50 minutes later, Alice was with Carol, shivering (it was a nice 75 degrees at home, so why was it nearly 35 outside?!) as a storage worker lifted up the garage door. Alice gasped, turning to her mom in shock.

"Yeah, the CEO was a big music fan… Too bad it's all obsolete now."

Alice stepped into the garage, glancing around at all the old music paraphernalia. She dragged a box out from under a table and opened it, flipping through stacks of old vinyls. She pulled one out, blowing the dust off and checking for a tag.

"There's not a… It doesn't- does he know what these are?"

"Probably not." Carol glanced around. "I guess that's why he's giving it all away. He told me if we wanted anything, though, we were free to grab it."

Alice stood, rubbing her cold hands together, and walked around a large table, opening another box which had an antique record player. She grinned.

"Wow, this is…. This is really cool stuff. I'll take it home."

"Who knows? Maybe Hatter might like it." Carol laughed, and Alice sighed with a shake of her head. She had told her mom about her failures in finding music good enough for Hatter on the ride over- Carol was more amused than anything.

"Okay, I'll take this and the old records home. We'll give it a try."


(an: okay yes i know they're painfully short i realized updating them mini-scene by mini-scene was a bad idea

but i mean that's how much i write each time i come back to this and i feel like any update is a good update right ? yes no maybe so

idk they get a little bit longer after this and it'll be up either tonight or tomorrow night

maybe the next story i write will have actually decent-length chapters these are more like blabs but whatever)