i. wonderland
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the world is spinning in my head
I'm alice in the wonderland
She had told Eriol she would be out, and with that she had stepped out of the house, coat wrapped around her. The chilly English air bit her cheeks, turning them red. On nights like this, she always wished for what she couldn't have, and so the local club provided a safe haven for her to prowl in her pursuit of...
Of what? Of what?
There where neon lights flashing around when she got there, and the crude brick box the club was housed in thumped. Dreamy techno beats drifted lazily out in the parking lot, streaming around the bored teenagers.
Nakuru never bothered making friends here, because she knew the people here didn't really matter. What did matter was the music, and the dancing, and the whole escape. Nakuru loved that part the best. She always felt as if she was slipping away, and the feeling was both and exciting and frightening one.
Hurriedly, she briskly walked past the stoners and asses that hung around the outside of the club. She gingerly stepped over a passed-out boy, alcohol-induced vomit dried and clinging to his plaid shirt. That was the reason Eriol was wary about her visits here.
Some sequinned girl was making out with a boy, but Nakuru knew she would never do anything like that. Sure, she was hyperactive, but she wasn't stupid; she knew her limits.
And so, without a care in the world, she began to dance.
The music swelled inside of her, her heart jumping like a dolphin, one fish, two fish...The red fish and the blue fish where missing. They always where.
Out of the corner of her eye, she thought she could see a familiar shape.
It couldn't be.
Swinging her head to the side, Nakuru stopped dancing. She was too busy staring. There, right in front of her, fresh-eyed and dew-skinned, dancing like there was no tomorrow, where Tomoyo and Sakura.
Or, at least, they looked like the two. Nakuru rubbed her eyes. It couldn't be, she told herself, it couldn't be, for Tomoyo and Sakura where in Japan, Tomoeda to be exact, and would be at this moment be doing something like studying for the high school entrance exams. They would not, Nakuru firmly told herself, be halfway across the world, dancing to catchy techno beats in a run-down club in the middle of nowhere in England. Most certainly not.
And yet, shining as bright as the sun, clear as day...there they where. Right in front of her. She didn't know the meaning of this, so she stood blankly for a few minutes, merely staring at the oblivious look a-likes.
But...where they really there? There was an airy, misty aura around them; ragged around the edges; and it was like peering through dark sunglasses to be able to glimpse them. They seemed to flicker, almost...
It couldn't be them.
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lights are flashing everywhere...
making the moves without a care... the world is spinning in my head *** Hope you enjoyed that, so far! Reviews much appreciated!
I'm alice in the wonderland