"Mmmm." I sat up slowly and opened my eyes. "W-where am I." I got up on one fast movement and looked around. There was nothing around me but foliage.

"Jeez what is this? Where the hell am I….The last thing I remember…is falling down a hole…" I paused. "No, no that's silly. Maybe when I was going to Alice's house I tripped on something in the forest and hit my head. Yeah maybe I'm just going insane or something right now. It's all probly just a dream. Maybe I am insane cuz I'm talking to myself…At least I'm not answering myself…" I took a deep breath and let it out.

Calm down, you're probly just dreaming right now. Yeah your in the forest near your house and were just headed for Alice's. Ok deep breath. Just walk in the direction Alice's house is in. I glanced around looking for some sign of where to go. I had the whole forest near my house memorized with markers and stuff just in case.

"Red ribbon, red ribbon…." I walked around for a bit looking around every bush and tree and even the rocks. "Ahhh jeez!" I flopped on the ground not caring much for the dress as it was already covered in dirt. I need to focus on finding Alice!

I had no idea where I was headed but I just walked, and walked and walked. Please let me wake up from this dream! Was all I was thinking.

I saw a clearing not too far away in the distance and started stepping up my pace. "Hello!? Helloooo!? Is anyone there!" I finally came out into the clearing and looked around hoping to find someone. "No one hm? This is horrible. If I am dreaming I'm really unimaginative. Making me lost in a forest…!"

"Can I ask why you're talking to yourself? Even though it's kind of amusing." A guy spoke from somewhere.

"W-who said that!" I looked around. "Don't try and scare me! A-Alice you better not be trying to scare me with one of your cousins again!!" I twirled around looking everywhere.

"I don't see why your so scared…and by the way who's Alice and what's a cousin?" The guy spoke again.

I suddenly looked up and right above me looming over a branch up above staring down at me was a person. A boy that looked to be in his late teens to be exact, maybe my age?

"Who are you? And how the heck did you get up there!" I looked up amazed at the height he was at. Without thought he swung his legs over the branch and landed gracefully…like a cat…and from such a high distance too he didn't even hurt himself. "What the…!?"

"Well my name is…--"

"--Boris Airay…." It just came out. I have no clue how but I knew his name.

"Yeah it is…I'm the Cheshire cat….But I've never seen u before so how do you know my name?" He looked confused. Probly just as confused as I looked.

"You ask me that…but I sincerely don't know. It just kinda came out without me thinking hehe…." I paused and stared at him. My jaw almost dropped but I kept it there clenching my teeth tight. But then I thought Ahah what am I thinking. It's probly just some headband or clips of some sort. But that's when it twitched. His Cat ears just twitched.

"W-w-what are those some new mechanical ears?" I said walking up to him and reaching up to grab his ear. "Woah it's really soft it feels like a real cats ear!"

"What do you mean?" His cheeks turned a little red for some reason. "They are re--"

"So how do they work? How do they stay on your head?" That's when I yanked one.

"OOOWWWWW OH MY GOD OWWW. ARE U INSANE!?" A tear formed in his eye from the pain.

"W-what? That couldn't have hurt. After all they aren't real stop pretending!" I laughed.

"But they are real! They aren't glued to my head they're a part of me! I'm a cat for crying out loud!" Then a tail swished out behind him. Looking so real I felt insane.

"I…."

"You're?" He cocked his hair to the side holding the ear I yanked carelessly.

"I believe you."

"You don't look like you do."

"No I do cuz I must have hit my head extremely hard and now I've gone insane. To think my insaneness would mix my favourite animal and a boy together, I must be really lonely or something. Yup all this right now is just a dream cuz I've gone completely insane."

"Uh, so you pretty much would not believe me if u weren't 'insane'?" He asked looking a bit angry. "And this isn't a dream it's a real place. And I don't think your insane. That's just some excuse you've made up for this all to make sense.

"Pretty much! Wait make up? I'm not making this…or maybe I am. Maybe falling down that hole was real. Then where the hell am I!?"

"Falling down a hole? You mean your a foreigner!? Wow I've never met one you before! I guess they don't have human/animals over there huh? Well then I guess welcome to wonderland! I'm not sure if I can really forgive you about the ears thing though. That really hurt." Boris kinda glared at me for a minute but it softened.

"Ok I have no idea what to think right now but you don't seem to be lying. Arghh I'm just going to believe my instincts."

"And what would that be?" He asked.

"I don't know!!!" I started to pull my hair. Boris just looked at me like I was crazy, which I probly was.

"Ahh Tabitha I thought I heard your voice! Yay I finally found you!! For some reason when I dropped you down the hole from your world you landed in a totally different spot than Alice!" It was Peter….As he walked over I kinda inched my way behind Boris.

"Ah so Alice is ok! Where is she take me to her right now!" I stepped back out from behind Boris and he just kinda stood there feeling used. "I really feel like punching you across the face right now so take me to her this instant!!!!" I felt really angry to put it bluntly. "And you have some explaining to do!"

"Can't we just cut the boring details." He pouted. "And plus I need you to drink this." He held out a clear bottle with some sort of pink liquid inside and was sealed with a little heart cap.

"I wouldn't do it. It might be poison~!" Boris said sneakily.

"That might be true. Are you trying to kill me!" I yelled at Peter. But I took the bottle hesitantly.

"I wouldn't doooo itttt." Boris laughed obviously trying to annoy Peter.

"Ugh shut up Boris!" Peter said. "Tabitha what if I told you that instead of drinking it and it be poisonous, that if u don't drink it you'll die!" Peter said as tears formed in his eyes. "I don't want you to die!" He sulked over to me and gave me a huge hug pulling me right against him.

"Ohhhh to believe or not to believe." Boris smirked.

"Oh, fine. Just please let go of me and I'll drink it!" He hugged me for a second longer then let go wiping away his tears. Which I didn't totally believe. I opened the cap and gulped it down and it left a bittersweet aftertaste in my mouth. "There happy?"

"Extremely!" Peter said smiling broadly his bunny ears all perky. Bunny ears jeez…I guess humans cross with animals here.

"That's going to suck if you die! I wouldn't have drank it."

"Boris Airay why don't you just shut up and leave!! And anyway why are you here with my Tabitha! Err you make me so angry you stupid cat!" Peter pulled a large pocket watch out of his pocket and somehow it became a gun within seconds.

A shot went off and I felt it go past me, the way the air parted as it rushed through. The sound of it so familiar, so easy to remember just like how easy it is to let warm honey slip down your throat.

"STOP!" I said my eyes wide with fear. Another shot form peters gun went off, he hadn't had time to stop from my sudden outburst. It nicked my cheek and I felt the warm blood seep out around the cut. I shook. My whole frame trembled as I reached up and felt the thick red liquid coming out of my cheek. I stared at my fingers, dirtied in scarlet blood. I fell to my knees my vision blurred my head spinning. My mind was a jumbled mess.

"T-Tabitha!?" Peters voice seemed distant, my ears were closing off sounds, my eyes- sights, and my mouth wouldn't utter a word. "Tabitha, are you alright!?"

"Look what you did! She looks like she's going to faint! Way to go stupid rabbit!"

"This is all your fault! You shouldn't be with her in the first place!"

All of the noises sounded like whispers, and hat was the last I heard of them. I passed out and fell into a sleep. Not something peaceful either. Not a dream…but a Nightmare.