Tw: mentions of bl/od
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"Willow, why did you hurt the bird!..you're so cruel!."
"I..I didn't mean to, I promise!!.."
"No..no I'm sorry please I'm sorry!.."
"I'm sorry!!.."'
"I said leave me alone!."
"Willow!?.."
" willow!.."
"H..huh?.."
"Willow your hands!.."
You held the tray that came right of the oven and dropped it
You accidentally forgot to put oven gloves
"Oh gosh I'm so sorry I didn't mean to drop the bread!" You said
"Oh willow!, I'm not worried about the bread, I'm worried about your hands!"
She gently held your hands out to the cold water quickly
Another maid came in, "What happened!?"
"They burned their hand, I'm already putting it in water"
You closed your eyes from the pain
You were asked to sit down
"Are you alright? You suddenly got numb"
You smiled and laughed it off "yea I'm okay I just suddenly got a flashback and lost myself"
when you get flashbacks it makes you lose control of your body and from everyone point of view it makes it look a dead person walking
Even though its for a split second you still get accidents
Usually stops with black coffee
The other maid looks a bit disturb by you
You looked at her
"May I help you?.."
"no nothing.."
She quickly left the kitchen
You rubbed your hand a bit
"Don't worry about her.."
"Did I do something wrong?.."
'More so did willow do someone wrong..since I never seen her before..' You thought as you look down as you looked up to her
"Oh hunny..I think it's best not to tell you.." She started preparing the dough again until you pulled her sleeve gently
"Please..I will like to know"
She looked at you with sad worried eyes
"You were young when the accident happened.." She paused for a bit while rolling the dough
"You threw a vase at her and made her bleed badly and it ended up losing her eye completely.."
"We never knew the full story..
You and her never talked about the situation..belladonna on the other hand said you killed a small bird and she was about to take you away and that's when the whole vase happened..but there were some parts that didn't make sense.."
"we didn't know who to believe..you also looked so scared and traumatized.."
She stopped rolling the door and looked at you in a low sad tone
"Do you mind telling me what happened during that time willow?.."
You stayed silent..
What can you say about that event if the true willow was there..
Unless..you saw the events yourself..but you didn't..yet.
the thought of it just sent shivers down your back..you felt disturb
Remembering the boy's head being hit in the wall and now them making a person lose their eye and killing a small bird?..
What else did they do?..
No wonder Belladonna acted like that last night..
Everyone is scared of willow..
The maid sadly smiled at your blank state and held your hand
That you didn't realize you were fidgeting them so much
"I understand if you don't wanna talk about it I won't pressure you"
She said in a comforting voice
She went back to baking the bread
You heard a yawn coming from a corner
One of charlot's brother came in
He stretched out his arms and looked at the kitchen table that filled with pancakes and fruits and some jam and bread flowers and fruit drinks
"Woah..is this breakfast?" He said mesmerized
She smiled and happily nodded
"Why yes of course!"
He picked up a certain jam and taste it
"This is.."
He looked at it
"Honey flower jelly? How did you get this family recipe?.."
He glared at both of you, You felt your whole body freeze
You did not know it was a family recipe..
Something about the jelly just came to your mind..so you made it with breakfast..
"I..i..uh.."
"You made this recipe!?" He pointed at you
The maid was a bit shocked
"Family recipe?" Charlot walked in but his brother stopped him from coming in any closer
"Alexander?.." he said confused
"Do you have something to do about this?."
He made him taste the jam to which he paused a bit "Oh the honey recipe?"
"Yes..our recipe!."
"Brother it's okay I told them about the jam since I saw how much they like it!"
"Oh really!?." He shouted out a bit
"I..I'm sorry" You spoke softly
"You get out of this conversation!." He shouted at you so you looked down
"Don't yell at them, they did nothing wrong!."
"Charlot. We do not give family recipes to strangers..especially dangerous ones.."
"Willow is not dangerous, stop treating them like one!.."
"Did they brainwash you or something!?.."
"Charlot?..Alexander?.."
The mother have came in the kitchen over hearing them arguing
"Mom, he told the family recipe to them!."
He pointed at you
The mother looked at you
Charlot blurted out
"Mom, don't blame them, blame me, they didn't know it was a family recipe!"
The mother pat a hand on Alexander shoulder
Looked at you with a serious expression..
She said slowly and blankly..
"Did the maid help you make jam willow?"
She questioned at you
"No..I did it myself.."
The mother gave a taste of jam
"Hmm.."
She slowly walked up to you..
Put a hand on your shoulder..
Stared at you..
"You left out a few ingredients."
You felt a bit confused
"Since you know the family recipe.."
The mother suddenly put a apron on you
"You're going to be working with us now in the bakery!" She said in the most welcoming way that you ever heard
Alexander was left in shocked
Charlot couldn't keep in his happiness for you
You were more surprised than alexander
"Do you know how to bake?"
"I..I guess?"
She took a bite of the lavender bread you made and saw how her eyes lit up
"This is delicious!"
You felt a small blush forming from embarrassment and shyness to the point you fidget your hands a lot
Charlot chuckled a bit and walked over to you and held your hand
"Its okay..it's a good thing"
He whispered comforting and smiled cheerfully
Sometimes you wondered if charlot and willow had anything special together
He just seem to be very lovely and comforting towards you
You feel calm..
At the point everyone came into the kitchen to eat breakfast
The mother introduce you as a new part of the family
Some were concerned..
Some were very welcoming
Some kept an eye on you
More so Alexander keeping an eye on you
All of you ate breakfast
And talked joked around
The maid also joined in the big family
Belladonna came into kitchen
"How did everyone sleep tonight?" She said in rejoiced
The maid with the hurt eye was next to her
She looked annoyed
Both of you made eye contact
You felt strange towards her
Everyone replied by saying they slept alright
"Oh yes thank you so much, we appreciate the stay"
"Oh I'm so glad you slept in good!"
"Oo, breakfast looks delicious!" She politely took a bite out of a pancake and enjoyed the soft honey strawberry taste to it
She happily clapped her hands like a child enjoying their favorite food
"This is so delicious! you've done an excellent job doing all this!" She said to the maid
You felt good that she appreciated all the food you made
Even though she didn't say it directly to you..
"Oh well" the maid laughed a bit
"You can thank willow for all this they did most of the work"
Belladonna stayed silent for a bit
"Oh how kind of them"
She walked over and picked out an apple
"Aren't you going to eat breakfast with us?" You question
"No i'm afraid not I just have a lot of work to do I hope you understand" She said in a bit of a sad tone
"Margaret, why don't you stay with Anneliese..you know your job.."
Margaret the one with the wounded eye stay with Anneliese the maid you've always talked to
Belladonna gone off to somewhere
And everyone continued eating
Anneliese just sat up and stand over where Margaret is
"Good morning Margaret.." Anneliese whispered to her softly
Margaret only Scott off and looked over her shoulder
"You should be ashamed.."
"Oh? Of what if I may ask?"
"You're a traitor." She hissed at her
"Still being kind to a monster."
"Nobody knows the full story."
"They made me half blind!." She shouted but in a whisperer
Anneliese glared at her "you never wanted to talk about what happened. You only talked in small bits of the story. Still no explanation of why they did it." She said angrily but calmly
"I will never forget the day I found them in their room.."
"You're an embarrassment.."
"Margaret."
"And you know it."
You saw how Anneliese looked doubtful over her shoulder..
Alexander also had ear dropped in the conversation..
You wanted to apologize to Margaret..
Because of the accident..
Everyone had became full
And Margaret and Anneliese stayed behind picking up the leftovers and cleaning up the table
You saw how the family was getting ready to leave and go back to their home
The father turned to you
"Aren't you coming with us?"
You looked up from the ground
"You?..want me to come along with you?"
"Of course! After all you are in the business with us, I need to see how you bake!" The mother happily smiled
"Oh..well"
"There not going anywhere"
Belladonna talked behind you
Giving you a small heart attack from her appearing out of nowhere
"Willow is gonna stay here..where they're safe.."
"Oh Belladonna if your worried about your sibling I can understand I promise to take good care of them after all where we live people don't know much what's going on in this village so they will be safer-"
"Yes I appreciate your thoughtfulness but I will still like them to stay inside the house" Belladonna said..politely..
The father just patted his wife shoulder and shook his head the mother took a deep breath "very well then..thank you all for you kindness and giving us a place to stay for the night"
"You're very welcome! If anything happens again you can always come and knock on the door!"
The mother smiled and looked at you and mouth out
"Tomorrow at 6"
They left while charlot gave you a small smile before leaving the door as well
You turned to Belladonna
"I..I know you don't trust me for going outside but I can make things better! Just give me a chance and I can make things better! I will make sure that nobody will fear me or distrust me! I can make things peaceful between everyone!"
You said hopefully and proudly
You wanted to fix the mess willow left behind..
Belladonna looked down at you
And chuckled
Place a hand on your shoulder
"Of course you would.."
She said softly turning away and went into her room
You weren't sure what she meant by that, if was a agreement or not but you shrug it off as you saw someone at the kitchen
You passed over to the kitchen and saw Margaret cleaning the dishes
You took your chance and went up to her
"Good evening"
Margaret was shocked and drop a plate but it didn't shatter instead it landed back into the sink
"Oh I'm sorry that I scared you please let me help" you wanted to grabbed a towel to hand it out to dry her apron
But she slapped your hand away
"Do not help me."
"I don't need your pity."
"Oh..alright.."
She gripped the towel herself and patted down her apron
"Don't act like nothing happened. Ungrateful spoiled brat.."
She threw the towel to the ground, step on it and left the kitchen
You took a deep breath
'This won't be easy..I can't just say sorry and expect everything to be good..she looks like she has a lot of grudges against her..i need to find a way to show my apologies..'
You picked up the towel and decided to throw it away
Wandering back into your room and into the secret room, you didn't give much credit to how beautiful this petite room is
The walls has small floral details and the small room was a circle room instead of having a normal shaped room
You admire the tiny painting details on the wall then you found a rope hanging
Curious you pull it down
You were shocked and jumped back a bit as a few stairs suddenly fell down
The stairs led to another room..
'Wow..how many more secrets does this small room have?' You smiled and slowly made your way up the stairs
Your jaw dropped as you see a beautifully royal like circle shaped room
The room was small but packed with things
The floor was light beige with pink flowers painted around the floor
The light sky blue was painted over the walls with gold details
Curtains hanging on the wall
On the left there was a small royal blue bed with a roof over it attach with white curtains as well and it has a lot of small pillows
You touched the bed
'Soooo fluffy!' You looked at the desk and walked over to it, you saw a few amounts of papers and a few inks with feather pens
You opened the drawers and found
Envelopes
You picked a few out
It was all from charlot and a few..
From 'mother and father'?
You felt like you kick something under the desk you look down
It was a bouquet of 10 black roses..
It looked new..
And the journal was on the floor
Confused you picked it up
But everything is messed up..
You opened it
Pages were ripped..
Words that were erased and made no sense..
Ink spilled on the pages..
Uncompleted pages..
Burned..
Dry blood....
Most importantly the first page is the worst condition of them all..
'How did this journal suddenly become so damaged?..'
You put the book aside and opened the envelope from charlot
You read them..
'Good evening willow!, I hope you've been doing well, I haven't seen you much in the forest. We had fun in the village! I'm glad you were able to enjoy something, I will definitely take you out again so you can see all the new things they have there! Since I know you're not a huge fan of sweets, I got you some dark chocolate. There are still desserts but it's not sweet so I think you will like it!'
"Awe how sweet" you giggled a bit and put it back
They were sure a lot of them
You glance out the only window in the room
You opened the curtains and it was a small balcony
You realized that you were in the tallest part of the house and it was dark out
"It's alright midnight? How long have I been here??" You remembered the woman telling you to meet than early in the morning
You choose to stay in the room
Nobody will find out since you closed the wall
And I don't think Belladonna will come in or the other maids
So you yawned and layed on the bed and looked up at the bed roof
You thought Willow spend a lot of time in these secret room than their actual room
It will explain why the other room looks so bland
And it had an eerie feeling to it..
But this one..
It feels like it has a lot of memories..
You just keep finding more and more secrets
Feels like everytime you find something
There always something even stranger to it
You thought for a moment..
'How come I barely never get memories from willow and charlot together..?'