Adjusting his shirt, Glacier walks down a sizeable corridor trying to find his first classroom, sighing as he looks over the annoying piece of paper in his hand. His attention is stolen by an unexpected voice beside him.

"That has to be the most offending piece of paper in the world if a Dragon gives it such an intense glare." The rather calm voice belongs to a Gryphon with blue feathers, pale grey fur, his azure eyes practically smiling at Glacier.

In comparison to the Dragon, the Gryphon is a much more average build for his race. He wears a blue and white polo shirt and blue jeans with black sneakers.

"Something like that... I'm trying to find where I'm meant to be, but I can't say I've been here before. Nor do I quite understand these directions." Glacier states glancing over the paper once more.

Humming lightly, the Gryphon looks over the piece of paper before raising his eyebrow, "That's lucky, I happen to be on the same course. Fine Art?" Glacier nods in reply, "Great, if I remember rightly I know where to go. Oh, my name is Sky Blitz by the way."

"Glacier, I suppose a thank you is adequate." Glacier states making the Gryphon chuckle.

The two begin heading further down where Sky Blitz takes them into a medium-sized classroom with stairs and desks angled downwards with a teacher's desk and large board at the bottom. The room is sparsely filled as people are still arriving, one student along the back is waving at the pair, making Glacier confused. Sky Blitz ushers them towards her before taking their seats beside a lavender coloured Pegasus, her violet mane with black highlights partly covering her face and pale rose eyes.

"You took your time." She states as they exchange a greeting kiss.

"One word hun, bagel." The Gryphon holds up both his hands inches apart.

The Pegasus rolls her eyes with a tiny smile before looking at Glacier.

"I see you made a new friend, I'm Lavender Breeze, it's nice to meet you." She smiles.

"Likewise, I guess..." Glacier states making her raise an eyebrow.

Sky Blitz chuckles again before patting Lavender Breeze on the head.

"He's called Glacier, I gather he isn't a people person." Sky Blitz puts his bag under the desk before stretching.

At that moment, a dull grey, middle-aged Unicorn walks into the room, holding a thick folder full of papers. His short mane is cream with silver highlights in a swept back fashion, his silver eyes seemingly tired or at ease. Reaching the bottom teacher's area, he puts down the folder to loosen the red tie of his white shirt and adjust his long-faded yellow coat. Below his waist is a black belt holding up his suit pants and black fancy shoes. By this point, several other students had arrived to maybe fill up around half the seats in the room.

"As you all might have guessed, I'll be your Fine Art tutor for the next three years so let's..." He looked up to spot Sky Blitz, causing his expression to fall, "Oh, I see you've decided to grace us with your presence once again, Sky Blitz. We going to have a better try this time?" He gives the Gryphon a look as the singled out individual shrugs.

"I suppose we'll see." Sky Blitz smirks before waving his talons defensively at a glare from his girlfriend, "I'm joking, I promise to actually submit the work this time."

"Right, I shan't be holding my breath, mainly because I'd suffocate rather quickly, but that's beside the point." The stallion gives a chuckle which is returned by a few in the class, "My name, is Julian Silver Brush, the majority of your lessons will be with me, but other times it'll be with those more talented than I in certain areas. There are very few things I do ask of you, idle drawing or such is allowed during explanations etc, just make sure to pay attention at the same time." Moving back behind his desk, Julian flips open his folder, scanning a list before shaking his head, "We'll just go down the chairs till we get through everyone, small introduction and such."

As Julian starts going down the students, Glacier retrieves his drawing pad to begin sketching as the others introduce themselves. Taking the time to sketch the classroom and students on a basic level with moderate shapes and guidelines, once done he flips back and forth with the page below it, the lower sketch being of a sleeping Rose. The sketch itself is particularly detailed with shading and lighting factored in, Glacier's attention is pulled away though as Sky Blitz nudges him.

Looking up, he could see the classes attention was on him, making him a little uneasy.

"Your turn, in case you missed it, just your name and a small introduction," Julian states, leaning back on his desk.

"Umm... My name is Glacier, I mostly just draw or something. Sometimes paint?" Glacier states nervously.

"That's fair enough, might need to work on the paying attention part but you'd got idle drawing down." Julian chuckles before moving on, Glacier sighing as he rubs his face.

Glacier takes a seat on an out of the way table on the far right side of the campus canteen, grabbing a wrapped box out of his bag. As he opens the wrap, Sky Blitz and Lavender Breeze join him, the mare having to adjust her short gothic purple dress in order to sit down opposite Glacier.

"Oh, what's in the box?" Sky Blitz asks as he takes the seat beside the Dragon.

Opening the ice blue container, Sky Blitz can see it holds a spoon, white rice and a thick layer of chicken curry.

"It's a curry I prepared this morning." Glacier states as he begins eating his lunch.

The three, interrupted by a sudden tray being placed down on the opposite side of the table, look towards the Changeling sitting down in a midnight blue A-Line dress. Rose, looking at the Dragon with a gentle smile first before turning her head left and right to see his friends, "Glacier, it is a pleasure to have another reunion. How was your first introduction of the semester?"

"Adequate for the most part, our lecturer is interesting at least." Glacier states opening a grape flavoured soda can.

"Oh, this is the mare. I see the resemblance." Sky Blitz chuckles as he picks up his sandwich, "You almost got busted for that drawing."

Glacier glances to his left, giving the Gryphon an unimpressed look making him smile even more.

Rose bowed her head towards the Gryphon and the Mare next to her as a smirk came across her face looking towards the Dragon. "Another drawing? Does thou think I am a good model? Thy is known as Rose, I am happy to meet your acquaintance?"

"There isn't another drawing, sorry to say." Glacier states, glaring at Sky Blitz who raises his hands in defence.

"I'm Lavender Breeze, that degenerate is Sky Blitz." Lavender Breeze states with a slight smile.

"Sup~" Sky Blitz wears a mischevious smile as he picks his half-sandwich back up again.

"Lavander, Sky... Hmm?" Rose chuckled, looking at the two ham and pickle sandwiches, apple and a cola soda on her tray. Picking one up and taking a small bite before swallowing as she pulled a serviette from her pocket, wiping her mouth in a dignified manner, "Do you like the class you are beseeched to endure?"

"This early I can't quite comment, least of all about the company, but it shouldn't be too bad." Glacier swallows a mouthful of soda as he reaches halfway down his curry.

"Aww, he likes us already~" Sky Blitz chuckles, finishing his sandwich.

Rose suddenly gets a random amourous inkling off one of the table occupants, unsure as to its direction.

Rose blink in place, gazing at the three at the table with a calming smile trying to figure out its placement, "Tis just the beginning, you will have more interactions in future engagements." Looking at Lavander, she tilted her head a little before grabbing a small feel of her dress, "Much a bizarre style, yet alluring at the same time. Pray tell me your designs?"

"Oh, nothing special, just the darkness of my soul." Lavender Breeze states with a smile, idling nibbling on a stick of celery.

Oddly enough Rose can't seem to gauge Glacier's feelings at all, which means it's coming from the other two, seemingly in the direction of Sky Blitz.

"Peradventure thee can show me how to dress and give inspiration, for thy has taken an interest," Rose said as she took a quick glance over to Sky, trying to get a more precise feeling.

On closer inspection, it is indeed coming from Sky Blitz, who seems to be looking in Glacier's direction.

"I'm sure we can find time to do that if you don't mind the mild-goth look of course." Lavender Breeze states, exchanging the half celery stick for some lettuce.

"I would be very appeased by you showing me that style!" Rose's smile grew as she started to clap her hands together, overjoyed by her answer, "Thee has to question, is that all thou is ingesting?" Rose quietly tries to figure out what Sky is thinking.

"Oh, I don't eat much in all honesty." Looking at the rest of Lavender's tray, seeing a small bowl of grapes and a few strawberries.

Piecing a couple of things together, Rose seemingly connects the amorous feeling with Sky looking in Glacier's direction.

"How about thee, Blitz?" Rose managed to find an opening in the conversation, "What is it that thee like to do in thy's spare?"

Lavender rolls her eyes, "He honestly doesn't do much, either art, tv or other 'extra' activities."

Sky Blitz turns to face the mares, "H-hey, why did you have to bring up that last one? It's not like you complain."

Glacier stands up briefly, "I'm going to grab another soda, I'll be right back."

Glacier slides past Sky before Lavender also gets up, "Ladies room." She states plainly before speeding off.

Rose hums as she puts her hands on the table before leaning forwards towards the Gryphon, "Blitz, is there something you wish to discuss? You can not hide anything?"

Sky raises an eyebrow at Rose before tilting his head, "Nothing I can think of, why? Oh, you're a Changeling, got that whole emotion sense thing going on?"

"Yes, I do, and by the way you are gazing upon Glacier..." Rose questioned before looking to the left of her where Lavender sat, getting a sneaky suspicion it was one of two scenarios, "Are you perhaps... Well... Your barn doors swing that way, Blitz?"

Blitz waves his hands rapidly, "NO, NO, NO, I was staring at something amusing out the window while thinking, that's all. I should mention that Lavender is my girlfriend. From his drawing, I'd of said you and Glace were an item?" Blitz asks, leaning forward as he raises his eyebrows.

Rose gasps as she flinches back, shaking her head a gently, "We only met last week as roommates in a mixed dorm! We get along like best friends and noth-..." Rose paused before looking down, remembering the awkwardness of her careless action, "We are not an item... and I thought you and Lavender must have something going on. Who else would react that way when she said 'extras'"

"True enough, she teases me a lot, but what can you do?" Blitz leans back in his seat, "I'm no Changeling, but it doesn't take a psych major to figure the big guy out. I'd say the most obvious aspect would be in regards to you, but perhaps you already know this. His art, in particular, is rather open, especially when comparing your portrait to the sketch he did of the class, I'd tell you about it, but then you'd lose the fun of discovery." Blitz smirks as he leans over to knick one of Lavender's grapes.

Rose stared at the Gryphon with a perplexing expression, trying to figure out what he meant by what he said. She only met Glacier a few days ago and the impression of him was a very laid back Dragon. It wasn't until she figured out he was flirting with her after she shot him down things started to get awkward whenever they meet. She liked the first day as Rose could be free. The Changeling looked towards Blitz with a brow raised, "You say he drew another picture of me? Also, you make it sound like you know him from a long term view?"

Sky smirks, shaking his head, "He might have done. Honestly only met him today, I'm overly friendly like that."

Rose hums lightly under her breath, looking at Sky in an intrigued way, "I'm curious, how did you and Lavender meet? You two seem way out of context for each other it actually fits."

Sky leans back and stretches, "That's actually a semi-depressing story, least at the start. The simple version would be I might have dropped out of my current course before... It was a self-conscious thing. Anyway, they were generous enough to let me transfer to a course of equal value, thus I went to Psychology. Odd transition, obviously, but that's where I met Lavender several years ago."

Rose's ears perked up, "You and Lavender were in the Psychology class? What made you want to move to Fine Art? Is there something on your mind still? How did Glacier act in the classroom? Did Lavender wear that style of clothing, because I might actually try it?" Rose kept asking questions as her curiosity grew and grew.

Sky Blitz chuckled and waved his hands slightly, "Slow down there, that's a lot of questions and not a whole lot of time left. Stopping in the middle, why so interested in how he was in the class?" Sky raises an eyebrow as Lavender comes back with two sodas, passing a cherry one to Sky.

"What?" Rose's cheeks go a slight red as she looks towards Lavender, looking back at Sky, "He drew a picture of me on the first night in addition to being so laid back that a female was going to sleep in the same room. Of course, I would want to know if he acts any different outside of the room. Plus it might help me to understand him a little better and try to fix a little mistake I said on the weekend."

"Hmm, if you're that worried about it, maybe it's not such a little mistake?" Sky opens the can and takes a sip, "If I had to describe how he is..."

"Distant."

"Neutral."

"Uninterested?"

"Abnormally chill, for a Dragon."

The couple threw words back and forth to describe their new classmate, "He's a very unique Dragon, to say the least. You don't really see any or many interested in such subjects." Lavender states in observation.

"I don't know, there is something about him that makes you interested in him." Rose paused for a few seconds as she took a large bite out of her sandwich, completely forgetting about her persona, "He didn't treat me like a piece of jewellery, so to speak. Heck, he got me to eat a half of a forty-inch pizza cause I was damn hungry. "

"'Heck' huh? Maybe he's also a bad influence on your persona?" Sky comments as he's offered a strawberry by Lavender.

Throwing it over the table into Sky's mouth, Lavender chuckles, "Sounds like he did make an impression on you, likely the same this idiot did on me?"

Pushing herself back from the table, she immediately remembers what she just said. Completely forgetting to keep her persona up. "Thy hast broke a rule to keep up appearances. My apologies for speaking uncouth towards thou's." Sitting back up to take another bite from the sandwich, a smaller one, she blushes "Thy's perception of housing under one hold would be more than enough to slacken."

"We won't tell." Lavender chuckles, yawning cutely as she covers her mouth. "Though, I could be right. We were in the same dorm too, it was only after class I found out."

"We... Also had similar times to your own, I guess..." Sky coughs and looks back out the window.

Rose looks down at her food once more, the thoughts of the accidental shutdown which caused the awkwardness between the two. The Changeling looked at the two before closing her eyes with an acute smile on her face, "Thy does hope Glacier and I may engage in silly activities and conversation like on our first day once more."

"Well... I won't lie, it wasn't easy for us either. We had misunderstandings, arguments, heated moments..." Lavender states nodding after each one.

"Hate sex," Sky states bluntly making Lavender blush scarlet and look at him sharply.

"Hate sex?" Rose blushes as she asks, curious to how one can do such activities, "How do you hate someone then proceed to have sex with them?"

"In our case quite easily..." Lavender coughs and straightens her hair, "We didn't like each other to begin with, obviously we appear as opposites, overly friendly meets gothic dark, I guess. Though neither of us denied an attraction so... During exchanges, sometimes, urges or desires took over..."

"Gods it's adorable to watch you struggle and blush as you explain." Sky teases her as she throws a strawberry at his face.

"It's not the only time such things can happen, there are many circumstances or feelings which are taken into account. After a while, we eventually opened up past our defences and found we honestly weren't so different. By that point, many late nights later, seeing as we'd already skipped a step with... Sexual endeavours, it was a matter of admitting and or actually acknowledging what we had." Lavender finishes explain as Sky simply stares at her, the mare's blush increasing.

The Changeling, looked back and forth at the two only to smirk from enjoying the show. Her smile dropped as she thinks irrationally, "Wait?! We might live in the same dorm, Glacier and I, but we would never cross that boundary to even think of having sex?! Not minding his habits and his equipment is not that bad, mind you."

Sky raises an eyebrow, "Already seen his junk? That's a bit further than Lavi got on her first day."

"You don't sound particularly opposed to the notion though? Not saying you have to, but simply that there'd be nothing wrong if it did happen." Lavender comments finishing her lunch.

"We just met a few days ago!" Rose yelped, trying to defend herself only to slam her head down onto the table, trying to find a part of her that wishes it wasn't somewhat real, "I am not some loose whore who goes around sleeping with someone they just met. The whole notion of him being like that at night in bed is solely for his heat, it's a well-known habit for Dragons however I did not expect my roommate to be a Dragon who would actually brashly reveal himself to me like that then go to bed as if nothings wrong..."

Lavender blushes even brighter as her hair covers her face somewhat, "Two weeks..?"

Sky tilts his head from side to side, "Sounds about right," He stretches back in his seat, "We went two weeks before our first 'incident'."

The awkwardness coming from Lavender in response to Rose's prior sentence could choke lesser Changelings.

"No!!" Rose bursts up from the table, looking at Lavender, "You had sex in the first two weeks?! Is it going to end up like that for me and Glacier?! Are we going to last two weeks before something happens?! Am I actually going to make things up with Glacier by that time?! I'm still pure, right?! I shouldn't be thinking like this for someone who I just met..."

"P-please not so loud! I-I don't know how you and Glacier will go... Whether or not anything happens is down to you both. I don't even know what is up between you two... I'm sure if you think about it, you can figure out how to fix it. There's also no shame in such acts with someone you like, ours was a unique situation and sometimes people like someone at first glance, it happens..." Lavender is practically red in the face as she's now super uncomfortable.

Sky sighs as he looks at Lavender, "Basically, it might not even be like ours. If you find you're attracted to each other, that's normal." Sky rubs the back of his neck, now worried for Lavender.

Rose blows out a hefty sigh before looking at Sky with a small smile, "But I like him as a bestie, not as a couply... or I don't think I don't... I am not entirely sure, I have been flirted with by a lot of people, mainly at business parties my Father attends where everyone has a stick up their arse and attitudes like a banker watching an investment."

"Which we've established his different, it's different flirting, as you seem to somewhat have figured out." Sky comments as Lavender has suddenly vanished from the table, making him sigh. "She'll be fine, just didn't want the attention from your outburst, she's just embarrassed."

Rose looks around for the Pegasus, finally looking back at Sky in a concerned manner, "I'm sorry... I've turned this into another problem which I don't know how to solve... ARGH!" She slams her head into the table once again, this time her mane spreading over the table as she moderately groans.

"It's not, I promise. She seems quite fond of you, she just needs to calm down, that's all. I possibly teased her a little too much talking about the sexual stuff in such a public place." Sky chuckles before lightly petting Rose.

Keeping her head down, faintly enjoying the light headpat that started to calm her nerves, "Is that all I need to do, just calm down... And is she really fond of me 'cause I really want to wear a dress like that..."

"She does, I can tell. She designs her own by the way, getting them custom made at the carousel boutique here in Canterlot. I feel, with Glacier, you need to slow down and think it through piece by piece. Then you won't feel as if you're rushing anything or stress over 'if' those situations just happen." Sky sighs, feeling somewhat bad about teasing both her and Lavender.

"She knows Madam Rarity?" Rose tilted her head up slightly with a bewildered gaze, "I might be able to help her with cheaper crafting and materials? I feel responsible for her embarrassment. For Glacier... I don't see him that way..." Her eyes darted to the left, whispering, "Or do I?" Before shaking her head in disapproval, only to mess up her mane.

"Hmm, like I said it's something you should figure out slowly. Least, slower than we did." Sky chuckles, stopping the pats as he looks at his watch, frowning as he looks around.

"He's not coming back..." The Changeling groaned as she stood up from the table, brushing off the crumbs and fixing her mane to an agreeable standard, "This is what I meant by awkward..." Rose finished as she picked up her bag with a clear sad frown, "He just avoids me now... Escaping when he gets a chance for me to fix this mess... Or my attempt to try and fix this mess."

Sky sighs, rubbing the back of his neck. "The only advice I can offer... Is maybe a tactical approach? Get him in a situation he can't run from? But only once you've figured things out so that way it's not awkward and you struggle to find the words you mean." Sky stands up, patting her again, "It'll be fine, I'm sure."

Rose smiled at the Gryphon before flinching and going down her bag, pulling out her phone and unlocking it before trying to pass it towards Sky, "Can I have your phone number? As well as Lavenders? I really want to see if I can hang out with you guys in the future?"

"Sure, I know she'll enjoy that." Sky puts both their numbers in her phone before passing it back, "I should go find him... He was lost this morning."

"Thanks, Blitz, I owe you one and I take my promises seriously. Whenever you need something of me, I'll be there" Rose proudly states as she curtsies towards the Gryphon, "I guess I should go to the introduction for my Psychology class."

"Oh, that's an interesting coincidence. Have fun with that." Sky chuckles as he walks off, leaving the Changeling to find her way and her thoughts.

Author's Note

With this chapter comes an update: While my co-author and I, have work saved up over a period of time and are working on new chapters as those slowly get released. We're trying hard to keep details, features or information concise from chapter to chapter. This is difficult for me personally but we're going to do the best we can. In addition, we also plan to have a chapter out on a weekly basis landing on a Saturday, like today. Should events or complications alter this, we will let you know in an author's notes or a blog post. We're thankful and grateful for any support this story has or will receive in the future.