Forever Mine {BOOK 4}

Chapter Eight

                        RONNIE'S POV.

PRESENT, 2022

          I had spent at least five hours, and thirty seconds, trying to process the fact of finally being a Restauranteur in one of the biggest cities in America. I know California is like the most famous place people go to to become Hollywood stars and to live in the fame. But I came here, to actually start something. And business in food and running a restaurant. And I guess you can say my brother, Eric was not down to me leaving Canada. Because in Toronto, we had a good life. I had a good job, I was happy. That is until six months ago when my mother passed.

My mother died from ischaemic heart disease. She had it for at least six years and she lived long enough to fight it until she couldn't. I will say my mother did the greatest things for me and my brother. We're twins, born the same day, different time. But our mother was the best thing that's ever happened to us. My mother, Angela Garcia was kind, beautiful and she loved life and everyone.

She had her secrets, sure. But who doesn't? We lived in a small apartment in Toronto, Ontario when Eric and I were just kids. Our mother moved us to a big house when we were ten. And we went to boarding schools mostly because she could afford it. Thankfully, I didn't get kicked out of those schools because the discipline rate was too high and my mother was already angry at every other school I got expelled from. Every fight, Eric had to help me or try at least. But every fight he got in, I finished. The boys were my enemies especially if a bully was trying to smash Eric's head onto the cement parking lot of the school, or when a guy pissed on Eric. Or that time, the guys tried locking Eric in the janitor's closet, and they knew of his claustrophobic issues, and I had to fight them for that. And I did everything to protect him, like I've been doing.

   Eric and I have never been apart in the last twenty-two years of our lives. We been with each other since birth, and we're still together now. The only problem is it's without our mother. I guess you can say that I decided to pack my mother's things, and leave Canada for good. Besides, the whole Visa card thing isn't overdone. But, I got granted citizenship for America. Besides, I was born in America.

Eric is the only one not happy that we've moved out of Canada, and came to California. Eric is like attached to our home like it was a movie filled with a time capsule in it. And he can't just walk away but he thinks it's easy for me to leave when none of it is. We both lost our mother, it's time we actually move on. And besides, I think the restaurant business is what California needed. So when I came to California, I came here opened minded. I thought of the life my mother had when she lived here once upon a time. She was my age to be honest.

I think you're probably wondering what brought me to want to come to California so bad? Well it wasn't the Hollywood lights. I'll say that. But it started six months ago, a week after my mother died. I was in our attic rampaging through old boxes of hers. And I had suddenly came across my mother's diary. It was the diary she kept the year she was pregnant with me and my brother.

I was always curious who my father was. Whenever I brought it up, she refused to talk about it and said it was not the time. And so I always let it go. But then of course, I had seen this diary, and I read it of course. And I knew everything. From the time she got her first job at the mental hospital as a psychiatric nurse. My mother, Angela, was different living in California in 1999. And in her diary she stated she fell in love with a patient when she was just a nurse. This patient she never spoke of him by name she called him T.L.J. And so I had to only wonder who this T.L.J was. But she spoke about how charming he was and beautiful minded he was. And when she was scared he somehow made her feel better because she was with him. And from my knowledge she had slept with him and she snuck out personal information from a doctor's office and she was able to break him out.