𝔸𝕝𝕖𝕩 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕐/𝕟 𝕚𝕟 𝕎𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕖𝕣𝕝𝕒𝕟𝕕

2 | Golden Afternoon

{Alex's POV}
"D-Do you suppose.. that was a.. a true story, Alex?" I heard Y/n question, as she and I strolled onwards. I stopped walking, which caused her to do the same. "The oyster story?" I asked.

Y/n nodded, with a little frown. I could tell she felt sorrow, for those poor little oysters. I did, too. It's quite a tragic story, after all. It very well could be a true story, so I decided not to tell Y/n that. It would have only made her feel much worse.

"I should think not. Who could do such a dreadful thing, really?" I tried to assure Y/n, then gave her hand a comforting squeeze. She smiled at me and nodded, so I responded by doing the same to her.

Through the forest did Y/n and I keep walking, until we saw the sun showing us a small cottage just ahead of us. It had a roof of what looked like straw, a pink wooden door and a small stone fence around it with a wooden gate. "Now I wonder who lives here." I pondered, as Y/n and I approached it.

"Mary Ann! Drat that girl. Where did she put 'em? Mary Ann!" A voice called, from within the cottage. The roof windows opened, and I could see the white rabbit. "The rabbit!" Y/n and I identified.

"Mary Ann! No use, can't wait! I'm awfully late! Oh me, oh my, oh me, oh my!" The white rabbit said, just as I had opened the cottage door.

The white rabbit rushed out, at once. "Excuse me sir, but.. but we've been trying to-" I told him.

But the white rabbit glared at Y/n! "Why, Mary Ann! What are you doing out here?" He remarked.

"Mary Ann?" Y/n and I asked, confused. He thought Y/n was Mary Ann? Who on earth was that?

"Don't just do something, stand there! Uh.. no, no! Go, go! Go get my gloves," said the white rabbit, waving his pocket watch in Y/n's face, "I'm late!"

My confusion turned to annoyance. I didn't care for Y/n being treated so rudely. "But late for what? That's just what we-" She tried to explain.

"My gloves!" The white rabbit insisted, blowing a trumpet in poor Y/n's face. "Now, see here-" I scolded, glaring at him and crossing my arms.

He just ignored me, however, ushering Y/n into the cottage. "At once, do you hear!" He snapped.

Y/n uncovered her ears, since she was obviously startled by the trumpet. "It's all right, Alex. I'll just.. find these gloves." I heard her sigh.

I certainly wasn't about to let Y/n go into the cottage all by herself, so I followed her inside.

"Goodness. I suppose she'll be taking orders from Dinah next(!)" I commented, reaching the cottage's bedroom at the top of the staircase.

"Did you find them?" I asked Y/n, who was busy searching a desk drawer. She shook her head, but we did discover a small tin with several cookies inside. Each of the cookies said 'Eat me'.

With smiles, Y/n and I each grabbed a cookie from the tin. "Oh! Thank you." Y/n said, before she and I took bites of our cookies. However, much to our surprise, the cookies we ate were the same as before - the kind that make us both grow giant.

"Oh no, no! Not again!" I groaned, as Y/n and I started to fill the entire bedroom. We were uncomfortably stuck in the house. My right leg and right arm stuck out of the right side of the house, while Y/n's left arm and left leg stuck out of the left side. "Hmph! Oh, dear!" I remarked, then heard the white rabbit scamper back. "Monsters! Monsters, Dodo! In my house, Dodo!" I heard him exclaim.

"Oh might, poor little bitty house.." I heard the white rabbit panic. "Uh, steady old chap. Can't be as bad as all that you know." I heard the dodo try to assure him. I managed to open the cottage roof window, so Y/n and I could see what was going on.