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Disclaimer: I don't own Percy Jackson or his friends. I wish, though. But darn old Ricky already does. :'(

Roommates – 5

It was official, Percy concluded. He was dead. If looks could kill, his roommate's eyes would have brutally mutilated his body, covered it in blue frozen yogurt, and buried it deep within the depths of the Underworld. Percy tried not to shake with fear and somehow managed not to look away from her murderous glare as the entire cafeteria erupted with laughter.

Percy really didn't want to die. He had so much he wanted to do, so many undersea creatures he wished to see, so many Maseratis he dreamed of driving. But that was never going to happen if she killed him in the cafeteria of New University, which he seriously didn't doubt by the scowl imprinted on her face. He could imagine the headlines now, Percy Jackson Murdered by Angry Blonde at New University. His mom would be really sad. But hey, maybe then she would be put behind bars? That would mean no one else had to face her wrath! Although, he didn't really want to his sacrifice himself just to get her into prison…

Everyone else in the cafeteria began to resume whatever they had been previously doing, as they realized the situation wasn't even that funny. Plus, they had expected some sort of yelling and dramatic flailing of arms, which didn't seem to be happening. Not enough drama to be interesting.

"Seriously, Percy?" she came closer to him, whispering angrily. "First you damage my head, and now you've ruined my shirt, not to mention the fact that you've just humiliated me in front of at least a fifth of the school. What is your problem?"

Her proximity to Percy was doing weird things to his stomach. He could smell her shampoo (lemon-scented) and couldn't help but notice the way her eyes seemed to glow (trying to ignore the fact that they were glowing in fury). All he could think to say was, "How do you know my name?"

She rolled her eyes at him, confirming to herself that she had never met anyone so dumb in her entire life. Even her twin-stepbrothers were smarter than him, she bet. "You're not even going to apologize?"

He huffed in exasperation. "That's the thing, you wouldn't accept my apology anyways. Plus, it wasn't even my fault."

Okay, fine. So he was right about that. But Annabeth wasn't going to let him go that easily. "How is not your fault?" If there was one thing that was obvious to her, it was that she was the victim in this predicament.

"Uhm, I'm pretty sure you're the one who shoved me, which caused me to dump the frozen yogurt all over your shirt," he explained, slightly miffed. "I was just trying to stop you from falling over."

Oops. Annabeth had kind of forgotten about her shove. Still, to her, Percy was the reason for all of this.

"Well if you had just been watching where you were going…" she started.

"Look, I'm really sorry, okay? Why can't you just accept that? Here, I'll even help you clean up your shirt," he began to suggest, before realizing that, of course, it was her chest that was covered in blue fro-yo.

She spoke in disgust, "Yeah, obviously, you'd want to clean my shirt." She glared at him once more, before strutting out of the cafeteria in irritation, probably to go change.

Percy mentally face-palmed. Why was he always such a clutz around her? He moped and even getting a new, free cup of blueberry frozen yogurt didn't cheer up his mood. As he returned back to the table, he realized that Thalia was gone.

Luke and Grover were both holding in laughter as Percy approached. When he finally sat down, they burst into uncontrollable laughter, unable to help themselves. Percy just bent his head over his cup of fro-yo in shame.

"Dude, talk about horrible first impressions," Luke said, smirking. "Now Annabeth's going to hate you, possibly for the rest of time."

"She already does," Percy offered, feeling a bit better now that he finally knew her name. He would have to thank Luke later.

"What? Why?" Luke asked in curiosity.

Percy nodded at Grover, "That girl I just got fro-yo all over, that's my roommate."

Grover started to laugh again. Luke gave the two a confused look as Grover started to explain, "Percy dropped one of his heavier bags on her head the first day he met her, and she got this huge bump…it was bad, apparently." Luke tried to hold back a smile, but failed.

"It was an accident, I swear. And you can barely even see the bump anymore!" Percy defended.

"Just face it, Percy, you have the worst luck," Grover said wisely, not before chuckling a little.

Percy put his head in his hands, mumbling a pitiful "why me?" to himself. Then, in an attempt to change the subject he asked, "Hey, where did Thalia go by the way?"

Luke smirked again. "She went to go help Annabeth clean up the mess you made."

Percy groaned. "Great."

Line Break

Annabeth Chase dug through her clothes fervently before picking out some ripped jeans and a grey sweater. No one else seemed to be sporting pencil skirts and blouses around the school anyway. It was her mother who had told her to pack those, simply because she believed in propriety, no matter the situation. Sometimes it really annoyed Annabeth, because her mother and her would be the only ones dressed super-formally at some sort of company picnic, where everyone else sported jeans and shirts.

She tied her hair up in a messy bun and threw on her favorite owl necklace in an attempt to try to make herself feel better. Her pride had been hurt more than she liked because of Percy-her-clumsy-roommate and all she really wanted to do now was escape into one of her favorite architecture books she had brought along with her to college.

Thalia walked out of her bathroom, holding her white – now wet – shirt, which still had a massive blue stain on it. "They put some kind of dye in that fro-yo, and it's like impossible to get out," she stated in defeat. "You could bleach it maybe?"

Annabeth shook her head. "It's not a big deal, I'll just toss it. It's just going to keep reminding me of your idiot cousin anyways."

Thalia laughed, "On behalf of my idiot cousin, I apologize for the loss of your shirt." Her electric blue eyes shone with laughter, "He's always been a bit on the clumsy side."

"A bit?" Annabeth retorted, but not before smiling. Now that she thought back on it, the whole situation was kind of funny…in a really pathetic way. Percy always managed to accidently humiliate her, and she always managed to overreact about it. That didn't mean she was going to forgive him, at least, not any time soon.

"Try not to be too hard on him though, because I promise you, Percy truly is a good person. I highly doubt he would do any of this on purpose," Thalia said lightly.

Annabeth doubted she would ever go easy on him, but she nodded slowly for Thalia's sake. "I'll try, but no promises."

They both smiled and then Thalia's phone buzzed and she pulled it out, checking her texts. "It's Luke. He wants to eat dinner together later at that Olive Garden nearby. You want to come?"

Annabeth nodded enthusiastically. She loved Italian. Thalia grinned as she texted Luke back. "We'll meet at the front entrance in an hour, and we'll all go in my car," she informed Annabeth. She looked at Annabeth, "I gotta go get some things ready for school tomorrow," she started to walk out the door, before turning back around and asking, "do you want me to go throw your shirt away for you?"

"No, it's okay, I'll get rid of it myself," Annabeth answered. "But thanks for everything, Thalia."

She smiled, "No problem. That's what friends are for." She left the room.

Annabeth felt better knowing she now had at least two friends before school started. She smiled to herself and then proceeded to get an architecture book. She pulled it close to her, sat on her bottom bunk of the bunk bed, and began to read.

At one point she glanced up at the time and noticed that it was almost time to meet Thalia and Luke to go for dinner. She got up, adjusted her clothes, gave herself a quick once-over, and grabbed her purse. As she was exiting the room and sliding her room keys into her purse, she noticed the now blue and white shirt sitting on her desk, where Thalia had left it.

She regarded it, and then, making a split-second decision, folded it up neatly and placed it into one of the drawers of her dresser. She didn't know what came over her to do that, instead of just throwing it away. It wasn't like she was going to wear it anyway. But she didn't change her mind and left the room, slightly befuddled by her own actions.

Line Break

Percy went into the room, looking around but finding no sign of Annabeth lurking around, ready to pounce on him. He breathed a sigh of relief before going to stuff his backpack with some supplies for his first day of college the next day. After he successfully finished his task, he got ready to go to sleep, brushing his teeth and changing into pajamas. He still felt kind of depressed knowing that his roommate hated him, and couldn't seem to fall asleep.

He started to feel his eyes drooping when his cell phone rang. He reached over, and answered the call with a "Hello?"

"Percy?" at the sound of her voice, Percy instantly felt better.

"Mom?" he could practically see her smile as she stood in the kitchen, probably in the process of cleaning dishes after eating dinner with Paul.

"How've you been doing sweetie? I'm sorry I didn't call you yesterday, I got caught up in writing my book with Paul," she said apologetically.

Percy usually would've groaned at her calling him 'sweetie' but he was too happy to do so. He missed his mom so much already, no matter how childish that sounded. "Mom, yeah, I'm fine. Don't worry about me. How are you and Paul?"

"We're great Percy. It feels so empty without you here though. You'll come down this weekend right?"

"Yeah mom, of course." Percy could almost taste those delicious blue chocolate chip cookies.

"Are you ready for tomorrow? How's the school? Who's your roommate?" Percy winced at the last one, but proceeded to answer her questions.

"Ugh, mom, my roommate hates me…" he explained in detail his problem and swore he heard her and Paul laughing through the phone.

"She doesn't hate you Percy, she's probably just a little annoyed," Sally said, trying to be positive about the situation.

"Yeah, sure."

"Just keep apologizing. She'll forgive you, eventually," she suggested.

Percy snorted. "Yeah."

"Believe me Percy, no one could stay mad at you that long. I'm your mother, I would know. Now you best be getting some sleep for school tomorrow. I'll call you again sometime this week, okay?"

Percy nodded, before realizing she couldn't see him. "Yeah. Love you, mom."

"Love you too Percy. Bye," she said before hanging up the phone.

Percy sighed, then made a quick decision, pulled out a piece of paper and started to write.

Line Break

Annabeth opened the door to her room softly, knowing quite well how late it was. She hadn't planned to stay up so late before school started the next day, but she got so caught up in hanging out with Thalia and Luke, who were really great. She was glad she was friends with them.

She switched on a lamp on her desk and put her purse down, when she spotted a sheet of paper on top of her architecture book.

It was just any other piece of notebook paper with a messy Sorry written on it. She picked it up, looking over at the top bunk, where Percy was passed out, drooling a little. Her heart did this weird thing, and she felt kind of bad for being so mean to Percy.

She decided she forgave him, she just wasn't going to tell him that. To make it look like she was still angry, she crumpled up the paper and tossed it on the ground.

Then she changed and lay in bed, smiling. Maybe Percy wasn't that bad.