Alicia In Wonderland Book II: Forgetting Underland

Disclaimer: I don't own Alice in Wonderland

Author's Note: Couldn't wait any longer - here's Chapter One!

Chapter One: Leila's Guilt Ridden Mad Mind

Leila's Point of View

Today was going to be an interesting day.

Tarrant was coming to visit. I mean, I love it when he visits me, but Emily and Jade want to meet him. And what's worse is that Tarrant is bringing Chess.

Oh, you aren't caught up.

Okay, so about a week after I met Emily and Jade, I received a visit. A visit from a Dark Mystery Man. He told me who Emily and Jade really were.

Alice and Alicia Kingsleigh! Like, the Champions of Underland!

At first, I was thrilled. I was going to remind them of who they were immediately, and be a hero among Underland.

But then the Mystery Man continued.

He told me of how Alice and Alicia broke the hearts of my cousin and Chess.

And I loved Tarrant more than anything.

And I liked Chess, too. I felt bad that Alicia broke his heart.

I wanted to hate the girls, I really did, but I was taken with them; they really had become my best friends.

So I figured out an ingenious plan;

I would just keep them here.

They were convinced that my lie was there life.

They had no reason to believe otherwise.

But I was frightened that if Emily and Jade 'met' Tarrant and Chess, they would suddenly remember everything.

And either they would hate me for lying to them, or they'd re-break Tarrant and Chess's hearts.

So like I said; today was going to be interesting.

"Leila, I'm serious; I'm not going on a picnic. I want to meet your cousin." Emily said.

"As do I. Leila, don't you trust us enough?" Jade added.

They were making me feel insanely guilty.

"Of course I trust you." I said.

"So you'll let us meet them?" Emily asked, getting excited at the thought of it.

I thought about it for a moment before saying, "Yes. You can meet him."

"Oh, yes!" Emily said, thrusting her fist in the air for victory. "When are they coming?"

"Around lunch." I said. "And how did you know it was a they?"

Emily shifted her feet uncomfortably. "You told me. Yesterday."

I knew that I hadn't told her anything, but I let it go. Emily was just like that sometimes; headstrong with a dose of sarcasm and lies.

But I wouldn't want it any other way.

"So if they're coming in a little over two hours, we have some cleaning to do." I said.

The girls grumbled their agreements, and we set to work.

My house isn't particularly big; three bedrooms, a tiny kitchen with the dining room table in it, and a small living room. My house was also almost always clean, so we only had a little bit of dusting and organizing to do.

Emily's Point of View

There wasn't a lot of cleaning to do. What Leila had probably anticipated would take two hours really only took twenty minutes. So I set out for a walk.

I played with the "Chess" necklace around my neck. I felt a little electric zing whenever I thought about him.

I knew that I must have met him before. I could never feel like this if he was just a stranger that I saw in the woods one day.

I sat down by the river that was next to Leila's house, and leaned on the tree that was there. I sighed, and closed my eyes. I was sure I was going to fall asleep.

"Even the rain here is beautiful," I noted.

"Most things here are beautiful," Chess said.

"I know."

There was a moment of awkward silence.

"How do you think it's going at the Tea Party?" I asked to break the silence.

"I don't know," Chess admitted. "It's got to be hard on your grandmother, being as she can't tell them that she's alive, but I think it will be good for them."

"How so?" I wondered.

"Well," Chess began. "Tarrant has missed her, and I'm sure that Mally and Thackery have, too. I'm thinking she missed them as well, so at least they'll be in each other's company."

"Who's Tarrant?"

"The Hatter." Chess chuckled.

"Oh." I said, feeling stupid.

"No one calls him Tarrant but me," Chess said. "And even I'm not sure why I call him that. I just always have."

"Okay," I said. "Anyway, I'm glad she's with them."

"I'm glad they're with her."

"Chess?" I asked.

"Yeah?"

"Was that thunder?"

"I believe so," he said.

He must have seen the freaked out look on my face, because he continued, "What? Are you frightened of thunderstorms?"

I nodded.

"Come here." he said, patting the spot next to him on the couch he was seated on.

"Thank you," I said, running quickly to him.

He chuckled.

"Are you laughing at me?" I asked, feigning anger.

"Not at all," he said, pressing his smiling lips in a thin line.

"Chess, you can't hide that smile. It would be like the sun trying not to shine; not possible."

When I woke up, the sun was in the exact center point of the sky. My muscles were stiff, so I stretched my arms and yawned.

And that's when I noticed the huge pair of eyes staring intently at me.

I screamed loudly, scared silly.

I backed up against the tree as far as I could, and was about to scream for help-

When I noticed who the eyes belonged to.

It was Chess! The man I'd always longed to meet. It was like I was still in my dream...

But he was staring at me awfully strangely...

"What?" I asked him.

"A-Alicia?"

DUN DUN DUN! Cliffhanger! I hope you enjoyed this chapter...please review! I'd like to get maybe three or four reviews before I upload again! Thank you bunches!

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