Welcome back~ Finally, interesting things happen. So now that the poll has been taken down, Alice will go on her first date soon. Do you know who it is?

100th reviewer gets an AlicexAnyone oneshot that takes place wherever you want in the Heartland Universe~

21. Role Playing

Alice rushed down the hallway, into the courtyard. It was 10:59, she was late.

I told White I'd be there by 11:00. Man, I'm an epic fail!

She held out her arms and rushed full speed into the doors of the Drama Room. They jolted open and she flew threw, startling the identical twins. "Stupid brat can't do anything but bug people," Black muttered under his breath. White nudged him in the side. They strode over to Alice and then brought her over to the computer. Sitting her down, White explained the rules of the manuscrips and printing process.

"After you type the names, you'll need to put down the characters and then good scenarios and stage setting. The second part of that is the trickiest, but a smart girl like you should manage just fine." He gave her access to the printing room and the keys to the storage room, in case she needed some quick inspiration. After they left, Alice logged into the notepad to make a list of people.

"Let's see, I put the names here-" she typed the names of all the actors," and then the roles- wait, I don't know what roles they have! Dang it!... Wait, I know," she logged into her email account and went to look at her email. Great, everyone sent me a reply. Perfect!, she thought.

She checked the replies. Slowly, she typed all the names and roles beside each other and printed it out, then opened a new page to print the manuscript. She smiled as it printed out perfectly; thank the heavens for copy and paste. Placing a dozen hot prints of the scripts into a neat pile. She cracked her knuckles and sighed. Well, it only took 4 hours...Where did White and Black run off to?

As if on cue, the Joker Brothers stormed in. Black had his casual sneer; White had a bright grin."What a good worker you are! Hm, you'd make a fine employee!" Alice handed him the scripts."Here, I kept another document on the notepad if you needed to make more..."

"Good! Now, why don't you go hand these out to our actors then, hm?" Alice tilted her head from side to side."Actors?" White pointed outside. Peeking through the peep-hole, Alice saw all her friends standing around, talking, sitting... Black shuffled her out with the papers. Everyone stared...

"Okay, w-well, here are the scripts, so come and get one..." Everyone got one, and while some scattered out to start memorizing their parts alone, others went into pairs to speak in play format. Looking around, Alice noticed Julius off to the side, staring. She remembered that they were play partners. Running over to him, she smiled."Ready to start?"

"Unfortunately," he sighed.

Alice opened her script and skipped to the part where she had already fallen down the rabbit hole."Hmm... it looks like you start first!"
He sighed and began to read.

"You don't belong here, get out!" Julius said roughly.

"I'd leave if I knew the way! I'm not here cause' I wanna be!" Alice replied.

"That's no concern of mine. You're not welcome here, get out!" he said again. Alice was rather surprised that Julius was so into his character; it almost made their fighting believable.

"Tell me the way and I'll leave! I don't know my way around the bottom of holes, you know."

"Don't know the way? You mean to say that you, are in fact, a foreigner. One who isn't from our world?"

"That's what I've been saying! I was pulled down here by a rabbit in a waistcoat..."

"That bloody rabbit," he sighed.

"Fine. Since you don't know the way, I'll give you a map. If it gets you out, then I'll comply."

From the corner of her eye, Alice saw everyone else staring.

White began clapping."Fantastic! Bravo~ What in-dept actors you are!" Boris let out a loud cry of excitment," This play is totally rockin' the house!"
Scanning the next few pages, Julius let out a sigh of distaste."Someone else has to join. We can't go any further without another person."
Peter immediately jumped in."I'll help~"

They continued acting, Alice's cheeks turning red from the current audience.

"Welcome to Wonderland, my love. It's much different than the world above."

"I'm not your love, and take me home right now!"

"You had no right to bring her here. If a new game starts, you're the one to blame."

Peter glared at him, fully in character."Hmph, if a new game starts it'll only make her happy, since that's what everyone wants. You're nothing more but a pest in the plan. Begone~"

"You're in my home, if you even think of starting a gun fight here, I'll have you imprisoned," Julius sneered at Peter.

Black pushed his way in front of the acting trio, pushing them apart."Enough of that, damn it! You're distracting everyone else! We're done here," Black shouted to everyone," if you wanna do crap like this then go outside!"

Now, when you were forced to be around Black for the next 3 or 4 foreseeable years, you'd do anything you could to get away from him. Everyone shuffled out, going back to their dorms or going to hang around campus with friends. As Alice exited, she felt a taller prescence beside her." Man, you were great out there!" Elliot laughed. Alice just shrugged."I don't think it was that good. Besides, it was my first time. The real trick will be memorization."

"Nah, you're a natural. Anyway, I guess I'll see ya around."

"Where are you off to?"

Elliot pointed to the cafeteria." Tea Fetish is as Tea Fetish does. The cafeteria gets a special case of Black Tea every week just for Blood. Shame he goes through it so fast..."
Alice stiffled a laugh, but couldn't hold much of it in. Alice grinned at her laughter; it was so cute!

"Can I go with you?"

"Maybe some other time. I gotta go to work after I give Blood the tea, so I won't be hanging around long." Alice nodded, but something spiked her curiosity."Wait... job? You have a job?"
Elliot grinned a toothy grin."Yep! I work at a bakery down the street. It's about a block, so it's a reasonable walk. Maybe I'll take you there sometime."

"You know, when the bus was pulling into the city, I saw a little bakery down the road; right next to the mall, yes?" Elliot smiled. "That's the one."

He parted ways with her and went to the cafeteria. Alice just stood there, pondering what to do. She decided to go back to her dorm and relax. Probably take a nap later on..

Entering the room, Alice tumbled onto the bed, messing up the once wrinkle free exterior. As she was about take a nap, pulling the covers up and adjusting the pillows to her liking, she noticed a small piece of paper on her desk...

...and a single red rose sitting next to it.

Ooh la la~ Who are these mysterious love letters and flowers from? Yes, I'm very much tempting you to guess :)