Maria pushed her glasses up on her face and brushed her wavy black hair behind her ear as she struggled to come up of things to write in an essay paper that was due in the next morning. She felt relief when the sentences formed in her mind, and quickly jotted it down on to the paper. Unfortunately this also meant that she had to think of some more things to accomodate for the 1,000 word essay.

"You do realize that if you didn't procrastinate as much, you would probably be relaxing instead of rushing about finishing a homework assignment that was assigned a week ago." Maria heard her roommate Annabeth say from across the room.

Maria rolled her eyes as she gazed down at her paper. "Not all of us are born freaking genius's Annabeth." She said jokingly toward her roommate.

"It has nothing to do with being a genius. It's to do with making sure you have your priorities straight." Annabeth said.

Sadly, this little one-minute exchange did nothing in giving Maria any ideas about what she was going to put on her paper. "Yeah, whatever. I'm going to finish it later. I can't focus on it right now." Maria said as she got up from the desk and made her way over to her bed, lying down and stretching out her limbs. Almost instantly Maria could feel her eyelids threatening to close on her. Maybe she could close her eyes for just a few seconds...

PING!

The sound of something sounding like a rock banged against the window. Looking over at Annabeth, Maria saw that her friend was deeply engrossed in a book, and didn't appear to have heard the noise at all. Annoyed, Maria jumped out of her bed and raced to the window, opening it instantly. Something that she would later come to regret as the small rock that was intended to hit the window instead hit her square in the forehead.

"Ow! God dammit!" Maria screeched in pain, moving back from the window, barely noticing Annabeth gasping and getting up from her own bed and moving towards the window.

"Percy! What was that for?" Annabeth hissed as she looked down onto the mowed lawn of the boarding school below.

A male voice drifted up from the ground not long afterward. "Oh, Gods, I'm so sorry. Did I hurt her?"

Annabeth straightened up from the window and turned around to face Maria, who was still massaging her forehead.

"Are you okay?" She asked kindly, yet briskly at the same time.

Maria nodded. "Yeah, I'm Okay." She said to assure her friend. "Gonna leave one hell of a bruise in the morning though." She muttered as Annabeth turned back around to the window, which she immediately stepped back from as a hand appeared in the window sill.

Soon after a boy of about seventeen years of age with dark hair and tan skin crawled into their dorm room. He stood up and gazed around the room. When he noticed Maria, he gave an apologetic smile. "Sorry about that. I didn't mean to hurt you."

Maria muttered a quick, "Oh, that's all right," before quickly hiding her face as she felt herself begin to blush. Unfortunately- or perhaps fortunately- he didn't seem to notice her embarrassment, instead holding out his hand in greeting. "Hi, I'm Percy. Annabeth's boyfriend."

Maria quickly gave his hand a shake. "Maria. Annabeth's friend and roommate." Speaking of Annabeth . . .

Maria turned towards her friend, who was watching the exchange in something similar to amusement.

"I didn't know you had a boyfriend." Maria said, slightly raising an eyebrow.

Annabeth shrugged. "It never came up."

From beside her, Maria heard a gasp. "What! You mean you didn't tell her anything about me. I feel so hurt right now." Sneaking a glance Percy, Maria had to suppress a laugh at his attempt at a pouty face.

Annabeth, however, didn't seem able to. "Shut up, Seaweed Brain."

Percy did a soldier like gesture with his hand. "Sir, yes, sir. Er, I mean ma'am."

Turning back towards Annabeth, Maria saw her friend give a little chuckle. "Your an idiot, you know that right?" Annabeth jokingly told him.

Percy grinned. "I know. You ready for our date?"

"Yes, but you could have picked me up at the front of the building like a normal person."

"Well, I'm not a normal person."

Maria, who had been watching this exchange happily, suddenly crashed back down to Earth. " Whoa, wait. Your going out? But it's after curfew." Maria said, nervously glancing at the clock on her bedside table. Not that Maria had any regard to the rules by herself, she just didn't want to see Annabeth - who was one of the nicest people she knew- get into trouble.

"Cover for me?" Annabeth asked, smiling nervously.

Smiling, Maria couldn't help but nod her head.

Percy gave a little whoop of excitement and grabbed her by the waist, pulling her to the still open window.

"Percy, What are you do-" However Annabeth's sentence came short as Percy jumped out of the window with he

Maria's eyes widened as she raced toward the window, but instantly felt relief as she saw Annabeth safely on her feet, playfully shoving her boyfriend beside of her. She giggled a little bit as she saw Percy grabbed Annabeth and gave her a short, sweet kiss, before taking her hand and running across the grounds of the boarding school.

Still smiling, Maria turned and made her way over to her desk, now intent on finishing her homework.

It was only when she had finished it that a thought occurred to her. Seaweed Brain, she thought. Must be an old nickname or something.

Author's Notes- Hi, since I can get really bad writer's block, I will happily accept any suggestions that you guys have. Thanks for reading!