Wickless

Oz

       Dee Dee waited until everyone went to sleep to try on the shoes. The only reason why she waited for the lights to be out was because she didn't want her mom or grandma asking so many questions. They were just short heels to begin with. Then if that was the case, she wouldn't be trying them on once everyone went to sleep. 

       In her night gown, she walked over to the standing mirror that was pasted to her wall and surrounded by stickers. She placed the red heels on. After she looked at herself in the mirror for a while, she walked around her room in them to make sure they were comfortable. The last thing she wanted was to be left with bruising, or red bumps on her feet. She walked back to the mirror and just stood there looking at herself. Dee Dee looked down at her feet and out on impulse, she clicked her heels. Click, click....she laughed, hearing the heels pop when next to one another. She clicked her heels again...click, click, click. She was gone-

       Dee Dee opened her eyes and saw she was surrounded by sunflowers. She was in a sunflower field. She got up in a hurried, unsure of how she got there to begin with. Her heels were still on and she saw she was still wearing her night gown. Dee Dee's eyes darted from left to right, and up and down. The sky was light blue and not a single cloud was in the sky. Her hands moved in front of her as she pushed the sunflowers out of the way. Since she had no idea where she was or how to get out, the only thing she could do was go straight. The problem with that was she could be going the wrong way and who knew, maybe even walk off a cliff. Dee Dee was lucky though; the sunflower field led her to a road-a yellow brick road. 

       She looked around and still didn't see anything familiar. Besides the sunflowers being around, surely, she wasn't in Kansas anymore so she stood there thinking to herself. Just as she was trying to contemplate what to do, she saw a rustle just ahead of her. She saw something, something black rummaging around the field. Dee Dee looked around again; she didn't really have much of a choice when it came to whether or not she should approach the being. 

       Dee Dee took slow steps toward the...thing that was engaging in the sunflowers. "Excuse me..." Dee Dee said. At first, she didn't get a response so she gave it another go. This time she stepped a few steps forward. She wanted to be heard. "Excuse me!" She said louder. 

       The being looked up. It was a girl. The girl looked to be about Dee Dee's age yet with green skin, high cheek bones, and dark hair with a slight wave to it. Dee Dee glared a little bit. The girl looked familiar but Dee Dee couldn't pin point it. 

       "Do I know you?" Dee Dee asked the girl with green skin. 

       "I know every one who lives in this area," the green skinned girl said, her nose pointed up, and with a less than impressed expression on her face. "And no, you don't know me." The girl went back to tending to the sunflowers.

       Dee Dee walked closer to the girl with a bit more confidence in her. "Well, can you tell me where I am?" 

       The girl sighed, obviously becoming annoyed. "Where else could you be, you're in the Kingdom of Oz...well, outside of it. If you go up the yellow brick road, you'll get to the Kingdom eventually. Might take a couple of days though...maybe weeks-"

       "What! Weeks!" Dee Dee yelled. "I don't even know how I got here."

       "The way you came..."

       Dee Dee rolled her eyes, now she was the one getting annoyed. "Yeah, I don't know." 

      "How'd ya' got here-"

       "I don't know," Dee Dee repeated. "All I remember is clicking my heels..." Dee Dee's voice faded away. Even though the girl with the green skin was no longer paying too much attention to Dee Dee, Dee Dee remembered the last thing she did was click her heels. Click, click, click...