She had never forgotten. From the way you kissed the first time on the school bus, or when you gave her the ring of yours that she still wears to this day. Every flower she sees still reminds her of you, or every wave of the sea reflects the image of your hair flying against the wind. And she didn't even know where you lived now, or what you did for a living.
And when she found you in her restaurant, sitting next to another unknown but strange woman, it left her feeling repulsed. Especially when she noticed your bruised cheek, she missed you. Your gaze meeting hers again after so long. "Leave that woman alone..." Her words when she noticed your frustration talking about your surgeon girlfriend that you had only met superficially.
After divorcing your other wife, you were cutting some flower branches at your flower shop, listening to the bell ring. "It ends with us?" It was Ellie, a little smile plastered on her face as she approached you. Your first love, back in the beginning, when you welcomed her in your own way and saved her from trouble.