Seeing the light beam through the very slight part in the curtains, Rose is treated to a bright light on her face from the sun. "Argh..." The Changeling groaned as she forcefully opened her right eye, gazing around the room to notice the sun's rays escaping through the curtains. She lifted herself from her comfortable position, stretching her arms up high to release the tension from within her body. The Mare released her small activity, only to drop her shoulders as she stared forwards at the Dragon still asleep through her crimson mane. Her eyes soon drifted to the clock next to the bed, noticing it was 8:13 am. She smacked her lips together before getting up from the bed, taking the pillow with her. She stopped at the edge of Glacier's bed to see his naked body which made her blush a little as she threw the pillow in his face, walking out of the room giggling. Groaning, Glacier rolls over, hugging the pillow subconsciously as he gets comfortable again.

Rose looked back to witness the Dragon now cuddling her pillow with a comfortable smile that made her eyes roll. She soon headed to the kitchen down the hallway. A layout of wooden cupboards, an oven, fridge and freezer covered the back and side walls with a mahogany black marble-topped island sitting in the middle, the decor was definitely something a uni room would offer. The Changeling made her way to the left where the fridge was stationed, opening it up to feel the nice chill emitting from within. Her sight perceived a 2-litre bottle of milk, butter and a medium-sized plastic container. Rose lifted the tub and immediately placed it into the microwave next to the fridge after opening. Turning the dial to 3 minutes, she started the appliance before sitting down on the sofa so she could see towards the bedroom door, resting her head gently whilst her mane lay draped over the sofa arm.

Hearing loud shuffling from the bedroom, Glacier is seen walking out of the bedroom and into the bathroom, holding Rose's pillow still. After several minutes he exits the bathroom back into the bedroom and walks out again wearing some form of shorts minus the pillow. Glacier then comes through the hallway into the living room where he stretches, sitting down beside Rose. "What you cooking?"

"Mums' cooking..." Rose flatly stated as she stared at the Draconic creature beside her, reluctantly asking, "Want to try some? You did give me half the pizza last night."

"It should tide me over till I get some breakfast while out shopping for supplies. Breakfast and dinner are the biggest meals for us, lunch is considered a large snack between the two." Glacier states as he leans back.

Rose softly clicked her tongue before smiling towards the Dragon, "You better savour it... " She said as she got up from the sofa and headed back into the kitchen.

"I shall try, what is it anyway?" Glacier asks switching on the TV to flick through the weather channel.

Taking out two plates and retrieving the container from the microwave, Rose glances inside to see a lovely, smooth cheese lasagna. Taking a kitchen knife and slicing it into two large halves, she places one on either plate. Bringing it out with only a pair of forks, she responded with a glint in her eye, "My Mother's lasagna! One of the things I would die for!"

Nodding, Glacier takes his plate and fork as Rose sits down, before cutting off a sizeable chunk to place in his mouth. Two more follow soon after as he hums in delight, "Your mother is quite the cook, I can't say I've had lasagna before, but I am definitely a fan of your mum's cooking," Glacier states, already halfway through his slice.

Taking a small chunk of lasagna on the fork and placing it to her mouth an array of cheese, beef and tomato flavours fill her senses, making her hum a sweet tune as she chewed slowly, "Shoo~~~ Go~~~~~od!!!" Rose turns towards Glacier, "Thank you, I'll make sure to tell her you said that."

"Your welcome, don't suppose you'll be joining me for breakfast?" Glacier asks as he finishes the other half of his slice.

"Hmmm..." Rose paused mid-bite of her food, contemplating with a serious expression. Swallowing the lasagna in her mouth as she chuckled lightly, "If only it were so simple... Heh... He~h."

"Oh, yeah... Your family, right?" Glacier takes his plate to the kitchen, putting it in the sink.

"I-I-I mean I can go and have breakfast with you..." Rose paused as she placed the plate on the table in front of her, "I have until 2 in the afternoon... If you don't mind the abnormalities..?"

Glacier chuckles, "You mean the accent and total personality change?" He goes back to the bedroom to grab his shirt and jacket before coming back.

Rose looked away from the Dragon with a sour face, "I... Have my reasons..." She looked back with a small smirk, pushing her mane to the side, "If you would let me, I would like to come along and at least know a little bit more about the roommate I am sharing a dwelling with?"

Glacier heads to wait by the door, "Sure, but you might want to put on more than the alluring pink nighty though."

"I can if I wanted to!" Rose aggressively stuck out her tongue in a mocking manner as she stands up to go to the bedroom.

Glacier smiles to himself as he shakes his head, silently waiting for her to get dressed.

Holding the door open, Glacier lets Rose go first into the quaint little cafe they found down one of Canterlot's backroads. The establishment, labelled outside as the 'Thousand Words Café', held a quiet, yet comforting atmosphere. Its walls were two-toned in design, the bottom being an aged oak while the top was a cream white, along the top, middle and bottom of the walls was a dark spruce wood border. The booth seats directly in front of them and to the left are made from brown leather, the booths themselves being made from regular oak. Along the middle of the café are some spaced out tables and a few select chairs to each.

"Any idea where to sit? The back booth by the restrooms seems out of the way." Glacier comments, pointing to the location.

"As long as I sit facing away from the door..." Rose whispered as she kept her gentle smile towards the cafe.

Glacier nods, leading her to the booth he indicated earlier, letting her sit facing away from the door as he takes the seat opposite.

"I like the dress you managed to pick out, it's an interesting midnight blue." He comments, sliding her a menu.

"I thank thee for thy flattery, Mr Glacier, I have great veneration with thy appeal for myself. I must admit, Glacier is rather pulchritudinous this morning." Rose smirked as she sized the Dragon up and down, hoping to get a reaction from him before lifting the menu in front of her.

"It's still too early for big fancy words, but thank you, I guess? Have a good view this morning?" Glacier asks with a smirk as he opens his own menu.

"A male's natural reaction with the rising sun, tis it not?" Rose heavily blushes, trying not to be phased by his counter, slightly failing, "Addition, did thou like my scent?"

Glacier smirks, glancing over the menu at Rose, "I did wonder why I had a third pillow that smelt feminine, maybe that's why I felt bigger this morning." Glacier comments, smiling behind his menu.

"Thou would know of the highest quality from accusing oneself as actually being a fille de joie..." Rose retorted before her skin colour turned a lush dark red, trying to keep a straight face as she attempted to read the menu whilst glancing back at Glacier.

Glacier chuckles and coughs, "Before we continue the retort tennis match, perhaps we should order something?"

"The herbal tea and omelette will be most acceptable for my diet." Rose giggled as she placed down the menu and scuffled her dress up a little bit more before placing both hands on the table with an evil look and smirk on her face.

"8 stack and coffee sounds good to me." He gives her a weird look as she wears a smirk.

At that moment a Gryphon with Crimson red feathers, a silver coat and dull grey talons walks over wearing the café's uniform, his slightly shiny silver eyes glancing over the pair.

"Good morning, what can we get for you today?" He asks, pulling out a notepad and pen.

"One herbal tea and omelette for her and an 8 stack of pancakes and coffee for me please." Glacier glances at Rose.

The Gryphon notes it down before looking back at them, "We also have a couple's deal on at the moment, If that interests you?"

"Wh-wh-what?!" Rose suddenly yelped out breaking her code, just before showing off a teeth-bearing fake smile, "Our union is about partnership living in the same dormitory. We are not partaking in any activity that twain us together, sir! "

The Gryphon blinks before looking at Glacier who smirks, "We're a couple, sure."

He nods before leaving with their order, Glacier giving it a few seconds before looking back at Rose.

Rose swiftly giggled as her smirk turned to a gentle smile before a sneering snark, leaning over the table and slapping the Dragon across the face before wiping her hand from the stinging sensation, "Ay' thou be'er saya sorry with ha'f of your pancakes ya twit!"

"What can I say? He said 'discount', might not be expensive food, but I'm reluctant as Tartarus to ask my parents for more allowance..." Glacier shivers, rubbing his face before leaning back to get comfortable.

Still furious, she placed her hands on her thighs raising an eyebrow, "Ah was gunna pay you baboon! Mah Father keeps giving bits every week, same with my Mother." The Changeling let out a sigh of relief before chuckling and smiling towards the Dragon, "Thou has broken thy act in such a petite debate about a 'discount'."

Glacier shrugs and chuckles, "I'd blame the guy, to be honest. Weren't we debating lewd behaviour from this morning just now?" The Dragon laughs as their drinks arrive.

Rose deeply sighs as she drops her head, taking in a deep breath and looking at the Griffon, "Thank thee for the beverages."

He nods before leaving back to the kitchen. Glacier takes a sip of his coffee, exhaling a satisfied sigh.

"I'll be honest, you do show much less embarrassment towards my private dress than I imagine most others would. Even if they understood why it was, not that I'm saying it's bad, just unexpected." Glacier comments, adjusting his neck to shift an uncomfortable feeling.

"All mares would forward unto shame or embarrassment at seeing your tools..." Rose paused for a second before looking at him in the eyes with a conniving smirk, "Or why your fiancee loves you under the sheets."

Glacier's expression dropped drastically as he sighed. "I imagine my tools are why you enjoy the view... I'm a virgin if I need to make it painfully clear... My fiancee never has nor ever will get the honour of such actions." Glacier finishes the rest of his coffee in one swallow.

Rose places her hands on her herbal teacup as she looked away from Glacier, feeling uncomfortable as she just stoked the fire. She took a sip of her tea as she continued the conversation by looking him in the eyes, "I wouldn't know about what 'tools' are enjoyable... Nor did I know of how you and your fiancee are waiting to be wed for intercourse."

Glacier rolls his eyes and sighs, "We're not... She, my fiancee, isn't getting any. I had thought my attitude on the subject reflected how I felt about it... I. Don't. Want. To. Marry. Her."

At that moment their breakfast arrives before the Gryphon promptly leaves, feeling there is a little tension between the pair.

"I am sorry you stripped naked and showed off everything to an innocent Changeling to distract her from reading the mood any more than she already was." Rose took a hold of the knife and fork, cutting off a piece, chewing and swallowing it. "Plus if you haven't even seen her how can you say you don't want to marry her? You could at least arrange a meetup or something and progress from there."

Using his own utensils, Glacier begins slicing into the stack of sizeable pancakes draped with syrup, cream and fruit. "Bratty, impulsive, entitled and from a Draconic noble family... She's attractive from a female standpoint, but... It wasn't my choice, I don't want to do it." Glacier sighs, eating a whole pancake already.

Rose, doing the same, cutting into the omelette and eating the piece with her fork, "You can't just turn down a girl you haven't even met, nor judge her for what you haven't even witnessed." The Changeling sighed before putting ketchup on the omelette, "Needs some sauce... But anyway, you need to say something to her."

Glacier sighs deeply, "I. Have... You'd feel the same if you were the one in my position... Unless you enjoyed being married off to an elitist dragon with the same intoxicating views as my parents..."

"One can change if you know how to make them," Rose lifted her knife towards the Dragon, waving it up and down with a snarky smile, "Words that my Father lives by."

"Mhmm... The last thing either of us wants is her learning I'm in a mixed dorm, let alone what you've already seen. By choice or not doesn't matter..." Glacier eats a second pancake whole.

"She wouldn't even think of me funny if she knew what was good for her, it's not like I am the violent type nor the one to go after you like that." Rose stated as she decided to eat the whole omelette covered in tomato sauce, swallowing before continuing, "You are definitely a nice piece so far in my eyes, in terms of friendship."

Glacier frowns and sighs lightly, "Fair enough, I guess..." He states soon finishing his remaining six pancakes quicker than she's seen before. "Well, I should get going to buy shopping..." Glacier states, getting out some bits to place on the table, Rose able to feel his mood has dropped even more after her comment.

Rose swiftly raises the bag of bits towards the Dragon, grabbing his arm before pulling him back to face her sensing somethings wrong, "What did I say to make you upset, no lies?"

Glacier shrugs, "I'll see you later." He states, shrugging off her question and bit return, leaving the café quietly.

Rose quickly pulled out a small pouch of bits from her underneath her dress, revealing a black belt that held multiple pouches and pockets for items. She placed it on the table before saying out loud, "Keep the change." She managed to catch up to the Dragon, hissing at her feet as running in dress shoes was a pain, "Hey! Slow down! You only reacted like this when I said..." The Changeling sighed as she placed a hand on her forehead in defeat, "Married, didn't want to marry... New roommate... The act... Friend..."

"I'm fairly certain you have to meet your sister soon. I really should start looking around for cheap places to buy shopping for the dorm. I'll see you in the room later." Glacier replies, not exactly being wrong as his phone said 10:35 AM.

"Do you see me as an attempt of more than a friend?!" Rose snatched the Dragon's wrist, holding him in place so he can't move any more than he did. Her eyes filled with determination to know the answer.

"I don't feel that's particularly a good question for either of us to answer in this kinda public space..." Glacier states bluntly, sighing very lightly as he avoids her eyes.

Rose gasps as she looks around, watching all eyes around them focus on her. She suddenly let go, attaching it to her left arm as she looks down at the ground in a sorry state, "I... My deepest apologies, it's just... I never really had someone to talk to or even act like myself around." The Changeling gently walked away in the opposite direction, not before putting the bag of bits in his pocket, "I hope this doesn't affect the way we are in the room... I'm sorry."

Glacier sighs, rubbing the back of his neck before shaking his head. Walking off to explore Canterlot and find somewhere he can get them some shopping.

Arriving in the main Canterlot shopping district, Rose could see it was sparsely populated by a few various creatures who were also enjoying a morning about the town. In the distance outside a dress shop, Rose recognises the back view of a familiar hairstyle that belongs to her older sister. The Changeling in question wears a white dress and heels, her relaxing royal blue eyes reflected in the shop window, before looking at Rose's reflection. Standing up properly, she turns to give the sister in question a quaint wave as she is joined at the window.

Rose put on her best smile as she wandered up to the Changeling, trying to forget about what happened earlier. Putting both of her hands behind her back, Rose's smile grew as she spoke, "Ruby, how art thou? Been pondering around this establishment for a while?"

Ruby's expression dropped to a pout as she quickly raised a finger to Rose's forehead, suddenly flicking it which made her flinch back in shock, "I don't accept that tone of voice, sis."

Rose raised a hand on the point of impact, giggling with a genuine smile, "I'm sorry, Ruby, I just thought Emerald would be with you."

"Do you see her?" Ruby raised her hand with a conniving smirk that made Rose's eye roll, shaking her head towards the sister.

"No, I don't." Rose giggled at the Changeling in front her, putting on an endearing smile, "Is she not joining us?"

Ruby smiled evilly, looking towards Rose as if she was proud about it, "I never told her." The answer made Rose's eyes widen before chuckling towards her, "So how about we start our little getaway." Ruby said as she made her way towards the store's entrance, waiting by the door for Rose, "And you can tell me all about what's bothering you?"

Rose's eyes widened in bewilderment at Ruby who held the door open, the smirk on her face growing bigger, "Can you not use our Changeling sense on me, I hate it when I can't hide my feelings."

Ruby giggled as she put a finger over her lips, amused by her Sister, "I didn't, sis, we are family, I know when something is wrong with my favourite sibling."

Rose stepped into the store, being greeted by rows of high standard dresses from A-line to Bodycon and many more. She turned around to see Ruby picking up a white sheath style dress, putting it against her body to see how it would look on her, "Does this make my legs look fat?"

Rose sighed before a caring smile grew upon her face, not making eye contact with her Sister as she held her arm. "I messed up..."

Ruby put the dress back on the rack before placing a hand on her hips with a brow raised, "What did you do? Ohh no, you didn't cook did you?!"

Rose puffed her cheeks out towards the Changeling before groaning, "I might have made things awkward with my roommate..."

"How?" Ruby chuckled as she picked up another Bodycon dress, lifting it in front of her to see how it would look on Rose, smiling in approval as she kept going through the line to see how they are.

"Errm..." Rose tapped her fingers together as she looked at her sister, trying not to make it sound weird, "My roommate and I are... Were, getting along like besties... Even made a nice drawing of me. But..." Rose paused, playing with her hair in front of her right eye, "We went to breakfast and I might have turned him down unconventionally... Which I didn't know he was flirting with me since I just met him..."

"You are an airhead..." Ruby flatly stated as she deadpanned towards the Changeling in front of her making Rose blink in shock, "In other words, you acted like yourself in front of him like you are now and you want things to go back to normal, am I correct?"

Rose nodded lightly in reply, receiving an evil grin from Ruby before she started to walk towards the door, making Rose blink at her behaviour, "Sis?"

Stopping at the door, she turned around, holding it open with her hand above her head grinning towards Rose, "You are going to need to fix this yourself, none of my advice will help you in the slightest." She finished by walking away from the store, making Rose look left and right before running towards the door only to see Ruby spread her wings from her dress and fly away in a hurry, turning in mid-air shouting, "I'll see you very soon dear Sister!"

"Come on, Ruby!!" Rose raised her voice in annoyance, "At least throw me a bone!"

Author's Note

This is chapter two of two for the initial release. If you enjoyed or look forward to seeing where this story goes, there are more than enough chapters on the way being altered and or adjusted as we receive feedback to improve them.