Chapter One
Today is my birthday. I should be happy, exited even. I was always exited about birthdays when i was a child but today just feels like another day. Nothing special happens. I wake up, wash my hair and face, brush my teeth allt eh usua everyday things. I open the only card I ever have. It's from my friend, Autumn. She's a quiet, calm girl whereas I am a fierve, strong young lady. There's only 2 months between us, but she still acts like my older sister. I've known her since I was 5, I was trapped in the school toilets and she helped me out. From that day on I promised myself to be brave and strong. I brake away from my thoughts bya hand wrapping themselves around my waist, "Happy birthday Alice!" Autumn shouts into my back, not being tall enough to reach the gab between my shoulder and my neck. I turn and give her a smal hug. My parents are in bed so we sit and talk quietly for a while, "So," began Autumn, " did you like your card?" I smile at her and reply with "Yes,it was... Different". The card in question was a neon pink and yellow card, with the words 'Happy Birthday Alice' scribbled across the top in black ink. She's not the brigtest girl I know but she really does try.
About half an hour later, we leave a note on the kitchen table and head out into the town. It's about 6 o'clock in the morning and picth black. The moon shines ona lake under a long, narrow is no noise to be heard, not even the sound of scurrying mice feet across the cobblestone. We both stand, leaning over the bridge and into our reflections, neither one of us is talking. A soft wind blows past and I jump back with a start. 'Did the wind just say "Come Alice?"No it couldn't have, the wind can't talk' I think to myself, oh how wrong I was. The wind blew once again and again I heard the same voice in the wind, this time it said a different phrase ' No one is around Alice". A breath catches in my throat and I look around... Everything's gone. The bridge I was standing on is now a long, narrow path, the lakehas turned into grass and Autun... AUTUMN! I spin on the spot, looking for any trace that someone had been here, I found nothing. "AUTUMN!" I scream, "AUTUMN WHERE ARE YOU?!" Tears begin to roll down my face and I scream in anger. Somewhere in the darkness, a light flickers and a young man dressed in a black, patched up suitwearing a top hat is walking towards me. All I can do is stand there in horror. "There's no need to be afraid," His voice is calming and soothing, " Come with me, I'll take you somewhere safe". I nod slowly and he runs faster than a normal human should. I run after him and follow him through the darkness to a lonely black tree. There's a hole the size of a human infrount of me and I kneel down to inspect it. A voice comes from the depts of the hole, "Join us Alice, you'll never be alone again." I take a long shaky breath, I feel a hand begin to push against my back, making me fall into the hole. I scream and plummet head first... into Wonderland.