Chapter 3: Memories

He didn't even notice when she shifted her weight against him, putting her head against his naked chest. Many things was in his mind that even after their bed activities couldn't made him forget those sad blue eyes. His mind drifted at the news he got three months ago.

"She will be coming back?" Asked the handsome prince Endymion.

"Yes, the Queen informed me that she will be coming home three months before her 18 birthday. So, we are to go there three months from to day." The Terran King said.

After he received the news that she would be coming home, memories from his last visit kept flooding back to his mind. Memories of the golden haired chubby little girl with sad blue eyes. 'Why was she sad?' the question wouldn't leave him.

Endymion slipped off the bed, putting his pants on and went out to the balcony without bothering for a shirt. Since the news of his betrothal to the crown princess of the Moon, he was expected to spend time with her. He was reluctant at first, but had thought that nothing was wrong with that as long as he didn't have to spend all his time with the girl, besides, he was also curious about his 'future' wife. He clearly remembers the day when she never truly smiled at him again. He was walking around the rose garden when he found her sitting under a big old tree.

"Can I join you?" I asked her. She didn't jump or got startled like before nor looked up at me and I guessed that she knows who I was before I walked toward her. I was confused when she didn't answer thinking maybe something was wrong, but then I shrugged it off.

"What are you doing here?" I asked as I sat down beside her. I thought she wouldn't say anything again, so opened I my mouth to ask her what was wrong when she spoke.

"Nothing." She said simply.

"Is something wrong?" I asked in concern. She stood up and looked at me briefly. I was surprised when I saw something in her eyes. Her eyes were distant, but that was not what surprised me. There was sadness in it.

"Nothing's wrong. I better go, I have lessons to do." She smiled at me when she said that, but her smile was also different. It never reached her eyes.

'As the days flew by, I noticed she was avoiding me. I tried to spend time with her, but she always got away with an excuse and I was beginning to worry about her. I caught her one time when she was having tea and asked her if I upsetted her somehow. She reassured me that I didn't, but why was I not convinced? I decided not to bother her for awhile and to observe her instead. I noticed a lot of things when I knew she didn't know I was watching her. She wasn't the girl who I met before. When she was talking to other people, her eyes lit up and her smile reaches her eyes. Her laugher was like an angel's song when I first heard it. She was like an angel, her cheerfulness, innocence, and kindness brought smile to the people she touched. But I was sad that she was different when I was around her. What happened?' I thought sadly.

Endymion was shook out from his deep thoughts when a pair of feminine arms wrapped around his naked waist from behind.

"Baby, what are you doing here? Come back to bed." Purred by a woman's voice.

"In a minute, Beryl." Endymion said and turned his gaze to the Moon above.'

'Tomorrow.' He thought, 'Tomorrow we shall see each other again and I will have the answers to my questions.'