Life from Another Flower

Chapter 2 - A New Roommate

✽ Wallflower ✽

I still can't believe he managed to somehow learn our names... probably due to Canny shouting Princess Celestias name over and over again right in front of us while we stood there amazed that he could actually speak. Though I'm still a little peeved that Celestia said he's going to be sleeping in my dorm from now on.

Goody! A new roommate to stay in my dorm with me now! Not like I have socialized with any pony in the last decade... which sucks. At first, when I thought getting into bio engineering would get me somewhere, I was not at all expecting this. Kept down here for the rest of eternity just because Celestia thinks I can't keep one damn secret away from civilization knowing that we managed to clone a human just from a small piece of hair.

Wonderful. I thought.

Five minutes have passed and we finally make it to my room. Though for a lonely and anti-social pony like me, I'm glad I have at least a nice room to rest and sleep in and call it "home." But it feels nothing like home when your living underground with a couple of ponies that keep an eye on you once in a while that make sure you don't escape into Equestria where the sun is shining and the grass is getting blown from the gentle winds of the Earth.

"Wallflower." Celestia called.

"Open the door, please."

"Ye... Yes Celestia." I replied.

I approach the door to my room and gently open it. A slight creak sound was made when I opened it. I switch on the lights and I see my old sofa with the Television just a couple of feet away from it with the table in the center and the three doors that lead to the other rooms I have in here.

Home sweet home. I smiled, though it faded quickly.

We enter the room I sleep just from the right where we entered an show where TS-1 is going to be sleeping. Everyday when I wake up in the same room, I find it as if the walls shrunk slightly than it was yesterday. I'm not claustrophobic or anything, but the sense of walls shrinking in on you during your sleep is still damn pretty terrifying. You'd be crunched to death.

"Here is the bed you will be sleeping in." Celestia pointing at the last bed down the dorm across from mines.

There are 6 beds in the dorm with a lantern beside each one, though I'm the only one that sleeps here (but not anymore apparently.) My whole "home" was originally a place for ponies who have been accepted into the undergrounds and this would be there sleeping place. That changed when Celestia finally ordered workers to make more dorms in the deeper levels of the building. She wasn't too happy about it, but it worked out in the end.

"That one?" TS-1 replied.

"Yes, that one." Celestia said back.

TS-1 kept on hold of the towel on his waist while he sat down on the bed and felt the soft touch of the covers.

"Feels nice and smooth." He said.

"Well it's the smoothest you'll ever feel down here, sucks to be you since your stuck down here with her." Canny said as she gave me a light glare in front me.

Bitch.

When I first met Canny down here in the undergrounds on my first day, she was kind and sweet at first to me and befriended me when I was new around here, though over the years she became more of a bitch than a friend to me. We hardly speak to each other anymore... ha, well, it's already hard for me to speak to anyone down here. Every pony avoids me simply because of my "flaws" whenever I work around some pony. Which is why I like to stay in my "home" and just read one of Symphonica Hoofs books "Divergent" or read one of William Flankspears books. My favorite being "Macflank."

"Well, that's enough time, for now." Celestia said.

"We are heading back to our beds and going sleep, I have to deal with Luna's shenanigans again with the bananas she's been hiding from me all week."

Me and Canny gave an odd look to Celestia when she said that. Bananas? What the hell is Luna going to be doing with bananas? Even TS-1 gave her a weird look. Who cares though.

"... Of course, that has nothing to do with the three of you. Anyway, its off to bed now." She said.

"Yes Celestia." Canny replied.

Both walking out the door until Celestia pops her head back in to tell me something.

"Oh and Wallflower, you're going to be the one in charge of watching and caring for TS-1. Do you understand?"

Wait, WHAT?!?

"Do you understand Wallflower?" Her voice raising a bit higher.

"Yes, Celestia." I replied.

"Good. Now, goodnight." She said gently right before shutting the door.

Oh that is just great. Not only do I have a roommate now, but I also happen to have to take care of that roommate. Great. Life just likes to play games on me right now. How am I suppose to know what humans like to eat, drink, and do things? Actually I might give him that half-eaten Hayburger I left in the fridge yesterday in the kitchen. See how that goes.

He stares down at the floor looking at his feet, he's probably questioning stuff in his mind right now... meanwhile I'm still staring at him across our beds, I gazed too much at him and he turned to look and I turned away.

Just had to make it even more awkward didn't you Wallflower? My subconscious talking to me.

"Oh shut up." I thought to myself.

Well maybe he's just hungry and has no idea where to go find food... I'm gonna give him that hayburger. See how that's going to go. I approach him and ask him.

"Hey, uhm, TS-1."

"Yes?" He replied.

"Are you hungry or anything?" I ask.

"Yes, I am certainly hungry." He replied.

"Well... I'll be right back then. I'll bring you something to eat then." I told.

"Wonderful." He said.

"Ever since I got out of that thing, I'm starving."

I walk out the door and into the kitchen grabbing the plate of hayburger from the fridge. It's cold. I throw it in the microwave and wait a couple of seconds for it to warm up. Boom. Warm as the day I got it. I bring it back out and give it to TS-1 with a cup of water.

"Heyah gerh" I muttered while holding the plate in my mouth.

"It does... certainly look well." He said.

Just eat it you nut head. I thought.

He slowly raises the hayburger into his mouth and eats it.

Good.

He gagged then spewed out the hayburger he just ate.

Okay not good.

"Bleh. Why does it taste so dry?" He responded.

He set aside the hayburger and drank the cup of water I left on the plate.

Great. Now I have to clean his dirty vomit from the ground. I thought.

"Well wasn't that something now?" I told him.

"Don't you have anything else in mind other than... whatever this is?" He asked.

"Well I can make cookies if you want me to... not sure if you'll like them or not. Also that thing you're eating is called a hayburger." I said.

"Well it taste plain awful and dry. I'd rather go for the cookies." He said.

"I'll make the cookies then."

I return back into the dorm with a fresh hot plate with a couple of warm fresh chocolate cookies my mother used to teach me. She was a baker, a great one. Everyday when I come back from school she would always have a mouthful of cookies stacked on one plate waiting for me outside our home. Though of course, what kind of mother would let their child eat that many cookies? Of course I'm only allowed to eat 3, but come on, what filly only eats 3 cookies? I set aside the cookies on the bed and give one to TS-1.

He holds it for a second than bites into it. He looked surprised and amazed when he did... then he ate the whole thing.

"Was it... Was it good?" I ask him.

He mumbled a bit then...

"That. Tastes. Amazing!" He shouted.

"Those are cookies?!? They taste great!"

"Do they really?" I ask him.

I never had any pony tell me my cookies tasted great other than my mother. I always thought they tasted raw or were just "too hard" to eat. Guess I was wrong about that then.

"Of course they do! Who made them?" He asked.

"Well, I did." I said to him.

Well who else? We're the only ones in here, unless Luna's shadow beast thing is watching us from a corner...

I turned to a dark corner, just in case.

Eerily... Creepy. I thought.

"You made these cookies?!? Well they taste great! I'll admit that. What else can you make?" He questioned.

"That's kind of the only thing I can make. My mother taught me how to... though I never had any pony try it before other than herself." I told him.

"Well I can't see why no one would try this."

He grabbed more cookies.

"These taste wonderful. You're great with whatever you did back there to make these Wallflower."

I blush a little and turned away so he wouldn't see me. I turn back to him.

"Thank you." I said.

"Though I think you should lay off the cookies now and go to sleep."

He's already through most of the cookies. He only left 4 on the plate untouched, meanwhile he still eating 1 more in his mouth. I take away the plate and I eat 1 cookie just to see how it tastes. Holy crap. That tastes amazing! Why haven't I been making more cookies? I move the plate back into the kitchen with the cookies in my cookie jar beside the fridge. I'm back in the dorm and I find TS-1 already sleeping on the bed with the cookie crumbles underneath him. He's probably still numb from the awakening. I head to my bed and shut off both of our lanterns and went to sleep.

He looks completely harmless... and what he said was nice about my cookies. Though I still don't know what he's capable of doing to any pony. My new roommate, liking my own cookies my mother taught me... and it's a human... isn't that wonderful? I thought.

I feel my mind drifting away in my sleep. Later, I fall asleep and had the weirdest dream of him and me on a grass field with the sun setting and him eating more of my cookies. Certainly odd.