About the condition.

I thought about the dream throughout breakfast and all the way to school. Isabelle and mom asked me why I was spacing out, so I had to answer that I felt a little tired. I think neither of them bought it. The spirit, Frey, talked to me in that dream and I could remember it, or at least some of it. Of course I was spacing out.

You know when some things sound too good to be true? I was hoping this wasn’t one of those cases because dammit I needed it to be true. It was exactly what I wanted, that one impossible dream that I never truly believed would ever come close to being real. More than that, it was the chance to finally stop hiding, the chance to stop lying to mom, the chance to be upfront with the girls’ families. We wouldn’t be criticized or questioned. We’d be free to go on dates without worrying that some classmate or acquaintance might be watching us.

That morning, unlike other times, I was the last one to arrive at the club room. All the spacing out at home had made me late.

“Hm? Oliver? What’s wrong?” Noelle was the first to notice, since she was sitting in a spot that faced the door. “You look a little out of it.”

I smiled. “Kind of. I… have something to tell you all, but let me think of how, first.”

I greeted them all one by one, and each of them looked me in the eyes with a scrutinizing gaze, trying to guess what it was that had me like this.

“You’re kind of making me dizzy with how much your head is spinning,” Sarah told me as our lips parted.

I smiled wryly. “Is that how it feels to you?”

“Sometimes,” Sarah said.

Noelle giggled softly. “When you’re aroused I feel it like a subtle tingling in the back of my neck.”

“Yeah, exactly!” Mila said.

“And when you’re happy it’s like a warmth in my chest,” Alice said with a fond smile. “Sit down, Oliver. I’ll get you some tea. Or would you rather have some coffee today?”

“Coffee sounds really good right now. Thank you.”

Grace chuckled. “Yeah, they’ve got it down already. They can read you about as well as we can. Makes me a little jealous, actually. It took us a while to get to that point.”

Mila stood behind my chair and hugged me, pressing her breast against the back of my neck and holding my shoulders. “Nothing bad happened, did it?”

“No, but...” I sighed and placed one hand over hers. “I dreamt of Frey last night.”

The atmosphere immediately became more alert, tenser.

“You remember this one?” Alice asked me, setting my mug in front of me, filled with coffee.

I nodded and took a sip. “Though only a part of it. I think it’s because… she needed me to remember it.”

“W-What did she say?” Noelle asked, eyes glancing towards the ouija board standing against the corner of the room.

I took a deep breath and collected my thoughts. “Frey has magical powers. We know that, right?”

“Yeah,” Grace said. “Hard to deny it when we’ve felt it first hand.”

“We… might have been underestimating how much she can do.”

“What do you mean?” Alice asked.

“She says that… that there is a way to make it so our relationship is seen by everybody as something normal.” I heard gasps, but no one said a word. They were all looking at me expectantly. “She says she has the power to do it, but… there’s a condition that needs to be met.”

“Which one?” Sarah and Grace asked at the same time. Mila couldn’t help but snicker.

“In her words: I will be able to have sexual and romantic relationships with multiple women at the same time, and this will be seen as normal by the public. However, to sleep with and start a relationship with a new girl, I must have the approval of all my current girlfriends.”

A heavy silence fell on the room as the girls pondered on the meaning and the implications of my words. I kept quiet, letting them think it over.

“So you’d leave it up to us?” Mila asked.

I nodded. “I think it’s part of what makes this… ‘enchantment’, as she called it, possible. It needs to ‘restrict’ me, she said.”

Alice held her chin. “A condition to make a spell more powerful, then?”

“You hear many examples like that in mythology and folklore,” Noelle said.

“So… Basically, she says you having a polyamorous relationship will be seen as normal, but if you want to sleep with and date other girls, we have to give you permission?” Sarah asked.

“That’s literally what the spirit said, Sarah,” Mila told her.

“No, it’s a good question,” Grace said. She looked deep in thought. “If you were to sleep with a girl without our permission, would that break the spell or just count as cheating? And if, um… If one of us were to… break up with you…” She looked uncomfortable even saying it. It made me kinda happy. “If that happened, then what?”

“For the first thing, she said it would only count as cheating. For the second, she said I need the approval of all my current girlfriends, so…”

Alice nodded. “If you were dating four girls, you’d need the approval of four people. But if you were dating six, then you’d need the approval of six people.”

Noelle chuckled nervously. “This is a strange conversation. Do you really think this will work?”

“We have enough evidence for it to be a safe enough bet,” Grace said. “I get what you mean, but we need to understand what we’re making Oliver agree to.”

Noelle nodded. “Right. It seems the… ‘enchantment’ has established rules, then.”

Mila groaned in frustration, resting her chin on my head. “I thought magic was just a snap of the fingers and bam! This is too complicated.”

“Don’t complain,” Sarah told her. “If this works, we won’t have to hide anymore.” She sighed and rubbed the back of her neck. “It’ll be weird to explain to my parents why I didn’t just introduce him as my boyfriend the other day.”

Grace turned to address Alice and Noelle. “I’m ready to agree to this right now. I don’t need to ask Sarah and Mila to know they’re in the same boat.” The two mentioned girls nodded their agreement. “But how about you two? You’ve only been dating him for about two weeks.”

“If it’s up to us to decide whether he gets to date more girls or not, I don’t see why I wouldn’t support this,” Alice said. “I don’t enjoy hiding any more than you do.”

“Yes, I agree with her,” Noelle said. She then began to fidget while looking at me. “Still, I’d like to ask Oliver a question.” I nodded for her to go on. “Do you… actually plan to see more girls?”

My heart skipped a beat. I looked down into my mug. The steam from the coffee fogged up my glasses a bit.

“Plan to? Not exactly,” I answered. “Before this all started, I… had sort of made my peace with the idea that I’d be a virgin forever. Then all of a sudden, not one but three girls wanted to sleep with me.” Sarah crossed her arms and frowned. Grace closed her eyes solemnly. Mila’s grip on my shoulders tightened. I continued. “Then those three girls told me they wanted me to start seeing others, too.”

“A toast to that,” Alice said, raising her cup of tea and taking a sip. That got a chuckle out of all of us.

“There’s no point in me hiding it,” I continued. “You can probably tell already. Dating you all is quite literally a dream come true for me. Threesomes, foursomes… I was always into the IDEA, but I never expected I’d love the real thing so much. Maybe… No, not maybe. I’m sure Frey has something to do with it. There are times when I feel arousal beyond what’s… normal. Being with you satisfies that… urge.” I sighed. “My point is, I never planned for any of this to happen. I’m more than satisfied with the way things are now. I don’t NEED more, but…”

“Who knows how things will develop in the future,” Noelle finished for me.

I nodded.

Noelle let out a heavy, drawn out sigh and threw her head back, looking at the low ceiling. She chuckled. “What did I get myself into?”

“Regretting it?” Alice asked with a teasing smirk.

“No, and that’s what’s weird.”

“I want to tell you to not think too hard about it,” Sarah said, “but I know it’s hard. If it helps, I was probably the most skeptical about this of us three, and, well…”

Aliche snickered. “Yeah. I’ve never seen Sarah so smitten. It’s almost funny.”

“Laugh it up, prez. I see that mug you gave him.”

Alice flinched, blushed and went quiet. Man, she’s cute.

“So? Are we in agreement?” Mila asked. “Are we doing this?”

“Yes,” Noelle answered.

“Yes,” Alice said.

“No need to ask me,” Grace said.

“Then what are we waiting for? What do we need to do?” Sarah asked.

“W-We’re doing it now?” I asked.

“Should we not?” Grace asked back.

“...”

There wasn’t actually a reason to wait, was there? We still had about 15 minutes until classes started.

“Let’s get the ouija board ready.”

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