Escaping you |EDITING|

36- Everette

Escaping you

Thinking. Always fucking thinking.

My mind moves a thousand miles a minute at graduation.

Watching as everyone else goes up and grabs their diploma, none of us really wanting to be here.

Atlas's family claps for me and for her, watching as we go up on stage.

What I'm really worried about though is this goddamn proposal.

Don't get me wrong, I want nothing more than to marry Atlas and all that comes with it, but proposing is so stressful.

I had to ask her dad, and oh jesus was that a fun conversation. I eventually did get a yes from him and from her mother, even from Zach, who's permission I didn't need.

I had this whole thing planned for how I was gonna do it and when and where, but after the ceremony ended, that flew out the window.

At graduation, Atlas gets  special shout-out from the principal and she gave a speech. It was amazing. It was hard to hear, but it was amazing.

Atlas looked beautiful, as she does always, and I think I lost my ability to speak.

When the time came and I got down on one knee, I'm not really sure what happened to me.

I spoke, though.

Atlas covers her mouth with her hand, despite the fact I think she knew this was going to happen.

"Atlas. Ever since the very first day that I met you- you have always been so uniquely beautiful to me. I still feel that way. Everything that I've been through- every thing we've been through has led me to this moment. You saved my life and i- there's no words for how grateful I will always be for that-"

I stop rambling on,

"Will you marry me?" I ask the burning question and she nods, tears in her eyes.

I stand up and grab her in a kiss, lifting her body off the ground before placing her back down, sliding the ring over her finger.

The ring I bought her- it's a gold band, with silver melted over the top, small silver diamonds on each side and a raw emerald in the middle of the band.

I remember her saying something about wanting a non traditional ring, something simple but nice.

Her parents and her are crying by now, the rest of the kids at this weird fucking "after grad party" are all watching in awe which makes me want to die.

The moments following are happy, the whole night is happy.

It's just so difficult to be happy about this whenever I have so little time left with her.

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A/n:

Soo. Been a minute. Started writing a new book. Lost motivation to write this one.

But I will finish it. Trust me.

This chapter is so short and so weird which makes me so sad because I had so much planned for the proposal chapter and it just ended up being very- bleh. But I will probably re write it in time.

Anyways, until next chapter.