Later: save up for the others.

As I felt myself reaching my limit, I regretfully pushed Aaron's head up and off my wet dick. He looked at me with concern. "Something wrong?"

"No," I said, catching my breath. "I was just about to cum."

"Great!" he laughed, reaching out to pump my dick to get me over the edge. He managed two pumps before I slapped him away.

"No, I want to wait - just in case we have a repeat of last night." I grinned, reaching for my clothes. "But I can get you off if you want."

"Nah, you're right," Aaron said. His own cock had gone semi-limp, but as I reached out to stroke it he neatly shimmied out of the way. "Let's not get too carried away." He slipped on his underwear again, before bending down and giving me one last deep kiss. I could taste my cock on his tongue, and the taste drove me so wild I nearly pulled him in to start making out again. Somehow, I exercised a little self-control, and sheepishly pulled on my sweats and headed back to my room. I had no lectures today, but there was prep to be done for the following day's seminars, so I started picking through case files and precedent documents.

I thought there was no way I'd be able to focus, given everything that had happened, but I managed to get at least a couple of hours work done before there was a knock on the door. "Come in," I called, with a little confusion. None of my housemates had ever knocked on my door before, even to borrow a charger or ask if I wanted a takeaway - they would use the group chat we had set up on our first week. But as the door creaked open, there was Max, shyly peeking around the frame.

"Hey, pal," I said. I don't know why I said pal - maybe the North was rubbing off on me.

"Oh, hey!" he said with some surprise, as though he hadn't expected me to be in my own room. "I was just chatting with Aaron..."

"Were you now?" I waggled my eyebrows.

"Yeah - he told me you two were fooling around in the living room, but you didn't want to finish til later."

I didn't say anything - I just nodded.

"Well," he said, taking a breath, "I just came down to say that I'm not sure that we should do anything later."

"Oh." I said. In all the excitement of my morning with Aaron, I hadn't expected Max to want to call it off. "Why not? I mean, of course, but...why not?"

"Well, it's not that I didn't have fun last night. I did, maybe too much. I've been doing some thinking, and I just don't want things to get too messy between the four of us."

"Messy?" I said, still trying to process this. If Max was out, the dream of a fuck-everyone-whenever flat was pretty dead, even if Aaron and Thomas were still enthusiastic.

"Listen, I want to get into a relationship some day, with the right guy. And if he finds out that I've been fucking my flatmates regularly, that might not reflect too well on me."

I nodded. "So, you're saving yourself for The One."

"No!" Max said. He was still standing in the doorway. "I still might hook up with some people. But if those people are my flatmates, and it's happening regularly... it's different."

"Is it?" I asked. "I mean, it's your decision who you fuck and who you don't, but..." A thought occurred to me mid-sentence. "Is this about me?"

"What?"

"I'm sorry if you felt pressured yesterday to... do the thing we did," Aaron's shyness had infected me! "But if what you're talking about is that you want to keep fucking one or two of the others, and not me... well, I can't blame you for being choosy. And I'll understand - we can figure out a way to do that, if that's what you want."

Finally, Max came into the room, closing the distance between us. "Jacob," he said, "that's not it at all. I've always thought you were kind of cute, but after seeing you last night... I would really like to have sex with you. All of you. But I just don't think it's a good idea in the long term."

I nodded. "I understand, man." He started to say something else, maybe an apology, but I interrupted. "It's really okay. You don't need to explain yourself to me, or anyone."

He nodded back. "And if you three want to keep doing your thing, then that's okay. Just, maybe not in the living room?"

I blushed, and Max smirked. "Okay," I said, and Max closed the door.