I come home in the morning, I go to bed feeling the same way

Nick didn’t know what he expected when he woke up that morning. But he definitely didn’t expect to wake up to a face full of Gina’s creamy breasts.

No wonder he’d had a lucid dream about being suffocated by a marshmallow monster. He’d thought it was because of all the animatronics that had been chasing him in Andyland, but no, the reason was more likely because of this.

It had been a while since he had woken up in bed alone with Gina. He couldn’t believe that he actually missed it.

He was back in the Master’s Suite. With Gina.

…Oh, and her knee was digging right into his appendix, which wasn’t a pleasant experience in the slightest.

He tried to pull away from her, but her grasp was tight. She refused to let him go, no matter how hard he struggled. Her arms were wrapped tightly around his head, and every attempt he made to pull himself free, she just clutched him even deeper to her chest.

“Giiieeeeeaaaaa…” he wheezed out, trying to get her attention. But Gina was one of those people who could sleep through a nuclear bomb. He could barely even see his lover’s face through all the breastmeat in his eyes, and it took everything he had to turn his head enough to actually get a clear picture of the situation.

…Yeah, unless he did something, there was a very real chance he might suffocate… or not.

Right, I can’t actually be harmed on the island. I almost forgot about that, Nick reminded himself, calming down and trying to come up with a plan to break free of Gina’s grasp. He was still having trouble breathing, but he didn’t need to WORRY about breathing, at least.

Then he felt something- or someone- tapping on the back of his shoulder. He couldn’t exactly turn his head to see who it was, but that was fine. He had a pretty good idea.

“Nick, are you okay in there?” Mary’s voice sounded like it was coming from miles away, as if Nick’s head was submerged deep underwater. Which wasn’t the worst comparison, if he was being totally honest. His ears were buried somewhere in Gina’s forearms.

“Mmmfffrrryyy,” he mumbled out, shaking his head. The movement made Gina shift, and she let out a slight moan.

So, while asleep, Gina could feel pleasure, even without Nick consciously wishing for it. That was nice to know. Or maybe it was because she was still affected by him surrendering his control over her body back to her? How long had it been since the two of them had actually made love that night?

He didn’t have the faintest idea. All he knew was that Mary had gone from poking him to giving his shoulder a firm shake.

“I don’t think that’s going to work,” he heard Holly’s voice. She sounded even farther away. “Is he even awake?”

“He’s mumbling,” Mary’s muffled reply to Holly’s question came. “So, yeah, I think he’s awake, at least. Even if he can’t really respond…”

“Oof, that sounds pretty rough. Okay, Nick, if you’re awake, pound on the pillow!”

Even with his ears muffled, Nick could still hear the amusement in his friend’s voice. He fought the urge to rolled his eyes in annoyance. But he didn’t let that shake him. He just sighed an exasperated sigh into Gina’s breasts, and reached down to grab her hips.

Then, once he had a good feeling of Gina’s body and where everything was, he gave her a swift smack on the butt.

Gina’s moan into his hair was highlighted by the way she dug her fingers into his scalp. And then, finally, blessedly, she let him go.

Nick jerked back, and gasped out. He took the first breath of air that wasn’t touched by Gina’s sweat, and found that he appreciated it so much more than he remembered. Not that inhaling plenty of Gina wasn’t pleasurable or anything, but, well…

He would really prefer not being stuck in that position.

“See? I told you he was awake,” Mary said. Now that Nick could actually see, he noticed that she had her hands on her hips, and was giving a look to Holly, who was smiling impishly from the foot of the bed. The two women were perched over him like vultures.

Nick’s heart took a few seconds to calm down.

“Sorry about that,” he apologized, climbing out of bed and leaving Gina to sleep in peace. “I didn’t mean to, um…”

“Why are you apologizing?” Mary asked him, giving him a critical look. “You didn’t do anything wrong, Nick.”

Nick blinked.

“…I really don’t know,” he said, shaking his head. “I guess… it’s just a natural response on my part, at this point.”

He scratched his head sheepishly and looked down at Gina’s slumbering figure.

“We knew what you were up to,” Holly giggled, skipping over to him and slapping him on the shoulder playfully. “After all, it wasn’t a secret the way you disappeared! It was pretty obvious to everyone,” she assured him. “Lots of sexy times, isn’t that right?”

Nick took another look at Gina. She seemed so peaceful and innocent there, flopped on the golden mattress with her mouth open and drool rolling down her lip, blissfully unaware of the rest of the world beyond her dreams.

“…Actually, no,” he confessed. Maybe it was violating Gina’s privacy a little by telling the two of them what happened between them both, but he was so proud of Gina it just came pouring out of him. “It was actually… really sweet and innocent, in fact.”

“Aww!” Mary’s face brightened when she heard that, and she pressed her fingers together. “That’s just lovely! You two made gentle, intimate love with one another, then!”

“Uh… Yeah, I guess you could say that,” Nick said, thinking back to what they got up to in the cabana together.

Intimate? Definitely.

…Gentle?

…Maybe that wasn’t the best term to describe that they’d done together.

“He’s hiding something,” Holly cackled gleefully. She wiggled her eyebrows. “I can see it all over his face, hehe.”

Nick gave Holly a look. Her hands snapped up to stand beside her head. “Whoa, hey, it’s totally fine,” she said quickly. “Nothing you need to be worried about, Nick! I think it’s sweet! …Sorry I was being a little bit of a gremlin.”

“Holly was worried about you yesterday,” Mary said.

Holly’s face turned red when Nick looked incredulously at her.

“…Worried?” He asked. “Why?”

She bit her lip. “It’s not… the way you’re making it out to be. I was just kind of concerned about the whole date you were going on with Gina.”

Her eyes drifted downwards and guilt flared across her expression. Nick immediately felt bad for her, even though he didn’t like the insinuation of her statements.

“Not because Gina was going to cause problems or anything, it’s just… Gina… she’s really sensitive. And I was afraid, well… that things might get uncomfortable if you guys were together alone, with no chance of her running away.”

Sometimes Nick forgot just how emotionally perceptive Holly could be. He looked at her in amazement as she stared mournfully into his eyes.

“…Yeah, I understand what you mean,” he said quietly, nodding. “But you didn’t need to worry.”

Nick gazed gratefully at Gina and thought about all the difficult troubles that the two of them had gone through together in the Master’s Suite. The date hadn’t gone at all the way he’d expected it to, but he wouldn’t trade it for anything.

“…It was a wonderful date,” he told her. “Nothing to worry about.”

He didn’t confirm Holly’s suspicions. That would definitely be violating Gina’s privacy. And even if Gina would have been fine with him telling, he didn’t want to spoil the relieved smile he saw on his lover’s cherubic face.

“I’m glad.” Holly reached up and wiped the tears from her eyes. “Wow, I-I’m not usually this emotional,” she said, beaming up at Nick. “I guess this must be the pregnancy hormones kicking in, huh?”

“Aww, Holly!” Mary cooed, beaming from ear to ear. “You’re so lucky! Getting to feel all that!” She reached out and patted her friend on the arm. “Holly, I’m so happy for you!”

“Thanks,” Holly giggled. “I’m happy for me, too.”

That got a laugh out of Mary and Nick both. Everyone was happy about the life that was growing inside of Holly, even though her body hadn’t started changing in a noticeable way yet. It would be a while before that happened- Mary was only now starting to show physical signs of her advancing pregnancy, and it had felt like a lifetime ago since Nick and Mary had first made love.

“…So, what about Gina, then?” Holly’s eyes flickered over to the slumbering punk girl. “Did you cum inside of her? Maybe make another baby momma?”

Nick shot her a harsh look. He was happy for Holly, but that happiness had limits, and Holly was pushing them.

“Holly…”

“Sorry, sorry, I should really know better,” Holly said, holding up her hands. “I didn’t mean to, uh… go too far.”

Mary patted her friend on the back. “It’s alright,” she said gently. “It’s a reasonable thing to be curious about, Holly.”

Nick wasn’t sure if that was true. Mary probably wasn’t the right person to be comforting Holly on this subject.

“No, I didn’t,” Nick said firmly. “She pulled off of me at the last second, and then- …Wait, what am I talking about!?”

His face started to burn as he realized he was telling his wife all about his intimate experience with another woman. What was he doing!?

“It’s okay to be honest about the two of you,” Mary said, patting him on the arm. She gave Nick a dewy smile. “I really won’t mind. I understand!”

Nick was glad to see her treasure their time together so much. He really was happy that she valued their relationship as much as he did.

“Couldn’t you have just taken advantage of her transformation, though, and made it so she wouldn’t get pregnant?” Holly pointed out. “You have complete control over her body, right?”

She recalled the text of Gina’s transformation from memory.

• Surrender Your Body: The most total act of submission that a submissive can give their partner is to surrender even control over their own body. With this transformation, the master will have complete control over Gina’s body. If he wants her to be turned on, then she will become sexually aroused. If he wants her to feel nervous and shy, then her heart will start pounding. Even her reproductive functions can be controlled at will. [NOTE: Of course, the master can temporarily relinquish his claim over any or all controls over her body, in which case they will return to their normal function until further notice.] (Submissive)

“See? It said ‘reproductive functions’,” Holly said, pulling up the screen and showing Nick exactly what it said. “So, you could have made it so she couldn’t conceive!”

“What a rude transformation,” Mary pouted, shaking her head. “To take the power of conceiving a child away from fate like that…”

Nick sighed. “Mary, come on.”

Sometimes, she could be a little too focused on having babies and getting the women in his life pregnant en masse. But he also knew that was the kind of person Mary was.

“I think you’re taking this a little too seriously,” Holly said, patting her friend on the shoulder. “You’re fine, Mary. But…”

“I know,” Mary said, shaking her head. Even she felt a little guilty about what she’d just said. “It must be the pregnancy hormones, I guess.”

Mary turned and looked at Gina. “So… what are you going to do? Do you think… she would actually want to…?”

She couldn’t help but wonder. Mary knew how much Gina cared about Nick- she’d spent a lot of proximity with her when the two women were roommates. But she honestly didn’t know whether or not Gina loved Nick enough to get pregnant.

That’s why she said it out loud. To put it out into the universe, and confront her husband with that reality, so he would have to think about the situation openly and critically.

Nick looked at Mary. He understood what she was driving at, he really did. And honestly… he didn’t know for sure.

This wasn’t an easy situation for anyone involved.

“…That’s up to Gina,” he said, looking at the sleeping girl again. “If she wants to have a baby with me, that’s her choice. But… I don’t know if she’s ready for it, if I’m being perfectly honest. And… I don’t know if I’m ready for it, either. With her, I mean.”

Mary and Holly were special to him. It made him feel guilty to be playing favorites with the women in his life, but while he had love in his heart for all the girls in his harem, to some extent or another, he knew that love differed from girl to girl.

Even if Gina was at a spot in her life where she was ready to have children (which wouldn’t be for a LONG time) was he ready to have children with her?

Honestly, he couldn’t say for sure.

“…I haven’t said anything about this, because… I thought that it wasn’t my place,” Mary said quietly. “But, Nick… I think… I think you really need to take a moment and give it some serious thought. Okay? Having babies.”

Holly looked at Mary, astounded. She was saying something so rational and pragmatic that it left the sex maniac stupefied.

MARY was talking about being responsible when it came to having children?

MARY?

…MARY!?

“Mary…” Nick looked at his wife, almost as surprised as Holly. But Mary’s gaze was unyielding and she furrowed her brow, pinching her lips together tightly and looking at Nick without a shred of hesitation in her gaze.

“I’m not talking about just being ready to have children with everyone,” Mary said firmly. In her mind, the most wonderful part about having sex was conceiving a child together and bringing a new life into the world. She had made allowances for the other girls, because she knew that their values differed and that it wasn’t right for her to push her own beliefs onto them, but a part of her still felt like it was important to value having children when it came to sex, or, at the very least, keeping it in mind that children were an important part of it.

“Last night… err, I mean, the night before last… when you were with Morgana and Carly and Augmented Synthetic Humanoid Assassin… when you almost lost control again… I realized that… we can’t just keep having close calls like this,” Mary said somberly. She looked down, feeling like she was betraying her own heart by telling her husband this.

Nick didn’t know what to say. “Mary, I know I need to be more careful-”

She snapped her head up and shook it quickly. The fierce look in her gaze froze her husband’s voice in his mouth.

“No, this isn’t about being careful,” she said firmly. Her gaze was adamant. “This is about… so much more than that.”

She bit her lip.

“Nick… are you willing to commit to having children with all the women in your harem?” Mary asked. She reached out and took his hand in hers.

Her question shook him to the core.

“I… that’s…” Nick felt kind of numb. He turned towards Gina again, but Mary caught his cheek with her other hand and turned his gaze back to hers. Her expression was firm.

“Don’t look at Gina, look at me,” she said, narrowing her eyes. “This is important, Nick, and we both know that… don’t we?”

“…Yeah,” Nick said, realizing what Mary was asking him. “You’re right, Mary. This… this is important,” he agreed.

“What? What’s important?” For once, Holly was lost. She knew that something serious and weighty was going down, but the specifics eluded her. “Mary? Nick?”

“Nick, you’re in a relationship with multiple women,” Mary pointed out quietly. “That’s a very complicated situation, you know. I don’t think that any of them are ready for kids yet… …Maybe Rose is… but… keep in mind, that you’re going to maybe be… their only chance.”

Mary wasn’t wrong. If Nick was going to commit to being in a relationship with all the women in his harem, with the exception of Dani, who didn’t really count, then that meant if any of the other girls wanted to have children, he would be involved in that process.

“You’re right, Mary,” he said again. “I need to think seriously about this. If… if I’m not ready to have children with someone who wants children, then… that’s a serious issue for the relationship that we need to think about.”

It was fine the other way. If one or more of the girls didn’t want to have children, then he would be fine with that. But…

“I see… I didn’t even think of that,” Holly said, looking down. Bitter guilt flashed across her face, which made Nick feel even worse. He didn’t intend for this to be something that would put stress or discomfort on someone he cared about.

“I need to think about what I want my relationship with each girl to be,” Nick said, feeling the weight of his own words. It was a heavy burden to bear. “Unfortunately, it’s complicated, because I don’t know all of them well enough yet-”

“Nick, you don’t need to make a decision right now,” Mary said quickly, shaking her head. “That-that isn’t what I’m saying. Just… that you need to think about it carefully. Okay?”

If he didn’t, then… this might be a big problem. For all of them.

“I know,” Nick agreed. “Moving forward, I’m going to be more aware of my responsibilities, and I’ll try my best to figure out how to approach this.”

It was a delicate situation, and he wasn’t sure he was totally equipped to handle it right now. But he was happy Mary had drawn attention to it. Now, he could prepare himself for what was happening, and he was aware that he’d need to have the conversation with the girls in his harem when the moment arose.

All thanks to Mary.

Nick was suddenly incredibly aware of his state of undress. They had just had this incredibly important conversation while he was standing buck naked in the Master’s Suite.

His face burned and he quickly pulled away from the two girls.

“I, uh… should probably go get dressed,” he said sheepishly, rushing over to the closet and getting a change of clothes before scurrying into the bathroom.

He appreciated the isolation. It would give him some time to unwind and think on his own.