Flavia

== Flavia ==
Flavia is a girl who is best known as the friend of Cornelia. She lives in the villa adjacent to the Villa of the Cornelii. She appears in the first chapter sitting under the tree with Cornelia and writing. In the second chapter, she and Cornelia take a walk through the fields. When Cornelia gets tired and decides to sit down, Flavia runs through the fields because she is very energetic. 🏃‍♀️ In this moment, their feelings begin to blossom with the bearings of the spring breeze.
When Cornelia leaves for Rome, she has to leave Flavia behind. Flavia then cries. She does not know if or when Cornelia will come back. We do not know much about what happened after the departure of the Cornelii, for the story is centered around them, not her
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Four years later, Cornelia returns to the villa rustica in Baiae after her marriage to a high-ranking Roman aristocrat. It has been two years since the conubium: two years of emptiness and boredom as her husband frequents taverns and only seeks the bodies of the male servi. She feels dispirited with her standing as a housewife and wishes to enjoy the peaceful nature of the trip in order to mend her pitiful state. She enters the villa rustica and memories of the summer of 52 AD come flooding in like a rivus. She thinks of her pater, her mater, her frater, her annoying asf patruelis, her Bwitish servus and... Flavia. 😍🥰❤️ 
How is she doing? I must go meet her if she is still around. Oh, but there is no telling where she is. After all, she is most definitely married by now. I should still stop by though. 
Cornelia sets her luggage trunks in the hall and quickly runs out to the estate of her best friend. Upon arrival, she notices a woman hustling about, carrying linens in her arms. The woman is startled to see a person in the area. The woman explains that the master and his family had left long ago, leaving no inhabitants or possessions behind. 😢😔 The area had been deserted. Disheartened, Cornelia thanks the lady and runs back to the villa. 
What was I thinking? I am too foolish. Stultus Cornelia. Flavia is surely happy out there and that's all that matters.
While running, Cornelia notices a familiar silhouette in the distance and rubs her eyes. Upon closer inspection, she notices the figure's flowing golden hair and dainty frame. (Ooh la la 😍🙏🙏) 
Flavia!
She leaps towards Flavia and squeezes her tightly. Flavia smiles gently and caresses Cornelia's cheek, tears streaming down her face upon seeing her dearest friend. Flavia explains how she heard about the raeda in fossa accident four years ago and assumed the worst had happened to the Cornelii. She did eventually go to Rome with her family but she moved back to Baiae to reminisce and relive the moments the two girls shared. Her parents, angered by her decision to avoid marriage and leave Rome, had disowned her, leaving Flavia on her own. For quite some time, Flavia was forced to work as an escort to support herself and bought a cottage in the silva with the money she earned. Cornelia, overcome with guilt for abandoning her beloved, begins crying as well. Suddenly Flavia confesses that she loves Cornelia the most and never wants to be separated from her ever again. "Where you go, I will follow", she says, gripping Cornelia's hand tightly. Cornelia looks up at the pleasant blue caelum and smiles brightly; "As long as the statua is not in the piscina, I am not going anywhere, Flavia", she says. Flavia stops for a moment to process everything. Then, she grins, gently pulling Cornelia through the via to sit sub arbore and live happily ever after. 🌳🌳