Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Alice. She lived happily in Wonderland. One day as she was talking with her friend- a Cheshire cat, she suddenly saw a weird man, who said something about being late to final sales of the Black Friday; However, Alice had never seen him before. “How could a day be black?” she asked the cat. “I do not know! This man is probably mad!” the cat answered. Then Alice told the cat that she was going to see where the man was being late for.

Alice followed the man silently through a dark cave, until she couldn’t see him. But then the girl saw a table with a bottle on it ahead of her. “Drink me!!! Drink me!!!” The bottle kept repeating. She approached the bottle and asked it, “Do you know where this cave leads to?” “It leads nowhere, it leads everywhere!” it said. “What do you mean?” asked the confused Alice. “Drink me!!! Drink me!!!” the bottle insisted again. The fascinated Alice had no other choice but to start drinking whatever the bottle contained.

The more she drank, the smaller she grew. Then to her surprise she could see a gate to another world. Unfortunately, Alice couldn’t see the direction where she came from, so she took a deep breath and went towards the unknown.

The girl opened her eyes to see a bright shining light. She saw the man rushing to an extremely big…what was that, really? Was it a house? A mountain? It can’t be a tree; still it seemed like it was gently touching the sky.

“Excuse me!”

“Let me pass!”

Curses.

“Move aside.”

More curses.

The voices kept talking around her, thunders in her gentle ears; the faces denied her being there, focused on their targets; the legs rushed to get more and more in the marathon of life; and people, so many people, like a powerful never-ending stream of water. What is going on here?

“E- Excuse me…” Alice finally said to a bright-eyed woman.

“Oh, what do you want now? You want my money, don’t you? I don’t have any change” the woman said reluctantly and started walking again.

Alice wasn’t sure what money was; and what did she mean by saying change? “No- well, I just wanted you to help me, I am lost…” Alice responded desperately.

“You are saying you’re lost, eh? You better not steal my phone, be sure about that.” The tall woman handed her a shining little box. Alice stared at it, trying to figure out what she was supposed to do with it. “Seriously? What is that, don’t you know how to use it?” Alice saw that the woman was impatient. “Give me that.”  She took the little box away from Alice and left the girl alone.

Alice felt confused and lonely- just a little girl in this huge town… she suddenly caught a glance of the man she was following. “WAIT!” she yelled at him, she couldn’t take this anymore. The man turned around to her, like if she wasn’t a girl, but a wild creature that didn’t belong there.

“Hey, listen…” she said, and the man stepped back. “Just give me a chance to explain!”

the man finally let the words out of his mouth. “Who are you?”

“My name is Alice- I followed you to this world and I don’t understand any of it! I just want to go home…” a tear fell from her eye down to her cheek.

The man looked at her, stunned. Could she be from Wonderland? He came closer to her and hugged her. “Don’t worry… I’ll keep you safe here.” Alice, for the first time since she came through the gate, smiled.

As Alice and the man got to know each other better, their love grew. The man was nice to her and helped her to figure out the world she was in.

finally, Alice was very relieved when she met the person who would guide her in a new life in the big world. She didn’t want to come back to Wonderland anymore- she wanted to stay in this world with the man she loved.

In a while, Alice made some friends and lived with her true love happily ever after.

(NOT) TO BE CONTINUED!