Ellie

Chapter Five

I walk into to the room for Ellie and she is the only one in here because we paid extra to have our own room. She looks just like mom, the complete opposite of me except for our narrow noses are the same. Her hazel eyes are just like moms. Her bright blonde hair just like moms. Her upper lip is even like moms! Her long eyelashes are like Aunt Rosie’s though. I wish I had her hazel eyes. I just have these boring, grey, dead fish eyes. Dads were blue but for some reason mine are gray. The minute Ellie opens her eyes she sees me, she smiles the biggest smile I have ever seen on a infant.

“She will have trouble hearing so, she will need hearing aids. Her stomach wasn’t right so she won’t have the right looking belly button either, but other than that…”  and being so small that she is the size of Dads foot I think. “she is pretty healthy.” The doctor says.

“Thank you so much, this means a whole lot to our family.” Nana says in her most mature voice. (the one she only uses at work)

The doctor smiles and leaves the room, so we can have time to see Ellie. I am the first one to hold her and the minute I touch her cloud-soft skin, I know she is mine. Even though she is my sister, it feels like she is my baby, like I gave birth to her. I know that I will treat her just like she is my own, so she somewhat knows the feeling of having a mother. She falls asleep in my arms and I am the only one that got to hold her before it is time for her to eat.

I stare at Ellie, wondering how in the world could a baby take over my life in the most amazing way so fast. I decide that she needs some things like a stroller and some bottles and a car seat and so much other stuff.

“Hi Nana, can I head down to 'Babies R Us' and get some things Ellie would need like bottles, baby food, that type of stuff?"

“Uhh I don’t know, is it safe? I mean, do you have money?”

“I did have money until they made us evacuate the house so they could fix it up, so....No I don’t”

“Ok i’ll give you some, how much did you have in the house?”

“Wait hang on, i’m gonna go to the atm over there, there is probably money in there so i’m fine, if not i’ll let you know,”

“Ok be careful and call me if you need anything, anything at all… just call”

“Ok Nana i’ll call for anything, bye, I love you”

“Bye, Love you too!”

She says that as I turn around to wave goodbye with one hand because i’m holding Ellie in the other. I walk out the door and right there I see the store and then the atm, I start walking towards the store and then towards the atm and put my moms credit card in the slot, but then it says passcode! What in the world would the passcode be?! I don’t wanna call Nana because I wanna do this on my own, so I start guessing passcodes, the first one I guess is Isabelle, my name, but its wrong, next thing I guess is her favorite numbers, 739104438 and I get it right, “Yes!” I yell out but nobody bothers to look. The next thing it asks is how much do I want from it,  and I click the button that says “Balance” and I freeze, my Mother has 1 Million dollars in her bank account. I am now suspicious to ask her why, and how, and is she saving up for something but then my mind goes blank because I remembered something, she is dead. So i decide to take 500$ and I walk inside the store.

The first thing I spot is a stroller and I open it up and put Ellie in it right away because I am pretty sure my arm will fall off in seconds, then I look down at my list and the first thing is baby bottles and formula, so I stroll around the store trying to find those two things and I now know why the parents do the shopping. Everything is so complicated! I turn one aisle and then turn again, I find the right aisleand see the baby bottles and formula, I grab four baby bottles, three huge packs of

baby formula and then a pacifier to stop her from crying. So anyways, then I see a doll, a sweet looking, dimpled, cherry cheeked doll that I know for sure that Ellie would love.

As i’m in line I see a bag that carries diapers,bottles, etc. and I grab it and thankfully it has a pack of diapers in it because I do not want to go on a scavenger hunt for diapers. It comes to be my turn I notice that the lady is trying to hide her cradle, I decide to leave really quick and buy the stuff I picked out earlier. I will just go back to the hospital and come back later.  Then there was this lady that said that i’m a teenager with a baby, wow! I decide to just ignore it. I plop all my stuff on the counter and say,

“The stroller is something I can’t put up here cause my little sister doesn’t want to get out.”

Then the lady backs off and finishes shopping.

“Ok, i’ll just ring it up last with her in it; its fine,”

She first takes the bottles, then the formulas then, the bag of diapers and lastly she says,

“Will you please bring around the stroller?”

“Yeah, sure.”

I wheel the stroller around so she can ring it up and she takes the tag and then the total price for everything. It comes up and it says this costs $207.48 for the entire thing. So I look into my wallet and grab a ten dollar bill and two, hundred dollar bills and hand it to her. I walk back to the hospital. Then hand Nana the rest of the money and say,

“Here Nana, take this and get yourself something to eat, you and grandpa, I am gonna take care of Ellie for a few minutes then stroll down there and eat with you guys, Okay?”

“Okay sweetie, but how in the world did you get so much money?”

“just found it in my bank account.”

I am cradling Ellie, I love her so much in such little time, I pull up the bag and take the bottles out and put some warm water in it and plop some formula in then  I shake it. I then put the bottle in her mouth and feed her, by the time i’m done feeding her she is fast asleep. I know its safe to close my eyes and take a quick nap.

A few hours later I wake up with screaming in my ear and Ellie isn’t in my arms anymore. Right when I see my Nana I jump right up and start towards her.

“Where is Ellie! Where is she!”

“Whoa calm down sweetie she is in the nursery for a few-”

“The Nursery! Why is she in there! She can just stay here in my arms!”

“Ok stop right this second! She is in the nursery because the doctors needed to take her to a more suitable bed and…well...They found something wrong with her blood and bones.”

“WHAT! WHATS WRONG WITH HER BLOOD AND BONES?!!!”

“The doctor said that she might have Leukemia. Last night they were going through their scans and then they found some kind of cancer in her bones and blood, they said that they found White Blood Cells, the doctor also told us to look for symptoms of the cancer like,  Headaches, which she would cry a lot because it hurts, fevers, vomit,weak, tired, bleeding gums, sleeps too much, or weight loss from not having an appetite.”

“Ok, well she might have Acute Leukemia, the number one killing thing in the world, Ya, everything will be fine, totally, well i’m gonna go now, bye.”

“Isabelle wait-”

“No, I’m fine, I’m perfectly fine, ok…”

“Ok, bye then.”

She says as I slowly walk down the hallway and towards the nursery but then I feel all my weight of my body slide to the right as I see Ellie hooked up to tubes and then I feel all my body weight fall, slowly, to the floor, and thats the last thing I see before my sight goes black.