Percy and Annabeth Proposal 1

Graduation Hats
I looked in the mirror and knew I looked stupid. Whose idea was it to make graduation hats flat and impossible to keep on? But none of that really mattered; I was more amazed by the fact that I was graduating. From college. Yeah, I got into college, and made it through the whole four years without getting kick out.

Most people still don't believe me when I tell them. But it's true. I'm graduating in about 2 hours from the State University of New York with a degree in marine biology. Bet you didn't see that coming did you?

College wasn't my first option, oh no. My first option as to become a horse whisperer and get a show on Animal Plaint but both my mother and girlfriend shot that one Hades.

My girlfriend is incredibly smart. She is graduating a week after me as the valedictorian for some small school in Boston. Harvard, maybe you heard of it?  

She was my best friend and has saved my life countless times. I love her more than anyone, which is why I'm going to do something incredibly special tonight.

I have done everything right. I told my parents (and step parents), asked her father, asked her mother (which nearly got me killed) and found the perfect ring. All she had to do now was say yes…

An hour after I was handed my diploma and I was able to get rid of the stupid hat, we were all out to dinner. It was my girlfriend Annabeth, sitting across from me, my mother next to her and her husband, my stepfather, next to her. And my brother Tyson on Annabeth's other side. My best friends Nico and Grover were on both sides of me.

"Percy, would you like to say a few words?" My mother asked me, egging me on. If it weren't for everyone at this table knowing what I was about to do, I probably would have chickened out. It's not that I was having second thought; I was just under a lot of pressure. And I can usually withstand a lot of pressure; I've been to the bottom of the ocean.

I stood up nervously, slipped my hand into my pocket and wrapped my hand around the small velvet box. Now or never.

"Well," I started, "I went to college for four years just to earn and bachelors degree, but now I think I want to give it back…" Annabeth looked at me oddly, clearly confused, "because I realized I don't want to be a bachelor any more. Annabeth..."

I too her hand and pulled her sound the table so she was on my side, then I kneeled down in front of her. "Will you marry me?"

1…2…3…4
"Yes," She said.

"Yes?"

"Yes."

I stood up and hugged her as the whole restaurant clapped. I just hoped the employees didn't come out and sing (unless there was a free desert involved…).

I looked at Annabeth, who seemed as happy as I was. "Oh, I guess I should giver you this…" I said taking the ring out of my pocket, I had almost forgotten about it.

She rolled her eyes as I fished it out of my pocket, "Seaweed brain." That's when she kissed me.