Wonderland by Delaney Curd (pdf ebook reader txt) 📕

walked into my room and saw Eben and I kissing. Yeah, maybe that was it." He smiles and shrugs his shoulders walking out.
Alliah turns back to me. "My grandfather is a huge homophobe. Well only with guys anyway. When I told him I was gay, he was fine with it. I wonder why it upset him that Adam is? Oh well. Where were we?" She smiles playfully, and we continue where we were. My hand had just started to snake up Alliah's shirt, when the door opened again. "Adam, get out and learn how to knock!" She turns around and her mom is standing in the doorway.
"Dinner's ready. I'll give you two a minute to collect yourselves." She walks out of the room laughing. I start running my hands through my hair, trying to tame it, and Alliah is looking in the mirror fixing her lip gloss. We walk downstairs hand in hand.
Dinner was amazing, Lasagna, green beans, and bread. And for dessert we had strawberry cake with sprinkles on it. It was the first home cooked meal I'd had in a long time, and I savored every bite of it. After dinner, Adam and I had clean up duty. I didn't really mind it, because it gave me a chance to talk to him more.
"Adam, how long have you been gay?" I look at him out of the corner of my eye to see him stiffen just a little.
"Well, I've always been gay, just like you, but I didn't start telling anybody, until three years ago. Why?"
"I was just wondering. I just want to know you better. After all we are technically siblings." I keep watching him, he seems to be relaxing the longer we stay in the same room together. He hands me a dish to dry, and while I'm drying it, Adam seems to be thinking about something, wanting to say something, and just not knowing how. "You can say whatever you want, I'll answer any questions you have." That seems to give him the confidence he needs to ask his question.
"How did you know that you were in love with my sister? I mean, I'm assuming you two are in love, the way you were playing footsie under the table all night."
"You... You noticed that?"
He smiles and hands me another dish. "Yeah, you kept kicking me for the first three minutes of dinner."
"I am sooo sorry. I was wondering why Alliah didn't play back. She's normally the one who starts it."
"You didn't answer my question. How'd you know that you were in love with her?"
"Well, It's well, I think I knew when after we started our relationship, and I still had the butterflies in my stomach when ever she would look at me, or smile at me, or touch me, or walk into the same room. Everything she does makes me have butterflies. If you're not in love, the butterflies stop after a while."
"I... I think I know the feeling you're talking about. I think I might be in love with Eben, but I don't think that he's in love with me. I think he's falling our of love with me. What do I do? I mean, is there anything I can say to make him stay with me?"
"I don't think there is anything you can say to make him stay, except to talk to him, and tell him exactly how you feel, and see if he feels the same way. But don't go distant, stay as open as you guys are right now. If you go distant, he'll know that something is wrong."
"Th... Thanks I'll talk to him tonight we're actually going out so that'll be the perfect time. Thank you Gabby, I really do appreciate you talking to me about this."
"Yeah, not a problem. I hope everything works out for you." I put the last dish in the cabinet, and smile at him. "I'm going to finish unpacking. I'll talk to you later okay?" He nods and we go our separate ways. I walk past the living room, and see Amy and Dan snuggled up together on the couch, with Alliah sitting cross-legged in front of them, watching a movie. I sneak past them, and up the stairs.
In Alliah and I's bedroom, I grab my last bag, and throw it on the bed, unzipping it. Laying on the top of my things, is something I've never seen before. It's a small jewelry box, it looks like it's for a ring. I pick it up and open it. Inside is the most gorgeous ring I've ever seen. It's a thin silver ring with a small diamond in it, as I'm turning it this way and that, I see something on the inside of the ring flash. I look closer and see an engraving. I hold the ring up to the light more, and see the words 'Forever and always you'll be mine. -Alliah' I smile knowing she meant for me to find this. I slip it on my left ring finger and walk back downstairs.
I go into the living room, and sit beside Alliah. She leans over and puts her head on my right shoulder, cuddling up next to me. I lay my head on top of hers, pulling my knees up, putting my left hand on my knees, making sure the ring is in plain sight. "You weren't supposed to finish unpacking without me! Why didn't you tell me you were going to unpack?" She sits up on her knees in front of me, and somebody pauses the movie. "Since you already found it, I guess I can ask you now." She stands up and pulls me up too, pulling the ring off my finger. She gets down on one knee and says: "Gabrielle Madison Harte, I love you more than I could ever explain to anybody in the world. Will you marry me? I mean after we graduate and figure out what we're going to do with our lives, and... and..."
"Alliah shut up and listen to me." I grab her hand pulling her up to stand with me. "I love you more than anything in the world, and more than I could explain to anybody else, so yes, I will marry you!" Alliah just stares at me, while Amy, Dan, Adam, and Eben, who must have just got here to pick up Adam for their date, clap and smile, and start congratulating us. Finally Amy pats Alliah on the back.
"Alliah honey, she said yes. She said yes!" Alliah looks at her mom, then looks at me.
"You... said... yes?" I nod at her while she starts smiling at me, and she throws her arms around my neck while everybody else just laughs at her. "You said yes." She pulls back, and crushes her lips to mine. "You said yes!"
That night, laying next to Alliah, I twisted the ring on my finger, over and over. It just seems like a dream, like a beautiful golden dream that I'm going to wake up from and discover that I'm still in my nightmare. Alliah rolls over, putting her back to me, so I put my arm around her pulling her closer to me, and snuggling up next to her.
"Gabby. Gaaaaabbbbbyyyyy. Wake up!" I feel the blanket fly off of me. I turn on my side seeing Adam standing over me. "Come here I need to talk to you." He whispers in my ear. I get up looking at the clock and seeing that it's five in the morning. I give a little inward groan at being up this early, but follow Adam anyway feeling as if what he needs to say is important.
In the living room, I rub my left eye trying to get all the sleep out of it. "Adam it's five 'o clock in the morning. What in the world could be soooo important that you have to wake me up at five in the morning?" I sit down on the couch, curling my legs underneath me, laying my head on the back of the couch trying to stay awake.
"I figured out why Eben was acting so weird! He just told his parents about him being gay, and he wants me to meet them, he just didn't know how to tell me, because even after him telling his parents, their still somewhat homophobes, so he just wanted to warn me. That's all he was worried about."
"That's great Adam, so did you tell him how you feel? You know, about how you might love him?"
"Duh! The second he opened his mouth, it just rushed out, and he just smiled and laughed. Oh and he said congratulations about you and Alliah. He's really happy for you guys."
"Oh, well tell him we said thanks. Well, I'm assuming that Alliah would say thanks if she was awake."
"She would. I know she would. Gabby, I'm really glad that you're with Alliah."
"Me too." I murmur as I fall asleep on the couch.
"Gabby honey, wake up you're going to be late for school. You need to wake up." I blink a couple times trying to figure out where I am, when Dan's face pops infront of mine. He smiles and says: "Good you're up! Breakfast is on the table, but you're going to have to hurry if you want to eat." I jump up, running upstairs, seeing Alliah still sleeping, I shake her to wake her up. She doesn't move at all, so I shake her again, and still nothing.
"Alliah. Alliah, wake up. We're going to be late for school. Alliah wake up!" With this last one, I push her, and she fly's off the bed.
"What the fuck!" She jumps up shooting daggers at me until she realizes who I am. "Sorry baby girl, you just surprised me. Sorry." I smile at her to let her know that it's alright, I grab a pair of black skinny jeans, and a Pop Evil t-shirt out of the closet, stripping out of my pajama's, and putting these on. I grab a pair of black half boot heels, lacing them up I see Alliah grab some shorts and a Black Veil Brides off the shoulder shirt. When she pulls her shorts on, I smile, because they are absolutely the shortest pair of shorts she owns.
"You are absolutely the worst person in the world to wake up, you know that right? And you should put on some pants or some longer shorts at least."
She smiles leaning her head to the side then back real fast. "I know I am. Why do I need to put on different clothes? What's wrong with these? You're not going to be one of those people who tells me what to wear are you?" She crosses her arms across her chest, glaring at me.
I walk over to her, and grab her arms dragging them down off of her chest, exposing her leopard print bra. "I've never been one of those people, you know that. I just think you should put on more clothes, because if you don't, and I have to look at you all day at school dressed in those clothes, your clothes will be in the floor."
"Oh really? What if..." She unbuttons her shorts, shaking her hips and using her hands to push them down.
"Well, I think I might have to punish you for that one." I move closer to her, crushing my lips to hers, helping myself to her body. I know that soon we will be having sex if this goes on much longer, but as soon as Alliah's hand starts to go down my pants, there's a knock on the door, and Adam yells at us to hurry up if we want