"Brigitte Snaps"
11. Everyday Details
Sometimes, after school, Brigitte goes to the Mount Hope cemetery. She does it even in the blistering cold of the Bailey Downs winter. She finds Ginger's grave and tells her of the everyday details of what happened to her since her last visit. The names she's been called, the bruises she has, that movie she saw with Sam, how the house is now fully hers, how maybe they are thinking of moving there... how Pam's trial process is going, how Henry has apparently dropped off the grid.
She likes to imagine responses. Like, Henry's disappeared? See, B, I knew we were adopted, fucking knew it!
"One thing doesn't change." Brigitte says to the tombstone, "I miss you. Every day."
You're supposed to miss me, B, I'm dead. That's how it goes.