Ch 1: The Proposal
Declaimer: These characters are from Rick Riordan's imagination. I do not own any of these characters.
A.P.O.V.
I was sitting in the mess hall, surrounded by all the Athena kids. We had just finished eating and chatting when the conch horn sounded for bedtime. As I was walking to my cabin some-one grabbed me by the shoulders and clamped my mouth shut. Whoever it was wheeled me into the forest. I smelt seaweed, Percy….
I waited.
Three. Two. One.
I flicked my wrists and kicked him in the gut. He doubled over.
"Annabeth, it's me!" he grunted.
"I knew that! I could smell seaweed a mile away," I exaspered.
"Why did you kick me in the gut then?"
"Isn't it obvious? You were strangling me!"
"Ok! OK! I took you here to ask you something….."
I suddenly turned red and my ears grew hot.
P.P.O.V.
"Ok! OK! I took you here to ask you something….."
I could see her face turning red.
"Yeah," she mumbled, unsure.
"Um…"
I got down on one knee and gazed into her piercing grey eyes.
"Annabeth Chase will…you… be...my… bride?"
I took out a small tiffany box and held it out, open. A small gold ring glinted at her.
She took a while to answer which made me nervous and it felt like eternity with my ADHD. Finally she answered, "Um Percy, I eh... would l-love to be your bride."
Suddenly a big burden was lifted from my shoulders. "But?"