Happy ending…
"DON'T MOVE!!!" Psyche shouted just as Pan was about to jump up to greet Echo. Pan obeyed and the next second Psyche removed the end of the arrow. "Got it!" she laughed as she scampered around the grove. "How do you feel?" she asked Pan.
"Surprisingly good. Kind of bitter, but good! Thank you!"
"No problem!"
Echo, who had been watching this exchange in confusion, asked, "What just happened?"
Psyche proceeded to explain, "Well, Pan liked you when he got hit with a wayward arrow from my husband's bow but I've managed to extract it so that he will no longer be pained to watch you vainly sigh over Narcissus."
"Oh! That's what I came here to tell you about!" Echo said. "When I gave Narcissus a raspberry pie that I had made, he actually looked up from his pool and thanked me!!!!" She proceeded to frolic about the grove in spasms of ecstasy.
"Echo…?" A hesitant voice called out from behind the foliage. The next minute, a head crowned with a shower of blond hair peeked out from behind a tree.
"Narcissus? But you're…" Echo started.
"I have something to confess. I really love you, Echo. I always have, probably always will. I pretended to be in love with myself when other people were watching so that I could have some time to think about what I should do. I decided to just come and tell you. If you decide to reject me, then I guess I can move on. I hope you won't though."
"Silly!! I've loved you for the longest time! You were just too busy with your own feelings to notice mine!"
"Really? I just thought you were being nice!"
"Wait a minute," Psyche interjected. "I heard you lamenting about how your reflection was trapped in the pool by an evil curse while I was hiding behind a tree. What was happening there?"
"Oh! I was talking to myself. I kept feeling like I was trapped inside my own feelings & cursed to love her without love in return, sappy stuff like that."
"Makes perfect sense. I guess everything's solved now."
"But what about me?" Pan whined. "I don't have anyone to be happy with!" At that very moment a mountain goat bounded past. "Hey, baby! Where you headed? You must be tired cuz you've been running through my mind all day…." Pan bounded off following the goat's trail.
"Well, that solves that problem!" Psyche commented, "I'm going home. It's been a long day."
The end.
A/N: YAY!!!!
"DON'T MOVE!!!" Psyche shouted just as Pan was about to jump up to greet Echo. Pan obeyed and the next second Psyche removed the end of the arrow. "Got it!" she laughed as she scampered around the grove. "How do you feel?" she asked Pan.
"Surprisingly good. Kind of bitter, but good! Thank you!"
"No problem!"
Echo, who had been watching this exchange in confusion, asked, "What just happened?"
Psyche proceeded to explain, "Well, Pan liked you when he got hit with a wayward arrow from my husband's bow but I've managed to extract it so that he will no longer be pained to watch you vainly sigh over Narcissus."
"Oh! That's what I came here to tell you about!" Echo said. "When I gave Narcissus a raspberry pie that I had made, he actually looked up from his pool and thanked me!!!!" She proceeded to frolic about the grove in spasms of ecstasy.
"Echo…?" A hesitant voice called out from behind the foliage. The next minute, a head crowned with a shower of blond hair peeked out from behind a tree.
"Narcissus? But you're…" Echo started.
"I have something to confess. I really love you, Echo. I always have, probably always will. I pretended to be in love with myself when other people were watching so that I could have some time to think about what I should do. I decided to just come and tell you. If you decide to reject me, then I guess I can move on. I hope you won't though."
"Silly!! I've loved you for the longest time! You were just too busy with your own feelings to notice mine!"
"Really? I just thought you were being nice!"
"Wait a minute," Psyche interjected. "I heard you lamenting about how your reflection was trapped in the pool by an evil curse while I was hiding behind a tree. What was happening there?"
"Oh! I was talking to myself. I kept feeling like I was trapped inside my own feelings & cursed to love her without love in return, sappy stuff like that."
"Makes perfect sense. I guess everything's solved now."
"But what about me?" Pan whined. "I don't have anyone to be happy with!" At that very moment a mountain goat bounded past. "Hey, baby! Where you headed? You must be tired cuz you've been running through my mind all day…." Pan bounded off following the goat's trail.
"Well, that solves that problem!" Psyche commented, "I'm going home. It's been a long day."
The end.
A/N: YAY!!!!