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Chapter 27
Melody
"Mom?" The muse walks toward me. She holds my face in her hands. My mom's eyes tear up.
"You have grown so much." She says. I smile.
"I can't believe you are here right now." I say. She pulls me into a tight hug. I close my eyes. I feel myself tear up. I never want to let her go. I look up and see Jack smiling at me. I smile back. After all this time I finally found her.
Mom pulls away and looks at Jack. "And who is this?" She asks. I blush.
"Oh, mom, this is Jack Frost. He is the Spirit of Winter and Guardian of Fun." He does a little bow. "He's my, um,"
"Boyfriend." Jack says. "It's a pleasure to meet the muse of dance."
"Well aren't you charming." My mom says. "Nice work, Melody." My mom says to me. I laugh.
"He's alright." I tease. Jack nudges me and I nudge him back.
"Well, then. We have some catching up to do. Mind if I steal her for a while?" My mom asks Jack. He laughs and nods.
My mom and I walk through the garden. "So, how did you and Dad meet?"
She laughs. "Well, your father was in a band in college."
"No way!" I exclaim.
"Yeah. He was guitar." Mom says.
I laugh. "I can't wait to tell Lisa."
"Lisa?"
"My best friend."
"Well tell her I said hi." Mom says.
"I will. Now continue with the story." I say.
"Okay. So, there was a big music festival in Athens. I managed to get Zeus to let me leave Olympus to go to it. It was all weekend. So I went to one of the night concerts. Your father and his band were playing. I couldn't help but dance with the other people near the stage. I must have caught his eye because afterwards he bought me a drink. We talked and talked and talked. The more we talked the more we connected. We shared a passion for music. He loved Greek mythology, which only made me like him more. We spent the weekend hanging out together. He even let me perform with his band one of the nights.
"I went back to Olympus but I couldn't get him off my mind. So I watched him from the clouds. The more I did the more I fell in love. I found him writing the name I gave him in his notebook all the time: Cora."
"Clever name." I say. "I wonder where I've heard that before." I say with sarcasm.
"Maybe it's your middle name or something." My mom says, playing along.
"Or something." We laugh.
"Zeus finally gave in and let me go back down for a while to be with your father. I was so happy. I remember knocking on his apartment door. He opened the door and his face just lit up. I held up two bottles of the drink he bought me that night. I spent time in human form for a while. We started dating and he took me dancing every Friday night. We were so happy. But I felt bad for not telling him the truth. So, one night I sat him down and told him everything."
I flashback to my reaction to Jack telling me about who he was. "What did he think?" I ask.
"He thought it was so cool. It made him love me even more." My mom says with a smile. "A month later he proposed. Of course I said yes. Then, further down the road I became pregnant with you. I could feel your power even as a baby. I would spin around in the kitchen and you would move around in me like you wanted to dance too. When you were born, I was never happier. Then Zeus intervened. He said I had neglected my duties for too long. He ordered me to return home."
"That's why you left." I say.
Mom nods. "I couldn't hurt you and your father like that. So, I asked my mother, goddess of memory, to enchant his watch, erasing his memory of me. He only knew that I left. He didn't even fully register that he was Greek because of it. It broke my heart to leave. But I watched you grow. Your power buried itself deep inside you after I left. I guess it's because all remains of me being there was gone. Except one. I told your father before his memory was erased that the small harp could take you to Olympus when you were ready."
"So, that is why my powers hadn't surfaced. They had been pushed down and I hadn't been exposed to the gods or Greece." She nods. "So, I got my power from you. That's why I dance and use sound waves. And the muses have the gift of prophecy too, right?"
"Yes. And there is one more thing, demi-god of dance. You now have more relatives then you could ever imagine." Mom says.
"Those will be some crazy family reunions."
We find our way back to Jack. He is talking with Apollo. Jack looks up at me and smiles. Seeing him reminds me how much our story is so similar to my mom's story with my father. I feel my heart flutter. I stand next to him.
"Hey, how was it?" Jack says.
"Perfect. Just perfect." I let go of my crutches. I grab his hoodie and pull him into a passionate kiss. He is surprised but leans in and kisses me back. I hear Apollo laughing. I am never going to let Jack go again. It's like my mom and dad. They just knew when they found the right one. I feel the same about Jack.
I pull away and Jack smiles. "What was that for? I'm not complaining, though." I laugh.
"Do I need an excuse?" I ask teasingly.
"Guess not." Jack says with a laugh.
"What's your next move, Jack?" Apollo asks, still laughing.
Jack smiles at me. He sweeps me off my feet and carries me in his arms. "Gosh I love you." Jack says.
We kiss in the garden of the nine muses on Mt. Olympus, home of the gods. And somehow the only thing that amazes me is him and how lucky I am to have him.
