Blue Skies Prompt #30: The World is My Lesson (Alice in Wonderland Fandom)
Title: The World is My Lesson
Author: thelovelylydia
Prompt: Blue Skies #30; ennui
Fandom: Alice in Wonderland 2010
Character(s)/Pairing(s): Alice Kingsleigh, Margaret Kingsleigh
Rating/Warning(s): K
Word Count: 442
Summary: Alice interrupts again.
“Her ennui was marked by the way she dropped her head-“
“What is ennui?” Alice interrupted her sister. Margaret let out an exasperated sigh as her little sister interrupted the tale once more with a question.
“Honestly Alice, how are you going to learn if you don’t shut your mouth and pay attention?!” Margaret glared down at her blonde little sister who was braiding daisies together into another of her signature crowns.
“How am I supposed to learn if I don’t understand half of what you are saying?!” Alice retorted with a nasty facial expression.
“Fine; ennui means to be uninterested. To be bored.” She said as her sister weaved together the last of the cloud white flowers.
“Well this lesson is completely ennui,” Alice harrumphed as she placed the train of daisies upon her head.
“You can’t use the word that way, Alice. It isn’t proper.” Margaret glanced up haughtily from the book. “Perhaps if you paid more attention in school you’d actually know.”
“But lessons and schooling are so boring!” Alice shouted.
“Boring is what you make of it.” Her sister remarked. Alice stood up vehemently and shot her arms out, spinning in a circle.
“The world is my classroom.”
“Well the wind is going to teach you correct grammar or spelling. Now sit down, Alice. We are nearly done!” The darker haired woman yanked roughly on her sister’s blue skirt.
“This is all just a waste of my time,” Alice reluctantly sank back into the grass, her arms crossed behind her head as she studied the blue sky. “I’m just going to live in a world all by myself and no one will be able to tell me what to do, what to eat, or even command me to go to bed on time.”
“And you will end up in a sanatorium like Aunt Imogene.” Margaret sighed down at her sister, resting the book in her laps. “Really, Alice, I know that you enjoy all these mind games but please concentrate on your lesson today. I am not going to force you to grow up or anything but you are disappointing so many with your adolescent behavior.”
“I don’t mean to make people sad with me,” Alice sat up and looked at her sister.
“Well then let’s get back to our lessons,” The older sister picked up the book once again, pausing to locate the place where she had been interrupted.
“And I shall just sit here in a state of ennui.” Her sister collapsed back into the grass. Margaret hid at faint trace of smile by pushing the book closer as she found her sister’s frustration slightly amusing.