Elodie Alternate Ending

A slight breeze swayed the thin hemlock trees and children's laughter absorbed the foggy air. Elodie stared out of her window as if it were a memory, she remembered her own careless laughter and rosy cheeks that lit up the frigid white winter. It soon became ironic, the contrast of a raw and innocent childhood to a somber and painful adulthood. Elodie heard a moan and rushed down the creaking stairs of the apartment to find Evan trying to get off of the floor, trying to move the muscles taken away from him long ago. Passion and love are wicked: happiness crumbles to pain, and love converts to constraining affection. Starting from 15, Elodie's and Evan's fondness and devotion grew strong with age, unwinding all their secrets and dreams upon
"Angeline, papa, and Aran are coming today. I am going to cook turkey. Can you pass the salt beside you?", Elodie's voice suddenly tingled with joy. Waiting patiently, she turned to look at Evan, he was no longer by the window. Elodie, anxious, turned around hastily, and saw Evan looking up at the pictures on the wall: Elodie in a park, Elodie holding hands with her brother, Elodie decorating the apartment. Elodie played with her hands, with a foreign and lost sentiment; she turned around to nervously continue cooking. Once the turkey was ready and in the oven, Elodie called over Evan to see the result. "It's beautiful and yet so frightening how you can create something so stunning to have it disappear in such a short amount of time," Evan whispered, vanishing. Franticly, Elodie searched for Evan. The laughter of children outside grew louder and louder, penetrating the walls she built to protect herself. Hysteria overcame Elodie as she sat against the wall, breathing rapidly. Looking at the rays of sunlight through the window, heaven seemed so near. Suddenly, the image Evan reflected off of all objects in the room, his beautiful voice of blooming spring was everywhere, yet it couldn't fill the silence Elodie tried to neglect. Elodie doubted the presence of her existence as everything around her seemed to not see her, to not comfort her, Evan was nowhere near. She reached for the phone and dialed Angelica's