Okay, there is going to be strong language in this first part of the chapter.

"What the, where am I?" Paige sat up; the hard floor was highly uncomfortable.

"My dear Alice, you are in Wonderland." She looked to see a man dressed as the Mad Hatter.

"My name is not Alice." She stood and swayed a bit, trying to get ready to attack. A palm to the chin then a punch to the throat and a knee to the groin.

"My Alice, you are confused, come have some tea."

"No!" she hit him on the chin with her right palm, punched him in the throat, and he was down. She started to run the other way. "Help! Somebody help!" she ran down the long hall until she found a round room with a door at every corner.

"Alice, come back!" she hurried and opened the first door she saw. It took her into a maze, the night sky above her. "Alice!" the man was coming closer. She started running and running until she came to a fork in the maze.

"Crap, shit, and everything else." She heard footsteps and ran down the left road. Her breathing and footsteps soon became the only thing that she could hear. After minutes of running around and turns she found a small hole in one of the walls.

"Oh, Alice." The man was only a few turns away. Quickly she hurried down into the hole. "So nice of you to join us."

She looked up from the ground as she came out of the hole. There was a large table spread with tea pots and tea cups and many other things.

"Please let me go."

"But Alice, we haven't even had tea." She started to back up until she felt her heel dip down. She saw she almost backed into a pool. "Careful of the pool of tears." Paige swallowed and took a step away from the water.

"Please let me go and I won't tell anyone you took me." She watched the man was she walked away from the table.

"But Alice,"

"That's not my name!" Paige screamed.

"My dear Al-"

"You heard the girl, that's not her name." Paige looked up and saw Robin standing on the edge of the wall behind the Mad Hatter.

"No, Alice is mine!" the man ran over to Paige. "And if I can't have her no one can!" before Paige could get away or Robin could save her the Mad Hatter threw Paige into the pool of tears.

Water took hold of her as shock ran up her spine. The sudden change didn't give her time to hold her breath and water entered her throat. Her arms and legs thrashed as another form entered the water. She recognized Robin's black hair as he swam towards her.

His hand reached out of her as she reached for his.

Please, just a little closer. Paige thought.

Then Robin grabbed her hand and pulled her up. Soon they broke the surface and he helped her out. She coughed up water and saw the Mad Hatter was gone.

"Where,"

"Batman's tracking him down." Robin said then shaked his hair dry.

Paige coughed again, the last of the water out of her.

"You okay?" he asked.

"Yeah, it's only the second time I've almost drown." She suddenly regretted saying that.

"What?" Robin watched Paige blush and run her fingers through her wet hair.

"When I was little my parents took me to a water park. There was a ride for inner tubes; my dad let my go by myself even though there were parts that I didn't like. I fell through the tube and almost drown."

She coughed again.

"Are you sure you're okay?" he moved closer to her and put a hand on her arm. Paige shivered at his touch. She swallowed and looked at him.

"Yeah," she whispered. She noticed how close he was now, it was comforting. He was her hero.

Without thinking she leaned in and kissed him.

"Paige, I can't believe this happened!" Christel looked at her dreamy eyed friend.

"Christel, everything got sorted out today after Paige was saved, just give it up." Courtney said, reading her script.

"I think I'm going to head over to my room." Paige stood dreamily and walked over to the door way, banging into the door frame. She was awoken from her daze.

"What's gotten into you?" Lydia looked at Paige.

"Oh," Christel and Courtney started to laugh and Devon scooted away.

"What?" Paige walked over and felt her cheeks brighten a little.

"The hokey pokey." And Paige turned the brightest red imaginable.

"You are so gross! It was only a kiss!" she covered her mouth. Shit.

"What?" the four other girls looked at Paige in amaze.

"Um… I kissed him." Her whole face turned red.

"Way to hit the jackpot, Paige Bennett kissed a boy that wasn't her jack ass first grade ex or her 8th grade crush that was too much of a butt head to like her back." Courtney strummed "one Sweet Love" by Sara Bareilles.

"Paige and Robin, sitting in a tree K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Devon and Lydia joined Christel in the chanting.

"Shut up!" Paige playfully pushed Devon and walked to her room.

She laid on her bed and looked at the ceiling. It was one week till the Halloween dance and she was in desperate need for a costume change, but what would that do for her?