Fitting in (Part 2).

“But really, Alice has a point, Fern,” Grace told her. “We want you to feel welcome. It’s not like you’re applying for a job and need to prove yourself or anything. If the way we act is too weird, we can tone it down.”

Again, Fern shook her head. “It’s fine, don’t worry about me. I’m… actually really happy that you can act like normal around me. I’m the one… feeling really stiff still.”

“Of course you are,” Diana said. “Oliver’s been your boyfriend for less than a week, you’re in his house surrounded by his friends and his other girlfriends. Honestly, if you and Oliver switched positions, I fear our man would’ve passed out already.”

“Absolutely,” I admitted.

Fern giggled. “I guess.”

“Just know that we’re not judging. Oliver is as much your boyfriend as he’s ours, so don’t think you need to hold back. In fact…” Alice looked back at the pool. It was an indoor pool with glass walls. Steam from the heat inside had made the glass foggy. Everyone inside seemed to be inside the pool, too, meaning… no one was watching. Alice smirked, stood behind Fern and gently pushed her towards me.

“Ah!” Fern took two stumbling steps towards me.

It didn’t take a genius to understand what Alice’s intent was, and with the way I was feeling, I was maybe a little too happy to play along. I wrapped an arm around Fern’s waist, pulled her closer and kissed her hard on the lips with a hand on her cheek.

Fern tensed up from the shock, but she quickly melted against me, putting her arms on my shoulder and kissing me back. In fact, she was the one to add her tongue to the kiss first, and tasting her again made me tighten my hold around her. It was short but intense, and we both broke the kiss with a faint gasp.

Fern glanced at Grace, Alice and Diana with a nervous smile. “Is this really okay?”

“Of course!” Alice said.

“It’s not just okay, but encouraged. You like it, he likes it, we like it,” Grace said. “Wins all around.”

“Of course…” Diana began, stepping up, “that’s all depending on one thing.”

Fern swallowed again, this time nervously. “W-Which is…?”

“If you’re okay with us doing the same.”

Diana pulled me towards her and initiated the kiss herself. Not only that, she went even further, grabbing my hand and pushing it against her boob, encouraging me to squeeze it like the horny monster I’ve become. The kiss was also even more intense than the one I’d just shared with Fern. Diana opened her mouth wide, devouring me and rolling her tongue around mine, all while I groped her boob, feeling her nipple harden against my palm. Fuck, it was so good that the thing that stopped us wasn’t our self-restrain, but…

“Ahn!” a surprising, highly erotic moan right next to us.

Diana and I pulled away and turned to look at Grace. Her cheeks were red, her thighs pressed together and she was hugging herself with her arms below her chest.

“Oh wow… Did you just…?” Alice smirked mercilessly.

“...Yeah,” Grace admitted, grinning licking her lips. “God, why am I like this? Ahaha!”

Fern looked at her with eyes wide open and a slowly forming grin. “Seriously?”

“I told you I like to watch,” Grace said without a speck of shame, slowly collecting herself with deep breaths. “That, and the fact that our friends are close by…” She shuddered. “Ugh, I love it.”

“Freak,” Alice teased, hugging Grace from behind.

“And this is the only place in the world where I can openly be one.”

Fern giggled. “And here I was worried I was the weird one.”

“Oh, you are,” Diana told her. “But so are we.”

“How did watching them feel?” Alice asked Fern.

“...” Fern swallowed hard, glanced behind her to make sure no one else was listening, and smirked at us. “It made me hornier…”

“Yeah, she’s one of us. Welcome to the club,” Diana said.

“I just know my theory is right,” Alice said.

“I hope it is,” Grace said.

I swallowed a groan of pent up lust and turned to the grill. Honestly, I didn’t mind this kind of edging and fooling around. Actually, scratch that. Not only do I not mind, I like it, just… not when there’s other people around and I have to worry about not making them uncomfortable.

Yes, we could use the Normality runes, I suppose, but that still feels disrespectful to our guests. Yes, this kind of stuff matters to me, leave me alone.

The meat would be ready soon, so I asked Diana to tell the others to start getting out of the pool.

“We better move inside the house, too,” Alice said. “Or they all may catch a cold from the temperature change.”

I nodded.

Diana came back looking, puzzled.

“What is it?” Fern asked her.

“So… It’s not a big deal or anything,” Diana began. “But… the couples in there are acting a little frisky. I didn’t expect that.”

“Huh?” Fern, Grace, Alice and I exclaimed at the same time.

“Yeah. Kevin and Lena were being very playful and touchy in the pool, Alex and Lina were sharing kisses and Thomas and Maria were just talking, only very, very close to each other. Also, Noelle forgot to get a towel.”

“I’ll go get it,” Alice said. “But… Yeah, that is kind of surprising. I didn’t expect it from them.”

“It’s fine, isn’t it?” I said. “Maybe it’s that Frey’s ideologies are getting to me, but I don’t mind when couples get intimate. Makes me kind of happy, actually.”

“Yes, I’ve seen you smiling when looking at couples at the bar,” Diana said, smiling at me.

“If you don’t mind, neither do I,” Grace said. “I just hope Mark didn’t feel awkward being the only one without his girl.”

Yeah, that too.

After a while, as people were drying themselves by the pool, Thomas came out and approached me while I was alone, his towel over his shoulders.

“Hey, Oliver? I thought I should tell you something.”

“Hm?”

“Um… I don’t know how to put it because I really don’t understand how this… supernatural stuff works. Honestly, I forget it exists most of the time.” I frowned, but didn’t interrupt. “What I’m trying to say is… Things felt a little strange there in the pool.”

“Strange? How so?”

“Um… it was like… Well, basically I was getting aroused.”

“Couldn’t it just be because of Maria and all the other girls in bikinis?”

“I thought so too, but it happened to Maria, too, though I don’t think she noticed it happening. I think the same happened to Lena, Kevin, Alex and his wife. I don’t think they noticed, but they were being really touchy with each other. Um… So were Maria and I. Sorry,” he said with a small grimace.

I shook my head. “Relax, I don’t mind. Though… I am a little worried. You feeling alright? What about Maria?”

Thomas sighed. “I feel great, honestly. So does Maria. I admit, we had to restrain ourselves. It was tempting to… escalate things.”

“Did you notice if Mila, Sarah and Noelle were acting different?” I asked him.

“Actually, it was noticeable that they didn’t. Mark seemed fine, too,” he said. “When they saw us couples… getting intimate, they just let us be and started talking among themselves. They seemed fine.”

Odd. Very odd. Odd that it happened, odd that Thomas was the only one to notice, odd that it only happened to some. Could my powers be getting out of control or something?

Frey and I would need to have another chat. I also needed to make sure everyone was feeling okay.

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