Useful.

3rd person

Sapphire was scared, scared of the darkness, scared of something that she thought she had taken a step away from since she was in the hospital not alone. She started crying. "No, I'm not alone I'm not alone." But she couldn't break through her fear, anyway.

She slammed onto the floor, barely breathing. Sapphire's soundproof room was working against her. 'I should've never invited Maly to the ball.' 'Why couldn't I save her?' 'Was I just too incompetent to break out of my own chains?' 'I barely thought about her when I was captive.'

'If she doesn't get to live. Why should I?'

'It hurts so much it hurts, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts it, hurts.' Sapphire's pain and her guilt overwhelmed her. She was having a mental breakdown. All the guilt from the past and even now were coming back. 'Even before Maly, why should I be allowed to live? Kyla didn't live because of my actions.' "Why do good people always die because of me?"

'If they always die because of me, maybe I should just die.' 'Oh yeah. I probably won't even die if I will but this life won't end itself.' 'Everything will be better if I do.' 'It's not like anybody doesn't blame me for all of those happenings. I bet Brian blames me for Kyla's death I bet her parents blame me.'

'Wait did I even go to her funeral?' 'I don't even deserve to be at her funeral.' She tried crawling with her cast then decided to sit there for hours. Sapphire's mom politely knocked on the door.

She knocked harder and harder again. Then she just opened the door. Seeing Sapphire lying on the floor in a pool of her own tears she ran towards Sapphire crying. She lifted Sapphire's limp body she put her on the bed after dropping the plate of food that she had just prepared.

"Why are you like this?" Sapphire's mom asked her. Sapphire looked up with defeated and dead-looking eyes. "Does it matter?" The response shocked Sapphire's mom. "Of course it matters! I'm your mom! I'm supposed to be useful in these scenarios but I don't know what to do!"

"Doesn't it feel horrible to be useless?" "Yes! It does! But that's not all you need in life! You don't have to be useful!" "It does matter when the best people you know die because of you! Because of yourself! I'm never strong enough. I'm never useful!" "That's not all there is in life Sapphire..."

"Your friend's death wasn't your fault." "I had more than that, mom. More than one friend died because of me!"

"It sits with me okay? And it's not going away with time." Amelia had no idea how to respond to this. She just sat speechlessly. "So if you're done talking, get out of my room."