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Leon found that he was terribly impatient. The more he stared at the Reflective Pool, the more he realized he could not just sit and do nothing.
The Reflective Pool showed him humans who were making wishes but as of a couple of days all he could think about was her.
Her smile.
Her laugh.
The way she'd tuck her hair behind her ear when she was nervous.
Everything about her.
How could Eris do this to them? Even when he spent time away from her he couldn't stop thinking about her. Her plan was working perfectly, even when he took all the precautions he was taking.
The more you love her, the more she will forget about you.
He stopped asking her to visit him, he stopped seeing her but she managed to forget completely about him.
She didn't even recognize him anymore …
He yelled out in frustration, his hand knocking down his drink from a nearby table. The wine spilled all over the granite floor leaving a large red puddle.
"Damn you, Eris," he muttered running his hand through his gold hair.
"Damn it." The Reflective Pool's voice – her voice- said. He had started watching her for that day trying to formulate a plan to get her back into his life. To get her to remember him …
The Reflective Pool was the only way he could get close to her without her noticing. He thought that at first just watching her he would be able to somehow forget her slowly and she would regain her memories that way but it was useless. He loved her even more now.
He watched her mutter a curse again. She had been drawing with charcoals on a paper pad for the last twenty minutes but didn't seem pleased with the result. The charcoal was all over her fingers, neck and face.
"This isn't right," she continued to mutter. Then she grabbed the paper off the pad and crumbled it, tossing it to the side.
She started again on the paper the dark material drawing on the white paper.
He watcher her furrow her brow in confusion, run her hands through her long brown hair, smile then go back deep in thought again. Finally, her face lit up with a smile when she was satisfied.
She held the paper up and he finally realized what she had been drawing.
The stars in his eyes, the one thing he kept most private and had shown no one else – she had drawn them.
He was instantly transported back to the first time he showed his stars to her.
They were both in bed and it was late. Much to late for her to go home, he wouldn't allow it. Or at least, that's what he told her, he really didn't want to let her go for the night. He wanted to feel her warmth at night.
He really had fallen too hard for this human.
Her naked skin was lovely, he could trace circles on her skin all night.
She giggled. "You're tickling me." She was modestly covering herself up with the sheet. She looked up at him with her soft brown eyes and saw the stars in her eyes.
She had been goddess in her former life and still had the stars in her eyes to prove it. Her new human life erased her memories but she still held that one godly trait.
"You're staring again," she whispered.
He trailed the tip of his fingers down her arm. "Am I?:
"Leon," she whispered. "I've been wondering – do you have stars in your eyes?"
She was bold. No human had asked him that.
He gave her a devilish smile. "If I answer you must do something for me."
She laughed. "Is that so?"
"All gods have stars in their eyes we choose not to show them."
"Hmm," she said quietly, disappointed. "I see."
He smiled, seeing an opportunity. "Though for you, I'll make an exception." He turned over and climbed on top of her much to her delight.
She squealed with laughter.
He looked deep into her eyes the pattern of her stars were beautiful. He never beheld such a beautiful creature.
To think, he never believed in love and suddenly, there she was. The one person he didn't know he had been waiting eternity for.
She smiled. "They're beautiful, Leon."
That's what he was seeing now. She had drawn the stars in his eyes with the charcoal. But how?
He loved her each and every day and according to Eris's curse she'd forget him.
The more he loved her the more she'd forget.
She'd already forgotten all about him almost like he didn't exist.
And here he was, unable to live without her. Slithering away, finding ways to see her without scaring her like some sort of low life.
This all was beneath him.
And now, he saw an opportunity. She remembered his stars. That meant everything to him.
He had to be smart about this though. Anytime that he tried to get close, she would forget him immediately.
Exactly like the other night when they met while she was picking up take out dinner.
That wouldn't happen again.
He just had to find a loophole.