Here's the new chapter of Wonderland. I still don't understand why this story gets more reviews than Born This Way does.
Your POV:
You stand in the ballroom, dresses in the outfit you bought with Neyla earlier. The magenta skirt completely covers your heels, so you still have the same height you did last night. You blend in perfectly this time. The shirt covers your shoulders but reveals your midriff, and matches the skirt in color and detailing. The veil flows behind you and goes down to your ankles. Your gold bangles jiggle on your wrists.
You feel ridiculous.
You tap into your ear piece. "I'm in position. Where's Sly?" Great, you have to watch him dance with Bitch Queen, and wear a stupid outfit. You miss your skinny jeans and converse.
"Right here, milady."
You jump and stutter-fucking stutter-out, "Y-You need to wear a bell."
"Hmm, being in this business, that's really not a good idea."
You roll your eyes. "Whatever. There's Carmelita. You ready, Bentley?" You ask.
"Affirmative. Murray and I are in position."
"Alright, then it's showtime." You said with a smirk. You don't even have to wait. Rajan has left his thrown, and he's made his way over to you. Sly slides off to go dance with Carmelita. "My Lord, it is a pleasure and honor to see you again."
He bows. "Miss Arianna, you look lovely this evening."
You return the bow. Looking over at Sly, Carmelita doesn't look too happy to have been kept waiting. But Sly still gets her out onto the dance floor. You smile. "And you look magnificent. But my Lord, I believe you requested a dance with me this evening."
You and he join Sly and Carmelita, and Rajan is a great dancer. You're careful not to step on his feet, because then he'd be alerted to your heels which you defiantly need because Rajan is like a giant. He towers over you, even with heels on.
The music begins, and Rajan only takes a second before he starts trying to win you over. "So how are you and your husband doing? I felt that you were quite upset with him last night because of his dance with Miss Fox."
Ugh, does he have to talk about that? You really don't want to hear about what a two-timing son of a- "My husband and I are doing fine." And this douchebag does know you're married, right? Obviously not. He seems desperate to win your hand. Thank God this is almost over. Discretely looking over your shoulder, you see Murray using that saw that was made when Sly got those rubies off Rajan's elephants to get the Clockwerk Wings off.
Good job, Murray. You thought to yourself sincerely.
"Tell me stranger, what's your name?" You hear Carmelita asks. Jesus Christ, he's married-or he's supposed to be, at least. How dare she!
Sly only smirks. You look up again, and the wings are gone. You give Rajan a look that would make the Cheshire Cat run in fear. He stares at you like you've lost your mind. "Madame, are you alright?"
You nod. "I'm just, perfect, thanks. I feel like an angel that just got her wings."
"If you want to see lovely wings, then look at-" He turns around and you just wish you could see his face. "The wings! What happened to the Clockwerk Wings!"
Sly grabs your waist, and then you find yourself up on the balcony, safe since the guards rushed downstairs to investigate the disappearance of the wings. Carmelita's flipped. She blew her cover and she's starting to make arrests left and right. She throws the rose and calling card Sly gave her to the ground and stomps on it.
It gives you pleasure to know that she's just so happy.
Looking over, you see Rajan escaping through the window.
"We'd better get out of here, we got cops closing in." You nod, and follow him out the backdoor, throwing off your heels and ripping off your veils and skirt to reveal the pair of shorts you were wearing. You hop into the van with Murray, Bentley, and Sly. The Clockwerk wings are in the back.
"I only wish I had seen his face." You smirk victoriously. You start taking out the bobby pins and your hair falls back down to your shoulders. Finally, you can go back to wearing jeans and t-shirts again. You miss your Converse again. "And I wish I had said goodbye to Neyla. Carmelita's probably flipping her shit on her, poor woman."
If you didn't think Bentley would flip out, you would ask to make Neyla a member of the Cooper gang. It would defiantly come in handy to have someone on the insides and in league with the cops. You should hang out with Neyla more, and you feel bad for ditching the outfit you got when you went shopping with her. But you're sure she'll understand.
"So, where we going next?" You ask, running your fingers through your hair.
"We agreed on a trip to Bollywood." You raise an eyebrow.
"Bollywood? Sly, I really don't want to, and…remember what we saw? Rajan is still out there."
And highly likely to be dangerous. Rajan is a tiger, and after being forced to flee from his own party, he can't be happy. He's after everyone who ruined his reputation, and he most likely wants blood. You bite your lip. You know guys like that. Arianna was involved with one of them. They need to have total control over everything, including their women.
"Cerlie, you okay?" Murray asks.
You nodded. "Yeah, I was just thinking about my sister. She got involved with a guy like Rajan-controlling." He took advantage of Arianna's vulnerable state. She started to see him right after your (adoptive) father died. He and Arianna were so close, she was completely heartbroken and emotionally wrecked when he passed away. She even kept Artenie as her last name. She could because she was already a legal adult and didn't have to change her name to Noukhayev like you did when your mother remarried. Tyler-the asshole's name-pretended like he actually cared about her and Arianna needed that support-she was desperate for it, even if she didn't reach out for it. Her pride didn't let her. She was too naïve to see he was just using her. Fortunately, she broke it off before it got too bad. "Don't worry about it."
How is she doing right now? Your mother's probably worried sick about you. She always told you how you and Arianna were her world-she'd be destroyed if anything happened to you. Her words still ring in your head. "For a parent, there is no greater pain than losing your child." Is that what being a mother feels like? And what about Arianna? She-she loves you. No matter how distant you were from, she did love you. After losing your father, what will she-
Arianna isn't your biological sister.
That thought just rocked you like a thunderbolt. All those years of being in the same household, having the same family name for most of them, and calling each other your sister-there's no blood between you.
That realization is disturbing.
There's the end of the Clockwerk Wings part of the story. We move on to the next part of the story, and that big scene you've all been waiting for.
See you then!
~Mimi