Disclaimer: I don't own Degrassi.
The lights shined brightly in Ellie's eyes as she slowly opened them. She knew she wasn't in her own house. The abnormally clean, white room seemed to glow a bit and it made Ellie's head hurt as she peered around it. She couldn't decide where she was until she saw the bed in which she was laying.
For a moment Ellie couldn't remember why she was in a hospital. Suddenly it all came crashing back. Her hand automatically jumped to her bandaged head. She felt a single tear travel down her face.
A nurse came through the door. When she saw Ellie she looked quite relieved. "Oh good, you're awake! We thought you might slip into a comatose state. That was quite a nasty fall you had?"
"Fall?" Ellie asked. She noticed that her voice was scratchy.
"Yes your mother told us all about it," the nurse said.
"She did?" Ellie asked, bewildered.
"Yes, she told us about how you were trying to get something and a bottle accidentally fell on your head," the nurse replied.
"Right," Ellie said.
"Well, we weren't sure if you'd make it or not," the nurse explained cheerily.
You sound so cheerful at the prospect of me dying, Ellie thought bitterly. The nurse kept on talking, but Ellie wasn't listening until she said the word baby.
"What did you say?" Ellie asked.
"I said, we worried that the fall would hurt your baby," the nurse explained, "but it's aright."
Ellie forgot to breathe for a moment. When she found her breath, she managed to say something to the nurse. "I have a baby?"
"Yes," the nurse said.
"You must be mistaken," Ellie said, hopefully.
"You didn't know?" the nurse asked.
"Is this some sort of sick joke?" Ellie asked. "If you were hired by Manny or something, please tell me now."
"I'm sorry, but it's true," the nurse said. "Now if you'll excuse, I've got to go."
"Oh no, no, no, hell no!" Ellie screamed once the nurse had left. "How am I going to tell Craig? How am I going to tell my mom? I can't bring a baby up I this world!"
"Miss?" another nurse came into the room. "Are you aright?"
"I'm fine, just a little worried," Ellie uttered the understatement of the year.
"I heard the problem you were ranting about," the nurse said.
"And?" Ellie asked, annoyed.
"Well, I could help you," the nurse explained.
"How?" Ellie asked, she was interested now.
"Well, I have pamphlets on adoption and abortion," the nurse whispered the last word as if it were a sin to even have the word on your lips.
"Give me the pamphlet on adoption," Ellie said.
The nurse handed her the pamphlet on adoption then left the room. Ellie looked over it with interest. She called the 800 number on the back.
"Hello?" a woman answered.
"I'd like to talk to you about giving my baby up for adoption," Ellie explained.
"Come by tomorrow," the woman said.
"I can't do that," Ellie said.
"When can you come in?" she asked.
"How about a week from today?" Ellie proposed.
"Fine," the woman said. "Name?"
"Eleanor Nash," Ellie said.
"Phone number?" the woman asked.
Ellie gave the woman her cell number and hung up. She realized she was losing everything; her father, her mother, her boyfriend, and even her unborn child. She felt herself wanting to cry, but she held it in.
A/N This wasn't as short as last time but still short so I'm sorry. Please review whether you liked it or not. I thank the person (can't remember the name right now) who pointed out me not varying the ways I start sentences, I'm really bad at that. Also, I'd like ideas for baby names even though Ellie's going to give it up for adoption.
