Fellowship Of The Ring Alternate Ending

1A, a story
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us .”
JRR Tolkien, from The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

The carefree
"Oh, my dear." my mother cried from the side of the hospital bed. I took her hand and pressed it lightly to my lips. "It´ll be all right, you will survive without me." I said. "But Bella, I don’t want you to die." she whispered. It was true, I, Bella McGregor was dying. Which was of course very sad, special since I was only seventeen years old, but I was so very tired of hearing it every single second. I did not want to mourn , I did not want to let the sorrow destroy my last days on this planet. Because if I gave inn to the grief and pain I would break, and I would not have the time to build myself up again. I would be a wreck to my very last second, and I did not want that. I wanted so much more than that, but my time was already predestined and it was short. I wanted to do as much as I could before my very own death.
Ah I loved life, too bad it was soon going to be over. I shook the thought out of me. “Don’t let it drag you down and into it`s deep, dark hole.” I thought to myself. I looked up at my mother that now had a naughty smile across her lips. And then suddenly she jumped forward, grabbed my ice cream and ran off with a high laugh. “Hey!” I screamed and ran after her. When I got to her she gave me back my ice cream and we sat down on the fence of a bridge and looked out on the water and the horizon behind it. The sun was slowly going down and coloured the sky orange. I laid my head on my mother’s shoulder and took in the smell of her. She did not smell of food or some flower perfume, she had her very own smell. I did not know how to explain the smell, the only thing I knew was that I liked it. It made me feel safe and