A heated conversation

You wake up thirsty.

Not in the figurative sense, but literal. Your mouth is dry and your throat seems a bit sore from the dryness. Not surprising after all the physical exertion you did before you fell asleep from exhaustion.

Just like the last time you woke up in bed, you’re cuddling your daughter’s naked body with your left arm as she sleeps soundly with her head on your left pec. Cuddled with your right arm is Tanya, also naked this time, cuddled next to you and with her head resting on your right pec. If you look to your left, behind Stella is Cassie, who is resting her head on your outstretched left hand.

‘You can get used to this’, you think to yourself.

‘Better stock up on sports drinks though.’, you also think to yourself.

You want to stand up, but you don’t want to wake up the girls. You’re not even sure what time it is. Is it morning already? Is it still night? Does it matter? You just want to stay in this spot forever if you could. In the warm embrace of your girlfriends.

Unfortunately… Those aren’t the only things keeping you warm.

“OH FUCK! THE CANDLES!” You shout out loud and immediately stand up to address the still lit candles in the room. Your shout wakes up all three girls, and they’re confused why you’re in a panic. You begin to move towards Tanya’s end table to blow out the bunched up candles that are placed there. Some of them get blown out but some are more resilient than you anticipated. Tanya and Cassie blow out the candles in the night stands easily.

Stella calmly walks out of the room to go somewhere and when she makes it back, you see she apparently grabbed a pitcher of water from the kitchen. “Smart thinking!” you tell your daughter as you assume she’s going to dump the pitcher on the candles in one go. Instead, Stella drinks some of the water from the pitcher, wets her thumb and index finger with her now moist tongue, and just pinches the candles off one by one.

“Ay Dios Mio!” Tanya shouts after everything has settled back down.

The momentary adrenaline rush having subsided, you grab the water pitcher from Stella and drink water straight from it too. You let out an audible “Aaah” as you quench your thirst.

“Save some for us.” Cassie reminds you. Stella then takes the pitcher from you and then hands over the pitcher to Cassie for her and Tanya to share.

“Let’s not fuck each to the point of exhaustion ever again.” You tell them, while the panic from setting off a possible fire is still fresh in your head.

“Or we could just not fuck using candle light ever again.” Tanya points out after having a drink of the water.

“That sounds like a better idea.” Cassie concurs, and she and Tanya have a laugh while Cassie finishes all the water left in the pitcher.

“OR~ maybe we shouldn’t overreact to falling asleep with lit scented candles that last 12 hours.” Stella adds.

“What?” you ask her.

“Didn’t you read the labels for these? They’re designed to be lit for a long time.” Stella explains.

“Sweetie, your dad was right to react that way. We could’ve burned my apartment down… or worse.” Tanya tells Stella.

“Like burn down the entire building. Never leave open fires unattended, baby.” you add.

“Good thing it didn’t escalate that far.” Cassie reacts.

“It escalated enough. We got to watch a hot naked fireman save us from a possible fire.” Stella makes a joke about your ‘heroics’, supported by Tanya who wolf whistles her approval.

“Only you can prevent forest fires.” Cassie jokingly points at you.

You’d make a joke back and ask if she was referring to Stella since she did most of the work, but you’re just dead tired. So you move back to the bed and lie down on your back instead. Stella and Cassie follow suit, but Tanya checks if there was any damage to her end table.

Cassie and Stella switched places from earlier and you’re now cuddling Cassie on your left with Stella hugging her from behind.

“Did it burn anything?” you ask Tanya from the bed.

“No. Thankfully, the heat didn’t penetrate the coasters and burned the wood underneath.” Tanya says as she hops back onto the bed to your right and cuddles with you once more.

“Can I ask about this whole night, now?” you ask all three of them.

“It was Tanya’s idea.” Cassie tells you.

“I just wanted to prepare a Plan B, just in case the original plan for Celeste tonight didn’t pan out.” Tanya explains.

“They messaged me about this plan while we were out grocery shopping, asking me if I was game to do this.” Stella adds.

“You all had a feeling it wouldn’t work out with Celeste?” you ask them.

“We had a feeling she’d be overwhelmed by you being in a unique relationship like this one.” Cassie answers.

“Even if she didn’t have a boyfriend, we thought maybe revealing all your girlfriends at once wouldn’t be the most romantic thing to do. She might think she’s just another one you want to add to your collection, instead of being genuinely enamoured with her. Thinking from an outsider’s perspective of course.” Tanya adds.

“We tried stopping you, but you seemed adamant when you said you didn’t want us to seem like we were dirty secrets to be hidden; which is really a sweet sentiment, Jay, but not the most ‘I want you to date me’ type of thing to reveal to a new person you want to woo.” Cassie explains.

So they’ve been planning this since your talk this morning, after you told them your idea of having all five of you have dinner together, and then possibly asking Celeste to go grab a drink afterwards and see where that could lead. They had a feeling it was more than likely Celeste wouldn’t be into this dynamic like the rest of them; which is true, of course. You even realized that during dinner that was always a possibility. It was naive of you to think that without having bought the ‘Normalized Polyamory’ trait, that she’d find it normal and even enticing to join a polyamorous relationship. Still, you can’t believe how ready they were with Plan B.

“I can’t believe you did this for me. Thank you.” you tell them sincerely.

“We didn’t do this for you, papi” Tanya immediately replies.

“Yeah. We did this for us.” Cassie explains further.

“We needed to do something like this eventually, and see if us girls can all be comfortable around each other while being intimate with you.” Tanya adds.

“Oh, thanks for inviting me then.” you joke, making the girls laugh.

“Okay, so we sorta did do this for you.” Cassie admits.

“To be honest, I wasn’t sure about it at first. Cassie even had to convince me just before we went here. I’m not really into girls, like these two seem to be—” Stella says, but Cassie cuts her off,

“I’m not into girls either! I’ve just experimented with some girl friends back in high school.” Cassie defends herself.

“Are you listening to yourself? If you’re experimenting…” Stella reacts in exasperation, before stopping herself and taking a deep breath. “You know what? Nevermind. As I was saying, I’m not really into girls, but I knew they had a point when they said we had to try this eventually. You’ll be depleted if we keep taking turns fucking you throughout the day.” Stella says.

“By the way, Mrs. O’Brien doesn’t like noise in the morning, so better keep the ‘happy-fun’ times to when they’re asleep.” Tanya advises the three of you.

“How do you not get noise complaints from her by the way? She gave me one this morning.” You ask Tanya.

“Gave her ear plugs the first time she complained and told her to wear them on weekends.” Tanya answers nonchalantly.

“That’s it!?” You ask Tanya in surprise. You can’t believe you spent points on a trait that a pair of ear plugs were the solution to.

“Oh, and I threatened her that I’ll tell the whole building about her Woodstock orgies.” Tanya adds.

“Her what!?” Cassie and Stella both react in shock.

As Tanya recounts how she found out about Mrs. O’Brien’s frivolous past, you start thinking about your earlier purchase. If what it took was a threat to keep Mrs. O’Brien from bothering Tanya, maybe the ‘Good Neighbor’ trait wasn’t such a bad investment after all. Like Mr. O’Brien said, he’s not sure how much more he can use that story before Mrs. O’Brien stops giving a crap.

“Still, she doesn’t like noise in the daytime, so don’t go too pornstar on your moans at those hours.” Tanya advises the girls.

“That’s ironic coming from you.” Stella says with a chuckle, and Tanya gives her a knowing smile.

“Plus, it’s not like the three of us can help it.” Cassie adds, which makes you blush in embarrassment a little, but feel like such a chad in the process.

“All this sex talk is just getting me going again.” Stella says.

“You got wet from imagining Mrs. O’Brien in an orgy?” Cassie jokes.

“Ew! Gross! No!” Stella immediately reacts in disgust. “I meant I’m getting wet thinking about fucking Dad again!” Stella additionally explains. You chuckle to yourself at the irony in Stella’s statements.

“I know! I’m kidding! I am getting kinda horny again too, actually.” Cassie says after laughing at Stella’s reaction.

“You guys go ahead without me. The mind is willing, but the body isn’t. I. AM. BEAT.” Tanya replies.

“Oh, don’t worry, I am too. Not after Cassie made me imagine old Mrs. O’Brien in an orgy.” Stella clarifies.

“Oh. Not me. I legit want to fuck you again right now Jay.” Cassie says. The look of panic on your face is evident, as you're worried you won’t be able to go any further; since, like Tanya and Stella, you are also dead tired. Cassie sees your panicked look and thankfully frees you from continuing to do so, “I’m kidding, silly!”

“...Or am I?” Cassie says under her breath near your ear, you jolt in panic again, and all four girls laugh at your reaction. “I am. I’m kidding. Good night Daddy.” Cassie says before kissing you on the cheek.

“Oh please, you just don’t want to admit that imagining Mrs. O’Brien in an orgy made you wet.” Stella jokes, making all four of you laugh.

“Good night, papi. Good night girls.” Tanya says before kissing you on the other cheek.

Stella clumsily climbs over Cassie before tilting your head with her hand to face her, and she gives you a goodnight kiss on the lips… with an extra slip of tongue thrown in.

“Good night Daddy.” Stella says before going back next to Cassie in the bed and spooning her.

All four of you sleep afterwards, incredibly happy that despite your disappointment with Celeste, everything worked out for the better.

A few hours ago, in the hallway of Jay’s Apartment…

~ DING DONG ~

“Oh, I thought we weren’t doing this tonight?” Viv asks Celeste, after she opens her door to see her old friend.

“We weren’t… until you invited my cousin and his girlfriends to our ‘hang out’ tomorrow.” Celeste replies, doing air quotes on the phrase ‘hang out’.

“Let me in, slut.”