Andrea in Wonderland Chapter 1

Down the Rabbit Hole

It was the most gorgeous day. The sun was shining in the perfect, blue sky. The field of daisies perfectly complimented the trickling stream. Everything was peaceful, which made it even worse for me as I was stuck listening to my 24 year old tutor. I was 20 myself but my parents insisted I go to college and if they were paying for college they wanted their little girl to do well. So they hired Sally Hermione Tipple - as the pretentious snob always introduced herself. She was sitting at the base of a tree reading some drab text about history or something as I sat on the branch above her daydreaming about anything and everything that wasn't Sally or that snorefest book. As she continued to read to me, as if I cared, I slipped away to lay amongst the beautiful daisies and gaze into the perfectly clear brook when I glimpsed a most peculiar sight in the water's reflective surface – a rabbit in a coat and carrying a watch.

By the time I had lifted my head for a better look at this bizarre occurrence the Rabbit had gone. I wandered back to Sally, wondering whether my imagination had gotten the best of me, she had stopped reading. As I approached the tree I saw yet another peculiar sight, ropes wrapped around the thick trunk and bound with very effective knots. Intrigued, I slowly walked around the trunk to find my tutor encased, like the tree, in the mysterious ropes. Her entire body, below her breasts, was wrapped in the ropes, immobilising her completely and a thinner piece of rope held her head against the tree and her mouth open, a silk cloth preventing her from seeing me.

"I'm very late!"  I heard someone whisper in my ear. I turned to see the "rabbit" from earlier only to find it to not be a rabbit at all but a girl in a white corset, and a blue jacket with fishnet stockings, bunny ears and a little tail sown to the base of the corset. Her hair was such a pale blonde that it looked almost white, but it fell to her shoulders. I noticed that she had peculiar purple irises as she smirked at me before glancing back at her golden pocket watch. Before I could take in this bizarre girl, she dashed off again. I just knew I had to follow, so I pursued in hope of satisfying my curiosity.

I followed the imprints of her rabbit feet to a hole that looked much too small for her to have gotten through, but there was nowhere else to go. I didn't particularly want to get my jeans dirty but I was far too intrigued to turn back now. So I got onto my hands and knees and tried to crawl into the hole, finding it still too small, the only way I would get in is if I got onto my elbows and stomach and crawled in which I did with a groan as the mud dirtied my white, long-sleeved top. Finding as I crawled that after the entrance, the tunnel was a lot taller and I was able to crawl on my hands and knees instead of stomach. It was very dark as I crawled along and I couldn't help but realise how ridiculous the whole situation was, crawling through a rabbit hole after a bizarre girl dressed like a rabbit! I considered turning round and heading straight back out as I travelled deeper into the darkness; I even glanced back at the little light that was the entrance. A glance was all it took, as I placed my hand on what should have been solid ground I found it continuing down into nothingness and I began falling.

As I fell the most peculiar thing began to happen, my clothes began peeling away, starting with my trainers and socks slipping into the darkness, followed by my jeans, ripped away as if someone had taken hold and pulled them off, my arms were above me as I fell, making it easy for my top to fly off like the rest of my clothes leaving me in my light blue panties and skimpy bra. This wasn't even the weirdest part, as I continued to fall I fell straight into a dress, I say dress, it was more of a corset with a skirt and petticoat attached to the bottom. The powder blue dress hugged my curves, and accentuated my breasts, it laced up by itself at the back, an apron fastened around my waist, knee-high cotton socks and a smart pair of black sandals covered my legs and feet. Finally the hairclip came out of my straight, shoulder-length brown hair and was replaced by a hair band.

The air catching under the dress slowed me so that I drifted through the dim tunnel, as I was being dressed a light had come on and I could see my impossible surroundings. Furniture was floating, rocking chairs, dressers, bookshelves full of books, all suspended in the air as if there was no gravity. I barely had a chance to take it all in when the skirt stopped acting as a float and turned inside out, like an umbrella caught in a strong wind.

I had begun nearing the bottom of the hole, the ground was fast approaching and I had no idea how I was going to stop or at the very least slow down, especially now my skirt had given out. My body flipped so I was falling face first; naturally I panicked, closed my eyes and braced myself for the impact that would surely be the end of me.