Chapter One

"Lost as Alice, but mad as the Hatter"

There is always that one friend that hurts you in the most unforgivable way. Well unfortunately to me that was my best friend Mae, she was my all time best friend ever since she pulled my hair in the 2nd grade. After that we did everything together, we shared our love for Alice in Wonderland we even created our own wonderland together. Mae and I were inseparable we had everything in common from our favorite food to our favorite TV shows. We planned our lives around each other but when Mae turned 12 she got really sick, she was in and out of the hospital for 2 years and then unexpectedly passed away the summer going into high school. She broke my heart and I was so angry with her, I wondered everyday why she left me in this shit-tastic world. After she passed away I would go through our wonderland stories, close my eyes and imagine what it would be like to escape reality, an imagine she was there with me. When I turned 15 I stopped reading the stories and made friends that I hung out with on a daily basis. None of whom tend to look up from their phones and have a decent conversation once and a while...anyways I'm 17 now and here I stand looking in the mirror staring at my curly brown hair, light green eyes and freckled face wishing there was a way to escape to the wonderland Mae and I once created. Then suddenly my mirror had turned into a big wooden door that read "Wonderland". In that moment I didn't know what to do I was frozen, my heart was racing so I knocked softly...no answer so I knock again..still no answer. I take a deep breath and I slowly reach for the gold handle...not knowing what is behind this door I turn the handle to see...