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[naughty_nurse]

Hello, everyone. I'm sorry to be bothering you, you don't have to listen if you don't want to, it's not really important.

For any newcomers, my name is Mikan Tsumiki, and welcome to Wonderland.

I've been trying to work on a few issues I have, and I think one of the things that might help is the word "normal". I want to become more like a normal teenage girl. Normal teenage girls don't apologize for everything, and they don't cry over everything, and they don't need to be useful all the time.

All worlds are different, though, so one person's normal might be different than another. But that's okay! I want to try all options.


So, if you could please finish this sentence - "A normal teenage girl____"

Comments

[doorkey]

With popcorn and movies and sharing secrets.

Not always? Being a normal girl can be tough too. There's always other people telling girls what they should do or how they should look or be.

[naughty_nurse]

Moves. Popcorn. Secrets. I'll remember those too.

Have you ever been to one? A sleepover?

[doorkey]

Back home? A few. I've never had one at my house, but I've gone to other girls'. It's fun to explore another person's house. And living here in Wonderland is sort of like one big long sleepover, right?

[naughty_nurse]

I guess it is, but I thought sleepovers would be more fun than Wonderland.

[doorkey]

We could have a real 'normal girly' one in the kids' activity center, if you wanted to?

I mean I'm kind of young to go to a high school girls' sleepover, you'd probably talk about boys and stuff, but I could help you plan one and invite some friends, if you wanted to give it a shot?

[naughty_nurse]

I wouldn't want to be a bother! Technically I didn't get to start high school!

[doorkey]

How would it be a bother? I think it could be really fun, especially if you want to meet new people and see how other girls are.

[naughty_nurse]

I just don't want you to go to any trouble!

[doorkey]

I'll get into more trouble if I run out of things to do!

[naughty_nurse]

Huh?

[doorkey]

A bored Coraline Jones is a dangerous
Coraline Jones.

I might even have to do something drastic!!!

[naughty_nurse]

Oh no!!! Please don't!!!

[doorkey]

Like make ten pizzas!

Or count all the windows and doors!

[naughty_nurse]

[...???]

Those are bad things?

[doorkey]

Well, it's really annoying to grownups...

That's what they always say anyway. Especially when pizza-making makes a mess.

[naughty_nurse]

But Wonderland tends to clean up after itself, right?

[doorkey]

Well that's true, so maybe I'm mostly harmless after all.

[naughty_nurse]

Mostly???

[doorkey]

Well I did open up the old little door in my house that let my parents get kidnapped by a beldam because I was bored at home alone, once...

But I didn't do it on purpose!

I mean, I didn't know that bad things would happen....

[naughty_nurse]

[The heck is a beldam - nope not the time to ask.]

I'm sorry I didn't mean to bring up bad memories!!!

[doorkey]

It's okay, I'm lucky to have any memories of home at all, after being in this place for so long.

[naughty_nurse]

I understand that. Sometimes it's hard to tell what's real and what's not.

[doorkey]

Do you ever worry you're making stuff up to just try and remember some things?

Like... maybe it didn't actually happen that way at all. Or maybe you're just telling yourself stories.

I think a lot about what happened at Christmas. Those weird dreams.... That weird triangle guy warned me about feeling like everything was too great here.

He's a creep, but it was good advice. It reminded me of the cat back home.

[naughty_nurse]

Your pet cat?

[doorkey]

No. He's wild. Lives on the grounds, back home at our new flat...