"Alice, come on… You've been studyin' all day! It's 8 o'clock! You need to do somethin' fun! I've gotta group together, with a couple of hottiesand we're going to The Main Event in Tulsa Hills… You should come with us! I'll even pay for it if that'll get ya outta of the library! You never leave-" The young girl banged her head on the library table, lifting her phone away so she didn't have to hear anymore of her older sister's constant rambling. She didn't sit back up until after hearing her sister scream her name through the phone.

"Sarah! Stop… I promise I will go out with you next weekend- Sarah, no- Would you please stop talking for like two seconds! Good Lord… Look, I have a big test to take tomorrow morning before a major lab in my science class is due… No, it's the test that allows me to move onto my internship... Alright, yeah, love you too." Alice set her phone down and let out a large sigh as her head fell to the paper and book cladded table. She loved her sister, but that didn't mean she had to like her sometimes. It's not her fault I'm double majoring though. Alice sighed, sat back up and got back to work.

It was around 10 o'clock before Alice decided to pack up her things and make her way out of the library with her Sony's covering her ears. The campus was still lit and many people were still walking about. Some scurrying to the next party down the street at a Frat house (no doubt that they were Freshman who didn't want to be caught), others were heading to their dorm, and a few, like herself, were heading to the apartments across the street. "Alice! Alice!" Completely oblivious to the person calling her name, she kept walking toward the shortcut to her apartment. Before the blonde could enter the building, a hand grabbed a hold of her headphones, pulling them off her ears. "Alice!" Her breath hitched in her throat as she whipped her head around to see her best friend standing there with her dark hands on her hips.

"Victoria! Are you serious? Don't scare me like that!" She let her headphones drop around her neck before letting out a deep breath.

"Well, I wouldn't 've had to if you listened to me calling your name!" Alice laughed at herself before apologizing to her best friend and pulling the door open to the building; however, Victoria grabbed her backpack and pulled her back again.

"Oh my gosh, what? Just come with me!" Victoria shook her head causing straight burgundy strands to fly out of her messy bun.

"No way." Alice looked at her friend incredulously. "Alice, it's part of the many reasons why I've said to 'not fall asleep in your Science class.'" Victoria gave her a motherly look, which Alice returned with an eye roll.

"Look, I love you and you're my best friend and all, but you are far too paranoid sometimes."

"Alice, I'm serious! Those science weirdos, who are all obsessed with—you know—the weird stuff, go in there after hours doing… God knows what! I'd rather not accidentally run into one of them. What if they capture us and want to keep us as an experiment?" Alice's face deadpanned at her best friend's explanation. The two girls had a very lengthy 30 second stare down.

"Yeah, you're too paranoid." Before Victoria could stop her friend, Alice marched through the doors of the science building looking around at the quiet and empty hallways as she made her way to the other side.

"Alice… Why can't you just walk around like normal people… I'm sure this is still breakin' and enterin'." Alice looked back at her friend with a small laugh. There is seriously no one in he- The blonde girl stopped in her tracks as a bright light caught her attention down one of the corridors of the first floor causing Victoria to slam into her. "Shhh!"

"See, I told you something strange was going on!" Victoria whispered to her friend who only nodded her head in agreement. The two girls pulled out their phones to turn on their flashlight. All the while, the burgundy haired girl was unaware of the cat like grin across her friend's face.

"Let's go check it out!" Victoria gasped at her.

"Alice, we can't do th- Alice! Ugh… She's worse than that girl in the Disney movie…" Victoria followed behind her friend while grumbling about how one day her friend will fall into a rabbit hole, too. Upon reaching the lab, Alice grabbed a tight hold of Victoria's hand before peeking inside. "Do you see anyone?" The blonde shook her head and stepped inside of the room, still holding tight to her friend's hand.

"See, Victoria. It's fine! There isn't anyone in- What was that?!" Alice and Victoria nearly jumped two feet in their before holding each other close by the neck and waist. The girls started shuffling around the room trying to find the source of the noise. At this point, they had already declared that they definitely wouldn't last in a horror movie... Eventually, Alice's heart rate calmed down enough to where she could let go of her friend. "Look, a cage! It must be the the hoomon they are experimenting on-"

"Alice, don't do that!"

"Sorry, just trying to get you back for scaring me earlier. Besides, that cage is way too small for a... whole human." Alice let out a soft laugh only to be shushed by Victoria. "Let's go let out what's in there. It's probably like a gerbil or something." Victoria's hand reached out to Alice's shoulder, stopping her.

"Don't! What if it has some weird zombie disease like from iZombie?!"

"Like I said, you're too paranoid." Her dark green eyes scanned the small sheet that was over the cage before lifting it up.

"Oh, how fitting, Alice found the white rabbit." The blonde girl looked at her friend with annoyance. Victoria just shrugged and smiled at her. Obviously not sorry for her words. Alice turned back to the cage, opened and grabbed the rabbit out. Victoria shined the light on the creature and gasped. "Whoa! Alice, it's eyes!"

"Well, you can tell me what's wrong with them after we get—"

"Who's in there?!" Footsteps echoed through the hallway toward the lab room and got louder and quicker at each passing second.

"Crap, Alice! Capture!" Victoria quickly covered the cage with the sheet just in time for them to duck and hide as the man approached the classroom and turned on the light.

"Who's in here?"

Alice peeked from behind the cabinet she was hiding behind. A guy, who seemed around her age with a lab coat on, was standing in the doorway with his head turned the opposite way. Alice leaned back behind the cabinet as she heard him walking around the room. Luckily, Victoria was able to get the back door of the classroom opened allowing the girls to slip back out in the hallway to escape. Before either one could breathe, they took off running out of the building without turning back.

"See, I told you Alice!" Victoria exclaimed as they made it to Alice's apartment across the street.

"Not fully, Vick. We didn't get captured, and we aren't being turned into 'experiments'." The blonde stuck her key into her apartment door and stepped inside, her friend following behind.

"Speaking of experiments, why do you still have that rabbit?" Alice looked at her friend before looking down at the rabbit. The little white rabbit stared back at her; one little eye was blue, while the other was green. Alice's face contorted in confusion.

"Creepy, right? Not really what you would expect from an albino bunny." Alice looked at her friend, pondering her comment for a moment. She's right, they are kind of creepy... What are those freaks doing in there? I might have to check it out again… "Oh, no. I know that look! You want to go back in there! Well, I'm not and I suggest you don't either. With that said… I'm going to go to bed before you make me do something else crazy! Good night!" Victoria left her friend's apartment and went across to hers. Going into the only bedroom, Alice set the bunny on her bed before going to the bathroom to wash the reminisce of the day before hopping into bed with her new "pet".

"Bring me the one ring…"

Into the night, a group of white ghostly figures take off in search of the one Ring. The leader was much more horrid to look at than any of the others: a wilted king with a face of death that looked as if it would crumble by a single touch. Despite the fact that all riders wore a crown of past royalty, this one in particular, held a higher status that anyone would be able to see. A status to be feared. A look into this creature's hollow eyes, and she could see secrets that were enough to make her body grow rigid and cold.

Unmoving, unflinching, falling into the darkness of the creature's eye, but only to come face to face with something far worse… An eye of fire. An eye that not even the smallest of creatures could hide from. An eye that made her blood boil hot and skin catch flame and burn her alive-

A scream. A scream that was enough to wake up her neighbors echoed through the small bedroom in her apartment. Alice's blonde hair clung to her skin as she sat up panting. "What in the world sort of dream was that?!" Her voice barely reached her ears as her mind and body slowly started coming to reality. Soon, the only thing she could hear again was her box fan blowing against the wall. But the peace within her didn't last... The left side of her head was engulfed in pain causing her to fall back down on her bed and grip at her head with clench teeth as tears spilled out of her eyes. What is happening!

Thankfully, the pain only lasted about 5 excruciating minutes. Panting, Alice grabbed her phone from her night stand and looked at the time. 4 am… With a sigh, Alice shakily stood from her bed and walked out of her room with nothing but the flashlight of her phone guiding her way. Flipping on the light to her bathroom, she took one look at herself in the mirror and cringed at her blurry reflection. What she could make out of her appearance due to her bad vision was still enough to frighten her. Her eyes were bloodshot particularly the left one, her skin was deathly pale, her bangs were plastered to her forehead and her long hair was plastered to the rest of her skin. Her body felt hot, but her skin was as cold as ice… Strange…

Shaking off her appearance Alice decided to go ahead and take a shower, despite the fact that she really didn't need to be up until around 6:30. She stripped off her clothing and entered the running shower without waiting for the water to warm up, not that she could really feel the difference in water temperature at the moment. The water ran through her hair and over her uncharacteristically pale skin. After about 10 minutes, her white skin started to come back out without a trace of any sweat-induced nightmare keeping surface. Once she was all clean, she wrapped her hair and body in a towel and took another look in the mirror and began to towel dry her hair. Luckily for her, her hair was naturally silky straight regardless of the fact that her hair was still rather coarse and thick. Something she always loved because she never really had to worry about waking up with a large haystack on her head only just a few tangles. But, she was more so grateful for it now because she might be able to get an extra 30 minutes of sleep in without worrying about doing much to her hair.

How in the world would I come up with a dream like that? She took another look at the clock on her phone sighing with relief that she still had an hour an half before her alarm was set to go off. "That headache though…" Maybe it was the outcome of drinking too much coffee lately…

Alice threw on another baggy t-shirt and underwear and settled herself back into her soft bed, placing her phone beside her. As she started drifting off to sleep, one last thought drifted through her mind: And where in the world is that bunny?

Ugh… That test was horrible… Alice pushed her glasses back up the bridge of her nose and sighed while readjusting her overnight bag and backpack on her shoulder. This morning was so not going well. First, she woke up later than she wanted to; second, that dang creepy bunny was nowhere to be found; third, she ripped a contact, fourth; her freakin' left eye was swollen shut, and last, her apartment complex had to be fumigated because some idiot was hoarding cockroaches in the apartment above hers. Thus, leaving her and her best friend pretty much homeless for a couple of days and causing them both to stay with Alice's nagging-party animal older sister. Convenient, isn't it? Not to mention she had two other classes today after her test before her Science class in the evening.

Alice came up to a bench in front of the science building and sat down with a huff. A quarter past 6… I have to be in class in 15 minutes. Alice rested her head in her hands, her long blonde ponytail falling over her shoulder and bangs ruffling in the wind. It would be totally perfect if something awesome would happen to me today. Like winning a million dollars, or that totally cute Italian guy in my art class asking me on a date, or someone giving out free pizza… Actually, I think I'd rather have the free pizza…

"You haven't found that rabbit yet?" Huh?

"No, and it's not like I can just check the security footage! Because certain idiots turn off the cameras at night!"

"Shhh! Dude, someone might hear you!" The two guys made eye contact with Alice and hastened their pace into the building. Curious, as always, Alice quickly picked up her and her bags up and followed them into the building. She couldn't get far before Victoria caught up with her.

"So, did you ever find that freaky a-"

"Language…"

"-butt bunny? Wait- Whoa! You weren't kidding about that eye! I totally bet you got some sort of infection from the that rabbit. You should get it looked at." Victoria stated, slinging an arm around her shorter friend's shoulder. "Wait, why are you still caring your bag- Oh! You had that test this morning! How'd it go?"

"How do you think it went?" Alice stepped out of Victoria's arm and gestured at her appearance: strands of straight blonde hair were falling from her ponytail due to the wind, her cross bangs were a bit ruffled, glasses, an oversized blue sweater was hanging off her slim shoulders, black yoga pants that reached a little above her ankle, and white vans: in her eyes, she looked tired and stressed.

"What? You look pretty normal to me? Minus the fact that you're actually wearing your glasses and your hair is up. I mean, at least you still made a little effort to get up right? Plus, your eyebrows are still on 'fleek', as the kids say. But You do look more tired than usual. Especially with that swollen eye. That test was really that stressful?" Alice nodded her head. It's a good thing I didn't tell her about that nightmare because she would have looked way too into it. She than gave her friend a pat on her back, and headed off to class. "Oh, Alice! Remember! Don't fall asleep in class! Science weirdos!" Victoria sang.

"And you're still too paranoid!" Alice sang back before making her way inside her lab room and sitting down by her lab partner. With a sigh, Alice and her partner began setting up the presentation and experiment for the lab project. And there's no hope of getting out of here before 9 o'clock this evening… Great.

"Miss Mueller… Miss Mueller… You need to wake up." Alice's frail and very old science professor started shaking her awake. "Miss Mueller, you can't keep falling asleep in my class." Alice lifted her head off her arm and rubbed her eyes, turning to her sweet and aged professor with an apologetic smile.

"I'm very sorry, Professor Evans… I'll make sure to get more sleep in the future…"

"Please do... Now, since you fell asleep through most of your classmates' presentations, I need you to stay here and wipe off all the tables and cabinets." The old man hobbled back over to his desk and began to get his roller bag together before heading out the door. "You know, your parents named you spectacularly well. As I recall, little Alice in Old Disney's film had the same problem you did: staring off into space, curious, a bit sassy, and very sleepy." The old man gave a slight chuckle before exiting the lab. "Take care, Miss Mueller. And I'm glad to see you that you can open that left eye of yours now."

"O-Oh, uh, you too, Professor…" Alice took a deep breath and let it out, she didn't even notice the fact that she was able to open up her eye.

"I can't believe it's seriously almost 10 o'clock now…" Alice whispered to herself as she slung her backpack on her back and her overnight bag strap on her shoulder. Great… Just great… The lights in the building are already turned off- "What was that?!" She quickly turned on her phone's flashlight and pointed it down her class's hall as she spotted yet another white rabbit. At least this one actually had red eyes. She walked down the hall to the rabbit who then darted into the classroom closest to it. Alice stopped outside the door, shaking her head. This was the same classroom she found that other rabbit in the night before. "Uh-uh, no way, little rabbit. I am not following you in there…" Alice and the rabbit looked at each other for what seemed like ages before Alice finally made her way inside the room. Her curiosity getting the best of her, yet again.

The bunny hopped around a curtain as Alice made her way inside of the room. Following the rabbit around the black sheet, she stopped as she saw what the bunny was seemingly trying to climb on. A giant steel chest of some sort. Alice will never know what compelled her to do this… But, she placed her phone on the near by counter and dropped the rest of her things to the ground and started to push the chest aside, which was much easier than she thought it would be, and came face to face with a giant hole. Really? A white rabbit and a hole in the ground... Awesome... Alice snorted and sat down on the ground, crossing her legs. "What now?" She jokingly asked the bunny. The lights in the science lab came on and footsteps could be heard. At the same time, the rabbit looked at her and then jumped into the hole…

"No!" Alice shouted as she reached into the hole to catch the bunny, but ended up losing balance and falling head first into darkness.

"Dude! There's someone in here!"

"Well, don't just stand there, look for them!" A straggly, oiled her boy peeked behind the curtain first, expecting to see the chest and the unwelcomed person; however, he wasn't expecting this.

"Uh… Dude… You need to come see this…" The guy in the lab coat from the night before made his way around the curtain and pulled it away completely; his jaw dropped.

"I-Impossible… The hole… I-It's gone…" And it was. Along with the steel chest, the bunny, Alice's bags, and Alice.