House Rules

As breakfast went on, Stella asks for more details about your date with Cassie, which Cassie giddily tells her about; stopping just short of what we did when we got home. Although both you and Cassie coming out of the same room this morning tells Stella all she needs to know about that.

“How do we go about this by the way?” Stella asks both you and Cassie. She doesn’t need to get specific, you both understand she’s referring to the whole romantic relationship she now has to be a third wheel to. “I still want to hang out with my best friend.” she adds, while looking at Cassie.

“What? You don’t want to hang out with your dad?” you jokingly ask her.

“Have you ever known a college kid who wants to hang out with their dad?” Stella replies, joking back.

“I like hanging out with your dad.” Cassie interjects.

“Oh, so he is your Daddy now?” Stella quips, not missing a beat.

Surprisingly, this time, Cassie doesn’t back down. She takes her bowl of cereal and stands up from her chair and sits on your lap instead, then kisses you on the cheek.

“Would Daddy like some cereal?” she asks you seductively, and you look at Stella with a mischievous smile on your face.

“Yes, baby. Daddy would like some cereal.” and Cassie proceeds to feed you cereal from her bowl.

“HOUSE RULES! DISCUSSION! NOW!”

The three of you discussed how to go about this new complicated dynamic, and agreed on a few house rules. Stella made one rule non-negotiable: No PDA when all three of you are in the same room, which seemed very reasonable. Cassie did say in our defense that we only did that in front of her to tease her, to which Stella replied that that’s why it was non-negotiable.

Next, a ‘House Rule’ for morning runs and going to the gym with them. Stella mentioned that you needed to work off some of the weight from the pizza and takeout binge you’ve been on since the divorce, to which Cassie agreed. She tells you ‘it might help’, before giving you a wink and a naughty lip bite; which, thankfully, escaped Stella’s notice.

Stella then negotiated for a ‘House Rule’ she called ‘no sex until weekends’ which Cassie vehemently opposed, which made Stella laugh while you were a mix of both feeling alpha and embarrassed. It was negotiated to ‘no sex until bedtime’ but you had to oppose that since it would bother the neighbors, like it did last night. So it was finally agreed upon to be ‘no sex outside of afternoon hours’, which, as a ‘House Rule’ seemed **** since it made you and Cassie seem like horny rabbits that just want to fuck all the time. To be fair to Stella, it wasn’t outside the realm of possibility.

The final house rule didn’t seem necessary, but Stella wanted to make sure it would be one: She has to be able to hang out with either Cassie or you alone at least once a week. She said she didn’t want you or Cassie to forget she exists since you and her are now romantically and sexually together.

With the House Rules discussion out of the way, you ask Stella what she did last night and why she wasn’t home. She tells you she had dinner with Tanya, which surprised you and Cassie. “I didn’t know you guys were close” Cassie reacts.

“We aren’t. I mean, she’s been our neighbor for a few years now, so I’ve gotten to meet her in the hallway and stuff… but that’s about it.” she explains to Cassie. “So what made you think about having dinner with her?” you ask, a bit concerned that she was doing it for you.

“She actually dropped by to invite you over for dinner, Dad,” Stella admits. “Since you were out, she invited me instead since she made enough for two.” she continued. This information takes you by surprise. Did Tanya become sure of her feelings while you weren’t checking? Without hesitation, you take out your phone and check the Affection Multiplier to check Tanya’s profile.

- Ramirez, Antonia - Affection Score: 78 (+2).

Love Score: ??

Lust Score: 77 (+6)

-This person is confused about their own feelings-

You guess not much has changed there, and it seems she’s still confused. So why would she want to have dinner with you if not for a romantic reason? Does she want to gauge her feelings for you too? That high Lust Score could be the reason too though.

Before you could ponder on these thoughts any further, Stella breaks your concentration with her reaction, “Jesus! You get one new tidbit of info and you go straight to your magic app.” she says annoyed. “Okay, new house rule. Don’t check my scores ever again. I just realized how creepy that is.” Stella tells you.

“Oh. Uh. Yeah. Of course.” you reply to her, a bit taken aback by how strongly Stella feels about it. Then again, you didn’t really consider the possibility that now that they know you have the app, they might think it’s an invasion of privacy if you check what they feel about you constantly. You look at Cassie to see if she’d like to make the same request and she says she doesn’t mind if you check her scores.

“When was the last time you’ve checked my scores anyway?” Stella asks.

“Yesterday? I think. When you guys went out for a jog.” you answer her honestly.

“Okay. Good.” Stella said, sounding relieved for some reason.

“Why are you suddenly so secretive about what you feel about your Dad?” Cassie asks Stella.

“I’m not being secretive! I’m just returning him to the status quo. He never knew before, and he doesn’t need to know now.” Stella responds defensively, but you get her point. Maybe she just doesn’t want you to look at her like she’s a number. Highly unlikely that that would happen, she is your daughter after all, but I guess she just wants to make sure you don’t treat her any differently.

“Have you talked to him about that, by the way?” Stella asks Cassie.

“About Ms. Tanya? Yeah. We have.” Cassie replies. “And?” Stella asks impatiently. “And… he was apparently already planning to buy magic to make people think it’s okay for him to have multiple girlfriends.” Cassie replies, intending it to be a joke, but Stella doesn’t seem to take it that way.

“What!? Hol’ up. You can do that?” Stella asks, shocked at this information.

“I guess. I don’t know to what extent it works, since I haven’t bought it yet, but I did remember it saying that everyone accepts the one with the trait having more than one relationship.” You explain to her.

“Wow. No wonder you thought you were brainwashing us.” Stella reacts, to which Cassie just chuckles as that was her exact reaction last night.

“More importantly, it stops his would-be girlfriends from being jealous of each other.” Cassie points out.

Stella’s amazed at how powerful that one trait is and wonders why you haven’t bought it yet.

“Well, it’s kinda expensive. Plus, Cassie encouraged me to explore a possible relationship with Tanya anyway, so converting points to buy it now seems unnecessary.” you explain to Stella.

“So, that means you’re not against going on a second date with Tanya, right?” she asks you.

“No. With Cassie’s blessing, I wouldn’t mind going on a date with her to see if there’s any potential there.” You tell Stella.

“Good. She’s free Friday night. I’ll take Cassie on a girl’s night out. Sound good?”