And I thank God for all of the joy in my life

Rose let out a sigh and flopped onto her bed. “Phew… that was a long day…” She murmured, staring up at the ceiling of the Blue Room of the Eastern Dragon. For the first time, she wouldn’t be moving to a new room; she got to stay here.

She gazed at the door for a second, expecting to see Carly and Marley stroll in behind her. But no, they were off enjoying themselves with Nick and… Sylvia. At least, that had been the topic of discussion before Rose had excused herself to go relax.

Rose tilted her head up again, gazing up at the cool lights that bathed her room in the charming shade of blue that she liked so much. “So those two are going to be my buddies, huh?” She had chosen Carly and Marley because she liked the two of them, and she wasn’t sure if Mary or Kim would choose them as their buddies. It hadn’t been the most pragmatic choice, but she didn’t want either of them to be kicked out of the harem.

And now, they wouldn’t be.

“Still, it’s not going to be the most pleasant thing in the world, having to share this bed with the two of them,” the blonde sighed, rolling over and snuggling up in the sheets. “For now, though, I should probably take a shower, and then-”

A flash of light on the nightstand beside her caught her eye.

“Oh? Oh!” She gasped, sitting up. Her eyes widened when she saw what had been left for her. “Oh, I didn’t even think of that! I’d totally forgotten!”

It was her bounty sheet for this week. With a whole new list of bounties and targets to meet. Slipping out of her relaxed and easygoing mindset, this was just what she needed to kick her brain back in gear and get started on coming up with a plan for what to do on her night with Nick. She was already trying to figure out an activity.

This Round’s Bounties:

Hold the Master’s Hand – 100 BP

Flash the Master Your Underwear in Public – 100 BP

Spank Another Contestant in Front of the Master (Minimum five times) – 300 BP

Spend the Entire Day in a Skimpy Cheerleader Uniform – 300 BP

Edge Yourself While Another Contestant Has Sex with the Master (Must go entire session without orgasming to count) – 500 BP

Bring Another Contestant to Orgasm in Front of the Master – 500 BP

Strip Another Contestant Naked in Front of the Master (Must remove at least two layers of clothing) – 500 BP

Spend One Full Day Naked (24 consecutive hours) – 1000 BP

Drink a Cup of the Master’s Semen– 1000 BP

Have Sex with the Master – 2000 BP

“Hmmm… I see…” Rose perused the list with a thoughtful eye. There was definitely a lot of interesting things to note from this list. The criteria had mostly changed, save for the obvious one- having sex with Nick. She hadn’t fulfilled that bounty last week, so it was still there to be claimed- interestingly, though, the other bounties that she’d failed to claim from the previous round had all been traded out for new ones.

It seemed like Dakota was flashing a pretty big sign to her: HAVE SEX WITH NICK THIS ROUND!

She hadn’t needed to bother, though- Rose had already been planning on doing that, after all.

As for drinking Nick’s semen, though… I don’t think I’m ready for something like that. Rose wasn’t averse to the idea of blowjobs, and while she wasn’t exactly fond of the taste of semen, she knew that with Nick it was something else entirely.

But an entire glass? She felt a little nauseous, imagining that stuff sliding down her throat. Who was she supposed to be, Gina? That was probably a bounty she wouldn’t be collecting this round. Along with the “going naked” one. Even though most girls here had gotten a good look at her body already, if not all of them, it had been embarrassing enough walking around in her underwear last week; going naked would be something else entirely.

The easy ones were as easy as expected, and the other cheap ones weren’t hard, either. But she had to be careful, and thoughtful- and honestly, how much BP did she really need this round, anyway? She had almost 8000 BP, and even if she was going to sink 5000 of that into her date, it wasn’t like she was itching to buy something.

“I suppose I’ll just take them as they come, then,” Rose echoed loudly, flopping back on the bed and staring up at the ceiling. She had a lot of thinking to do. “Right now, it’s probably better for me to come up with a date plan… and I know just who can help!”

She catapulted herself up out of bed and headed for the door, only to stop halfway there.

“…Right, I still smell like I came all over myself,” Rose admitted sheepishly, looking down at the dried wet spots in her leggings. “I almost forgot.”

“Going out in clothes covered with your own love juices” wasn’t one of her bounties, so Rose did an about-face and headed for the bathroom. A nice show to clear her head and relax herself was just what the doctor ordered, and she could go talk with Dawn when all was said and done.

Dawn had already been on the 24 hour date with Nick before; Rose could learn a lot from her.

Hopefully, the shorter woman could let her know what she had to expect.

She stripped out of her clothes and stepped into the shower, letting the water was over her and clear off the stink of the day.

I won… I really won a challenge! Just the thought of that brought a smile to her lips, even as she knew that things had really gone tits-up today. Maybe it was wrong to be so self-centered when there were other major issues going on, like Sylvia losing her position as host, but those were things that Rose couldn’t even begin to guess the fallout of.

She was a simple girl at heart, and was good for handling simple problems. Not dealing with whatever mess that this was.

While Rose was busy showering, Dani entered Kim’s room, feeling a little uncertain of herself.

“So… here I am,” she murmured, looking around for her roommate out of habit. Kim’s room, the White Room of the Western Tiger, was completely empty- and that was because Kim was off working in her job, as usual.

“So Kim and I are rooming together, that’s nice…” As Dani approached the bathroom and the closet door beside it, she spent some time getting used to her new room. The layouts of the bedrooms were pretty similar, but it still felt weird, being in a brand new room after all this time.

Dani sucked air into her lungs and walked over to the closet, opening it up to discover that all of her stuff was right where she’d left it in the other room. That was nice, at least. She grabbed a change of clothes, a modest long skirt and a rather tight, backless sweater, and headed towards the shower to clean off the filth and grime from the challenge.

She hated the competitions where she was **** to cum. They just made her feel so dirty all the time, like she was being **** to perform for the perverse whims of a sick audience- which was right on the money.

That just made it even worse.

Letting the water roll over her, Dani wanted to think that she was clean- but already she was feeling anxious about the upcoming round, and what her transformation would do to her.

No, don’t get anxious or worried! She urged herself, even though she knew it was futile. If she got too worked up, then the only one who would be able to talk her down and get her to calm herself would be Nick.

And right now, he was busy with Sylvia.

Sylvia.

Sylvia fucking River.

Dani hadn’t seen that coming, if she was being honest. She didn’t think anybody had. Who would have predicted that Dakota was the host the entire time, and had created Sylvia in order to fulfill her sick ambitions? That certainly hadn’t been on Dani’s bingo card. But there was no going back now. Dakota was in command, now, and Sylvia was the Auditionee.

…And Dani, honestly, wasn’t sure what she was supposed to make of that.

She loathed Sylvia. She’d spent so long loathing her, that it came as natural to her as breathing. And why shouldn’t she? This shower was a nice little reminder of all the things she hated about the blonde witch of a former host.

Dani always loved a good shower after a workout, to cool down and clean herself off. Now, though, she mostly preferred baths.

Because whenever she took a shower, she was reminded of just how much she’d changed over this last month and a half, and how she’d become someone she could barely recognize when she looked at herself in the mirror.

She ran the soap under her stomach, not feeling the rough scraping of her abs, but the soft paunch of just the hint of belly fat that gave her a bit more cushion thanks to her transformation. It was like that all over. Her soap skated over softness where once she’d had corded muscle, and as he wiped herself down she was **** to remember that.

And then there was the hair. For Dani, washing her hair used to be a simple matter. Just a quick scrub with shampoo and she was done; she could get it all washed out in under a minute!

It was a different story when it came to the long, silky curtain she had on her head now, though. Now, she had to settle for wiping herself down for what felt like hours.

No sense pushing through it like this, though, Dani thought, turning off the shower. She was as clean as she was going to get.

Then she realized something important.

“Oh, hey!” She said out loud, her eyes widening. “I don’t feel that anxious or worried anymore!”

She hadn’t expected that. But it meant a few things were true; she put the pieces together in her head, and considered things thoughtfully.

Dakota had informed her that, thanks to her new transformation, Nick would be the only one who could comfort her and ease the pain in her heart.

But… she’d just been very anxious, and had managed to calm herself down with a nice shower, no Nick involved.

“So it’s not like Nick’s responsible for regulating my mental state,” Dani reasoned, checking out her appearance in the mirror even if she didn’t fully like the body depicted in it. “I guess it’s the really serious stuff that he helps with, but something like being nervous or anxious… yeah, I can handle that on my own.”

That was a major relief. Having to go to Nick every time she stubbed her toe or dealt with her cramps would be the definition of a walking nightmare. No, thank you. She could do without that awkwardness alright.

A **** knock on the door shook Dani out of her reverie. She wasn’t sure if she’d heard something at first, though, because it was so soft. She strained her ear, trying to hear closer, and the knocking repeated- it was as if someone was tentatively trying to get her attention.

She quickly threw on a towel and went to see who it could be. Kim would have just been able to enter, and there was no way she’d taken a three-and-a-half hour shower; the asian girl was still at work. So that meant she was dealing with someone else entirely.

Could it be Carly? It was possible, right? Dani’s heart pounded in her chest with anticipation, even though she knew that it was probably just her wishful thinking.

Her eyes widened as she saw who it was.

“Morgana? What’s up?” Dani asked, confused. She tightened her grip on the hem of her white towel a little bit harder, to keep it from slipping up.

Morgana seemed sheepish and nervous, and she couldn’t look Dani in the eye. She was fidgeting, trying to get up the courage for something, and Dani had a pretty good idea what that “something” was.

She sighed.

“Are you here to apologize?” She asked, sounding a lot more tired than she felt.

Morgana jumped at little and her red eyes widened, proving that Dani’s assumption was right on the money. She swallowed her nerves and opened her mouth to speak, but no sound came out.

Dani sighed. “Look, Morgana, it’s fine,” she said, smiling. “I’m not upset about the challenge, don’t worry. It’s how the game is played.”

Morgana relaxed hearing that, and she nearly fell over. “Phew…” She sighed in relief. “You’re really not mad? Even though I made you cum in public?”

Oh, damn. That’s what her transformation does? That’s really something. Dani was already feeling a little tingly between the legs, and Morgana had only said a few words. It was a noticeable shift, even if it was a small one. She bit her lip thoughtfully.

Realizing that Morgana was still staring at her warily, she shook her head slightly to clear her glassy mind and calm down. She couldn’t just zone out in the middle of a conversation, even though Morgana had a silky, buttery voice that made her feel all sorts of ways downstairs.

“Sorry, um… I was thinking about something,” Dani sheepishly admitted. “But no, I’m not upset. You don’t need to apologize. Sure, I didn’t love it in the moment, but I’m not going to hold a grudge about something like that.”

Morgana sighed in relief again. She practically had to lean against the doorframe for support.

“Okay, that’s good,” Morgana nodded. “Again sorry I… err… yeah, you’re right,” she admitted with a sheepish smile. “I apologize a little too much for my own good.”

Dani nodded. “Well… uh, I don’t really know what else to say,” she admitted. “I need to finish drying off with my shower, but… after that, you want to hang out, or something?”

She wasn’t exactly close with the goth girl, given the sorts of situations that had arisen between the two of them last round. Things were still uncomfortable. But now, Morgana was a member of the harem, not the Auditonee. That meant they’d be seeing a lot more of each other.

And hearing a lot more of each other, too. Damn. Morgana really got Dani going with that voice of hers… she didn’t know how long she could go without pouncing the adorable goth.

Keep it in your pants, girl! She chastised herself.

...

Maybe this wasn’t the best idea after all, the two of them hanging out together like this.

“Really!? You really want to hang out with me!?” Morgana’s face lit up with joy, hearing Dani say that. Whelp, the cat was out of the bag now. Dani couldn’t go back on her suggestion, not after the cute girl made a face like that.

There was one thing she noticed though, as she calmed down from Morgana’s exclamation. “Hey, your voice!”

“My… my voice?” Morgana blushed, a hand shooting up to her throat. “Right… sorry, I didn’t… well, you know… it’s my transformation.”

She had been about to apologize for her voice, but that would be another instance of apologizing even though Dani said to cut it out. And she didn’t want to **** anything, for obvious reasons.

Dani just laughed. “No, it’s not about that,” she said, shaking her head. “Oh, I mean, yeah, listening to your voice… it shouldn’t get me going, but it totally does.”

Morgana turned red as a rose.

“…But that’s not what I meant. When you cried out just now? That little girlish squeal?”

“…Yeah?” Morgana asked cautiously.

“I don’t know, it was like a spell had been broken, or something,” Dani explained. “I didn’t feel that same arousing draw of your voice, the one I’m hearing right now…”

Dani wasn’t the smartest girl in the world, but even she could recognize something like that.

Morgana tapped her chin thoughtfully. “Huh… that’s really strange… I wonder why that is?” She thought curiously.

“Maybe it has something to do with the pitch, or something?” Dani guessed, shrugging. “I mean, I’m not a vocal expert or anything like that. But maybe it’s like Dakota said, your speaking voice only. Maybe if you cry out, or talk in that excited, high-paced voice, then it doesn’t have any effect?

It was difficult to hear the changes in your own voice. But for other people, it came easily. That’s how Dani could recognize that Morgana’s voice had shifted to a husky, arousing timbre- but only when she was talking.

If her voice raised up to too high of a pitch, it just returned to normal, without affecting anybody’s arousal at all (save for Gina, who probably would have gotten turned on by being yelled at).

“So all you have to do is just shout all the time!” Dani chirped with a big smile.

Morgana laughed awkwardly, and entered the room.

She was just glad that she and Dani could play around like this. The tomboy had seemed rather miffed by her all last week, so it was nice that they could get off on the right foot again.

“You like anime?” Morgana asked hopefully, and the big smile that spread across Dani’s lips was all the answer she needed.

Morgana smiled back.

While Dani and Morgana were bonding, Mary approached her own room. The Red Room of the Southern Bird.

She could already hear loud music blaring from the hallway.

Sighing, Mary opened the door, and was nearly knocked off her feet by the wall of pure noise slamming into her.

“Oh, we’re not going to take it! Oh no, we ain’t gonna take it!” Gina belted out, jumping up and down on the bed and whipping her arm over her head like she spinning an invisible lasso.

Mary’s eye twitched in frustration and she stormed over to turn the music off.

I knew I made a horrible mistake, she thought to herself, shaking her head. What was I thinking, agreeing to partner up with this mess of a woman for another round?!

But she was supposed to be patient, and free of judgment. So she didn’t lose her temper and drag Gina down from the bed and pummel her black and blue to get her to stop being such an annoyance of a roommate.

Even though she really, really wanted to.