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The Past
1820:
A young female hedgehog named Jessie was only five years old when she died. She jumped out of the high story window. Her distraught parents never knew that little Jessie was diagnosed with any depression nor did she have any suicidal tendencies. She used to be happy and playful despite not having that much friends at her time. Before her untimely death however, they knew about Jessie having some sort of imaginary friend named Kimmerie. They remembered Jessie mentioning that Kimmerie was a very sad and lonely girl and she needed a friend to be there for her.
Could her sadness be the cause of Jessie's apparent suicide?
The parents never knew Kimmerie until about a few days after purchasing a painting for their daughter. The painting they owned showed a portrait of a young ivory hedgehog girl—approximately six years old—looking deeply sad with her ebony eyes crying tears as heavy as a waterfall. It's so sad, that whoever laid their eyes on it would feel the same way.
Unbeknownst to Jessie's parents, the painting of the Crying Girl hides a dark story.
1880:
Another fate happened and it was the exact same fate as Jessie.
Another hedgehog couple found the exact same painting from an attic—the exact same portrait previously owned by Jessie's family—and they decided to keep it no matter how depressing it looked. A few days after hanging it on their wall, their five-year-old daughter, Lucy, met her imaginary friend one morning when she woke up. Her name—Kimmerie.
Lucy's parents were perplexed about her playing with Kimmerie. She even mentioned about Kimmerie's sadness and that she needed to be with her. Things turned out worse when Lucy kept getting into trouble in the household; when scolded by her parents, she kept blaming everything on Kimmerie. They didn't believe her.
Tragically, after one week of being friends with Kimmerie, Lucy met her demise when she jumped out of the third-story window. Her parents were devastated about their only daughter's death and they assumed that it's their entire fault. Their constant punishment for her must've been the reason why she took her own life away.
At least that's what they think.
1900:
The painting of the Crying Girl was purchased by another hedgehog couple and their four children. Cherry Blossom, the youngest of the four, was the third girl to ever had Kimmerie as her friend—just like Jessie and Lucy. Yes, she believed in Kimmerie's loneliness and sadness. Yes, her family was flummoxed about her strange bonding with her invisible friend. Yes, Cherry met the same fate as Kimmerie's two previous friends—much to her family's pain and devastation.
The coincidence of the similar deaths of these young girls has brought attention to others today. Some believed that the deaths weren't for suicidal reasons at all. Some believed that the theory of why these girls in different times killed themselves was because of Kimmerie. And some claimed that the portrait is haunted and possessed.
The questions remained: who exactly is Kimmerie? Does the painting of the Crying Girl have something to do with her? And…
Who will be the next victim?