HEEELLOO PEOPLES! Here is the next chapter of Instead of Wonderland! First off, I want to thank the Guest person who reviewed my story! Thanks a bunch! I also want to thank WeDontKnowEnoughToUnderstand for PMing me. I'm not really sure if I should PM back or what I'm supposed to do, so I'll thank you here. So, thanks for the PM, I don't mind at all that you were late! Lols, I'm jealous your ginger!
So, here is the next chapter! I've been having a bit of a writer's block, so this chapter might be a bit short! Just a warning. :P ONTO DA STORY!
Alice woke up due to the morning light coming through her window. She yawned and stretched. What should she do today?
Hmmm…well I could get try and get Carrie and Japan together. They might go too slow on their own…he he hee…and that's how she decided what to do today. (Cough nosy cough)
Alice got up and got dressed. Everyone else was still sleeping in. Hm, that was weird, normally she slept in the most. Ah, well. Now she could snoop around with out interruptions!
China's house was big with lots of stuff. Fragile, breakable stuff. This is how Maggie woke up due to a sound like a plate being dropped on the ground. She looked outside her door. Alice had dropped, I mean, ACCIDENTLY knocked over a vase, which was shattered on the ground at her feet. "Oh dear, I seemed to have broken this vase that was oh-so conveniently placed outside of your door! Oops, oh well, now that you're up, lets go explore!" she said with a too-innocent expression on her face.
Maggie frowned at the vase on the ground. "Um, isn't that vase from the table near the front door?" Alice feigned shock. "Wha? Now why on earth would I get this vase and drop it outside of your door? It is probably very expensive."
Maggie rolled her eyes. "Well let me think. Probably because you wanted me to get up and you probably specifically chose that vase because it looked expensive." Alice shrugged. "Well, Carrie ain't up yet, and we are in China's house after all." Before Maggie could ask what the heck she was talking about, Alice grabbed her wrist and raced in a random direction. "Come on lets go see if we can find China's room!" Maggie pulled back, not to much avail. "No, I've been feeling kind of down lately Alice." Alice stopped and looked at her in surprise.
"What? Why?" Maggie sighed and looked down at her feet. "Whiskers isn't here." She said sadly. Alice huffed impatiently. "You and your dumb cat. You're like obsessed with her!" Maggie continued looking down, and Alice softened and hugged her. "Well, I know you like cute things, and um, stuff, so why don't you have a look at China's panda?" Maggie pulled back with a face. "No way, it's a bear! I'm afraid it's going to, like, attack me or something!"
Alice rolled her eyes. "Panda bears are peaceful! I think, and besides it doesn't eat humans, I think, it just eats those stick thingy's, I think." Maggie looked at her impatiently. "You're not making me feel any better. Besides, there's something else on my mind." She looked down sadly. "What is it, hon?" Alice said sympathetically. "I don't have any money!" Maggie wailed.
China was listening into all of this. It wasn't like he was a creeper, he just had went to go get a drink of water, and overheard the girls talking. He thought about Maggie, and her cat, Whiskers. Perhaps if he introduced her to his panda she wouldn't be as scared…
Alice had rolled her eyes, calmed down Maggie, and sent her to go get dressed and get breakfast. By that time everyone was up. Even Carrie…
"Hi Carrie!" Alice practically shouted in her friends face as she burst into Carrie's room. "Carrie glanced up at her from her sketchpad. "Hi Mi- I mean Alice." She avoided saying Miss as to not get whacked again. "Hey wanna come on a walk with me?" Alice said with a sly grin. Carrie eyed her distrustfully. Alice knew that look on her face, and brought out puppy-dog eyes. "Please Carrie? Pretty pretty please? I mean we never get to really talk and stuff and it's a really nice day out and…" she went on, putting out fake tears in her eyes. Carrie sighed, and relented. "All right, all right. Fine. Let's go." She closed up her sketchpad, and got up.
They walked around for a bit. "Hey, isn't this Japans house?" Carrie asked. (Don't ask how they got to Japan. They just…did. Plus, in the show, it takes everyone at most like five seconds to get anywhere, so I figured that they could talk a little morning stroll from China to Japan. :P) "Why, yes, yes it is. How, um, PECURLIAR." Alice said. Carrie glared at her. She really was an awful liar. Great at persuasion though. "Does this have anything to do with-"was all she really got out before Alice practically pounced on her and shoved her into Japans house. She then ran away snickering.
When she went to China's house, no one was there so she was guessing they went to their normal meeting spot. Sure enough, they were all there. There was some kind of ruckus going on.
"Russia! Russia! Brother! Marry me Marry me Marry me Marry me…" what the…? Alice looked for whoever was saying that-for a moment she thought of Emma, and then realized that wasn't exactly Emma's style. Plus she was pretty sure Emma wasn't Russia's sister. She then saw a pretty girl, perhaps about her age, with blond-brown hair and purple eyes. She realized it was Belarus, Russia's creepy sister who wanted to marry him. Gag.
"Whoa, wus going on?" Alice said as she walked up. Russia was cowering behind the crowed of people who were facing Belarus. Emma was in the front, her eyes narrowed at the girl. Country. Country-girl. Girl-country. Yeah, you know what; I'm calling her a girl.
Emma spoke through clenched teeth. "This pervert wants to marry her own brother." Alice was faintly surprised. She had never seen Emma this worked up about anything. Of course, she did have suspicions about her having a crush on Russia, but that was still hard for her to really imagine.
Britain was in the front, looking irritated. Alice wanted to laugh. Sometimes he would act like such an old man. She could almost imagine him saying, "Blasted kids! What wrong with kids these days, honestly?" All of her laughter drained out of her, however, when he shifted his green eyes to her, and said, much to her embarrassment, "Alice! Thank goodness you're here, America kept asking for you. That swanker was driving us crazy! He kept worrying." He sounded annoyed. Alice turned an interesting shade of red. She couldn't see America, but could hear him protest. "Britain, you liar! I just asked where she was, once! Geez, Iggy, I thought you were more mature than that, dude!" Britain yelled at America to stop calling him Iggy, while Rose laughed at Alice's face.
"Ha! You so like America! Rightly so, he's cute! Although I do like France, he is extremely adorable…" She rambled on about how cute every guy was which one she like best (France) and which one she thought Alice should go out with. Alice rolled her eyes and ignored her.
"Hey, where's Japan?" Italy asked. The noise died down and everyone looked around. "Carrie's gone, too." Jade said, then all the girls glared at Alice, knowing she probably had something to do with this. She shrugged innocently. "I don't know. Maybe they went off into a magical land of ponies. Anyway, um, why don't we get, uh, going?" Alice was a little nervous Emma might attack Belarus, yes she looked that angry. All of the girls had taken karate classes and were black-belt. All the girls looked at Emma who looked back and said, "Why do you all look at me?" Hailey grabbed one of Emma's arm, while Alice grabbed the other and they all ran off.
"Do they ALWAYS do that?' Britain wondered, kind of missing having Hailey next to him. They were both talking about how stupid this was. Then America came up to him and yelled, "Yo, Britain, dude! That was so totally not cool when you lied to Alice, bro!" Britain looked up at him crossly. "I was telling the truth! You did keep asking about her!" America flushed, then said, trying to hide it, "Well, China and Maggie were talking, so were Beverly and Germany, AND Jade and Italy, plus Rose and France, and you and Hailey, so I had no one to talk to! I was just bored, yo!" Britain sighed. "You could've talked to Emma." He pointed out. America looked at him like he was insane. "Dude! That chick scares me! She's totally evil! Plus, she's like way into Russia and I couldn't take his girl, he'd kill me!" Britain sighed again, beginning to feel weary. "Like I said before, America, if you were so desperate for companionship, I could've talked to you." America looked at him in surprise, his blue eyes widening. He then laughed and ran away. "My answer will never change! Not in your dreams, sucker!"
WITH CARRIE AND JAPAN: JAPAN'S HOUSE:
Carrie tumbled and fell onto a sleeping Japan. He cried out. Carrie immediately got off him. "I am so sorry, Mr. Japan! I didn't mean to fall on you! Alice pushed me in!" Her eyes narrowed and she looked back at the door, thinking about what to do to Alice. (REVENGE MUHAHAHA! Cough) "Um, it is no problem." Japan said uncertainly. He looked surprised and nervous.
Carrie, who had looked unlike herself with the angry expression on her face, turned her attention back to Japan. He was still in his pajamas, and had a light blush on his cheeks, seeming embarrassed. She coughed into her hand, suddenly embarrassed too. Stupid Alice. "Um, sorry, I'll just, uh, go." She took a step toward the front door when she heard Japans say, "Alice, wait."
She turned back, and was surprised to see a kind smile grace his features. "I can make us some tea if you would like." She grinned back, suddenly feeling lighter. "I'd love to."
After Japan made some herbal tea, they both sat down and began to talk. They could both agree how much Alice was like America, and how annoying both were. "So, Miss Carrie," Japan said after sipping his tea. Carrie felt a tingle go up her spine. It was the first time he said her name. She shook her head. What was wrong with her today? "Just call me Carrie." He mulled over this for a moment. "Carrie." He said, trying out the word on his tongue. He then smiled. "Ok, Carrie. Why do you say Mr. and Ms. all the time. It is very polite, but none of your friends do it, so I am wondering why you do." Carrie thought for a moment. "Well, when I was growing up, I didn't have a lot of friends. Just my dad's clients and workers came over, and I wasn't really allowed to go anywhere. My dad told me to call them with Mr. and Ms. before their names, so I would be polite and make a good impression. Up until I met Alice, which was not to long ago, I was used to calling everyone Mr. and Ms., and I still have the habit. I am also the quietest in the group, because of my quiet childhood."
Carrie glanced at Japan to see how he would react to the information. When she had told Alice and everyone else, they had just looked at her like WTH? To her surprise, Japan seemed to understand. They chatted a bit more after that, then Carrie went back to China's house. During the whole time, a smile lit up her face.
BACK AT CHINA'S HOUSE:
Emma was glaring at a plant. She was beginning to get annoyed. Everyone was bugging for her to say that she had a crush on Russia, but she honestly didn't. She just didn't like the idea of him getting married to his sister, that's all. She said so.
Alice gave her a look. "You, like, just admitted it." Emma stared at blankly. "What?" Rose rolled her eyes then butted in. "You just said you didn't like him getting married." She stared at them, not getting it. "Yeah, so?" Everyone rolled their eyes. How clueless was she? "SO, if you don't want him getting married, then that kind of means YOU want to marry him." Emma spluttered. "What?! No! It's just it's his SISTER, so its, I don't know, gross!" Rose looked at her with a yea right expression. "M-hm. And the next time some one wants to marry him, it will be that they're weird. And the next time, it will be that they could secretly be, I don't know, a mass murder or something." Emma raised an eyebrow. "Really? A mass murder? Here? In happy town? Honestly, this place is really too happy, though…" Rose interrupted her. "The POINT is that you're going to keep making up excuses." "Are not" "So!" Are not!" So are!" Alice was staring at something. She batted Rose's arm. "Hey. Hey guys, shut up a sec." They turned to see what she was looking at.
It was Carrie. She had just gotten home-well China's house home-and had a big, goofy smile on her face. It was just…WEIRD to see something like that on her face, which was normally sophisticated. Everyone stared. She was kind of just staring off into space, then realized everyone was staring at her. She blushed, but said, "What?" Beverly asked bluntly, "Were you with Japan?" Carrie blushed harder. Jade gasped. "She WAS. I totally bet she was! Omigosh you and Maggie can double date how cool is that I mean Japan and China are practically brothers oh hey maybe Beverly and Germany can go together then Alice and America ha there are two A's how cool anyway Rose can go with France then Hailey with England omg how cool is that and-"she blabbered on until everyone, with red faces, said, "SHUT UP JADE"
Hailey went up to her. "So do you have a crush on Italy then?" Jade gasped then turned red. "Wa? No I mean I don't know him all that well I mean I have seen the anime and he WAS my favorite character but all those guys were your favorite characters too not that I'm saying I should go out with Italy I mean sure he's cute no I mean he's not cute well I guess he is but he doesn't really know me and it'd be weird if I was thinking about him, not that I was thinking about him I mean well its just uh I didn't like well I mean-" she finally shut up, her face as red as a tomato.
Hailey smirked. "You totally singled him out for yourself." Jade turned redder, if that was possible. "I did not! He just HAPPENED to be there and…" before she could go on Maggie interrupted. "Well, he's cute, so it's ok if I take him then?"
Jade flashed her an angry look, then caught herself. "I don't care." She said coolly. "Besides, what about you and China? I saw you with him today petting his panda." Alice pointed a finger at Maggie. "LYER! YOU SO TOTALLY LIED TO ME UNCOOL MAN!" Maggie turned red. "No! I mean, China just showed me his panda and it was, you know, nice and, uh, stuff." Alice just snorted. Maggie narrowed her eyes at Jade. "How bouts we go see Italy then, huh?"
Maggie ran off, Jade gasped and ran after her, and everyone ran after them. Carrie was relieved the subject had been lifted off of her. These girls couldn't stay on one topic for more than a minute, and acted much too rash. Kind of like America. Well, they were all American, she included.
"MAGGIE…YOU…GET BACK HERE…THIS INSTANT!" Jade huffed out, running after her athletic friend. Maggie turned around, running backwards, and laughed at her. She didn't notice all the countries behind her, and ironically crashed straight into Italy. She and Italy gasped as they crashed onto the concrete, Maggie on top of Italy. Jade stopped and stared, her face turning red and a weird expression coming across it.
Alice caught up to everyone-she had never been the best runner-and saw Maggie on top of Jade. Normally Alice didn't notice anything around her, but every now and then, she did notice stuff, and when she did, she noticed EVERYTHING. Jade was standing there in a sort of shock, her face red, with a jealous, angry, and surprised look on her face. Italy was looking at Maggie with a surprised expression, crying out, "Germany! Germany! Germany help me pleeaasee…" he kept glancing at Jade with a guilty expression on his face, like it was his fault Maggie had crashed into him. It was weird, because Italy never really talked to Jade before, but now he looked at her with a sorry expression mixed with guilt and some confusion. Maggie was laying on Italy, groaning, having taken a hit to the head. China was looking down at them with a mixture of surprise and anger and jealousy. Germany, Britain, and Japan were looking down in shock. Russia was smiling pleasantly, and Alice noticed Emma had moved to stand next to him. Belarus was no where to be seen. France was laughing and saying perverted stuff about Maggie and Italy, which I'm not talking about. America was laughing and saying how "Italy totally got tackled by a chick, yo!" There was something next to him…no, some ONE next to him. It was Canada holding his polar bear and looking at Maggie and Italy with surprised on his face.
Alice realized all of that in about a second, maybe two. Everyone was frozen. Then the spell broke. China picked up Maggie, put a proactive arm around her and another on her shoulder and glared at Italy. Alice raised her eyebrows. Hmm, so China got more motivated when jealous. Interesting…
Jade calmed down and offered a hand to Italy. He looked (can you say looked when someone had their eyes closed?) up at her in surprised for a moment. She looked down at him, her eyes framed by her long black eyelashes. Italy grinned then, accepted her hand, and got up. "Ve, thanks" he said in his Italian accent. He didn't let her hand go, even when she automatically moved it back. She froze, then relaxed it and leaned against him. Everyone began chatting randomly. Alice waved her arms around, but no one paid attention. Geez, it's like everyone's in tune except me! Who just randomly chats about whatever after someone's been tackled? She sighed, then headed over to America. Canada hadn't met her yet, so she wanted to get to know him. That's what she told herself, anyways. Cough denial you like America cough.
"Hey America, Canada." Alice said, nodding at each one in turn. "Hey dude! Met my bro, Canada! We're like, super tight, yo! Totally homies!" America said excitedly. Alice smirked at his energy. It was such a great thing about him…what was she thinking? She shook her head and turned to Canada with a forced smile on her face. "Hi dude. I'm Alice. I am truly sorry you're related to America." America protested loudly, while Canada smiled a shaky smile. "I-it's nice to m-meet you, Alice." He said softly, stuttering over words. Alice squealed. (Yes even Alice can squeal.) "So cute!" she said, hug attacking him. Canada blushed, and America felt a weird feeling come over him, some what like that feeling when he pulled of Alice's hat the first day and realized she was a girl. Only this time with a tint of anger. His blue eyes flashed dangerously, and his glasses glared in the light. Alice wasn't able to see America's face, but Canada was, and he realized quickly enough that America must have a crush on Alice. He pulled her back quickly, and then froze like a deer in a spotlight, realizing what he had done.
Alice stared at Canada, not sure why he had pulled back. He kept glancing at America. Alice looked at Canada, and realized he was cute. And that he looked a lot like America. Same eyes, same hair color, same-looking face. She blushed, and all I'm saying is it was not because of Canada.
Hailey glanced over, her face pink from talking to Britain. She didn't think she had ever really felt this way about a guy. He had a cute face, and he acted kind of tough, also from what she watched on the series, but he had a kind of innocence to him. She loved his big green eyes and his light brown-blond hair. She really wanted to stroke it, but that would seem kind of weird.
Hailey then realized that America had a weird expression on his normally too-happy face. His blue eyes were narrowed with anger and his lips were pressed into a straight line. She then realized he was jealous, and Canada obviously realized it too, because a wisp of fear crossed his face, and he quickly pulled Alice off him. Ugh. Now SHE had to go fix the problem Alice started. Of course. Alice really did need to grow up and think about her decision and how they might affect people. Then again, she probably didn't realize that America had a crush on her. Or that she had one on him. Hailey sighed, and looked back at Britain, who was staring at her in confusion. She could go and most likely stop a fight that might happen between brothers, or more like America getting mad at Canada and Canada not knowing what he did wrong. Alice might be included, because America might get mad at her too. Or Hailey could stay with the guy that she liked and keep talking, and ignore all of this stupidness. Hailey sighed again and decided to take both.
She grabbed Britain's hand-causing him to start and blush in surprise-and took him with her to go to see America, Alice, and Canada. "Hey, why don't we go for a walk?' She asked, saying the first thing that came to mind. They all looked at her in surprise. "All of us?" Britain said, sounding somewhat disappointed. Hailey nodded. Alice grinned. "Kay! Cool. OI! EVERYONE! OVER 'ERE! YEA SO WE'RE GOING ON A WALK TO SOMEWHERE, AND YOU'RE COMIN' WITH US WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT, YOU GOT IT?" she said loud enough so everyone could hear. Everyone groaned, but good-natured. "Uh," Canada said in his soft voice. Nobody paid attention. He tapped Alice quickly on the shoulder and she turned in surprise. "Oh! Canada! I forgot you were here. Heh. Oops. Sorry." She said. Canada didn't miss the satisfaction glittering in his brothers eyes. He was really worked up about this girl, so Canada thought it was probably best to stay out of his way. "Um, well, I've got some stuff to do, so I better go." He said softly. Alice frowned. "Do you have to?' America frowned at her. She gave him a puzzled look. Wasn't this his brother? He had been happy a second ago.
Canada nodded. "Yea, uh, sorry. I better go." Alice smiled and gave him a light hug. The reason she never gave America a hug was because she was too scared that he would reject her or something. (Course she ignored this feeling.) She didn't care if Canada rejected her because she didn't have feelings for him. (She ignored this too.) "Bye Canada." She said. "Have fun getting smacked by Cuba.' She added on, muttering. "What?" he said, not being able to hear her. Alice was glad about that, because she wasn't really supposed to know about that. Of course, she wasn't supposed to be in her favorite anime show either, so really all rules went down the drain. "Nothing. Have fun doing your…stuff, I guess." Canada left.
"Alice." Jade pulled Alice to the side. Hailey, Rose, Beverly, Emma, Carrie, and Maggie were already there, looking impatient. "You haven't been making much of an effort to get us back home." Emma said impatiently, glancing every now and then at Russia as though to make sure he was ok. Alice immediately felt annoyed. "Well, some of you could do something." Beverly frowned at her, her blue eyes hard. "You're kind of our leader." Alice swiveled her brown eyes to meet Beverly's blue ones. Alice's eyes were as hard as stone, while Beverly's were as hard as ice. They were fighting, but over what no one was exactly clear on.
"Well then, if I'm your so-called LEADER, my first decree is that you do something to actually help me!" she said, snapping. Beverly bristled, but before she could say anything, Jade interrupted. "OK, look dudes, can't we figure this out later? We need to go on our walk-thingy, so let's just do this, uh, later, like much much later, kay?" There was an awkward silence for the first time between the girls. The longer they stood there in silence, the more they knew they were all thinking the same thing. None of them wanted to go back to their own world.
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RANDOM THINGY! Now added onto my list of favorites, who, BTW, were America (of course) Japan, and Italy, now added on is CHINA! LA LAA LAAA PLAY DRAMATIC MUSIC! I DON'T KNOW WHY I LIKE CHINA BUT HE'S REALLY HOT SO I DO! BOO-YA! Ok so yay that's about it so until next time keep on reading, keep on reviewing, and I don't know, eat an apple or something. IT KEEPS DOCTORS AWAY! :O and doctors r very scary, kind of like vampires except they're not hot, SO YOU BETTER DO IT! Oh yea, and reviewing keeps them away too. SO YOU BETTER REVIEW! :D