This is something I think wrote... last year or something like that. I wouldn't say that I have become much better, but I do have improved from what I have written here.
Tho' I do not wish to change what I have written here, I actually kinda like the way I have described you, you guys out there will just have to see my improvement in the next chapters, haha!

-Wonderland All Over-

"Children's play"

"Aw man!"

Marcus stopped in confusion. He never would have imagined that I would have caught him.
We were playing tag, and I was it, well, just until I caught Marcus. No one could escape me, not with my long thin legs. Marcus on the other hand has got thick, small legs, a very easy person to run from.

Our little game continued for a while as more and more children joined the tag.
In the end there were about 30 children running about in the street.

In the middle of the mess of children, one child stood out. He was not running, nor was he looking at the others. He was just standing like a statue looking at his golden watch.

Something was strange about him.

None of the other children noticed him. Or did they just not care?

Nor did he notice any of the children running around his head. Or was he too busy looking at the golden watch?

What was it about that watch anyway?

He kept opening and closing it rapidly, and every time he did, it felt even more magical and persuading than the first time. Every time he closed it I felt sadness, but it was gone by the wind when he opened it again and a thrill filled my heart.
Suddenly he had closed it for the last time and it quickly found way down into his pocket.
He ran as quickly as he could out of the children's game to turn his way into an alley.

Somehow I could not let him be and my legs started to move in his direction.

The laughs and scream pouring out of the children's mouth, soon enough disappeared from my ears. Whenever he turned, I did as well, whenever he speeded up, I did as well.
The longer I followed him, the further away I got from my starting point, the original and my home.
But my curiosity kept me going.
No matter what, my legs wouldn't stop.

A black hole.

The little boy was heading with an amassing speed towards a hole appearing on the ground.
But where did it come from? One minute ago I could have sworn there was no hole.
With a quick, sturdy jump he led himself fell into it. I stopped right at the edge of it, and was about to trip.
It was staring at me with its big black mourn, it was calling me with the cold wind coming up, but yet I hesitated.

Why did I hesitate?

What could happen?

As fast at the thought could pass my mind, I jumped down into its charcoal coloured mouth. As I fell, my mouth opened and screams appeared.
I could nothing but fall.
There was nothing to grab on, nor could I see anything. The light from the nearest street lamp disappeared over my head.
A cold wind came blowing up beneath my falling feet and spread my dress out.

Soon enough I landed with a bump. I led my hands touch the ground. Such chilliness, it gave me goose bumps.
Hard, big and grey stones were forming the floor. Even though the stones where so hard, it did not hurt when I landed.
I looked up with dazed eyes, trying to figure out where I was.

But only the heavens knew where this was. It looked like a hall.
A long hall with no end to it, and only formed by cold stones. I stood up and a few feet ahead of me the boy stood.

The same little boy with his dark red hair just stood there. Once again he was looking at his watch. He looked like he was about to panic.
His eyes were everywhere, it was like he searched for something, but nothing was to be seen.

Or that was what I thought.

"Hey you"

The boy had stopped his searching as his eyes fell on me. He pointed at me with a judging finger.

"Who me?" I answered, quite shocked.

"Can you see anyone else here? No? Good!"

I didn't really know what to answer to that, but he was right, no one else was around here. He began approaching me. I took a few steps back, but he soon was right in front of me, he only reached a little above my hips.

"Why in God's name are you here" He began to yell, obviously I shouldn't be here.

"A-actually I don't really know, I just followed you"

"And why did you do that?"

"I-I guess my curiosity took over"

Complaining sounds came from the boy as he held to his head, maybe he had a headache, or maybe I was the headache.

"Well no matter what, you shouldn't be here! Go home to where ever you came from, I don't care how, just go!" He pushed me a bit backwards and quickly turned his back to me, only to walk a few steps before my mouth opened.

"But! I don't know how I get home! Should I just go back to the hole or-…" He didn't seem to give it a slight thought that he might had been able to have answered me. He just kept on walking.

I began to run up to him, but as soon I started to speed up, so did he.

"Wait!" I yelled in confusion, but he just kept on speeding up.

I tried to run faster, but his legs seemed to never quit being able to go faster than mine. But then something weird happened.
He placed his hands on the stone floor and continued to run like an animal.

What was he thinking?

How could it get any easier to run like that? But I was wrong, it was easier. He became a lot faster than before; I couldn't keep up with him any more.
My legs couldn't run any more and I had to stop. In the last glimpse of the boy running away, I thought I saw him turn into rabbit.
But that was rubbish.

How could something like that be possible?

But, what should I do now?

The boy was gone; I no longer had anyone to follow, no one to guide me on this fare. When I looked back, I could no longer see where I fell from. This long hall was the only thing my eyes could spy.
I sat down in despair. The stone walls seemed to glare at me as the freezing wind blew into my face.
I crumbled together; I did not know what to do any more. Tears ran down my cheek, down to my chin and onto the ground.
Like pearls, they landed on the stones giving small sounds. A small puddle was forming underneath me.
Then I could hear a sound.

Water.

It sounded like the sea was coming from behind. Slowly I turned to look behind me while drying of my tears. I couldn't see if anything was coming, but I could hear it. As a light I stood up and began to run forward and away from the hole. I could feel the water at my feet. In panic I started to run faster and faster. My mouth wouldn't scream, even though I was scared not a sound came out.
It consumed me.
Like a hand catching a ball I had disappeared into its grip. I tried to hold my breath, but I didn't have the chance to take some air.
It all went so fast. It swung me around through the hole, like I was nothing but a mere textile.

My eye couldn't catch what was happening. Soon enough I couldn't hold my breath anymore. The feeling off not being able to help yourself.
I couldn't do a thing.

Bubbles came out of my mouth and I lost my consciousness.

"Hey! Little girl! C'mon! Don't leave the world yet!"

My head hurt like crazy and my body ached all over. I opened my eyes slightly, but kept them squished together, as a strong light hit them.
Someone lifted me up in sitting position.

"Oh goodness! You're okay"

I looked at the man who lifted me up. He was a middle-aged man with a brown moustache, wearing some old armour and looking kind of like a guard.

"What happened?" I asked him pretty dull while looking around.

"Well, let's just say you had a pretty rough ride" He laughed a bit over his joke.

I remembered. A wave consumed me.

But how on earth did I end here?

As I looked around, I noticed, I was in a completely different place than before.

It looked like a giant ballroom. The floor was made of light wood, pedestals stood all around in the sides holding the roof, and heavy blood-red curtains held the light from the outside out.
I looked up in the ceiling, and saw it was filled with amazing chandeliers. But the one that caught my attention the most was the big one in the middle; it filled the entire room with its beauty and light.

"Do you like it?" The man asked me with a smile on his face.

"Yes, very much, sir…"

"Enchalent. Sir Enchalent, but you can call me Dodo sweet girl" He showed me a hand to lift me up which I gladly took.

Somehow he made me forget my worries with his joyful presence, he just kept on smiling.

"What may your name be?"

"Alice. Alice wanderbrook"

"Well then Alice, this was once a great ballroom, filled with happy people, rich or poor, it didn't matter. All of them gathered here in there nicest outfits and danced the night away. And the big chandelier you see in the middle was a gift from the greatest man in the world."

"A gift?"

"Yes, you see he loved this place so much, with all the happy people dancing together, that he wanted to give this place a special thing from him, and thus he placed the big chandelier in the centre of the ceiling to light up the dance floor"

He looked with a big smile on his face at the chandelier. It looked like something had lit a spark in him, a spark of joy.

"He sounds like a nice man" I gave a little smile as well from looking at him.

"A nice man? Oh he was more than a nice man, he was the best, or… still is"

"Still is?"

"Don't mind me lad'!" He petted my head and ruffled my hair a bit.

"By the way! You can't walk around with such wet cloth now, can ya'?" He laughed at me and I looked down to notice the dripping from my dress and my hair.

"But sir, I don't have anything else to wear but this" I looked at him in confusion.

"Well that should be something I could manage to handle" He looked at me with a big grin and snapped in his fingers.

A warm gentle breeze flew around me and disappeared as quickly as it had come, after that my cloth was completely dry again.
I stood speech less and moved my eyes from my dress to Dodo swiftly in confusion.

"How did you-?"

"Who said a mere guard can't do a few tricks" He answered with a grin.

"Well!" A slap was placed on his forehead.

"Actually I should get back to work" He then went over to a humongous door standing between two pedestals with curtains on, and placed himself standing stiff in front of it.

I followed him a bit slowly and looked at it with curiosity.

A door? Is he protecting it? But where does it even lead to?

"Excuse me sir, but where does this door lead too?"

"Oh this, my dear friend, is the door to something magical and exiting"

"Magical and exiting?" I looked at him in confusion, wondering over the answer he gave me.

"Yes, but I can't tell you what the magical and exiting is"

I wanted to ask him why, but something new came to my mind.

Home.

I was far away from home right now, but maybe the guard knew a way home.

"Ah! Sir, can I ask you something? Do you know a way back?"

"A way back? I knew you weren't from here, that is also why I can't tell you what lies behind this door, but there is one thing I can tell you!"

"What?"

"There is no way back, nor' a way out, there is only a way in"

"But… How can I get home then?"

"Don't ask me, you should rather ask some of the persons behind this door, I'm sure there is at least one person who can help you"

"Behind the door? But you told me you couldn't tell me what was behind it?"

"Yes, but I never said I couldn't let you in" He gave me a little wink as he said it.

"But, to go in there, doesn't that mean I have to go in, to come out? It doesn't make any sense"

A laugh burst came from his mouth "Well then it must be the right thing to do, because what makes the least sense for you, is what makes the most sense at all, and remember that"

A grimace formed on my face

"But-" Before I could finish, Dodo had already interrupted.

"You know, you make an awful lot of buts, I suggest you just go in" He gave a gesture for me to walk in.

I didn't really know what to do, but somehow what he said made sense to me, in a way that can't be described. I nodded at him and walked over to the door.
He placed a hand in front of my face to make me stop. I turned my look at him in confusion.

"You will need the keys to enter it, right?" He began to search in his pockets and pulled up a handle with a million keys on it.

He searched for the actual key, and took it out with a great 'AHA' and quickly placed it into the lock of the door. As he turned the key I was filled with excitement, what was beyond that door, which he couldn't tell me, that I was about to face.
I stepped back as the big door slowly swung up. It looked so heavy and threatening in the way it opened. Dodo bowed and placed his hands, as I should enter the door. I walked confidently towards the door and said 'thank you' as I passed Dodo; he only answered with a polite 'Your welcome Miss Alice'.
When I looked into what was behind the door, I couldn't see a thing, it was all black, I glanced at Dodo, who just smiled as he had done from the beginning.
I took some big, quick steps into the nothingness.
At the point I reached the other side the door closed behind me, my eyes turned back in fear, I felt like I shouldn't had done this, but I didn't have another choice did I?

How can I walk on like this?

I was trying to find a way back, weren't I? My friends and family where behind me, but still I'm trying to walk forward in a hopeless progress of trying to come back.

What am I thinking?

Maybe I was dreaming? But if it was a dream, why was I hesitating walking on? Nothing could happen to me right? It was a dream after all. But it felt so real. The sorrow of being away from home the joy of finding a new friend and the excitement of starting a new adventure, it all felt so real to me. I tried to turn my look forward again, but what was forward?
Even if I wanted to go forward, everything was black, wherever I turned my look, emptiness was the only thing to be seen.
Even though, I decided to walk on.
This entire ruckus, and all the confusion, I wanted it to disappear. I couldn't think of nothing else but to sing.

A simple song, which gave me peace when my mom sang it, maybe it could help me relax a bit, even though it wouldn't be my mom who sang it.

"Why, why my child,

You play, you sing,

You eat, you think,

Still your face,

Show sadness, no grace.

Escape from this,

Through words, and life,

Through sorrow, to kind,

Escape only to,

What you call, Wonderland"