Alice shyly nodded and smiled a tiny smile. "My names Alice…I don't have a last name because I'm an owphan." Ana smiled a bit sadder before finally handing Alice the clothes she was holding. "Here, put those on." Alice nodded and followed Anna up the stairs to an empty room.
As soon as they entered Anna turned around. "Take a good look at them and if you like it, try it on." Alice nodded once more and gazed at the clothes Anna had given her. It was a black dress that had a skirt at the end but looked like a two-piece school uniform that private schools had. Accompanied with it was a single yellow ribbon. Alice smiled and shedded off her old gown and tried the new outfit on.
Alice smiled fully and turned to her right, and to her surprise, was a mirror about Anna's height facing her. Alice gazed at the mirror and twirled around to find that the dress twirls with her, flying around the air above her knees to her mid thighs, and then going back into place. Alice turned and walked over to Anna. "It's beautiful…thank you." Anna turned around when she heard Alice's voice and her soft tugging on the bottom hem of her shirt.
Anna bent down to Alice's height and patted her head, "Anytime." Alice giggled, "May we go back outside? I feel better and a bit fweer when we are out." Anna nodded, "Sure Alice." Anna opened the door and went outside, Alice not trailing too far behind. Anna smiled to herself as Alice laughed and ran around the small town with her keeping a sharp eye on her.
Alice laughed as she pasted by a couple of the towns people whom greeted her with a smile and hello. "Hello." Alice stopped running and stopped to give a curtsy. "Hello sir." Alice politely smiled and then continued to run, but then trailing into a walk and going back to Anna.
"Thank you again Anna." Anna couldn't help but smile more at the happy child. "Your welcome, is there anything else you wish to do?" Alice looked up at her and nodded. "Yes….ummm may we pwease go back inside? I want to ask you some stuff." Anna nodded and held Alice's handed, heading back into the Inn once more.
"What!" Anna half screamed and half asked Alice. Alice trembled and winced. "I'm sowwy. It's just I weally need to go. Pwease fowgive me." Alice's pretty eyes brimmed with tears make Anna sigh and give up.
"Fine. But if you don't find a place, come back here. I'll be your new home." Anna smiled below at Alice and messed up her hair. Alice giggled and straightened back her hair and looked up at Anna. "May you pwease put this wibbon in my hair? I want to wear it to wemember you." Anna was touched and gladly accepted.
"…." Alice smiled when Anna was done and turned to her left to see the mirror (she's sitting on the bed now on the opposite side of where she was when she came first). Alice smiled and jumped softly out of the semi-tall bed and curtsied. "Thank you again." Anna laughed and smiled.
"No need to thank me so much! I'm doing this because I want to." Anna couldn't help but hug Alice. At first Alice was startled; she had never been hugged before, but slowly returned the hug. Anna smiled and whipped her soon-to-be tears away. She then stood up and held Alice's hand.
"Let's first and then you can go and find your new home out there." Alice nodded and grabbed tightly at Anna's hand, a bit afraid she was going to forget about her. Anna looked down, seeming to know what she was thinking of, and squeezed her little hand gently, returning the fact that she will never forget her. Anna stopped walking and Alice looked up a bit confused. Anna just smiled and leaned down to Alice's eye level.
"I won't forget you; you're like my daughter to me now."
Alice waved as she turned back to the town at Anna and some of the villagers whom said hi. "I'll come back some day!" Alice yelled and turned around, her hair flowing softly in the light wind that was flowing in front of her, and she giggled lightly as a tiny piece of hair was tickling her nose. Alice looked up at the tall trees and looked down at some flowers she could spot here and there. "So beautiful…" Alice whispered.
'I wish I were sometimes that beautiful and pwetty…Anna says that I am and I'm happy for that…' Alice sighed and breathed in the scent of flowers. Alice stopped walking and looked ahead, and gasped at what she saw. In front of her far ahead was a huge black castle. Alice looked at it with curiosity and wonder.
"I wonder what's inside of it..?" Alice looked back and had a small feeling that she was being watched, and with her as a small child, she quickly held on to that piece of nerve and walked cautiously toward where the castle loomed ahead.