What if Terry's beloved was foreign?
It is nobody's business but Terry's.
And considering how covetous and acquisitive he is, nobody would even know beloved is not American for the longest time or literally forever if he could have his way (and if they do, they aren't sure just where they're form exactly on the world map because nobody bothers or more precisely, dares telling or asking --- mostly due to the fact that people aren't sure how Terry would react and he is not an enemy you want to make for yourself, even if it is merely due to the fact that you merely asked a very normal, commonplace question), yet, at the same time people simply assume they are local because beloved's his and if he's one thing, that courtesy inherently extends to beloved as he seamlessly blends them into himself as a mark of ownership. They are one and the same out in public. Any other information is no secret, but it is also nobody’s issue to pry into, seeing as how he sees that as showing a bit too much interesting concerning someone his. Nobody but his closest inner circle would know. They're a Californian from LA otherwise. The story ends and begins there for everyone too curious. Funny how I imagine him being innately territorial around the issue even though he does have major bits of bigotry and prejudice himself, which means he has a hypocritical side seeing as how there’s one set of rules for others and an entirely different for him.
Yet, whatever cultural aspects, traditions, mentality, norms, learned habits or traits they have from their place of origins are now his --- privately, on the downlow, everything belongs to him much like beloved’s eyes, lips, face and skin would’ve. He greedily consumes every vestige of it, much like he consumes them. He notices everything about them. Everything. Their foreignness is just another part of them he can take over and have all for himself and feel immense bias over because everything Terry associates with and invests his devotion into must be the best thing since sliced bread. Pity the fool who denies that. Starting from their accent. Their native language which he picks up and learns in no time at all much he does with any skill he tackles, because that too is his now. The foods they eat and which he meticulously imports just for them purely because he can. The music which he learns and plays and listens to. The cuisine which he samples. The beverages which he indulges in because that is their taste. The taste of his beloved. Him probably conducting business in their home country just through sheer association of them (and ensuring everything he does there is as beneficial to the place --- he leaves the corruption and unethical dealings to every other place) All of it. It is his. Selfishly so. If he could take their whole world and compress it into his pocket, he would.
