When Ellis arrived outside there was the girl from the ceremony standing by the pool.
"Oh gosh…" Ellis rolled her eyes as the girl approached
"Wow Ellis you are a lot more badass than I thought you were. Sneaking out of your house and not caring what your mom thinks. Dying your hair without approval. Looks like maybe you aren't so bad after all. Maybe we can be friends?"
"First of all, I didn't sneak out, my mom just forgets stuff easily..." Ellis voice trailed off.
"Just like she forgot about the ceremony today? I bet she has alzheimer's." The girl rolled her eyes and laughed with her friends.
"That-That's not funny! And can we not talk about my mom?"
"Aw poor Ellis has mommy issues." She fake pouted.
"Shut up Brittany! So what if I do? I'm sure you get mad at your mom too!"
"What about your dad? Did he leave you as a baby or something because you never talk about him or does he not exist? Was it a one night stand?"
"OH! THAT'S IT! THAT'S IT!" Ellis balled up her fists and charged towards Brittany, but somebody grabbed her from behind.
"Ellis no! Don't even try! She will take you down and you know it!"
"Aww Ellis' little friend is here to back her up."
"Let me go Harriet! I can handle her myself!" Ellis fought and broke loose of her grip.
"So this is your bully?" Harriet asked Ellis who didn't respond. She took a step toward Brittany. "Leave Ellis alone okay? She has been through more than any of you have!"
"Yeah like what?" One of Brittany's friends chimed in.
Ellis' eyes widened and she shook her head profusely.
"More than you can ever imagine!"
"So spill! Tell us!" Brittany yelled. People started to stare.
"If you say anything Harriet so help me-" Harriet cut her off.
"Her-her mom forgets about her a lot!" Brittany and her friends laughed and tears formed in Ellis' eyes.
"Tell us something we don't know!"
Ellis was done she couldn't take it anymore and she went right up to Brittany and screamed in her face. "LEAVE ME ALONE!"
Brittany rolled her eyes pushed Ellis into the pool.
Back inside Zola and Bailey were talking about what they wanted to do about Ellis.
"I think we should leave her be." Bailey said
"But what do we tell mom? Oh we found her but we can't tell you?"
"We can stay here?"
"No we can't then Ellis will get mad if she sees us."
"Yeah, but what do we do?"
"We tell mom she wasn't here and at midnight we will pretend to get a call from her. Then we tell mom she's at Harriet's and we go and get her!"
"It can't be that simple…"
"It just is! Now let's go before Ellis sees we are still here."
The two walked out of the house and drove to the were hoping their plan would work.
When Zola and Bailey arrived at the hospital they ran into Dr. Bailey.
"Hey Dr. B, have you seen our mom?" Bailey asked the doctor he was named after.
"Not since earlier today, I think she's in surgery with Nellie again...poor girl only 23 years old…" Dr. Bailey shook her head. "Any word on Ellis? I heard she ran off…"
"No we still haven't found her yet...we were just going to tell mom that maybe we should give her some space for an hour or two. She was really upset earlier today and I think us calling her and texting her a lot is bothering her...I think all she wants is a little space...and if we wait maybe she will come back?" Zola tried to explain.
"Hmm…" Dr. Bailey thought. "I don't think your mother is going to like your plan very much…"
"We have to at least try...and with mom in surgery it buys us some time to give Ellis space!" Bailey chimed in.
Miranda Bailey thought about it for a moment before it really clicked.
"Hold up. You are just going to let that young girl run off on her own like that?!"
"Yeah I guess...she can't be that far...can she?" Bailey questioned.
"Nuh uh, I don't want to hear it!" She stepped towards Bailey and shoved him backwards a little. "You are going to find your sister," She shoved him back again, "and you are going to bring her straight back home!"
"Y-y-yes m-maam." Bailey stuttered.
Back at the party Ellis was still under the water after two minutes. Nobody seemed to be worried or care except Harriet. She quickly kicked off her shoes and jumped in, clothes and all, to make sure Ellis was okay and not drowning. She found her at the bottom of the pool holding her breath. Harriet swam over to her and tapped her on the shoulder. Ellis pushed her feet off the ground and swam to the top and Harriet followed her. As soon as Ellis reached the top she took a giant breath and Harriet did the same.
"Somebody-" Ellis took a breath. "Touched me!"
"That was me Ellis, I was worried about you...I wanted to make sure you didn't drown."
"I CAN swim you know!"
"Yeah I know it was just you didn't come up and-"
"AND? I almost beat my record and wanted to keep going no thanks to you I couldn't beat it!" Ellis shoved Harriet off of her and went to the edge of the pool and climbed out.
"I don't need to be rescued by you or anyone! So-so just leave me alone Harriet! Now I'm going to go straighten things out with little Brittany bitch over there and you go do whatever and I'll see you at midnight!" Ellis stormed off a leaving Harriet alone and soaking wet.
"Hey Harriet!" someone called from behind. She turned around to see who it was.
"Oh hey Josh!" She smiled slightly.
"I saw your friend ditched you over there not very nice huh?"
"Yeah..she's going through a rough time right now…"
"Oh, I'm sorry to hear that, but since you're all alone now I was wondering if you wanted to come hang out with me and some of my friends. I'll introduce you to them they are really nice!"
"Sure, I would love to meet them."
"This way!" He said and started walking and Harriet followed and looked back one last time just to make sure Ellis wasn't coming back for her.
Ellis was walking in circles outside looking for Brittany. She had some unfinished business to take care of with her. She finally saw her back over by the pool again.
"Oh look who rose from the dead!" Brittany said snobbishly.
"I just wanted to see how long it would take for you to notice I was gone." Ellis said. "To see if you cared."
"Well I don't."
Ellis rolled her eyes. "You know what it's people like you that make the world a terrible place! Picking on people because you have nothing better to do! It's annoying and I'm not gonna let you do this to me anymore!" She stepped up closer to Brittany. "SO BACK OFF AND LEAVE ME ALONE! IT IS NOT MY FAULT MY MOTHER FORGETS ME! IT IS NOT MY FAULT I DON'T HAVE A DAD AND IT IS CERTAINLY NOT MY FAULT THAT YOU ARE JEALOUS OF ME!" Ellis was yelling, but she was also crying at the same time. She had never stood up to a bully before.
"I am not jealous of a loser like you!"
"I know you are because I'm the first sophomore to make it into the future doctors program at school, and when you tried to get in last year you didn't make it!"
Brittany's mouth dropped and she scrunched up her face. Ellis had just pulled the last straw she couldn't think of any words to say but couldn't let Ellis win. So she did the only thing she could think of. She used her full force and shoved Ellis back into the pool.
Meredith was scrubbing out of her surgery when two of her children barged through the scrub door to OR 5. Zola and Bailey started talking very fast at the same time.
"Ellis! We don't know-" Zola started.
"Dr. B says we should keep-" Bailey continued
"Where she is-"
"Looking, but I think-"
"Wait you two! Stop! STOP TALKING!" Meredith yelled and children stopped. "Did you find Ellis?" This time her voice was calm.
"No." Zola and Bailey said in unison.
"Then what are you doing here!?"
"I think she needs space…" Zola said looking at the ground afraid of her mother's reaction.
"No! You said she was at that party! She wasn't there?"
"Nope…" Bailey lied.
Meredith dried off her hands. "Go back to that party! She has to be there! Ask everyone! Once you have done that then come talk to me! Until you find her-" Meredith stopped herself from saying something she would regret. She took a deep breath and looked her children dead in the eyes. A single tear rolled down her cheek.
"Please don't give up..if it was either of you two I wouldn't be giving up. So please, please go back to the party." Meredith begged. "I'm going to go talk to April...maybe she knows something that we don't. I will give you both one hour to find her, and if you don't-" She gulped. "I'm going to have to call in a missing person's report…" Meredith bit her lip nervously hoping that she wouldn't need to do that.
They nodded their heads and their mother walked passed them out door.
"We need to go get Ellis now…" Zola said sternly to her brother.
"But-" Bailey protested
"No. No more space she's had at least thirty minutes of peace and you know what Dr. Bailey is going to do if she finds us still here?"
"Oh yeah...let's get out of here!"
Thank you so much for reading and staying with me so far! Reviews are very helpful if you would like to leave one! Also if there is a mistake please let me know! Thanks for all the reads, favorites, follows, and reviews! We are just getting close to the main story line and I am very excited! hope y'all are too! :) by the way school starts Monday for me so updates will be slower! Sorry!
-Lucie