern. "Alice wait!" I yell after her. I find her stopped at a tree to see her fall in. I looked at where she was in horror, "Alice!!" I yell, following her into the darkness. Everything in this rabbit hole confuses me, then I gasp, it's just like Alice described it in her dream. I land on the floor at the same time Alice does. I groan on the floor as I try and wrap my head around everything. Alice tries the doors to find them locked. "Why are we here? Why did you follow me Ari?" Alice asked me. I laughed, "Like I'm going to let you run off without me." She finds a key that smaller than average while I sit on the floor, watching. 

She tries the key in every door to find that it doesn't work for all of them. She moves a curtain to find a tiny door. "Umm. What the?" I look amazed at the door, and she opens it with the key. "Ali, I don't think we can fit through that," I said smirking, only to get swatted in the arm. That seems to be happening a lot recently. She opened it and tried to go through it, I snort and continue sitting on the ground. She gives up and sits back, only to look over to a table to find a bottle of liquid. She gets up and walks over to the table. "I don't think you should drink that," I said concerningly. I was ignored surprise surprise. Alice set the key back on the table and sniffed the liquid. I stared at her, "You do realize that some poisons have no aromas right?" "Adrian hush, I'm trying to get us out of here, you're not helping so shush." I shut my mouth because she is technically correct. "It's only a dream," Alice states then drank the liquid. I raise an eyebrow because if this was a dream, why would both of us be dreaming the same dream? She starts coughing, which concerned me greatly until she started shrinking. I stared wide-eyed at Alice and she stared at me the same way. She moved out of the way of her dress that didn't shrink with her and looked around, only to run to the door to find it locked. "Adrian, can you hand me the key?" Alice asked me. I continued staring at her in disbelief. There is no way this is happening, but it can't be a dream. Alice grumbled at how I was no help and ran over to the table and jumped to get the key. 

I jerked my head over to the small door, hearing a voice, "You'd think she would remember all this from the first time." "You've brought the wrong Alice." "No, she's the right one. I'm certain of it. What I don't understand is that she brought a stranger with her." "A handsome one at that." Alice dropped down from hanging off the table, I get up on shaky legs, not understanding how this is a dream. Alice looks down to find a cake in a glass box and picks it up. "Alice don't eat random things you find!" I exclaim, almost in anxiety because of the situation. 

I was ignored again and she ate it, only to grow larger than me! I slammed back onto the wall in fear of what happened to my baby sister. Alice looked around in fear then looked at me, "Adrian, how is this possible? This has to be a dream." I shook my head, "Alice, if this was a dream, how am I witnessing this too?" 

I almost broke my neck again hearing whispering voices from behind the door. "She's the wrong Alice!" "Give her a chance" Alice looked at the bottle and key. She put the key in her hand and drank some of the shrink drink. She then looked at me and nodded, "Come on brother, you can't stay here. We have to get back home." I shook my head in disbelief but drank some anyway to find myself shrinking. I stopped shrinking to what would have been my height before we dropped down this hole. Alice ran over to the door and I followed her, not wanting to get left behind. She opened the door and a bright light flooded the room.