dollface | melanie martinez

𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐮𝐬 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝

she sits down on her bed quietly. stares at the cards on her mantelpiece from across the room, brightly proclaiming of her recent thirteenth birthday.

a small sigh escapes her lips as she reflects upon her recent loss, which still sends echoes of phantom pain through her chest.

never again will she see the face of her youth dancing across a field, leading her by the hand down the road, tucking her with the tenderness of a mother into bed at night.

and she has to learn to be okay with that.

crybaby took care of her better than any birth mother could have, but now crybaby is gone,

and she has to learn to be okay with that.

it was inevitable, she reassures herself. crybaby was going to leave no matter what.

crybaby could be here right now, she thinks to herself, if only she could see her.

but this day was always due to come; the day when the person she loved most in the world would leave her.

crybaby is gone;

she needs to grow up and accept that.

she needs to move on.

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this will be the last bonus chapter. thank you so much for reading until this point, you have no idea how much it means to me that other people have become attached to these characters like i am.

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