(Chapter 2)

"DO YOU ACCEPT THIS ROLE KAT!" The Hatters voice boomed louder than necessary. There is always a little room for dramatic effect.

Kat jumped "YES SIR!"

The Hatter smiled warmly "Perfect"

The Hatters image turned dark blue and he evaporated into smoke. The wispy cloud then unnaturally shifted towards the table. The smoke started stacking up behind it, forming the shadow of the mad hatter once again.

"Hey look at that!" a random student called out

Everyone looked at him to find that he was pointing high above Kats head. Their glances switched to there.

"That's a big hat!" Kat exclaimed

~With a big responsibility~ a voice seemed to laugh in her ear. She looked around.

As if with graceful hands, the hat was placed atop her head in a perfect manor. The purple hat, with lime green feathers and flowers, sat snuggly on her head without it being too tight. It was as if, it was made for her.

Kat lifted her hand up to the rim to feel the soft fabric. As her fingers brushed the velvet; gold and silver sparkles started showering down from the brim. She closed her eyes, as she was washed over with them. They flooded past her shoulders, down her waist and then scattered all over the floor like flowing, twinkling water.

"Wow, Kat look at you!" Sam called to her.

She opened her eyes. "Holly-"

Kat was no longer dressed in her simple, shorts and shirt. From head to toe she was now dressed in a very "Mad Hattery" outfit. Her tail coat that she now possessed was the same beautiful purple as her hat. On the cuffs of the jacket and along the line where the coat laced up, silky white fabric was placed. On said fabric, stitched in were colorful symbols of spades, hearts and diamonds. Lime green accents were placed all along the outfit. Two thin green lines ran parallel, outlining the white symboled ribbons and the -once jean- shorts she had on, were now green short shorts. White tights ran underneath the shorts and on her feet were brown boots that laced up to her knees.

Kat turned her head to face her friends. As she did, she learned that she now, had ringlet curls in her hair. Glitter bounced off them as they hit her in the face. "I look so kick-"

"Now students please enter to the next room, for the next level of assigning." Kat was interrupted by the principles voice. She glared in some random direction, still not knowing where the speakers were located.

Doors opened up in the side of the room and students started fileing out. Kat turned to leave too but as she approached the door a refined looking man, in a black tux stopped her.

"Miss since you have already gotten your assignment, you are to enter that door over there." He pointed to a small door, along another wall.

"Uhm-kay…" Kat said skeptically. As she entered, she took one last skeptical glance at him.

The room that she entered was small, dark and circular. The only objects that were in their, were a wooden chair and a tall black mirror. There were no windows in the room but there was a door identical to the one that she came into. Kat had to do a double take at the door she just entered, to make sure it -most definitely- wasn't the same one.

"This place looks like a gothic dressing room…" Kat said examining the place.

"Essentially it's of a meeting room" said a voice

Kat jumped and looked around the room. No one was in their but herself. "Creepy~" she exclaimed

"What is?"

Kat spun around quickly. The voice was coming from the mirror! She looked into the glass to find a person in the mirror facing her. But it was not herself…

"Hatter?" she asked and stepped forward. The being in the mirror copied her exact steps.

She stopped and he stopped "Hello my dear."

"H-hello," Kat stuttered "Hatter."

"Actually Kat you're the Mad Hatter now"

"…Me?" Kat pointed at herself. She just now came to terms with, what an important position she had.

"That's what I said." He smirked. "Why don't you take a seat?" he gestured toward the chair.

She nodded and sat. As she did the "Used to be Hatter" sat too. But as Kat was in fact sitting on a chair, he seemed to be sitting on nothing but air.

"Why do you keep copping me?"

He chuckled a bit "Cause its fun."

Kat shrugged. She couldn't argue with fun.

"Now then Kat. I know that your listening skills aren't the best," Kat nodded in agreement "But I need you to thoroughly, listen to me for a few minutes."

Kat sat up straight in her chair and prepared for a lengthy lecture.

"As you know there are several different, Positioned Classes that one can fall into. The queen's role is the number one leader and then under her is where the "role" roles start."

Kat nodded taking what he said to heart. She already knew this but the way the Ex Hatter pronounced his words, made her want to listen even more intently than she already was. Kat then wondered if her own words would soon have this enchanting power. She would love to-

"Kat!" the Mad Hatters voice bought her out of her thoughts "I told you, you really need to pay attention right now."

Kat shook her head furiously, clearing her thoughts. Silvery glitter danced out of her hair as she shook. "I'm sorry!" she told him.

"Continuing," He sighed "The top seven roles under the queen are?"

Kat jumped up in her seat, realizing that he was asking her a question "Oh- uh. Its… The Mad Hatter, the Door Mouse, the White Rabbit, the March Hare, the Clock Maker, Alice and the Cheshire Cat."

He smiled approvingly "Very good. And as you've noticed, out of your social standings group, you were the only one to receive one of these roles. Correct?"

"Wait, so I was the only one to receive a role at all? What about Artimis and Sa-"

"No, no, no. They will receive roles too but you're the only one to have made it into the top seven."

"Oh…" Kat was both sad and happy about this. She was glad that she was so important but sad that her friends weren't.

"For this though, you are going to get a lot of grief from the other six at the top."

"But why?"

"To simply put it my dear, you're poor… They're going to have abilities and powers that you don't have."

"Wait, abilities?" Kat asked confused "Like magic?"

"Exactly." The Ex Hatter nodded.

"Great!" Kat slumped back in her chair and crossed her arms. In the mirror the other Hatter also did the same. "So basically I'm going to be bullied right?"

He chortled "In plain, terms yes."

"So what do I do about it?" She asked quizzically

He smiled "You don't waver and you take it like a mad person."

Kat smiled. She liked that "Take it like a mad person."

"Now then my dear," The Ex hatter stood up and tiled his Hat toward her. The door –that she hadn't been though yet- opened, letting an overflow of light come in. Kat realized that it must lead to outside. "I'm afraid you're late for tea time."

Kat somehow knew that this meant "Lunch".

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