I was sitting on my bed, a murder mystery novel on my lap, and a cup of strawberry milk in my hands, when suddenly my life got very interesting.

My name is Sabrina Hyde, or Cookie, if you will. I'm just a regular hormonal sixteen-year-old living in Auburn, New Hampshire. Auburn is small, but it's a very beautiful place to live. I've lived there my whole life with my two brothers, a very annoying little sister, my parents, and my Grandmother, whom we call "Gram".

I plan on moving to Canada when I get older, but for now, I'm a seventh-grader stuck at home, learning about the Berlin Wall on Khan Academy. My best skills would have to be my stubbornness and my ability to daydream.

I ran a hand through my hair, which was dark brown with blond highlights and slightly curly at the ends. I wore my favorite white button-down shirt, a pair of old blue jeans, and my black air-walkers with purple, red, and blue details.

That day was like any other day; do my school work, watch a little bit of Hetalia, take care of my two cats, ignore everyone when they try to talk to me, and then go into my room with food and be a hermit. But, as I finished my book, I heard a strange noise, like someone having an asthma attack and trying to force air into their lungs. I felt my chest, thinking it was me, but I was breathing fine. I shook myself and wandered out into the hall, but the sound was still there.

"Mom? Dad?" I called, but no one answered me. "Anyone home?" I yelled, panic rising in my throat. I've had anxienty problems since I was a child, so I was afraid to be left alone in my own home.

I grabbed my coat and white scarf and headed outside. The cars were still there, but there was no one around. I shoved my hands in my pockets and began walking to my best friends house, where I could stay until my parents came home.

While I was walking down the street, I would help but notice that my neighborhood just wasn't the same. My cop neighbor wasn't in the yard with his black lab, the two girls I had waited at the bus stop with weren't playing in the snow, and the scariest of all was the neighborhood stray cat, Shadow, wasn't anywhere to be seen.

Suddenly, I felt arms wrap around my waist and lift me up over a man's shoulder. I screamed and pummeled the man's head with closed fists. That's when I noticed he had two long, white...rabbit ears?!

I was frozen until he started running and I gripped his ears and screamed, "Put me down, you freak!"

"Please don't scream in my ear, miss." He said calmly, like he did this everyday. He continued moving as I pulled his ears as far as they would go. What is he, a kidnapping cosplayer?

"Ah, there it is!" He announced. I looked over to see what he was talking about and saw that he was running towards a big black hole. "Do you, by any chance, like falling, miss?"

"Y-You're crazy!" I yelled, gripping his ears tighter. "You're going to kill us both!"

"That's the idea." He chuckled before deliberately dropping us into the hole.

My breath gets stuck in my throat as I felt only air around me, nothing solid to hang onto except for the rabbit.

"I-I don't wanna die!" I screamed. "I'm too young to die!"

The rabbit looked over at me, shocked, and asked, "Whoever said you were going to die?" His facial features began to soften. "I knew you were going to enjoy falling, but, sadly, we can't fall forever." He looked down and I saw what he was looking at; a bright light like a star being born. "We're almost there."

"W-Wait! If we hit the ground from that height-" I didn't get a chance to say anything more before I blacked out.

When I woke up, I knew I wasn't in Auburn anymore. I was lying on cold stone and I think I had landed on my keys. I picked myself up off the ground and was surprised at how wobbly my legs felt.

I looked around and glared at the rabbit guy who was standing a little distance away. I could see he wore a red-checkered suit with a chain slung over his shoulder and brown Italian pants. His crimson eyes were framed by round glasses and he was grinning a grin that I wanted to punch off his smug face.

"W-Where..." I stammered. Wait, I don't stammer. What is going on?!

The rabbit man smiled at me and held his hand out to me. "Sabrina, my dear... Welcome to Wonderland."

I ignored his hand and tried to make it look like I wasn't scared out of my mind. "Wonderland? Never heard of it." I snorted. "Wait a second- How do you know my name?!"

He chuckled, "I know everything about you, Sabrina. I'm in love with you, you see!"

Whaaaaaaaaat? I stared at him like he had grown a second head. The only guy who had confessed he loved me was Sean Canavan, and that was in the second grade so it didn't really count as a confession. And I think I would've remembered if I saw a guy with rabbit ears or silver hair hanging around my neighborhood. "B-But I don't even know your name..."

"Oh! You want to know my name?" He asked. "Then that must mean you love me back!"

"W-What?" I shrieked, feeling a blush dust my cheeks. "Shut up! I don't love you!"

"You will soon enough, Sabrina." He promised. The rabbit's hand disappeared into his pocket and when it resurfaced, it was clutching a blue glass vial with liquid sloshing inside it. "But first things first, I need you to drink this, okay?"

"What the hell is the matter with you?!" I shouted. "I'm not drinking that! It's probably drugged or something!"

The rabbit's ears drooped in disappointment and he backed away a little. "Well, that won't do at all." Suddenly his ears shot back up and he said more to himself than to me, "If things were that easy, the game wouldn't be fun, now would it?"

Huh? What game? I was about to ask him what he meant when I heard the sound from my house again, someone trying to breath but couldn't get air into their lungs. I clutched the side of my head and then the meaningless noise formed into words.

Hey, don't you know? Every game has it's rules, and those rules are cemented from the moment you start to play.

I felt a hand cup my cheek and then something incredibly warm against my lips. I opened my eyes and found that the rabbit was kissing me. I gasped, giving him access to force something in my mouth. He's making me drink the drug!

He pulled away and said, "I'm sorry, Sabrina, but it's for your own good."

What happened next just made my day. I kneed him where the sun don't shine. He let out a grunt of pain and fell to the ground, moaning in pain. The veil clattered to the ground next to him and I snatched it up, holding it upside down for the liquid to pour out, but it was empty.

"You bastard!" I screamed at the rabbit, who was getting to his feet. "What crap did you make me drink?!"

"This is the 'Medicine of the Heart'." He grunted. "'Now that you've consumed it all, you must participate in the game'." He turned to leave, but he looked over his shoulder and said, "Oh, my name is Peter, by the way. Peter White. Until we meet again." Then he was just gone.