IMPORTANT VERY VERY IMPORTANT! Okay, so if you hate reading about violence and/or child abuse and think that no one should EVER write about it I suggest you skip ahead to the headline School. If you don't, you can't flame about it! I WARNED YOU! I also don't see why no one should write about it! NEWSFLASH PEOPLE! Acting like it doesn't exist WON'T MAKE IT GO AWAY! So meh. Heheheheheh. My god I'm so bored... And this chapter is horrible... I want to right more fun stuff! WAAAAAAAHHHHH!

...I'm talking to myself again. Sorry.

And, shit, I forgot disclaimer last time but I DON'T OWN ANYTHING! SO DON'T F***ING SUE ME! [Please]

The song is Kiss Me, Kill Me by Mest and is AMAZING and there is also a HnKnA video for it so I STRONGLY suggest you listen to it. Fans of MCR, (If you don't know what that means your not a fan) Three Days Grace, Fallout Boy, Imagine Dragons... There's like, a MILLION other bands I could name. Oh, and this stuff is no longer 'very very important', as you've probably figured out by now. One last thing... Pierce and Boris are NOT in a relationship (sorry to those that wanted it, but I have no idea how to write it LOL)!

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"Lorina? Father? I-I'm home!" Alice held her breath, tiptoeing across the carpeted halls, toward the stairs and the way to her room.

"Alice." It was Lorina. Alice silently cursed herself for announcing her presence. She should have just stayed quiet. But there was still the possibility... Lorina wasn't facing her, she was looking at a painting that mother had hung up, a long time ago.

"H-Hello onee-san! How-?" But suddenly, Lorina whirled around, her beautiful face twisted in a snarl.

"I'm not your onee-san!"

"R-Right! Sorry!" But Lorina wasn't finished.

"It's all your fault!" She gestured to the painting, "This is all your fault!! If you weren't here, everything would still be fine! It's thanks to you that I don't have a mom!"

"Lorina..."

"And how do you think I feel?! When all the other people in my class are talking about how great their family is, and all I have is a drunk for a father and a murderer for a sister!"

Alice flinched back as if she had been hit. But it was her fault, it was all her fault. She had killed mother. So she deserved it, her father, her sister, all of it...

"I'm sorry..." She bit her bottom lip, worrying it between her teeth.

"Sorry isn't going to bring her back!" Lorina's hand flew out and slapped Alice across the face.

The door to their father's room flew open.

"What the hell is going on here, dammit?!"

"F-Father?" Alice was sitting on the floor, holding her cheek.

"Father, Alice invited a boy over to our house without telling you!" Lorina pointed her finger at her accusingly.

"But-" Alice tried to get up, but she was cut off by another slap, this time, from her father. Gasping in pain, she fell back to the floor.

Lorina turned and went upstairs.

"I always knew..." Her father muttered under his breath, "Knew you were the evil one... All your fault.. Why..." He staggered toward her again, obviously drunk.
"Why..? Why why why..." His foot collided with her ribs. Alice bit back a cry of pain.

"Your fault... All her fault... You f***ing ingrate!" He was kicking her again, his foot colliding over and over again with her ribs.

"She died because of you! And yet you actually still have the nerve to try to sneak a boy into my house!" Blood splattered on the wall behind her.

As the beating continued, Alice, for some strange reason, remembered song lyrics:

This valentine is doomed...

Her father grabbed her by the shoulders, shaking her back and forth.

The smell of blood has filled this room,

He grabbed for his pocket knife, an instrument Alice was all too familiar with.

If I could do it all again...

Images of flashed through her head. Her and Lorina, laughing and hugging their Mother. Her Father laughing along with them. Her Mother in the hospital. Her sisters words 'it's all your fault!'

I would change most every single thing.

Her father cut at her again, bringing her back to reality.

I would let you-

Suddenly, the phone rang.

And, grumbling to himself, her father left to answer it.

While he was gone, Alice managed to drag herself to her feet and forced herself to climb the stairwell to her room, in the attic. She slowly put her foot down on each wooden step, trying to keep them from squeaking and waking Lorina, who was probably already in bed. But she eventually reached the little wooden door that led to her room.

The attic space was supposed to be the worst room in the house, but Alice loved it. When you walked inside, you were met by several bookshelves and a little bed in the corner; there was also a bathroom that was connected only to her room, so no one else really knew that it existed. There was also a widow that Alice could reach and look out of, but only if she stood on the bed. When she had first moved in she had tried to make the room look prettier with decorative lamps and brightly colored curtains, but she had eventually gotten rid of all of it. Her room looked much better without all of the useless adornment.

Slipping of her shoes, she eased herself into the bathroom before carefully taking off her hoodie and uniform shirt. Looking in the mirror, she stared into the teal-blue eyes of a girl she barely recognized. Quickly, she looked away. She had always hated looking at herself, it made her feel strangely vain. That and the fact that she wasn't very pretty. Sighing, she forced herself to look in the mirror. There were ugly bruises adorning her body, turning her midriff a variety of different colors. She flinched. No matter how many times she saw them, she never got used to them.

But she deserved it. She deserved everything that happened to her. Because it was her fault, it was all her fault...

She jabbed a finger quickly into the bruise on her side; this wasn't the time to be spacing out! She then quickly-but efficiently-applied some kind of salve-lotion that she bought every time she went to the drug store. She wasn't really sure if it did anything, but she had been putting it on ever since the beatings started, so there was something oddly comforting in repeating the familiar motion. Next, she pulled out a box of band-aids and covered any cuts that had been made and/or opened. Finally finished, she put everything away before collapsing into bed. Her clock said 12:00. It was going to be hard to get up for school the next morning.

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School

Alice sighed and threw down her lunch. It had been a long day. Considering how many weird looks she'd gotten from people (and there had been a lot) her actions from yesterday hadn't been forgotten. Which really sucked, since she had actually forgotten about them herself. She sighed loudly and collapsed onto the ground next to her discarded food.

Big mistake.

"Ouch!" She yelped, gasping as a wave of fiery pain wrenched through her side.

Suddenly, the door slammed open.

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH HH! PLEASE HELP ME! The cat wants me chu~!" Alice yelped in surprise as she was glomped by a strange, mouse-cosplaying boy.

"U-um... Hello...?"

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH! Help me chu~!"

Alice rolled her eyes.

"...You're fine. Whoever the 'cat' is, I think they went away."

The mouse-boy looked at her with eyes filled with wonder. "Y-You saved me!"

"No not really-"

He peered closer into her face. "You're my savior! And you're really cute, too!"

Alice felt her face go warm and quickly turned away from the boy, who was crouching beside her, completely ignoring the fact that she did have personal space. And that he was invading it.

"I-I'm Alice, A-Alice Liddell," she murmured softly, tugging up the hood of her hoodie.

His green eyes widened.

"So your the girl everyone's been talking about! I'm Pierce Villers!"

He held out a hand for her to shake, which eventually, she did, though somewhat cautiously.

Pierce beamed at her happily for a moment before leaning toward her, taking up the tiny bit of space that Alice had managed to maintain between their faces.

"So Alice, can I kiss you chu~?"

A furious blush rose to her face.

"N-No! Of course not!" She quickly shoved him away and glared at him, "And what did you mean by that?"

Pierce tilted his head to one side. "That? I meant that, sense your cute, I wanted to k-"

"No!" Alice said, shaking her hands back and forth in front of her face. "I meant the part where you said that everyone's been talking about me. I mean, surely, me hitting that weird boy in face isn't that big a deal, right?"

"Oh Alice..." His mouse ears drooped as his face fell, "You really have no idea what you've done, haven't you?"

"Wh-What do you mean?"

"Well, for starters, Black's one of the most powerful people in Wonderland."

Black? That must be his name...

"And that means...?"

Pierce sighed loudly, before opening his mouth to explain.

"There are lots of ranks in Wonderland! It's supposed to be that the ones who've been in it for longest are the highest ranks, and the newer ones are the lowest."

"Oh. So when did this guy.. whatshisname... Black, join Wonderland?"

"...Two years before now."

"But that's hardly a long time at all!"

"I said supposed to. It's actually ranked on how dangerous they are! Which is why I'm the one with the lowest ranking..."

"Wait, wait, wait, wait! Your in Wonderland?! "

He shook his head sadly, "It wasn't my fault... I just transferred in today, and the evil cat was chasing me, so I accidentally climbed onto the roof. And brought a teacher with me as a shield. But still! It was all his fault!"

Alice raised her eyebrows and smiled a little; she hadn't noticed before, but he was actually really cute!

"Anyway, on with the story. So Black Joker and White Joker are two of the most dangerous people in Wonderland! They even have there own section in the dorms! For just two people! Oh, and they're twins too, so no one can ever tell them apart!"

She stared at him for a moment. "So now there are two of them?! Wasn't one enough?!"

The mouse boy nodded solemnly, agreeing with her.

"And since they've never, ever been rejected by a girl before, they probably hate you right now. Gray says that you're either very, very brave or very, very stupid. He also says that you're probably both."

"...Great." Alice leaned her head back against the wall. She didn't particularly care anymore, she just wished that she had never, ever, slapped the idiot. But that look on his face... She giggled slightly, recalling the red-head's stunned expression, the way his single eye had bulged out slightly (He had been wearing an eyepatch, something Alice had not found weird at the time, but eventually, when looking back on it, assumed it was more cosplay. Oh joy.) and his mouth had opened in shock.

It was practically kind of worth it.

Lost in her thoughts, she almost didn't notice when the door burst open and a crazy looking boy with bright pink hair and-

Where those cat ears?!

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH! Help me! Alice-chan help me chu~!" Pierce hid behind her, clutching madly at her back.

Alice, in process of trying to Pierce off of her, suddenly froze.

Earlier he said: 'The cat wants me!' Does that mean...

Alice looked from the pink-haired cat boy to green-eyed mouse boy. Both cosplaying. And both, probably, in Wonderland. Could it be...? They were...

They're in a relationship?!

Her eyes widened as she began to imagine just what kind of things the cat-boy wanted. Poor Pierce...

"Alice!" Her head snapped up in surprise, she'd been so caught up in thinking about their relationship that she hadn't noticed that the cat-boy had gotten closer-much closer-to her and Pierce. He was now slowly walking towards them, his eyes narrowing as he spotted his prey...

Then he pounced.

Pierce screamed, thrashing against the onslaught that had suddenly caught him by surprise. Alice on the other hand could only thing one thing:

Oh God... Not here... Not now... Not in public... Not in front of me!

"H-Hey! Get off of him!" She attempted to shove the cat-cosplaying freak off of Pierce, but instead of falling off like she had hoped he would, he grabbed her arm to steady himself.

Alice yelped in surprise and tried to draw her arm back; but his grip was too strong, and he ended up falling off of Pierce and onto Alice. His torso banged painfully onto the bruises on her stomach, causing her to squeak and try to wiggle out of his grip.

"Wow... Sorry Alice! I guess I got a little carried away there, huh?"

Alice glared up at him, blushing, painfully aware of how close their faces were.

"Who are you and how the heck do you know my name?!" She snapped hotly.

He grinned at her, leaning in closer, which caused her to blush even harder.

"I'm Boris Airay. And the reason I know your name is because... Well, how could anyone not know your name, you know, after what you did to Black?" His smile got even wider, "Not that I don't fully support you doing what you did; as a matter of fact, I enjoyed it immensely!"

"Good to know." Alice struggled under him some more, "Now will you please get off of me?!"

"Awwwww... But why? Your so cute when your blushing like that!" His grin had transformed into a smirk and his face was still quite, quite close to hers.

"I said get off of me!" With all of her strength, Alice gave him one last mighty shove, which sent him rolling off of her, laughing.

"Boris you jerk..." She mumbled under her breath.

"Your no fun, Alice~!"

Carefully, she pulled herself off her floor and dusted herself off.

"I have now decided that I hate, hate boys. Especially the ones from Wonderland." She scowled, glaring at Boris and Pierce.

Boris whistled slightly.

"You hate us?! Just wait until you meet the others!"

The others... Oh, right.

Alice had almost forgotten the there were others. Four of them were more than enough for her; and if they were as bad as she suspected...

She suppressed a shiver.

"Now, even though I would love to spend the day with you Alice-" He sent her a quick wink, "It's almost time for class and I have a mouse to chase. So goodbye!"

Pierce gave a shriek and ran out the door. Boris started to follow him, but then paused at the doorway.

"Oh, and Alice?"

"Yeah?"

"I will definitely be catching you later. No pun intended." Then, with one last grin, he turned and slipped out of the door.

Alice moaned and fell back against the wall.

Crazy, stuck up Joker twins and creepy, perverted cosplayers. That may, or may not be in a sexual relationship.

She definitely didn't want to meet anyone else from Wonderland. And if she ever saw any of them again, it would be all too soon.

Sighing, she bent down and picked up her uneaten lunch, tossing it and its contents into the trash. She hadn't really been that hungry anyway. With that done, she turned toward the door and was about to leave when, suddenly, she bumped into the chest of a man with red eyes and brown hair.

She recognized him.

He was from Wonderland.

Oh God, not again!

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Meh. I'm not too happy on how this chapter turned out... But after she meets all ta characters, that's where the real fun begins! X3 This should be entertaining... Oh, and thanku to everyone who reviewed and read my story! Your all epical! XD XD