A World of My Own
Chapter 2:
I stepped outside the building with the Lady at my side. "Alice! My baby!" My mother called. I saw her curly blonde hair bounce crazily in the wind as she ran up and hugged me tightly. "Oh, Alice!" She said as she kissed my forehead. My father walked up to us meekly and slowly wrapped his arms around me and swayed. "We've missed you so, so, much Alice, dear.", He said. My mother ran her fingers through my knotty golden hair. "How are you, sweetie?" she asked. "We miss you so much". I looked into their searching, worried blue eyes and said coldly,
"I hate it here, and you wouldn't have missed me if you didn't leave me in such an awful place!"
The Lady blushed slightly, and I instantly saw the hurt in my mother's eyes. "When you're better, Alice, then you can come home with us," said my father calmly.
"Yes, we love you so much but until you're better you cannot come home." My mother said, holding back tears. "No. I don't want to be "better", I hate it here, and hate you for sending me here all alone!" I screamed. I broke away from their embrace and began to walk towards the courtyard garden that I had only admired from my window. "Oh, Alice, no!" My mother reached out to grab me. I stomped and stomped away. "Just let her go, she just needs to be left alone right now." I heard my father assure. "Give her time to calm down" the Lady said as she began to walk behind me. My mother started to sob so I began to run faster and faster towards the garden.
"Alice!" the Lady called out. "Leave me alone." I said, brushing away the tears that fell quickly from my eyes. I began to run even faster. They abandoned me for months, they dropped me off in such a miserable place, and worst of all they took away my world from me. My world to call my own, not theirs! Tears streamed down my face uncontrollably as I approached the garden. I knelt down and crawled into the high grasses and sunflowers. Hidden away in the shadows of the grass I finally felt free and safe from them, from everything! "Alice? Come out, we're sorry!" My mother's voice called from a distance. "No!" I screamed, crawling deeper and deeper into the grass. "Alice! Come out! You can't tread in the garden!" said the Lady worryingly.
I crawled and crawled further in the grasses, until I was certain that they couldn't get to me. I sat there silently , hugging my knees as I listened to my parents calling my name. This should show them.
The sun's golden rays slowly peaked through the stems and warmed my face. I heard bugs buzzing and birds singing sweetfully. "Alice! Come out this instant!" the Lady called. I picked a daisy and smelled it, twirling it with my fingers. It was then that I felt a familiar strangeness, that I haven't felt in a while. I let out a sigh of relief, and laid down comfortably on my back. "Alice, don't make me come in after you!" The Lady screamed uncomfortably. I managed to let out a giggle as I imagined the Lady crawling through the dirt and grasses. Something snapped loudly behind me. I turned around quickly, completely startled. Crunch, Crunch, Snap. I glanced in several directions but I couldn't see anything. "Wh-whoo's there?" I asked, as I brushed some leaves off my blue dress. "Hello?" Snap, snap, crack. I started to crawl towards the sound. Something white jumped in front of me and began to sprint away. What was that? "Wait up! Who are you, where are you going?" I asked, crawling towards it. "Can you hear me? Wait up I said!" The white thing turned around and looked at me—it was a rabbit! A rabbit that was wearing a monocle and carrying a large clock around its waist! "Who are you? And where are you going?" I asked bewildered, as I finally caught up to him. The peculiar rabbit stared at me and said, "My name is Mr. Rabbit, and I'm late! Oh! I'm late for a very important date!" He stared at his clock in horror, "No time to say "Hello.", so "Goodbye!", I'm late, I'm late ,I'm late!" Mr. Rabbit waved goodbye and began to run away again. "Wait, late for what?" I asked, crawling even faster behind him. He approached a hole in the fence at the end of the garden and gave me a final nod before jumping out. "WAIT, don't leave yet!" I screamed. "Alice, dear ,where are you hiding?" I heard my mother call from within the grasses. I glanced behind once more before crawling through the hole in the fence myself. I was finally leaving my parents and the Lady behind, and entering my much forgotten wonderland.