Always Mine {Book 3}| Completed

Chapter 36

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    Saint Marminas is the most lonely place in the world. There's nobody who is happy. It's sad. Filled with screams of patients crying out in distress. The nurses walking down the halls, and medications being given and fights being done in the day room. It's the scary, most frightening place to even see for any patient. The place doesn't seem to be kind, or friendly. Most patients aren't lucid. Most are not thinking in the present. And most of all, patients are being the crazy ones because that's how they think. They put themselves being crazy because it's the best thing for them to think of.

The world doesn't exist while starring at the four walls in a room everyday. Inside one of these rooms is Ted J. Leroy. The man who reaches to only forty-two, looks like Edward James, his twin. But he isn't anything like his twin. They look too identical that it's just so hard to tell that it's not Edward. There's only one thing that is different, Ted has a scar on his temple. It's small and almost barely noticeable. And this look at it, Ted is not Edward. But Ted has spent days and hours inside the walls made him think about his biological family since he was twelve years old being locked in the asylum. He spent years drawing on the walls, using quotes from the Bible and writing his favorite quote from E.E Cummings. He made everything worth it. But there was one thing about Ted that others wouldn't understand; Ted is unique and super intelligent.

Ted collected a newspaper from 1992, about Freddie James death from epilepsy on October 13, 1992. And he had a newspaper of Edward winning his baseball game in 1990. And a newspaper on him graduating med school in 1997. And of course, Ted had all of it in his room where it was hanging up on the wall. And of course, Ted just stared at the walls. But Ted watched his own twin in the years. And he saw his brother live the life he wanted or so he thought he deserved. Ted had hated his own family. In fact, he remembers everything from when he was five and the day his parents dropped off at an agency for him to go into foster homes which is where he stayed until he was nine to be adopted and then by twelve locked in a mental institution by his adopted parents, Carol and Jim Leroy.

   The one thing Ted knows is that his twin became a doctor. It took Edward twelve years altogether. And of course, Edward saves lives for a living that involves the brain and spine. And he never overthink his career. Not even once. Working with epileptic patients is the one thing he enjoys most. And Ted saw the papers of that as well, because his twin is an intelligent doctor. It's something Ted can't live up to whilst being locked behind four walls.

Ted felt almost traumatized by how he has lived his thirty years locked up. Of course, Ted has a mental disorder. Something Edward doesn't have. But whatever the cause is, Edward made it clear to take his drive to Saint Marminas which hurt him so much to do it.

Edward had thought it was the best time for him to get to the asylum before Emma returns home and begins asking questions which he is completely aware of. Edward found it in his schedule after dropping Hallie off at his parents house to go take this drive up to the asylum while Colleen was at work.

Edward took the long drive there which he hated. And he stopped for gas on the way. And once he landed there, he felt the nerves begin to kick in. And he had looked at the big place, and he was put in a time to get upset and he took his time getting to the doors and he had signed himself in and then escorted by a nurse who brought him up to the twelfth floor. And immediately he had looked at the door to be placed and they took the elevator up.

    It took only a few minutes and once they arrived there he heard a bunch of screams and distant banging. And of course, Edward had been brought to the room, but they divided the patient and Edward with a metal fence sliding in front of the room so nothing could be in contact due to Ted's past violent behavior of what he used to do to the staff for years. And they think he's medicated. But he's anything but medicated. Ted sat down to the back of the room by the wall that was of pitch black.