Childhood Trauma
And there was even more to the story than you might have realized at first if you’re being completely honest with yourself. Because, whether you choose to believe it or not, this wasn’t actually Brooke’s first run-in with a scaly reptile of some kind. The fact of the matter was that Brooke had a significant past with snakes, going all the way back to when she was a young child.
The young Brooke had, in point of fact, been bitten by a snake when she was just a wee child. Even though it is clear that she made it through the ordeal, she was left with a profound fear of snakes and anything that had to do with them. And that is most likely the reason why she proceeded to do what she did next…