First time uploading something ~ I'm sorry that I harass you with this horrible thing some may call a story .. Anyhow, I am thankful for anyone who reads and reviews ^-^ But no flames please~

The idea to this popped into my mind quite some months ago but I never really wrote it down. Until now .. D:

Was originally planned as being some kind of sick love story or anything like that~~ but turned into something completely angsty and dark. With no love story at all .. And I think that's quite alright as it seems so wrong now when I think of this as something involving crack and sick love. Well, it could be that sometimes small signs of that can still be seen at some points .. huh. Anyone wants crack and sick love ? Who knows, I could still write that .. nyaha.

Anyways~ Alice may be a bit OCC but I wanted to show her weak side a bit better which is usually rarely seen but especially when it comes to her memories.

Ah well, I'll stop rambling now. Enjoy this little story~

Disclaimer: I own nothing, characters all belong to Jun Mochizuki. Uh well, the crappy rhyme is mine =w= ..

She had to get out of there.

It was nearly the middle of the night but she didn't give a damn about that. The moon shone bright in the dead of the night between dim shadows and rising fog. Darkness was nothing foreign to her and so wasn't loneliness. No matter how much she usually wanted to avoid these things by all means, now she fled into them. The Nightray Mansion never was a place she liked to be at. Aside from the big and endless floors which got lost in nowhere just like a horrible labyrinth ..

Then were was this stupid seaweed head and his creep of a brother. This blonde guy with his strange eyes .. She never liked him. Not that she liked seaweed head either, but .. in some, for her unimportant way, she did. Well, he never felt the urge to cut stuffed animals or so, right ? And he didn't have this wicked smile on his face .. A smile where Alice simply wanted to punch the person it belonged to away. It just made her feel uncomfortable. Was she scared or even nervous ? Never.

And even if the latter would be the case, it would never come to light. Not before everyone in this cracked world would be dead. Should she really stay here until the next morning ? Why ? After all, she didn't feel the need to get stabbed during sleep. And it seemed like some things had already been stabbed and torn apart in this place. At least everyone slept at that time and no one stopped her from leaving the mansion. No stupid questions, no rude grasps, no worried or angry faces. Surely she would find more rest outside this building than inside. Well, maybe she should have taken a blanket with her .. Nah ! That didn't matter ! She wouldn't turn back now. "Hrm .." Alice muttered quietly under her breath while she stroked with her hands over her arms to warm herself up a little. "Seems like no ones here .. Perfect !" She ran down the stairs and checked every direction one last time.

The garden of the Nightrays was just next to the house. Alice was sure to finally find some sleep there. "Ha ! Surely there will be a bench or something like that to lie on. The others will turn the whole house upside down before they'll find me here. Should my disappearance even be noticed .. They're out cold for now and until tomorrow I'll be awake again. I'll simply tell them I was out for a walk or so." Alice stretched herself and walked with a self-confident smile, that told from her pride that no one saw her leaving the house, right into the garden. This was in every single way better than a bed in this madhouse. Perhaps they would chain her down while she would sleep peacefully and try some kind of gruesome experiments on her .. She quickly shook her head to forget these strange thoughts. But it wouldn't surprise her with all those scary people here .. Her steps became a little faster and she payed extra attention to her surroundings. They wouldn't find or see her that easily behind all the rose bushes. "Roses .." She nearly hissed this word while it left her lips. Her now much colder eyes rested on the blood red rose petals. Flowers never interested her in any way and roses were the worst of them ! "What did Sharon say ? The flower of love .. Bah !" She didn't hide her repulsion but stuck out her tongue.

And yet .. The next moment her slightly disgusted eyes stayed on the petals. It was strange. Somehow Alice couldn't turn her gaze away from this terrible weed. As if they had magical powers or so .. This didn't make the whole thing better. "Hmpf. Stupid useless plant." She snorted a little and turned on her heels to face the way again. To it's sides grew a lot of these bushes, decorated with red roses just like single drops of blood on a green coat. Soft clothing which was wrapped into a warm liquid and completely stained by it ..

"Ngh ! What the .." All of a sudden she held her head as if a headache came out of nowhere. A sharp pain ran through her thoughts. Or was it simply imagination ? Maybe she was too tired. Maybe all those flowers annoyed the heck out of her. She had to go on. She had to walk further into the garden until there would be something to sleep on. As soon as she would close her eyes then it wouldn't hurt anymore, right ? Right .. Then she wouldn't see any longer where she was. Only darkness would be by her side. It would slowly take away her sight and pull her deeper into a silent embrace of complete numbness. Until she wouldn't feel anything at all anymore.

But there it was again. Again this terrible pain. "Ow ! .. And I thought I would find more rest outside. But everything's just as worse ! Some kind of voodoo haunting me here, gnah !" Now she ran. Trying to escape the pain, the strange thoughts and most of all any person who could probably find her here. Alice didn't give a fuck about where she ran. As long as she just ran. Deeper into the darkness of this night, into the silence of the shadows lingering there. Deeper into nothing.

Roses. Why did they unleash this strange feeling inside of her ? As if she knew them. As if they were so familiar to her. As if .. she liked them. But she didn't. She didn't, or ? Flowers were unimportant !

"Stop it !" She nearly cried it out, her hands only tightening the grip to her head. But the pain wouldn't disappear. And yet she couldn't even tell if it was there at all. Was she falling into some kind of dream ? Maybe she already slept in her bed and this was only a lie, an illusion of her own mind. No matter where she ran, the garden looked always the same and every bush was like the one before. Flecked with red. She didn't even know where she was anymore. "Stupid house ! Stupid Nightrays ! Stupid roses ! Stupid ! Stupid ! This is all stupid !" But her screams didn't suppress anything. Neither the gloomy veils of her thoughts nor the painful feelings which dwelled inside of her. And no single step brought her out of this misery. She only got even more lost in it.

There was once a child , it sang a sweet song

A rose listened , stayed there for long

It grew just like her , it colors shone bright

Becoming redder , catching her sight

She touched it's thorns , mind filling with fear

„Oh what should happen ? I want it so dear."

Poor broken thing died , it's petals in blood

The child just screamed , got lost in the flood

Drowning in sorrow , the rose turned black

Leaving sweet lil' child , with pain in it's back

Both things were twisted , they're life faded fast

Shall never be found , not allowed to last

*Snip !* ..

It was a plain and yet so effective noise which kicked her back to reality. She had run deep into the rose garden. Far too deep to be able to leave it without any problems. Dark red petals shimmered in the dawning light of the lanterns like drops of fresh blood. And they fell to the ground just like them, tainting it with it's red. Between all of them lay a twisted flower, born in the void of darkness. A black rose had fallen down. Bloodstained and black.

"Ngh !" Alice winced heavily for a moment, the pain cutting like a dagger through her frail body. What kind of feeling was this ?

Desperation ? Hate ? Fear ?

Her eyes became weak, drowning in endless shadows. Why did she feel so powerless all of a sudden .. ? Daring a last small step forward, she lost her balance and couldn't keep herself from falling any longer. The pain pulled her down to rip her apart as soon as she would lose all her power to defend herself against it. She closed her tired violet eyes. The impact on the ground would surely not hurt as much as what she already had to endure.

And indeed. It didn't hurt when she fell on something. Better said, against something. Or someone.

"Miss Alice ? .."

"..." No single word left her lips. Was this really just a dream ? Why did she have the feeling to fall even deeper into a nightmare then ? ".. I .. I'm scared ..." Scared ? She was scared ? No, this .. couldn't be. It couldn't- !

"Well .. In that case, you shouldn't be out her all alone, right ?"

A sweet voice and a strong arm which was around her waist now to keep her from falling any further to the ground. Without another thought she snuggled herself closer to the person holding her. Why ? This weakness .. she didn't want that. She didn't want to show it to anyone. But if all of this would only be a dream, nothing what happened was reality, wasn't that so ? So whatever she did, it wouldn't matter .. As long as this feeling would go away. The pain which slowly destroyed her inside. "I .. I .. don't want .." The words nearly broke as she whispered them.

"What do you not want ?"

This voice .. So well-known. So often heard. So much …

Detested

"..." She wanted to see his face. Her gaze slowly rose to see who he was. She did know his voice, so why couldn't she tell who he was ? Why didn't the pain end ? Nothing. Nothing got her out of this misery. Nearly trembling whispered her low voice. "Is .. this a dream … ?"

".. I wouldn't call it that .."

Her dull eyes met dark material of his clothes. It was so velvet and felt good underneath her tender fingers.

"But if you want to think of this as one .."

The dim light shone down on him from behind and left his face hidden beyond dark shadows.

"Tell me, Miss Alice .. Would you then call this a good dream ? .. Or a nightmare ? .."

But Alice knew his silhouette. "!" Without hesitation she immediately backed away. Her hands loosened the grip on his clothes and she preferred a big distance between them now. "Y-You .. !" She nearly spat it out, sinking deeper into rage and distaste.

But only a smile answered her out of the darkness of this night.

Some kind of cliffhanger ? I guess not .. it shouldn't be a big secret who this person is 8D Well, the rhyme somehow follows the saying 'Don't do unto others what you would not have done unto you' as the girl breaks the rose and in return her neck is broken as well. *cough* Creepy, I know.

This story won't be very long, probably around 4 chapters or so~

R&R ^_^