Spending the weekend with Ronnie family first day
I woke up in my bed with foggy memories from the night before. I touched my forehead with my right hand as I sat up. 'Sweet Buddha what happened to me last night. And why are my memory from last night so foggy?' I rubbed my head a little more and started to get out of bed. I felt my left hand and touch something warm in the bed. I stopped and slowly looked over to the left side of my bed. Luan was laying in my bed with her back to me. I saw she was naked due to the blanket being pulled up by my body. I blinked as I looked down at myself. My chest was bear as the day I was born. 'What happened last night?!' I quietly slipped out of bed and saw I was naked too. I walked over my clothes at the foot of the bed and got my clothes back on.
"Takeo?"
I looked back at Luan as she sat up in bed. She held my blanket to her chest as she looked at me. I started to look around for her clothes so she could get dressed.
"You tore my clothes off remember?"
I blinked and looked at her again. "Please tell me we didn't." She smiled as she looked at me.
"Oh, we did Takeo. Lucky for us I had the for site to take a pill to stop me from getting pregnant. Oh, can I get a shirt, please?"
I looked away from her as she stood up from my bed. I quickly walked over to my dresser and pulled out a shirt and sleep pants. I held the clothes out to her. "Here Luan." I felt her take them from my hands.
"is something wrong Takeo?"
I blushed as I stared at the wall. "I don't need to see more than I already have. Please just get dressed and let's go upstairs." She got the clothes on and then we when upstairs. No one was in the kitchen or living room when we walked into the kitchen.
"Do you want some eggs?"
I looked over at Luan as she was looked in the fridge.
I scratched the back of my head as looked away from her. "I'm good Luan thank you thought." I walked into the living room and grabbed the Tv remote. I turned on the Tv and turned it to the news. They talked about Bobby's attackers. The people were members from a rival gang that fight with the one Bobby was in. Think back to that I remembered the black clocked person. 'He seemed to know us but who is he?'
"Next up is this video from a local internet star. Luan loud who's comedy videos make us all laugh and our families laugh. Now she seems to share the spot light with her brother who was thought die for years. But seemed to have returned from the dead." I watched as they played my fight with the seventh fist. I watched as I fought the seventh fist in the park. I saw how I took too long to end the fight.
"If master Sakaki saw this he'd make me punch the training post a thousand times. I really don't need the bloody knuckles again."
"What are you talking about?" I jumped from the sudden voice behind me. I turned around and I saw our mother looking at me. "Nothing you need to worry about miss loud. Besides I can't feel my knuckles anymore anyways." She didn't fight me on it and walked into the kitchen.
"Since when do you cook Luan?"
For the rest of the morning everyone lazed around the house. Lily and Leni had convened me to let them braded my hair. Lynn had laughed when she saw my hair in a bread. I threw a pillow at her from my place of the couch.
"Wow, you look really tough Lincoln."
I sighed as I heard Lynn sir as he walked down the stairs.
"Oh, don't listen to them you look nice Linky."
Leni spoke up beside me and Lily nodded as she sat on the other side of me.
"That's right I bet Ronnie would like it too."
I nodded my head and looked back at the Tv. After another ten minutes the doorbell rang. Jumped over the couch and walked over to the door. I opened the door and was tackled back on to the ground. I looked up and saw Ronnie hugging my chest. I smiled and patted her back. "I guess you missed me uh?"
"Well she hasn't seen her boyfriend in two days."
I looked up and I saw Ronnie's mom smiling down at me. "SHE DEVIL!" I slipped out from under Ronnie and dashed into the kitchen. I ducked behind Rita and looked at the mother. She laughed as Ronnie got up and looked at me.
"Really you can fight a guy with a gun but your scared of my mother?"
I ignored the shocked faces of everyone in the kitchen and looked at her. "Master Sakaki told me something at I will not forget. Takeo a brave man knows when just standing and fight but smart man knows when the run like a little bitch. Against her I think I'd be the little bitch about it." Ronnie sighed and walked over to me. Rita moved to let Ronnie stand in front of me.
"Ok, well that aside for now we came over because we need your help for the whole weekend. My Grandmother and grandfather need help at their store. Normally Bobby and I would go help when they needed it but you know Bobby can't."
I looked down at her puppy eyes and sighed. "Am I staying overnight or just going day to day?" She smiled and hugged me again.
"Nooooooo!"
I heard Lily wine then she latched onto my legs. Ronnie and I looked down at her as she looked up at Ronnie.
"Leni was right your trying to steal our bother from us!"
Ronnie and I looked at each other then started to laugh. I let Ronnie out of my hug and l patted Lily's head. "No, she's not stealing me Lily. I'm only going to be gone for a few days to help her family. I mean come on how bad can it be to live without me around you all did it for years." I realized what I said after I said it. Lily tightened her grip as much as she could with her little arms.
"Don't say that again Lincoln."
I turned around as I saw Rita staring at me. "What its true." She sighed as she looked at me. I saw a sad look in her eyes as she looked down at the ground.
"Why is it only you can let it go?"
I scratched the side of my head and started to explain as everyone listened. "Well, I guess it's because I only remember my times with Ronnie, a few of the girls and the crash. I can remember my full past I guess to me it doesn't matter as much as it does you. As a matter of fact, the only memory I have of you is from the van getting hit by that truck." She frowned as she looked back up at me.
"Quite interesting I have a theory if you allow me to elaborate."
We all looked at Lisa as she walked into the kitchen. I nodded and she pulled out a few pieces of paper.
"Ever good. Now my theory is that your memories returning depending on the strength of bond you shared. I'll us Ronnie as a reference to this. For a time, most of your times was spent with her and her alone. Memories of her continued to return to you. Then as for us who are the sisters you have more memories of?"
"Oh, ya sure. There Lynn, Luan and Leni. There the ones I spent the most time with here." She nodded and started to write their names on the paper. She looked back up at me and asked me a question.
"Ok, now please describe what you were doing in each memory with each of them."
"Well most of my memories with Ronnie are of us playing in the arcade or messing with each other. With Lynn I was helping her with her practice her spots. Or she was just messing with me for the fun of it. With Leni, I would help her with making clothes by carrying rolls of cloths and her dressing me up as a doll." Lisa wrote down each of the activities I did with each name they belonged with.
"Very good now I an idea of your mental states rate of recovery. I also have an idea of why memories of why our mother and father do not come back to you."
I was interested now so I listened closely to her. "And just what is your idea?" She finished writing and looked back up at me.
"I believe that the bonds you had with them was weak so you most likely will never recall them. Your mind has either completely forgot them or refuses to remember what was meant to protect you from danger. It could be your mind felt so betrayed by them not saving you it shut the memories of them out."
I rubbed the top of Lily head as I looked at her. "I guess you have a good point there. I read in a psychology books that theorized about something like that. If the mental trauma is bad enough nothing can get them back."
"Ah you raise a very good point. If the trauma was bad enough the memories would be lost forever."
We finished talking after a few minutes. Lily on the other hand held onto my leg as I walked down to my room. I got my clothes on and packed them in a pack back Lori ha in her room. I walked back up the stairs with Lily still on my leg. I sighed and looked down at her. "Lily please let go of me I have to go with Ronnie and her mom." She tightens her hold on my leg and looked up at me.
"Please don't go."
I cracked a as I looked down at her. "I promise it will only be for a couple of days and I'll be back by Monday morning." She looked up at me and after a second she let my leg go still looking up at me
"You promise?"
I smiled and kneeled down to her face. "Yes, I promise that I will be back by Monday."
"Safe and sound?"
"Safe and sound here when you wake up." She smiled and dash back into the living room and told all our sisters my promise. I laughed in my head a few times as I walked over to the front door where Ronnie's mom was talking to Rita. As I got close I heard what they were saying.
"Maria, you have to be kidding me!"
Rita was harshly whispering to Ronnie's mom who was smiling.
"No, we called and asked my mom and dad about it. They said it be fine as long as they did hear or see anything."
I walked past them and out to their car. Ronnie was standing out to the right side but I didn't see Bobby anywhere. I walked over to the car and looked at her. "Where is Bobby?" She looked at me as her mother walked in front of the car.
"He can't lift anything really or walk steadily yet."
I nodded as we got into the back seat. I sat my bag down in front of me and buckled my seat belt.
"Ok, Takeo I'll be taking you and Ronnie to her grandparents for the weekend. You see their shops was under reconstruction until Monday. They need help moving a lot of stuff into the store. I have to come back and help Bobby over the weekend."
"Seems simple enough." I leaned back into the seat and Ronnie set in the middle and laid her head on my shoulder. After Ronnie started to tell me about her family.
"Well, Hector Casagrandes he runs a quickie store below his apartment and would often gossip about some of his customers and with them. He also has some money grabbing habits of Eugene Krabs, such charging his own granddaughter for the ice pops he gave to her as a moving in gift. When I lived with them when I started to make trouble. Then there is my grandmother Rosa. She is pretty much like any granny in every family. She cares deeply about loved ones and she often my grandfather's right hand and moral support. She tends to use odd and superstitious remedies to what ails the family, may it be physical, emotional, or spiritual. Also, like most grannies, she tends to have a habit of overfeeding her guest or family. By that, when she hears the words, "I'm hungry," she will cook up and serve a banquet fit for a small Mexican village during Día De Los Muertos."
I got a laughed out of that one. "She sounds like someone Apachai would like to visit. I swear you could win his loyalty with food." They laughed after me and we turned onto the highway.
"My uncle Carlos is a university professor. Carlos is pretty much a male adult Lisa, he's the nerd of the family. He spends his time with his nose stuck in a book, and talking about various facts. My aunt Frida is a loving wife caring mother and a doting aunt. She can be very sentimental and emotional. She would often like to take photos and documents from every family moments. Then there are my cousins. Carlota, Cj. Carl and Carlitos. You'll meet all of them again when we get to their house."
"Again?" She punched my leg and looked back up at me.
"Carlota and carl were with us at the beach."
I thought back and I remember the young but that loved my punch and the girl in a blue and white bikini. "Oh ya, the two I didn't know. So, the little guy from the beach is going to be there uh?" She nodded and her mom started to talk.
"Ok, Takeo or Lincoln which ever you like to be called please Listen to me. You're going to be sharing a room with Ronnie this weekend. Now, like I said before I don't mind if you have sex I just don't want her to get pregnant. Ronnie and I called her Grandparents and they said if they didn't hear you or see you doing anything then you two can sleep in the same room. But if they hear anything or see anything you'd have to go home the same day."
I wrapped an arm around her and looked at her in the mirror. "That's more than fair Miss Anne." She smiled and looked at me in the mirror.
"Just call me Maria."
I smiled and nodded my head. "Ok, Maria." For the rest of the ride we were quiet as we drove down the highway. Ronnie had fallen asleep in my side as we rode and I dozed off not long after her.
'Two hours later.'
I felt someone touch my shoulder and out of instinct I grabbed whoever it was and yanked them forward. I pined the person to the side of the car as I opened my eyes and I saw Maria in my grip. "Crap sorry Maria but in my survival training with Shigure I learned quickly to always have my guard up. Saved a few times in the heat of battle." I let her go after I said that and I woke Ronnie up. We got out of the car and I saw Maria take a car of sardines out. She quickly opened the can and threw it away near a dumpster. Then an army of cats jumped out of nowhere and attacked the can.
"NOW!"
Ronnie and Maria grabbed my arms as they ran up to the doors. After a second I heard a loud buzz sound and they rushed me in. They slammed the door shout as the cats finished their fish and charged the door. I looked back as Ronnie handed me my bag.
"Cat gang been a problem for years. Gets really bad when they grow each year."
"I'm sure." After our little run in with the cat gang they took me to the main door where their family lived. Maria knocked on the door and after a second a short woman opened the door. She had black hair up in a bun on the top of her head. She was wearing a dark blue dress with a sea foam apron on. She smiled and wrapped Ronnie and Maria in a death grip hug. I on the other hand had seen this coming and quickly jumped back.
"Oh, two of my girls have come to help us!"
I saw them turning blue from leak of air. I started to worry for Ronnie and walked over and poked the women. "Um, miss they can't get any air." She let them go and looked at me.
"Ah, you must be Ronnie's boyfriend I must say you are a handsome one but that scar."
"MOM! Granny Rosa!"
I scratched the back of my head and looked down at her. "Well, yes I know the scar can be an off putting at first." She waved a hand and looked up at me.
"No, I like it makes you look dangerous but in a good way."
I smiled and nodded at her. "Well, thank you I guess." She smiled and moved out of the way of the door. I stood aside and waved for Ronnie and Maria to go on in. They smiled and walked into the house. The grandmother looked at me and I smiled and held the door for her. She smiled and pinched my side as she walked into their house.
"Such a nice young man and such good manners. My Ronnie has found a very good man."
I followed her into the house and closed the door behind me. I walked into the living room and same one punched my stomach.
"Trench punch!"
I looked as the boy from the beach started to jump around holding his hand.
"OW! OW! OW!"
I laughed as I watched him do the I broke my fist dance. I laughed as I looked down at him. "Abs of steel hit me all you want little guy you won't hurt me." I patted his head as he shook his hand. He looked up at me and with a smile.
"Will you show me how to get a set like that?!"
He yelled excitedly as I walked a few more steps and I saw a few more people in the room. I saw a man with a professor sweater on and next to him was a woman in a pink dress. She had a camera in her hands ready to take a picture.
"I finally get to meet this boyfriend!"
She quickly took a picture. I felt someone run a hand down my back and I turned around read to slam my elbow in someone's face. I stopped when I saw it was the other girl from the beach. "Oh, sorry about that." I pulled my arm back and she fell to her knees.
"He's fast Ronnie and these muscles~"
I took a very quick step away from her when I heard her say that. Ronnie grabbed my arm and stared death at her cousin.
"Carlota"
She growled her name as she pulled my arm into her chest. I looked around and sighed. "Just like home." Maria laughed and Ronnie and Carlota got into a staring contest.
"Alright now that we have the spare hands let's go anf get the store fixed."
I looked over as I older man with large eyebrows with grey hair and a grey mustache. "Hector Casagrandes?"
"Yes sir! And you are?"
"Oh, where are my manners. I'm Takeo or my old name Lincoln whichever you want to call me." He smiled and nodded his head.
"Ok then I think I'll call you Takeo. I really like the sound of Takeo sounds like a soldier's name."
I laughed as I looked at him. "Well, your half right Takeo means warrior." He laughed and patted my arm.
"Well, then while we work I'll tell you about Vito and how he had his teeth whitened." He talked to me as I dropped my bag next to the door.
"Hey boys! Come on and let's get stuff into the store."
I saw the two behind us walk over then I heard a crash. I looked down a hall as I door opened and I fat teenager with a cape ran out of the room. He had a large goofy smile on his face. 'God no please not a special need kid!' He ran up to us and started to dance on his feet.
"Ready grandpa! Oh, hi new guy!"
I smiled sheepishly and nodded at him. 'It's going to be a long day." I wined in my mind as we walked down to the store. The grandfather did the same as Maria did then we ran for the store. As we ran I saw large wooden boxes and metal boxes.
"Quick grab a box as you run in!"
They all grabbed one box as they ran by them. I heard the cat stop eating and my blood ran cold. "FUCK IT!" I grabbed a stack of the boxes and barreled through door the held open.
Ronnie Anne pov
My mom had left after an hour of talking to her mom and my aunty. When my mom I when and got my room ready. I looked around and I saw my mini fridge refilled with drinks and snacks. I opened the door and I pulled out one of the best ice pops of all times. I started to eat it as I sat down on my single bed. I stopped when I thought about that fact. I looked down at the bed and saw only one pillow and one of us would have to have are back on the wall.
"If you're hungry I will feed you Ronnie."
I froze and slowly looked over to the door and I saw my granny Rosa. She had two large plates of Posta. "Oh no." She forced the two plates down my throat. Now I laid in bed with an aching stomach.
"You ok Ronnie?"
I turned onto my side and I saw Takeo with torn up arms and shirt. He leaned on the door from as he looked at me.
"Cat got you uh?"
I laughed as I he nodded his head to my question. He walked in and sat down on the side of the bed. He put a hand on my back and rubbed it. He pressed down with the palm of his hand right and I felt my back muscles melting at his touch. "Oh, god that fells nice."
"He so sweet!"
I heard my aunty yell and Takeo jumped off the bed and grabbed his sword. My aunty took a quick photo and then ran away from.
"It's clear I'll have to keep my guard up while I'm here."
