Wonderland

Down the Rabbit Hole

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The sun is hardly up as the alarm screams "wake up Alice, wake up" or at least that is what she hears. In fact Alice has always had a wild imagination. When she was young, adults would say she will grow out of it and the kids would laugh at her or call her weird. Now that Alice is almost eighteen years old she just hides it.
"Alice, get up and turn that stupid alarm off. NOW!"
"I am" she yelled back to her step-mother, Christine. Alice quickly get up and changes in the a pair of ripped jeans, a black shirt, and a flannel. She walks to the kitchen where her step-mother is cooking.
"Why don't you try a dress or maybe a skirt" Christine said with disgust in her voice. As Alice grabs her bag she said "Because I like the way I dress"
     They only live a ten minute walk from the high school. Today she left the house about twenty minutes early to stop by the park to draw. Alice is amazing artist but will never show anyone her art. As she looks for a place to sit and draw a oddly dressed boy stopped her. He looked to be about eighteen or nineteen years old and his hair is black with some white streaks.
"Alice, I was looking everywhere for you. We need your help..."
"STOP! Who are you? How do you know my name? And who is we?"
"It's me, Rider. Rider Rabbit. We have been best friends sense we were young. You use to come to wonderland every night in your dreams, but for the last few months you have not come much. Why is that?"
"Listen Rabbit, you seem nice, crazy, but nice... But I don't know you. Wonderland is not real and I think you have the wrong Alice."
"You know me. Wonderland is real and you are the right Alice. That magical place you visit in your dreams is called wonderland and it is real. The boy in the dreams is me, Rider. I'm real! And wonderland needs your help. You are the only one who can save us."
"Ohhhhhhhh, I get it. This is a prank. Some one got a hold of my journal and thought it would be funny to pull a prank on my. So, who put you up to this?"
"This isn't a prank" Rider said with a serious expression.
"Sure, was it Jennifer? Lisa? James? Or Kim?"
As Rider reaches out and grabs Alice's hand. "I don't understand why you don't remember, but everything I'm saying is true."
Alice looks down at his hand holding her's, then looks to his eyes. She can tell that he truly believes everything he is saying, but she is not sure if she believes. Alice pulled her hand away from him. She locked eyes with him just for a minute. As she turned and quickly walked away from him, Rider yelled "wonderland needs you. I need you."
Though out the day all she could think about was what Rider had said. The more and more she thought about wonderland the more she believed him. Although she is starting to believe Rider, she wants proof.
The moment the final bell rang she headed back to the park. When Alice gets to the park she start looking for Rider, hoping he was still there. Just as her luck was about to run out, she saw Rider sit by a larger tree. She quickly walked over to him and said, "prove it". It took Rider a minute to realize who he was talking to, but when he did he jumps to his feet.
"Alice, you come back. I know you would not let down wonderland."
"First you have to prove wonderland is real."
"Can do", with that Rider tapped his foot on the ground three times and a hole opened in the ground, "Ladies first" he said with a big smile.
"What is that"
"A portal, but I like to call it a rabbit hole" rider reached his hand out and Alice took it. Hand in hand they jumped though the rabbit hole.