A weird day.

Tuesday was… bizarre. It started innocently enough, but it was still weird considering the girls and I met in the club room like always, only this time we talked about my other girlfriend they had met the day before.

“I like her,” Noelle said, smiling brightly. “She’s a little awkward, but I think it’s endearing. We could tell she was trying very hard to fight off her nerves.”

“It’s one thing to try and another to succeed,” Sarah said. “So with that in mind, I like her, too. She’s… How do I put this? She seems the type to think very hard about literally everything, but I don’t say it as a bad thing.”

“Yeah! For example, when we were picking out underwear…”

“Shush, Mila! That’s a secret!” Alice said, stopping Mila as she laughed. “Not to mention it was YOUR idea to keep it a secret, remember?”

“Oh, crap. Right. Sorry, Oliver.”

“Well, now I’m even more curious. What the hell was in those bags?”

“Nothing wild, so don’t get too many ideas,” Grace said. “We told Diana to be comfortable around us and she ended up giving us a pretty neat idea we hope you’ll like.”

“I see… So, um… What did you talk about?”

“You, mostly,” Sarah said. “It was the easiest topic to talk about, after all.”

“We told her stories about, and answered her questions and bonded over how nice it is to share a bed with you,” Alice said nonchalantly. “It was the strangest outing I’ve had, but it was really fun.”

“But it wasn’t all about you, so don’t get too self-conscious,” Noelle clarified with a chuckle. “We walked past a hobby store and I stopped to look at the display. Then Diana stood beside me and started browsing, too. Turns out she’s into board games!”

I blinked. I didn’t know that. “Board games? Really?”

“Yeah. She said that she liked them but the people she knew got bored of them quickly, even Maria.”

“That’s what we’re going to her house for on Saturday,” Alice said. “We’re having a board game party.”

I found myself smiling. Just picturing Diana telling them about it or all of them playing games at Diana’s house warmed my heart like you wouldn’t believe.

“Oh, and just so you know,” Grace said, “we didn’t hold back on the naughty details. It actually made things less awkward. We didn’t have to pretend like we didn’t know you were sleeping with all of us and we could just share what we liked about it.”

“I mean, sex is too big a part of our relationship, right? There’s no denying that,” Mila said. “We were worried we might make Diana uncomfortable, but surprisingly she adapted really quickly.”

“She told me she had a good time with you,” I told them. “Said you had been very welcoming.”

“Really? That’s good to hear,” Sarah said, sighing in relief. “I was worried we were too pushy.”

“I will say, though… It felt strange walking around with an older woman in the group,” Mila said. “Just the way she carries herself makes her seem more mature. I felt like a kid standing next to her and I was worried she might find our talks… I don’t know, stupid or something.”

I smiled wryly and nodded. “Yeah, that worries me a bit, too. I don’t think she sees it that way, but… I guess that’s something only time will reveal.”

There were still plenty of kinks to iron out, but I still believed we started on the right foot. Maybe Alice’s theory (which I’m now dubbing the Theory of Attraction) really was right, and Diana was just naturally a good fit for our group. At least, I really wanted to believe that was the case.

Things then got a little weirder when we got to the classroom. With five minutes until classes started, Mila, Grace, Sarah and I were going to take our respective seats when Lena suddenly came up to me.

“Oliver, got a minute?” she asked me.

“Hm? Sure, what is it?”

“Nothing, just… a little thank you,” she said and gave me a large chocolate bar. A fairly expensive brand, even.

I blinked and looked from the chocolate to Lena again. She was smiling from ear to ear and looked… radiant. Her good mood oozed off of her. And why was she thank…?

Oh.

Oooooh.

Seems Kevin was eager to try out the advice I gave him, and by the look of things, it worked.

“He told you?” I asked her with a restrained laugh.

Lena grinned. “I had to get it out of him, but yes.” She blushed. “He… tried very hard. It was very sweet of him. It was better, but now we know it can be EVEN better, so… Thank you.”

“Glad to be of service. I’m glad it helped.”

Lena chuckled, waved at me and went to her seat. Meanwhile, Mila, Grace and Sarah stared at our whole interaction with hilariously puzzled looks and went straight to Lena after we were done talking to get all the info out of her. Mark had also overheard and the two of us shared a silent, knowing grin. We were going to tease Kevin later.

During the first recess, though, Thomas came up to me and we had a chat on our own in the club room while the girls got all the details out of Lena they couldn’t before class started.

“There was something I wanted to ask you yesterday, but I didn’t think doing it in front of the other guys was a good idea,” he said.

“Hm? And that is…?”

“Remember when you talked about the refractory period?”

“Yeah…”

“You don’t have it, do you?”

I sighed. “Yeah, I don’t. It’s part of those strange powers I got. Why do you ask?”

Thomas rubbed the back of his neck and grimaced awkwardly. “I… kinda don’t have it, either. Or rather, it takes me like three shots before I get one. It didn’t use to be like this. I don’t think it’s at your level, but… Do you think we were right? Do you think I have something like what you do?”

“...” I pursed my lips and crossed my arms. Then my eyes went to the Ouija board hanging on one of the walls. “Should we find out?”

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