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alice had always thought the sky was the most beautiful thing. the crisp blue that would light up the world. she knew the sun really did that, but without the blue of the sky, it wouldn't be the same. the way the clouds would dance across the beautiful backdrop was enough to make alice sigh with joy. today, she had managed to get mickey to come out with her on a picnic. she had found herself growing closer to the movie star, feeling a connection with him like nothing she had before. a statement that while true to most people alice had befriended while in emporia, meant a lot to alice. she laid herself on her back, arm lifting up to point at a fluffy cloud, "mickey," she called for his attention, "what do you see in that cloud?" // @mickvy​

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💘 + march ;))))

whenever she was with marco, it felt like he too had been to wonderland. someone who knew how her mind worked. she didn’t have to explain the kookie way she saw things with him, because he saw the same things. he would celebrate her unbirthday with her. he would dance around the room when no music was playing. she never felt like she needed to know what she was doing with him, because he processed things just like her. the way she could so easily just fall into his arms. she wondered what it would be like to wake up and see his face. to wake up to see his face. to feel the touch of his soft skin under her fingers. to find a never ending adventure with him. 

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💘mabel+alice

it was delightful. to find someone like mabel. she was weird. in a different way than she was. alice adored it. it was so dreamy to be with her. not in her usual sleepy stupor, but in high action, thrilling adventure. she cold not be passive with mabel. she had to be active. be present. alice wanted to be like her. wanted to be so totally herself. the smile was never far away from alice’s delicate features around the bouncing curls. even as her cheeks ached, alice never wanted the sensation to go away. she wanted to see the world the way mabel did. she wondered if she could see what she sees by feeling her soft lips on hers. the thought surprised her to say the least. alice had always thought the desire to kiss someone would be meant for a boy. but when she saw the way mabel would laugh, alice wanted to taste her laughter. to see if it tasted like the love that seemed to exude from the bright eyed girl.

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💘 and mickey

the way michael treated her was unlike anyone had ever before. he was so kind with her, not making her feel stupid for not knowing everything. the way he made her feel like she was something special, but in a good way. not something that needed to be fixed. she could feel found with him. even when she knew very well how little sense she made, he would go along with it. the way she could babble to him about this and that, and he would still carry her on his back. the way he would look at her with his warm brown eyes, and made her feel like she had found herself. like she actually knew who she was with him. he didn’t make her feel ashamed for her childish tendencies. he would play along with her. he would be her prince. he would be her knight. protecting her from the dangers of wonderland, and from the real world. sometimes her blue eyes never wanted to leave his brown. she never wanted to look at anything else. from her spot in the grass next to him, alice wondered what it would be like to kiss him. to be one of his leading ladies. it was never something she had done. she assumed many others had. and that many others had already tasted the sweet sensation. she wondered what it would be like to lay there with him, his hands around her, keeping her close and safe. close enough so she could see all the details in his caring eyes. she had read many times what it was like to fall in love. never having felt it herself, she wondered if it was like this. wanting someone to keep looking at you like you had a place. she wanted him to be in love with her. she wanted him to be the first person she loved. this is what love must be. to feel found. and in those brown eyes, she felt found.

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wld u fuck mickey b honest

“he is really handsome, but he’s a really dear friend. i also think he doesn’t think of me like that.”

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mickvy‌:

the move was one he had pulled so many times, especially in the cheesy teen romcoms he was always cast in. all the girls went crazy when his character tucked some hair behind the protagonists ear, such a small gesture meaning so much, and now he was on the receiving end and understood why. there really was something sweet about it, something that made you feel cared for, enough for him to forget he had that horrible hat on his head again. “i really think you’re the only one who finds some kind of appeal in it if i’m honest.” him and his coworkers took every opportunity to take it off when their boss wasn’t around to see. “no, i only call people pretty if i think they are. no business strategy here.” of course that wasn’t true, there were plenty of times he complimented and flirted to get something, but who would he be if he actually admitted that? “well alice could be aly, that’s a cute nickname. it could also be lice, but i don’t think that’d be very fun to be called. so aly would be the best option nickname wise.” he liked the name alice, it really did fit her, but aly did too. it felt more casual, somehow it felt like it fit more with the town they seemed to be stuck in. “what about you, what’s your usual style?”

now that he was close enough leaning down, with her on the tips of her toes, alice was able scan his features better. she enjoyed the slope of his nose, it made her think of a bunny. which of course was her favorite animal. although, an argument could have also been made for a mouse. both of which she adored. she was starting to figure out why the childhood nicknames for the disney boys stuck. they did seem to look like the small rodents, but in alice’s opinion, was the best thing. her blue eyes found his brown before setting back on her feet, understanding why he was a good romantic lead. they were nice eyes to look at. “sounds like something a business man would say, thankfully for you i’ll believe you. since you are a mouse and not a walrus.” she said it as if it were the most obvious thing. in her own head, it made perfect sense, and she didn’t really think that for other people it would be a silly comparison. “i would certainly not like to be lice, they’re rather unpleasant.” she giggled delightedly at the thought of having a nickname. “but aly is sweet, i like that. very simple and fun.” she beamed up at him, proud that he would be the first to appoint her a nickname. “i like dresses and skirts, they make me feel pretty. oh! and if it’s blue i’ll likely love it. unless it’s jeans, i don’t really like them.”

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pazificas‌:

pacifica really was starting to feel bad for the girl, there was clearly something wrong with her. maybe she was locked in an attic her entire life, or worse, one of those weird home school kids. “thanks for the compliment on my shoes, but like, do you need help or something?” this was the nicest pacifica usually would’ve been in a situation like this, making the girl fairly lucky.

alice often found herself lost when it came to talking to her peers. they didn’t seem to ever understand her either. which it seemed was happening right now. “why would i need help?” she asked, now starting to worry for the other girl. she wasn’t making any sense, and alice thought she might need help herself. “do you need help? if you would like some water, i could get you water?”

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matildun‌:

“i think i’m a little lost too. maybe the dreams are the big picture, but you know best about them so who the fuck am i to know,” matty added with a chuckle, head resting on top of alice’s. “any new dreams come to you lately? if not, we have to go star gazing again and get something working in that good old brain of yours.”

alice found herself nuzzling herself further into the shoulder of the redhead, finding much comfort in the other girl. alice liked to think she was one of her first ever real life friends, not someone she had made up in her head. “i’ve had some dreams, what with caterpillars turning to butterflies, queens and roses, never ending tea parties, but all of that is usual. i need something new, matilda.”

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mickvy‌:

he followed the call of her hand, bending down and moving as close as he could get with the divider between them. “i could always get a new hat, they have like an infinite stock of them back there.” he pointed to the back room mindlessly, knowing they would have to order another for him if he gave it away. he didn’t mind, he could always just pay it off. “no, that isn’t true at all. you came in without the hat and i thought you were pretty then too.” it was odd, usually when he flirted with a girl it was with one thing in mind, and he made that known from the beginning. this was the most innocent it had been, and he really couldn’t imagine taking his comments any further with the blonde in front of him. her clapping at his little gun show left him cheesing, unable to deny the ego boost it sent to his stupid little boy brain. “i don’t mind michael but it’s too serious. most people call me mickey.” most would hate how childish the nickname sounded, but he never grew into that stuffy i’m a serious actor now, call me michael phase most expected him to fall into. “jeans, t-shirt. i hate to admit it, but i’m very basic.”

as the tall boy leaned down, she carefully put the hat back on his head, fingers brushing back some of his soft hair behind his ears. “i think the rest of your pretty customers would be sorry they didn’t get to see the full look,” she tilted her head, grinning brightly. there were some who might think she wasn’t serious, that she was finding some way to insult the poor boy. but alice was never like that. far too often she had been on the receiving end of such comments, and she never wanted to make people feel like that. not to mention, michael really was handsome in the hat. “do you just call people pretty to get them to buy more ice cream? because that is a very effective strategy. you’re a very smart business man.” she was never used to taking complements. not very many came her way, unless it was her father, but she suspected all fathers said such things of their daughters. but as he cheesed so brightly, alice too matched his smile. it made her feel so light, to be able to brighten someone’s day like that. “okay, mickey it is. i always think alice is far too formal, but i’ve never had any friends to give me another name.” it wasn’t that alice meant to overshare, but she didn’t really think it was all that sad. it was just how she had always been. as clear by the smile she held, it didn’t affect her all that much. “if it makes you comfortable, then it’s good style.”

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pazificas‌:

pacific was honestly too confused to even bully the girl, too busy trying to figure out if this girl needed help or if pacifica herself was on some kind of acid trip and hallucinating the girl. “unless i was drugged, which now i’m thinking i am, i’m not high at all. can’t really say the same for you, looney tunes.” she was wondering where the nearest hospital was in case she needed to call for reinforcements for this girl.

alice couldn’t figure out what the girl was trying to say. rather naive to the world as a whole, the words pacifica was saying had no weight on the world alice knew. in fact, they made no sense at all to her. “drugged?” she questioned further, her brows knitting together, despite the smile still on her face. “you and i are just as high as the building we’re in is,” she said, rather slow for her own sake. “unless you would count your pretty shoes, which would make you a little higher than me,” she pointed out, finger now directed at their feet.

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hcdes‌:

“feeling unlucky from getting something right? what does it take to make you feel the opposite?” hades couldn’t help but to ask her. it was almost as if her words reeled him into being curious, a thing he rarely allowed himself to be. “for the odds of finding me.”

“its less so of me feeling unlucky about a thing in particular, and more so that in general i’m a fairly unlucky person. for me to feel lucky, i suppose maybe winning the lottery might make me feel as if i were lucky.” she spoke, voice light and airy even if she had found herself rambling on. “i would think finding you just means i have good intuition,” she smiled, somewhat proud of herself.

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mickvy‌:

if this had been any other situation, one where he wasn’t so deeply humbled being behind a counter, he would’ve already asked her for her number and would’ve been flirting heavily. now he didn’t even know if that would work, or be worth it, because she was wholly peculiar and in the mere moments of knowing her was throwing him in a loop from what he would’ve expected their interaction go like. he was intrigued though, because it seemed his type was girls who shouldn’t be his type at all. his smile only grew more seeing her with his hat on, a little too big for her but if anything that just made it look better. “you look great, it should be apart of your look. start integrating it with your outfit as your main accessory.” he teased, only in a lighthearted way of course. he shrugged at all her questions, twitching the side of his nose up as he tried to think of an answer himself and was left wondering. “i don’t know, you just do look like an alice. and the name alice is pretty, and so are you, so it’s just pretty in general. i don’t think i look like an alice though, i’m too manly.” he joked, scrunching up his face and lifting his arms to flex for her, laughing as he did so. “see, i feel the same way in my uniform. it just doesn’t feel like me.”

as she moved, the hat slid from her head, almost falling off. her hands had to quickly move to straighten it out again. “i think it must be the new centerpiece to every outfit, but then you wouldn’t have your complete look,” she took it off, holding it in her hands, looking up at him, she waved for him to bend down. she found she liked looking at his face, he was very expressive, the way parts of his face would move even in subtle ways. it made sense he was such a sought after actor. “i think the hat is what made me pretty,” her grin grew even wider as he flexed, hands coming together to clap softly for him as he did. she never really spent much time with men, outside of her lovely father. “no alice i know has muscles like that, you must be a mickey then. or do you prefer michael?” she smiled brightly. she had all but forgotten the quite lonely feeling she had when she first entered the store. “if you could, what would you like to be wearing?”

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mickvy‌:

mickey couldn’t help a genuine smile creeping on his face at the sight of her wide smile and gentle giggling, clearly no judgement for his ridiculous uniform and the fact that he was actually working. he leaned on the glass separating her not only from the ice cream but from him as well, “oh this thing?” he took the hat off as if to give it a good look, shaking his hair out, “i look better without it. here, you give it a try.” he reached over, handing the hat to her. “you look like an alice, you know. it’s very pretty.” it was subtle, if anything, testing the waters really. “not uncomfortable, just not very flattering. i like being in my own clothes. where do you work?”

she quite liked the way he smiled. it felt much more real than what she would see in movies. she always suspected no actor was ever really all that happy, since they would have to pretend to be something they aren’t all the time. it seemed draining. so to see this side of him was nice, it gave her hope that maybe her assumption had been wrong. her eyes followed him as he moved, wonder filling her eyes, especially as his hair moved. it made her laugh again, but she carefully took the hat, placing it right on her head. “how do i look? do you think i could get the employee discount now?” she asked, not able to contain her laughter at her own joke. “how does one look like an alice? or must one just be pretty to be an alice. because if that’s the case, you too are an alice,” she asked, remnants of her prior fit of giggle still escaping. “i think it looks rather handsome on you, but i’ve never seen you in anything else i suppose. i work at the little candy store. i just don’t feel very myself in the uniform,”

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matildun‌:

“yeah, you could put it that way. the nudge gives you the first piece and you’re left to put the rest of the pieces together. sometimes you even have to find the piece you need too,” matty explained, trying her hardest to articulate what she thought. “sometimes, yeah. it can be a big picture. other times it’s a small thought.”

“so dreams are the way to put them together? or are they the picture? i think i’m a little lost,” she giggled, resting her head on the shoulder of her roommate. “i think you might know more about dreams than me,”

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pazificas‌:

pacifica expected annoyance, rage even, from the girl. that’s what most would do if someone was as condescending as she had been to her. she hates how little the girl reacted, it was jarring, it was completely out of her territory. “i think you must be mad already, or at least really fucking high.”

honestly, alice was used to girls who treated her like this. she went to an all girls’ prep school all her life. it was full of girls who just thought she was weird and annoying. she had learned to just go along with it, it made her life much easier. she hoped maybe one day she could find friends this way. “i’m just as high as you are?” she questioned, a little confused, looking to her feet being on level with the other girl.

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mickvy‌:

seeing a petite blonde walk in michael wanted to stick his head in one of the freezers and just die there, embarrassed that a girl he would’ve easily flirted with normally now has to see him like this. he forced himself to hide the grimace that wanted to play on his face at her calling him by his nickname that had stuck since he was a kid, feeling almost like an insult now that he was reduced to this. “well hello to you too.” he started, putting his acting skills to good use with a charming smile and a happy voice. “oh thanks, not my favorite outfit but i like to think i make it work. what’s your name?” he questioned, especially since she seemed genuine in her regards to him.

she smiled up at him, unable to stop herself from giggling. she had watched his movies when she was younger, always finding them interesting, but never having been one for the type to pay too much attention to the lives of celebrities. but she liked this. seeing him in such a normal setting. it made all the movies feel that much more real. “i think the hat looks nice with your fluffy hair, mr. mouse,” she stood up on her tip toes, as if to get a better look at him. “i’m alice, why don’t you like the outfit? is it uncomfortable?” she asked, eyes suddenly going wide with concern. “i have an outfit for my job too, it’s not very comfortable,” 

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mickvy‌:

michael shivered as he stood behind the counter in his uniform, both from the cold radiating off the ice creams freezer and out of shame that he was actually working. he’s worked since he was a child, never a moment unemployed, but never like this. he had never been so embarrassed, already dreading what would come of it if someone took a photo and posted it online, or if people began to see him differently. this was all a new phase in his life, as if he was going backwards in life, from success to menial work. nonetheless he tried to wear his uniform with pride and stand tall, that way no one would see the way he felt. “welcome to olaf’s ice cream parlor, what can i get you?” he asked, a different type of line he had to memorize for work.

now that she didn’t have people telling her what to do, alice was lost. not that she would ever tell anyone, she liked seeming like she knew what she was doing. it embarrassed her to feel so lost and hopeless. only in her private moments would she allow herself to showcase this feeling. which was were she just found herself. however, now she decided was time for a pick me up. some lovely ice cream should do the trick. “oh, hello mickey mouse,” she smiled, tilting her head to the side, forgetting the ice cream she had picked out only a moment before. “you look very handsome in your uniform,” she complemented him genuinely.