Yoshi!!! Here's the next chapter guys!!

Thank you for the reviews last time…

Hmm… How far will I go for this fic, I wonder…

Rikku.. I forgot to welcome you.. welcome to this world of fanfictions!!

Near05… I bet this is uploaded before you can read this in our pc.. bleh…

Rei: My name is Rei… I am Hiragizawa's created character… I don't take part in the story.. I'm just here to introduce the disclaimer.. that's all.. I am apologizing for my creator's…a… strange attitude.. I wonder how people around her find her still fun to be with despite of how her head works..

-.-: What a way of putting it Rei..

Rei: Shut up.

-.-: What did you just say?

Rei: *sweatdropped* By the way, Hira-chan doesn't own Pandora Hearts. This story is just a product of her great boredom with her life despite of her being busy. See? That doesn't make any sense either. *Runs away*

-.-: I am so going to ruin your character, Rei.. *Evil grin*

Rei: HIRAGIZAWA!!

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Outside the castle…

"Alright!" A boy with a blonde hair and emerald eyes, that looks almost exactly as Jack except for the length of the hair said in success. It was none other than Oz, the prince that the people inside the castle are looking for.

He had grown of the habit of escaping from the royal guards and his father's assistant in order to get out in the city. It's not that he wants the others to get so worked up looking for him but, he likes the feeling of mingling with other people aside from his father, his snobbish-playing-good brother, the head maid, the royal guards and his conscience.

Even though his trip to the town last time was the realized worst-case scenario by his father he still doesn't mind. I'm now beginning to wonder if Oz is just hardheaded or he just has a death wish.

"That's one rude way putting it Hira-chan."

Well, that's what it seems to me.

Okay back to the story.

A few minutes later, he finally got inside the town. Oz really loves it there. Not only he is able to see different people everytime he goes, there but he enjoys himself as well.

He was busy looking at the different products that are sold in the sidewalks when he bumped into something or rather… someone..

"Ouch!" was the thing he heard.

And 'ouch' isn't something that he said.

"I'm sorry.." When he finally looked at the person that he accidentally bumped to, he found a girl not taller than him, having long-brown hair, and wearing a pink dress with puffed sleeves. He also noticed the matching pink ribbon on her hair.

Way to go Oz!

-ignores the authoress- He noticed something on the floor.

Is that…meat?

Yeah. It looks like meat to him, but how on earth did the meat get on the road? He knew he already passed the wet market ten minutes ago. Unless that the girl was holding it.

"Where the hell were you looking?!"

Oops. Did he have her wrong? Was that really the same girl? But looking again, the girl looked so… lady-liked. The type that you know would never do anything wrong or never committed a sin.

Well that's a lie, you realize it for yourself. Haha

"…"

The girl glared at her. "Are you deaf?" She actually waved her hand in front of his face as if he was dazed and she was trying to put him back to reality.

Oz finally snapped out of it. "I-I'm sorry. It's my fault, I wasn't looking."

"Of course it's your fault! Now where—" Alice stopped at mid sentence when she realized that her hand was empty. And she was sure as hell that she is holding something earlier, before the incident. When she looked at the floor…

There, she found her most beloved thing in the whole world.

Her precious meat.

Already spoiled and dirty. And you can bet that it's not edible anymore.

"Is…that yours?" Oz is still hesitating to ask, because he thinks of a way that might not offend the girl in front of him. But…

Wrong move. Oz's words only ticked Alice off.

"What do you think, huh?!" The girl glared at Oz, which only backed off because of surprise.

He never met a girl like her.

Not even did he ever imagine that there is such an existence of species that he is used to see, having a different… no make that 'very' different from the usual and what he has been accustomed to.

In other words… Alice is REALLY different from the usual type of girls that he knows.

How would that be different?

Yes, Alice wears a dress and it's really beautiful in fact. The color suits her well. She had her long dark brown hair arranged beautifully and held by another pink ribbon at the back of her head.

Almost there.

But the thing is… would be a normal girl carry meat while walking?

Scold a man that already said his apologies after an accident?

Or would use such inappropriate words for a girl like her?

Glare at him?

No~.

But if he was surprised by the sudden outburst he was more shocked when the girl grabbed the collar of the shirt he was wearing and stared at him with slit eyes, face 'very' close to one another.

"Listen brat. If you think that you can get away that easy from messing with my food, then you're wrong. What's your name?"

"My-My name?...Uh…Oz…" He wasn't that sure if he should give his name to this girl that he just met. His whole name. He doesn't usually give his full trust to strangers, but what he feels right now is different. But he decided to go with his doubt. He will never give his full name until he discovers who this girl is.

"Well then Oz.." Alice released the guy from her hold and smirked. "You shall be my servant."

"Huh?" That really didn't get to his ears well.

After a few minutes.. "EHH?!"

"You got a problem with that…servant~?" Alice whispered in a soft voice with an underlying threat.

"N-None at all…" Come to think of it, he still doesn't know that girl's name yet.

"The name's Alice. And servants must never forget their master's name. Got that?!"

"H-Hai!" Why did things come to this? Never in his life that he imagined that he will be a servant of someone and a girl that is. He glanced at Alice who is still smirking at her. Well, this is something that doesn't usually happen. I might as well enjoy this. He smiled.

"Then, come with me."

"Huh?" He didn't have the time to protest as his hand was dragged by Alice.

"Where are we going, A-Alice?"

I don't know. Ask her. –turns to Alice.-

Oz ignores the authoress.

Hey!

"To my house."

"W-W-What? But Alice, it is not proper for me just to barge in your house and declare to your family that I'm your servant. There might be some misunderstanding." Oz blushed. Thinking what others may interpret when her family would see them. And another thing is there might be someone in her family that knows his true personality. Even though he never shows himself to everyone as a prince there are some people who can identify him.

But to his dismay, Alice paid no heed to him and continues to drag him.

"A-Alice!"

Soon enough they were near a house. And still, Oz isn't able to stop Alice from the things she might do. When they are few meters away from the door, it suddenly opened revealing a woman and white hair wearing a dress composed of colors of white and violet.

"Oh, Alice-" The woman stopped in mid-sentence when she saw Oz being dragged by her stepdaughter. Instead she approached the two and miserably failed. Acting on instinct, Alice already hissed and took a step backwards for every step the woman made to them.

"Don't come near me clown!"

Clown?

"My, my… who is this young man here?" Break paid no attention to Alice's complaints and reached out for Oz. It sent shivers to the boy's spine as he was looking into the woman's eyes. There seems to be something in it that he couldn't name.

"Don't touch him, clown! This one is my property!" He pulled Oz from her stepmother's touch.

"Property?" Both Break and Oz are surprised.

"W-Wait Alice… T-That s-shouldn't be-" But Oz cut his sentence as he was darted by a glare from the girl. And why the hell is he stuttering?

Break spread her fan and covered her face, trying to hide his sinister smile. "So, that's it then." And break started walking away from them to Alice's satisfaction.

But wait… "What the hell is that?! You're making fun of me clown!! You want a piece of me, huh?!" But before Alice could charge her stepmother there is already Oz holding her… ugh… rather stopping her killing the said woman.

"Calm down Alice, you can't just hurt people." Oz is just laughing his nervousness off. None of the things that are happening to him made sense. His world is suddenly turned upside-down by a girl that he just met. Becoming a servant of somebody, bringing her to her house just like that. And seeing the kind of relationship of Alice and the person she always refer and clown is really confusing. What the hell is with this day?

Is this the karma that he gets for putting all those person he blackmailed into the depths of their worst nightmares? For always escaping his princely tasks? For making his father worry for him?

NO WAY!!

"Let me go Oz! I need to hit that clown once and for all!"

"You can't do that Alice."

The girl didn't stop struggling until the sight of Break is no longer seen.

"Tch. Someday I will get her."

"Who is she, Alice? Relative?"

"NO! Just a clown."

"Is that so?"

And both of them entered the house.

What is this mess that I got myself into? With one last sigh, Oz followed Alice inside.

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Wow… this chapter is longer than I expected.. haha..

Well, that's it guys..

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