Nos Ascendemus

7

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"WE ARE HAVING TWINS?!"

"WE'RE HAVING A BOY AND A GIRL!!!!"

Nova smiled and said, "Surprise!"

It was a few days after the gender reveal/ baby shower party, but it was also the day that the Von siblings start telling their story to the entire club. Everyone was already gathered in the hall, the same place they were in a little while ago, but this time not for something as joyous as before.

The entire club was already briefed on the reason that they were sitting in the gigantic room with a sombre atmosphere.

Serah sat at the front of the room, on the raised dais with her brother and her husband. The three (3) of them were all very shaken as it was now the time to speak about things that had never been spoken out loud before.

There was no way to ease into it, they just had to take the cold hard plunge into the depths of their pasts. Taking a deep breath in, the older woman looked over at her friend and KIng, who in turn gave her a nod, signalling that she could start.

Taking a deep breath in, she turned to the massive crowd of familiar faces of her friends and family. Giving them a shaky smile, she grabbed her brother's hand, along with her husband's as if physically drawing strength from them. This was Lennox's first time hearing everything that happened to her.

"My real name is Violet Andersson. I changed my name the day I escaped from the men that I was leased to for the day. When I arrived here at the club's castle, I thought of a simple name to give in case I could not trust you, but I was quickly proven wrong, yet I still stuck with that name five (5) years later, as Violet Andersson was dead to me."

She was watched Nova's face as she revealed the truth to her birth given name and she saw tears well in her friend's eyes. Looking away, she continued.

"We were adopted when I was five (5) years old and he was one (1), by our Aunt, with her new husband, after our parents had passed. We had never met them before and now I understand why. Their names were Alicia and Henry Andersson. For the first few years, they were kind, slowly but surely those friendly dispositions were shed and revealed the true monsters that dwelled beneath the surface."

Serah continued telling them the unspeakable acts that were done to her and she was forced to do. She also mentioned that they often would blackmail her by using Lennox as leverage, saying that they would torture and kill him right in front of her.

After what felt like hours, she was finally finished going back into time and reliving everything she went through. They all told her at the beginning that if she did not want to speak about it, that she did not have to. However, she wanted to as she needed to let it out and not keep it festering inside her forever.