Okay, this is chapter 2 of The Fifth Alice. Oh, and you know the disclaimer already....so.....

Enjoy!

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Why you finally came....

The young girl opened her eyes and blinked. She was lying face down on the grass, her hand beside her face as if she were sleeping. She blinked again and sat up, her arms wobbily.

"Wh-where am I?" she asked herself, rubbing her head. She remembered what happened and looked up. Nothing was up above her except for the blue sky. "What? I remember.....I fell....." Or pushed.

"It must've been a dream, then. Father would be looking for me...." She smiled and looked down, to see that her dress was torn and that the fabric was wraped around her foot. She felt like the wind was knocked out of her. "No way....it did happen.....Then Mother...." Then mother watched me fall....

She shook her head as she sat up straight and stretched. Her legs hurt from running and her whole body hurt from the huge fall. Her legs gave way and she fell on her butt, making her wince. She whispered. "I can't believe that happened......"

She crawled to a nearby tree and rested her back against the trunk, resting a bit. "I'm never gonna get out of here." She whispered, letting her hands fall limp to her sides.

Thunk.

She opened her eyes to see that the back of her hand hit a book. She blinked as she looked to the side and picked it up, easily recognizing it.

"Hey! You're the book that got me pushed and sent here!" She yelled, acting like it was really a person and shaking it. "Take me back home, stupid book!!!!"

Hey, she's eleven, don't judge her.

Soon she got tired of shaking it and let it rest on her lap. Looking at the cover, it had nothing on it. It had shadows of things, as if the pictures were cut out. In the spine was a very fancy black pen with five black strings dangling from the end. She blinked at it with wonder, she hadn't seen a pen like this before.

"What am I supposed to do with you?" the girl asked the book as the breeze rustled her hair lightly.

Hearing a rustling noise, her gold eyes shot away from the book. In front of her was a bunny. She sweatdropped. She got scared of a bunny? Okay, I'm losing it....

The bunny twitched his nose and made his wiskers move up and down. The girl laughed as the bunny hopped closer. Soon it was close enough and it hopped on her lap, over the book. She blinked and looked down at it before picking it up.

"Mr. Rabbit, what am I supposed to do?" She asked the rabbit. He just wiggled his nose as an answer. "I mean, first my father chased me in the forest, then I get pushed down a hole, and now I don't know where I am! I need help. I don't want to stay here anymore....."

The rabbit wiggled out of her grasp and started to hop away, fast. She squeaked and curiosity over came her. She grabbed her book and ran after the rabbit, into the forest.

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"Whoa...." Was the first thing she said when she walked into the town. It was a old fashioned town, like the ones where you had the stone streets and you could barely tell the differnece between a house and a work place.

The girl wandered around, people ignoring her as she walked with bare feet and a torn dress. Kids were chasing each other and one stopped in front of her.

He was older, about 12. His red hair was shaggy and covered his forehead. "Hey, you wanna play with us? We're playing tag!"

"Um, no thanks." She said, waving her hands in front of her. She saw the disappointed look on his face and she had second thoughts. "Um....maybe later...?"

"Oh, okay!" He said, smiling. She blushed a bit as he turned and waved behind him while he ran to join his friends. "See 'ya. Oh, and I think you should get a new dress. It's torn up!"

Thanks.... She thought as she smiled a fake one and waved back at him with her free hand. She then looked at her dress.

It was torn even worse now that she focused on it. Since he pointed it out and yelled it, grown-ups were looking at her with pity in their eyes. Then she noticed that they were looking at her wounded foot, too. She blushed and ran into an open door.

"Hello." A voice said.

"Eeep!!!" She squealed, jumping three feet in the air. She turned around to see an old woman behind her, smiling.

"Oh, did I scare you?" The woman asked, looking at her with laughing eyes. The girl leaned away as the woman leaned forward. Noticing that the girl was leaning away, the woman laughed. "Don't worry, I'm just wondering why a little girl like you would wander into my shop."

"Huh?" The girl responded. She was completely clueless as to what the woman was saying. Looking around, it looked like a normal shop.

"This is a clothing shop for women, sweety." the woman said. The girl got the emphasis and blushed as red as a tomato.

"S-sorry." She said, turning to walk out. But instead of letting the girl go, the woman grabbed her wrist and the girl turned back.

"Wait, you don't have to go." The old woman said, making the girl blink in question. The woman soon calmed down and let go of the girls' wrist, smiling. "My name is Kana. Yourr dress is pretty ripped and badly worn. Would you like to try on one of the dresses I have here?"

"Um...." The girl racked her brain a bit. Should she? Oh, what the heck! "Sure, Kana-san."

"Great, now I have one in the back. If you just go behind the screen, you can change into it." Kana said, ushering the girl behind a screen. She walked back out again, closing the screen door behind her. The girl looked at the clothing that was sitting on the chair and started to undress. Kana was sitting on a chair, waiting for the girl to come out after she had changed.

"So, what's a pretty little girl like you doing in this town?" she asked, trying to strick up some kind of conversation.

The girl struggled to get her dress off over her head, and after a few tugs she got free. She looked up at the ceiling as if searching for her answer from up there. "Um....I don't know. I was lead here by a bunny."

"A bunny, you say?" Kana said, laughing into her dress sleeve. "You must have been very luck. Where is the bunny now?"

"I don't know." She answered, pulling the new dress over her head and pushing her arms through the short sleeves. She let out a deep breath as she pulled the hem down and looked at the screen door. "Kana-san...where is this place?"

"What?!" The girl jumped when she heard a chair scrape the floor. "You don't know where you are?!"

"No ma'am." the girl said, moving a couple of white cloths to her small wrists and buttoning them with the weird shaped black buttons. "Why?"

Kana's eyes darkened as she looked at the screen door. "You're in Wonderland, sweety."

"Wonderland?" the girl repeated as she fixed the hat on her head. Where have I heard that? She shook her head and folded her old dress, grabbed the book, then walked out. "Okay, done."

Kana's eyes were different as she walked to the girl and straightened out her dress. "You look wonderful, child. Come and look in the mirror, okay?"

"Sure, Kana-san." The girl nodded as Kana led her to a full length mirror.

The dress looked good on her. It was a plain black dress like her old one, ending at her knees. Red trimmed the hem of her sleeves and dress. A black hat was ontop of her blonde head, a trimming of red on it also. White cuffs hung on her wrists with strange black buttons on them. She smiled at herself, trying to look pretty. But it was no use.

She looked away from her reflection and to Kana's. Her eyes widend as she took a step away. She looked the same as them, her father, half-sister, and mother. One hand was laid ontop of the other in front of her menacingly, and her eyes were dialed like a crazy man's.

The girl whirled her head around to Kana to see her smiling sweetly like a old woman should. She turned her head to the mirror to see her face again. She turned her back against the mirror and smiled at Kana.

"Okay, I'm done looking at myself." She said, her voice shaking slightly. I don't want to stay here anymore. "I'll just change back into my old clothes and be on my-"

"No, no, keep that deary," Kana said, patting her head. The girl had second thoughts about Kana touching her, but she allowed it. "I don't ever get young girls like you around my shop. Keep it and-"

Then, something came over them and the girl suddenly felt weird. She felt the same feeling that she did when she was in the forest. The feeling that she should run. But she stayed put, slipping her book in to her pocket.

"On second thought, there's something missing." Kana said, looking down at the girl. Her eyes were different now, which gave the girl more reason to run out the shop. She waved one finger at the girl, curling it up and down. Soon, they were at the front desk were a glass cabinet was sitting.

The girl looked at the class case with wonder as Kana opened in and pulled out a chain. A very long chain.

"Here, deary." Kana said. Her voice changed as well. It was only slightly, but it changed. She tried to put it over her neck, but the girl was to quick and stepped back, holding her hand out for Kana to drop the chain in to her hand. Kana, who seemed to hiss and frown at her for a second, reluctantly dropped the chain in her hand. But the hostile look she had on dissapeared immediatly, a smile replacing a frown."Here, wear this. It'll make the dress look even more pretty if you have jewlery."

"Thank you, Kana-san." The girl said, bowing. She turned on her heel and walked out of the store, Kana following and waving from the front door.

"Good bye, missy!" She called, smiling and waving.

"Bye, Kana-san!" The girl smiled and waved back.

Once she turned around, she almost ran until she was twenty feet away from the shop. When she stopped, she grabbed the chain from her pocket. It looked like a regular silver chain. She unlatched it and started to lift it to her neck.

"Maybe if I try it on, it-" She gasped and quickly took it away from her neck. She rubbed her neck and looked at the chain, wide-eyed. "What the heck-?!"

It felt like it was choking her! Like the necklace wanted to wrap itself around her neck so much it wanted to suffocate her! Like a snake.....

"Hey, did you hear?!"

The girl snapped out of her thoughts when she heard a woman whisper. Being a eleven-year-old, she eavesdropped into the conversation instantly. She gasped at what she heard next.

"The old woman from the clothing store died."

"Yeah, I heard she gave a poor girl clothes before she died."

Poor girl? The girl asked in her mind. Then it hit her. No way....

"Poor woman, she didn't talk to anyone that much."

"Yeah, I bet that little girl was the only person that she talked to in months!" The girl shook her head and shut the converation out of her mind. She didn't want to hear anymore, it was too sad.

She looked at the chain necklace that dangled in her hand. Putting it between both hands and folding them, she started to pray for Kana.

After she was done, she sighed and held the necklace in front of her. "I shouldn't put this on, it'll choke me."

She wanted to find a way so that she could wear it and not get choked to death at the same time. She thought for a second and snapped her fingers. "Got it!"

She wrapped it around her waist and latched it together. It hung high on one side and then lowered itself to her thigh at the other end. She looked at it and smiled, it'll be a memory of Kana.

She walked down the road with her bare feet, smiling childishly. And on the back of her hand was a faint inprint of a light gray J.

Yes.....Come more inside, Little Alice.......

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Okay, the second chapter is finished! Lets clap, shall we?!

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Okay, well please read and review so I can continue. Oh, and i'm thinking about adding an additional character to help mine. It can be a boy or girl.

Miri:Or boy.

So if you think I should, please put it in your review. And a name woudl be nice too.

Okay, cya next time!!! XD