Ok, well it's been like a month since I was supposed to update and I feel supremely bad, so instead of giving lame excuses for my excessive procrastination, I give you chapter 4.
"Kira?"
"Mmm...?"
"Kira?"
I was vaguely aware of Alice's voice calling to me, though I ignored it, fighting to stay 'Asleep' at least for a while longer before I had to face the pain that was surely to come with my waking. Soon enough I was left alone in my semi-conscious state…
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Slowly, I opened my eyes, turning my head to the side to see the clock on my nightstand. I sighed and looked up at the ceiling; I had slept all of yesterday away. Alice was asleep, and Julius I assumed was in his study again. I got out of bed and went to pick out what I would wear for the day, before doing my morning routine. I dressed in a black Lolita style dress that went to my knees and had an aqua blue bow in the back and thin delicate black lacey fabric from the skirt down and a layer of blue mesh fabric underneath peeking out from under all the black. Then I took a lifelike aqua blue rose made of silk and pinned it in my hair, in place of the usual bow, and slipped on a pair of black ballet flats. Just as I was about to leave the room I remembered, shit, I forgot the dagger. I sighed and walked back over to my nightstand, picking the weapon up, already in its sheath, and strapped it to my thigh so it was hidden under my dress.
I figured Julius was still in his study and wasn't surprised to see light coming through the crack under the door when I passed by on my way to the kitchen.
Once I had gotten myself one of the scones I had made yesterday I walked into the foyer and straight to the front door, walking out and closing the door quietly behind me.
…..
I sighed to myself again, now that I'm out where am I supposed to go...? With really no plan at all or a reason for being here I decided I would pick a random direction and follow where my feet took me.
So Ended up sitting in the forest in the shade, absentmindedly taking bites of my breakfast. That was, before I heard someone coming that is. I quickly snuck my weapon out of its sheath and laid it next to me before I looked up in the direction of the sound of approach.
Pink? I tilted my head in confusion at how out of place, but familiar the color was in the green forest setting.
"Kira?" A familiar voice asked.
I looked up to see the golden eyes of the Cheshire cat staring down at me.
"Oh! Hi Boris," I managed. I looked away for a second to place my dagger back in the sheath.
"Were you expecting someone else?" Boris asked raising an eyebrow.
"You could say that," I said.
"Where'd you get it?" He asked referring to the dagger.
"Dee and Dum gave it to me,"
Boris grinned
"So you've met the bloody twins,"
Bloody twins? I tilted my head slightly.
"Yeah, apparently I'm their Nee-san" I said with a small smile.
"I was just going to go see them, why don't you come?" Boris asked, his tail swishing back and forth.
"Hmmm, I don't know," I said pretending to really think about it for a minute.
"Please?" He asked, giving me a cat's equivalent of the puppy dog look.
"Alright, I'll go,"
Boris smiled and held out his hand to me and helped me up.
"So why did the twins give you that anyway?"
"Oh, The dagger?"
As we walked, I told him the same thing I told the twins about the incident on my first day in Wonderland. As I explained to him his ears flattened down and his tail flicked back and forth quickly, his hands clenched into fists.
Boris was silent for a while after I was finished; I stopped walking and took one of his shaking hands in both of mine, and not without effort, uncurled his hand. Then I looked back up at him.
"Boris, please calm down, I'm alright, nothing happened,"
"He could have killed you," Boris said, looking down at me. His own expression softened slightly at seeing my worried one.
"And if he had, you would never had even met me, so I don't understand why you're so upset,"
I started walking again and he followed.
"Kira?"
"Hmm?"
"You know, you're still holding my hand,"
I looked down at our joined hands and blushed, releasing his hand.
"S-sorry..."
Boris laughed quietly, "You know, I don't have a problem with it, you can hold my hand if you want to," He said grinning.
I stayed silent; I could literally feel the blush on my cheeks deepening a shade. Boris gave another small laugh and continued following me toward the hatter mansion.
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"Nee-San!" The twins yelled running up and hugging me.
"Hi Dee, hi Dum," I said, hugging them back.
"Nee-San came to see us!"
"Yeah, I came with-" I stopped, seeing Boris now gone.
"Where did he go?" I tilted my head.
"Where did who go Nee-san?"
Maybe I imagined it...? But am I really that crazy, or lonely, to think he was with me...? I looked behind me, seeing nothing, and turned back to the twins again. I let out a surprised gasp, there; standing right behind the twins was the Cheshire cat himself.
I-impossible, I only looked away for a second, and he definitely wasn't there before.
And yet there he was, staring straight at me with his signature grin.
His grin seemed to grow at my reaction and, still looking at me, he leaned his arms on the twins shoulders.
"Boris!" The twins exclaimed turning around.
"Hey," Boris said smirking.
I tilted my head. "I wasn't imagining it...?"
"Imagining what Nee-san?"
"Boris,"
"You thought you were imagining me?" Boris said coming back to my side, "Do you think of me often then?" he asked, his grin reappearing.
"N-no! Why would I think about you?" I said, turning away to hide my blush.
"So, you guys wanna come to the amusement park?" He asked.
"Yeah!" Dee & Dum said. Their scythes then shrunk and turned into tiny versions of the weapons with a small chain and ring attached, key chains, which the two then hooked to their belts. Strangely enough I wasn't surprised.
"Is Nee-san coming too?" The boys asked.
"Yes, Nee-san is coming too," I said smiling.
…..
"Boris, Nee-san! Let's go on that one!" Dee & Dum said pointing to one of the roller coasters.
"I don't remember seeing that one last time," I said.
"It's new, it was still being built when you and Alice were here, it's the fastest in the park," Boris said grinning.
"And the tallest," I said, looking at the exactly 90 degree climb to the top which reached higher than all the other coasters, and then it was a 90 degree plummet back toward the ground again before it went through its many twists and turns. "It looks awesome, let's go," I said grinning and walking to the ride.
"Awesome!" The twins said as the three guys followed behind me.
"That was insane," I said once we got of the ride.
"Nee-san, Dee and Dum want to go on another roller coaster,"
"Ok, which one do you want to go on?" I asked.
"We want to go on that one next!" The twins said, pointing to another coaster.
After about the ninth roller coaster I decided to take a break from the rides, the twins still wanted to ride more coasters so they went off on their own and Boris decided to stay with me. We were sitting on one of the park benches by the arcade.
"So, what were you really doing out there in the woods earlier?" Boris asked, leaning forward, resting his head in his hand and turning his head to look at me.
I sighed and leaned back into the bench. "Well... I kinda snuck out,"
"Why did you have to 'sneak out'?"
"Well since what happened with Peter, Julius and Alice think it isn't very safe that, for the time being, I leave the clock tower alone,"
I glanced to my left at Boris for a second, his expression was hard to read and his usual grin had disappeared. I turned my attention back to the flashing lights and rides infront of us and continued. "I've been recalling strange memories lately and I thought I would feel better getting some fresh air and time to think, and somehow I ended up sitting in the forest alone, which, I guess wasn't very smart,"
"The memories aren't bothering you now are they?" He asked.
I looked back at him, seeing his earlier expression replaced with concern.
"No, I'm fine now, just as long as the memories don't happen so often,"
"Do you think you'll be in trouble when you go back?" He asked after a moment.
"I wouldn't think so, I mean, I understand their concern and all, and that I'm not in the safest situation right now, But I'm sixteen years old, not five; I can take care of myself,"
Boris smiled slightly.
"Hey, what are you smiling about?" I asked, crossing my arms.
"Oh nothing," He said with a grin. I frowned slightly.
"You never told me how old you were," He stated.
"Well now you know," I said, un-crossing my arms. "How old are you?"
"Seventeen," He said grinning even more, He proceeded with asking what my favorite color was, and I replied aqua blue and asked him the same.
"Black," He said.
"Hmm, I would have guessed pink," I said, smiling slightly.
"And why is that?" He asked, grin still in place.
"Oh, no reason," I said smiling, "What's your favorite type of food?"
"Sweets, and yours?
"Oh, that's a tough one, I like sweets, but, I have to say spicy candy,"
"Spicy candy?"
"Yes, spicy candy, do you have a problem with that?"
"No, no," He said laughing, "Favorite animal?"
"Cats," I said Immediately, "Yours?"
Boris grinned, "Dogs,"
"Are you being serious?"
"No,"
"So it's cats also," I said, holding back a smile.
"What's your favorite, Day or Night?"
"Night," I said.
"And why?"
"Because, without the night you couldn't see the stars," I murmured, staring up at the slowly darkening sky, unaware of the Cheshire Cat's smile.
"Boris, Nee-san!"
We both looked up ahead of us to see the twins coming back. Boris stood an heals his hand out to me, I took it and he helped me up, after which I quickly released his hand.
Boris smirked slightly, and I felt the color rise to my cheeks, just as the twins stopped in front of us.
"Why is Nee-san all red?" Dee asked.
I blushed more and turned away from the three.
"Am not," I mumbled.
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"Thanks for walking me back Boris," I said when we reached the entrance to the clock tower.
"You're welcome," He said smiling. "Hmm, since you snuck out, does that mean you don't have a key?" He asked, his tail swishing back and forth.
"Umm... No," I said looking down; I knew I'd forgotten something... I sighed lightly.
Boris laughed a little and walked up to knock on the door. When it opened, both Julius and Alice appeared in front of us; Alice looked a bit worried and Julius had his usual unreadable expression.
"Kira...? Where were you?" Alice asked, noticing me first.
"I..."
"Didn't you see the note?" Boris asked Alice, tilting his head.
What note? I never wrote a note, what is he talking about?
"What note?" Julius asked.
"In the kitchen on the counter," Boris said.
Julius left for a second and came back with a small piece of paper, quickly reading over it before handing it to Alice,"
"You were at the Amusement Park with Boris all day?" Alice said after reading the note.
"Yeah, the twins came too," I said, "It was kind of last minute, sorry I didn't tell you in person, but I didn't want to wake you and I thought one of you would see the note," I said.
How the he'll ha Boris done it? It's not like he knew we would run into each other today and end up going to the Park; so he couldn't have gotten the note inside earlier...
"Oh, ok, I don't know how I missed this though," Alice murmured, referring to the note.
"Yeah, sorry about that," I mumbled, "Well, thanks for today Boris," I hugged him, "I don't know how you did it, but thanks," I said, low enough for only him to hear.
Boris hugged me back, "You're welcome," He said, answering both of my thanks. "Bye,"
"Bye," I called as he walked away.
Julius sighed, "Kira,"
"Yes?" I said.
"Just don't do that again," He then walked back inside, probably going to his study. I smiled slightly, he may have been trying not to show it, but he had been worried about me, I would be sure not to do something like this again without thinking.
"So did you have fun?" Alice asked.
We walked inside and I closed the door quietly behind me.
"Yeah," I said heading for the kitchen, Alice following behind, "The Amusement Park has a new roller coaster, it's the tallest and fastest in the park, we rode it three times," I said smiling.
"And I will definitely avoid that ride," Alice said. I laughed and got out a pot, filling it with water to boil for tea.
...
"Nightmare...?"
"Yes Kira dear?" Nightmare asked, appearing in front of me.
"I'm sorry," I said quietly, giving him a hug.
"Sorry for what dear?" He asked, returning the hug.
"Last night, how I freaked out,"
"Please don't Apologize for thy Kira, there's no need," He said.
"But-"
"No buts," He said, "You don't always have to wear a smile Kira dear, I can see how hard you try to hide your hurt," He said, looking at me with sad eyes.
"I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me," I said with a small smile.
"You are entitled to show your emotions Kira, both the good and the bad, you can't keep them bottled up,"
"I... I just don't want anyone to worry about me; I'm fine this way..."
"I'm sure the others see it too Kira dear..."
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Hope you enjoyed, I posted as soon as I finished typing, though if anyone thought I was givine up on this in the month I was gone, I swear I'm finishing this story, I already have half of it written down and am planning a sequel, so if you haven't already subscribed to story alert and you like the story thus far, please add to your alerts. ^-^
Again, I apologize for the lateness…
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