Love Is In The Air

Everyone who didn’t stay back at the suite had mostly gone back to their respective rooms. To get a bit more rest, having stayed up pretty late into the night. After a few more hours of sleep, though, they were up shortly after noontime. Laura had been waiting for Merida to get up, as she couldn’t go anywhere without someone else right now.

“So what do you want to do today, Merida?”

“Honestly, I juist want tae kick back an' relax. I hae a' this energy frae bein' younger, but this week has been exhaustin'.”

“I mean, the spring made you bisexual, right? I could help you unwind if you want. You seemed interested in making that permanent, right? Must be a reason for it.”

“Richt enough, maistly I think it wuid be mair fun. Mark is definitely gonnae want tae hae sex wi' multiple o' us at the same time. It wuid be braw if I wis intae everyone involvit durin' thae times. But I’m gaun tae hae tae decline yer offer, Laura. Naethin' against ye, mind. Juist, I’m no' really leukin' for casual sex, an' we dinnae ken each ither a' that weel. Mind, I’m still a virgin, an' Aubrey is probably richt, thae o' us wha hae never had sex afore are probably gonnae get a bonus if the first time we dae it is wi' Mark. I dinnae think I’m gonnae be in danger o' elimination or onythin', but we dinnae ken hoo hard it will be tae get past 100 VP, an' even if someone else gets the wish, I still want tae cross that threshold. Mind that we will be gettin' a much better transformation if we dae. Sae sorry, but ma legs are definitely steekit until I hae sex wi' Mark.”

“Sure, but Sam is already past the halfway mark; it shouldn’t be that hard, if she could do it in a few days.”

“I wuidnae be sae sure, Laura. First, mind we can lose VP frae challenges, an' Cassandra said that the folk wha dae somethin' first get a bonus. I dinnae hae exact numbers for everythin', but I think I warkit oot whit the first-time bonus is. I think ye get dooble points for daein' it first. Tho' it’s a wee bit confusin' because if that is the case, I wuid expect Allie tae hae mair points than she does. Maybe mair than Sam. I think she is gettin' some sort o' penalty for bein' engagit, but dinnae ken whit, tho' I dinnae think she can claim first-time bonuses.”

“So wait, that would mean the first time sex bonus is still on the table, then right?”

“I think sae. Allie is the only ane that I think has dune that, unless whit Sam did last nicht counts, but I figured it wuid hae been worth a lot mair points. But ye’re missin' the point, sure, Sam is past haufway, but that wis wi' a lot o' thae bonuses I talkit aboot, an' she has dune a lot no' juist wi' Mark either. I dinnae ken exactly whit happent, but I ken you an' Flora did somethin' wi' her, an' I think Allie did too. The point I’m tryin' tae mak' is that there micht no' be that much left for her tae dae. I dinnae ken exactly whit she’s dune, but she’s been the maist active, an' she has only barely passt the haufway mark. Sae aye, if I hae some extra points in store by keepin' ma virginity intact, I’m gaun tae, an' honestly, we should advise a' the ithers tae as weel.”

“Crap… that’s a good point. I just assumed that being willing to do most sexual things would get me over the line.”

“An' it micht but it micht require ye tae dae some pure kinky crap, or maybe there is a way tae earn points frae actions mair than ance. But I aulso ken that ye hae tae actually complete the action tae get points. If ye or he disnae finish then it winnae count.”

Laura thought about that for a moment, but not having anything more to add changed topic. “Merida, are you going to use your quiver? Seems a waste not to give it a try.”

“I wasnae plannin' on it, naw. Seems pure risky tae me an' like I wuid be controllin' somebody. As it helps them seize a fate I want for them no' that they want for themsels. An' honestly I’d raither hae ane day whaur a muckle o' crap didnae happen.”

“That’s fair, I’m just bored and horny. Thought it might be interesting. I guess if you’re just going to relax, I’ll see if anyone else wants to do stuff. Since I’m sort of stuck here.”

“Sorry Laura. If ye want tae dae somethin' calm an' relaxin', maybe walk aroond the toun, maybe go tae the spa or somethin', I’ll dae that wi' ye, but I dinnae want tae get up tae capers.”

Merida lay back down while Laura messaged some of the others to see what they were up for.

Sam had gone back to the tower to rest as well. When she got up, she decided to see if she could make progress on or complete her goal for the week that she set during her date night. So she knocked on the door to the Sugar Garden. Allie eventually came and answered the door. “Um, hey, Sam.” She said a little sleepily, “What’s up?”

“Sorry if I woke you up. I just wanted to see if you might want to do something together.”

Allie’s ears perked up at that, and her tail started to twitch a little back and forth. “Uh, sure, anything in particular?”

“Umm, not really, I just wanted to spend time with you.” Sam bit her bottom lip slightly. “Look, Allie, I want to get to know you better, and well, I think you’re cute, okay. And so, if you’re not opposed, I’d li—” Allie grabbed Sam by the jacket and pulled her into a kiss.

“Good enough of an answer for you?”

Sam nodded. “Yeah, I would say so. I just didn’t realize you were interested back.”

“Well, I love your uniform, it's very sexy, but also, I feel like we really bonded. Maybe that’s my TFs, but honestly, I don’t care at this point. I feel the feelings, and I can’t get rid of the TFs, so either I can deny them and be miserable or embrace them and be happy. I’m going to choose the latter. I want you to be happy, for us to be happy. I don’t know about you, but I was happy for you when Mary accepted being your girlfriend. Look, come inside, we can talk, sure, Ellen is here too, but I think that it might be better to include her after what the two of us discussed the other day.”

“Okay, lead the way.” They went inside and went down to the bed at the bottom of the room.

Allie began to lightly shake Ellen awake. “Hey, sleepy head, up for a chat about the future?”

“Um… I guess, but can it be over coffee?” Ellen said as she yawned.

“I don’t mind if Sam doesn’t.”

“I’m good with coffee. Hey, ummm, Ellen, do you normally sleep in the nude?”

“Hmmm? Yes. Why?”

“You should stop doing that. Actually, oh… oh CRAP!” Sam realized something. “Hey, Allie? Do you remember Ellen having a corset on recently? Like at all?”

“No, I don’t…”

“Yeah, I haven’t had one on for a while. It doesn’t really fit the **** costume, and I don’t have many outfits that the corset goes with or that I can put a corset on underneath. Not really a problem though.”

“Allie, grab her leash so she doesn’t try to run away,” Sam ordered, to which Allie complied. Sam went up to the wardrobes in the room, opening Ellen’s wardrobe. “Let’s see… okay, here we go, a nice, simple under-bust corset.”

“Sam, I don’t get the issue. I'm okay like this.” Ellen said, but didn’t move.

“Hold still.” Sam wrapped the corset around Ellen’s waist and tightened it a lot. “Okay, that is about as tight as I can get it. Now, Ellen, tell me, do you still think it was fine not wearing a corset at all?”

“No, no, it really wasn’t.”

Allie had a look of horror on her face, “Ellen, the stuff we did yesterday, you didn’t just do that because you weren’t wearing a corset and wearing a **** outfit, right?”

Ellen thought for a moment. “I don’t know. I can say that if you asked me to do that stuff right now again, I probably wouldn’t, but not because I didn’t like it. Rather, I’m a bit tired, and honestly, I’m not really attracted to either of you. But I think if Mark asked me to, I would be up for doing that. Like I would put the **** outfit on, keep on this corset even if it does clash, and still do what he wanted. Allie, I can say I enjoyed yesterday, and you have nothing to feel bad about. Honestly, it was really hot, and one of my better sexual experiences.”

“That makes me feel a bit better, but not great. I feel like I took advantage of you.”

“OH, please stop that right now. It isn’t like I couldn’t consent. I could have put on a corset at any time. I just didn’t see the need to not really.”

“But you do now?” Sam wanted to confirm.

“Yeah, it’s a bit more apparent now. I definitely wouldn’t have been such a tease these past few days with one on.”

“Okay, I’d like to check something, Ellen.” Sam continued. “I’m going to take your corset all the way off.” Ellen allowed her to. “Okay, now tell me, if you woke up like this, would you feel like you needed to put a corset on? Like, do you think you would do it yourself?”

“Most days, yes, but I think sometimes no.” Sam put the corset back on her as tightly as she could.

“Okay, now tell me, were you just lying to us?”

“No, I really do get the importance of wearing it even without one on. But there are times that I would probably go without.”

Sam sighed with relief. “Okay, good because I really didn’t want to have to go by a corset with a lock on it so you couldn’t take it off.”

“Actually, we probably should get one of those.” Ellen corrected her. “Plus, it would be hot not being able to remove it.”

“Okay, well, I feel a lot better now.” Allie sighed with relief, “Ellen is just simply really submissive.”

“Yep.”

“Okay, Allie, you said you wanted to include Ellen in these discussions. I would say that Ellen should finish getting dressed, but I don’t know if this triggers her costume TF or not. If it doesn't, maybe you should stay like this for the discussion.”

“Pretty sure it doesn’t.”

Sam turned to Allie, “Fine then, what did you want to talk about, Allie?”

“Well… please keep in mind that I didn’t realize about the corset beforehand, so maybe it isn’t relevant, but I guess we should clear the air. So, I know you want to marry Mark eventually; we’ve already talked about that. It also seems like you would like to be with me. Would that be accurate? I’m not asking you to marry me or anything right now, just you know, see where things lead.”

“Yes, that would be an accurate assessment.” Sam nodded.

“Okay, well… Ellen, about what we talked about yesterday.” Allie hesitantly began.

“You mean where you educated me about my proper place in Mark’s Harem as his future wife and not his ****, and that I would be your **** wife instead, and you would change me to be bisexual and told me that I didn’t get a say in that?”

“Allie? You what!?” Sam exclaimed.

Allie cringed in shame, “Uh… yes… that is what I mean.”

“Allie, you can’t be serious!” Sam was feeling a lot of emotions at once, leading her to not really know how to respond.

“Well, I don’t really have an issue with any of that,” Ellen stated matter of factly.

Sam rubbed her temples like a migraine was coming on. “Okay, Ellen… Explain.” Sam cut Allie off before she started speaking. “No. Allie, you shut up. I want to hear from Ellen. And please be thorough in your explanation, start from the beginning.”

“Well, stuff happened. Okay, so let’s see, I was kidnapped by Cassandra, then—”

“Ellen, please take this seriously.”

“Okay, fine. So I wore the **** outfit to bed. Allie tugged on it in her sleep, so I moved to the floor. I woke up slightly before her, so I just sat kneeling beside the bed. She ordered me to strip out of it, afraid I was only doing stuff because of it. We talked, agreed to use the hookah, I selected the pods, I put the outfit back on, and Allie corrected my misconceptions about my place in the Harem. That I was to be Mark’s wife, not his sex ****, instead, I could be her **** wife, she told me that she was going to be generous and change it so I was bisexual so I would enjoy it more. Then we ate each other out. Overall, a rather good time.”

“And none of that bothers you?” Sam was simply bewildered.

“I mean, not really. I guess the **** sexuality thing, a little bit… but I also find it hot.”

“So that’s why I wanted to bring Ellen into the conversation.” Allie hesitantly added, “I’m glad she still feels that way because I still very much want that, but I also want you, Sam. And sorry, Ellen, if it is between Sam and you, I’m going with Sam, assuming you’re still interested. But I would like to do this with Ellen too.”

Sam rubbed her temples again. “Okay, let me make sure I understand what you’re proposing here, Allie. In your ideal ending after the show eventually, you, Ellen, and I, along with any of the others who want to be, are married to Mark.”

“Ideally, all of us.” Allie corrected.

“And you also want us to be together, as wives, and also have Ellen as your wife and ****? Does that sound correct?”

“Yeah, that pretty much sums up the ideal ending, but again, we aren’t anywhere near that, Sam. As for Ellen, at least part of that is because we can’t have Ellen both marry Mark and be treated as a sex **** by him. Because of my Shared Vows. But I do want her to be happy. If she needs someone to treat her like a ****, I would do that for her.”

“Okay, I’m not sure that your TF works like that exactly, but that is at least a reasonable interpretation. So just to be clear. You're not insisting on that type of relationship with Ellen, right?”

“No, I’m not. If that is a deal breaker to trying to be with you, I’ll help Ellen out some other way. Maybe try to set her up with Laura or one of the others.”

“Okay. Ellen question for you. If Allie and I end up as a couple eventually, would you accept me as well?”

“You mean as a Mistress? I mean, yeah, probably.”

“Okay, Allie, I am willing to tentatively give this a try. But I want to lay some ground rules. Okay?” Allie nodded, and Sam then turned to Ellen to also get her confirmation, which she got. “Great, first is this meant to be just us, Allie? Plus Mark and Ellen, of course, or are we free to do stuff with anyone in the Harem? Ellen, I want your input, too.”

Allie thought it over, “I’m not sure. Why? What would you prefer?” Sam turned to Ellen before responding

“I think having eight Mistresses would be complicated. I’m okay with two, but I wouldn’t want to serve all of you. But having sex, especially if ordered, would be fine, and I don’t care if you are with other people or not.”

“Okay, well, I’m sort of in agreement with Ellen. Relationships are going to be complicated in the harem, so we can come back and discuss if things change, but I think being romantically involved with everyone isn’t feasible. So, if we are going to date Allie. We aren’t dating anyone else besides Mark. I’m not sure if I want Ellen like that or not, but I’m not going to dismiss it out of hand. Now I’m also of the opinion that it is fine to do sexual things with other members of the harem. I'm going to be open about this. I've already done stuff directly with Laura and indirectly with Flora. Does that seem workable to you both?”

Ellen simply nodded her agreement, while Allie took a moment to consider. “I would be okay with that, but you are serious about being open to reconsidering the romantic bit if things radically change. Especially if that change is from a TF, right? Because I would be pretty upset if you broke up with me because you weren’t honest about that.”

“Yes, but I do expect that you aren’t going to actively try to be with others, without talking to me first.”

“Then yes. That is acceptable. So girlfriends?” Allie asked hopefully.

“I suppose it would be unreasonable of me to expect exclusivity romantically without it being official. So yes, I guess we need to talk to Mark about this as well.”

“I mean, we can tell him, but he already gave me permission to have whatever sort of relationship I wanted with anyone in the harem. What about Ellen? I mean, are we defining that? Ellen, your thoughts?”

“I think it is best for you two to figure things out first,” Ellen said, thinking things over. “I don’t want to commit to anything right now. Is that fine?”

Allie looked to Sam, “That’s fine, I don’t know how I feel about what you want anyway, Allie. Now... about that coffee.” Sam said with a mischievous grin.

Aubrey returned to her room with Chloe fast asleep. Okay, it’s fine to be nervous, that's normal, right? Everything I’ve read says that’s normal. Plus, you know I have to actually sleep in the same bed as my girlfriend. Whom I am very much attracted to right now. Aubrey sat down next to the sleeping Chloe and brushed her hair back from her face. I do really like the green, it’s so pretty. “Hey there, Chloe.”

Chloe woke up with a yawn. “Oh, you’re back. Take care of everything with Mary?”

“I told her the issue. She’s having Freya look for a solution in the store. But it hasn't been resolved yet.”

“Okay, well, as long as she knows. It probably isn’t the end of the world if your desire gets a little stronger. I mean, have you noticed wanting kids more yet?”

“Not really. But I will say that I don’t want the father not to be Mark, like it isn’t like I wouldn’t be happy at all if it were someone else, but I would be disappointed if it weren’t him. Now Mary had some advice for me, well, us, really.”

“Oh? Do tell.”

“She… she thought we should explore being intimate with one another while I’m bisexual, but not do anything below the waist, also to just try being around each other as girlfriends instead of friends, but not on a date, whatever that means. Oh, and to let you take the lead, because you wouldn’t do anything I didn’t want.”

“Well, I definitely want to kiss you, so we will be doing that for sure. I mean, we already know almost everything about each other, so there isn’t any getting to know one another to do. We could go to the spa.”

“Wouldn’t that be a date?”

“Was it a date when we went to the spa before? Not here but before the show.”

“Well, no.”

“Right, it is something people do together. The dynamic is a bit different in a relationship, but not every outing is a date. Maybe we hold hands or kiss, but otherwise it is just like any old spa day we would go on.”

“That… That sounds nice. Okay, let’s do that.”

“Sure. But first, come here.” Chloe gestured with a finger for Aubrey to come closer, and then began to kiss her, pushing her down on the bed. They did eventually go to the spa, but it did take some time to get there.

Laura: Hey, Flora, I was wondering if you wanted to do anything today. Merida just wants to chill in the room.

Flora: Sure. What did you have in mind?

Laura: Me coming over to your place and making you moan in delight.

Laura: Damnit, it works over text. While I do want to do that, I didn’t mean to send that.

Flora: I understand, Laura, it’s fine. I’m not saying yes to that, but I’m not saying no either. So yes, please come over, and we can see where the day takes us.

Laura: Slight problem with that plan, I can’t come over by myself, and Merida is already back asleep. Can you come get me?

Flora: Sure, be right over. Also checked with Sam. Apparently, she, Allie, and Ellen are doing stuff, so she won’t bother us if we want the room.

Laura was excited. Oh my god, this is great. Thank you, magic making, suggestive comments candy. Okay, now just don’t screw this up. Laura waited for Flora to come over, and shortly heard a knock. “Come in, I can’t come to the door.”

Flora entered quietly, not wanting to wake Merida. Then Laura and Flora exited the cottage. “Okay, so do you want to head to the tower still, or do something else?” Laura asked Flora.

“I mean, I would really like to find something to make amends with Ellen, to be honest. You don’t have any ideas, do you?”

“I mean, I would just do what you did on the first night, but with fewer items and then peg her.”

Flora just blankly stared at Laura and blinked a few times. “Flora, I’m sorry, I mean… Okay, I actually did mean that, but it wasn’t what you were looking for. Just you might have noticed, when I get asked a direct question, I blurt out some random sexual thing that I want to do. So maybe fewer questions for me and more I statements from you? Because it didn’t trigger at all when I spoke with Merida.”

“So, I really want to tease you about this, and I really wonder if my musings would trigger your thing.”

“Right like that.”

“One thing, Laura. What if I want to hear you tell me about what sexual things you would like to do with me?”

“Well, I would want to tie you to a bed and make you beg for mercy first.” Laura sighed. “You’re going to keep asking me questions, aren’t you?”

“Maybe…” Laura hadn’t really noticed that Flora was walking them back to the tower. She went inside to the bed. “Okay, sit down with me, Laura. Now, Laura, I want you to respond to my statements. I want to kiss you. I do not want to do more than that at this time. I might want to later, possibly later today, but again not at this time. I want you to answer my feelings.”

“I’m okay with that. I like you, Flora, and I love the lion ears and tail, to be honest. I think you’re really fierce looking in that armor. Also, thank you for being careful with your words.”

“Not a problem. I kind of just want to tease you about it really badly, though, and just ask you a bunch of questions. Now, before I kiss you, I have been thinking about something. See, right now, you can’t be more than five feet from someone. I was thinking it would be interesting to see the results of using my boon. I was also thinking it might be fun to use my boon and toy with you sexually. With your permission, of course.”

“Let’s not experiment with that right now. I’m not opposed to the idea later, though I just don’t want to find out what would happen between the two.”

“Good to know. Alright, I’m going to kiss you now. One thing, don’t squish me under your massive frame, please, if we start making out more vigorously. I don’t need to be on top, but you are a lot bigger, also my tail and ears are sort of sensitive, so watch them.” Flora then climbed onto Laura’s waist, straddling her and kissed her, and kept kissing her. Eventually, Laura repositioned them so they were lying down with Laura above the small lioness. A while later, they just lie next to each other holding hands. Talking about what their lives were like before the show.

Laura couldn’t help but think, Damn, I really like this. Maybe I can take things slow for once.