Alright...This is my first Alice In Wonderland type story. Please, be polite on the reviews. Hope you enjoy!
-S.N.V.

p.s.
Yes, my chapters may be short but I tend to get writer's block. lol

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Dreary, Dreary

Sad and weary

Tis a day

Of gloomy gray

Do not frown

Turn it around

Smile for me

And happy I'll be

It's all worth while

For that smile

So I ask

For that small task

You must know

I love you so

So when I'm gone

You must go on

So just smile

All the while

Through your fears

And the tears

I have to leave

Do not grieve

I shall miss you

But bid adieu

I remember the day he recited that to me. It was raining outside and a dreary gray day. I did not understand it then, but I surely do now. He was letting me know that he would not always be around, but he would always love me.

I was 10 when it happened. He was on his way home from work. He had left early due to a call I had made to him.

"What's wrong little dear?" Charles, Alice's father, had asked her over the phone. "I had a nightmare daddy. The babysitter won't listen. She just told me to go straight back to bed." Charles smiled to himself as he packed his things into his suitcase. "Alright deary, I'm on my way. Why don't you tell me about it." Alice sighed and sat down on the chair next to the sidetable. "Well," She started. "It was dreadfully horrible." Charles was in the elevator, listening intently to his daughter's dream. "Really now? What happened sweetheart?" Alice continued to explain her dream to her father. Telling him of a dark, rainy and gloomy day. "There were hundreds of people there daddy. All of them were sad and most were crying. I was there too. But, I wasn't crying. I was wandering around all the sad people. It was as if no one could see me. When I asked what happened, they never answered." Charles was in his car now and started the engine. "Hmm." Charles pondered as he pulled out from work and made his way to the main road. "I kept moving around all the sad people and I finally got towards a group of them. They were all huddled together, blocking my way. I couldn't see beyond them. I tried to push through, so that I could look at what they were looking at. That's when an older woman, who I don't know, took me into her arms and carried me through the group of people. As we made our way to what everyone was looking at, I began to get scared and started to cry." Charles stopped at a red light and waited. "What was it that you saw Alice?" He asked, his voice serious. He always listened. "I don't really know. It looked like a box of some sort. A very BIG box. But as soon as we got up to it, I woke up screaming and crying. The babysitter said I was screaming out for you." The light turned green and Charles turned onto a street 10 blocks away from his own. "It'll be alright deary, I'm almost home. Don't worry now, alright?" Alice smiled to herself and leaned back into the chair. "I'll be there before you can say-" There was a loud noise in the background and then there was nothing. Alice waited a minute or two before speaking. "Daddy? Before you can say what?" She waited again. "Daddy?" The line went dead.