Amor Enim Bellum

19

"I think it's time you know my past."

Nova was shocked, she did not expect him to say that at all. She wanted to make sure he knew he did not have to just because she did, so she expressed those thoughts to him.

The brunette shook his head and let her know that it was because he wanted to. It inspired him that she was able to open up and tell him everything, without holding back. Elias wanted to tell her, because he felt she needed to know, especially if she wanted to pursue a relationship with him and also the want for her to know everything about him was massive.

"I understand bebis. Let me just finish treating your fist please."

(The word 'bebis' translates in English to: 'baby.')

Accepting her wishes, he let her do just that. Watching her intently while she cleaned up all the dried up blood, little paint chips and bits of concrete of his knuckles, he thought of how caring she was, even after all she had been through. To him, she was truly like a star in the night sky. Shining ever so brightly with a warmth that was unmatched.

Patting his wrist, she declared that he was all patched up and done. Looking down, he saw she wrapped it in some gauze and then the green bandage that was in the med kit. He noticed, while he was admiring her that she had taken a sharpie markers and drew a little heart with a smiley face.

She is so cute.

"C'mon kärlek, let us go back on the bed and I will regal you with my life story."

Hopping off the bathroom sink's counter, he grabbed her hand with his good one and pulled her through the door way. Sitting back down in the places they were in not too long ago.

Elias leaned back, with his back on the pillows at the head of the bed and stared at her before sighing. He explained to her that his past was no where near the caliber of pain that her own was, but it still was hard for him. Also letting her know that only Benjamin, Serah and Zia knew the fully story, now her too.

She, in turn expressed to him that it does not matter if it was not as painful, it still was his past and something he had not fully come to terms with.

Thanking her, he decided it was time to start.

"I've only ever had one girlfriend and her name was Lily Walsh. I was thirteen (13) years old when the two of us started dating and I fell madly in love with her, I thought she had too. We dated for about a year and a half (1 1/2), the first year was absolutely perfect and I thought it would have always been like that. Then I made the mistake of finally telling her that I was the heir to Odin's Riders, the word spread like wildfire and she changed completely in the blink of an eye. My father and mother never let it get out of the castle that they had an heir or what I looked like. They warned me not to let anyone know unless I really could trust them and even then to be wary. I thought I could trust her, turns out I could not."

Nova looked into his eyes and asked him, "How did she change bebis?"

"Lily became obsessed with the fact I was the sole heir to the throne of this club. Constantly asking about club business and things that definitely did not concern her. She also was always bragging to everyone in our school that she was the one to 'bag' the king's son and that she had me wrapped around her finger. For a while she did, despite all that. Then one day she asked me if she could become my valkyrie or queen and so in turn I asked her out of curiosity, why would she want to be mine. Her answer was for money, status and to be able to gloat to her friends that she was the future queen of the baddest biker club in all of Sweden and parts of Europe. That answer of hers shattered the rose colored lenses that I did not know I was wearing and I realized she never loved me, like she claimed she did. I broke up with her then and there."

Reaching forward and hugging him, she rubbed his back, assuring him that it was not his fault, that he was young and madly in love.

"That's not the end of it however. After we broke up, she went on to date the one and only Vinnie Kröw, your father. They were in a relationship for about five (5) months. Then one day, he came to school without her and when asked what happened, he said she was killed. I was devastated because even though I hated her, I never wanted her to get hurt or worse, dead. No one ever knew how she died, Vinnie would never say and it seemed like he did not really care."

Looking up at Nova, he noticed right away something was wrong. It looked like she just realized something and was trying to fully piece it together. Asking her what was wrong, she looked at him with eyes full of shock.

"I think I know who you are talking about. The name sounded familiar but it was not till you said she dated my sperm donor, that it clicked. I used to see her all the time at the club house back then. If I remember correctly, she never died. She's still very much alive with three (3) illegitimate children of Vinnie's. She is always drugged up though, not able to stand on her own two feet, always being carried to the infirmary and shit. I do know that she was with Vinnie because he told her that she would be made into his wife, after hearing she broke up with some 'big shot'. Which now I know was you."

Elias was shocked, he never thought she would be alive, since has been roughly about nine (9) years. He thanked Nova for letting him know and she told him not to. Instead she thanked him for gathering the strength to tell him about his first girlfriend.

Standing up, he grabbed her hand and looked her right in those gorgeous grey orbs. The one's he was quickly falling in love with and uttered the question.

"Kärlek, will you be my girlfriend?"

"Yes bebis."