So, I got really bored one day and just started writing and...out came this! I will update Once Upon a Depression soon--just be patient, 'kay? I have to persuade my muse to come out and humor me, and perhaps Fig, my Figment of Imagination (I was that in a 4th grade play...just a bit of trivia ;) ) will poke her head out too. We'll have to see. So anyway, on to the story!

Through the...Cupboard?

Rain splattered the windows and drummed steadily on the roof. Four girls sat in the library of a large house and stared glumly around the room.

"I'm bored," one of the girls, Licia grumbled, as she flipped through a dictionary.

"Well, you are reading a dictionary," Bobbie-Jo, or BJ, called over from a couch, "That's one of your problems. And you're also hanging upside-down off a chair."

"Shut up, BJ," Tamara grunted. "Dictionaries rock."

"That's because you have no life, Tam," Annemarie tossed a flattened pillow at her.

"Lives are for suckers," BJ butted in and tossed a small book at Licia, who seemed to have fallen asleep.

"Oh, bug off, BJ," Licia swatted at the book which had already landed a foot to her left.

"Hey, do you guys want to play a game?" Tamara asked after a moment of silence.

"No."

"I do, so shut up, BJ." Licia glared at the red-head. BJ stuck out her tongue at the girl with light brown hair, who in turn beaned her in the head with a pillow.

"Will you two knock it off?" Annemarie, the small blonde ducked as a cushion came flying her way. "Watch it! You might knock something over!"
"What do you care? It's not your house. Besides, there're only books in here." BJ yawned.

"I want to play tag," the dark blonde-haired Tamara said spontaneously.

"You loser, it's raining outside."

"You can be real mean sometimes, BJ." Annemarie sniffed.

"What about hide and seek?" Tamara suggested.

BJ snorted. "Kid's game."

"You're a downright boring old grump, Bobbie-Jo, especially on rainy-days." Tamara looked around the room. "All for hide and seek say 'aye'!" There was a three-way chorus of aye's. "All opposed?"

"Nay," BJ sighed.

"Overruled!" Tamara yelled. "Nose game!" Tamara, Annemarie and Licia all slammed their palms to their noses. There was a distressed "Ow…" from Licia.

"You're it, BJ! Start counting, and don't stop till you're at fifty. Do you read me?"

"Loud and clear, cap'n," BJ said sarcastically before turning over onto her stomach. "One, two, three, four, five…" she began counting, the couch cushions muffling the numbers.

"Woohoo!" Tamara shouted as she bolted out of the library. Licia slid off the chair backwards and let out a muttered, "Dang!" as she landed on her neck. Annemarie slid out of the room quietly.

"…eight, nine, ten, eleven, oh! Shoot, I have to baby-sit later. Oh, where was I? Erm, ten, eleven, twelve…"

Tamara skidded to a stop outside of a bedroom and snuck inside. She looked around hurriedly before ducking into a closet and submerging herself behind all the hanging clothes. She held her breath and waited.

Annemarie groped her way under a couch and coughed in the layer of dust, swatting away a dust bunny in disgust. She heard footsteps hurry past and poked her head out to see Licia looking desperately for a hiding spot. Spotting a cupboard in the kitchen, she nearly tore the door off before slithering into the small, yet empty cabinet.

"…48, 49, fifty. Ready or not, here I come!" BJ jumped off the couch and searched the library thoroughly before moving on to the next room. After five minutes, she yelled "Aha! Look who's been found!" and Tamara grumbled as she climbed out of the closet. BJ finished her search of the upstairs after a few false alarms, which turned out to be the cats and, once, a mouse.

Tamara followed BJ down the stairs and into the main hall as the search continued. They passed through the dining room, another bedroom, two bathrooms, and the laundry room without finding a hint of their friends.

"I hope you two are scared, 'cause I'm getting close!" BJ called, hoping to hear a muffled giggle from her friends or a breath being caught. Nothing.

They trooped into the living room and BJ stooped down to look under the couch. "Found ya, Annemarie!"

She grumbled and pulled herself out from under the couch, brushing dust from herself.

"Only one more now!" BJ called, deciding that she liked Hide and Seek, since she was so good at it. Much different from her frame of mind earlier that afternoon.

"Liciaaaa, where aaaaare youuuuuu…" BJ poked around the room but, to no avail. Alas, there seemed to be no hope of finding their friend, until…

There was a loud THUNK in the kitchen as something heavy rolled out of a cupboard and landed on the floor. The three girls ran to the kitchen to find Licia sprawled on the floor, looking shocked and out of breath.

"Um…Lish, I don't really think you really understand the concept of this game." Annemarie looked at her friend doubtfully.

"No! In—in there!" She pointed towards the cabinet and turned extremely pale.

"Lish, it's a cabinet. Of course it's dark and small and probably smells funny, but—"

"No, Tam! There's a forest! A bloody forest!"

BJ rolled her eyes. "Have you been eating beans again?"

"Ye—no. Honest, B! It's really in there!"

"Well, let's take a look then, shall we?" Tamara squatted down and crawled into the cupboard. The other three waited behind.

Tamara stuck her head out. "By gum! Come in! Y'gotta see this!" She disappeared again and BJ sighed.

"You both have gotten into the beans, haven't you? And since when does anyone say 'by gum'?"

Of course, she was ignored as Annemarie crawled into the cabinet followed by Licia, so of course, BJ had no choice but to follow.

At first, it seemed like a normal cabinet. But then instead of feeling wood underneath her hands and knees, BJ felt something cold and crunchy and…wet? She was trying to figure out what it was, when something poked her in the eye. She clutched her left eye in frustration.

"Bloody hell! What—" She stopped as she reached out and felt a…a branch. And before she knew it, she was blinking in bright sunlight and looking around her in awe.

A forest. In the cabinet. "Whoa," was all she managed.

"I told you!" Licia yelled, chucking a snowball at BJ's head. "I told you I'd found a forest in the cupboard, but you didn't believe me! And here it is!" She let out a whoop and went cartwheeling through the snow.

Annemarie joined BJ at her side. "I don't believe this," she murmured. "It doesn't make any sense at all."

"Who said it had to make sense?" Tamara called over, throwing two snowballs at once. "It's too cool to make any sense!"

"I just don't get it," BJ said, looking around, still in awe. "This is a kitchen cupboard. Not a bloody wood."

"It is now," Annemarie sighed, before joining in the snowball fight.

BJ shrugged and picked up a handful of snow and whipped it at Tamara's head. It hit her square on the forehead and she stumbled backwards in surprise, tripping over a root in the process.

"Hey, wait a minute! This isn't a tree!" Tamara yelled, pushing herself up off the ground. "It's a—"

"A lamppost!" Licia gasped.

Tamara, Licia and Annemarie gazed at the lamppost in wonder. BJ, on the other hand, stared at her friends in consternation.

"Am I the only sane person here who finds it strange that there's a lamppost in the middle of a forest which just happens to be inside a cupboard?"

"Yes," Licia said, not looking away from the lamppost. Her eyes were sparkling as she marveled at the lamppost, and it was thoroughly freaking BJ out. So she smacked her friend upside the head.

"Ow! What was that for?"

"You were frightening me."

"I do that everyday."

"Oh, yeah. Well…you're looking extremely ugly today. This light does nothing for your complexion."

"Oh, okay." Licia looked around, then, "Hey, I'm hungry."

Tamara's stomach made a noise that sounded like glaciers splitting apart. "I'm a little hungry."

"Just a little?"

"Yes."

"How about we—" Annemarie started, but was immediately stopped by Licia.

"Shh—do you hear that?"

"What?"

"That. It sounds like…bells."

They all could hear it now, and it was coming closer and closer and closer and—

Suddenly a huge, white sleigh pulled by two white reindeer (I'm going by what the book said) came into view, and there was a short, ugly man driving it. The four girls gaped as the sleigh stopped and a tall woman stepped out from the back. She was draped in white furs and wore a snow-white dress that dragged on the ground because it was so long, even though she herself was exceptionally tall. A large crown adorned her head and she held a long wand that appeared to be made of ice. Her skin was deathly pale, and her hair was as white as her clothes and ran halfway down her back, which was very far from the ground since she was so tall, and, did I mention that she was extremely tall?

The (very tall) woman looked down at the four girls. "Welcome to Narnia, Daughters of Eve. I am Jadis, Queen of Narnia."

-gasp- So they meet Jadis! What will happen next? Review, and you shall find out!