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Chapter 3-Hot chocolate and some bad news

Alice ran up to the Clock Tower stairs, going two steps at a time and slammed into the double doors of Julius' office. "Julius!", Alice yelled into the office expecting an angry looking mortician to look up from his work. Instead, there was a woman weeping in the corner.

"Julius?", Alice asked the woman who looked up with tears in her violet eyes, she had a pixie cut and a black jacket with golden stripes at the collar. The shirt was a purple floral pattern with a black mini skirt with little gold stripes at the bottom. Fishnet leggings with black heels, a clock pendant on a golden chain hung around her neck and a black ribbon with golden stripes and a clock in the middle decorated her hair. "A-alice...", Her tone was soft and she stood up slowly while playing with her now short hair.

"Julius! What's wrong?"

Julius sniffed and clenched her fists together before breaking into another tearful fit, "My HAIR! My beautiful, long HAIR! IT'S ALL GONE!". Alice's mouth formed an 'o' shape, she expected him to cry about being a girl.. not losing her hair!

The door behind Alice opened and in walked another girl, she had long silver hair with equally colored eyes. A long silver summer dress that reached her knees with a black short sleeved jacket that reached to her waist. The jacket had golden designs intricately carved on it and the dress had ruffles at the bottom. Black flats with a golden button on the tips. Gold hoops decorated her pale wrists and a black headband with golden buttons rested on her silver hair. Her silver hair had side bangs covering where an eyepatch would've been normally.

"Hm, I guess you see that the normally cool mortician has broken down just because her hair is-"

"Shut up!", Julius screamed and began to make a fresh batch of tears, "Just because you have long hair does'nt give you the right to rub it in!"

Alice put her finger on her cheek and smiled,"Nightmare? Is that you?". The girl smiled and nodded her head, "But.. Where's your eyepatch and blanket?"

Nightmare shrugged, "Those things would've ruined my outfit." Excuse me? Ruin your outfit? But it's freezing cold and your sick!

The silver haired girl laughed, "Being changed into a female changes the way I think sometimes. I can still read your mind as well..." Alice blushed and turned back to see Julius on the floor with her knees to her chest and a puddle of tears forming near her. "Ok.. Julius.. Please, this is ridiculous! It's just hair. You look much younger with the new hairstyle!" She spoke in a motherly tone hoping that it would make Julius to stop crying.

"A-alice.. T-thank you!", She got up and flashed her an innocent smile to which Alice blushed, Oh ho ho.. Is someone turning the other way? From the door Nightmare giggled and Alice heated up, Shut up! Just because your a girl does'nt mean I won't go easy on you! Alice thought back and Nightmare stopped giggling.

"Alice, I'm glad you're here. I don't know how we got changed into females. I need your help! I don't want to be stuck like this!" Julius hugged Alice tightly.

"I'm sorry Julius.. I don't know.." Alice spoke awkwardly, she was'nt used to being the one comforting others. Usually, Julius would hug her and say everything was okay. Now it was the other way around.

"Pfft.. Gray! Where are you!", Nightmare shouted down the hall and a girl with navy medium length hair came running down the hallway. She skidded to a stop in front of Nightmare and glared at her, "Yes?"

The girl had a open black coat that reached to her waist with golden studs on it as buttons. She had on a small black skirt which opened on the side to reveal black

leggings that reached to her knees. Black combat boots with little knives stashed in a little pocket on the back of each boot. A grey button up shirt with a black tie with a cute drawing of a pink bunny on it and a knife hidden under the sleeves of her jacket with a gun hidden in the folds of her skirt and a grey ribbon with a pink bunny in the middle decorated the side of her hair.

"I'm thirsty, can you make some hot chocolate? Four please and make one low calorie!", Gray walked away mumbling and crossed arms while shaking her head. Nightmare walked and sat on a table near a window, "Please sit with us Alice. You too, Julius."

Julius dragged herself to the table and sat down with red eyes. "Nightmare, I need to go! I need to check on the others to see if they're okay!", Alice said urgently as Gray burst in through the doors carrying four steaming cups of hot chocolate. Nightmare grabbed one and gulped it all down, Julius sipped hers quietly and Gray just stared at his cup while playing with the ribbon in her hair.

"Well, Alice," Nightmare offered her a cup, "I think you should drink that first, as you said, it'll be cold outside."

Alice took the hot cup in her hands and chugged the steaming drink as fast as she could. Her eyes widened and her tongue seemed to scream in pain as the taste buds seemed to burn off.

She bit back a scream and set her cup back down. "Just to let you know, I am hearing other thoughts from the Circus, Amusement Park and some violent reactions at the Hatter's." Nightmare giggled, "Blood seems to be having a breakdown, Pierce is going through some embarrassing stuff and Joker... I'm not even going to say."

Alice pushed her chair back and rushed to the door, "Thanks! I need to go now!". As she stepped her foot out Julius called after her, "Alice! Be careful!" The foreigner gave the mortician a smile and headed out the door.

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