Page 24 of Meduso
Everyone nodded and took their seats at the table, passing around each dish of food to plate themselves. I could not help but feel so lucky at this moment. This was a scene I would cherish for the rest of my life. A nice family dinner of sorts, one that I never had the chance to experience before, even with my real family in the palace. It would be one of the many things on Seriphos that I would miss.
“You won’t be serving Athena for your entire life, will you?” Perseus asked with a melancholy tone.
“I’m not sure. I imagine it will be for quite a long time. And I have no clue as to whether or not I will have the opportunity to visit home or anywhere else for that matter. If I am given the chance, I would like to come back here to Seriphos to see you,” I revealed.
“Promise me that you won’t forget me, Meduso. It’s going to be so hard to go back to the way things once were. Before you stumbled into my life, I found it difficult to find purpose and much to look forward to.”
I lunged forward into his arms, letting him wrap them around me. “Don’t say such things. We’ll see each other again. The Fates would not have led me here to you, only to pull me apart from you for eternity. They would not do something so cruel without reason. Just remember that. There was a reason that destiny brought us together. We haven’t finishedourstorytogether yet.”
“Yes. And we still have one more day together. I don’t want to ever leave your side from now until the end,” Perseus confessed.
“Good. Because I wouldn’t want you to.” I lifted my head up to plant a long, lingering kiss on his lips. I couldn’t fathom returning back to a life without Perseus’s company. Without his touch, his laughs, his kisses. Now that I had experienced this, I never wanted it to end.
We discussed making a bold move in preventing me from returning to my oceanic palace and to Athena’s temple. However, we knew that such an action would be a death sentence. Defying the gods in such a way would only end horribly for us. And that was not an option that should even be considered.
“Is there anything special you want to do for your final day here?” he inquired.
“Yes. I want to spend the night on the beach. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. Fall asleep under the glimmering night sky while listening to the crashing of the tides on the shore. What do you think?”
He nodded. “That can easily be arranged.”
And Perseus stuck to his word. We laid in the sand, holding each other’s hands, just staring up at the tiny lights.
“Why do you think that Fates led me here?” I asked him. “What is to become of us?”
“They must have known we would fall inlove,” Perseus said as a matter of fact.
Love. It was the first time he ever used that word with me. But it was true. There was no other word I could use to describe these feelings we shared with one another. So, this is what true love felt like.
Knowing I would die for him.
Being apart from him depressed me.
His touch on my skin sending chills up my spine.
Just the mere sight of him putting a smile on my face, for no reason at all.
The passion, the physical attraction, the sex.
All of these feelings were ones oflove. I could finally admit it to him too, and to myself.
“I love you, Perseus. You have to know that…”
His attention to the sky was now distracted. He tilted his head towards me and gripped the back of my head, pulling me into him to greet my mouth with his. “I do know that, Meduso. I love you too.” He then reached his hand under my tunic, rubbing his fingers from my chest down to my thighs.
“Out in the open like this!?” I asked, worriedly.
A smirk lit up on his face. “Why not?”
“What if Artemis or any other god is watching?”
“I doubt they are focused on us right now, Meduso.” His hands teased me as he said this. “I want to pleasure you here and now, with this dazzling scene before us.”
And now, in this moment, I wanted him. All of him. And he did not disappoint.
“Ahem!”
I woke up on the beach, hearing a loud cough and grunt above me. Upon opening my eyes, I saw Euryale hovering over me. I shot right up, surprised to see my sister here so early. Me being startled was enough to wake Perseus up from his slumber, too.
