The Madness of Alice

Chapter 1: Down the Rabbit Hole

        A long time ago, there lived a girl named Alice.  She was just a normal girl, completely normal, in fact.  Well, not entirely.  I wouldn’t say that anyone is completely sane.  But where was I?  Oh, yes!  Alice lived quite a normal life, raised by her loving parents to become quite the lady.  Maybe, if not for her one-of-a-kind cat Dina, maybe she would have.  Or maybe not.  Maybe all things that are meant to happen will happen, and Dina was just an excuse for Alice to fall down that wretched hole.  But, none the less, Alice had a completely normal life, until the eve of her 16th birthday.  Dina, the cat her parents had gotten her for her 3rd birthday, was becoming quite the adventurous kitty, and soon became bored by the quiet, no-nonsense people that had come to Alice’s party.  So, she went off to find a nice place to nap until the festivities had died down.  Naturally, Alice followed her.  The two had been inseparable since the first day they met, and that sure wasn’t going to stop now.  So, a little ways away from the house, Dina settled down for her nap on a nice, mossy rock.  But Alice, feeling restless, went exploring, and soon came upon a small hole in the ground, and next to that, a big mound of earth that suggested that the hole had been dug rather quickly.  “How peculiar,” Alice mused, kicking at the pile slightly, thinking to herself, What on Earth could have been in such a rush? As if in answer to her question, there came a small tapping sound from the right of the path.  Thinking it must be Dina, she went to greet it, only to come face to face (more like face to feet, as the creature was quite small) to a very peculiar white rabbit, wearing a tiny velvet suit with a silken bowtie.  With a cry of alarm, Alice fell back, only to be surprised even more as the Rabbit pulled out a pocket watch and exclaimed, “Oh, my!  Oh, my! I’m going to be late! I’m going to be late!”  And with that he hopped around Alice and dove down the hole at lightning speeds.  Alice was immediately curious about what was down the rabbit hole, and seemed to be unruffled by the events of the last few moments.  Attempting to smooth her skirts, then realizing it was a lost cause to try and smooth the wrinkles and dirt from her lace and silk gown, she put one foot, then two feet, then her whole body down the rabbit hole.

Much to her surprise, she did not plummet down the hole as she suspected.  Instead, she floated gently down, but, unlike similar stories, she did not see floating clocks and cabinets or any of that nonsense.  Instead, all she saw was the darkness of the Earth, and then, as if a desk lamp being turned on to full brightness in front of a man who had been in a dark room for his whole life, the land came into view, and it was as if a magical force had taken the spit and image of Alice’s imagination and made it into a world of her own.  She had to bite her tongue from gasping aloud, and it was the only thing she could do so that she didn’t run up the trail that now led into the world of her dreams.  Instead, she walked slowly up the walkway, ducking under overgrown mushrooms and jumping over shrunken tree logs that looked far too old for their size.  As she walked, Alice pondered where she actually was.  It couldn't be Earth - everything was much too strange to be anything from her world.  Yet it felt so familiar.  Like, somehow, she had been here before, yet that was impossible. If she had ever been here, she would remember.  As she pondered this, she began to feel as if she were being watched, so she stopped and looked at her surroundings.  Slowly turning in a circle, she found nothing strange or out of place (all things considered) and was about to be on her way, when she saw the faint outline of a smile.  This, she considered strange, even more so as a figure slowly faded in around the smile, taking form of a VERY fat cat.  He had a spiral pattern of pink and purple stripes cascading down his body, starting from the top of his neck to the very tip of his tail, which ended in a tuft of hair that was just a shade lighter than the other pink stripes on his body.  “Hello, Alice,” He said, the muscles in his face twitching as he talked, “I was quite hopeful that you would come.”  This astonished Alice, but also, surprisingly, she felt a sense of dread in her stomach, though she had no idea why at that exact moment.  “How on Earth could you be expecting me if we’ve never even met?  And how do you know my name?  What is this place?”  She asked these questions hotheadedly, beginning to be annoyed with the cat already, for he had absolutely no right to call her by her name if she did not know his.  “Why, this is Wonderland, of course!  Where else could we be?  Also, I know your name because we HAVE met before, though you couldn’t possibly remember, for it was in another lifetime.”  Alice was so taken aback, she couldn’t respond.  Another lifetime?  Was it even possible she could have been here before?  She would have thought it impossible a few minutes ago, and had, in fact, but now, she wasn’t sure anymore.  For, now that she looked, she could remember so many things.  Like, for instance, the cat’s name.  “Is your name, perhaps, Cheshire?”  Once she had asked the question, she knew that she didn’t want the answer.  If it was, it meant she HAD been here before, but if it wasn’t, then she was crazy.  

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Sorry this is only a short chapter, in Word it was, like, 2 pages long so hopefully its long enough when its published!  I hope you all like my story because it is my first one on Wattpad!  Soon I'll update things like the Cast and Pics and stuff, but for now please be patient as I am new to the writer world! :) That's all I have to say so BYYYE!!!! :)

-A