The Unknown God/Goddess

A Trip To The City

August's P.O.V

"Where are you going again?" Mine asks. 

I was magically making my clothes. I don't know what I was going to wear. After our dinner the other night, Mr. Wilson suggested that Rafaela should tour me around the city. I wanted to do that too, as a raven that is, but decided not to because I already found Rafaela. 

Rafaela, of course, had no choice but to say 'yes' because it was her father that told her. I see this as an opportunity to get closer to her. 

"The city." I simply answered with a small smile on my lips. 

I've been so excited because it's finally a time that only Rafaela and I will spend. No one will know us there and no one will interrupt us. AH, seriously. My heart can't keep up. 

"We're moving so soon? I thought you like Rafaela." I scoffed and sat down. 

"I'm not leaving her and we're not moving to the city like planned. She's just showing me around." 

Pharsa bursts in the room. 

"You better be careful and buy a phone." my brows furrowed together at what she just shared. 

"What's in the city? And what's a phone?" 

She sighs and shakes her head before disappearing. 

"What's with her?" Mine asks me but I just shake my head, not knowing too. 

"She'll be fine." 

"But I've never heard her so serious before." 

Could it be? Have the deities finally know that we're here? That I'm here? Are they in rage? I should visit soon. What if I can't come back if I go home? What if they'll lock the doors? No, no, no. What should I do? I won't know if I won't go. 

"What if something happened in Olympus?" I ask Mine. Her mood instantly went down. 

"Should I go home?" 

"What if you can't come back?" 

"Why can't I come back?"

Right. She still doesn't know. 

"I mean, what if Athena doesn't want you to come back?" 

"Oh, I thought for a second that you kept us in here a secret. Don't worry, I'll persuade her somehow." 

I don't think this will work. 

"You know, what? I'll visit Olympus so you just stay here, okay? If I don't come back within two weeks, come home." 

"TWO WEEKS?" she exclaims. 

"Yes?" 

"But that's two whole weeks? What about school?" 

I stand up and continue choosing my outfit for today. This feels like a date already. I heard you get nervous when it's a date and when it's just the two of you. My heart can't stop pounding hard. Does Rafaela feel this too? Nervousness? When she's with me? Am I the only one? She's joking most of the time so I can't know for sure. 

"Just brainwash the entire school." 

"I can't brainwash the trio." 

"Oh, right. Just tell them that I'm off somewhere that you don't know and that we're in a fight." 

Mine looks down with a troubled face. 

"What about Rafaela? Won't you miss her?" 

"You're awfully concerned about me leaving. Are you enjoying your stay here?" 

"Well, yeah. But if mother wants me to come back too, I will." 

"Ah, mother first." 

"Yeah," 

I finally found my outfit for the day. I smile at myself before taking at seat next to mine. 

"You're free to go whenever you want, you know. I'll talk to father about it." she shakes her head aggressively. 

"No, no. I'm really enjoying here." 

"Alright, alright. Don't worry, I'll go and I'll be back before you even know it." I give her a reassuring smile and patted her back gently. 

"You're going after your date?" I nod. 

"The sooner the better, Mine." I uttered her name properly this time, to address the seriousness of the situation. 

She sighs deep.

"Okay. Have a safe trip." 

"Later," 

I exit the house, my decision resolute. I'm going to finally let Rafaela know. I can't risk not telling her my feelings. She'll know sooner or later if I stay here and since the situation is taking control of my life at the moment and I don't know what will happen, I'd better risk it anyway. 

I teleport my way to Rafaela's house. I inhale and exhale. I knocked on the door and Mr. Wilson opened the door. He bows at me subtly before letting me in. I was thankful to him that he didn't tell Rafaela who I really was and he was a good actor. He didn't spill anything by accident, unlike me and Mine. He's already mature enough to keep a secret without spilling anything by accident. He's experienced. 

"Rafaela will be down in a minute. Please, sit," 

He lets me in and I did. 

"Mr. Wilson," 

"Yes?" 

"After today, I'll be going to Olympus." 

I need him to say something if ever Rafaela asks for me. He stops walking and turns to me. His eyes widened and he was looking so pained. 

"You're going to leave already, Your Highness?" he whispers still. 

"Ah, no. It's just that I don't know if I can come back or not. I will have to see." 

"But, Your Highness." 

"You must've know that Olympus doesn't allow gods and humans to co-exist." 

"I do," he says. 

"Me being here was also kept a secret from the others. I had thought that father managed to convince everyone, but he also kept it a secret." 

"You better be careful then, Your Highness." 

Not only Pharsa but also Mr. Wilson? 

"What are you talking about Mr. Wilson?"

"I don't know if they'll get you by force or not, but I do know that you should be careful." 

"Wh-"

"Hi," Rafaela came, all dressed up. 

She looked so pretty, so beautiful. Her hair was in a ponytail. I didn't know she had bangs? Her hair was always down and they'd always be partitioned in the center. This time, she put it up, revealing her beautiful hairline yet still some baby hair on the side. She was in a dress too. 

"Woah," she caught me off guard. 

What were we talking about? I completely forgot. Rafaela brightened my whole mood. She looked so vibrant, like she's shining real bright. 

"I could say the same thing to you." she eyes me up and down and smiles before walking to my side. 

"You look good together." Mr. Wilson says and clapped his hands once. 

"Stop that, Dad. That's embarrassing." 

"No, no, I mean, we totally do." I say playfully, wiggling my eyebrows at Rafaela.

"Fine, fine. Let's go?" I nod. 

"I'll see you next time, Mr. Wilson." 

Rafaela turns her back and went to the door. I hurriedly mouth to Mr. Wilson something before joining Rafaela to the door. We were both smiling and both happy, I guess. Her smile was sincere and it reached her eyes. 

"So, where are we going first?" I ask, excited about what today will bring. 

"Let's catch the bus first." she giggles. 

We walk to the bus station, since it was just near and boarded the almost leaving bus. I let Rafaela take a seat and she takes the window seat and I sat beside her. 

"You like sitting in the aisle seat?" I look around the bus, mesmerized by how such a big vehicle can drive through the streets and not be destroyed. 

"Hmm? This is my first time in a bus." 

"What? Oh, judging from your place, you must've owned a car or chauffeur." I shake my head. 

I just fly, really. 

"Ah, no. I walk." her fleek eyebrows furrowed. 

"What if you're going somewhere far?" 

"I'm mostly at home." 

It was true. I was always in Olympus, or in Uncle Poseidon or in Hades' place. As long as it's in the premises of my father's relative, I'm allowed to go there but not just anywhere. That's why I've always wanted to come here in the human world. Him saying it was fine was a definite shock to me. He was so protective over me that just that day, he snapped and lets me come here. 

Puzzling, I know. I want to know too, and why he kept it a secret from everyone. 

"Oh, I can totally see that. I can see how you're so amazed by everything." 

"Pfft, I am not." 

The bus starts moving, making me cling to Rafaela. Shocked by the sudden movement, I look around and saw that we were moving. 

"Woah," 

"Really? I've never seen anyone this amazed before. You must've been imprisoned." 

"I guess." 

I look outside. Houses, fences, people and dogs and then after a few minutes, there was a plain field, a green field with mountains far away. 

"We'll be in the city in about forty-five.. You good?" she tucks a hair behind my ear and smiles at me. 

"Yep, yep." my heart flipped when she tucked a hair behind my ears. 

"Alright." 

I finally calm down on my seat and look ahead, which is another seat. 

"Rafaela," 

"Hmm?" 

"What about that Austin guy?" 

"Oh, him? Hmm," she hums and looks outside.

"Yes, him?"

"I don't know. I haven't seen him. You guys should totally meet." she turns to me, her eyes shining and expectant. 

"Sure, if he wants to." 

I'll just have to say 'no'. 

"You're pretty interested in him." 

"Nah. Got curious because we have the same eye color." 

"And the shape." 

"Shape?" 

I've had goddesses tell me that I have pretty dazzling eyes but never was it mentioned that I have eyes with great shape. It was always the eye color that stood out from the rest. 

"Yeah, it's, I don't know. It's perfect, I guess? Like you're not from this world." she laughs and I laugh too, a nervous one. 

"Nothing's perfect, unless it's two." 

"Are you flirting with me? Should I say 'rawr'?" we both laughed. 

We've finally arrived. 

"Let's go." 

She stands up and pulls me up. We exit the bus and I was instantly met with tall buildings and a foul odor. I scoffed. The pollution has to go. 

I use my abilities to keep the pollution away from us. 

"That's weird. It's usually so polluted because of the vehicles." 

"Must be because I'm here." I joked and she rolls her eyes at me. 

"What do you want to do first?" 

I look around and saw a cafe with sweets each side on the sign. 

"Oh! Oh! There!" I point at the cafe. 

"It's a bit early but okay." she giggles.

I grab her hand and pulled her there. I opened the door and went in and let Rafaela in before closing the door. 

"Such a gentlewoman." she says in a 'madam' tone. 

"Of course." 

But I didn't know what to do next. Were we supposed to sit immediately? Were we supposed to order? The moment we've stepped in, a few people immediately looked at us. But I was too nervous, too idiotic to care. Rafaela saw me being stiff and grabbed me. 

"Let's sit." 

Okay, sit. So, sit was the right answer. And so we sat. What now? Will someone come? Should we call? Is there a bell somewhere? Should we ring them? 

"Why are you so panicky about?" she laughs at my flustered state. 

"Because this is my first time. I've never been to one of these before so yes, I'm panicky because I don't know how things work here." 

"And you're talkative. I like it." 

"What? What's there to like? I'm being noisy and I don't like it. Also, I talk just enough before this, you know." 

I shift on my seat, adjusting another uncomfortable position. It was nice and cool and the seats were leather so I don't know what I'm complaining about. 

"Nah, you're the kind of silent type person. You talk but that's it. You just talk." 

"Hi, can I take your order?" a waiter comes to us, smiling at the both of us, looked at us both and then eyes at his paper and pen. 

"Ah, what do you like?" Rafaela asks. 

"One of everything?" I answer sheepishly. She blinked a couple of times before asking again. 

"Sorry, what?" 

"One of everything?" I repeated. 

"Are you sure?" 

I look at the menu for the first time and shook my head. 

"One of just half on the menu?" 

"You mean just the first page?" the waiter asks. 

"Yes, thank you." 

"Understood. And your drinks?" 

"Water," Rafaela answers first before I could say anything. 

"Alright. I'll be right back with your order." the waiter goes away and Rafaela instantly turns to me. 

"You're going to get a stomachache." I shake my head desperately. 

"I will enjoy this." 

I giggle and smile at myself. I look down at the menu and counted how many I just ordered. I felt satisfied somehow. 

"August, do you have a phone? I don't see you carrying one." 

Pharsa mentioned that earlier too. What's a phone supposed to be? 

"What's a phone?" she looks at me in disbelief. 

"I swear you're really out of this world. You don't know what a phone is?" I shake my head innocently. 

"Pharsa mentioned that too." 

"Do you have money?" 

I can poof out money, if that's what you're asking. 

"Yes?" 

"Let's buy you a phone later then." 

"Is that supposed to be expensive?" she inhales and pursed her lips together. 

"It depends on what you're after." 

"The price doesn't matter, as long as I can contact you." her lips loosened and stares me in the eyes. 

"We can take a photo too, if you want." 

I jolted up from my seat and leaned to her. 

"REALLY?" she looks around and muttered a soft sorry before facing me. 

"Sorry," some looked at us weirdly because of my outburst. 

"You want to take a picture with me?" I nod softly. 

"Let's take plenty then." she smiles at me which made me smile too. 

 A few minutes into our conversation, our order came one by one. I start eating, moaning with every spoonful that I chew. 

"You're so messy," 

She stands up, sits next to me, grabbed a napkin gracefully and gently wiped my cheeks off of stains. I couldn't look at Rafaela in the eyes. My heart was ready to explode. I continued eating while she stares at me while I eat. 

"Don't you want to eat?" I ask, still not looking at her. 

"This feels like a date." she nonchalantly says, making me choke. I grabbed the water and immediately gulped it down, relieving me of my pain. 

"You okay?" she gently massages my back. 

"Fine, fine, juuust fine." 

Please don't mention date again. I'm already content with only me thinking that this is definitely a date. Us two, no one to interrupt us. Eating, sitting and roaming together. This is one of my list on my to-do list with Rafaela. 

"Can you finish them all by yourself?" 

"I think I need more." she gasps. 

"Whaaat? You need more? I can't even finish one plate!" 

"Yeees, I like sweets. Now you know what to give me when I'm moody." I wink at her and continued eating. 

"Okay, noted." she jokingly nods her head and massages each side of her forehead to make it really seem like she engraved it on her mind. 

A few minutes later, we- no, I was done eating. Halfway through, she stopped eating and stared at me, which was embarrassing for me but I also want her to look at me. That means she's only looking at me. I just can't see what expression she's having because I'm too embarrassed to see. All I know is she's staring at me. I wish it was staring at me lovingly, or passionately, or she's smiling. Something like that would be good. 

"You full?" she giggles and stares at all the empty plates in front of us. They were shiny clean, or so I see myself. 

"Nope, there are still many many food out there to eat!" including you, of course. 

"You have a great appetite." 

"I'm hungry most of the time." 

"Okay, I should remember that as well." I clicked my tongue. 

"Where to next?" 

"We need to pay first." 

"Oh, no problem. But how do I pay?"

"You mean call the waiter or we go for the waiter?" I laugh sheepishly. That was what I meant. 

"Yessss," 

"We call the waiter. Such a cutie." 

She calls the waiter and asks for the bill. The waiter got back to us again and gave us the check. 

"Are you sure? It's quite expensive?" 

"I was the one that ate most of it, so yes." 

"But you're going to buy a phone later. That's going to be costly too." I shake my head, reassuring her that money is no problem for me, which is the actual truth because I can just poof out money. 

"I got this," 

I poof out money, a little more than the needed amount and gave it to the waiter. He smiles at me. 

"Keep the change." 

"Thank you, Ma'am. I hope you enjoyed your food." 

"Great service and food! Thank you!" I exclaimed happily. 

"Have a great day." the waiter calmly says before walking away with a smile. 

I look at Rafaela and she was smiling again. 

"You keep smiling." I tell her. 

"I can't help it. You make me smile." I giggle. 

"I didn't know you were sweeter than those desserts." 

"Do you want to eat me too?" I asked brazenly, making my heart race. I know it's just an innocent joke to her but to me, it was more, more deeper and sensual. 

"Damn, girl, I just ate." I tried to joke it off too, shrugging it to make her stop with the double meaning statements. 

"Alright. Let's go." 

She stands up and waits for me. I slide my ass a bit on the leather before looking up at Rafaela. I was shocked to see her hand out to me. 

"Huh?" I ask, unsure what was happening at the moment. 

"Hold my hand."

"Okay?" 

I grab her hand and we walked hand in hand to somewhere that only she knows where. I was flustered the entire time. The that passed by us would turn and take a look at us and our hands. I shake off my awkwardness and held my head up high. 

"This isn't the right one." I tell her and intertwined our fingers together.

"You're right." she giggles again. 

We stop in front of a weird box shop. 

"That's a phone," 

"Ooooh, okay." the tiny box was a phone. Okay, I see. 

We entered the shop and everyone instantly smiled at us. I thought Rafaela would break our intertwined hands but no, she didn't. She dragged me to the counter and told me to look around. 

"Don't you have any recommendations?" 

"You sure you want to take my advice?" I scoff. 

"Of course. Who do you think you are?" she starts laughing while the person at the counter smiles wider. 

"Alright. I'm guessing you want one that takes good pictures, right?" 

"Oh, oh! Can I get one with good performance on games too?" 

"You like to play games?" 

I haven't even tried playing games on a phone yet but it doesn't hurt to try. 

"Do you like games?" 

"I mean, yeah, some games." 

"Like what?" 

"Shooting games?" she answers with a question. 

"What's with the question mark?"

"Because it's not very feminine like?" I huff out air forcefully. 

"Don't let anyone tell you what to like and what not to like. I'm going to get the best one in your store, please."

The person's eye on the counter shined with glitters. 

"Right this way, Ma'am." 

After Rafaela checked the phone's graphics, processor, pixels and whatnot, she finally gave me an okay. I don't know what she was talking about so I just nodded, completely trusting her judgement. I could see the happiness in Rafaela's eyes and sadness? I don't know. We exited the shop with my new phone on one hand and Rafaela's on another. 

"You can borrow my phone anytime you want." 

"Really?" her eyes widened with excitement. 

"Yes, you helped me picked. Plus, I wouldn't have a phone if it weren't for you." and for Pharsa but that's not important. 

"But are you really sure? I might hog your phone all to myself." I giggle.

"I'd be happier if you did that." 

"Yey! Thank you!" she jumps and hugs me. I was surprised but I decided to hug her back with my racing heart. 

"Oh! We should exchange numbers!" she happily suggested after breaking our hug. 

"Sure-" 

"August," 

Rafaela turned to the deity who called me. His cool voice sent chill down my spine. I gulped before slowly turning to Hercules. 

"Woah, who's he? He's so muscular and handsome." Rafaela whispers to me but I doubt Hercules didn't hear that. 

Everyone around us turned to us, looking at Hercules. A deities looks can turn heads of humans because that's just how it is. When Rafaela told me that Mine and I were out of this world, I kept denying it. I didn't want to believe that she was attracted to me because of my looks, and as a deity. 

"Cousin," I didn't want to call his name, that would make Rafaela know everything. Plus, I kept on insisting about deities and us meeting Hercules isn't a coincidence. Even if she doesn't believe, she'll have no choice but to believe. 

Hercules' eyes twitched before understanding the situation. 

"Come home," 

"I will, don't worry." he closes his eyes before giving me soft smile and turned his back towards me. 

I sigh. 

"You're going home? Come to think of it, you didn't tell us where you're really from." I smile to Rafaela and grabbed both of her shoulders. 

"Rafaela," 

Two weeks or forever. Olympus knows. When will I see Rafaela again? I doubt the phone will work there. 

"You're scaring me," she looks straight into my eyes and I did to hers. 

"I like you." 

"You're saying this because we're not going to see each other again?" she had this pained expression on her face. 

This is the sad ending for the day. 

"I like you a lot, Rafaela. And I just had to do this." 

I slowly kiss her soft lips. The day I remembered our kiss was when I was still Austin. Rafaela didn't push me away, instead, she welcomed my kiss with her lips. It was a brief kiss, a chaste one. 

"I should get going," I tell her. 

"You're going to leave me here?" 

"Take care of this for me for the time being. Thank you." I kiss her forehead before walking away. 

I'll be sure to come back.