"I like, you the way you are.
When we're drivin' in your car.
And you're, talkin' to me one on one, but you become…
Somebody else 'round everyone else.
You're watchin' your back, like you can't relax.
You tryin' to be cool, you look like a fool to me!
Tell me!
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated?
I see the way you're, actin' like you're somebody else gets me frustrated!
Life's like this you, you fall and you crawl and you break, and you take what you get, and you turn it into…
Honestly, you promised me, I'm never gonna find you fake it.
No no no."
-"Complicated", Avril Lavigne
Michelle rolls her eyes.
She was leaning against a wall, waiting for her boyfriend to finish up his conversation with his friends, Percy (who names their kid Percy?!) and Jason. He was going on and on about his latest metal shop project. The same metal shop project he'd been working on day and night for the past week. The same metal shop project he'd forgotten their two-year anniversary for. The same project that kept her up all night. It was infuriating! He'd act like it was no big when explaining it to his friends, but it was all he could talk about when they were alone. She mentally marks it down in the "Friends" column. Recently, Leo had been acting differently around his friends than he would with her.
Like the week before, when he'd promised her they'd do something romantic for their anniversary. Then, when it came around, he'd spent the entire day in his workshop and hadn't even come out for lunch or dinner.
And now, to "make up for it" he'd taken her to this crappy dance club so he could meet up with his friends and tell them all about his new project.
Percy and his girlfriend were fighting, but he and Annabeth would be back together by the next morning. Jason and Piper weren't really into this scene either, but it wasn't the worst kind of dance club Michelle had been dragged to. She rolls her eyes again and walks over to them. She smiles sweetly and places a gentle hand on her boyfriend's shoulder, squeezing as hard as she can, keeping her smile in place.
"Leo, sweetie, I'm ready to go." she tells him, her voice sugary-sweet. Leo's reddish-brown eyes swivel to her and it takes all her willpower to try and not melt under his hot gaze and gorgeous smirk.
"In a sec, babe." he tells her, and Michelle rolls her eyes. Again. She's getting a headache.
"Babe, you said that half an hour ago." she reminds him, using every bit of her willpower to not scream at him here.
"Okay, Princess, let me finish up with the guys here." he kisses the top of her head before turning back to Percy and Jason.
Michelle rolls her eyes and grabs Leo's arm mid-sentence before pulling him out of the club. "You are such an idiot." she tells him, aggravated, pulling them off to the car.
Leo slides into the driver's seat and starts up the car, "I know it wasn't what you wanted, but the boys needed me."
"If the "boys" needed you," his girlfriend starts, using air quotes around "boys", "Then where was Frank?"
"Frank doesn't do the club scene."
"And I do?!" Michelle asks him, incredulous. "You know I'd much rather be at home. Reading a book or watching a movie or just sleeping next to you, you idiot." she smacks him upside the head, albeit much more gently than she really wanted to.
"I know babe."
"Why are you like this? You used to be the same wherever you were. Now, when you're with the guys you're crude and a total jerk and you forget about me." She crosses her arms and stares out her window.
Leo looks over at her for a split second before moving his eyes back to the road, "Babe, I just-I dunno. You make me wanna be better, but then the guys make me wanna be…They make me wanna be a guy."
"I want you to be a guy. I fell in love with you as a guy. Is there something you aren't telling me, sweetheart?" she asks, turning to face him again and smirking. Damn him for leaving it so open.
Leo gives a short, somewhat-bitter laugh, "Actually, there's something I wanna ask you. It's why I've been so busy recently. And I'm sorry it's so late, babe, but I hope that when you see it you'll forgive me."
They arrive home a few short, silent minutes later and Leo helps Michelle from her seat. She smiles at him and they walk into the garage, AKA Leo's workshop. Leo puts his hands over her eyes as he leads her into the garage and talks her up for the big reveal. "I've been wanting to do this for such a long time, Ice Queen, but I wanted everything to be perfect." He lifts his hands from her eyes to reveal a doghouse, more of a dog mansion really. At first, Michelle is slightly disappointed, because she thought he was going to ask her something else, but then he whistles and a pug puppy comes bounding out the front door of the dog-mansion, he's carrying something in his mouth that Michelle can't identify. Michelle leans down and picks up the puppy, whom she squeezes to her chest because she loves pugs. They were her favorite dog breed.
"His name is Samson." Leo tells her.
Michelle kisses his head, "After that super-strong guy from the Bible? Leo, you really shouldn't have-" she's cut off by Samson dropping the thing in his mouth, a black velvet box, it falls to the ground in front of Michelle.
Leo leans down on one knee and picks it up, he dusts it off quickly before opening it and revealing the ring to Michelle. "Michelle, will you marry me?"
Michelle puts down her new puppy and kneels so she's eye-level with Leo. She looks closely at the ring. It's a gold band, the middle is diamond, and surrounding it to make it into a flower shape is her birthstone, garnet. "Leo…" she says softly, plucking the ring from the box and turning it over in her fingers. "Leo, did you make this for me?" she lifts her eyes from the gorgeous ring to her boyfriend's reddish-brown orbs. Her icy eyes are starting to water as they ask the same question her mouth did.
Leo nods slowly, his eyes moving from her fingers delicately holding the ring, to her watering eyes, to her mouth asking the question, "Yeah, that's what I've been working on for so long." He looks at the ground and scratches the back of his head nervously. "I got the gems from Hazel, and I wanted to ask on our anniversary, but there were so many other things I needed to do and I'm sor-"
She cuts him off by pressing her mouth to his, she puts the ring on her finger before digging her hands into his hair and pulling him closer to her. He kisses her back, wrapping his arms around her waist and pulling them from the ground. She tilts her head up to press her mouth firmer to his and he pulls her onto his toes.
"I love you, idiot, of course I'll marry you." The tears are flowing freely now, and Leo wipes them away. "I love you with every fiber of my being and I can't believe you did all this for me…"
The garage door goes up and Michelle is looking at Percy, who is holding Annabeth's hand of all things, Jason and Piper are smirking at her, and Frank and Hazel are waving little flags that say "LeChelle 4Ever". Michelle feels like crying again. "Guuuuyyysssss," she whimpers, running to them and pulling them all into a group hug. "Did you all plan this?"
Percy nods, "Yeah, it was Annabeth's idea to make you even madder before Leo asked."
Annabeth smirks, "I knew if it was too easy you'd be disappointed." Michelle squeezes her in a super-tight hug. Once she lets go and Annabeth can breath again Annabeth continues, "And there's one more thing…"
"SURPRIIIISSSSSEEEE!" squeals a voice so similar to Michelle's own Michelle knows who it is immediately.
"NIIIIKKKK!" the younger twin cries, running to her sister right behind the group. Next to her is her boyfriend Connor. Michelle hugs him, too. "THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER! WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING HERE?!"
"LIKE I'D MISS MY TWIN'S ENGAGEMENT?! ARE YOU INSANE?!"
"WELL, NIKKI, SHE MISSED YOURS!" Connor pipes up, and Michelle's eyes go to her sister's ring finger. She gasps and the white-gold band and diamond.
"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?!"
"I WANTED THE DOUBLE WEDDING TO BE A SURPRISE, DUH!"
"DOUBLE WEDDING?!" Michelle screams, incredulous.
"YES! DOUBLE WEDDING!" Leo chimes in, swinging Michelle around excitedly. She laughs and hugs her twin sister again, then glares at her fiance.
"I still want to know why you've been so different lately." she tells him, hands on her hips.
"Because gorgeous, I wanted this to double as a make-up and an engagement."
"You're lucky I love you."
"You have no idea, babe."
I feel pretty "meh" about this. It may be because I wasn't listening to this song at all while writing it. . Sorry if it's not what you expected Eliz. I'll probably do a different one, with more fighting. Also, this was an AU, sorry. .
NEXT IS THE CONNIK! *squeals* I'M SO EXCITED! YAY AUS!
THEN I HAVE AN IDEA FOR ANOTHER SAD LECHELLE! ^.^
THEN I'M WRITING ELIZ'S OTHER REQUEST! ^.^ THAT WILL BE IN A SEPARATE STORY TITLED "The Canon Character Ships"! WOOOO!
Speaking of, keep sending in requests, I love suggestions when I can't think of what to write.
-Chelle/OWS