Hi I hope you all had a great Christmas and Happy New Year! Hope you had a great 2015 sorry for the lack of updating but as soon as I got back to school it was exams and a lot of revision it still is but I'm trying to update around it anyway here is chapter 9 of The science experiment.
Annabeth's pov:
The next weeks were great. I was with Percy, who by the way got accepted into NYU and we were due to start in September.
After our three weeks were up I didn't see Percy as much, well if you count every school day plus Saturday and Sunday.
It was about July and we had just started the holidays, we had 7 weeks and on the last week we had to move, we all decided that we should get an apartment on campus so we did we went to look round it and we all agreed it was perfect, it had two bedrooms and a sofa bed in case someone wanted to stay over, me and Percy would have one bedroom and Thalia the other one.
It also had a small kitchen but big enough for us three and of course a bathroom which was pretty big.
Percy's and my relationship was going great he was getting more confident and he was teaching me how to be a little more down to earth I guess.
Percy had quite a hard time facing the fact he was going to university, he barely had any problems going except leaving his mum, which was understandable considering the circumstances.
A couple of days ago I met Percy's mother; she was not really a typical mum. I could understand why she worked a lot but I couldn't understand why she would leave her son at home alone. Percy told me that when his father was killed he was 8; his mum left him alone when he was 9 for hours, nights. He said she was never gone for days but Percy had to grow up alone he had to teach himself things, how to cook and how to clean, no wonder Percy did all of that stuff.
No wonder he's so pessimistic.
But his mum was amazed that Percy had got into a good college she was crying she couldn't have been happier. She was actually pretty ecstatic about Percy leaving after she reassured him that she would be fine of course.
After that day Percy I guess began looking forward to going off to college. But there was one other problem.
Himself.
There was something in his head telling him that his happiness won't last that something will come crashing down. We had talked about it though I reassured Percy that I wasn't going anywhere I loved him I wasn't going to just leave him.
Percy's pov:
The week to move in finally came, I was so excited. The only problem now is that every time I picture my life getting better I think that something is going to go completely wrong, and I'm just I don't know, living in fear.
This last 2 months or so has been the best thing to happen to me ever. I just find it hard to accept, my life isn't bad anymore I don't live in a black hole anymore I guess now I'm finally free.
Annabeth's pov:
Percy and I were on our way in the car to NYU, Thalia went in her own car and Percy's old truck was so old we decided to just leave it back at home.
I was really excited in fact I couldn't contain my excitement, I literally burst out laughing every 30 minutes or so.
Percy just looked over at me with his eyebrows furrowed and chuckled to himself like he didn't have a care in the world, and we really didn't, neither of us did we could both finally be ourselves and live our lives as we want forgetting all of the multiple times we made mistake after mistake, trying to be people we weren't.
Percy's and mine situations, were really different but at the same time they weren't, we were both two people with no clue of what actually we could achieve, no aspiration at all to be here together and nothing denying that whatever comes next won't be easy or hard but because we're together we can accomplish anything that's what I've been telling myself anyway.
Yes the world's not a saint but when you find something you really want you'd never let go of it, not ever the price to live in this world is so expensive you seriously can't afford for to be terrible, because just think one day all of this will end and if you spent your whole life moping about one thing then you've wasted your money.
That's what I learnt from my experience and also that the world will throw obstacles at you your whole life big ones, little ones all they are is tasks that make up something called your life. And that life will make you stronger as you go along. In the end only you know how far you've really come and what you actually achieved in your life of obstacles and if you even completed anything you wanted to do.
Percy may be nothing I expected to be but in reality I didn't know him I didn't even know myself yet my only regret is that I misjudged Percy because if I hadn't maybe I would have met him years earlier maybe I wouldn't have had to spend more of life feeling sorry for myself when I could have been doing what I was destined to do.
"Annabeth I've been thinking, there's a question I want to ask you." Percy asked me as he pulled over In the middle of nowhere.
"Okay could you not have kept driving to ask me?" I asked him with my eyebrows raised.
"Nope. If I were driving my hands probably couldn't stay o the wheel anyway."
I nodded and then he went on to say,
"Annabeth Chase, I love you, no words cannot describe how much I love you, and it seems too small a gesture. Anyway you've helped me through so much this short time I've been with you and this may seem a little bit forward but I thought it would be a good time, so Annabeth Chase will you marry me?"
I looked at him as tears welled in my eyes, I knew my voice wouldn't work so by instinct I nodded my head slowly at first then getting faster.
We both dived in for a hug, as Percy pulled a velvet box out of his back pocket. He opened it, and I was gobsmacked.
"Percy how did you get this?" I asked him noticing that the ring was in fact my mother's engagement ring.
"Your dad gave it to me a few weeks ago he said that he would love his only daughter to get married but he's not at all up to the idea of grandkids just yet."
We both laughed for a while, until I realised something.
"Percy we're 18 jut starting university we can't possibly get married now."
He laughed and then said,
"I know Annabeth it's just that before we went to NYU I wanted to make sure you were mine I wanted to leave a mark I guess, which sounds really weird, so I'm going to stop talking now.
10 years later:
"Percy can you grab Amelia from the kitchen I need to put her down for a nap." I shouted to my husband of 5 years whilst he walked into the kitchen.
A lot had happened in ten years, Percy and I got married and then 2 years ago we had a beautiful daughter called Amelia Rose Jackson she has Percy's eyes but she had my hair, she was perfect.
And of course Percy was a little over protective over her, like if he heard one little cry Percy would race up the stairs to check on her but all in all, she was a mummy's girl, but don't tell Percy.
There's not one thing I would change about my life today, everything turned out amazing for me and Percy and I guess I should be thankful for that fire because without that science experiment I probably wouldn't have been here right now although I do believe that fate would have brought us together somehow but it gives me the chills to think of my life if it weren't this.
The end
So it kills me to say, but the science experiment is officially over, unfortunately here won't be a sequel but I hope you all liked the ending in the week sometime I plan on updating If I give you my heart will you throw it away? Then I might start a new story, I have a few ideas but it may take me a few weeks, but look forward to the next chapter in the week, I hope you all enjoyed this story, bye.
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Until next week bye!
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