Thud! I finally landed after the never ending falling down the rabbit hole in. Where was I? How the heck was I still alive?! Answer to question one: I was in a small circular room with only one door and no sign of where I fell in. Question two: no idea. Along the back wall was a large mirror, and I was taken aback by what I saw. My brown hair was platinum blonde, green eyes sky blue, and my boring uniform was replaced with jeans and a blue t-shirt. I was extremely confused.

I had to get out of there. Reaching for the door handle, a sharp pain burst through my hand, "HEY! WATCH WHERE YOU PUT THAT THING, KID!" The door handle. It wasn't a door handle. It was a face, made entirely out of brass, with glowing blue lights for eyes, handle for nose and the keyhole was its mouth; I couldn't help but to gape at it. "CLOSE YOUR MOUTH! YOU'RE NOT A RUDDY GOLDFISH!"
"Who... What... What, Who are you?!"
"I'm Copper and you, sonny, are late! You just had to take your time, didn't you!"
"I fell. Through a hole. In the frikin' wall! How in hell does that make me late?! Unless I'm actually in hell! OH MY GOD, I'M IN HELL!"

I started panicking and I couldn't stop. I desperately looked for another way out until a bronze arm appeared out of nowhere and slapped me round the face, "OW! Why'd you do that?!
" Sorry, you were out of control. Calm down, you're not in hell, you're in Doorways!"
"And that's better because?"
"Doorways is the place in between every place in every universe. Every time you go through a door you go through a tiny part of Doorways. This is a house in Doorways." It sort of made sense, but it was hard to believe a door is another planet.
"So where is the main part of Doorways?" I enquired, "You know, the capital city?"
"The capital city? Well, actually it's the nearest inhabited planet to your Earth; Saturn."
"The whole planet?! A whole planet run by doorknobs!"
"Excuse me! We are door handles, you buffoon! Also, we are a sub species. The main species is the Brasans; humans made entirely out of bronze. Some live on Earth, surveying your society, as statues."

A loud buzz filled the room and Copper twitched suddenly-I think he was twitching; it's hard to tell when they're stuck to a door- and looked quite anxious -again I'm not sure, "Look at that; you have me off task! Welcome to Doorways, here is your person identity folder. If you ever forget anything look in there; it knows everything about you." As he said it a brown paper folder dropped out of nowhere and hit my head. I picked it up, rubbing the growing lump where it landed. On the front was a picture of the new me with the name Mr Darien Alice -that wasn't my last name!- and 'Mr Alice' written underneath in brackets. Inside was full of information that certainly wasn't about me. What was this?!
"If you would just go through my door you will find yourself at the West Entrance-"
"West entrance of where?"
He ignored the question and pushed on, "Just ask a flower for directions if you get lost-"
"You've gone insane, Copper!"
"Enjoy your new home!" I didn't understand, I tried to turn away from the open door, but a strange feeling compelled me forwards. Once through the door, it disappeared in a puff of green smoke.

I was stuck. And this place sure wasn't England. It was like a never ending fun fair, where a bomb had gone off, and had then been overgrown by plants, giving it an eerie yet beautiful look. In the distance was a huge haunted house, dark purple clouds swirling overhead. I was definitely avoiding that place. A broken Ferris wheel lay to the east, letting off bright lights and loud bangs. I heard voices and looked down to see a group of neon flowers in deep conversation about 'murderous florists'. I was stood beneath a tall, leafless tree, where a purple cat lay on a branch watching in interest.

"Wonderland?.." I realized. But it was nothing like the book; this place was scary and dark, not childish and crazy. This was not a place of happiness; it seemed leech the very little light out of the air.
"Well it sure ain't heaven, that's for sure!" said the cat sassily. Definitely at girl by the sound of its voice. It's green eyes glowed cheekily, not like any normal cat.
"You're the Cheshire Cat!"
"No, I'm your grandma! How many other talkin' purple cats do ya know?!"
"Sorry, it's just, I hate to tell you, but you're a character in a book."
"I know. I'm one of your classmates. The whole class fell into Wonderland!"
"Seriously?! All of us! Where are they?! And why are you a cat?! And why did Copper give me this folder saying it was me?! And why have I got blonde hair?!" I couldn't believe it; we were all still alive. That meant ,unfortunately, Kate was too. Damn! I thought I'd finally got rid of her.
"Whoa, hold your horses, dude! We have all become the characters from the book. We all changed physically, and mentally a bit too. I was probably the worst off, becoming a cat and all, well, maybe Rabbit, at least I have powers."
I interrupted her ramblings, "Wait- does that mean I'm Alice?!"
"Yeah, but I don't think they were expecting a boy... Mr Alice."
"Wow, so original," I said sarcastically.

"Who are you then?"
"I can't say."
"Why not?! Come on, please?'
"No, you don't get it, I seriously can't. I cannot speak it, write it, mouth it. I'm the Cheshire Cat, Chess, or CC. Nothing else. Try it if you don't believe me."
I tried to say my name, but I couldn't. Darien. It shouldn't have been so hard to say but I felt as though I were choking on the very possibility of proclaiming it.
"Where are the others? Can I go see them? Go see my friends?"
"I don't think you want to see you're friends-"
"Why not?"
"But I could take you to the Hatter's House, there's always a party, well, a tea party!"
"Where's the Hatter's House?"
"Over there," she pointed to the Ferris wheel, I nodded, and we walked off -well she floated along side next to me- to the east, to Hatter's House.