"That could've gone better." I mumbled as we walked out of the infirmary on Olympus.
"I completely agree." Said Connor holding an ice pack against his left eye.
"Well, at least we know one thing."
"What's that?" he asked, as we walked down the path towards the elevator.
"My dad's got good aim. And a powerful punch." I added, snickering a little. Connor cracked a smile.
"Yeah, now we know that for the future. I wonder what will happen when we tell him we want a family." I stopped and looked at him.
"You, Connor Stoll, want kids?" I said, almost cracking up as an older version of Connor running around a living room chasing little brown haired kids showed in my mind.
"Is that such a shock?" he asked incredulously.
"Yes." I said as I started walking again. He ran a few steps to catch up to me, and by then we were already at the elevator.
"So, how did it go?" asked Annabeth and Percy running to meet us as we climbed up half blood hill.
"Umm … it was interesting. We would've been back much sooner, but im afraid my dad had a slight issue with Connor. Sooooo …. He punched him." I replied, giving a small smile at the last part.
"Yeah, and it bloody well hurt." Replied Connor curtly.
"Well, at least you are still alive." Pointed out Annabeth. Always looking on the bright side, that one.
"That's true." He said after thinking for a moment.
"Well … ill just leave you two to have some newly engaged fun." Said Annabeth, edging away towards the cabins.
"Uh, wait!" I said, a bit loudly. Everyone turned towards me, and I blushed a little. "Percy can I talk to you for a minute?" I said, looking at my bright yellow converse.
"Uh, yeah sure Ekko." Said Percy, unsure of what to say. Everyone waited in silence for a moment.
"Alone." I clarified.
"Oh." I heard everyone say. Annabeth walked Connor down to the infirmary to make sure that he didn't have a concussion. Once everyone was gone, he spoke.
"So, uh … what did you wanna talk about?" he asked rubbing the back of his neck.
"Do you … do you think we are too young?" I asked, sort of embarrassed.
"Well, that's not really my place to comment, since Annabeth and I got married last year and we were just eighteen …"
"Well, at least you two are the same age. I mean, I love Connor, but he's nineteen and im only seventeen. Am I too young?"
"You'll be eighteen when you get married, so you'll be the same age Annabeth was. But it took so much more convincing her to say yes. Connor was lucky, you just said yes." He said, rolling his eyes.
"Does that mean im easy?"
"What?" his head snapped up. "No, no, no! Ekko, you aren't easy! Don't you even think that! Just because you said yes to your boyfriend who asked you to marry him, does not make you easy." He said looking me straight in the eyes and putting his hands on my shoulders.
"Oh." I said in a small voice. "Kay."