After Living a Dangerous Life
POV Percy
"Hey, Annabeth, wanna go for a walk?" I asked my girlfriend hesitantly. This was it. I was going to propose to my girlfriend of 5 years and my best friend of 10 years.
She looked up. "Sure, Percy…let me just put my books away…" She said, neatly sliding them onto a shelf on top of her desk. I smirked, because she was so neat for being ADHD—I probably would have thrown them on my desk. Annabeth grabbed my hand and gave it a squeeze. I flashed a smile.
I realized I was shaking. I immediately stiffened, so that Annabeth wouldn't notice. "Let's go over by the dock." I said. The same dock where we were dumped off by Clarisse, Travis, and Conner…and where we really kissed for the first time.
We approached the end of the dock, and I felt around in my pocket for the ring. I enclosed it in my fist and got down on one knee. Annabeth looked at me. Then she realized what was happening.
"Percy what are you-? Oh, my gods!" She gasped.
"Annabeth Diane Chase, will you marry me?" I asked, excitement rising in my chest.
"YES, SEAWEED BRAIN, YOU IDIOT!" She screamed, and before I could slip the ring on her finger, she tackled me into the dock. I knew what to do. I created a large air bubble around us, like I had done 6 years ago. I remembered to hold on the box that held the ring tightly in my hand as she kissed me like she never had before. I kissed back with all my might, pouring out everything I had into it. I felt myself leaving, nothing holding me down to the Earth other than Annabeth. We finally broke apart until after what I thought was forever.
I gave her my goofiest grin and she grinned back equally as goofy. I took out the ring and slipped on her ring finger, still grinning. I wrapped my arms around her and buried my nose in her blond, curly hair. Gods, she smelled good.
We sat in that bubble for a long time, talking about everything from the wedding to remembering our lives together. Finally we rested on an uneasy subject: telling our immortal parents. We both knew about the rivalry between Poseidon and Athena, of course, and ever since they started dating, they weren't too happy about it.
"Percy, what are we going to do? What if…what if we're disowned?" Annabeth ask, uncertain. "Not that that changes my decision." She added quickly.
I tucked a piece of her unruly hair out of her face. "We just have to trust that they won't kill us. We know they'll be angry at us, and at each other, but that's life." I said. "Just because they're gods doesn't mean they have to tell us what to do…at least not all the time."
"Percy…that's being awful risky…" Annabeth started. I cut her off.
"I'm a risky person. Besides, after all we've been through, after all we've done for them, don't you think they'd give us a choice of who to marry?" I said, and a raised an eyebrow at her. We just looked at each other for a while and eventually we burst out laughing, doubling over for no real reason.
Annabeth wiped the tears out of her eyes and we both sighed. I raised the air bubble and lifted Annabeth onto the dock. Before I could get out of the water, Clarisse, Grover, Piper, Jason, Leo, Hazel, and Frank rushed towards us.
"Where have you been, dweeb?" Clarisse barked. "We've been looking all over for you." Leo snickered, and Hazel shot him a look.
"Err…swimming." I said, with a sly grin on my face. I lifted myself up onto the dock, and willed myself and Annabeth to be dry. Clarisse just rolled her eyes and said, "Whatever, punk. You've been swimming far too long for our liking."
"Yeah, what were you punks doing in there?" Asked Leo, impersonating Clarisse. Clarisse shot him a murderous look. He slunk away behind Jason as the group began to walk back to the fire pit—the bonfire would be starting soon. Clarisse eyed us warily before walking away.
Annabeth and I shared a look and I said, "When should we tell them, do you think?"
"Is right now too early?" She grinned at me. We got up and, holding hands, jogged to the fire pit.
