Diabolik Lovers: Wonderland

The White Rabbit

When I was a kid. Wait. Let me paraphrase that. When I was at the young age, dealing with reality was quite a feat for me. Basically because most of the times I was left misunderstood. But I'm not blaming the world. It would be a waste of time. Better than that, I need to improve myself as a person. That's what little me decided in the past. And to reach my goal I needed some advice from higher ups. Someone who lived through misery and joy. Seen the best and the worst of the world. And I found people like that. I'm not talking about my brothers. No. There are other characters who opened my eyes and helped me to develop. I found millions of them. Different genders, personalities, stories, ideas, and thoughts. It all was in between the pages of books which I cherished so much.

One of my first books that I read was 'Alice in Wonderland'. I enjoyed this book so much. Read it in one sit. And one quote stuck with me till this day. "Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality". So there I was, fighting this battle of a survivor. But I guess I wasn't strong enough. Most of the times I was hiding from my problems by getting lost in the imaginary world which sometimes I created myself. Thinking about it now, it seemed cowardly.

I did have my weapon but I was too afraid to fight.

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Reading and cars don't go well together. First of all, car moves which make it harder to read. Second, it's bad for person's eyes. And if we consider my situation, the third point would be, you're in the car with predators who by the way makes reading a difficult hobby.

As a matter of fact, I found this one retelling of 'Alice in Wonderland'. The book calls 'Splintered'. I found it in academy's library. I read some back there and it hooked me up right away. So, as we were going to the Academy, I decided to not to waste any time and take this as a chance to read some. That wasn't left unnoticed. The moment when I was about to leave this world for a second and enter another one, the book was taken away from my hands.

"Perra-chan what are you reading?" Laito flipped through pages from the begging till the end of the book "Hmm, there's no pictures in here. Are you sure this is the book for your taste? But hey, look here Perra-chan" he pointed at the book's cover "See this is a butterfly" pronounced every syllable as clearly as possible like he was explaining a picture to a toddler.

"I can see that Laito" I sighed, patiently waiting till this play of his will end.

"And it's blue"

"Okay, give it back" I reached for the book but he leaned back.

"Then work for it~"

"Damn it Laito, I.....oh my God" my voice dropped and with eyes filled with fear I looked at the boy "Don't move a muscle"

"Say what?" Laito furrowed his eyebrows.

"There's a big spider just behind you" this time I whispered.

"Nfu~ I'm not falling for that, Perra-chan"

"Laito, I'm serious. Don't move" the same fear in my eyes was kept as my voice got more intense and nervous. Maybe not at first but Laito now seemed to believe me. His forehead started dripping with a cold sweat.

"WHA!" he jumped from his seat turning and smashing his back against my body. Holding his fedora on his head the boy looked at the vampire sitting next to him, who had a mischievous grin on his face.

Here's what happened. I lied to Laito that I saw a spider crawling behind him. Fortunately, next to him sat Subaru who found this as an opportunity to prank his brother by brushing his finger tips against the back of Laito's neck.

As I thought, even vampires are afraid of spiders.

"Subaru-kun, that's not how loving brothers act"