Guilty Alice: Finding Love In Wonderland

Chapter 2

-Mattie's dream-

"Where am I now?" I've never seen this place before either. It looks like some sort of courtroom.

"What?! What am I doing in a place like this?!" I shout.

Everything somehow seems so surreal as if I were in some kind of fairytale. I thought these kind of places would be indoors, but when I look up all I can see is a bizarrely colored sky. Seriously. Where am I?

Am I standing in a defendant's seat? Just when I tilted my head to the side, wondering where I was, I notice something different about me. These clothes I'm wearing now are not what I usually wear.

I was wearing a pink dress that came down to my knees with a white apron tied around my waist with a white bow on the back and three black ribbons on the front of my chest along with a white shawl around my shoulders. I then looked down at my feet and noticed I was wearing black flats with pink and a darker shade of pink striped tights.

There are so many things I don't get. But I guess that's what I should expect in a dream. There is no way this place could be real.

Buts there's something strangely realistic about this dream. I just don't know what. Maybe it's just because I'm usually not aware that 'I'm in a dream' when I'm actually dreaming.

A voice suddenly echoes through the courtroom, "Guilty Alice!"

Surprised, I look up to see what appears to be a judge's bench and out of nowhere a woman dressed in all red appears on the bench. Deep within her eyes burned
deep-seated anger.

"How dare you steal and break my precious 'Heart'! I hereby sentence you death!" The woman screams at me.

"W-what?!? Who's Alice?!" I question. "Wait is she talking about me?!" I squeaked.

She then points her staff straight at me. As she continues giving a conviction, I stand still shocked and confused.

"Card Soldier....Cardia! Off with her head!" the queen shouts. Without hesitation, she gives an order.

"Yes, your highness" the card soldier, suited in armor engraved with a heart, promptly responds. I assume that's Cardia.

He suddenly grabs my arm and tries to bring me to the bottom of the guillotine before I even realized what was going on.

"No, stop it! Let me go!" I command while squirming.

"The queen's orders are the law. Disobeying the queen's orders is prohibited in the country of Protea. Therefore I must execute you, Alice." Cardia says.

"That's insane! My names not even Alice its Mattie!" If this was a dream, I probably wouldn't be afraid at all, but the pain in my arm from Cardia's tight grip feels so real. The blade of the guillotine looked as if it could slice right through me in a split second...there's no way this is a dream!

"Release the blade. Off with Alice's head!" the red queen commands.

"I don't know anything about this 'Heart' your talking about! This is all a misunderstanding!" I protested.

"Trying to play innocent now are you? I know for a fact that the one who broke my 'Heart' is you! After you shamelessly stole my 'Heart' sealed away in the red jewelry box you smashed it into pieces!" the queen yelled.

"Huh?" Could she be by any chance talking about the jewelry box I found earlier today?

Before I know it, the queen is grinning complacently at me as I'm lost for words.