Maria Flores

Maria, a character in the High School Story series, is a student and the School President at Oliver M. Berry High School. She is also one of your love interests. She is first seen in Book 1, Chapter 1.

Appearance
Maria has brown eyes, black hair, and tanned skin. She wears a gray dress in Book 1. In Book 2, she wears a red shirt with a jacket over the top. In Book 3, she wears a teal dress and a necklace.

Personality
Hardworking, ambitious, often stressed out, she is a keen and motivated leader, but does not always manage to command the rest of the school, as they sometimes dislike her serious attitude.

Book 1

 * Chapter 1: The First Day
 * Chapter 2: Party Crashers
 * Chapter 3: The Brokenhearted
 * Chapter 4: Consequences
 * Chapter 7: No 'I' in 'Team'
 * Chapter 8: Tiger Spirit
 * Chapter 9: The Search (Determinant)
 * Chapter 10: To Catch a Culprit
 * Chapter 11: Berry's Seven
 * Chapter 12: Rally Together
 * Chapter 13: Game Plan
 * Chapter 14: Shall We Dance?
 * Chapter 15: The Beginning

Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Breaking News
 * Chapter 2: New World Order
 * Chapter 3: Under Pressure (Determinant)
 * Chapter 4: Carnival Kisses
 * Chapter 6: It's Complicated
 * Chapter 7: Edge of Seventeen
 * Chapter 8: Game Over
 * Chapter 9: Secrets, Lies, and Spaghetti Flies
 * Chapter 10: Coming Clean
 * Chapter 11: The Lion's Den
 * Chapter 12: Save Me, San Francisco
 * Chapter 13: The Jig is Up
 * Chapter 14: Party for the Ages
 * Chapter 15: Can I Ask You Something?

Book 3

 * Chapter 1: Up In Flames
 * Chapter 2: Friends...or Foes?
 * Chapter 3: The Ones Who Got Away
 * Chapter 4: Just Beachy
 * Chapter 5: Prime Location
 * Chapter 7: Open Hearts and Open Mics
 * Chapter 9: A Scandal at Berry High
 * Chapter 10: True Colors
 * Chapter 11: Questions and Answers
 * Chapter 12: Mall For It
 * Chapter 14: The Big Night
 * Chapter 15: The Night is Young
 * Chapter 16: School's Out!

Class Act, Book 1

 * Chapter 1: New Days (Determinant)
 * Chapter 10: The Runaway
 * Chapter 12: Framed (Determinant)

Class Act, Book 2

 * Chapter 1: Ice to Meet You
 * Chapter 2: Let The Race Begin
 * Chapter 3: Debate Drama
 * Chapter 4: Piece of Cake
 * Chapter 5: All For One, and One For All
 * Chapter 8: An Impossible Situation
 * Chapter 9: Winter Wonderful
 * Chapter 10: Cats and Candidates
 * Chapter 12: Planting New Seeds
 * Chapter 13: Team Green
 * Chapter 14: Be My Valentine
 * Chapter 15: New Roots

Class Act, Book 3

 * Chapter 1: O' Brave New World
 * Chapter 2: Thanks, But No Thanks
 * Chapter 4: Clash of the Casts
 * Chapter 7: Who Are You? (Mentioned)
 * Chapter 9: Race Against Time
 * Chapter 10: London Ho!
 * Chapter 12: The Heist, London
 * Chapter 14: The Actual Tempest
 * Chapter 15: Cruise the Night Away (Determinant)
 * Chapter 16: Night Of Our Lives

Your Character
When you first meet her, she seems flustered and agitated when she asks you if you will be going to the homecoming dance. If you flirt with her or give her a vague answer, which you inevitably will, she gets a little annoyed with your character. In Chapter 2, you can spend time with her at the pool, and through a premium choice, you can spend a makeshift day at the beach with her. Later, when you work together on the homecoming committee, she starts to warm up to you. You will comfort her after she is disrespected by the homecoming committee, and you, through a premium choice, may go down to the beach with her in which she will tell you it is very difficult for her to keep up with expectations. At Hearst, you can get trapped with her in a locker and spend time with her on the roof. Later that night, she will ask you to go to homecoming with her if you flirt with her the most. You can go to homecoming with her and she will make out with you in a classroom.

Caleb Mitchell
If you choose not to romance Maria, she will go to homecoming with Caleb as a friend date. She will express embarrassment at being taller than Caleb in heels.

Michael Harrison
Her personality clashes with Michael and she dislikes his rebel/slacker attitude. In Book 2, Chapter 1, they argue about the morning news broadcast as when something goes wrong, Maria immediately blames Michael. She does not trust him very much, but sometimes they can work together. In Book 2, Chapter 10, it is revealed that the reason they were together so much was because Michael thought Isa was dirty and yet, to no avail, they haven't uncovered anything as of yet. But the rest of the group have pulled together to try and get her out.

Jose & Stephen Flores
Jose and Stephen are Maria's fathers. In Book 3, Chapter 8, it was revealed that she was adopted by her two fathers and was almost named Andrea.

Trivia

 * Maria is shown on the covers of High School Story, Book 2 and High School Story, Book 3.
 * She shares the same name as Maria Thompson from Crimes of Passion, Book 1.
 * The name Maria is of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek origin, which means: Bitter, beloved, rebelliousness, wished-for child, marine. It's a variant of the name Mary.
 * The surname Flores is of Spanish origin. The word means "flowers" in Spanish.
 * She shares the same surname as Principal Flores from It Lives In The Woods, Tony Flores from Wishful Thinking, Eliana Flores from Sunkissed and Robin Flores from The Nanny Affair.
 * One of her friends used to be a girl named Lauren.
 * She took seven years of ballet lessons when she was younger.
 * If you paint banners with her in High School Story, Book 1, Chapter 4, she reveals that she is taking five AP classes.
 * If your character is male and chooses to get food for the homecoming committee with Maria, Payton suggests that the two of you can be the next Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. If your character is female, she suggests that you can be the next Ellen Degeneres and Portia de Rossi.
 * In Book 2, Chapter 2, it is revealed she has a cat named Kibble, who she keeps thinking is scared of the other animals, when really Kibble is happy.
 * Her birthday is in the winter and she has always had a red velvet cake for her birthday.
 * She wants to go skydiving even though she is afraid of heights.
 * It is confirmed in Book 2, Chapter 7, that she just turned 17.
 * A premium choice of the same chapter reveals she was born in 2001.
 * You have the chance to play as Maria in Book 2, Chapter 10.
 * Her personality and character is very similar to Rachel Berry’s from the TV show, Glee, right down to having two gay dads.
 * She resembles actress Camila Mendes.
 * During High School Story, she tells you that she is aiming to go to Terman U.
 * In Class Act, Book 3, she reveals she was accepted to Terman U and will be attending along with Aiden.
 * If you take her to Mia's carriage, she reveals that her favorite part of MC's body is his/her legs.
 * As of High School Story: Class Act, Book 1, she works at "Cryptic Looks" to save up for college.
 * When Your Character (High School Story: Class Act) asks Maria how she is able to attend 8 classes in 7 periods, Cameron jokes that she uses a Time-Turner, a reference to Harry Potter.
 * Her Hogwarts house is Slytherin.
 * In Class Act, Book 3, she becomes Prom Queen if Rory becomes Prom King.