A very surreal morning.

Everything about this morning feels surreal. At 6:30 am, you feel Sophia moving besides you. She wordlessly snuggles against you, looks into your eyes and kisses you. You make out lazily for minutes, not speaking a word. You simply enjoy your first morning waking up next to each other.

Emma, being more used to this than the others, gets out of bed and goes to the bathroom to take a shower. When she returns, a towel wrapped around her body, she sees you with Sophia and Emily at your sides, with Megan on top of you. They take turns hogging your mouth, lazily kissing you.

Sadly, Emma’s right when she says you better get up. You need to take turns in the shower, and you need to arrive at school at different times if you want to avoid rumors, her specially. Honestly, now that the bond between the five of you is even stronger than before, you don’t give a damn if other people see you going to school with three other girls. Even so, having Emma be the only one who has to go alone feels wrong, so you’ll leave last.

When you come out of the shower, your heart skips a beat at what you see. It’s the same feeling as seeing all those toothbrushes together. The four girls are getting ready, putting on some makeup, getting dressed, doing their hair and the like. It’s the morning routine a guy doesn’t really get to see unless he’s reached a strong point in the relationship.

You watch Megan buttoning up her shirt as she hums happily. Her eyes meet yours, and she smiles excitedly. You know she’s thinking the same as you. Like this is a small taste of what your future together could be like.

Emily’s deep breath interrupts your thoughts. She’s in her underwear, looking at her shirt with a very serious expression. She turns to you.

“David, just so you know, Megan and I will be going straight home after class today.” She informs you. Megan’s eyes widen a bit. She breathes in deeply, too, and her expression turns serious as well.

“Your match is tomorrow, right?” You ask. They both nod.

That’s right. Their tournament starts tomorrow. It’s in another town, so you can’t go.

You walk over to your desk, open a drawer and get a couple of very small boxes. One white, the other black. You wave for the two soccer players to come closer and give them their gifts.

They seem surprised, but eagerly open the boxes to find the wristbands you got for them. They look at you with wide eyes and open mouths, not saying anything.

“Kick their asses, okay?” You offer them a smile, and the two dive in and hug you tightly, taking turns to kiss you hard on the lips.

“Thank you so much! You didn’t have to.” Megan tells you.

“Consider their asses very much kicked!” Emily says firmly.

They put them on, both on the right wrist, and caress them gently with big smiles on their faces.

You’re so relieved they liked them.

You start getting dressed and sit on the mattress to put on your shoes. Thinking of the girls’ match this Saturday reminds you of your date with Mia, which leaves you thinking. Emma, now fully dressed, seems to notice this and sits next to you.

“What are you thinking about?” She asks.

“That I have to tell Mia the same thing I told you. It wouldn’t be fair to tell her later.” You sigh. Your chest starts tightening again.

“Worried she’ll get mad?”

“Yeah, but more so that she’ll feel like I manipulated her in some way. She already went through a heartbreak. I don’t want her to feel like I’m playing with her.”

Emma smiles, kisses your cheek, and says. “You know what? Leave her to me.”

You frown, confused. “What do you mean?”

“I’ll talk to her. Just focus on your date, don’t worry about the app thing. Focus on rocking her whole world, you hear?” She kisses your lips. “Then she and I might think of something to rock your whole world” She grins and stands up, leaving you alone with a million mental images.

“That’s just not fair.” You mutter, now horny again.

Emma’s the first to leave, followed closely by Emily and Megan. Before Sophia leaves, she speaks to you.

“Hey, can I ask you a small favor?” She asks.

“Of course. Anything.”

“Could you please not check my score in your app until I ask you to?”

Ok. You didn’t expect that.

“Sure. I promise not to.” You nod. “Can I ask why?”

“I remember you said my love score for you was 66, right?” You nod again. Then she hugs you gently. “Maybe it’s because I know about it now, but I think I feel it working.” She tells you. “It’s very faint, but… I know for certain that I feel about you more strongly today than I did yesterday. I admit, it’s a kind of scary.”

You grimace. “I’m sorry.”

She shakes her head. “Don’t be. Yes, it’s scary, but when I heard what Megan said yesterday, it got me thinking. I spent all my life wasting my time, too scared of the world to seek a real relationship. This is going too fast, but I don’t think I mind. Just…” She looks directly into your eyes with a weak, **** smile. “Hold me for a while?”

You do as she asks. You embrace your lover tightly, trying your best to reassure her without words just how important she is to you. Your rack your brain. What can you do to show them you mean what you say?

However, before you can keep thinking about that, she drops the bomb. “My parents want to meet you.”

You feel a chill down your back.

Right. You said you’d do that. Well, you guess that’s one way to show you’re serious.

“When do you want me to go?”

“Can it be today? You won’t be here on the weekend and I’d like to get it over with.”

“Alright. Today it is.” You kiss her forehead. “Anything I should watch out for?”

“…it’s going to be embarrassing. For both of us.”