great begining :)

but you never really described how any of them are.. i ws hoping to know what bea and gabriel were like some more

Interesting and well written. Only, "And then Bea had met Lieutenant Charles Townsend and fell in love and married, and moved all the way to the Caribbean… And Ellie was left alone again.

She couldn’t expect Bea’s brother to remember her now, and that nearly broke her heart." could be put into the same paragraph.

Her life's so sad, but soon to get better I hope? Bring on Captain Beefcake!

nice start