Alice Gets Grounded for Running Away to Neverland without Permission

There was a sound of the doorbell ringing at the Liddell house. Sinbad and his wife, Cinderella, walked down the stairs after hearing the source of the sound.

"Oh, boy. Must be Prince Charming and Marina." Sinbad said.

"I'm sure they were stopping by for a visit." Cinderella said.

Sinbad and Cinderella's son and daughters, Pinocchio, Shanti, and Alice walked into the hallway. "What do they do, anyway?" Pinocchio asked.

"They were next door neighbors." Shanti said.

"And also, they were my alternate parents." Alice said. Shanti and Pinocchio walked to the front porch, where Prince Charming and Marina, Alice's alternate parents, were waiting. Sinbad and Cinderella opened the door. "Hey, Marina." Sinbad said.

"Hi, Charming." Cinderella said.

"Hi, Sinbad." Marina said.

"Hello, Cinderella." Charming said, as he gave Cinderella a hug after he and Marina stepped into the house.

"Let us introduce you to our kids." Sinbad said, as Marina closed the door from inside.

"Timmy and Elroy were in Alice's room," added Cinderella. "Shanti, Pinocchio, this was Prince Charming and Marina." Pinocchio and Shanti shook Charming and Marina's hands.

After Shanti and Pinocchio left, Alice stopped in surprise after being face to face with Charming and Marina.

"This was our other daughter, Alice." Sinbad said.

"We believe you tried to do something felonious!" Marina said to Alice, as she placed her hand on her forehead in annoyance.

She remembered when some guards caught her for running away to Neverland without permission.

"Running away to Neverland without permission?! Now I know your mother and I've raised you to do better than that, Alice," Sinbad yelled. "What you did was not only stupid and dangerous, but completely inexcusable!"

Alice tried to protest. "But Father!"

"Get in your room this instant!" Sinbad yelled. Alice did so, and Sinbad followed her after slamming the door behind him.

Cinderella, Shanti, and Pinocchio sat on the couch and/or chairs with Charming and Marina.

"So, your husband tells us I was Marina's husband." Charming said.

"It was OK." Cinderella said.

"He realized we were the right couple." Marina said.

"I guess." Shanti said.

"Not enough information about Marina as Charming's love interest." Pinocchio said.

All of a sudden, they heard Sinbad's voice coming from Alice's bedroom.

"Look at me right now!" Sinbad shouted to Alice. She was sitting on her bed with her brothers, Timmy Turner and Elroy Jetson. "Just tell me why you did it!" He was expecting an answer.

"I do not know," Alice said nervously. "I just hate being grounded, that was all. Plus, you were not my real father."

But Sinbad did not care. "That was not acceptable!" Then he demanded to look inside Alice's suitcase. "Your suitcase, I wanna see it! Now!"

But Alice was afraid to show it to him.

Sinbad was losing patience. "You wanna make it even harder on yourself? Well, fine!" He snatched the suitcase and prepared to open it.

"Father, do not!" Alice cried.

But it was too late! After Sinbad opened Alice's suitcase, all of her favorite stuff fell out. This made her grimace in shock. Sinbad decided to calm himself.

"I was gonna go cool off," Sinbad said. Then he scolded Alice, "You're grounded until the day before St. Valentine's Day! You don't deserve dinner or dessert tonight! You can just starve for four days! And that's it! And also, no more checkups!" With that, he slammed the door.

Alice became very angry. She yelled at the top of her lungs, "I HATE YOU, YOU IDIOT!!! I WISH MOTHER MARRIED CHARMING INSTEAD OF YOU!!!"

That made Sinbad angrier. He reopened the door and told her, "How dare you talk to me that way! Tomorrow, we were sending you to France! And I do not wanna hear another argument about it!" And he slammed the door again, leaving Alice still angry.

"It was not fair!" Alice snapped, "Why would Father let me starve for four days? He should go to the state prison for child abuse!"