Ever After High Diaries

Alistair Wonderlands diary

Will Wonder Never Cease

The fairytale world is a tea-rrifically curious place. I don't come from a line of great heroes, yet everyone knows my story. My mom's Alice. Yes, that Alice, the one who adventured in Wonderland. It's my destiny to travel down the rabbit hole into the curiouser and curiouser world of vanishing cats, tea-drinking hatters, and playing card queens. I always looked forward in following my mom's footsteps. At Ever After High, I guess that would make me a Royal, which is kind of its own riddle since I don't have a crown.

What's Ever After High? It's where future fairytales learn how to follow their family's legacy. It's great for "normal" fairytales, but "normal" rules never applied in Wonderland. The entire land is a Wonderifically mad riddle that cannot be solved. At least it was, before the Evil Queen's curse. After that, Wonderland's madness spun dangerously out of control. It took some time, but eventually I got out. But that's a story for another day. I'm at Ever After High right now, and I'm going to make sure nothing changes my destiny.

Chapter 1

During my first week at Ever After High, Headmaster Grimm didn't know what classes I should be in. Even though my story is an adventure, it has nothing to do with climbing towers or fighting dragons. In the end, he decided to lump me in with the other guys. I spent most of my time just watching the clock. Tick tock, the clock strikes one. Tick tock, the clock strikes two. Riddle me, I thought, there's nothing uniquely curious about a clock that tells the right time.

"Exactly!" Professor King Charming enthusiastically slammed his desk, and I snapped out of a daydream. "And that brings us to your Hero Training assignment for the week: present to the entire class a report on when you were a hero." He stared at me. "I look forward to hearing your story."

Since I arrived, everyone's been talking about what "really" happened in Wonderland. Rumors grew faster than a person after eating a slice of Wonderland cake labeled EAT ME. Just the other day I overheard "Alistair single-handedly defeated the Evil Queen."

It sounds heroic, but it's not the truth. I needed to talk to the only friend who would ever understand, because she was on my side the entire time: the daughter of the White Rabbit, Bunny Blanc.

Chapter 2

Bunny's been my best friend forever after since the first time we met. She has beautiful mint green eyes and cheeks that never stop blushing. From the beginning, I was able to talk to her like we'd known each other for years. We've been inseparable ever since.

After class, I hext messaged her and waited near the Grimmnastics field bleachers. She's almost late. I smiled. Bunny has a way of never showing up early, but always right on time. I fished my watch out of my pocket. The memory of the last time I looked at my watch waiting for Bunny washed over me.

It was back in the Wonderland Jubjub Forest. I was watching the seconds tick away when the oddest thing happened ... it began snowing. "That's curious," I pondered a single snowflake.

"Oh rabbit's foot, you've found a riddle, haven't you?" Bunny popped up behind me. "Now you'll never stop until you find the answer to it."

The snowflake didn't melt on my finger. Curiouser. "It's never this cold in the Jubjub Forest." Suddenly, an apple zipped past my head. A sour-faced tumtum tree plucked a second apple from its branch and flung it. "Since when do tumtum trees grow apples?"

"Alistair?" I snapped out of my daydream, and Bunny was gently shaking my shoulder. I looked around. There were no tumtum trees or Jubjub Forest. There were only bleachers and an empty Grimmnastics field.