Alice in Wonderland Part 1

“Alice dear, you are 21. When will you take getting married seriously?” My mother was starting off on another rant.

I began to tune her out as usual. My parents keep trying to set me up with suitors and supposedly I intentionally mess them up every time. All I do is go in being my normal self and if they can’t accept me for who I am, I really don’t want them.

“Alice! Are you even listening to me!?” she raised her voice so I would tune back into her lecture.

“I’m sorry mother” I said softly as I bowed my head. I was trying to look like I was feeling bad for what I had done. “If you would, please excuse me. I need to reflect on what I have done.”

My mother nodded. I picked up my book from the side table in the sitting room we were in and then went out the back door. Sometimes I feel like if my parents could find a suitor that would be able to “put-up with me,” they would be pushing me out the door and change the locks so I could never come back.

I walked through the garden and then past it to a pond. I sat on the ground in my normal spot leaning up against the tree and opened my book of poems. It wasn’t even 10 minutes in when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. At first I thought it was a young boy because it was dressed with a shirt, vest and pants, but I was wrong. When I turned my head I noticed it was a white rabbit. It was looking at a pocket watch and sounded like he was upset and muttering to himself. I was deeply confused. Had I gone mad? I quickly got up to go see if I was hallucinating, but when I did, he began to run away on all fours. I then began to chase after him; with each step my curiosity was growing. What was I chasing? Suddenly in the distance I saw him disappear. I was in shock. I couldn’t have been chasing nothing. I went in the direction he disappeared to see what had happened. I was hoping to prove to myself that I wasn’t crazy. I was so busy looking for the creature that I clumsily fell into a hole.

I started off screaming my head off, completely terrified. But after what felt like an hour of falling it lost its scariness. As I kept falling, I saw tables and chairs, tea pots, tea cups, cards, a violin, watches, clocks, and so many more random items it would be too hard to write them all down. Some of the items were protruding from the dirt walls and others were falling either slower or faster than I was. But eventually this very strange moment in time came to an end. I saw a light from below and my fall began to slow down. My feet landed softly on the ground. I looked around and noticed I was on a yellow paved circle with three paths jutting out from it. I then noticed a man with red eyes, white hair and bunny ears. He was in the same clothes as that the rabbit was in but bigger.

“Excuse me sir” I said calling out to him.

His head quickly turned to me while readjusting his glasses. “Oh dear… this is not good. You weren’t supposed to follow me.” He quickly looked down at his pocket watch. “I’m late! Just stay here and I will help you home when I am done!”

He quickly ran off down a path before I could respond. It was really rather rude if you ask me. I then looked up and around in search for the hole that I came from, but it seemed to be gone.

“If you are trying to find the portal that you came through, it has closed.” I heard a voice say from behind.

I quickly turned around to see a man with purple hair and blue-green eyes. He was sort of like the other man except he had purple cat ears and a tail.

“Can you help me get back?” I asked.

“I might, I might not. It really depends where back is, and to determine where back is you must be able to understand where here is.” There was a pause. “Didn’t your mother ever teach you it is not good to talk to strangers?” he began a stride to the right.

“Well I am Alice and you are?” I said while following him.

He then suddenly disappeared and reappeared behind me. “I am Cheshire the Cat. I guess now we are not strangers.”

I turned around and looked at him again. “Can you at least help me find the man I followed here?’

“Man? You mean White the Rabbit? Well some refer to him as the White Rabbit.”

“Yes.”

“Do you know which way he went?”

I began to look around and staring at the paths but I couldn’t remember which path he went down..

“No, I don’t.” I was so turned around. “Can you help me?”

“Well it looks to me you are lost in Wonderland.” he paused “You have two options: You can stay here until White the Rabbit returns…. eventually, OR you can take a path and hope it is the one that leads to him.” He began walking to the left now. “I personally hate staying in one spot for too long.” He then disappeared.

“Wait! Come back! Cheshire the Cat! What is Wonderland? Which path should I take?” I called out in vain. He was completely gone.

I circled around looking at all the paths. There were signs outside of the paths. The one in front of me said “Time,” the one to my left said “Red Castle” and the one to my right said “Tea Party.” I stood there in thought trying to analyze the situation. Where would the White Rabbit go? He was late for something. Surely he wouldn’t be in the Red Castle, I doubt a rabbit would be late for something there. Then I was left with “Time” and “Tea Party.” Since he was late I doubt he would go to Time, but that would make no sense for the place to be about time. What could a place like Time be?

Not knowing what it was I thought it would be best to not go down that path. I ended up going down the “Tea Party” path. Even though he is a rabbit, maybe he was late for tea. The moment I chose my path, my adventure into Wonderland began.