AU
Author's announcement. This is my first try at a Fic, and R/M no less, if this interests you it may take me awhile to update, due to schoolwork, but if you like it, then please have faith. Other than that if you review i would like to ask you to be brutally honest, just so i can have the chance to make it better.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own the OC, And The Title is borrowed from the movie Ricordati di me, A great Italian film which if you ever get the chance you should watch.
Prologue
My life, or what is left of it, pretty much sucks, but hey, beggars can't be choosers. To be honest, I wasn't at all a beggar or a chooser. Whatever came my way I took in stride. My name is Ryan Atwood. I grew up in Chino, California. When I was 16 a great family of amazing people took me in, The Cohen's. Kirsten, who is now my adoptive mother, is probably the most caring person on the planet, she makes me feel as if I am finally loved and meant to be. Not much like my own mother would. Sandy, A true example of a guy who had nothing growing up who shows you can be successful no matter where you are from and how you grew up. I see him as my father and mentor. Unlike my own father. Seth, What can be said about this....charismatic enigma. He is my brother and best friend. There is no way to describe him, you have got to meet him yourself to vaguely understand him.
Now, continuing with my little biography, My real parents are Dawn and Frank Atwood. Not the best, maybe the worst. But they try, but mostly fail. I love them with all my heart, but I cannot be like them. I need to use the time I have left to be the first Atwood to graduate from High School, a prestigious private school like Harbour no less. I have one sibling. My older brother Trey. Because of him, I probably wouldn't have met Sandy. I guess I should thank him if I ever see him again. Getting back to my parents, My Father was sent to jail on a armed robbery charge. My mother, she basically got drunk every day, sometimes high, with her abusive boyfriend of the month. Or week.
Me and Trey, we were inseparable at one point in our lives. That night we were walking down the street when we seen this gold corvette. Trey, being Trey, decided he needed to teach me how to steal a car. "If I don't who will?" were his exact words. Well, bad went to worse when a cop car spotted us, they chased us, and they caught us. Trey had a gun and some drugs on him and he was also an adult. So he got one to three years in Chino Penitentiary. Me, well I got assigned with a lawyer named Sandy Cohen. From there, I got an enormous chance to be more than I ever thought I could be. The Cohen's took me in, adopted me, and love me. As I love them.
I am now 17, summer is beginning, and I am just trying to live my life to the fullest now. But all of it seems like a waste considering. Well, this is a story of how I met the most beautiful girl in the entire world. And how we came to fall in love, the only problem, I don't have much time. And I didn't tell her yet.