Once upon a time: Ever After High in Wonderland (Book 2)

Ch.29 Bunny's house

As everyone continued walking, they soon came upon a little house in a meadow.

"Hey Bunny isn't that your house?" Kitty asked.

"It is" Bunny gasped as she ran to it "Dad!"

She opened the door expecting to see the White Rabbit, but to her disappointment, he wasn't there.

"I guess he's just not here" Maddie said.

"I was really hoping I'd see him again" Bunny said with a sad look.

"You will" Darling assured.

"Hey maybe there's something in here we can use for the journey" Lizzie said as they all went in.

As they looked around, Alistair went upstairs and into a room. But as he looked around, he then spotted something on a table, he saw that there was a bottle filled with fluid with a tag around the neck that said 'Drink Me', and next to it was a little bowl filled with small frosted cookies with the words 'Eat Me' written on them with frosting. He knew that they were growing cookies and the bottle was filled with a shrinking potion. He decided that they might come in handy later so he stuffed them in his satchel.

"Hey Alistair" Bunny entered "Did you find anything?"

"Just some growing cookies and a shrinking potion" he said "They might come in handy so I put them in here" he showed his satchel.

"Nice, oh wait, remember that time you accidentally ate one of those cookies and you grew in my house?" she smiled.

"Oh yeah that was a big mistake" he laughed.

"And when Bill the Lizard tried to go down the chimney to give you shrinking potion?"

"Oh yeah he just bounced off my foot and into the air".

Bunny started to laugh.

"Oh that was the funniest thing I've seen that day" she laughed.

"So what did you find?" he asked.

"Oh, nothing really".

"Is everyone done looking?"

"I don't know, let's see".

They went downstairs where they saw Maddie stuffing food into her hat of many things.

"Maddie what are you doing?" Bunny asked as Maddie turned to her with her eyes widen.

"Uh, stuffing food into my hat" she said "We might get hungry so I might as well bring some things to eat".

"Well save some for my dad in case he comes here".

In the living room, Kitty was looking through the books when she opened a book and a photo slipped out, she picked it out and saw that it was a photo of Bunny and Alistair. She noticed that Bunny had drawn a heart around Alistair's head. She gave a sad look, wondering if Bunny will still be her friend if she told her that she liked Alistair too.

"Did you guys find anything?" Bunny entered as Kitty quickly put the photo back into the book and slammed it shut.

"Uh, no" she said, acting like she didn't see anything.

"Lizzie?" Alistair asked Lizzie who was looking under a couch.

"Well I found this haft eaten carrot" she pulled out a haft eaten carrot.

"Oh dad" Bunny sighed.

When Bunny wasn't looking, Kitty placed the book back onto the shelf, hoping that Bunny wouldn't get suspicious. Soon everyone went out of the house and continued walking, but as they were walking, Darling noticed that Kitty had a sad look on her face.

"Kitty" she said "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I'm fine" Kitty lied.

Truth was, she was getting more worried about her feelings to Alistair, afraid that it could hurt Bunny.

"You don't seem fine" Darling said as she then turned to the group "Hey can we stop for a moment, I need to talk to Kitty alone".

Everyone stopped as Darling pulled Kitty into the woods.

"This is about Alistair isn't it?" Darling asked.

Kitty gave a sigh.

"What's the matter?" Darling asked.

"I just saw a photo of Alistair and Bunny in a book" Kitty confessed "And there was a heart drawn around Alistair's head".

"Oh" Darling said.

"And just seeing it makes me feel like a terrible friend" Kitty added "I know that Bunny's been crushing on Alistair for a long time, and now I'm afraid that if she finds out about me liking him, she wont be my friend anymore".

"I see what you mean" Darling said with a sad look.

"And I've heard stories about friends fighting over the same guy they liked and they end up ruining their friendship" Kitty said sadly "And I don't want that to happen to me and Bunny".

"Kitty, I know it's hard when friends like the same person, and I agree that it can ruin friendships, but if I were you, I'd tell Alistair how you feel, you don't have to tell Bunny. But you can't keep this secret forever, the more the keep it in, the more you feel guilty. So maybe later today or this evening, tell Alistair how you feel, you don't have to tell Bunny".

Kitty gave a sigh "I'll try".

"Good" Darling rubbed her shoulder.

As Kitty went back to the group, Chase went up to Darling.

"Let me guess" he said "Alistair?"

"Yep" Darling sighed.

"Well this is getting bad" he said "Lizzie, Kitty, Bunny, and I'm pretty sure Maddie all like Alistair, if they all find out, it could hurt all of them, especially Bunny".

"I know" Darling sighed "This is really a big problem".

"So what do we do?"

"Well I just told Kitty to try and tell Alistair how she feels later today and that she didn't have to tell Bunny".

"You really think she'll do it?"

"I don't know, but she's really afraid that if Bunny found out it could ruin their friendship".

"Well it could ruin all of their friendship".

"That's why we can't tell any of them. They've been best friends since they were kids, and I don't want love to tear them apart".

Chase gave a sigh.

"Well let's just hope that neither of them find out" he said as they went back to the group.

But as they were walking, they didn't notice Courtly watching them from behind the trees.

"So all the Wonderland girls like Alistair eh?" she asked herself with a sneaky smile "It'd be a shame if someone were to tell them".