"Briar!" Apple hugged her best friend as she was starting to wake up.

"Hi," Briar mumbled as she tried to sit up.

"What happened?" Apple sat on Briar's pink bed.

"I would like to know myself," Briar yawned. She told Apple what she saw. The fog, briers, the purple flames, and mirror shards.

"Wow that's insane," Apple looked down a Briar's arms and legs. Briar looked down to see bandages wrapped all the way down. She didn't notice these last night. The daughter of Sleeping Beauty unwrapped one of her arms to see many deep cuts. Her body felt numb as a whole. The nurse probably injected her with pain killer. She wrapped her arm back up and got out of bed.

"Where's Ashlynn?" Briar asked as she got to her closet.

"Having breakfast with Hunter," Apple sprawled out on Briar's bed and stretched. She still wondered about her love life. Would she find anybody to love for herself? Apple used to be the only with guaranteed love, but now that had been pull from under her.

"What do you think?" Briar asked from the doorway of her closet. Apple looked up to see Briar wearing a pink sweatshirt with black sweatpants and pink sneakers. Her hair was in a messy bun.

"Um..." Apple trailed off,"You don't look like yourself."

"Well no one is going to know about my little fiasco last night okay?" Briar pointed at Apple,"I don't need people's sympathy."

"But that's what I do best!" Apple stood up,"I'm great at taking care of others."

"You can take care of yourself," Briar suggested,"Like put pants on! It's fall! It's okay not to wear skirts all the time."

"But when your a princess it's just normal to wear skirts," Apple shrugged,"I'll be fine. You wanna go down to breakfast?"

"Well I think me and Hopper were meeting for breakfast," Briar looked at her phone,"But you can come. Hopper and I can meet up later." Apple wasn't used to the fact that Briar was with someone. Especially Hopper. Apple didn't really know they were together since last night, when Hopper brought her into the room.

Apple and Briar walked down to the castelteria. They got in line for the eggs and bacon. Once they got their plates the two sat down at an empty table. They ate in silence until Hopper sat down with them."Are you okay Briar?" he asked,"I hardly recognized you without your pink high heals." Apple shifted uncomfortably in her seat.

"I'm okay, really," Briar smiled as she turned to him,"I just down want everyone pointing fingers at by bandages."

"Well Raven already's got that covered," Hopper looked beyond their table. Apple and Briar turned to see Raven sitting with Maddie and Dexter, with her hand wrapped in white bandages.

"I'm gonna go check on her," Apple rose from the table quickly and walked across the castleteria.

"She's not taking this well," Briar said once apple was out of earshot. Her face was turned to watch Apple walk away.

"She'll get used to it," Hopper placed his hand on Briar's. She turned her head back to her boyfriend,"I know it took me a day to figure out that I'm dating one of the prettiest girls in school."

"You're just trying to make me feel better," Briar rolled her eyes and smiled.

"I'm just telling you the facts," Hopper shrugged.

"I miss you awkward self," Briar admitted,"Your frog side has taken over you."

"Oh believe me," Hopper refused to make eye contact and began to stutter,"I'm still awkward, I just act like I'm a big romantic."

"So you just act like you like me?" Briar asked, slightly hurt.

"No," Hopper stuttered more,"I-I ah." He was cut off when he felt Briar's nose pres against his cheek and started to laugh softly.

"I'll stop playing with you," Briar laughed,"Can I see you later tonight? I think Apple and I need to catch up a little bit."

"Yeah sure," Hopper gave a small grin as he made eye contact with Briar. "I'll see you later?"

"Can't wait," Briar smiled as Hopper got up and left her with her breakfast.


"Raven!" Apple sat down next to her friend,"What happened to you?"

"Is it really that noticeable?" Raven looked at her white bandage.

"I just like to notice the little things," Apple smiled.

"Well I can tell you," Raven looked around skeptically,"But later. Maybe in my dorm room after school?"

Apple sat in silence for a moment,"Yeah sure." The pale princess rose from the table and looked at the floor. She had felt on the outside. She didn't have a boyfriend like the others, but at least she had something to do after school.

Apple suddenly slammed into somebody else. She took a few steps back. The princess rubbed her head as she saw fallen glasses on the floor. "I'm so sorry," Apple said as she bent down to reach the blue glasses. She picked them up to return to the owner. Her blue eyes settled on Humphrey Dumpy, a boy in her class. "Oh Humphrey," Apple started,"I didn't know where I was going. Are you alright?" Apple handed over the blue glasses.

"That's alright Apple," Humphrey gushed as he adjusted his blue glasses. He had a huge crush on Apple since the begging of their first school year,"I didn't see you there either." Apple suddenly looked at the broken phone in his hand. Wires were sticking out of the ends.

"Did I do that?" Apple gasped, pointing at the phone.

"No," Humphrey assured Apple,"It's fallen quite a bit and it finally broke. I gotta fix it soon, before I drop it, but there's just so many wires."

Apple stared at the broken device,"If you turn the blue, red, and green wires." Apple talked as she did, "And stick them into the access port. Then put the rest of wires in here. Then you just put the case back on and your all set!" Apple had perfectly fixed Humphrey's phone in the matter of seconds.

"Wow!" he exclaimed. He gave Apple a side hug,"You're brilliant! Thank you! I owe you one!"

"It's nothing," Apple blushed as Humphrey let go of her. "See you around!" Apple waved goodbye and quickly turned around. Her face was beginning to get as red as her skirt. She eventually reached Briar, still eating breakfast. She sat down quietly and ate her breakfast slowly.

"Everything okay?" Briar asked.

"What!" Apple snapped into reality,"Nothing's wrong with me!"

"I meant Raven," Brair laughed,"But it's good to know you're feeling great."

"Oh," Apple's face turned pink in embarrassment,"Raven's going to tell me what's wrong with her hand after school today."

"Speaking of school,"Briar took a giant sip of coffee,"We have to be at a princess lesson in seven minutes."

"Yeah okay," Apple responded blankly as she continued to look behind her to see Humphrey. She didn't know what it was, but something about him was different.


After a long morning of class, Lizzie Harts sat in the quiet library. Everyone was getting hot lunches in the castleteria while Lizzie ate a ham sandwich. Her pale eyes never left the page as she ate.

"Mind if I sit," a deep voice asked her. For once in hours, Lizzie looked up from her book to see Daring Charming.

"Would I have a choice?" Lizzie smiled as the blonde boy as he sat.

"No," he smiled brightly,"What are you reading."

"Fashion: Through the Ever Afters," Lizzie showed Daring the cover before she started looking back down at it.

"You weren't at princess lessons this morning," Daring took out his own sandwich,"I know because I had to save the damsels."

"Well look's like you finally found me," Lizzie took a finished her sandwich.

"Lizzie come on," Daring reached over and snatched the book out of Lizzie's hands.

"Hey!" she exclaimed,"I was reading that!"

"Your always reading," Daring kept the book,"You've been ignoring me for the past three days."

Lizzie looked down and sighed,"You're right. I don't know I just there was so much going on last week I just feel more calm if I have a book in my hand."

"I know it can be stressful with all of this, but you can't just shut everyone out."

"Yeah..." Lizzie sighed again,"I'll go put the book back and then we can sit outside for lunch?"

"Sounds good," Daring smiled as he handed the book back to Lizzie as she walked past him. She walked past all the tall bookshelves to the creative arts books. It seemed to have been colder in the back of the library. The daughter of the Queen of Hearts place the book back in it's rightful place. The bookshelf was so jammed that another book popped out of place.

"Of course," Lizzie bent down and grabbed the book. When she got back up, she was surrounded by fog. Her blue eyes looked around quickly in fright. She couldn't see anything but the bookshelf ahead of her. Lizzie shoved the book back into it. Suddenly the tall bookcase fell, but as it hit the floor, it turned to glass. The books lay around her in a circle. A single book glowed in front of her. It was titled Alice in Wonderland.

She reached out and opened to the first page. Suddenly the book fell. The other books flipped open in one motion. The glass on the floor began to levitate. Lizzie looked for a way out but there was no use. She looked a a glass piece in front of her to see herself. It was mirror glass.

The book shot out what it seemed to be playing cards. Lizzie gasped as they circled her. Some cut her skin as they zoomed around her. The breaking of glass filled Lizzie's ears. She put her hands over them to cover them, but it was no use. If she blocked out the glass, her mind was filled with a terrible laugh. She took her hands off her ears as her hair flew with the current of glass and cards.

Suddenly, one of the cards stopped in front of her. It was a queen of hearts. Lizzie furrowed her eye brows as she yelled,"NO!" At the shrill of her voice the glass shards broke into millions of pieces. The disappeared back into the books and in the flash of purple, the fog was gone. It was warm again, and Lizzie looked ahead of her to to see the shelf of books. She breathed heavily, wondering what just happened.