Not So Grim [Alice]

[Wendy]

For the week, Wendy and her family were in France. It was not far from England, and it was a nice place to visit. Much to her dismay, Wendy was rather unwillingly to come. She loved home, and she was already missing it. Her mother was there with her, and she was the most important person to her. But who didn't hate home?

Wendy needed to ponder through her thoughts, so she left her hotel room and decided to wander to some place amazing. The moment she stepped out, it seemed to be Provincial France. Odd. Wendy thought to herself. She wandered outside and looked up ahead. A castle! Without even thinking for her safety, Wendy ran straight towards it.

Surprisingly, the door was open. She pushed open the vast doors, and found the place quite grim and dingy. Who would want to see this place? She wandered near to her left and found another door. The place seemed to be very bright from the outside, and not so grim. She opened the door, only to find the place gold and vast. Now this was a wondrous place!

[Alice]

"Oh dear where on Earth am I?"

Said young Alice as she made her way out of a closet it seemed. It was all so odd. She had been out by the river playing with her kitten Dinah. Dinah had run into the bushes so Alice had followed her. Next thing Alice knew she had been transported into this closet. And she was one to have things like this happen to her. But she could never quite figure it out. She exited the coat closet and found herself in a beautiful ballroom.

"Oh my. What a lovely room. Looks as if a King or a Queen lives here."

Alice said and that made her think of the terrible Queen of Hearts. Shaking the thought out of her head, Alice noticed a girl who looked about her age also in the ballroom.

"Excuse me. I am terribly sorry if I am bothering you but would you happen to know where I am?"

Alice asked Wendy very politely.

[Wendy]

Wendy watched with fear as a closet door swung open. At first, Wendy thought it was the ghost of a girl. Maybe this was a ghost ballroom? Wendy was about to make a run for it, fearing that the girl would try to kidnap and tie her up. But then she realized the girl seemed polite, and around her age. She seemed solid as a human, rather than hollow and transparent.

"We are in France. This is the ballroom of a castle. At least, I think we are," she responded.

She closed the door behind her as she ventured to step inside the ballroom. She assumed the blonde girl who stepped out of the closest was lost just like her. How were they both going to get out of here? Was she from the same hotel? Maybe, if they both went through the closet, they could both go home. "Is it just me, or did you just come from a closet?" She pointed overhead at the closet and wondered how could a person come into a castle through a closet?

[Alice]

"Well actually yes I did. You see I was sitting on the riverbed with Dinah, my cat, and Dinah had run into the bushes so I followed her since I didn't want her to get lost. All I saw was a flash of white light and next thing I knew I ended up behind the coats in the closet."

Alice said. My that was a mouthfull to explain. She had assumed the girl lived here but now all of those thoughts had changed. She sighed.

"I have no idea what to do now. This isn't the first time things like this had happened to me."

Alice said as she looked at Wendy for a moment then down at the floor.

[Wendy]

From bushes to a closet? How strange! Wendy thought. "That is quite strange. Nothing has ever happened to me. Well, not really. My family and I are here to relax and enjoy ourselves. Then I left the hotel, and discovered the streets were much like a village." Wendy explained, wondering if the girl wondered about her story of how she came here.

"I saw this castle, and I was interested in seeing it. But when I entered, it was so gloomy. But then I found this ballroom. It seems to be the only nice and bright room of the castle as far as I have seen."

Maybe, if the two girls went through the same way the came in, they would return! "Why don't you go back to the closet and return home. And I will simply exit the castle." It didn't hurt to try!

[Alice]

"Who knows maybe this is all just a dream. Yes perhaps I am dreaming. But it all feels so real. It can't be a dream then. Or can it?"

Alice said. She figured she had to just act on her instinct and just try to find her way back home. She listened carefully to Wendy's idea attempting to run it all through her head to see if it could work.

"I suppose we could give it a try. If it is the only way. So I head back to the coat closet. And you exit the castle? You believe that will get us home?"

Alice asked Wendy her curiousity on this idea nearly bursting inside of her as she tried to see other ways that may help the two girls.

[Wendy]

"Well, it does happen. Alot of dreams are very real, and then when you wake up, everything reverts back to reality. You don't really feel it was real!" Wendy explained. Sometimes, she wished she could somehow tell herself to wake up when she was a nightmare like this. But Alice would think she would be crazy if she started shouting to wake herself up.

"If it isn't a dream, it should work. When I was in Neverland, which I know was not a dream at all, I flew there. I came home the right way...well, by a ship. But through the same path," Wendy told her, hoping her theory of going through the way they came in was the right way of going out.

"Why don't you try climbing into the closet? I just want to make sure we don't look pathetic trying after several attempts to go home."

[Alice]

Alice nodded her head to Wendy's idea. She hoped it would work and it wouldn't all be backwords like how it was in Wonderland. She headed back to the coat closet. She looked back once at Wendy then walked in trying to keep her confidence high.

She went way to the back behind a few fur coats and his her face and body within them like she had been when she first arrived. For a few minutes nothing happened. Then she closed her eyes and thought long and hard about how she wanted to go home. She opened her eyes hoping to see her home but all she saw was the closet.