A/N: More secret college information, and yes its true.

Chapter 14

Love the One You've Got

Pacifica gave living in her dorm room a shot. Her roommate was of a different breed from her. She liked dubstep and all things Japan. Pacifica didn't mind dubstep but only at a party, and her dorm room was not a party. She understood liking another country's culture, after all she was raised to like a lot of French things, but the Japanese are into really weird things not fancy interior design and fashion like the French. She was definitely out of her comfort zone.

"Please Dipper let me stay here with you more often." Pacifica begged her boyfriend.

Dipper laughed. "Okay Cif I'm going to let you in on a little secret." Pacifica looked at him oddly as Dipper continued, "Institutes of higher education try to make freshman life hard. It weeds out the weak, and if you don't live in your dorm they can put you on academic probation if they so choose."

"So they purposefully roomed me with someone I don't like?" Pacifica asked trying to gain a little clarification.

"Sort of. They hire people to assess all the freshman who have to live in the dorms and match them to people that they think will be a challenge to get along with. A university wants to take you out of your comfort zone in order to make you a more well rounded individual. That's why I won't let you stay here every night," Dipper explained.

Pacifica felt insulted. "Oh so you think I'm not well rounded huh?" Pacifica accused.

"I don't think he said that," Mabel said reading a magazine on the other side of the living room.

"No. I think everybody could be more rounded especially myself. I want you to be the best that you can be and I don't want them kicking you out because you refused to stay in your dorm."

"Humph," Pacifica pouted.

Dipper sighed starting to get a little frustrated. He reached out grabbed her wrist and guided her to sit in his lap.

"How about this, why don't Mabel and I come over and met her this weekend? Maybe invite her to hang out?"

Pacifica gave it a thought. "Fine I'll give your way a shot," she conceded.

Saturday morning Pacifica got up and walked to Dipper and Mabel's apartment. She knocked on the door, and Dipper answered. They greeted each other with a simple kiss.

"Are you and Mabel ready to meet my roommate?" Pacifica asked.

"Mabel is getting dressed she should be out in a minute," Dipper explained.

"So what do you know about this girl?" He asked.

"Well she snores, she likes dubstep,"

"Which should only be played in a club," Dipper said in unison with Pacifica.

"And she's totally obsessed with Japan." Pacifica said feeling a bit flustered.

"What about where she comes from, or what walk of life she comes from?"

Pacifica pondered the floor. "See you don't know anything personal about her." Dipper pointed out.

"I'm not like I used to be I'm a lot more tolerant of people now," Pacifica defended herself.

Dipper trying to console his girlfriend said, "I know. That's why we're going to try and help."

"That's what boyfriends and bestfriends do!" Mabel said entering the room.

Pacifica smiled. "Thanks guys."

Mabel, Dipper, and Pacifica left the apartment and Dipper drove them to campus. Pacifica got them in the dorms and showed them up to her room.

"You guys ready?" Pacifica asked.

"Are you?" Dipper asked slightly annoyed at Pacifica's projecting.

Pacifica opened the door. "Hey Liz."

The girl turned around from her laptop.

"This is my boyfriend Dipper and his twin sister Mabel who is also my best friend."

"Konnichiwa." Liz said greeting them.

"Sorry I don't speak Italian," Mabel said.

Liz laughed. Dipper literal facepalmed.

"You're funny," Liz declared.

"You would think that, but she was being serious," Dipper explained shaking her hand.

Mabel was looking at all of Liz's knick-knacks of Japanese origin. "Wow you got a lot of cool stuff," Mabel said

"Thanks they're all imported," Liz explained to Mabel.

"At least someone is getting along," Pacifica said quietly.

Dipper rolled his eyes. "So Liz where do you come from?" Dipper asked.

"Lake Tahoe," She answered.

"Oh wow! How are you acclimatizing to being down here in the desert?" Dipper asked.

"Well it's weird breathing all this oxygen down here almost a sea level, and this heat man it's brutal, but the worst is the smell. The air down here just smells rotten," Liz said with her nose wrinkled.

"I know right back in Gravity Falls the air was always so fresh with the smell of pine," Pacifica said.

Dipper smiled looking back at Pacifica. "See?" He said. Pacifica rolled her eyes at him.

"What?" Liz asked not wanting to be left out.

"Cif was worried she wasn't getting along with you so I suggested this little get together to try and help."

"Well I'll admit we don't have much common ground," Liz said to Pacifica.

Dipper decided to tell Liz about Pacifica some. "Cif used to be really mean and snobby, and then she met me."

"And me!" Mabel shouted happily.

"Actually we didn't like each other at all at first, but one thing led to another and now we can't imagine life without each other," Dipper finished.

"Why was she snobby and mean?" Liz asked.

"Well I grew up with really arrogant parents who believed that everything was about being a Northwest and the only thing that mattered was the family name and our wealth," Pacifica answered for herself.

Liz smiled at having her suspicions confirmed. "I thought you were a rich little princess," she said.

"Well what about you? You're from Lake Tahoe. I thought everyone from out there was rich," Dipper asked.

"Well yeah but I'm not anyone's princess," Liz said.

"Well neither am I," Pacifica said defending herself.

Dipper becoming frustrated with the hostility between the two girls. "Pacifica was emancipated when she was sixteen." Dipper explained trying to quench the hostile environment.

"Why?" Liz questioned curiously.

"Because I didn't like the way my parents treated me okay?" Pacifica interjected obviously not wanting to talk about it.

Liz took the hint. "Dipper isn't it about time we got going?" Pacifica asked.

"Yeah I guess it is," Dipper agreed.

"Come on Mabel let's go," Dipper ushered his sister.

"It was nice to meet you," Mabel said to Liz on her hey out.

"Sayounara," Liz said to the girl. Mabel laughed.

"Well that could have gone better," Dipper said to Pacifica.

"Told you," The three left the dorms and went back to the twin's apartment.

"Okay only on the weekends, or special circumstances during the week," Dipper said to Pacifica as they walked in the door of the apartment.

Pacifica was going to take what she could get. "Thank you," She said.

"I don't see what your problem is with her," Mabel said before adding, "She seemed cool to me."

"You think everybody it cool," Dipper pointed out.

"That doesn't make it not true," Mabel responded.

"Well if you want to be her friend have at it," Pacifica said giving her blessing to Mabel.

"She seems not to like rich people. Probably resents her parents too. Something else you have in common," Dipper tried rationalizing.

"Except Pacifica actually likes being rich," Mabel pointed out.

Dipper switched on the TV. "Let's watch a movie and forget about it."

"Snuggle time!" Pacifica cheered cuddling up on Dipper as he sat down on the couch.

"Oh I've got the perfect one," Mabel said running into her room.

"Nothing with unicorns!" Dipper yelled.

"Unicorns are losers," Mabel shouted back.

"Oh yeah," Dipper said remembering Mabel's experience with Unicorns.