Alice+Fantasy


 * ForgetMeNot [[image:forget_me_not_-_Copy.jpg width="71" height="65"]]**

”Those are gorgeous! Granny, come and have a look at them!” ”Thats enough Bleu! Mr. Hamilton can’t wait for years for his groceries, hurry up! ”Please can I stay here and wait for you!” Blue wants to spend her whole life in front of this shop window. All these toys! Beautiful dollhouses, colourful small cars and wonderful dolls! Dolls and teddies with cute eyes you just want to hug.

Blue owns two novels, a pencil and a notebook, with very straight lines that makes eyes tired, no toys at all. That is because her granny doesn’t likes toys, or playing. When Bleu was three years old her parents died in a car accident, that’s what everyone tells her anyhow. She usually dreams of her parents sitting on a cloud painting the sky, singing the song they always sang for her when she was a baby, the song about how beautiful and kind Blue is.

Suddenly Blue sees a hole under the shopwindow, it is not bigger than a shoebox, but Bleu is little and slim so she thinks she could come through it. It is strange that she had never seen it before, even though she had spent so much time here. Then she sees a bird with a forget-me-not in its beak, creeping in to the hole. She could not resist anymore, so she peeps in, what she then sees is completely overwhelming.

An ocean of blue flowers under a sky, blue as the innocentness self and somewhere in the remote distance - high mountains. She looks straight in to a new world. Bleu looks backwards to see if anyone is on the sidewalk, it is empty, so she creep the fastest she could through the hole and jumps down in the meadow.

It is not the landing that hurt, it is the flowers, they are so hot, like sand becomes on a sunny day, she raises fast and looks back to see the hole that she jumped from, it is gone. There are only bleu, blue and blue, everywhere.

She starts to walk and after a while she sees a big stump, it have a door and a window and inside the window a brown textile arm beckons Blue to came. She thinks it is an illusion, Blue peers at the window, the sun reflects it, but after a while she sees it, the hole being, sitting inside the window and beckoned to her, it became to much. She pass out.

When she wakes up she lays in a bed with white linen, she is very confused. What she had seen outside was not an illusion. Beside her sits a teddy, a teddy the same size as Blue, his leg is secured with a safety pin and his left arm hangs a little loosely, a teddy with warm eyes and round stomach. He looks at her. ”I am nothing to be afraid of, my name is Eddy, you have slept in two days now, I want to give you more water Blue but there is not much left” he says and looks dreamy out of the window. ”How do you know my name?” ”You are an important person in this land Blue, everyone knows your name” Blue is now even more confused than before. She looks straight into Eddy’s eyes and says: ”Dear Eddy can you please pinch me, because I need to wake up to figure things out, why you are so big, where I am and why the flowers hurts?”

”I can’t pinch you, I am to soft for that, but I can answer your questions: I am not big, I have a normal teddybear size, I think it is you that have become small. You are in ForgetMeNot, the land of childhood, every kid visits it just before it is born, to get innocent and cheer eyes and the instinct to play. But when they grow up they seem to forget.

You see all the flowers out there, they are forget-me-nots and have been planted of bluenixs (in your land you say birds) when a child is going to be born, it gets a new little flower every year to mark the age, and when the childhood is over, wither the flower. But a hundred years ago a very strange thing happened, a sun rose start to grown in a valley. In the beginning everyone in ForgetMeNot thought it going to be an unusual childhood and thought it was exciting, but the child never come to visit us, we wait nine month, ten, eleven, a hole year but the flower’s owner didn’t come, and the sun rose only become higher and bigger. After a year and two month it become so hot, like a real sun, it was much higher than the mountains and we was worried, cause the flower eats up the clouds and cleaned up the lakes with theirs roots, when we saw what was going to happen’d everyone in the hole country went out to take advantage on the water that could be saved, it was not much, it would only be enough to water the plants with in hundred year, and these forget-me-nots not need much water, just a drop every year but many flowers still withered, or they were burned shortly, of the huge heat near the sun rose”

Blue has tears in her eyes. ”So many children that don’t get a hole childhood!” ”Your parents was here Blue” ”What?” ”They were the oldest that still have a forget-me-not left, their childhood had not yet ended. Both had fifteen small flowers on the plant. They were here to try save childhoods, to help us. They had warm harts. After a few years after theirs flower had wither (but they still remember us) your mother and father get a child, that was you Blue. Your flower was planted on a very strange place, just next to the sun rose. It was very hard for the bluenixs to plant it there, but it is the flower that diced place, nothing can stop them. We was desperate, cause your flower could’t be watering, when you was three years old your parent went out to slay the flower, they were disappeared, al the bluenixs in the country went out to find them, but nobody did, and your flower still growing, it refuses to give up”

Blue did’t cry any more, she just look at Emilie with her clear blue eyes, she said with mature voice. ”I wan’t to do it, I want to save childhoods like my parents did, I wan’t to slay the sun rose, I am made to do that”

Like if it is not weird enough already, what happens next feels even more like a dream to Blue. She gets an armour made of blue metals and a pair of golden scissors. She has to go all by her self so she gives Teddy a warm hug.

When she comes back she is shivering. A fresh breeze is blowing in her hair and raindrops is starting to fall ...

She knocks on teddies door, hi open it fast and tears of luck start to fall from his eyes, hi takes her in his arms, a long time.

”You are always welcome to forget-me-not”

Emile shows her a hole under the dinner table, the way home.

”I want to stay here with you, but I need to take care of my grandma!”

”Of course Blue! Your home is there, but we will meet, sooner than you possible think”

She hugs Emile and crawls trough the hole.

It rains a light spring rain from fluffy white clouds on the blue sky, she looks around and sees her grandma inside the toy-store. She cams out and gives Blue a hug (she had never did that before so Blue gets warm inside). ”I have been so worried, I have wait for you in ten minutes here!”

They walk home and eat dinner. Eight a clock Blue goes to beed, on the bed sits a teddy, a small teddy, his leg is secured with a safety pin and his left arm hangs a little loosely, a teddy with warm eyes and round stomach. She hugs it and she will not forget.

Johanna: shivering- skakig innocentness - oskyldigheten safety pin-säckerhetsnål beckoned- bakom crawls- kryper armour- rusting possible- möjligt breeze- bris/vind scissors- sax loosely-löst

Alice, you are a amazing writer! You have a very good english and your story is new thinking and outstanding. The only thing that I noticed was that your story was a little bit look alike "Alice in wonderland" BUT I think you have made a "Alice Style Twist" that makes your story more interesting and different. I love your imagination and your way to express your self. Love Sofie