HI everyone! This is Alice Forshadow, straight from Wonderland!
Here's a story I've wanted to write for a long time!
Literally, there are chapters I've worked on for months...
Anyways, here's the story.
Chapter 1: Welcome to the Neighborhood
"And you're sure you don't want me to take over?" asked Amythist, riding shotgun, as her friend Alice backed her 1960s style, pink and white car into the driveway from the house they would be living in with their friends Raven, Stacy, and Aphmau, who were wedged in the backseat.
"I'm sure. I need to stay confident." Alice replied. "I never learned how to drive."
"Alice! You can't drive?" exclaimed Amythist.
Alice slammed on the breaks and crashed into the fence of the house across from her.
"See? You told me I couldn't drive, and I lost confidence and I broke something!" exclaimed Alice.
"May I make a comment that there are people in the car whose lives you are risking?" asked Stacy.
"Who drove you guys all the way here without any accidents?" asked Alice. "Okay, no major accidents."
There was a crunch as the car went over the house from across the street's mailbox and stopped in a camellia bush. Alice hit the gas and sped forwards, uprooting and destroying the camellias in the process.
"Um..." Aphmau started to say.
"I'll pay for it." Alice said quickly as she pulled into the driveway of the house across the street.
Alice, a short, twenty three year old woman with long blond hair with a solitary pink streak, blue eyes, neon purple earrings, a neon pink tube top, a blue skirt, neon striped socks, and white lace up sneakers stepped out of the driver's side of the car.
"Wow. Amythist, this place your parents are renting out to us is nice!" exclaimed Alice, looking at the big, modern looking white house with the nice garden and fountain in front.
"Thanks! All I can say is when your mom is a lawyer and your dad is a real estate agent... you get the finer things in life." Amythist replied.
Amythist was a shortwith long, wavy purple hair, a purple dress, and black high heels. She reapplied her purple lipstick using her compact makeup kit.
Raven, Stacy, and Aphmau quickly opened the doors and scrambled out the backseat.
"Could you have asked them to throw in a really nice Lamborghini with plenty of elbow room and air conditioning?" asked Stacy, annoyed from having to spend four hours driving from the university's dorm rooms to her new home in the back of an old car that smelled like stale air freshener trees and old cigarettes.
Stacy was at medium height and had green eyes, long, wavy brown hair, black glasses, a blue and white striped shirt, jeans, blue leather boots, and her black and color speckled sweater tied around her waist.
"Hey! This bad boy's an antique! Knew we were meant to be the day she caught my eye at the dealership." Alice protested.
"Amythist, your dad can afford over a billion Lamborghinis-" Raven started to say.
Raven was tall, had black and straight hair, and wore glasses, a black hoodie, black jeans, a silver necklace, a silver chain bracelet, and black boots.
"Raven!" scolded Alice.
"She's just saying..." Aphmau commented.
Aphmau was the shortest of all of them, with tan colored skin, long black hair, green eyes, a white baseball cap, a purple tank top, white jeans, and black sneakers.
"Look, you guys can get your own cars." Alice said, popping the trunk and taking out her bags. "And I call dibs on whatever room with a personal bathroom connected to it."
Sky woke up to hear a crash.
"Guys, it's nine a.m. I'd like a morning where I can sleep without being woken up!" exclaimed Sky.
"Sky, get Ross! You two are going to need to come out here!" called Jin.
"Why?" asked Sky, walking down the stairs and standing on the porch next to Jin and Barney.
"The mailbox is crushed!" called Jin. "And so is the fence! Oh no! Ross's camellias!"
"My camellias?!" exclaimed Ross, running outside, pushing down Jin and Barney to get to his beloved camellia bush. He looked down at the bush in the front lawn, all pulled up out of the ground by the car's speed in backing out. "Cami? CAMI! NO! PLEASE NO!" Ross knelt down, looking at his now destroyed plant. "No, no, stay with me! Please don't leave me! Please don't leave me! I need you! Please don't go! This may sound crazy, but I LOVE YOU!"
Sky and Jin exchanged awkward glances.
"Ross... she's gones." Barney said, putting his hand on Ross's shoulder.
Ross knelt their in silence, looking with tear filled eyes at his camellia bush
"Ross? You okay?" asked Sky.
"Yeah... I... I just need some time." Ross said, quickly walking into the house, holding his camellia bush, trying to hold back tears.
"And this is what happens when you don't get him a girlfriend." Jin sighed. "He starts naming plants. And he gets emotionally attached to plants. More than he is attached to that chicken he got in the university."
"Like yous doing any betters." Barney retorted.
"I'm a scientist. I must remain single! My job must be my main priority!" Jin responded. "And I get nosebleeds and pass out around pretty girls."
Ross was still really torn up about his camellia bush later on in the day. Jin was trying to make him feel better, but scientific logic wasn't helping.
"Everything dies Ross." Jin told him.
"Really?" asked Ross.
"Cami dying was part of life. We're all going to die." Jin told him. "I'll die, you'll die, everybody will eventually die."
"Okay, Jin, that's not helping the situation," Sky said after noticing how shocked Ross looked.
The doorbell rang.
"I gots its!" Barney exclaimed, jumping up. He opened the door. "Alices?"
"Barney? Is that really you? I haven't seen you in the flesh since high school!" the girl exclaimed.
"Who's at the door?" asked Jin, walking up the door.
"Um... okays... guys, this is Alice. My pen pals. Talked through computers for yearses back when I home countrys." Barney said. "And we alls wents to high schools togethers!"
Alice and Barney, 6th grade.
"So... you're from... I'm sorry if I mess this up... Chickle Slukur?" asked Alice, reading her sheet.
"Ya! You gots its on first try!" Barney exclaimed. "And you is from Washington, rights?"
"Yep! I'm Alice Maria Vaktor." Alice said. "I'm ten and live in an apartment in Washington with my mom and twin brother Red."
"I is Barney." Barney continued. "I lives in Chickle Slukur on goat farm with my parents and older brother, Blarney."
"You have a brother too?" asked Alice.
"Ya. He's a huge disgracement." Barney added. "I needs to always fill his shoeses."
"In my house, I'm the disgrace. My mom wishes I could do better in school and be more like my brother, the child genius Red Martin Vaktor." Alice said. "She always comes down hard on me when I don't do something right."
"You don'ts sounds like disgrace." Barney told her.
"Thanks. You know, you're the first person I met that didn't start gushing about how great my brother was. Or get all 'don't be jelous' at me for venting." Alice replied, greatful.
"No problems. I gets you." Barney said. "But seriouslys, be glad you are nots the prodigys. Your parents expects so much outs of yous."
"It's not any better being the most despised one. You feel bad when your best isn't good enough." Alice added. "Every day. Your whole life. And... I don't have any friends to talk to. Everyone thinks I'm weird."
"You cans bes my friend!" Barney exclaimed.
"Really?" asked Alice. Barney nodded.
The two now friends talked for the next two hours.
"Then, in ninth grades, I cames backs to Americas, reunited with Alice, and met you guys in high schools!" Barney exclaimed.
"Oh... right... you know, Alice, I thought you looked familiar. It's great to see you again! You changed your hair color?" asked Sky to Alice.
"Yeah..." Alice said, seeming a little nervous. Not as nervous as Jin looked.
"It looks nice." Jin said. "I... I think it makes your eyes look really pretty and- and-"
Then Jin passed out cold.
"It's so great to see you all again! Barney told me so much about all of you though our video chatting!" exclaimed Alice, stepping over Jin to shake Sky's hand. She looked down at Jin.
"He going to be okay?" asked Alice. "Because I'm a nurse and I can help him-"
"Yeah. He does this a lot." said Sky, half carrying, half dragging Jin away from the door. "No need for intervention."
"Me and my friends just moved in next door." said Alice. "And I do apologize about the bush I ran over when I was pulling into the driveway..."
Ross gasped.
"How could you?" Ross asked.
"Um..." asked Alice.
"Cami was no bush! She was my duty to protect! Haven't you ever loved someone before?" asked Ross. "I'm guessing not, from the way you just go around and run over people's plants like that!"
"Ooh! Burn!" exclaimed Sky.
"Look, I'm really sorry. Here... how much did it cost?" asked Alice, opening her wallet.
"She was priceless!" exclaimed Ross. "I can't even look at you..." Ross walked away, upset.
Sky walked up to the door.
"It was twenty five bucks." said Sky. "I'm sorry... he's just traumatized with grief."
Alice pulled out the money to pay for the camellia bush, fence, and mailbox and handed it to Sky.
"I'm really sorry. We all got off on a rough start. I hope this won't ruin any chance of friendship between us." said Alice.
"Nos, we're goods." Barney said.
"Not in my book." Ross sulked to himself.
"Well, see you guys later! I'll bring over the others later to introduce them to you guys!" Bye!" chirped Alice, leaving the house.
Jin came to and walked back into the kitchen.
"Guys..." he asked. "What did I miss?"
A few hours later, all the guys, Thundermuffin, and Goat where at an open casket funeral for Ross's camellia bush.
"Thank you all for coming." Ross said, wearing a widow dress. "Cami would have loved to have you all here... you to Goat, even though you tried to eat her more than once. Cami was... was... she was... the greatest thing that ever happened to me. She was with me through everything... and I... oh Cami, what am I going to do without you?" Ross than burst into tears.
"Okay... defiantly needs a girlfriend." Sky said.
"Why don't we let hims gos next doors and picks one outs?" asked Barney.
"You can't get a girlfriend like you adopt a pet. She needs to like you back." explained Jin. "And are you sure that's the best idea?"
"Would you rather have Ross mourning over a bush his entire life?" asked Sky.
"Cami wasn't just a bush! She was the love of my life! And now... that light is forever extinguished by a thoughtless, cruel college graduate driver!" Ross sobbed.
"I'm with you." Jin told Sky.
A few days later, the girls had officially moved in next door. The guys officially had neighbors. And the mailman already had gotten both house's addresses mixed up.
Sky flipped through the mail.
"How come the mailman messed up or addresses already?" he asked. "All of this isn't even ours!"
Sky walked over next door to deliver the mail to the right address. He was going to put it in the mailbox, but he noticed that there was one of the women planting flowers in the front of the yard.
"Hey!" called Sky , walking over to her. "Your mail got mixed up with ours."
The woman looked up. She had a blue and white speckled bandanna tying her brown hair back and had pretty green eyes. She was wearing a blue and white striped shirt, jeans, and blue boots.
Sky completely froze. He nearly dropped the mail. The woman looked so... beautiful. He had never felt this way on anyone in all his life. He liked her smile. It was almost prettier than her.
"Thanks! I was wondering why the mailman didn't stop at our house." she responded. "I'm Stacy. You live next door, right?"
Sky didn't know what to say. He was scared on what he would say.
"Yes. I'm Sky." Sky responded quickly. "I really need to go."
"Okay then. Have a good day!" said Stacy. "Come over anytime...if you want to!"
Sky nodded and walked back to his house quickly. When he got to the house, he quickly shut the door. Why did he feel so anxious? Why did his face feel so warm? Why was he so nervous?
"Hey Sky... woah, yous face is red!" Barney said, walking to him. "Yous okays man?"
"Yeah..." said Sky.
"Okays..." responded Barney, walking away.
Sky pulled out his compact mirror. His face was a little red. What had just happened?
Was he... in love?
Here's a fanfic I've been wanting to post for a while!
I love the Roommates series and was so glad to get the first chapter up! I hope you guys like it!
Please don't flame me!
This is Alice Forshadow, heading back down the rabbit hole!