The brown eyes and messy brown hair that I had longed to see ever since Alice left was now staring me in the face once more.
"Are you freaking kidding me!?" Hatter blinked at me.
"Anya? What are you doing here?" I ran out of there before anyone could say anything. I couldn't believe it, after everything that had happened I never thought I would see Hatter in this world;
especially with Alice.
"Anya!" he had followed me. His hand grabbed my wrist and stopped me from running any further. We were on the street, the other people shooting us weird looks as they passed. "Are you going to
look at me?" I turned around. His hair was different. There was no hat atop his head and his hair was combed instead of the cute mess it had been.
"What happened to you?" I asked, pulling my arm away from him.
"Nothing…"
"You look like an oyster."
"So do you!"
"I am one!" I yelled. I took a deep breath. "Go with your precious Alice, Hatter. Tell my parents I've gone home."
I never expected Anya to come to this world. When she turned from the window and her green eyes found mine, all the feelings I had for her came rushing back. When she ran, I didn't know
what possessed me, but I ran after her.
"Go with your precious Alice, Hatter." Even sitting at the table with my Alice, staring at the plate of food, mindlessly swirling it around with my fork, her words still rang through my head.
Why…why didn't she stay in Wonderland? I looked up at her parents. Anya looked exactly like her mother: the blonde hair and bright green eyes. Yet her height she obviously inherited from
her father. Her father was sitting right across from me; and kept shooting me weird looks. Alice was looking at me weird too.
What was that all about? She mouthed to me. I shrugged; I honestly didn't know myself. Before our guests left, I begged her mother for Anya's number; I had to talk to her. She reluctantly
gave it to me, asking how I knew her daughter.
"Did she tell you about Wonderland?" I asked, a smile on my face. Anya's mom nodded. "I'm Hatter." Her mom gave me a surprised look, and then punched me on the shoulder. "Ow! What was
that for?"
"For what you did to my daughter!" She said as she followed her husband out the door.
I usually never answer calls with an unknown number, but today was different somehow. I was sitting in my room, a book in my hands. It was a strange book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, it had
nothing to do with the Alice I had met or the Wonderland I had known. How odd… I had these things called headphones in my ears, they played a thing called music that was all stored on this small
rectangular thing called an iPod. Most of this was still very new to me…The song that I was playing had a great rock beat that made me want to dance. I would've been dancing around if I was so
engrossed in the absurd book. It was then that my phone rang, with an unknown number that I had actually answered.
"Anya?" Even over the phone I could recognize the voice.
"What do you want, Hatter?"
"I want to know why you're in this world…I thought you had stayed in Wonderland." I really wasn't in the mood to have this conversation, but I knew it had to happen one day.
"Jack found my family. My real family. So I came to live with them. Is that a problem? Am I intruding on your amazing relationship with your precious Alice?" I admit, that sentence had come out a lot
nastier than I had intended, but what could I do? I was still pissed that he had left me in Wonderland.
"No, Anya…of course it isn't a problem. I'm glad you're here…I've missed you."
"Don't lie, Hatty, you're just saying that to try and get me to not be mad at you."
"No, I'm serious. I've thought so many times about going back to Wonderland just to see you. How could I ever survive without my best friend?"
"You've been doing pretty well for three months. You didn't even know I was here." I heard him sigh.
"Look, Anya, can we meet somewhere? I need to see you again and talk, face to face, not over this absurd telephone thing."
"Fine. Where?" He gave me some place that was right down the street. I shrugged on my jacket and walked over there. It was a small little café on the corner that was shoved between two huge
buildings. Of course he would choose this place…
I had no idea what I was going to say to her. Of course I had missed Anya, how could I not? I walked into the little coffee shop to see her sitting there, a huge smile on her face, and flirting with
a waiter. I growled to myself and walked over there, sitting down in the chair opposite her. The waiter glared at me, which I returned with a smirk.
"You've changed." Was the first thing that came out of her mouth once she had turned in her seat to face me.
"Have not." I said.
"Have to." She replied. "Where's your hat?" My hand went to my head to pat down my hair. I had gotten used to not wearing a hat in this world.
"At home…somewhere." She laughed.
"I should've known…of course you don't know where your own 'precious' hat was." We talked for a couple hours, about anything and everything, but both of us always avoiding the one topic
we had to talk about.
"Hatter." I looked up at her. Her fingers were lingering on the side of her cup of tea and she was staring down at its contents. "Why did you ask me to come here?" I paused for a moment.
"We needed to talk. Anya, I know I've said and done a lot of things, that I've hurt you…"
"But you have to know that you are my best friend. You've been with me through so much, you've stopped me from doing so many crazy things that could possibly kill me, I would have never gotten
this far if it wasn't for you." Hatter leaned back in his chair. "I can't even imagine my life if you never showed up in it. I love you, Anya, I really do, and more than you could ever imagine." He had caught
me off guard and I was at a loss for words. I grabbed my jacket off the back of my chair and walked out of the café, wondering if he would follow me or not. To my surprise, he did.
"Anya!" I rolled my eyes and turned around. The small drizzle of rain that had begun right as I left the café had now turned into real pouring rain. The thin jacket I had on was soaking wet and wasn't
really helping to keep me warm.
"I didn't expect you to come after me."
"Did you not hear what I said in there?" he asked, looking down at me.
"What do you want me to say, Hatter? Do you want me to tell you that you've been my best friend since forever. Did you want me to say that you were the reason I had gotten up in the morning? Did
you want me to admit that I've wanted to find you in this world? Or that I've cried myself to sleep countless nights thinking of everything you've done to me since Alice showed up?" I could see the
surprise in his face, like he wasn't expecting this answer. "You don't love me, Hatter. Not like you love her. I'll never compare."
"Anya…" His hands went to my shoulders, and he squeezed them slightly. "You've always been enough for me, but Alice…there's just something in her that draws me in…" Great…thanks for making me
feel worse… This whole entire thing was dragging out way too long and was getting way to dramatic for my liking.
"Hatter, I want you to do something for me." I said, smiling up at him. "I want you to go home to Alice, make you both some tea, forget about me and move on with your life. I don't want you to think
about me ever again. If you see me anywhere around town, don't talk to me, just keep walking. Forget everything about me, everything that happened or that ever could be." I turned around,
shivering from the rain.
"Goodbye, David."
The end ._. Maybe, who knows :] I'm planning on reading the original Alice in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass, so I might {Which means I probably will} write a sequel :D Cause, knowing me in the only way a person can know themselves, I can never leave anything alone! There is never a true ending for me :] If I say there is, I probably wrote something else to go along with, I just don't have a full story. Anyway, I love you, all my lovely reviewers -heart- and watch for the next part in the Anya/Hatter/Alice love triangle :]