Authors note: HI! Sorry I didn't update. I'm very, very, very busy! Anyways, I'm going to the mall today with Justin, Zach and Krystin! Yay! And then I went to Becca's Tim Burton movie marathon birthday and then I was grounded. Please enjoy this chapter and I hope it makes up for the wait!

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Mel Swirls!

A Hatter in Otherland

Chapter 10: Whores, Blondes and Him

When I woke up I had the rushing feeling that something was wrong. Not the one were you wake up in the morning only to remember you didn't get your homework done, no, this feeling of wrongness hit my chest the minute my eyes opened. Something was wrong and it was brining tears to my eyes.

I sat up and looked around my room. It was the think I knew the most but right now it felt so foreign. It felt wrong. Something was different. Something was off.

I jumped out of bed and ran towards my desk. Looking through the drawings and scattered paper for my book full of drawings from Underland. Where was it?

I looked at my nails and saw they were a orange-ish. "What the hell is happening to me?" I thought out loud before running to a my mirror. My eyes had small bags under them and my skin was even more pale then usual. "Something is wrong." I said as I looked deep into my hazel eyes. Something was terribly wrong.

I poked at my skin waiting for the reaction. Maybe I had some sort of poisonous skin disease. The door swung open and my stupid pesky little sister, Zen was standing there in all her glory. "Oh so hey Mel." She said in a happy tone and I starred at her with as much coldness as I possibly could. "What the hell are you doing here?" I asked in an annoyed voice. I had enough for today and I hadn't even watched tv yet. "Is that anyway to talk to your favorite little sister? And why are you dressed like that?" I looked down at my clothes and saw I was wearing a strapless lime green dress that hugged my body but puffed out at the hips. I never wear things like this. Hell, I don't even wear green willingly! Something really was wrong. "I down own a dress like this. And why are you here? And why do I have bags under my eyes? Why are my figner nails orangeish?" I asked all the questions at once. I was sick of being confused and not understanding. I needed to understand now! "I live here, duh. And I don't see anything wrong with your nails or your eyes. You must be halucinating." Halucinating? I'm not hallucinating! I'm being irrational and irratable! "Are you sure you don't see the orange on my finger nails?" I ask again, this time holdign them up to my face. They were back to normal. "Yes I am. Now hurry up and get your white ass in the living room." I sighed and returned to my room and fell into my blankets. Tears were falling so fast I wasn't sue what to do with them.

"This is a dream. If I go back to bed, it'll be a dream and in a few seconds I'll wakeup and this will all be fixed all nice and happily." I said as I squeezed my eyes shut and counted to 10. When I opened my eyes, I was still in my room.

"Has it occurred to you that you have no idea where Hatter is?" My mind asked and my eyes opened wide. I ran outside of my room and into the livingroom. Edge, Grandma and Zen were sitting on the couches with sad looks on their faces. Something really was wrong. "Where is Tarrant?" I asked as I looked them all in the face and took in the room.

Grams got up from the chair and put a hand on my shoulder. He couldn't have…He wouldn't have…My mind couldn't grasp the idea of him… "Where is Tarrant?" I could feel my heart pounding. If he was gone, then I wasn't going to be happy. Actually, if he left, I'd probably be depressed, who would have guessed?

Echo looked stressed and was obviously advoiding Zen's gaze, which was kinda funny since she was practicallly shaking her hand in front of his face. But the worry was still there. It kept me there and it kept me scared.

"Tarrant left a few minutes ago with a blonde girl. He was talking in a scottish accent and I think he might have been talking about Underland." Grams told me, and I could hear her, but I was more focused on the "blonde girl" part. I knew lots of blondes but there was only one that came to mind when you think of Tarrant and Underland; Alice.

Echo shot me a wary look and walked over to me. "And before you go on murderous rampage, it wasn't Alice." I sighed in relief before realizing that if it wasn't Alice, then it had to be someone I didn't know lived in Underland… or someone who lived here. "Then who was it?" The words were not my own. It was my mind making me speak them out loud without planning to. Answers is what I needed and Answers is what I'm going to get.

"I don't know who it is. She definetly doesn't live around here." Echo said thoughtfully. I nodded and ran into my room so I could change into a pink tank top, pink shorts and bright pink converse before running outside.

I ran into the forest. If I could find the rabbit hole once I could find it again.

I ran deeper and deeper until I fell into a stream and twisted my ankle the wrong way. I screamed out and looked around. Trying to find something where I would be able to pull myself up from and I grabbed onto someone's hand. I was pulled out of the stream and I tried to stay steady on one foot, but I knew it wasn't going to work.

I looked up at the person who helped me up and gasped before pulling away and falling back down on the grass.

It was Edge.

Authors note: So that was that chapter. Im sorryy for the extremely long wait. Being grounded sucks. Review please!

Peace in!

Mel Swirls