Belle Stone

Part 5

The woman screamed again, she heard nothing. The silence around her was consuming her. She was being swallowed up in it. It becomes louder with every second that passed by. She couldn't bear it anymore.

She fell down onto the floor. She didn't care about the blood, the stains of it on her shirt. She didn't care about the pain in her ears. She had a different pain. The crushing pain in her chest. The most painful of them all. The pain of the broken heart.

People always link broken hearts to human love but that isn't always the case. When you lose something you took for granted is also a cause of suffering and agony of a broken heart.

Her sobs were so loud, her screaming echoed through the halls, everybody heard it. Everybody except her. She knew that she was never going to hear her voice again. She knew she was never going to hear any other sound again. No baby crying, no birds chirping, no music or melody and with every sound coming to her mind her heart broke a little more, the pain grew a little more and the stream of tears was becoming bigger.

She desperately tried screaming every now hoping that it was just passing deafness. It was no use. No matter how much time passed her hearing didn't return. The deafness wasn't a passing visitor as she thought and prayed it would be. It was there to stay.

Her fellow colleagues came looking for her and when they found her, they were in terror. The sight was quite unpleasant. She looked like a zombie. Drained in blood lying on the floor with her back against the cold wall, she looked only in front of her. Her expression changed by the time they made it to her. Her screams dried out, her tears had stopped. She was just sitting there in the puddle of her own blood not even blinking, just blankly starring at the distance.

Some of her friends started shaking her, asking if she is okay, hugging her, crying out to her begging for a reply. It was no use. She couldn't hear them and just because of that she also chose not to see or feel anything. Losing her precious sense has made her vengeful on the other four. Since she couldn't hear, she chose also not to see, not to feel, not to taste, or smell.

The colleagues picked her up and took her to the hospital. Her body seemed like a corpse, no signs of life could be seen. Her steady breathing was the only proof of life. There they asked the doctor to tell them what they asked her. They wanted an explanation. A reason for such cold and distant behavior all of a sudden.

They found out most of the story. Well, not really. They only found out the consequences, the result. But they knew that it was all Belle's fault. No other person, no other thing can make a sound so loud to burst an eardrum that easily. They didn’t know the reason and they were never going to. After seeing their senseless colleague they were too afraid to even approach the girl, let alone talk to her.

They closed her in the soundproof room again, but this time no one came to give her food. No one was brave enough to come inside that room. They made a food chamber, like in those isolated rooms in the hospital where they keep infectious patients.

The woman, was of course, fired. She was of no use to her boss. How can she take care of children without hearing them cry? He didn't even think to give her a job in another field and well he couldn't. The woman’s choice of letting go of her other senses made the decision of the firing even easier. She wasn't aware of it niether did she care about it. Just like that, in a blink of an eye, one life was ruined, you could even say taken away.
To be continued...