Okay:

To paint my interior I removed my center console, as well as my emergency brake handle cover. In doing so, my emergency brake light switch is laying around, although still connected and functioning. It is not attached or placed on anything, but simply lies on the floor where the console goes.

I say this because in putting my console back in place my emergency brake light in the dash is constantly on. When I push in the emergency brake light switch, the light goes off. Upon release the light goes back on, and so on.

Is the switch supposed to be attached to something so that when the emergency brake is depresed it in turns depresses the switch to let the car know the brake has been released?

Something is wrong because now even when I release the emergency brake the light in the dash stays on. The only thing I did was to remove the center console and pull the cover off of the brake handle. Can I get some guidance on this?