I'm Broken

Epilogue

Epilogue

​By the time Belle—Bramble's favourite nanny/maid—went to check on Bramble, it was already too late. As soon as she saw the note on the door, she knew something was wrong. Especially after she read the words scribbled on the paper. It read:

I'm broken.
Let my broken pieces sink into the shadows and disappear. Let my spirit haunt your memory for eternity after this day. And forget me not, for YOU did this to me.
~Bramble

​Slamming the door open, Belle searched the room before her tear-filled eyes landed on the closed bathroom door. Quickly walking over, she noticed something a wet shade of red slowly spreading across the floor outside of the door. Reaching out to twist the doorknob with a shaky hand, she realized the door was locked. After frantically searching for the key, she finally found it on top of a pile of books. When she attempted to open the door, there was something blocking it from opening. Giving the door a hard shove, she heard the thump of something hitting the floor. She quickly opened the door some more to see something that instantly brought more tears to her eyes while she screamed and dropped to her knees.

​Surrounded in a pool of dark crimson blood, rested the lifeless body of Bramble. Her skin was as white as snow, her once filled with pumping blood veins look shrivelled up and empty, her lips were a pale blue and her once blue-grey eyes look dead and foggy. The thing that snapped Belle out of shock and made her cry for help while breaking down was the sight of Bramble's arms. There were messy, jagged criss-crosses covered in slightly dried blood. Blood was everywhere. Blood was dripping down the mirror and counter. Blood was covering the floor. Blood was on Bramble's clothes and body. And blood was soaking into Belle's clothes and getting all over her body as well. Crawling over to where Bramble's head was, Belle gently picked up the lifeless upper half of the girl she raised and thought of as her own daughter. The pain clouded over Belle's thoughts, making it impossible for her to think of what to do other than scream and cry, sitting in the pool of blood, holding the lifeless girl who killed herself, not knowing how loved she was.

​After a couple minutes, other maids and servants came rushing into the room, only to freeze once they saw what had happened. Every single person in the room was crying. They all loved Bramble. They still did and forever will. She despised the idea of being rich and having people pick up after her. She always had. She made working here, okay. She would always do things for them even though she didn't have to. Belle had faintly heard someone say an ambulance was on the way and that her parents had been informed that there had been an emergency. She had felt someone gently tugging her arm, trying to pull her away from Bramble's body, but she screamed in pain and refused to move or let go of the body. If she could, she would have stayed like that forever. The pain she was feeling was almost unbearable to the point she felt like her heart was being shredded. Her heart hurt more than it ever had before. Bramble may not have been her birth child, but she was her child nonetheless. She had helped raise Bramble from the day she was born. And to see the lifeless body of the girl she thought of as a daughter was devastating.

​Belle took a deep breath and gently leaned over to whisper to Bramble's lifeless body, "I love you. I love you so much... I won't forget you, Bramble Elliot. I promise you, I won't. Rest in peace my little angel. You deserve the best."

The End


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