Ch. 10: Memories of the Past

For the past four days since Beelzebub has been staying with Felix, the two of them have been getting along well with each other. However, Felix appears to have noticed that Beelzebub has been irritated and displeased over the last four days.

Felix was currently watching television on the sofa, while Beelzebub was making their meal. Beelzebub has been cooking for the two of them for the past four days, and Felix has been astonished at how similar his cooking skills are to Marcellus'.

Then he heard a loud thud in the kitchen, Felix turned his head to look at the direction of Beelzebub, who he asked, "Are you all right, Byeong-oh?"

Felix addressed Beelzebub by his human name whenever he spoke to him, since Beelzebub does not want him to call him in his demon name.

Beelzebub looked at him with an irritated face and said "I am not ok."

Felix stood up from the couch he was sitting on and went to the kitchen, as he sat on the kitchen chair, he said "I told you, you can talk to me about what is bothering you, and I thought we are on good terms now?"

Beelzebub looks away from him and sighs heavily, "Could you perhaps allow me some time to think about the situation I'm in?"

Beelzebub waited for Felix's response, who was looking at him with a curious expression, but all he did was nod in return.

"Let's have a different topic. How are you and Marcellus?" he asks.

Felix looks away from him, with a scowl on his face. "I hate him!" he exclaimed.

"That is a harsh word to use." Beelzebub remarked. "You have no idea how long Marcellus has been waiting for you." As he says this words, he returns to what he was doing. "Well, I can't blame you if that's how you feel; but also, it's not his fault that he didn't realize you were his lover's reincarnation; if only he had known this beforehand, things might have been different than how they are at the present. He hasn't even dared to come near you in the last four days, even at school."

Felix shifted his gaze at the back of Beelzebub, opening his mouth to say something but closing it again. He stood up from his seat and walked to his room, closing the door behind him as he remembered what Beelzebub had told him.

Beelzebub felt Felix rise from his seat, and he sighed deeply, thinking to himself, "If you only knew how regretful Marcellus is for such things he did to you, Felix... If you only knew how much trouble he's been having since the day he discovered you are his lover's reincarnation."

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"I'd like to call off our engagement!" his fiancé said. "How am I going to marry a man like you? You are an embarrassment; you have a fiancé, and you are fooling around outside making love to anyone, male or female"

They were in his Domus's* Atrium*… As he sat there listening to her rant, he turned away from her; his fiancée was seated across from him.

As he grew irritated by her ranting, he stood up and walked in front of her, saying, "Fine! If you are so embarrassed by what I am doing, you should be embarrassed by yourself as well..." he then leaned closer to her right ear "...do you think I don't know that you were having an affair with my brother while I was at the battlefield?!"

"I wouldn't do such a thing if you hadn't started deceiving my brother," he says as he straightens up and looks down at her. "You, not me, is the one who have a problem with our relationship because you are so jealous of everybody I meet or become close to. Isn't giving you what you want is not enough? Sharing my bed, and making love to you, is this not enough?" he exclaimed fiercely with each word he spoke to her.

"I gave you all the attention you wanted a long time ago, but you wasted it; I waited for you to change, yet you left me with no choice but to do what I'm doing to others. You are the one who made me this way."

With these remarks, he turned away from her and walked to the house's ostium*, but before leaving, he looked back and said, "Always keep in mind that, despite his desire for power and desire to dominate me, my brother is still faithful to me." He then walks away, leaving her speechless.

He noticed his Little Brother Caleb waiting for him as he walked out the door of his residence. Caleb smiled at him when he noticed him. "How's it going?"

He grins at Caleb as he walks to his chariot* and mounts it. "Her reaction is priceless, and I am glad you are still faithful to me despite your greed," he told him.

"Of course, my beloved brother, if I betray you, I'll have no one to lean on."

"I'm happy to know that."

As they left his manor, on his way to his army's training grounds, he caught a glimpse of someone he had just seen, a beauty which captivated his eyes. A hair the color like a roses in the fields, a smile that shines like the sun, and eyes like the ocean.

Caleb notices his brother looking at the rose fields with a mesmerizing expression on his face; he looks at the field to see why his brother has such an expression; when he sees it, he knows his brother fell in love at first sight with the woman standing in the middle of the rose field.

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Marcellus was at his manor's workplace, wondering about the woman he had seen in the rose fields three days ago; he even searched the entire land of rose fields , but she had never been seen there since then.

He sighs deeply in his chair and hears a knock; he glances at his workplace's entrance and sees his younger brother Caleb.

"What are you sighing about, dear brother?" he inquires. "Hm, maybe you're still thinking about that red-haired woman you saw at the rose fields three days ago?"

Marcellus is well aware that his younger brother is mocking him in an attempt to annoy him.

"If you're trying to tease me, it won't work, so get out," he muttered, irritably.

"Aw, we're cranky this early in the morning, aren't we?"

Marcellus pinch the middle of his nose "Don't be a smart-ass, get out."

Caleb smirks at him. "Anyway, I'm not here to tease you; I came to give you a report on the popina in the main district. According to the rumors on the streets, the popina was involved in illicit gambling and prostitution, and one of our men even saw the female you're looking for at the popina."

Marcellus sprang up in his seat, shocked, as Caleb uttered this. "Go gather the men; we're going to arrest everyone in there."

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"Hey, you idiot son of a bitch, are you still with me?" says the person on the other end of the call.

Marcellus laughed at his younger brother's antics. "I did hear you. I just remembered something."

"Anyway, bro, I'm glad you found her reincarnation, but back then when you saw her at the popina*, I mean in the bar in our time, you seemed quite upset when you saw a man touching her butty, eh?"

"How could I not, she became mine at the moment I laid my eyes on her in the fields of roses," he grinned as he remembered seeing her standing in the center of the fields of roses, gazing at the beautiful sky.

"By the way, I'm coming there next week… I want to see your lovely sweetheart again so I can grab him from you," his younger brother stated over the phone, and he snickered.

Marcellus frowns in response to his younger brother's remark, "If you get near him, I'll kill you, do you understand?"

"Aw, we're grumpy as always, aren't we?" Because of his brother's little smart-ass remark, Marcellus was about to hang up. "Hey don't hang up yet..." he laughed. "I'm joking, of course. In any case, where have you gone? Is it possible that you were in the bar, based on the sound of your background?"

"I am!" he admit. "I'm in the VIP section with my coworkers and our pupils who we just met at the bar." He explains to his brother, "We brought them here because the little boys have girlfriends with them."

The bar and VIP rooms are decorated in a style that is reminiscent of the early European era. The VIP room contains leather couches with a small rectangular table in the middle.

"Hm! Is that so?"

"Why?"

"I'm only concerned about you... Just don't overdrink, okay?" Marcellus smiled as he sensed how worried his brother was. He is well aware of what would occur if the alcohol got to him. He hung up the phone after bidding farewell to his little brother. Marcellus is content now that he has Felix; all he have to do now is wait for Felix to open the door of his heart for him.

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Marcellus was seated in the center couch, and one of his female coworker offered him a drink, which he accepted, but little did he know, his colleague had put some stimulant to his drink... after few minutes, Marcellus felt dizzy and his body was becoming hot.

The female coworker laughed at the sight of Marcellus becoming dizzy; she knows that the stimulant she put in Marcellus' drink is now having an effect on him.

Marcellus leaned his head on his right hand as he placed his drink on the table in front of him. "Arrggghhh! This bitch put something in my drink."

His female coworker pushed him back so he was leaning on the backrest of the couch, and she straddled at him before he stood up.

Their other colleagues, as well as the students with them, are too wasted to notice what is going on between Marcellus and his female coworker.

She leaned closer to his ear and whispered, "Did you know I've liked you for a long time now, Professor Michael?" she moved back and forth to his hips, prompting a groan from Marcellus. She then licks his neck and lightly pecks his bare chest.

Marcellus looks up at his coworker above him and sighs heavily as he feels the pleasure that his coworker has given him, "Ha! Fuck she knew what she was doing." The stimulant was making its way into his system. He can't even think straight right now; all he can think about is the pleasure the woman is giving him.

His coworker stands in front of him, spreads his legs, and leans in closer to the zipper of his pants. Marcellus looks at her and smirks at the sight of his coworker; she looks at him while unzipping his pants with her mouth.

Then he noticed someone hazily standing in the doorway of the VIP room they were in, and as he looks to see who that person is, his eyes widen and memories of the past rush through his mind.

He shifted his gaze to his female coworker who was giving him a blowjob, groaned with ecstasy, grabbed her head and pushed her deeper into his cock... but then he returned his gaze to the girl waiting in the doorway, but the girl appeared in front of him, dressed in her white nightgown and drenched in blood, her hands full of blood, she touched his face and said "Marcellus..." tears streaming down her face as she addresses him, "...what have you done?"

He abruptly rose up while panting heavily, and looked around; the woman who had just appeared in front of him was nowhere to be found; and then he felt someone gripping his dick and a hand on his chest.

He shifts his gaze away from his female coworker. "Don't you like it?" she asks, looking at him.

Her face turned horrified once she said that... Marcellus emitted an aura around him and looked at her as if he was about to kill her; he then straightened himself and scowled at her again, saying, "I'll deal with you later Si-Woo!"

He gets himself together and leaves the bar right away, heading straight towards Felix's flat.

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It was past midnight, and Beelzebub and Felix were in the living room watching a comedy drama when someone knocked on Felix's door.

"Who would come here at this hour?" as he asks this, Felix looks at Beelzebub.

Beelzebub arched his brow and tilted his head. "Stay here while I see who it is…" he says as he steps up to the door to see who was knocking at this hour.

When he saw Marcellus with his head down through the door's peephole, he opened the door for him and asked, "What the hell are you doing here at this hour, Marcellus?"

Marcellus ignores his question and walks right past him. "He reeks of alcohol, its seems his been drinking..." Beelzebub thought as he followed him with his gaze.

Beelzebub notices that Felix is scared due to Marcellus's perception of danger, so he takes Marcellus by his left elbow and stops him from approaching Felix.

When Marcellus looks at Beelzebub, he has a dreadful expression on his face; as soon as Beelzebub notices Marcellus' expression, he lets him go.

Marcellus approaches Felix, who is standing in the middle of the living room, and places his head on Felix's right shoulder, hugging him tightly.

Felix felt dampness on his shoulder, which he later realized was Marcellus crying on his shoulder.

Then he heard him say, "Please don't leave me behind again..." in a quivering voice. Marcellus took a little pause before continuing. "…please don't abandon me again… I'm sorry… I won't do it again." after saying these words, he loses consciousness and slumps to the ground.

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Some trivia of words inside of my Novel:

*Domus – is a private family residence of modest to palatial proportions

*Atrium – is an open room where guests were greeted. The atrium typically had an open roof and a small pool that was used to collect water. It also has chairs in there sometimes.

*Ostium – the entrance to the domus.

*Chariot – a two-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle used in ancient warfare and racing.

*Popina – was an ancient Roman wine bar.