Sorry it's short.
Celeste got and and got ready, putting on an Asgardian dress with green accents. After fixing her hair in the mirror, she strode down the halls to the library. Given her lessons the other day, she wanted to test her skills. To her surprise, Prince Loki was already there, sitting on a table and enjoying a book. "Hello, Celeste."
"Hi. What are you reading?" she sat down on the table next to him.
"Just an old folktale, elves, dwarfs, a bit of magic," he shrugged putting the book down.
"Sounds interesting," she said picking the book back up and flipping through the pages, seeing beautiful drawings of an elf and a dwarf together. Her eyes lit up and she tried her best to read the captions.
Loki watched her skim through the book, noticing her struggle, "Having trouble?" Loki teased. She glared at him, "It says 'A Night At The Lake.'"
She smiled, "What about this one?" she opened it to another page.
"'Hiding Between The Trees.'"
"And this one?" she asked with a child-like sense of wonder.
"'Protecting The Thing You Love Most.'" She smiled, not even noticing Loki look over at her with the faintest of smiles, "Would you like me to read it to you?"
"Uh, sure," Celeste replied, not really sure how else to respond. It was a kind gesture, but (as a twenty something year old, literate woman) nobody had really offered to read to her before. When in Asgard.
He flipped back a few pages and started. It was a beautiful story about an elf princess and a common dwarf falling in love. They decided to run away together while also trying to avoid soldiers from both their lands. Loki's voice filled the room and her ears. She leaned back and closed her eyes, wanting only to listen to the sound of his voice. He spoke with such passion, it was as though they were part of the story, he blushed a bit at the thought and her eyes opened a bit to see him engrossed in reading this story. 'The pair walked through the forest, lost in their conversation.' He looked over at Celeste who was now leaning over the book with him, Idea!
The room around them began to fade away, patches of the library dissolving and being replaced with a forest that seemed to give off a red glow from the setting sun, 'The only indication of how long they had been walking was the green, bright forest around them darkening, becoming red,' At this point, Celeste noticed the change in scenery and sat speechless, looking over at Loki who beamed at her and stood up. Celeste followed after him as he continued reading, 'Realizing how late it was, they decided to set up camp. They found a quiet little spot by a lake. After a good meal, they sat on the lake's shore, looking at the stars above,' they sat in front of a lake which appeared along with the rest of the forest around them, even the ceiling was replaced with a night sky with brilliant stars shining above them.
Even with all the questions running through her head asking "How?" "Where?" and "Why?" she couldn't bring herself to ask them, she was mesmerized by the sights around her and the fact that the man next to her had made it all happen. She looked at him, he had stopped reading. His emerald eyes shone in the moonlight, as did hers of ocean blue. They didn't even realize they were bother leaning in until their lips met in a sudden, deep, and loving kiss. They each were hesitant at first, and pulled away for a moment. But, upon looking into each others eyes again, they continued, wanting more. He cupped her cheeks, pulling her in again, and she tangled her fingers in his dark hair. Their kiss was passionate, romantic, and what they had wanted from the start. Any doubts in Loki's mind about loving Celeste were gone, andy confusion about loving the Asgardian prince fled Celeste's mind.
So caught up in their loving gesture, they didn't notice the beautiful forest fade away to be replaced with the library. They stayed sitting on the floor, indulging in their closeness as he hugged her waist and her arms hooked around his neck. They pulled away gasping for air, their eyes locked and foreheads resting on one another's, smiles on both their faces.
They could have stayed like that forever except Loki's brutish brother had to bang on the door, "Loki! Breakfast is being served, let's go!"
The couple untangled themselves from each other, and he helped her stand up, "Food, that's all he thinks about," Loki mumbled to himself.
"Um, Loki," Celeste said, uncertainty in her voice, but no words could form. Had this just been a fluke? Would it ever happen again? Was he just messing with her? Before any questions could be asked, Loki, seeming to have read her mind, leaned in and gave her a quick peck on her lips, "uh..." she smiled, "What's for breakfast?" she said, any disbelief leaving her mind as they exited the library hand in hand.