Alice Runs Away (version 1)

Sinbad was in the kitchen, having some coffee and reading the newspaper when he heard someone crying and sobbing in the next room.

"I DID NOT DO IT!!" somebody yelled.

Sinbad's wife, Cinderella, looked at him. "I am going, I am going." he said, as he put down his coffee and the newspaper down and went into the next room. There, he saw his daughter, Alice, with a toy dog behind her back. Her brother, Charmy Bee, was standing behind her, and her other brother, Skunk, was sitting on the floor, crying and sobbing because Alice hit him on the head with her toy.

"Alice?" asked Sinbad, "Alice, did you just hit Skunk on the head with your toy dog?"

"No!" Alice replied rudely.

"Are you lying to me?"

"No!"

Sinbad turned to his older son. "Charmy?"

"She did it." Charmy said.

"No one likes to tattle on other people." said Sinbad, as Charmy walked upstairs to his bedroom.

Sinbad picked up Skunk and rubbed him to stop him from crying and sobbing. Then he turned to Alice as he placed the skunk in his playpen, saying, "All right, Alice! Go upstairs!"

"NO!!" Alice shouted.

Now Sinbad was getting angry. "Alice, I am not going to say it again!

One...Two...Three...Four...Five...Six..." Sinbad counted.

"Five... Six... Seven..." Alice counted.

"You do not count, Alice. I count!' Sinbad told her.

"Eight... Nine... Ten!!" Alice said.

At that moment, Sinbad angrily picked up Alice and placed her on the couch for thirty six minutes. "All right, that was it!" he said.

"What?" Alice asked. "That's right, that was it! And you are not going to the toy store with Gideon tomorrow!" Oliver, Sinbad and Cinderella's pet cat, their sons, Pinocchio and Ranjan, and their daughter, Shanti, gasped. So did Alice's boyfriend, Gideon.

Alice became very angry. She glared angrily at Sinbad and yelled, "YOU ARE AS EVIL AS THE QUEEN OF HEARTS!!!!"

Alice began to cry and sob and ran away from the Liddell household, and into her adoptive parents' home, where her adoptive parents, Miss Bianca and Basil, were waiting in the front door.

"Alice, wait! Come back!" Sinbad cried. Gideon looked at him.

Sinbad started to cry and sob, with Cinderella, Oliver, Shanti, Pinocchio, Ranjan, Skunk, Charmy, and Gideon comforting him. "Oh, Alice!" Sinbad cried. "I am so sorry. I did not mean to make you run away!"