A Love found in Affliction

Chapter Two

Elaine adjusted the flowers and sat down crossed leg next to her brother’s grave. It has been one week since William passed away but Elaine still couldn’t believe it that her brother was also gone. She glanced to the left of his grave towards her mother’s and father’s grave and the tears poured down with more intensity.

“Ellie” Samantha whispered as she leaned her head against Elaine’s shoulder. Samantha Watson was her best friend and her brother’s fiancée.

Samantha and Will had been high school sweethearts and despite being long distance due to their respective career, Will as a doctor and Samantha as a biomedical engineer, they had stayed strong and had moved in together once they had finished their studies. Will had proposed her a year ago and Elaine remembered how happy they all were. Her mom and dad were ecstatic. Samantha had been her only true friend despite the 3 year age gap between them. Sam and Will had their entire life planned.

Elaine couldn’t even begin to understand her best friend’s anguish.

Elaine pulled Sam closer to her and hugged her. Elaine’s life had been turned upside down in the past two years; she lost almost everyone that she held dear to her.

It started with her fiancée, Franco Costello. They fell in love; well she did, when they met on the first day of their medical school. They became inseparable. Franco was every girl’s dream come true, with his muscular body of over 6 feet, dark brown eyes which were almost black and his brown hair. He was the perfect combination of good looks and intelligence. He was her first and she wanted him to be her only. He did become her only when he proposed to her when they started their internship but he was her only up till the start of their residency. Their hospital had a transfer resident, Estelle Salvatore. Franco cheated on Elaine for four months with Estelle before she caught them screwing each other’s head off in one of the restrooms.

Estelle had profusely apologized saying she wasn’t aware of his relationship with Estelle while Franco had stood there without batting an eyelash. He didn’t approach her once. Elaine had removed her engagement ring, had thrown it at Franco’s face and had walked out of there. She refused to believe the crap that came out of Estelle’s mouth. Given she was doing her residency on OB GYN while Elaine was in neurosurgery and Franco was in Cardiology but that didn’t mean word didn’t go around the hospital.

Everyone knew about Elaine and Franco’s relation. Elaine had taken a transfer from there and had come to Wentworth East Hospital, pushing them in her past and threw herself into her training. A month later she heard the news of their engagement. She had drunk herself into oblivion that night. However things didn’t end there; after completing her residency Dr. Estelle Salvatore now Dr. Estelle Costello took a job at Wentworth East Hospital. Estelle tried to strike up a friendship with Elaine but Elaine avoided her at all cost.

A year and half from that incident she lost both her parents in a car crash.

James Clark was a renowned orthopedic surgeon and her mother Ruby Clark was a Pediatrician. Her dad had been invited as guest speaker to Harvard medical school convocation and her parents, the ever romantic couple had decided to make a road trip from it though they never made it there due a drunk driver and a truck loaded with tree logs.

It had been a heart wrenching time but William and Samantha had been with her and the three of them had made it through but now with Will gone she only had Sam who was even more devastated than Elaine.

A sob wrenched through her body as Elaine crumbled into Sam’s embrace.

Aaron groaned as Rosalie, Dante’s wife pulled aside the curtains, letting the light stream in, killing his eyes and head.