[ Myrtle hardly noticed the passage of time anymore.
A new school year had begun already? She couldn’t
bring herself to care. Nothing touched her anyway,
not the sun outside or the life inside the castle. No
one noticed her, no one ever spoke to her if they
could help it.
Years of anger and pain had rendered the girls loo
completely unusable. Her fondness for flooding the
place when her mood took a downturn spiral
completely wrecked the floors, creating hairline
cracks in the tile.
There were cracks in the mirror too, cracks people
used to say she made with all her wailing. At first,
Myrtle was shy around those who continued to mock
her, even in death. She didn’t make a noise and tried
to keep to herself. Years of further torment had
changed that.
Maybe she was petulant, maybe she was childish, but
she was also in pain.
That pain soon turned to blind rageagainst those who
actively made sure she really was in hell. She had
cried in the washroom in life, and she s c r e a m e d
in death, completely disregarding the racket she made.
Let this be her heaven, her sanctuary, for Myrtle did not
know how to move on. She stayed to hurt Olive Hornby,
and when she died she was told to let go.
Myrtle stared at herself in the cracked bathroom mirror,
a thousand pale eyes that used to be the color of muddy
puddles peered back. Letting out a sob that could have
been misheard as a dying animal, she reached over
and turned on the tap.
Within minutes the water was rushing over the sides of
the sink. Furiously, she worked herself into a frenzy,
only stopping when the floor was completely soaked.
Tears stinging at her eyes, Myrtle sat at her place by the
window, collapsing in on herself in her grief.
This was her ‘ life ’, This was her heaven and there was
no way she could change that.
She lifted her head when she heard someone enter the
bathroom, and ducked out of sight behind a pillar.
Myrtle was nothing but angry when she realized it was
a boy. ]
[ She snapped with a passionate anger in her voice. ]
' Go away, this is a girls bathroom! ‘