Audentis Fortuna Iuvat
Love
10 years later
A lot has happened since then, but I suppose that 10 years is a rather long time.
I graduated last month, I'm now a police officer, working in London where there's a whole new spectrum of gods to deal with. But I can now protect others in the way I never let them protect me. I'm one step closer to making the world a safer place and that brings a smile to my face like nothing else.
But of course there is something else. Someone else. Him. I asked him to marry me last year, just as our plane to England left the ground. He's promised me that he will, next summer when we journey back to America. I miss home, but England is our new adventure, something for the two of us to share in, somewhere where we can finally start anew.
And how are things going for him? Very well, very well indeed. It's almost like the gods are on his side, and I don't doubt that they are. He is working in a pub just downtown from our apartment but he tells me that one day we'll move into a huge house that we'll build ourselves and he'll open his own pub. His dreams make me smile and his love makes me realise how wrong I was. In that drunken night when I kissed him on the hill, I had told him that I'd felt nothing. But in truth, I felt everything. And I feel everything now in the small words he says and the small gestures he makes that just assure me that what we have is a gift, and one that I will treasure always. Even if he still drinks too much Kool-Aid.
In short, dearest reader, I've never been this happy or this light or this free. I've never before felt this love that now overwhelms me and makes everything in this hard and cruel world seem like something wonderful and special and magic. I have a future now, one that ten years ago I never would have been able to dream up.
My name is Kerri Davis and I am a daughter of Bellona, the Roman goddess of war.
And I am happy.
Audentis Fortuna Iuvat,
Kerri Davis
A lot has happened since then, but I suppose that 10 years is a rather long time.
I graduated last month, I'm now a police officer, working in London where there's a whole new spectrum of gods to deal with. But I can now protect others in the way I never let them protect me. I'm one step closer to making the world a safer place and that brings a smile to my face like nothing else.
But of course there is something else. Someone else. Him. I asked him to marry me last year, just as our plane to England left the ground. He's promised me that he will, next summer when we journey back to America. I miss home, but England is our new adventure, something for the two of us to share in, somewhere where we can finally start anew.
And how are things going for him? Very well, very well indeed. It's almost like the gods are on his side, and I don't doubt that they are. He is working in a pub just downtown from our apartment but he tells me that one day we'll move into a huge house that we'll build ourselves and he'll open his own pub. His dreams make me smile and his love makes me realise how wrong I was. In that drunken night when I kissed him on the hill, I had told him that I'd felt nothing. But in truth, I felt everything. And I feel everything now in the small words he says and the small gestures he makes that just assure me that what we have is a gift, and one that I will treasure always. Even if he still drinks too much Kool-Aid.
In short, dearest reader, I've never been this happy or this light or this free. I've never before felt this love that now overwhelms me and makes everything in this hard and cruel world seem like something wonderful and special and magic. I have a future now, one that ten years ago I never would have been able to dream up.
My name is Kerri Davis and I am a daughter of Bellona, the Roman goddess of war.
And I am happy.
Audentis Fortuna Iuvat,
Kerri Davis
@Phoebe
I will!
1/25/15