Ellie

Chapter Twelve

I sit here waiting for the nurse. She walks in with a weird looking liquid, the nurse sets down the things in her hand and says to me,

“Ellie...is in bad shape, very bad shape, I’m so sorry sweetie we are doing the best we can.”

“Oh, ok thank you, I need to go get some air-”

“I’m sorry Isabelle but your guardians have informed me to keep you in a hospital room until they return because they don’t want you to go on a suicide mission, or who knows what else. I’m sorry.”

“Wait a second, what!”

“Yes isabelle I’m sorry goodbye now.”

The nurse can’t just go ahead and lock me in a room and then leave, I should have a say in this, its my life! I hate how everybody thinks they can just control me and thinks

that they own me but they don’t! My Gramps is always fighting with Nana and Nana is always fighting with me or telling me to do a ton of things just because she is lazy, and worst of all My Baby sister is sick and dying!

    I close my eyes to sleep hours after my breakdown and then as soon as I want to go to sleep the nurse walks in.

“You can come out now, your guardians are here.”

“Thank you, but I’m fine.”

“Your guardians are asking yo see you isab-”

“I going to stay in here. I just want to take a nap."

I say interrupting her right before she finishes saying my name. She gives me a look that expresses sadness and confusion and her being mad all at the same time and I just close my eyes again and fall asleep, slowly.

    I wake up to people talking in the hallway and my Gramps and Nana sleeping in the chairs in the lobby. I have only one chance of seeing Ellie and i’m going to take it while Gramps and Nana are still asleep because then they would just yell at me saying that I can’t see her.

I start to sit up slowly but then I shoot up more faster than usual, I put on my sweatshirt and start walking towards the door, until I see the nurse, and I freeze and then run into the hospital bed once again. She walks toward me, gives me a glance, then looks away. I start walking towards the door again and then open it and act like nothing happened.

    Once I get into Ellie’s room I see her, laying in the hospital bed asleep and I look all around her body and find tubes on every part of her arm and one on the nose then head and I feel my eyes start to get watery so I look away. I slowly lay my hand on Ellie’s soft and beautiful face and then I find myself holding her hand. As I am treasuring this moment with Ellie the doctor walks in..

“Isabelle, Uh what are you doing here?”

     “I needed to see Ellie, why are you here?”

   “I needed to run some more scans to see If Ellie’s tumor has spread...do you want to join me?”

  “Uh sure.”

I am very unsure but I want to know before everybody else so why not. I kiss Ellie’s forehead and follow the doctor out of the room, and to be honest I’m a little bit scared.