Hentai

You remember how into hentai they were at the store. You snap your fingers.

“Right,” you say. “I was going to show you that.”

You climb out of the tub before you realize that they’re staring at you. Suddenly embarrassed, you give them a look and hurry naked and dripping back to the room, grab your laptop and return. You set it up beside the tub and clamber back in. They gather around you, a cocoon of skin and warmth in the fragrant, bubbling water. You always had normal girlfriend fantasies or sometimes one-sama fantasies, not harem fantasies. This moment feels like harem reality.

“Oh, yeah,” Nancy says. “Watching porn. Friday night. Hashtag CCL life.”

“Getting footjobs,” Yuki adds.

“Not just porn,” Athena notes. “Cartoon porn.”

“Does that even count?” Nancy asks as you pull up a mirror site and find the OVA that you want.

“Just enjoy,” you say. “This is truly the pinnacle of entertainment.”

“Oh, fuck,” Yuki complains once the subtitles are up there. “We have to read it?”

“Aren’t you Japanese?” Nancy asks her.

“Bro,” Yuki says.

“It’s so nineties,” Athena says, delighted.

Yuki makes a face. “This girl can’t cum? I wouldn’t either if that was my boyfriend.”

“We’re not going to talk about why her hair is blue?” Nancy asks.

“It’s anime. Everyone’s hair is blue,” Athena says.

“It’s literally just her.”

Their attitudes change when things get steamy, which happens quickly in a thirty-minute OVA.

“Wait, so it’s her sister?” Nancy says uneasily.

“No, that’s—she just calls her that,” you assure her. “They aren’t related.”

“Weird. Kinky. I like it. So this is what you’re into,” she says, caressing your bottom under the water.

“Am I into a hot older girl who lives with me and we’re comfortable enough with each other that she crashes in on me masturbating, eats me out, and romantically fucks me with a strap?” you ask. “Yes. I could live with that.”

“That just sounds like CCL,” Athena notes.

“I do like the blonde’s confidence,” Yuki says approvingly. “Oh, she didn’t cum from that? I would have.”

“Same,” Nancy agrees.

“This is a little different from the cartoons I watched when I was a kid,” Athena says.

“It gets better,” you promise her. “There are three episodes.”

“We’re bingeing this shit,” Nancy replies. “This is better than Outlander. Gonna need more drinks.”

You can’t stay in the tub forever. You find yourself back on the bed with the girls, wrapped in fluffy hotel robes and still watching hentai. They die laughing as the three-episode series grows progressively more insane, culminating with the girls being chased through a house by possessed sex toys. The CCL girls love it. They laugh until they cry and spill their drinks.

Well, it is more humorous than sexy. But when you were younger you thought this stuff was pretty hot. You still like it. Of course… actual girls beside you are pretty distracting. Yuki’s not wearing a robe, just panties. Her ripped abs and puffy nipples are just… right there. Nancy’s robe is loose, giving some tantalizing boobage while Athena is done up properly with her hair wrapped in a towel. Her quiet dignity is arousing in its own way. You have never been happier.

“So this is where you got the rope stuff,” Yuki says to you.

“Um, kind of,” you reply. It was actually a manga that awakened your love of shibari, but it pops up in hentai pretty often.

“Pop quiz, Pledge,” Athena says to you.

“Huh?” you say.

“One day, when you’re in CCL and you have to initiate a sexy freshman… you’d probably use your ropes, right?” Athena asks you.

“Sure, maybe,” you say. “I never thought about it.”

“How would you do it? Like, what kind of knots would you do?” she asks, holding up a copy of the photobook.

Huh… it’s an unexpected question. Well, you know tons of knots and patterns. What would you do? They kind of fall into two categories. You take out your phone and look through some of your pinned shibari photos. You think that all shibari is beautiful, but some is more artistic while other patterns would be more embarrassing.

You think you understand Athena’s real question: if you could tie someone up however you wanted, what would you do?

Something to make them feel sexy?

Or something to make them feel exposed?