"Miss Eve" Heidi's gentle voice jerks me awake.

"Yeths?" I say sleepily, my voice slurred.

"It's time to get ready," Helga says

"Oh, Yah" I mumble sitting up

I lean over and reach for my glasses, a book slides off my chest and onto my lap. I quickly slide on my glasses and look at the book in my lap. After a few seconds of staring, I recognize it as Grandmum Alice's diary. I pick it up and slide off my bed. My feet bump into the bag Helga prepared for me.

'Put the diary in the bag'

I narrow my eyes and shake my head with a sigh. I bend down and open the bag. I slip the diary into the pack and close it. I then walk out after Helga. I find her waiting outside my door. I follow her to a dressing room. Heidi hands me a bundle of clothes and I quickly change. The clothes just happened to be a maroon tank top and a pair of shorts. With some help, I slip into the dress and sit down on a stool waiting. A few minutes later Heidi braids my hair and hands me a pair of maroon heels. I give her a shocked look and she giggles.

"Miss Julian insisted you wear them," Helga says offhandedly

"Ok," I say reluctantly

Helga smiles and comments.

"I put a pair of high tops and socks in your bag, Miss Eve."

I turn to her with a relieved smile. I take her hands.

"You are a goddess," I say shaking her.

Helga laughs and says.

"I'm going to miss you."

"What?" I say confused

"Oh, your Mother didn't tell you? After this summer's over you're going to a private ladies school. Mr. Al is going to a private boys school." Helga says

I squeeze Helga's hands and swallow uneasy.

"No, she didn't" I state stiffly

"Oh, my dear I'm truly sorry," Helga says

I turn to see Heidi covering her mouth with her hand. She was just as shocked as I was. Fighting back tears I say.

"I'm going to miss you both so much."

Helga lets out a sigh and pulls me into a hug. I sniff and hug her tightly. Helga releases me, and I quiver, I turn and Heidi practically tackles me with a hug.

"Oh, Miss Eve. I'm really going to miss you." She cries

I hug her back and my mind drifts, then suddenly, I'm being shook. I blink, I turn to see Al staring at me worried.

"You ok, you've been out of it ever since you sat down.

"Hm?" I say blinking again.

I look to find everyone gone.

"What happened?"

"The ceremony is over you tuned out. Oh, and Heidi told me to give you this." Al holds up the pack Helga had prepared.

"Oh, Thanks I need that," I say

"Let's go," Al exclaims

We dash towards the woods and Al calls ahead of me.

"Hide and seek."

"No fair I have heels!" I yell

Al chuckles and dashes into the woods.

"ALEXANDER!" I call playfully. I put my backpack on my back and follow him into the woods.

'Into the woods'

'And down the dell,'

'The path is straight,'

'I know it well.'

'Into the woods,'

'And who can tell'

'What's waiting on the journey?'

'Into the woods'

'To bring some bread'

'To Granny who'

'Is sick in bed.'

'Never can tell'

'What lies ahead.'

'For all that I know,'

'She's already dead.'

'But into the woods,'

'Into the woods,'

'Into the woods'

'To Grandmother's house'

'And home before dark.'

I see trees everywhere. I hear the snapping of branches and I follow that deeper into the woods. I keep going until the snapping stops, I see a white ball. I move closer to it and realize it's a rabbit, a white rabbit. Why is that familiar. Then the loud snapping of feet yanks me out of my daze. I see Al standing next to me.

"You ok Evie?" He asks

"Yeah, but did you see the rabbit?" I say eyes wide

"Yeah, cool right?" Al says grinning

I then look over to Al and lean forward.

"Tag. You're it."

"I thought we were playing hide and seek."

"You were wrong."

"I'm gonna get you, Evie."

"Sure you are Al"

I dash forward, towards where the white rabbit is. And that's when I notice it's gone.

'Al must have scared it away.'

I continue running. But, very quickly Al tags me. I spin around and watch as he goes East and then I grin and follow.

I try my hardest to keep up, but with these annoying heels on that was nearly impossible.

"Hey, Evie, I found another rabbit." I hear Al yell.

"Ok, I wanna see it just give me a second."

I hurry forwards and I stop when I get next to Al. I see the rabbit. He has on human clothes. I blink in surprise. He was wearing tan pants a white waistcoat with a red tie. He has glasses on, then I blink again and he's gone.

"You saw that right?" I ask Al.

He looks at me eyes wide. I nod pushing my glasses up.

"Yeah, but we must have been seeing things."

"Yeah, must have," I say grinning at him.

Al suddenly looks at me, and dashes off, still taking a path to the West. I quickly follow him.

'The rabbit was wearing human clothes and had glasses. How strange. I must have been seeing things. What if I'm going crazy like great grandmum Alice But, Al saw them too…. what if we're both going crazy?'

'Yeah, totally. It was probably just Malory's rabbit. You know how she likes to dress them up.'

I nod and continue to chase after Al. I follow his path till I make to a fork in the path. A buzzing from my bag stops me dead. I freeze, and quickly take off the bag and go through it to find, my phone along with a few other things. I turn it on to see a reminder Smile because today's another happy day- Great grandmum Alice. I smile softly.

'I miss you grandmum'

I let out a shaky sigh.

Looking around I notice Al was gone. Suddenly I hear Al yell.

"Al?" I call out

"Evie!" Al yelled

I pick up my skirt and dash down the left path where the yell came from. I hear Al then yell.

"Evie come here!"

I raise an eyebrow, then I hear Al practically scream.

"EVIE!"

I begin to run faster and faster till I see a clearing where I spot a big old tree with a rabbit hole in it. I see an arm gripping on the grass, coming out of the hole. The arm turns into a hand, and I rush forwards. I see the hand slip just as I peer in the hole. Al was falling down the hole. I reach out to him and he slips through my fingers. I watch in horror as Al goes into the dark oblivion. I fall back onto my butt, eyes wide heart racing.

'Al- Al!'

I swallow back tears and place my hand to my mouth. I take a deep breath and stand. I peer into the hole and take a look around.

'No one- no one but me.'

Shaking I tuck my bangs behind my ear and push my glasses back onto my nose.

"It's ok," I mumble nearly whimpering. "It's going to be ok."

I dust off my skirt and readjust my backpack. I turn to go, when I hear an angry yell.

"EVEALYNN!"

'Mom? Crap'

I look around my heart still racing, I turn towards the hole. I could still hear Al yelling my name. I blink back tears again.

"EVEALYNN!" Mom yelled again.

She was angrier.

"What do I do? Al fell down the rabbit hole. I can't go get help. He could be dead by then. What do I do? What do I do? What do I do? What would I do, What should I do?"

A soft but calming voice fills my head and says

"Jump,"

I freeze and look around. Nobody's there only me and the rabbit hole.

"Jump"

I don't move.

"Jump."

It says more forcefully. I take a breath in and take a step forwards. My foot slips out from under me and I spin around trying to find something to grab, And I go spinning into the darkness.