The Curse of Will Blythe

Chapter 12: Rest in Peace...

It was morning and everyone had already woken up, Emily stretched herself up still a bit sore from waking up too early in the morning four hours ago. Trisha didn't wake her up, perhaps she already knew that she wakes up by herself. She locked the door in her room and removed her nightwear to change, she once again looked at herself in the tall mirror still nude and tried to see the differences. There wasn't really any physical changes in the past week, but there were differences, she has a black bruise on her right thigh, a barely noticeable scratch on her left knee and a few marks on her feet from running too much yesterday. She was once again caught frozen in time while she was looking at herself constantly touching her skin 'mainly her bruised thigh,' she could feel a mild pain upon contact of her hands considering the activity she had to go through last night, she made a quick gasp after trying to press her bruise down, it was painful she has to be careful not to bump it anywhere. Yes, black and white are indeed the only colors she can see when she looks into the mirror. She finally decided not to take too long in the mirror, she went to her wardrobe and grabbed some clothes, another black lolita. She then finally got dressed and went out of her room.

"Good morning my lady." said Trisha.

"Good morning Trisha." she greeted back.

"Good morning my lady." said Daniel with a broken leg, about to leave for the hospital.

"Good morning Daniel." she relpied to him.

Emily told the coachman from Foregate that he will be paid another extra fee if he would so kindly escort Daniel to the hospital before going back to his hometown, he was grateful about it but didn't accept the offer, he thought the hospitality they gave him was already enough so he proposed to bring him to the hospital for free.

"Trisha, would you be so kind to look after Daniel while he's at the hospital?" Emily said to Trisha.

"But my lady, who would take care of you in here?" she said, denying that she wants to go.

"Come on you don't need to overwork yourself here in the manor, plus there's enough food still in store here. Besides, you do want to go do you?" she added.

"No it's not like that- um... yes my lady." Trisha answered trying to hide a smile.

The two of them entered the coach, ready to leave the Blythe manor.

"Alright, we're off then my lady, thank you for letting me stay last night." the coachman said to Emily.

"You're welcome, have a safe trip home." she replied.

They soon left the manor to go to the hospital. Meanwhile, Emily went back inside and noticed that Jimmy hadn't come out of his room yet. She was curious so she decided to check on him if everything was okay.

She knocked on the room Jimmy was staying, he opened and was surprised to see her.

"I see you're awake, good morning." she said to him.

"Good morning, I'm surprised to see you here." he replied.

"I live here Jimmy."

"No, I mean that I'm surprised that... well... that you came knocking on my uh... the room I'm staying." he said, stuttering.

Emily noticed something different about his face, he looked like he barely had any sleep, it perhaps he couldn't get over the horrors he has encountered, he must have been too depressed.

"Is everything alright?" she asked.

"Huh? Why'd you ask?"

"You don't seem to look okay." she added.