Part 7
"Okay so let me see if I got this straight? You left your life to do what? Find something more than perfection?" Andrade asked with a smug smile on his lips, we had already been over this a million times, but he just seemed to be unable to grasp that part of my story.
What did he think? That I had an awful life and left? Or a -what?- bad marriage? No way; perfection is boring.
"Yes!" I sighed loudly; seriously. I told him that I was a Greek muse, and he dwells on the part where I leave my kingdom - why did he have to find the dumbest part of my story and rub it in my face?!
"Okay okay, I'm sorry; I guess I have to get it to sink in before asking the bigger questions."
"Don't you roll your eyes at me!" He rolled his eyes! I thought, why does he roll his eyes; it's not like I'm hysterical or anything, and now he is freaking laughing ERJ!
I didn't know what got into me, since we drove away from school and started talking again, I kept getting very nervous outbursts all the time; I just couldn't grasp the fact that he knew - I didn't have to hide.
Although he actually hadn't seen the real me, he hadn't even asked to do so. Weird, I thought, this guy should be insisting on me revealing myself; but no, nothing.
It was actually pretty embarrassing; I was an ancient Greek muse and he made me a nervous school girl - I mean how pathetic can you get; several thousand years old, and still nothing more than a teenager.
Great Melpomené, while other people mature with age; you seem to be the other way around. You used to be so much more mature!
He finally stopped laughing, looked me in the eyes and said: "You really ought to stop speaking aloud, you know that?"
NO!! How much did he hear? I raged in myself. I am so ARG! I hit the dashboard in the car so hard that I actually managed to turn on the headlights and the window cleaners - it was like a scene right out of a bad movie.
I stopped violating the car and sat straight up in the seat, I hated being humiliated; and I usually avoided it because of my fierce attitude - but this time I couldn't hide behind my powers.
I was completely and utterly embarrassed, and I was trapped out here in these woods; I had thought it a good thing with some privacy if I wanted to change him - boy was I sorry.
"I don't think you're hysterical, I would be nervous too if I had just told somebody that I was a god - and I was definitely going to ask you to show me how you look." He said it like a whisper and seemed very nervous about the last part of the sentence.
I looked at those emerald eyes, and they shone so brightly in the dusk that it made my breath hitch.
My toes were still crumbled with embarrassment, but it didn't seem as embarrassing when I looked at him - it was Andrade, no one else.
That boy was just so unaware of himself; he thought it was the fact that I had told him my secret that made me nervous - Ha! It was being in the presence of HIM with my secret revealed; I was just waiting for him to realize it and run away screaming.
We were so close, but much to my dismay he had put on his T-shirt before we drove out of the school parking lot; he hadn't said a word on the entire drive.
The first thing he had said when we parked was "Okay Melpomené." It was so simple, but it was everything I needed to hear, and I think I breathed for the first time in over an hour just then.
A minute went like that; we were just sitting across from each other - in my peripheral vision I saw the green clock on the dashboard turn 16:54.
I could taste his breath, and my eyes swept across his face; studying every feature. I wanted to see all of him, and feel all of him - I really wanted to touch him.
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