A Tribute To Ellie
A tribute chapter to Ellie. RIP, Ellie <3
Death visited Ellie Bloom at the young age of twenty-eight.
To say Ellie was ready to die would be a lie. Maybe as a child putting her out of her misery wouldn’t have caused so much trouble for her.
But Ellie was a single mother to two kids, and death was not on the to-do list.
Death had told her it was her time, but she couldn’t accept that without a fight. “I have kids I need to look after! Please,” She cried, “Please give me just one exception.”
But in the end death always gets its way, and Ellie was summoned into the afterlife.
Ellie’s death did not pass by easily on the family; the two children she left behind were shattered. Their screams of pain echoed in the neighborhood. Their salty tears created puddles on the floor. How else do you react when your only parent leaves you alone in the world?
The mother didn’t know how to handle the news that was delivered to her, either.
Her heart ached as if it were beaten with rocks.
Despite her will to live long enough to see her grandchildren grow up, she collapsed on the floor, her heart only beating faintly.
The father took it just as hard. His feeble little heart had a hard time holding itself together as he grasped the fact that his little girl had died.
He blamed it on the doctor. He didn’t trust that guy, neither did his daughter.
But the dad was quite misguided. The doctor had shown up to mourn Ellie, with a secret burden weighing down on his heart.
In the files, Ellie was the patient in room 67 with leukemia. But to Doctor Griffin, Ellie was more than that. He had soon discovered that he had feelings for the patient in room 67. Although nothing was his fault, he blamed it on himself. If he had stood his ground… he may have had a chance with her.
Dr. Griffin rarely lost patients. But when he did, he only shed a tear. Ellie was more than a patient to him.
In fact, Ellie was quite special to everybody. She was a miracle, being born so prematurely yet still surviving. She was never meant to live in the first place.
And it didn’t help her odds that she got leukemia at the tender age of six.
But sick or not, she was Daddy’s little girl from the very beginning…
…to the very end.
I think I speak for all of us when I say, Ellie Bloom, you will be missed.