Backstory

~Ella~

Elaine Renee Brown was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio of the USA. Where she remained for college after failing to get accepted to Harvard. She never really expected to get in, but she tried anyway.

Anyway!

She was born at 10:13 AM in a small hospital that has been long torn down and rebuilt into a school.

She had two older brothers. The oldest was thirteen at the time of her birth, had brown shaggy hair, sported a pair of dark blue eyes, and his given name was Kenneth Wayne Brown. The other was ten years old, had short curly blonde hair with a red tint, bright blue eyes, and was named John Wayne brown.

You see for Elaine was a bit of a surprise for her parents...but no less loved. She was the baby of the family and the only girl of the Brown line in about a hundred years, which is surprising considering how many Aunts, Uncles, and Cousins she has.

Though loved Elaine didn’t have an easy life, as she lived on the bad side of the town. Her parents weren’t poor, but weren’t rich and the Brown family home was smack dab in the middle of Cleveland’s Ghetto. Her parents would never even consider moving.

She went to some bad schools for Kindergarten through Fourth Grade. She didn’t have many friends being the only white girl in the class.

When Elaine was almost six her oldest brother went of to join the marines.

When she was eight so did her other one.

Once upon a time she wanted to join as well.

...Her grade school closed down when she was nine, and so her parents sent her to a Catholic school half an hour away. Here Elaine made many friends, and even one of her bestest friends for all time, Jared. At this time Elaine had a lot of friends, but she only considered five people her true friends. Jared was the latest addition, as was a girl named Emmy. Her other best friends were family friends and she has known them since she was born. Their names were Gwen, Sonya, and Derek. Gwen was a few years younger then Elaine and Derek was a few years older.

She learned about God and started to believe in him.

She loved her years at that school and was so happy. She was an A and B student that did a lot of clubs and some sports. Though she was still a bit lazy, but still aspired to be part of the marines like her brothers.
Over the years Jared and Gwen hooked up, so did Emmy and Sonya.

Then Elaine started dating Derek, and she was so happy.

Her oldest brother came home when she was ten and her other one came home when she was fourteen.

During those years her older brother had a male child named after their dad, Charlie, and her other brother had a pair of twin girls, Juliet and Amelia, a year before he came home. Both got married at the same time when Elaine was twelve. She called Juliet her little princess and though she would never say it, she loved her the most.

Elaine was an aunt now, and she loved her nieces and nephews. She would always babysit with her friends and thus they were also called aunts and uncles. She fell even deeper in love with Derek and he felt the same because during his senior year, her freshman year, he bought her a promise ring for when she graduated. Elaine cried and said yes.

When Elaine was fourteen she was halfway through her Freshman year at high school. She was having a great time, though quite busy. Sonya suggested they all go out one Saturday night, with all of them and no one else.

They went out to play laser tag together, got something to eat then headed to go get some ice cream to end the day. It was 7:12 when they got there. To the surprise of the party everyone from Elaine's family was there because they wanted to surprise them with ice cream. They parked across the street and went to get in line for some ice cream. Elaine and Jared left their wallets in their cars so they both ran back to the cars to grab them.

It was 7:13 when Elaine glanced up and smiled at her Derek across the road as he blew her a kiss.

...It was 7:14 when a Semi-Truck crashed into the small ice cream parlor and exploded in a mess of scrap metal and fire.

It was 7:14 when a small pale arm flew from the explosion and crashed into her car...and It had a small bracelet that said princess on it.

Then she screamed...and Jared held her in his arms while they both cried to the heavens.

It was 7:15 when she stopped believing in God and felt like she wanted to die.

Elaine barely talked to anyone after that, only Jared. They both lost what they loved that day.

They had the funeral a few days later and Elaine couldn’t even bring herself to cry.

She was adopted by Jared’s family, and just drifted through life for a few years. She quit all her clubs and threw herself into her studies and lost herself in the fake world of video games. She always had bags under her eyes and wore dark colors. She just stopped caring.

It was when she found Jared bleeding out from his wrists in the bathroom that snapped her out of it.

She immediately called for help and cried next to him. He lived and she screamed at him when he woke and told him to never try to leave her again. Then she hugged him tight and cried into his shoulder as he stared in shock.

She got better after that. She never tried to date again, and never went that far from Jared’s side. She didn’t love him like that though, he was like a brother to her, she even called him brother to his face. She still loved video games though, especially Dragon Age.

She finished high school with a 3.67 and got accepted to a community college near them. She later told Jared she wanted to be a doctor so she could save people. She told everyone to start calling her Ella because Elaine died a long time ago.

Jared did to, so they both went to school and took the same classes. They rented a dorm and lived together in it. They even adopted a dog! She names it Dexter, Dex for short, after the name she and Derek discussed they would name their firstborn male child.

She knew she would never recover completely from her heart shattering, but at least she had some duct tape over it now. She wouldn’t be whole, but neither would she be empty.

She had her two best friends by her side, she would make it.