Modified due to mistakes: read thought it earlier and noticed several mistakes, very sorry this version is hopeless better, Again sorry. ./.
"God damn it" that was Alice and she was late, she always ran late her mother made it into a great deal saying that not even the many gods of ancient Rome could make her on time. Alice ran out of her room carrying a large black backpack in on hand, as she neared the steps she paused briefly before she dropped the bag and ran back to her room. She returned holding a large golden locket, she then picked up the bag and ran down and stopped again once she reached the mirror in the hall way.
The young girl looking back at her was around fifteen with pale skin and long black shinny hair. Her face was delicate like that of a fine china doll speckled with little brown freckles. Her eyes were far from ordinary, the left eye was chocolate brown but its twin was in fact light red like a cherry flavoured sweet. Alice tied her hair into a long pony tail and then placed the locket around her neck and smiled sweetly at her reflection.
Once in the kitchen she opened a cupboard door filled with medical supplies from plasters to bandages and even multiple packs of different pain killers. Alice took one arm and scooped it into her bag and zipped it shut; she then walked to the living room and sat down on the sofa.
Twenty minutes past and Alice was still sat on the sofa. Then her mobile phone lit up, she picked it up and read a text, which read
"Sorry Hun but I can't pick you up today maybe next week. Luv u"
In complete anger and misery Alice through the phone across the room hitting the TV and without realizing she had also accidently turned the X-Box on. She sat with her head in her hands weeping quietly.
Alice's dad and mum where divorced now for what seemed a fast Ten years, but Alice never really knew why just that their relationship suddenly went sour and from loving each other one day they loathed each other the next. Alice can still remember being five years old, holding her doll in one arm and rubbing her teary eyes with the other watching her dad pick up his suite case and walk out the door. Her dad would come and pick her up every other Monday and she would stay for a week, but several months later the picking up and staying over became less and less frequent. But what is a young girl like her goanna do, all she could do is cry?
As Alice cried she never noticed the X-Box started to play a game, its green light shone ominously. Alice didn't see as the games title came up, she didn't notice until a strange noise started humming loudly, like the engine of a car. Alice looked up still crying her cheeks where both wet and red from the tears her lip wobbled and quivered. Then after a couple of seconds her tears started again as she stared at the screen, but these were not tears of sadness but instead they were tears of anger, Alice's face scrunched up into what looked like a lumpy wet raisin (not a very pleasant sight). Her head then fell once more into her hands.
"I wish I wasn't here" the noise of the game got louder and the light on the screen turned golden "I want to be somewhere else" the light got brighter "anywhere else" the humming turned into a deep rumbling "If only the great roman gods could take me far, far away." Now the whole room was shaking as the light consumed everything in its path leaving only Alice and her bag sitting in nothing but gold light.
She was no longer crying now she was more concerned about where she was and why she was there. "Hello, is any one there?" she shouted repeatedly but she got no answer, until the golden space began to shake again but a lot more violently, for Alice it was like sitting inside a tumble dryer. Then a voice echoed in her ear it was like a cluster of people talking at the same time very gently "If you wish for escape then we shall give it to you" Alice started to float in mid air and the light started to dissipate and what she could see was no longer the living room floor of her family home but instead a river. The voice rang again but this time it was a lot more firm "Be warned little Alice, not everything in wonder land is as innocent as it may seem" and with that the light was gone and Alice was left suspended in mid air.
There she was floating effortlessly in the sky like a cloud; she looked around and saw stone buildings and structures in the distance but Alice was still questioning her new found weightlessness. She looked at her shoes and whispered "curiouser and curiouser" mumbled Alice as she giggled to herself.
The gravity returned with vengeance as Alice suddenly plummeted toward the ground, faster and faster she fell it was terrifying as every passing second came and went it felt as she wasn't any closer or farther from the ground until.
SPLASH!
Alice had hit the water with full force right on her back. It was cold and dark in that water and Alice was in a daze from the fall she couldn't make her arms or legs move at all it was like the water was glue, and poor Alice was stuck right inside of it. She was now out of air and in a desperate attempt to live her body forced its mouth open of one last breath but under the water only bubbles escaped and floated to the surface, once there no one saw them or looked to see where they had come from other than one person who never wanted to be seen.
Alice knew now that she was at her end, that this was where she was going to die. It seemed unfair that the Gods (as Alice thought they were) had brought her here only to die, well they say Gods are not always the nicest of people in the world and Alice had begged to be somewhere else way not that somewhere else be death. Then the silence crept in along with the inevitable darkness until nothing but silence.
The next thing Alice knew she was choking up water through her nose and mouth; she could barely open her eyes to see what was happening. It took all her energy to look up she saw the figure of a person against the sun; they were cradling her head in their arms and looking down at her. The sun was then hidden by the clouds and Alice saw the face of her saviour, it was a man a lot older then her dressed in white robes. His face was partially covered by a hood but she could feel his stare in her eyes, he just stared like a statue. What she could see left little to her imagination, his chin was covered in black stubble with a scar that ran down and over his lip.
Alice could no longer stay awake, she started to chough again and now she was about to pass out once more "who are you?" she asked, the man placed one hand on her head and gently rubbed her face with his thumb and whispered "rest now little one" Alice's eyes started to close and the last thing she hear was the strange man saying "What an odd young lady."
End of chapter one