Are you seriously expecting anyone else?

Opening the door revealed it to be Brunhilde, what a surprise. She was once again wearing her dark leather biking outfit, probably because she came here on her bike that was now standing in the driveway of the house; his mom would probably need the car later tomorrow, but not before John would leave for school anyway so it would be okay. Looking her over, John could see that she looked really tired, but also relaxed now that she saw him.

"Sup?" was her simple greeting to him opening the door, "was a bit quicker than expected, hope that's not a problem." Checking the clock, he noticed that she was indeed earlier than ten minutes, not that he noticed or minded. "It's fine, didn't have anything important to do anyway, just some loot stuff. Come on in first, and take off your shoes."

An idea seemingly popped into Brun's mind as she got a devious grin on her face and quickly moved closer to John, so close in fact that he lost his balance and fell backward. The next moment he already had a booted foot with a deep profile running along his crotch while Brun looked at him from above, "Would you help me with that?" she asked in an innocent voice.

Slightly grumbling something about 'one giant tease', John did nonetheless help her with the heavy biker boots and freeing her feet from it. After doing the same to the other foot, he thought it was time for some payback.

Quickly standing up and moving close to her, he starts to pull the zipper of her leather jacket down. Seeing as how Brun didn't expect it to happen, she flushed slightly and looked surprised at John, who in turn only grinned, "You looked like you could use some help with the jacket, too. Hope I'm not coming on too strong?" he said while slightly pushing himself onto her to remove the jacket from her arms, pushing her body (and especially her boobs) into him and his erection while doing so.

That made Brun sharply exhale as she felt the new length of his cock on her, which she looked at startled after a second, "Whoa, what happened there? That is some serious upgrade." "Uhhhh... I guess I'll have to explain that one to you... let's go to my room first then I'll tell you," he said, a bit unsure, leading her quickly up the stairs. Looking back, he could see that Brunhilde now just wore her leather pants and a black t-shirt with a stylised bear or wolf shattering into pieces on it, probably some game or music reference John didn't get.

"Oooh, do you wanna have ten minutes before I enter so you can hide all the porn?" asked Brun while being led up the stairs. "As if that would deter you by now..." "Point taken, lead the way," and John did so, leading her up the stairs, taking a quick detour to check on his mother. Looking into her room he could see that she was asleep by now was lying in bed in an unrecognizable state of undress. He really hoped it was nothing serious or permanent. After checking on his mother he leads Brun straight to his room, closing the door behind both of them.

Brun took a look around his room after she entered, "You got some nice stuff here, I've got some of those statues as well," she said while looking especially at the Aloy and the A2 statue. "So, one: What's that box? Two: what happened to that dick of yours since we last met? That's nothing that should happen in a matter of three to four hours."

The Loot Chest was still standing exactly where he left it to stand in front of his bed. "Oh, right, the 'Loot Chest'. It's something that I got when I 'cleared' a dungeon just before you texted me. It says it contains some piece of equipment of varying rarity inside." "So wait, creatures inside the Barriers drop loot for you? And you can take that out of the Barriers with you? That is some serious power you got there... I thought that the gaming thing with the levels was nice and fine, but this is seriously powerful!" "Uuuuhh... I guess I figured that it was something extraordinary with how Gaia herself seems to give me stuff..." "Well, what are you waiting for? Open that box!" she quietly said, barely holding back her interest in its contents, yet keeping her voice down to not wake up John's mom.

That was something you didn't need to tell John twice as he took the box into his hands and ripped open the top of it. The inside seemed like it was disproportionally big, seeing as how the box easily fit onto his lap with space to spare and he could pull out a long cloak of some black material. The cloak looked very stylish, it was simple and pretty slim cut, but, looking at it, John was sure that it would fit him perfectly. The cloak had a big zipper on the front and big pull chords hanging from a wide hood. Casting Observe on it was the obvious second move:

Cloak of the Nobody
Uncommon
Cloak
+3 DEF
+2 AGI
30% less likely to be seen
50% less likely to be recognized while hood on

Well, that was nothing terrible but nothing really that great. But hey, it was an uncommon item that he could use. After telling Brunhilde about what the cloak could do, she shrugged with as much enthusiasm as John felt. Meanwhile, next to him, Brun had to slap her hand over her mouth not to burst out laughing. "What's so funny about that cloak?"

"Dude, do you know where that cloak is from?"

"It's from something? A game?" John asked

"That cloak is worn by villains called Nobodies. They are all... let's call them 'special' in their mindsets, either very kooky or just a special kind of crazy. Fits that you got that cloak. As you are seemingly kind of crazy and are a nobody for now. Also, I can feel the magic on that thing, that's some good stuff you got there, for a noob." Growling quietly at the low-key insult, John tackled Brun, or he at least tried to, as she reacted quickly and dodged his tackle in a way that made him land on the bed in the corner of the room. She then straddled him on the bed and pinned his hands onto the bed, "You wanna play this kind of game? You're still too much of a rookie to get the drop on me, but I can see that you got some serious upgrades since this afternoon. Explain, now." She didn't leave John's lap though, just bringing her head closer to his own while waiting for an explanation, making it hard for John to concentrate properly.

"W-well... After you left, I thought that I needed some kind of upgrade to not almost die again to the next best thing that I would encounter, and I knew that I could get skills and spells through specific books like I got a biology-related spell by holding a biology book. So I thought about picking up some RPG book to get a ton of spells. So I went to a game store called Treasure Cove to get one of those books." At that point, Brun interrupted him with big eyes.

"Wait, you know the Treasure Cove? So I'm guessing you know Mariana?" "Wait, you know her by her real name?" John asked incredulously. "Oh...uhm...yeah? She pays us to keep that shop of hers off the grid. We send a runesmith there every couple of days to refill those runes. In return, we get money and information from her. And also, I get some sweet discount in the shop which I regularly use. She's basically one of our only sources of income. I don't think I was supposed to tell you that... could you please keep that a secret?"

Well, that was a coincidence. "Does everyone in the Abyss know everyone else in this town?" "Not really, we know of the biggest organizations around the town and the country, but we don't know everyone. We only know Mariana because we picked her up when she decided to leave the Abyss and gave her shelter. But, enough sidetracking, I wanna hear the rest of your story!" she said while slightly bouncing on his lap and making him once again hard and it hard for him to concentrate.

"Riiiight... So, as I said, I went to the Treasure Cove to get an RPG book to get some new spells. Since I got the spell from a biology book that went into detail about its topic, I said to Mary that I would need a book that went overboard with its descriptions. Well, it seems like someone was anticipating that I would ask exactly that because a magically manipulated version of a Shadowrun rulebook was sent to her just a couple of days before. Mariana then took me prisoner, assuming I was an impostor. After explaining I wasn't and how I got my powers, once again, she believed me and let me go from the confinement, explaining the Abyss a bit to me. Then I took the book, got a message from Gaia about how strange things are happening in the town and then got the upgrade that made it able to look through other's eyes and the Bond skill."

"Ah, so that's how that happened. Then you got on a bus going home?" she asked, trying to accelerate the retelling a bit. "Not yet, the upgrade knocked me out, and when I woke up I trained with Mary for a bit before getting on the bus going home and trying to open a Barrier of my own," he thought better of it than to tell her about the nightmare/vision thing where he would seemingly kill her. He also omitted the thing about his mother, since that wasn't really important to Brun.

"Oooh~ trying yourself on some Barriers? How did that work out?" "Like shit, because apparently someone hijacked the barrier, made it hostile and filled it with mechanical spiders." Brunhilde had to laugh at that, "Oh man; you sure stumble from one shitshow to the next. But you apparently got out of that mostly fine. What happened in that Barrier?"

At that John had to sigh... should he tell her? They were kinda kicking it off really well, how would she react to knowing that he just fucked another girl? Well, honesty was the best way to go in this case probably. "Well... I fought the spiders, killed some of them, got saved last second by some guy falling from the sky talking like he knew me, only to then be assaulted by the new controller of the dungeon and then... I guess I got ****? That would describe it pretty well, I was bound to the wall with spider webs and blindfolded, and then she fucked me. Oh, and she gave me the growth to my dick, almost doubling the size."

"Oh yeah, I can feel that," she said while slowly grinding herself along his length, "Kinda wants me to go back on that whole 'No fucking tonight' thing... But okay, so you were **** to fuck a girl. How did you get out of that Barrier? Doesn't sound to me like she would help you out."

Now John had to chuckle (and slightly moan), "Actually, she did help me. Apparently, she was into roleplaying, and, because I looked like a gullible and at least partly decent guy, she decided to fuck me... Still don't really know about that... but yeah she then got me out of the webs and took off. Then I got my stuff and loot, left the Barrier and got your text. The end." At this point, John was also gyrating his hips into Brunhilde, making her also moan.

"That-oooh- sounds like a lot happening for your first day with powers. A lot of girls wanting to bone you and actually boning you and some sweet ass upgrades. I should really stick with you; there always seems to be something happening and it never gets boring. Especially with bonuses like this," and she took one of her hands from pinning him to the bed and started to rub the tip of his penis.

"You know, before I get too heated into things, I should probably tell you some things. First, I'm not looking for a relationship. I'm looking for someone to rely on, someone I can come to when I need some intimacy, someone to fuck around with, in both meanings of that saying, but I'm not looking for anything fixed like a closed relationship. I have enough on my schedule, and I don't want to cram a boyfriend in there too. This thing would be open, flexible and no bigger feelings than lust and companionship attached. You can keep fucking around, I can keep fucking around, but we can always call each other when one needs someone to hold him like I did today. Is that cool with you? I kind of had some problems with relationships, and I don't want something like that anymore..." Brun asked with a slightly heavy breath and an uncertain look in her eyes.

By now, John could barely think straight, he only had one thing in mind, how much he wanted to fuck that angel that was sitting on his lap. "Y-yeah... sure... fuuuuck... that's okay with me. I'm not sure if I would want anything permanent right now anyway since I'm still learning about this whole Abyss thing... But I would like to have you as a fuck buddy."

"Great, then let's do exactly that," and then she heatedly kissed him.