“So wait, you’re telling me that Twilight basically asked to see your…” Mike stated starring at his friend with wide eyes.

“Pecker, cock, one eyed acid spewing lizard, take your pick.” Matthias stated taking a swig of his Mountain Dew.

“Regardless I think I might have to issue one of my ultimatums.”

“You mean one of your famous ultimatums?”

“It may just live to be revered my friend.”

“You’re going to sleep on the couch aren’t you?” Mike deadpanned.

“Do you have a better idea?”

“I don’t know, no cock privileges?” Mike shrugged. “How this discussion got to us talking about your cock I have no idea but can we please change the subject?”

Matthias nodded. “I was actually wondering how your date with Lyra went.”

“Dinner sucked but afterwards went well, and before you ask, no we did not to the horizontal monster mash.”

“Wasn’t even going to, you know how I feel about being intimate with ponies.”

“Is it the hooves?”

“I honestly don’t know, given some time I’d probably adjust but I doubt any mare would want me as a boyfriend.”

“You don’t think too highly of yourself do you?”

“Remember when I said I’ve never been on a date before?”

“Yeah, was no girl interested?”

“I honestly have no idea.” Matthias stated laying his head in his arms before he let out a final sigh. “In all honesty if a mare wants to get with me, then props to her, but I think at this point I pretty much decided to stay single all my life.”

Mike walked back into his room placing his room key onto the table as laid down on his couch turning on the TV as he placed his arm over his eyes to block out the light coming in from the nearby window.  Letting out a long sigh as he rubbed his temples thinking about just what Matthias had said, in a way he felt bad for his friend but at the same time what could he do? It wasn’t like he could force love on him or even set him up with some random mare, odds are that wouldn’t go ever so well.

“I know that sigh.” A voice said from behind. “Something on your mind?”

Recognizing his mare friends voice Mike smiled as he looked up and saw the mint green form of Lyra slowly approaching.  

“Matthias is having woman issues.”

“I’m surprised you care this much.” She joked hopping up on to the couch and resting her head on her colt friend’s chest. “You’re not turning into a mare yourself are you?”

Mike chuckled running a hand through her mane. “No, just worried about him. I mean he’s pretty much the only guy friend I have here. I don’t mind being a crying rag but if this is going to keep going on I might have to change my major so I can be a psychiatrist.”

“What about if you set him up with a mare?”

“Matthias is just getting over the whole interspecies thing, I don’t know if shoving a mare in his face saying ‘here is a mare, proceed to romance her’ is such a good idea.”

“Well you could always go to the town bar, if you’re looking for single mares that would definitely be the best place to go.”

“Liquor and pussy, the best combination for the lonely man.” Mike joked earning a chuckle from the unicorn.

“So I take it you’ll be home late tonight then?”

“I’ll be back before midnight but for right now I think I’ll just stay here for a while if that’s okay with you.”

“You’re suggesting I’m not comfortable with cuddling with my colt friend?” she fake scoffed. “The absolute nerve!”

Mike chuckled running a hand down her back earning a sigh from Lyra as she nuzzled into his neck.

“So wait, you’re telling me she’s been modding the whole time!?” Matthias yelled to the white unicorn who merely nodded. “Why didn’t anyone tell me she’s been kicking my ass at Call of Duty by cheating?”

“I honestly thought you knew, you’re telling me you actually thought she was playing fair at video games? Why do you think she’s so overprotective of that controller?” Vinyl stated as the human stood there with his mouth wide open and his eyes bug-eyed making her giggle.

“So what your saying is that little miss braggart is a cheater?”

“Only in video games but yeah that’s the jidst of it.” Vinyl stated taking off her headphones. “So remind me again why you’re camping out in my room for the moment, not that I mind a ever mind when a stallion is in my room but I tend to think better when I’m alone.”

“Twilight scares me.”

“She’s reached the last bit of her examination I’m guessing?”

“You heard about that?”

“More or less guessed, it was bound to happen eventually and since you’re this worked up about it I just assumed…”

“She was talking about little Matti? Then you would be correct.”

“So you admit its little then.” She quipped with a smirk earning an annoyed glare from Matthias as he leaned against her desk. “Okay fair enough your welcome to camp here as long as you want but I’m going to put you to work as long as you’re here.”

“What do you need?”

Using her magic Vinyl picked up the red headphones off of the desk and levitated them in front of Matthias’ face gesturing him to put them on.

“An opinion, tell me what you think.”

“I honestly don’t know the first thing about Dub step Vinyl.”

“Great, I need an ignorant persons take on it. No offense of course.”

“None taken.” He said placing her trademark headphones over his head looking to her to play her music making him go wide eyed as the music suddenly blared through the headset taking Matthias by surprise and drowning out any other possibility for noise in the room.

Vinyl watched his face as he listened to her music watching as his brows would furrow every so often his head bobbing along with the music as the song went on and a hint of a smile worked its way onto his face. In all honesty she knew more than just Twilights examination was a heavy topic in their room, due to a certain loud mouth Pegasus currently rooming with her she had overheard about a certain bet made with the cowpony. While she hadn’t really thought of Matthias like that at first the idea of kissing him had played in her mind several times which honestly made her curious; what else could humans do for the mare. Granted she could probably sway her hips and get any human she wanted but it was considered a rarity to have a stallion around Matthias’ age still be a virgin; it was almost a contest within itself to see who could pluck their cherry first among mares. Now while Vinyl would never say anything to Rainbow and Applejack, Matthias’ lips were on her list and all she lacked was getting Rainbow or AJ to witness her doing it. Hell she’d do it without any reason if they were there now, but she was a mare of honor and was going to play by their rules, for now at least.

Suddenly the door opened and as if on cue Rainbow Dash walked in, her eyes immediately falling on Matthias as she walked in who was oblivious to her presence.

“Hey Matti.” She greeted but the human remained clueless to her.

“Matti!”  She raised her voice. “The headphones are on aren’t they?”

Vinyl nodded. “Keep talking though I’m sure he’ll hear you eventually.”

“Ha, ha.” Rainbow deadpanned placing her backpack on her bed before turning to Matthias with a sudden evil smirk on her face.”

“That can’t be good.” Vinyl thought.

Walking over she lifted one side of the headphones off of Matthias’ ear making him jump a little and turn to face her suddenly.

“Jesus Rainbow a bit of a warning next time.”

“In my defense, I did say ‘Hi’ to you but you didn’t hear me.”

“Alright, so what’s up?”

“You, me Call of Duty, up to get your flank kicked?”

Matthias matched her evil glare getting eye level with her. “My rules, my map choice.”

“Fine I’d love to beat you on what you’d consider home turf, and when you lose your going to do something for me.”

“I KNEW IT.” Vinyl almost screamed biting her tongue to prevent herself from saying anything.

“And what would that be?”

“That’s for later bud, for now it’s you, me and my MP7.”

“Fair enough.” Matthias stated getting up from his seat and handing the headphones to vinyl before exiting her room and sitting himself on the faux leather black sofa.

Rainbow trotted into the room carrying her signature controller from her room in her mouth, a smug look on her face. “Oh Rainbow, by the way were using new controllers.”

“What, why!?” she said.

“My rules, now here’s your controller milady.” He quipped holding one of the black Xbox controllers out for her which she took with a lot less confidence than before. “What’s wrong Rainbow; your controller is exactly the same as this one isn’t it? Winning should be a breeze.”

“Y-Yeah, bring it on Matti-cakes.” She said turning on her controller and watching Matthias set up the game.

Stepping into the room Vinyl smiled as she watched Matthias pick out his map, one which would apply to both the assault rifle and sniper he carried in his class. “Alright Rainbow first to 25 on Terminal, you ready to admit defeat now or do you still want to go through with this?”

“Shut your mouth Matt-cakes, you’re as good as mine.”

The game started out definitely in favor of Matthias, since Rainbow had been so used her rapid fire controller she couldn’t condensate for the difference of fire rates and attempt to meet Matthias head on where her gun excelled but whatever reason his assault rifle had prevented her from even remotely getting close not to mention his sniper would pick her off almost at pure random.

Rainbow huffed as the match ended placing her controller onto the table as Matthias sat back and savored each moment of the final kill cam. “And that my dear is the way the game is played.” He stated getting up and walking to the fridge and taking out a mountain dew before returning to his seat right beside Rainbow offering a swig which she huffed off.

Vinyl encased the can in her magic removing it from Matthias grip before bringing the rim to her lips taking a sip of the green liquid inside. “Well Mr. Undisputed champion, what next?”

Twilight fiddled with the pen in her mouth looking over the sketch of her human roommate, drawn with precision to match Matthias’ proportions. Measurements accurate, symmetry just right, and yet of course she knew the one thing that was missing…..

She had talked to him about it that morning but after a perfusions amount of blushing the only thing she could get out of the human was a blank stare as he left the room rather quickly. She didn’t want to insult the human; she just wanted to do it for science… and for her own curiosity.

She wasn’t naive she knew how foals were made, just as she knew the parts to make them. After countless lonely nights and several different descriptions from countless books the only thing she lacked was actually seeing one.  It wasn’t like she didn’t want a stallion to court her and romance her but all the stallions were just after her title as Celestias pupil, she wanted her first time to be special not something she would soon regret later on.

Looking down at her sketch again she placed her head against the table sighing deeply just as the door opened from behind. Turning ever so slightly she saw Matthias enter the room looking back as he spoke to whoever was occupying the living room.

“Well I’m going to get some shut eye for a bit. Odds are Mike will want to go out later, you’re welcome to tag along if you want.”

“Is Rainbow or AJ going?” Vinyl’s voice asked.

“Yeah probably.”

“Then I might just tag along.”

Matthias giggled as he closed the door looking to Twilight as he lay on his bed. The room was silent and neither of the two looked at each other. Twilight would occasionally glance his way only to find him suddenly turn to face the ceiling.

“So…” Matthias finally spoke first. “How has your day been?”

“Good.” Twilight responded. “And yours?”

“Can’t complain.” The room fell silent again for another brief moment before Matthias straightened his throat. “So listen about this morning.”

“No, it was wrong of me to try and get you to show me something more personal.”

“Its fine Twilight, if it’s all the same to you I’d like to take a break from the examinations.”

“Yeah that’s understandable. In fact you don’t have to do this anymore if you don’t want to.”

Matthias sighed getting up and sitting on the edge of his bed bringing a hand up to his forehead. “Listen, I know I’m going to regret saying this but… I’ll let you finish it up on one condition. We will do it on a day of my choosing and I can back out if I want to.”

Twilight turned in her chair to look at Matthias who refused to look at the lavender mare an unmistakable hint of read on his cheeks.

“Do we have a deal?” Matthias said still refusing to look at her.

“Deal.”