If I have to walk in on my roommate one more time, looking at me with those guilty eyes

Dani was looking forward to a nice, long rest after what had been an incredibly intense and wild day. Sex with Gina had been amazing. She’d only had sex with three women at this point, and they had all been very different experiences. Her intimacy with Joan had been wonderful, but clumsy. Carly was filled with energy and passion and easily took the lead, except when she let Dani have it, and the times they had sex were always mindblowing due to her experience.

Gina… she had been different. She was like someone trying to be tamed, a wild animal in many ways that Carly wasn’t. It hadn’t been better, it hadn’t been worse, it had just been different. And Dani was fine with that. Even if there were things that she wished had gone differently.

“Next time, I’m definitely not going to lose control and let her bait me like that,” Dani muttered to herself as she walked back to her room.

She paused as she realized what she’d just said.

“Wait… next time?”

Dani blushed. There wouldn’t be a next time… she was committed to Carly! And besides, she was pretty sure that Gina didn’t actually like women that way, she was just a pleasure-seeker. Dani… Dani craved the intimate connection she had with a lover, she wasn’t the kind of girl who just had sex with someone because it meant nothing!

…Except for the fact that she absolutely had done that today.

Not even Dani could fool herself into believing that there was something real between her and Gina, and she didn’t even want to. No, it had been readily apparent to all parties going in that the sex would be hot, sweaty, and completely meaningless. Amazing, yes, but she was committed to Carly, and Carly was committed to her.

And as sexy as Gina was, she was Gina. Out of every woman on this island, Gina was about as far down Dani’s list of potential romantic partners as it was possible, even if she got along with the punk girl alright under other circumstances.

…And even if Gina WAS pretty damn hot… Dani still remembered when Carly pulled off that punk ensemble, and it was… yeah.

Realizing she was letting her fantasies run away with her, Dani clapped her hands against her cheeks to try and drag herself back down to earth. She needed to focus!

“Long day,” she muttered. “Long ass day…”

The sooner she could take a nice, long bath, the better. Even if drying out her feathers afterwards would be a bitch and a half.

Dani sauntered into the Romance Suite and was greeted with a sight that made her brain stop working for a second.

“Oh! Dani, welcome back!” Vivian greeted her.

The heiress was standing in the middle of their room, buck naked, and acting like there was absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Dani blinked. She rubbed her eyes and took another look.

Yeah… …Nope. Still there, still naked. So I’m not just seeing things. Dani reached up and pinched her cheek. With her strength, it was quite the painful pinch. Not dreaming, either.

Vivian looked at Dani with a bemused expression that seemed laced with amusement. And something else, as well. Her cheeks were red, and her eyes were just the fairest bit glassy. There was a sheen on her milky white skin that made it appear as though she’d just stepped out of the shower, but given the state of her hair and the humidity of the room Dani guessed it was sweat.

It all added up to…

“Hey, the way you’re lookin’ at me, what, you think I’m some juicy ol’ steak?” Vivian laughed, strolling over to Dani with a seductive sway in her gait that drew Dani’s eyes to her hips out of reflext.

Dani swallowed back the saliva building up in her mouth and reminded herself not to start drooling over the other girl.

“Vivian… what the fuck?” She finally croaked out. Her eyes shot up to meet hers, the safest place for Dani to look. Thankfully after the wild sex she’d had with Gina a couple hours ago and the long dip in the hot springs to come down from it afterwards, she was pretty satisfied in that regard and could avoid ogling the heiress like a horny teenager.

“Sorry, uh… let’s just say, um… I’ve been getting some mixed signals, as it were,” Vivian said, wiping her forehead with a towel that Dani was only just noticing. Even from here she could tell it was soaked through, making it almost completely useless.

“Where’s… Octavia?” Dani looked around the room, relieved to have an excuse to take her eyes off of the other woman.

“Getting more towels.”

“Ah.”

Dani suspected that Octavia was going to take a nice, long time to get those towels, given the older woman’s nature.

Then a thought occurred to her.

“…Couldn’t you have asked a faerie to bring you some more?” She asked, raising her eyebrow.

“Coulda.”

Vivian’s blunt answer and the way she crossed her arms guardedly over her chest said a lot. Now that Dani had started to calm down and her brain wasn’t filled with thoughts of the naked model standing in the middle of her room, she detected a very familiar musk hanging in the tense air of the closed-off room.

Almost like…

Vivian narrowed her eyes when she saw Dani widen them. The tomboy’s terrible poker face meant that she instantly gave away the fact that she knew what Vivian had been up to, and why the heiress had sent away the attendant she clung to so possessively on such a tenuous request.

Dani’s cheeks reddened and she cleared her throat. “Yes, I suppose it’s best to not make things too easy for her,” she said lamely.

Vivian rolled her eyes. “Oh, don’t do that,” she said with a chuckle, flopping down on the loveseat. It was quite an alluring sight, the way she crossed one leg over the other, just barely hiding her nether regions from Dani’s eyes. “Don’t play along. We both know what I was up to, sparing my feelings like that is sweet, but honestly it’s even more embarrassing. Like I’m doing something wrong, you know?”

Dani’s eye twitched. She was doing something wrong, or at least a little naughty. There was a perfectly good bathroom not ten feet away, and a whole other side room filled with all sorts of tools she could use to take care of her problem. And instead of doing her business in either of those places, she’d chosen to-!

She paused before saying anything. Dani didn’t miss the way Vivian shook slightly. And judging from the temperature in the room, it wasn’t the cold.

“Go… go throw some clothes on,” she said, turning away from Vivian and crossing her arms over her chest. “That’s your whole thing, right? Fancy clothes?”

Vivian gave a laugh so different from all the others Dani had heard from her she couldn’t help but look back at the heiress. The expression on her face was hard to read. Dani could see guilt and shame, but also the exact reverse of that as well. And a strange amused sort of bitterness, like the resigned look of a liar caught in the middle of telling a whopper.

“Yeah, that’s a little easier said than done,” the heiress replied, shifting her legs. It was like she couldn’t get comfortable, even on the fancy furniture that filled their room. And that stuff was designed to be comfortable! “See, uh… I’m having a bit of trouble… down there.”

Dani blinked.

“…Incontinence?”

For the first time, Dani got to see a look of utter shock break the heiress’s perfect façade. Dani’s blunt guess blew through Vivian’s walls like a wrecking ball, completely throwing the other girl off as she struggled to think of a response.

Dani liked leaving Vivian disarmed like that. She was a lot cuter this way, like Rose when her schemes blew up her face and she got flustered.

“It’s not-! …That sort of problem,” Vivian fumed, her cheeks turning scarlet as she **** her smile back into place.

Yeah, Dani didn’t think it was. She had a pretty good idea what was actually making it hard for Vivian to wear clothes, and it was the same thing that was making it hard for her to sit down.

Dawn and Rose are in the Master’s Suite right now and are probably drowning in pleasure as we speak. Vivian’s transformation must be making her so sensitive that even just her pussy coming into contact with something else must be setting her off. Wow, so don’t envy that.

Dani approached her cautiously. Vivian sucked in air and tensed, staring up at Dani with a brief wariness in her eyes, like she didn’t know what to expect from the other girl.

But she didn’t need to worry about anything.

“Look, uh…” Dani scratched her cheek. “I don’t, um, really want to make a problem for you or anything, so it’s fine. If you want to, uh, ‘finish what you started’ I mean. I still haven’t taken my evening bath, so… while I’m doing that, you can… have the room to yourself?”

Dani still would have preferred that Vivian make use of the adjoining sex room, but what the hell. As long as she didn’t make too much of a mess, she could tolerate it.

Judging from the state Vivian was in and what she knew about Nick’s sexual stamina, though, this could end up being one long-ass bath.

Vivian looked gratefully up at Dani. Her smile was so sincere that it actually threw the tomboy off momentarily.

“Thank you, you really are a lifesaver,” Vivian said. “It hasn’t been this bad in a while…”

“No, trust me, I get it,” Dani said, shaking her head. “These transformations they can be a bit overwhelming. I’ve had my fair share of headaches involving them.”

Vivian nodded. “So I’ve heard.”

Dani smiled, glad they’d reached a kind of mutual understanding. “Look, uh… just try not to make too much of a mess, okay? It’s my room, too. And there’s a whole other side room, you know. For that sort of stuff.”

“What sort of stuff would that be?” Vivian asked, batting her eyelashes innocently.

Dani scowled. The moment was broken. “…Don’t get cute,” she grumbled, rolling her eyes. She grabbed up a change of clothes and headed into the bathroom, which ironically was a lot less humid.

Finally, she could breathe! Dani drew a hot bath and waited for her heart to stop trying to break out of her ribcage.

Geez, talk about embarrassing! Was this what my mom felt like when she walked in on me masturbating that one time?! Dani still cringed when she remembered that, but tonight had been about a thousand times worse.

…Okay, maybe not that bad. Maybe only seven or eight times worse.

Regardless, she really hoped the bathroom door was soundproof enough to mask whatever it was Vivian was getting up to in there. They really should have come up with some kind of signal Vivian could give to let Dani know she’d dealt with her issue and that it was okay to come out.

Considering Vivian, it was entirely possible that she might just forget Dani was even in there.

Sighing, Dani slowly stripped down from her clothes. Her feathers were a little ruffled, but it was nothing too bad.

She was just stepping out of her panties when she heard a knock on the door.

“Dani?”

“Awwuck!” Dani grunted, tripping over her own panties and flopping down on her face. Her breasts helped break her fall, which was a relief because she was about five inches short of bashing her brains open on the toilet bowl. As much as her built-in cushions spared the rest of her from serious harm, they still stung when they were landed on, obviously.

“…You okay in there?” Vivian asked after a pause. “You fall in or something?”

Dani sat up and grumbled, brushing her feathers straight. Not funny. “Vivian… do you need something? I thought you were… handling things.”

Silence from behind the bathroom door. Then…

“…I had a thought.”

Dani could hear the hesitation in her voice. It sounded like it didn’t belong there. Like a completely different person was using Vivian’s lips to talk.

“Really? You? That must have hurt.” Dani tried to break the tension with a very lame joke. It might have worked with someone else, but she and Vivian were still basically just roommates. They hadn’t established a rapport where jokes like that could land, making Dani feel like a moron instead.

Vivian still laughed though. That was nice of her. Even if it was a ****, kind of breathy laugh like the laugh you made when your uncle told a racist joke at Thanksgiving and you felt too uncomfortable to say anything.

Not exactly the response Dani would have liked.

“…What is it?” Dani asked, realizing she’d never get to take her bath if Vivian was still bugging her. She eyed the tub. About halfway full. She adjusted the temperature to keep from scalding herself while Vivian worked out her response.

“I spent the day with Carly and Marley,” she informed Dani. It sounded like a random change of the subject, but the fact that her hesitant tone remained told Dani this was all part of it.

“Oh yeah?” She casually replied, like it wasn’t a big deal.

“…They mentioned that you, um… have that bounty that you’re working on, is that right?”

Dani froze. She had adjusted the temperature from scalding hot to lukewarm, but for a moment the air around the tub was ice cold.

“…What about it?” She asked, tensing up.

“Well… this is a little unorthodox, I’ll admit, but… you have that bounty, and me, well, I’m having a bit of an issue tonight, so I was thinking that maybe… we could help each other out?”

…

A lot of people thought that Dani was an idiot. She couldn’t really blame them. While her grades had never been terrible, she’d been looking down the barrel of some pretty low-caliber colleges if not for that scholarship. And her tendency to boldly take a stand often blended with her tendency to look before she leapt in a way that more often than not blew up in her face.

But Dani wasn’t stupid. She wasn’t an idiot. She could actually be very smart when the situation called for it.

Usually.

Right now though, her brain was operating with the intelligence of a kindergartener as she struggled to process what Vivian had just suggested.

Is she seriously suggesting-?!

“…Dani?” Vivian’s voice ached with anxiety and doubt. “Dani, are you still there?”

Dani whirled around and flung the door open. She stood buck naked in front of the equally nude heiress, who stared at her in open-mouthed shock.

Vivian turned red. “H-hey, what are you doing? You’re naked!” She sputtered out, hastily covering her eyes. Then she stiffened up like she’d been zapped with electricity and her hands snapped to her sides. She pushed a shaky smile to her lips, trying to look playful and casual, but she’d already more than tipped her hand.

“Yeah, I’m naked,” Dani said. “You should be used to stuff like that, right?”

“Of course I am,” Vivian said. “How many models do you think I work with? I just wasn’t expecting it, you caught me by surprise.”

True enough. Dani could grant her that.

“You were serious then?” She asked, raising her eyebrow. “You really want to have sex with me?”

Best just to ask in a situation like this.

Vivian’s eyes widened like saucers and she raised her hands up. “Whoa, hey, who said anything about sex? Your transformation says you have to, um…”

“Bring five women to orgasm,” Dani interrupted her. “What exactly do you think ‘sex’ is?”

That shut the heiress up nicely. For once.

Dani sighed and scratched her head. “Vivian, just because you’re feeling horny, don’t do stuff like this, okay?”

“Huh?” Vivian looked warily at her. “You think I’m trying to…? No, no, that’s not it at all.” She shook her head. “I’m serious, Dani.”

“Really? Have you ever had sex with a woman before?” Dani asked, crossing her arms over her chest.

“Maybe I’ve been waiting to save my first time for someone special,” Vivian said, batting her eyelashes and flashing a toothy grin.

Dani looked at her with a smirk. “…Cute. Nah. What’s this really about?”

She really doubted Vivian needed her help. And the uncharacteristically clumsy performance from the heiress suggested something else was at play here.

Vivian’s **** smile lasted only a few seconds longer before she sighed and hung her head. “Okay… maybe there’s something else,” she begrudgingly admitted, scratching her cheek. “Look… Dani, when you walked in on me just now, that was really embarrassing. Humiliating, really.”

“Yeah, for me too!” Dani replied incredulously.

“…Right. Well, then I thought, um… if maybe you and I could… uh… get closer, well… that wouldn’t be so bad, would it?” Vivian played it off like it was no big deal. But Dani could see right through her.

For maybe the very first time.

“Vivian, we both know you don’t want to actually have sex with me. I think you’re trying to be nice to me by offering to help me out with my bounty, right?” Dani put voice to her driving assumption.

Vivian didn’t give it away. She was actually quite measured, regaining some of her usual inscrutability.

But she nodded.

“Saw right through me, huh?” She asked with the faintest tinge of remorse. She scratched her head. “I just thought we could help each other out, it doesn’t have to be that big of a thing…”

Dani raised her eyebrow. “Vivian, for me, sex is a little more than that,” she said. Not counting the casual sex she’d had with Gina earlier today… “If you think you need to do something wild and crazy so I’ll like you, it’s fine. We’re good. Appreciate the offer, I can take care of my bounty myself, okay?”

Dani suspected that being rebuffed like that would have made Vivian deflate like a lead balloon if she had been serious, even though the heiress would try to hide it.

Instead, she almost seemed to perk up, like she’d gained an extra inch or two. She smiled the most natural smile she’d smiled all night.

“I guess it was a little foolish of me, huh?” She admitted, scratching her cheek and laughing sheepishly. “Got a little carried away there…”

“Are you worried about being intimate with Nick?” Dani asked, wondering if that could be a possible motivation for this strangely out of character behavior.

Vivian replied with a laugh.

“I’m worried about everything and nothing,” she said cryptically. “But I appreciate you setting me straight like that. Thanks, Dani.”

Dani shrugged. “Don’t mention it. Can I take my bath now?”

Vivian batted her eyelashes. “And you’re sure you’re not interested in company?” She teased.

“Good night, Vivian.” Dani closed the door in the giggling fashionista’s face.