"ALICE RENEE!" a scratchy annoying voice calls down from above the staircase. In other words, my mother.
"Do not use my real name. I'm Allie." I mumble under my breath. Some great-great-great aunt second removed or something on my mother's side was named Alice and my parents decided it would be the freakin' perfect name for their daughter. They were wrong.
I shove my hands in my back pockets and storm out of the house. I don't care what she wants me to do. As I go, I speed up, until eventually into a full run.
But unfortunately, clumsy old allie can't run all hoighty-toighty with her hands in her back pockets. But instead of just falling flat on my face, leave it to me to not see a huge gaping hole until, uh oh, I'm right in it.
Pitch black. That's all I see. My feet hover above the air, and my arms reach out to nothing. What the hell is going on? And if this is one of those sick "it was all a dream" things I'm going to kill myself and then kill whatever is up there running things.
"Alice?"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Is it-?"
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"You?"
"AHHH!" Something furry clamps down on my mouth mid scream. I bite hard, and instantly it's pulled away, but I don't scream this time.
"What the heck, Alice?" The thing squeaks again. "I know it's been over a hundred years but do you still not trust me? This is my rabbit hole you fell in, you know? If that's the reception I'm gonna get I'll have to block it off." He says, pulling on a light.
Suddenly the room becomes very bright and I look down only to realize I wasn't hovering after all. I was on the biggest bunny I had ever seen in my entire life.
"Alice? Is it you?" it spoke. Oh my god. The rabbit spoke.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" I scream again.
"Alice. Please stop."
And I do. But I don't know what to say. The fucking rabbit talked. I fucking bit the rabbit. I'm standing on the fucking rabbit.
I jump off as I realize this and run into a corner of this 'rabbit hole'.
The rabbit stands up, brushing himself off. "Alice, you never change. Just your appearance." He smiles and walks over putting out his hand. "I'm rabbit. But you already know that."
Tentative, I get out of my cowering position and shake his hand. "Alice…but call me Allie."