'It's hazy, like a long ago memory.' Raivis thought, very much aware that he was asleep, but seemingly unable to wake himself. He saw himself sitting on a sunny ledge reading from a worn copy of "Alice In Wonderland".
'Well that explains it.' Raivis chuckled inwardly. 'That book always gives me strange dreams, though this is the strangest by far.'
A fat yellow butterfly floated toward his other self's head, distracting him from his reading. Raivis watched as he stood up on the ledge, holding himself steady with the curtain rod. He lunged forward several times, and each time the insect eluded his grasp. The dream-Raivis gritted his teeth and lashed out again. The curtain rod bent and gave out, sending him falling forward. He barely had time to scream before he hit the ground three stories below.
Raivis let out a shout and bolted up.
"It was a dream!" He panted, climbing to his feet. "Just a dream..." He looked around, seeing nothing but darkness and a light far off.
"HELLO!" He shouted, his voice echoing back emptily. Raivis sighed. "Alone, in the dark, Please don't tell me Ivan locked me in the pantry while I was sleeping again." He wrung his hands together worriedly.
"Oh dear..." A small voice said. "I'm late again, eh."
"Hello!" Raivis said, spinning toward the direction the voice had come from. "Who's there?" A small white rabbit hopped out of the darkness, a blond curl bouncing between it ears and a small amount of light glinting off its silver framed glasses. The rabbit took on look at Raivis and bolted off toward the light at the end of the hall.
"Wait come back!" Raivis shouted, taking off after the white rabbit. "I won't hurt you! I promise!"
He caught up to the rabbit in a large round room. Raivis corned the rabbit beside the fireplace and picked it up.
"Caught you finally!" He smiled.
"M-M-MAPLE!" The rabbit shouted, squirming, desperate to get free.
"I just want to ask you how to get home!" Raivis said, catching a paw to the face from the rabbits flailing. "Fine, I'm putting you down." He sighed, placing the frightened rabbit gently onto the floor.
"Thank you..." The Rabbit said, hopping away and started to grow smaller and smaller until he hopped though a tiny open door which shut behind him.
Raivis walked over and leaned down examining the door. It was no bigger then his hand and painted with red, white, and blue stars and stripes. Raivis turned tried to open it.
"Hey dude! I'm trying to sleep!" The door shouted.
Raivis jumped back surprised.
"Can't a door get some sleep? Bad enough I've got that maple syrup loving socialist rabbit running in and out every single day." The door complained grumpily.
"I'm sorry." Raivis said. "I'm just trying to find a way home."
"Well you cant go though me, at least not like that, you're way to big dude." The door laughed. Raivis sighed loudly, the door was starting to grind against his nerves.
"Well how do I get small?" Raivis asked, sitting up. The door motioned to a table which had sprung up in the middle of the room. Sitting on it was a crumpled white paper sack with a golden 'M' emblazoned across the front.
"Well what does that have to do wit-" Raivis started, but was cut off with a loud snore coming from the door.
"Fine! I'll figure this out myself!" Raivis pouted, quickly standing up. He walked to the table, examining it carefully. From the bag he withdrew a paper wrapped burger with the words 'EAT Me' written in bold black a paper cup, frosty cold and filled with a dark fizzing drink, with 'Drink me ' scrawled up the side materialized on the table.
"Odd." Raivis said. "But familiar."
He unwrapped the burger and took a large bite, chewing slowly.
"Omph!" In less then a second His head hit the ceiling. He bent, so he wouldn't hit his head. "Not what I wanted at all." He knelled down, trying to pick up the cup. It took several tries until he got it to hit lips, emptying it in one swallow he shrunk down to an eighth of his original size, small enough to fit though the door at least.
Raivis walked triumphantly to the door and knocked loudly.
"What!" The door said opening his eyes. "I'm still sleeping here."
"Well I'm small now so let me though." Raivis said, smiling.
"Oh you are." The door let out a light hearted laugh. "Go on though then." It swung open, allowing Raivis passage into the garden beyond.
"Thank you." Raivis said walking though.
"See you later little dude." The door cracked up at his own joke. "Little dude! Ha! That's classic!"
Raivis walked down the path rolling his eyes.
He hadn't been walking for long before he heard two voices bickering loudly. He followed the voices and soon found the source. Two men, whom he assume where twins, where arguing back and forth, well, one, with dark brown hair, was arguing, and the other, with red hair, was crying.
"Excuse me." Raivis said, cautiously poking his head into the clearing where the twins where standing.
"What do you want kid, don't you know it's rude to just burst in on someones conversation!" The brown haired one growled.
"I'm sorry, but-" Raivis was cut off but the red heads crying.
"SHUT UP!" The bigger one smacked he crying mans head.
"BIG BROTHER WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN?" The smack only served to drive the little one to sob harder.
The two continued their bickering and Raivis decided to just move on, it would be midnight before he even got a word in edgewise.
"The people are so strange here." He said to himself as he continued down a flower edged path.