The White Rabbit [Alice in Borderland]

Chapter 2 - The Living Situation

I woke up to the cold body beside me, his cold fingers dug into my sides. "Yeah sorry, he usually sleeps a long time" Uta said as I looked over, seeing the others awake. "Yeah, I noticed" I looked down at the man again. He looked kinda peaceful. "Do we need to wait until he wakes up to eat? We haven't eaten since before the show" Goken asked, slumping his shoulders slightly. "He has trapped me in his cold grip, so yes" i answered and Goken chuckled. He stood up, moving to sit by me. "You doing alright there? He's pretty strong" he asked and moved some hair out of my eyes. "Yeah I'm fine. Yeah he is pretty strong" I chuckled looking up at Goken while the others got into their own conversations.

"I always wondered, is your hair the reason they call you the White Rabbit?" Goken asked, carefully playing with my long spread out hair. My hair was brown and faded into white with white split ends. "Yeah my family got some genes that cause our hair to turn white early in our twenties. But me and my younger brother got unlucky, he had split white ends when he was nine. Mine started going white when I was eight or seven" I replied, letting him touch my long hair as he pleased. "Ah, but is it why you're called the white rabbit?" He questioned again. "No idea, a bartender started calling me it and suddenly everyone did. I don't mind though, I think it's cause of the hair and the fact I almost always wore light white clothes" I wanted to shrug but forced myself not to, in case it woke up Maki. "Hm, I always wanted to meet you. You were always like a ghost during our shows, you were there but. I could never find you" he admitted. "Yeah? Well now you've met me" I smiled proudly at him as he continued to play with my hair. He giggled and gave me a toothy grin "whatever, Bunny" he flicked my forehead. "If I'm a bunny, you're a racoon" I retorted and he giggled again.

"You two seem to get along well" Maki commented, his voice deeper than before, probably cause he just woke up. "Yep, sorry I'm stealing your girlfriend Maki" Goken chuckled as Maki slowly sat up, pulling me up with him. "Shut up" he grumbled as he wrapped his arms around me from behind, putting his chin on my shoulder. "Dude, let her go! We need food" Shitara complained to Maki but he remained quiet. "You wanna help me with breakfast?" I asked with a small smile. He hummed a small yes and let me go. I stood up and held out my hand for him, which he took, pulling himself up with ease. "Be right back, someone wake up Kyuma" I told them and they just nodded.

We walked out and into the kitchen. The refrigerator I had installed ran n batteries instead of electricity so it kept stuff cold for real. "Do you guys have any allergies?" I asked, glancing at him as I looked through our options. "Shitara technically can't have dairy.. but he doesn't really listen to us" he answered in the same raspy voice he woke up with. "Think fruits would work then? It's better keeping the bigger meals for later. We can't waste things" i questioned and he hummed a yes. He helped me cut up fruits and bread. "This is fresh, did you make this?" He asked as he cut up the loaf of bread. "Yeah, milk bread is pretty easy to make" I replied, cutting up a mango "Impressive" he mumbled. "What, you not a baker?" I gave him a grin and he huffed a laugh. "Not really, no" he told me, finishing up the bread. We started putting everything on a platter before I moved all the put out seeds into some wet napkins. "Why?" He questioned simply. "We can still grow things, we already have potatoes growing outside" I replied and he gave me a weird look. "I grew up on a farm, okay?" I glared lightly at him before picking 8p one of the platters. "Sorry" he mumbled and picked up the second one. I just walked away, not wanting to continue the conversation. "Time for breakfast!" I said to the people in the room, moving in and placing the platter down in the middle of the room, Maki doing the same.

We all sat down around it and dug in. "Ah, I'm so relieved! I haven't eaten in so long" Uta said as she was eating pieces of a pineapple. "Did you make this bread?" Kyuma asked me and I nodded, eating my pieces of mango. "It's incredible" he complimented as he continued eating. "Thank you, Enji helped a bit as well" I smiled gratefully at him and he smiled back. "You should think about opening a bakery if all your baking is this good" Uta complimented. "That is if we ever get out of here" I sighed. "We'll get out of here, we're a group now. We've got smarts, wits and a drummer who can perform surgery" Shitara reassured me but I didn't cheer up. "We have 4 days. Then we need to enter another game" Enji spoke up in a shaky voice. "According to the calculations Bun-Jade has made.." Enji continued. "You can still call me bunny" I told him and he smiled gently at me. "According to Bunny's calculations, the next games should be clubs or diamonds" Enji continued, slightly more confident now. "Calculations?" Shitara raised an eyebrow at him. "Yeah, the games are more calculated than you think. Bunny figured out the calculations. There are multiple games each night and they change every night in a pattern" Enji finished.