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didn’t stop, next time I would kill him. She didn’t seem too bothered about that. Informing her that I would also make sure everyone knew about her night time habits shut the bitch up pretty quick. Things got easier after that. We still had chores and Kurtis still sat around like a lazy fuck, but there were no more beatings and Elizabeth was left alone. We became closer to the point where I considered her my girlfriend and she spent most nights in my bed. We weren’t doing anything sexual, but I think she felt safer in my arms. I loved her and I would’ve given her the world if I could have.
“We used to spend almost every minute together. I always remember calling her Nova. I thought it was pretty, but also I always thought of her as a supernova. I remember learning about them at school the day before she arrived.”
He stops and smiles. “They said supernova are an explosion that briefly outshines the entire galaxy. It radiates as much as the sun would over its entire lifespan. That’s how bright it is. Then it can just disappear, take its light away for weeks or months until it triggers again. I don’t think I realised how apt that nickname was until just now. She was amazing,” he stops speaking.
I can feel my heart beating in my chest for him as well as the pain pouring off him. Like the sudden change in emotion has come from somewhere else and taken him over.
“When I started nearing my seventeenth birthday, I was at college and spotted by a scout for a modelling agency. They asked me to go to their studios in central London and have some photos taken. From that point on it was a whirlwind. I got signed and work started flooding in. I wanted to leave that house but didn’t have enough money to support me and Elizabeth. I needed to wait until she was sixteen, so she could leave. Kurtis didn’t care that I was still there, he just demanded money from me directly now. I hated that fucker but paid him so I could be with her.” He stops talking and flexes his fingers balling his hands into fists, then releasing them just to ball them up again.
“What?” I ask. “What is it?”
“I…” he stops again.
“Go on, it’s okay. Tell me. Just let it go,” I whisper.
“A month before she turned sixteen, I got offered a contract. It was for a shoot in America. This was a huge deal because it was almost unheard of back then, and it was enough money to set us up somewhere. I accepted immediately. I didn’t even talk to her first.”
He looks up at the ceiling and closes his eyes briefly. “That’s when I saw that look, the day I told her I was leaving for three weeks. She knew I was leaving her at the mercy of that fucker, Kurtis. I told Ryan to watch her. He had moved out already, but I knew he would come round every day to make sure she was okay. There was a new boy there, he was fifteen. Good kid. I told him to call Ryan if he thought Elizabeth was in trouble and he promised he would. Still…I left her to the wolves. I know she thought that too because no matter what happens in my life, I’ll never get the look on her face out of my head. Never.”
He takes a few breaths and bites his lip then carries on.
“I went on my shoot. When I came back, she was gone. Nobody knew where she’d gone or why she left. I searched for her but never found her. She stole my heart, then she ran away with it. After all these years, it still resides with her. I never got the chance to claim her, as I would have done after I grew some pubic hairs and realised what it was to claim a woman you love. But she sure as shit claimed me, without even trying.”
I can feel the hurt just by listening to his voice. It surrounds us and he lives with that every day. I throw myself at him and just hold on, trying to absorb his pain.
“It could never be anyone else…could it?” I whisper the question, but it’s not really a question as I already know the answer.
He shakes his head. “No, if I'm honest with myself, I
“We used to spend almost every minute together. I always remember calling her Nova. I thought it was pretty, but also I always thought of her as a supernova. I remember learning about them at school the day before she arrived.”
He stops and smiles. “They said supernova are an explosion that briefly outshines the entire galaxy. It radiates as much as the sun would over its entire lifespan. That’s how bright it is. Then it can just disappear, take its light away for weeks or months until it triggers again. I don’t think I realised how apt that nickname was until just now. She was amazing,” he stops speaking.
I can feel my heart beating in my chest for him as well as the pain pouring off him. Like the sudden change in emotion has come from somewhere else and taken him over.
“When I started nearing my seventeenth birthday, I was at college and spotted by a scout for a modelling agency. They asked me to go to their studios in central London and have some photos taken. From that point on it was a whirlwind. I got signed and work started flooding in. I wanted to leave that house but didn’t have enough money to support me and Elizabeth. I needed to wait until she was sixteen, so she could leave. Kurtis didn’t care that I was still there, he just demanded money from me directly now. I hated that fucker but paid him so I could be with her.” He stops talking and flexes his fingers balling his hands into fists, then releasing them just to ball them up again.
“What?” I ask. “What is it?”
“I…” he stops again.
“Go on, it’s okay. Tell me. Just let it go,” I whisper.
“A month before she turned sixteen, I got offered a contract. It was for a shoot in America. This was a huge deal because it was almost unheard of back then, and it was enough money to set us up somewhere. I accepted immediately. I didn’t even talk to her first.”
He looks up at the ceiling and closes his eyes briefly. “That’s when I saw that look, the day I told her I was leaving for three weeks. She knew I was leaving her at the mercy of that fucker, Kurtis. I told Ryan to watch her. He had moved out already, but I knew he would come round every day to make sure she was okay. There was a new boy there, he was fifteen. Good kid. I told him to call Ryan if he thought Elizabeth was in trouble and he promised he would. Still…I left her to the wolves. I know she thought that too because no matter what happens in my life, I’ll never get the look on her face out of my head. Never.”
He takes a few breaths and bites his lip then carries on.
“I went on my shoot. When I came back, she was gone. Nobody knew where she’d gone or why she left. I searched for her but never found her. She stole my heart, then she ran away with it. After all these years, it still resides with her. I never got the chance to claim her, as I would have done after I grew some pubic hairs and realised what it was to claim a woman you love. But she sure as shit claimed me, without even trying.”
I can feel the hurt just by listening to his voice. It surrounds us and he lives with that every day. I throw myself at him and just hold on, trying to absorb his pain.
“It could never be anyone else…could it?” I whisper the question, but it’s not really a question as I already know the answer.
He shakes his head. “No, if I'm honest with myself, I
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