CHAPTER 7

CHAPTER 7

IVY J HERRINGER

LITTLE IVY wasn't so lucky with family affection anymore. She was the daughter of a billionaire businessman, and her mother a world— famous writer. Both spent more time looking after their glorious careers than their children, so much so that their brothers were always the "problem kids" in the schools they attended, and their parents paid dearly to get them out of trouble.

Once, Victor — his older brother — almost burned down the school where he studied for trying to hide a lit marijuana cigarette inside another student's locker so he wouldn't be caught by the principal who was hanging around the students during that break. His father had to spend nearly $500,000 on renovations because of it, he spent it and didn't even care, didn't even talk to his son about it.

In the same way, Ted — Ivy's younger brother — who blew up the director's car because of a suspension he took, this prank cost much less in the pocket of the powerful William Johnson, but even so, the fame of the Johnson family crossed Manhattan... Ted was expelled and it took many more dollars to bribe some principal to accept him at a new school, not that the antics stopped there, but from these simple tales of his brothers' adventures you can clearly see why Ivy needed it. get out of that environment at the first opportunity he got.

She was totally different from both of her brothers.

Ivy had always been first in her class at everything, her parents had always thought she would take her father's place in business, or be a great writer like her mother, as she always won every poetry prize she attended.

Her mother even published a book of her poetry when Ivy turned fifteen. The book was not a sales phenomenon, as the press did not advertise Ivy Johnson's book, but advertised the book by Catherine Bradery-Johnson 's daughter.

This was terrible marketing for the book, despite several newspapers posting comments indicating reading.

The New York Times Book Review said:

the book was emotionally captivating and that showed love in a simple and objective way...

But not even with a New York Times Book Review nomination did the book chart. Everyone just said it was Catherine's daughter's book.

When Ivy turned eighteen, she decided to go live on her own and go to law school. She was the top student in her class, graduating with honors, but oddly enough, Ivy hated living as a lawyer, it was a fake and dirty life, she had to lie to everyone to succeed, it was nothing her parents wanted. beautiful poems said:

About having an honest life next to sincere love, that's what it was like to live for real...

Ivy decided to abandon her beautiful and promising career as a lawyer in order to have a somewhat simpler life.

His parents were obviously radically against it, after all, they lived in a life of illusions, their successful careers were desperately trying to make up for failure as parents.

That was how Ivy applied for a job as a waitress at the restaurant her parents sometimes frequented to escape the paparazzi.

Edwing Lanor — a family friend and owner of the restaurant — did not believe it at first, finding the joke in very bad taste, but gave her the job — without Ivy knowing that, who paid the exorbitant salary she received was her own father —, that's why she earned a lot more than the rest of the restaurant employees, even more than the restaurant owner himself. Edwing earned a hefty commission from it too-since Ivy was the best employee in the restaurant and still earned it for her to work for him.

THE NEWS OF HER PREGNANCY pleased everyone, especially Ivy's brothers, who loved the idea of being uncles. Although Ivy knew that she was already an aunt to half a dozen children-only they had no responsibility to be parents-so, as usual, the great William Johnson paid a large sum of money for the girls to disappear from the map with their bastard children. She would have that child and this time it would be a pride for her parents to tell everyone they were grandparents to the most loved child in the whole world.

Ivy was two months pregnant, the joy was a lifetime, she had never felt happiness inside her chest like that, there were so many plans, so many thoughts:

Whether it was a boy or a girl...

What would the baby's room look like?

Should I start buying clothes now?

Yes, she discussed it with herself all the time, and those days were the most productive and inspiring days of her great writing career.

Ivy wrote two books in the three months David was on vacation before heading off on a new world tour.

One of the books was called — The Moon Behind the Sun—, which told the story of a soldier in Vietnam who lost his memory during the war and fell in love with a beautiful Vietnamese woman. She found him unconscious behind her house, took care of him and they fell in love, but she had to hide him because of the Vietnamese hatred for the Americans, but they discovered love in the midst of war. He ended up helping the Vietnamese drive the Americans off their land, as he didn't remember he was an American, and he didn't even have a mirror in his village to show him the truth.

The book was an absolute success in every way.

Everyone thought it was crazy Ivy to release two great books almost simultaneously, but the inspiration was such that she said in an interview that she was writing three other books even better than those, hence the lightheartedness.

The second was called "The rose and the commoner", which told the story of a Jew who became poor and joined Hitler's army to get his family out of Nazi Germany.

With the success of the books, Ivy was on tour when she learned she was pregnant, and on her birthday night she couldn't bring herself to tell David the news. Ivy wanted him to play in London first — as it was his dream to be a world — renowned musician — he would be gone for two months, but she didn't want to break the news so David wouldn't cancel the tour because of the pregnancy.

Ivy sent both books before they were published for him to read and give his opinion. David loved them both, they were the best she'd written so far — despite the audacity to release two books simultaneously.

David played that show in an amazing way and even wrote a new song for his wife, as if he already had a feeling she was pregnant — but he didn't even imagine, or dream about it –, in fact, he didn't even know why it was taking so long. for Ivy to get pregnant, since his big dream was to be a father, he wanted to share the experiences his parents had when he was born, he just didn't want to share the sadness they felt when Brian — David's twin brother — died after being hit by a ball. — without having paid attention to the car that was coming towards him completely out of control. The driver was so drunk he didn't even see Brian cross in front of him.

David blamed himself every day of his life until the day he ran into Ivy at the diner, when he could finally open his heart to someone and share that pain.

If it was a boy, Ivy wanted to name him Brian, as she was so moved by the story of David when they first met — he was crying nonstop, as if he'd been holding back all those painful years.

It was a matter of honor for her to put on that name to give David a fresh start in his life, as life had taken away his joy for many years, now a new life would restore it back.