BOOK TWO: Interesting & Confusing Twisting Events
By Rurple101 & BiGbLuEeYeS1136

"Tell me what's wrong, Mirana" Alice ordered and Mirana didn't disobey. She looked up at her Champion with pained eyes, the tears still streaming from her eyes.

"All my life...I have loved and helped every living creature. I even made an oath to never harm any of them. I have battled al the way through my life, like you Alice to please others and never thinking about myself. I was way too much selfless especially when I was younger. Iracebeth made it harder for me as she wanted to destroy nearly ever living creature I fought to keep alive. I helped my parents to improve Underland; I invented the shrinking and growing potions and assisted making the portal to your world Alice." She said and then stopped.

Alice offered her a tissue and she took it gratefully and blew her nose. She dabbed at the tears and carried on.

"When I was twelve our grandmother died, on my mother's side. I was on better terms with her and I was left in her will, nearly all her jewellery and potions and ect which she knew I would make use of. Iracebeth, being jealous got a reasonable sum of money but being her, it wasn't enough. This caused her to bring up the subject of…."

"Who would get the crown?" Alice guessed and Mirana nodded.

"Racie would always…you have no idea how tiresome she became. She was only a couple of years older than me though she thought that she would get it. Often I would get her screaming that she wished I'd never been born, literally. I never got on with her. She always threw things at me, always made me embarrassed while seeing the public. Once she ripped my grown at my birthday ball and everyone saw me in my undergarments!"

She chuckled darkly at the memory. Mirana why are you telling her of all people? Alice does not want to hear your freaking life story! Get a grip! But she ignored the voice.

"Then on my ninetieth birthday, our father died…on purpose." She said.

"How do you know it was on purpose?" Alice asked, deeply interested.

"Because I saw Iracebeth sneak behind him and slit his throat." Mirana choked out.

The image of her own sister walking behind their kind father while he was dancing with their mother and stabbing him was penetrated into her skull like a dark flashback.

"I was dancing with a suitor who really was the most boring person in the world. I ignored him and was looking aimlessly around the room and… Mother smiled for a moment, blinked and opened her eyes to see bloody spilling over her dress…. I just…saw her kill daddy." She murmured before her voice broke and the sobs broke free again.

"Why is she so mean? Why is so she selfish? WHY?" Mirana screamed as she sobbed.

Alice put her arms around the Queen and whispered soothing words to her. Mirana didn't want to stop crying as she stained Alice's pale green dress with her tears.

"I'm so pathetic! I'm meant to be the Queen yet I am haunted by my past! I'm so weak, pathetic, and stupid!" she copied the words from her sister's mouth.

The voice of Iracebeth hissed at her through her head and she crumpled into a heap.

The doors opened quickly and Tarrant came inside the chambers. He saw Alice hugging Mirana and walked over quickly.

Alice mouthed 'I'll tell you later' and he nodded and sat down beside the Queen. He put his hand on Mirana's shoulder and she looked up to him.

"I made you another hat your Majesty. Its crystal this time which means you can actually see right through it!" he said excitedly and his distracting worked. Mirana was interested by the idea of another hat so she calmed down.

"Have you calmed down your Majesty?" he asked in a low voice.

Mirana considered herself and gasped. She had been screaming, while Alice and Tarrant were present!

She should of never told anyone. "I'm sorry!" she exclaimed and got up before running out of the room.

Mirana hurried along to her throne room. She checked in a mirror and gasped again. She looked like the walking dead! She didn't even care so she wiped away the running make up and walked into the throne room. She sighed happily as she sat in her throne. Why did the feeling of guilt hover over? She turned around to the windows made of glass.

It was still pouring it down. That must mean she was still upset. She sighed and closed her eyes – what was really bothering her? The voice of her sister hissing insults at her from her childhood was a spiteful thing that she often ignored. Why was it that the recent courtship of Tarrant and Alice did she feel the loneliness?

She needed a man, a man to love her like…he had. She gulped down her hysterics and concentrated on where she was. She got up and grabbed an umbrella, heading outside. She needed to clear her head.

When Mirana got outside, the gardens were soaking; the flowers were drinking in the water and swimming in the overflowing muddy flowerbeds.

"I'm sorry for making it so wet for you my dears" Mirana spoke loudly, over the poundering of the rain upon her umbrella. The nearby flowers looked round and saw their Queen in the rain with tears still wet on her face.

"Whatever is the problem Majesty!" a flower named Susana exclaimed upon seeing the unhappy Queen. Mirana shrugged.

"I don't know Susana. Just feeling under the weather" she managed a weak smile to her joke. The flowers raised their eyebrows.

"Is you feeling lonely?" Rosy said who was incidentally a white rose.

"Yes Rosy. I cannot help it. I feel like a part of me needs…someone or something." She spoke words of truth.

"You're Majesty; you need a man to help fill the hole in your heart." Susana assured her. "You need a man to cheer you up, to help you forget your past, to help forget the pain of a horrid sister you have and look after you."

"Just hearing the truth feels better" Mirana whispered. "But there is no man who I know who fits the description. I am a Queen; a Queen who people will only marry me for my royalty. Not me. The only one who did was a special who was sold off to the horrid sister of mine." Mirana felt tears go down her face.

The rain carried on and she continued speaking to her flowers.

As Mirana spoke to the flowers and wandered off slowly through the pouring rain in the Royal Gardens, Tarrant and Alice watched her from the overhanging balcony.

"That must be awfully calming, just standing and watching the rain and listening to it." Alice sighed. Tarrant looked at her in wonder – how could she even start to worry?

"Poor Mirana" he agreed and she nodded. "I think she's holding it up in herself, she isn't letting anyone in to speak to her about it. I and you are the only two who would be allowed. We cannot tell the kingdom that she's falling apart."

He nodded. Should he tell Alice now…? Should he finish what he had just honestly started a mere half an hour ago? Well, truth be told he thought that the idea of courting Alice while Mirana was feeling lonely was a bad idea…despite his heart telling him to ask her.

He turned back to Alice. "Alice. I..."

But only to find that she had walked away from him. He sighed; she couldn't even stand to be around him for more than a second. He'd blown it and now he would never be with her. His heart drooped and he walked slowly back towards his hat-making tower alone.