Chapter Five: Alis
When Alis started school, there was one other girl with her name. Naturally, they quickly became fast friends.
They did everything together. In class, they sat beside each other (in the front row, of course) and every project they did as a team. They had their mothers make them matching dresses, and Alis talked about how she would steal her father's hair spells to make her hair brown too. Then they could be twins. REAL twins.
Everyone wanted to be Alis's friend, but she had all the friends she needed.
They were friends until the day of Alis's sixth birthday, when it all went wrong.
Alis was handing out invitations. It was an important task. Alis was popular at her school, and getting a birthday invitation from her was a feather in one's cap. Something to brag about. So Alis decided to give the first invitation to her best friend.
But when she handed over the invitation, her friend frowned. Not quite the reaction she had expected.
"Alis," her friend said, a line creasing her tiny forehead, "You spelled your name wrong. It's spelled A-L-I-C-E. Like mine."
Alis shook her head determinedly. "My name is spelled A-L-I-S. That's what my Daddy told me. It's Welsh!" she said proudly, though she had little concept of what her name being Welsh really meant.
"That's stupid," Alice said, "No one's name is spelled like that! It's strange."
"No!" Alis retorted back, her voice growing angry, "My name is special, not strange You're name is boring!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
"Is not!"
"Is too!"
The argument ended when Alis hit her friend hard in the face.
The next day Alice moved seats to sit next to Carrie in the third row.
Years later Alis often looked back on that day and thought that perhaps that was when she truly started turning into her father.
A/N: Wow! A chapter! falls of chair in shock Not really a real story, but just something I've had for a while and I felt I needed to post to:
a) clear up the pronounciation on Alis's name
b) have some fun with one of my favourite characters I've ever made up
c) put my story at the start of the list
and
d) put out a wanted add for a new beta-reader. Anyone interested? I actually have a whole bunch of chapters finished so if someone could just work on them a bit for grammar, spelling and the like, that'd be great! If you are interested in the job please send me your full resume and cover letter and schedule a time for an interview and/or e-mail and tell me you want to do it. Whatever you're more comfortable with.
Anyhoo, I think this author's not has now exceeded its story in length so that might be a good clue for me to bugger off.
Until next time,
I am MaidM
