Truth >> Ethan Karpathy

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   (9 days, 1 hour, 16 seconds till surgery)

Bria's POV
I spend a good few days Locked away from everything.

And I constantly kept getting texts from Ethan asking if I'm ok and telling me that he had something very important to tell me.

I haven't eaten, slept, drank, nothing... I can't function.

The only thing I have done is cut and cried.

But I promised my mum that I wouldn't give up and that I will stay strong because I know she would have wanted me to do that.

I had no plans to do anything for a long time but I see Ethan climbing across my tree and standing outside my window.

He opens it and looks at me concerned.
"What happened? Why does it smell like blood? Are you ok?" Ethan questions.

Even thinking about what happened brought me to tears.
I bury my head into the pillow and scream.

"WHY ME... WHY ME"

"You need help, right now... where's your mum?" Ethan mutters.

"She's gone..." I whisper.

Ethan looks across the room and my jumper which was filled with blood.

"She left you?" Ethan asks.

I cry more and more.

"Bri, tell me what's going on..."

"She killed herself" I mutter.

I push myself away from the bed and vomit on my pillow.

Ethan picks me up and carries me towards the bathroom, still shocked.

I throw up in the toilet multiple times.

Ethan holds my hair back. 

"Your.  Mum. Is.  dead." He pauses.

I cry into ethans chest and scream once again.

I pull away from him and curl up in a ball in the corner.

"She's dead because of me..." I cry.

Ethan has no words.

He walks out of the room to make a phone call.

I look at the blade sitting on counter and grab it.

I slice through my arm and scream. It was a relief but it just hurt even more.

I cut over my wrists and scream even louder.

Ethan rushes in and ends the call.

He picks me up and carries me over to his house. His mum is waiting at the door.

Ethan is also crying at this point. "Call an Ambulance" Ethan shouts. "Are you sure?" His mum asks. "CALL A FUCKING AMBULANCE" he yells.

My body shakes and eyelids flicker.
Ethan lays me down on the step.

I can feel the world blur. "Stay with me bri" Ethan whispers. He lifts up my head and places it on his lap.

He strokes my hair. "Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where they strung up a man
They say who murdered three.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree..." Ethan sung. He knew that the hunger games was one of my favourite movies and that I loved how peaceful the hanging tree was.

I stop shivering and my breathing becomes smoother.

"That's it babe" Ethan strokes.

"Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where the dead man called out
For his love to flee.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging tree." Ethan and his mum both sing softly.

I snuggle my head down further into Ethans lap.

Ethan dabs my cuts with his flannel and tries to stop the bleeding.

I close my eyes and hear the ambulance arrive.

The paramedics pull me onto the ambulance and Ethan sits at the top of my bed. A gas mask is placed on me and my wounds are disinfected.

Ethan continues to sing. "Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
Where I told you to run,
So we'd both be free.
Strange things did happen here
No stranger would it be
If we met at midnight
In the hanging"

I drift off to sleep.

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A/n
In-FUCKING-tense. And that isn't the end of it... also can I just say... the hanging tree is the most peaceful song ever... This is the song of you have never heard it before \/