Ellie left Ashley a little while after they wrote some poetry together and ate some breakfast. She found herself walking home, singing a tune as she went down the street. Ellie went up to her front door and stuck the key in. "mom?" "Ellie?" "I'm back and umm yeah" She closed the door and looked around, everything still looked the same.
"You didn't even call to tell me where you were" "I told you I was going to Seans" Ellie's mom handed her a letter. "It's from your father he sent it last week" Ellie took the letter and ran into her room. She locked her door and sat on the floor. Black and red candles surrounded her, along with a book full of sketches and a few school books. "Dear Ellie" Ellie read out loud with a smile on her face. "I hope you had a happy birthday! I miss you! I don't know when I'll be home but hopefully soon. How is everything there? Do you have a boyfriend,if so I want to meet him when I get back!" Ellie stopped reading.
Not only was it true that she had a boyfriend, but she was pregnant too, and was trying to stop cutting also, and her father didn't know. She glanced at the letter and read some more to herself. "Well I hope you and mom are ok, I love you both and can't wait to come home. Continue writing letters, I love hearing from you. Talk to you soon. Love dad" Ellie folded the letter back into 3 sections and stuck it in the envelope it came in. She touched the stamps with her fingers and looked down at the ground. She picked up a small razor blade she had resting on top of a candle and cut down her wrist. Ellie put the blade back and stared at her wrist with guilt.
She put her hair up and walked over to her closet, she took out a box of memories she had been keeping. The shoe box was stuffed with letters from her dad, notes from Marco, Birthday cards, love letters, just about everything you could think of. She put the letter in the box and placed it on top of the closet shelf.
She walked over to her bed and sat down. She fell backwards and stared at the ceiling. "what was I thinking?! I can't spend a whole week here! I need to see Sean or someone just..." Ellie looked at her wall, a picture of her and Marco was pinned to her message board. "Marco"
Ellie picked up her cellphone. "Marco Del Rossi you HAVE to come over I am bored out of my mind" "Wow El I wish I could but Dylan asked me last week if I could join him for a movie" "Oh...great" "Hey but um yeah maybe you could come to the movie with us! I'll ask Dylan! If you want, let me know ,ok?!" Ellie grinned. "that's sweet of you but I can't- well maybe" Marco laughed. "hold on" "ok"
"I'm back" "what happened?" "He said sure" "Cool, so you don't mind going to the movies with a pregnant girl" Ellie laughed. "Not if you don't mind going with two guys on a date" Ellie laughed. "I love you Marco!!! I'll be over your house soon, ok?" "Yup, seeya soon" "Bye"
Ellie took ten dollars out of her wallet and walked to the front door. "Mom I'm going with Marco to the movies" "Mom?" "What?! I'm trying to sleep!" Ellie slammed the front door and left.