Alice Dunley, the gravestone read.

Beside it another gravestone read, Gary Dunley.

My sister Savannah stared wide eyed, her blue eyes shining with tears. I pulled her into a hug and we stared down at our parent's grave, we were now alone in this world. Our Aunty Clary waited impatiently on the bumpy road; she tapped her feet in impatience as she waited for us to say our farewells. We were to live with her now, in a world of 'Proper' manners with sensible clothing and appropriate ways of talking.

Our parents died during a trip to China to strengthen our trade with them. There ship sunk only minutes after they set off from home, Savannah and I had watched as the ship vanished under the water, taking our parents with it. Years before we were born my mother met my father on a ship they were both travelling to reach China, the married years later, and gave birth to myself and my twin sister Savannah. I guess it was the proper way from them to die, whilst travelling together to reach China, just like they met.

Savannah kneeled down in the softening dirt; her dress was instantly stained with mud. Behind us I heard a sharp intake of breath, Aunty Clary was not approving of what Savannah was doing, we both ignored her.

"Why them Cheyenne?" her voice shuddered as she held back a sob.

I stroked her smooth blond hair "Because, that's the way it is, nothing will change that..."

"I miss them" she sighed, I knelt down beside her, my green eyes were reflected in her blue. We looked nothing alike.

"I miss them too, maybe one day we will see them again"

"I hope so" she gave me a strained grin.

After a few minutes of silence I spoke finally "Savannah?"

"Yes"

"Happy birthday"

She laughed sadly "Happy birthday to you my sister"

I pulled her up to her feet "We are sixteen now, proper young ladies" I spoke sarcastically.

"Proper hmm?" she giggled, a real smile growing on her face, she tugged at one of my brown curls, my hair was a mess of curls like my mother, and the colour of brown like my father. Savannah had mother's hair colour and fathers flowing straight hair.

Something caught Savannah's eye up in the trees, her face lit up with excitement.

"Remember how mother always told us about a little white rabbit?"

"Yes, that led her to Wonderland, or Underhand as it was really called"

"Look the pointed" I turned around to see a rabbit peeking at us from behind a tree. Savannah's face was flushed with excitement.

"Want to go chase it?" I suggested, many emotions flickered over her face.

"We couldn't, with Aunt Clary..." she sighed, but it was too late, I'd already seen the want in her face.

"C'mon" I tugged at her hand; we left our parents behind us, and are waiting Aunty to chase a already disappearing rabbit. There was yelling coming from our Aunts direction, she would be furious. But I did not care; this was our last chance for a moment of fun.

The rabbit dashed far ahead of us, wiggling under roots and hiding behind trees. Savannah and I were squealing with delight when we came to a small clearing, a huge tree stood proudly in the middle. Excitement welled up in both of us, was this the way to Underland?
"Could it be our turn?" Savannah whispered curiously to me, we took a step forwards, trees sighed in a growing wind. A rabbit hole was tucked around some roots, Savannah and I both peered over and down into its depths. Slowly we descended to the ground; we put our hands on the edge of the hole and leaned towards it.

A furry white head popped out, we jumped back and fell onto the ground. The little rabbit wiggled its nose; another two rabbits appeared from the hole and stared at us suspiciously.

"It's just a normal rabbit hole" I sniggered. The rabbits tensed at the sound.

"We were so excited" she laughed back. We stared at each other and we laughed loudly, each rabbit disappeared into their hole, disappearing from view.

I jumped up and sighed sadly at our dirty dresses, Aunty Clary would be livid. Savannah joined me and soon we were making our way back to the graveyard.

"Cheyenne?" Savannah asked "Why must we live with Aunty Clary, she is a horrible old shrew!"

I snorted with laughter, my hand shot to my mouth with embarrassment before I shrugged "Who else are we to go live with, she is all we have left"

"I wish we could live on our own, why can't we?"

"Because we can't..." my voice drifted off as a saw a white flash disappear behind a bush.

"Cheyenne" Savannah pushed me impatiently "Why can't we?
I put my forefinger up to her lips "Be quiet" I mouthed.

There was a almost inaudible sound of something cracking, I saw another white of flash. Before I even realised what I was doing, I had grabbed Savannah's hand and pulled her after me, she stumbled slightly before she realised what was happening. A big rabbit was running as fast as it could, a golden chain was swinging around from its paws; I thought I could see a watch. Savannah pulled me to a stop, we were surrounded by trees, everything was perfectly still.

"Where did it go?" Savannah asked.

"Be quiet, listen" I whispered and quietly stepped over the ground, leaves crackled under my slipper like shoes. I pulled them off, feeling completely stupid; Savannah made me feel better when she did the same.

There was a ticking noise to our, my heart rate picked up excitedly, I knew what was happening. Savannah hugged herself to my arm as we walked towards the ticking; a huge hole was dug into the roots of a tree. I moved first, and looked down in the hole, Savannah moved with me. It looked like a normal rabbit hole, I peered closer, everything was dark. I stepped closer to the edge, I looked down into the hole again, I felt myself falling.

"Cheyenne!" Savannah screamed.

We fell together.