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Grace wears this in this part of the story:

"Miss Grace, your parents wish to see you in the Southern Courtyard."

Grace looked up from her antique copy of 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' and smiled at the maid standing in her bedroom doorway. She nodded.

"Thank you Amy." The maid bowed and left the room without a word. Once the door clicked, the girl sighed and smiled softly, eyes slightly sad. She gently closed the pages of her book and placed it on the table. She stood up from her wooden chair and made her way to the door.

When Grace was on her way to the Southern Courtyard she spotted a stray rabbit hiding in one of the many flower-beds. It was slightly pinkish, so it blended in with the tulips. But it appeared to have a sprained ankle. Grace noticed this and ran over to the creature. It was at first scared but when Grace held out her hand, the animal nuzzled into it. Grace gently took the creature in her arms and examined it's leg, which was indeed sprained. She smiled sympathetically and found a small twig. She placed the twig against the rabbit's bad leg and wrapped it with the ribbon from her hair. She put the rabbit down and walked away to find her parents.

As she finally reached the Southern Courtyard she found her parents who were having tea in a white gazebo, with roses wrapped around it's structure. She quietly walked up it's few steps and stood a few feet from her parents. Her mother spotted her.

"Oh Grace dear! Come and sit!" Her mother beamed a caring smile. Grace returned the smile and sat between them on the round table. She gently sipped on her camomile tea. Her father smiled at her.

"Grace, you're probably wondering why we've called you." Grace nodded. Her father continued, but his smile slowly fell.

"You're leaving us. So we decided that you should join us today." Grace looked at her father in sudden shock, speechless. She turned to her mother, who struggled to smile while holding back tears.

"W-Where? Liverpool? Manchester? Dublin?" Her father avoided eye contact.

"Japan. Tokyo. You are joining a boarding school there. You can speak very fluently in Japanese so it shouldn't be a bother." Tears started to sting in her eyes. In the blink of an eye she stood up slamming her palms on the table, throwing her chair back in the process.

"WHAT? " She panted from shock. An awkward silence followed. Suddenly she heard a soft tapping sound from behind her. Tap…Tap… Tap… She turned and found the same bunny from before trying to hop up the gazebo steps, tapping the stick on the ground in the process. She smiled and ran to the rabbit and took it in her arms, embracing it. It simply clicked it's teeth together, 'purring' in happiness. She turned around to face her parents with a serious expression.

"Do you want to send me away?" Her mother ran over to her and embraced her.

"Of course not princess! But unfortunately we have no choice dear." She knelt to look up to her daughter and cupped her cheeks in her hands. "If we could stop you from leaving believe me we would!" Grace's father joined them.

"Oh honey." He sighed. "Don't worry. You can write us letters and we will certainly reply." Grace looked up.

"How do you know students can only send letters?" Her father knelt down to her height and put his hands on her shoulders.

"Honey, your mother and I had to go to that exact school fro the same reason as you." He sighed again. "You have what is known as an Alice. An Alice an ability that separates us from normal human beings. Each and every person's Alice is unique, and completely their own."

Grace and the rabbit exchanged looks like this. (0o)

"You're kidding?" Both of her parents shook their heads.

"What's your 'Alice's' then?" Her mother and father exchanged glances. They both sighed.

"We both lost our Alice's quite a few years ago dear." Their daughter's eyes fell.

"Oh. Never mind." Everyone was in silence and the only sound that could be heard was Grace's soft hands stroking the rabbit gently in her arms.

"I wonder what Alice I have…"

"Don't worry dear, you'll find your Alice soon enough."

"Final Flight To Tokyo, Please Go To Designated Gate. Repeat. Final Flight To Tokyo, Please Go To Designated Gate. Thank You."

The flight to Tokyo was… Boring. I was with my parents on a business class plane flying straight to. I just read a book and wrote in my brand new diary, specially bought to record my time within the walls of Alice Academy. My first entry described briefly the remainder of time that I spent with my parents and the trip to the airport.

My parents saw me to the gate. There was a very emotional goodbye, and I promised that I would write as often as I could. I took a train from Tokyo Station to where a great tall estate stood. I gulped, for I didn't expect the academy to be THIS big! I firmly gripped the familiar rabbit in my arms, for he had become my companion for the journey as well as my final days at home. I managed to hold him in one arm whilst taking my suitcase in the other. I walked over to what looked like a little voice box. I spoke into it.

"Hello?" Soon a feminine voice answered me.

"Hello. What can I do for you?"

"Hi. I'm Grace Bailey, the new exchange student from England."

"Oh! Well welcome Grace. Please step this way, an escort will join you shortly." Suddenly the grand gates opened and I nervously walked inside. As I walked slowly taking in the beautiful scenery the rabbit jumped free from my arms and hopped away.

"Come back!" I called, running after him. I turned a corner and my footwork slowed as I saw something amazing. A blonde boy being surrounded by so many woodland animals, with them all cooing him, and him just petting them back. We were in what looked like a forest now. Even my bunny was there! My lips curled into a smile and I slowly made my way to the crowd. The animals started to notice and the boy eventually did. His smiling face then turned into a cold face of stone.

"What are you doing here? No students are allowed here!"

"Uh I-I-I'm new around here. And my rabbit ran away, so I chased after him, and I found you." I walked up to him and held out my hand. "My name is Grace Bailey. I'm a new student from England."

He coldly looked at my hand, then back to me. I smiled trying to say that my hand wasn't made of lava or something. His face softened just the tiniest bit, but he didn't take my hand. The rabbit jumped into his arms.

"I'm Ruka Nogi." I smiled brighter. But it became slightly awkward so I looked around.

"So where are we?"

"We're in the Western Forest. But students aren't allowed here."

"I think I'm meant to be going to the main building or something… Could you tell me where it is?" The boy sighed., trying to be cool.

"Sure. It's-" Suddenly there was a huge boom and a violent shake in the earth. We all looked around and the rest of the animals fled. There was a small cloud of black not too far from where we were. Nogi looked back to me. "I have to go. Sorry." He whistled and a giant eagle swooped down from the sky. Ruka jumped onto a ring at the eagle's feet and they both soared back into the skies.

The rabbit jumped back into my arms and we ran to where the smoke was. There was a giant whole in the main wall! I just stood there for a few minutes, then a man with blonde hair carrying a boy over his shoulder and a girl around my age walked in the main gate. The man spotted me and smiled.

"Hi there! You must be Grace. I'm Narumi, and I will be your escort. Sorry I didn't arrive on time but there was a little commotion outside and I had to be on watch for a few minutes." I smiled up at him.

"Its okay. It's a pleasure to meet you Narumi-sensei!" The girl walking beside him grinned at me.

"I'm Mikan Sakura! Lets be friends!" I smiled nervously.

"Ok?"

We all walked to the main building and got to a lounge room. We were invited to sit on the couch, but I stood looking at the books whilst Mikan sat down. Narumi lay the boy on the couch next o Mikan's. Narumi said that we should wait for a minute whilst he sorted out some things. Just as he left Mikan put on the boy's strange cat mask, meowing, I giggled. Suddenly man with a kendo sword burst into the room.

"Narumi! I know you stole another Whip Bean from the greenhouse without my permission, didn't you?" Mikan fell back, screaming from shock while I walked into the bookcase in fright. The man looked at us.

"Oh. Sorry about that. Did I scare you?" We both nodded. "Are you the Alice candidate and the new student that Narumi brought with him" I helped Mikan to a seat while she quivered a "Y-Yes…" The man walked further into the room.

"That's odd. I heard Narumi was here…" The man turned to us. "Oh right, I'm Misaki, the biology teacher here." He looked around once again before saying, "Well then, sorry for having disturbed you." Mikan quickly crawled over to him and tugged on his jeans.

"Umm…"

We spoke about Alices when we all sat down with a cup of tea. It turns out that Mikan was nervous about trusting Narumi-sensei. When she was about to have a nervous breakdown, Misaki told her to act like a sea-otter. I gave him a questioning look.

"Sea-otter?" Mikan had to lie down on the table and explain the situation, with Misaki and I observing. After listening to Mikan's story, Misaki reassured her that she could trust Narumi, and he had just covered up for Natsume, (that's the boy's) actions. Natsume had attempted to escape a number of times, and if Narumi hadn't punished him there and then, he would have been handed up to the higher-ups and received an ever bigger punishment. This all meant that Narumi is by no means a bad person.

It turns out that Mikan didn't know what her Alice was, like me. When the man had to leave, he told us to push the alarm on the wall if the boy woke up. We both nodded and he left. Mikan walked up to Natsume and held his nose, which caused me to hit myself in the forehead. I looked at the books again whilst Mikan took out what looked like a mini photo album. I heard a squeal and I turned to see the boy who was meant to be asleep tackling Mikan onto the sofa! He held her down, ordering her to give him her name. When Mikan kept refusing, . Suddenly the window was smashed into thousands of pieces and Ruka flew through it and onto the floor.

"Ow…" Natsume looked up.

"Your late, Ruka."

"Ruka-san!" I ran and knelt beside him. "Are you ok?" Ruka kept rubbing his head.

"Yeah. I'm fine." He then stood up looking at the boy. "And just who's fault do you think that is, Natsume?" I stood up and yelled.

"Hey! Get off her now!" Natsume ignored me, turning her over, saying that he wanted to make her cry. Mikan yelled for help.

"Someone!" Natsume was struggling to hold her down.

"Damn it… You crybaby!" Ruka looked at them.

"By the way, why not just use your Alice to threaten her a little?" I flicked my head from him to the pair.

"No! Bad idea!"

"I'm still a little worn out… And it seems I can't muster up enough strength to do it right now." Mikan kept on screaming until the door burst open with Narumi and Misaki rushing in.

"Are you alright, Mikan-chan?" Mikan broke free from Natsume and ran over to Narumi balling her eyes out, not noticing her skirt she left behind her. Misaki called the boy's names.

"Natsume! Ruka!" Natsume threw Mikan's skirt on the floor again.

"See ya, polka-dotted panties girl. You dropped this." And with that Ruka and Natsume jumped out of the window. Narumi stared at the window.

"It came off…" Mikan just looked down and I held my arms out to her.

"No Mikan don't-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

Mikan kept on wailing about how such a big deal it was for males to see her panties. I patted her back trying to comfort her. Eventually she looked at me and noticed that I put on my new school uniform. Narumi held out hers and she tried it on.

Narumi complimented Mikan as she finished the finishing touches of her uniform.

"Cute!" I cooed, clapping. She curtsied a little bit and Narumi threw her into the air, but still holding onto her, calling her the cutest little girl in the whole wide world. He let her down and announced that she was in!, but only temporarily, for in order to be a full-time student, she had to complete a certain test. She has to be accepted by her classmates in class B, and I have to help her in order to complete the challenge. Well really, we have to complete it together because I'm a new student too. While Mikan was cheering at how easy the task was, there was a knock at the door.

"Class representative from Elementary Branch, class B entering…" The doors swung open and two students entered, one girl and one boy, I think. Narumi introduced them as the class representatives for class B, and the girl stopped in front of us. Mikan stopped cheering and froze.

"H-Hotaru?" They were staring at each other all the way to the Elementary School Building. After a confusing conversation between Mikan and Hotaru, we walked to class B. The boy walked up to us.

"Sakura-san, Bailey-san," We both turned to him and he continued. "I'm our class representative, Tobita Yuu. Everyone calls me Iinchou." Mikan and I both bowed.

"Nice to meet you." Iinchou continued again.

"Everything might be a little bit confusing at first, since you transferred here from a regular elementary school, but please don't be too surprised." He walked to the doors and grabbed the handles. "Welcome to Elementary Branch: Class B, Sakura-san and Bailey-san." He opened the door and we walked in to see a boy walking on the walls, another floating in mid-air, a boy drawing doodles that came to life, another having what looked like a ghost giving him a shoulder massage, and a girl dancing out of control on a table? Mikan and I yelled a little.

"What is this class?" Iinchou came over to us.

"You might be a little scared by the looks of our class," A boy floated past us, "But if you have anything you're troubled about or don't know, please feel free to ask me." We stared at the class.

"Y-Yes…" Someone called from above us.

"Hey, Iinchou." The three of us looked up. A boy holding a baseball glove was glaring at me and Mikan. "Who are these girls with you?" Iinchou called up to him.

"Oh, they are-"

"One of them were causing a ruckus outside the school gate earlier." We looked down to find a boy with glasses reading a book. "Something about her almost being kidnapped by two weird guys… Then Naru coming along, saving her and making her a new student." The floating boy came down to the other's level.

"Oh? Who's who?" The boy looked up from his book.

"How should I know." Mikan turned to Hotaru.

"How does he know that?"

"With the abilities of being able to suspend himself in mid-air and super hearing, it's not that shocking of an Alice to hear about, here at the academy."

"You mean this is actually real? Not some pretend magic? People are flying in the air in front of me…" I looked at her as Hotaru spoke.

"Hey, Mikan.." As Mikan was day-dreaming, Hotaru swung a suddenly appearing horse-shoe across her head. Mikan rubbed her head.

"What did you do that for?"

"I don't know what kind of Alice you have that allows you to be here but… I have something to tell you. When in here, everything between us will be considered as complete strangers, okay? I'm aiming for the Honour Student Award this year, so…" I turned to her.

"Honour Student Award?" Hotaru kept her eyes on Mikan.

"I don't really want to but into any trouble while I'm here, so… Do you understand?" Mikan pleaded.

"Ho-Hotaru!" Hotaru continued.

"I know there's a lot going on right know, but do your best with your own strength. Besides you have Bailey-san. See you." She simply walked past us and sat down silently, taking out a book and reading.

The teacher wrote our names on the board and introduced us.

"Our class has grown with new friends for us all. Everyone, please get along with her." We bowed and Mikan spoke first.

"I'm Sakura Mikan. Pleased to meet yo-"

"Stupid!" Someone yelled and threw a paper ball at her. We dodged it, but more and more people started to throw paper balls at us.

"Don't go around saying she's our 'new friend' or anything!"

"Who the heck is gonna listen to what you have to say? Stupid teacher!" The teacher curled into a ball with tears streaming down his face. We sat on the balls of our feet and tried to comfort the teacher. The teacher told us,

"Well girls, please take the unoccupied seats at the back."

"Okay." The teacher stood up still crying.

"Today will be a self-study day! I'll be going home then!" And with that he ran out of the room. As soon as he left the throwing stopped. The pair of us slowly took a step forward, taking in a breath. The entire class was looking at us, as if examining us. Suddenly a girl with dark-blue eyes and matching hair greeted us.

"Nice to meet you!" We smiled at her. I greeted her back calmly while Mikan stuttered her reply. We continued to walk over to the back and we sat down next to two boys. Mikan beamed.

"I'm looking forward to sitting next to you during my term here." The boy with a comic book over his face looked up, and the book dropped. Mikan and I twitched. Natsume?

"Oh, it's you two. The polka-dotted panties girl from before, and the British girl with anger issues." Mikan and I screamed. Mikan yelled first

"It's the perverted molester boy from before!" I balled my hands into fists.

"What do you mean anger issues?"

"You yelled at me before for doing nothing, so you must have anger issues."

"I yelled at you because you were about to molest Mikan-chan!"

Natsume looked at me.

"What is this girl blabbing about? A molester is someone who does something because they have a sleazy intention. Who would want a sleazy intention with someone as ugly as either of you two? Idiot." Mikan butted in.

"You're the idiot! How could do something like that to a girl? You enemy of all women! You barbarian! Apologize, stupid! At least that's what you do where I'm from! Don't you know not to do things like that, moron? And what is with you lying back like that, acting all high and mighty?" She was about to push Natsume when we were both suspended in mid-air!

"What the-?"

"Hey, transfer students! What are you saying to Natsume, letting your mouths go on and on like that?" We were being dragged from side to side. I stared at the culprit in shock.

'What the heck?' I thought, 'We're being dragged through the air, by him?'