In my love (all over, all over) from your head down to your toes

Dawn went pale as she looked at the description of her newly-upgraded transformation. Even though she knew she had read it perfectly, she read it again, just to be sure.

• Like Catnip: In the wild, animals are drawn to one another through pheromones, and now Dawn will be as well. She’ll develop an attraction to the musk of her master, as well as the sexual aroma of the other contestants. While these feelings are manageable at first, it will slowly grow the longer she’s in proximity with the scent. UPGRADE: Pheromones are a two-way street. Now Dawn won’t just be aroused by the musk of her master, but will begin to release her own pheromones as well. The more time she spends in proximity to the master’s scent, the more pheromones she will release. This will have an effect on other women around her, causing them to respond to Dawn’s pheromones the same way Dawn responds to the master’s. (Animal Lover)

…Yup. It still said exactly what she thought it said. Dawn shook her head in numb disbelief. “That… I mean…”

She raised her head and her ears drooped. She looked up at Nick, who was quite surprised himself. But they weren’t the only people reading the description of the transformation. Dakota made sure to broadcast it nice and big to everyone by summoning a screen in front of the movie theater.

“Well, isn’t that just lovely, hmm?” She laughed, pressing the tips of her fingers together and smiling a serene smile. She tilted her head to the side. “Congratulations on your new upgrade, Dawn! You’ve got a full 24 hours to enjoy it!”

Dawn’s eyes widened. “B-but-! I didn’t expect-!” She looked frantically at the other girls, before focusing her attention on Dakota. “Dakota, this transformation-! Does that mean-!?”

“Yes it does!” Dakota could see Dawn was having some difficulty fully completing her sentences, so she was happy to do it for her. “Before, you would be very sensitive to the pheromones being given off by other people. That could be your fellow contestants, and most definitely Nick. And now, you’ll be giving off your own pheromones as well! Now, the more time you spend around Nick, the more aroused you’ll become, and other women around you will pick up on that arousal and get turned on themselves! So as long as you’re in the master’s presence for an extended period of time, you’ll essentially serve as a transmitter for arousal! Patient zero, if you would.”

She batted her eyelashes at the stunned cat girl. “I think that should make for quite a pleasant experience, don’t you?” She crooned.

Dawn did not think so, no.

“Look, Dawn, it’s not a big deal,” Nick said, taking a step towards her. He could see Dawn was freaking out a little over this, and he wanted to soothe her before she lost her composure completely. “You wanted me to pick something and I did. I thought it would be good to experiment with. And you’re only going to be stuck with it for the day, right?”

“R-right…” Dawn relaxed a hair, but her tail continued to dance behind her. She was still having trouble keeping that under control. “Right.”

“Unless you want to make it permanent!” Sylvia hopped into the conversation with an excited smile on her face. “You can always buy a permanent upgrade!”

Dawn’s eyes widened like saucers and she looked at Sylvia, her mouth twisting into a shocked “O” of disbelief.

“Let’s wait and see how this works out before we make any big decisions, okay?” Nick tried to intercede, before Sylvia could freak her out even more.

Sylvia opened her mouth to say something, but then closed it, deciding otherwise. She shrugged and took another look at Dawn, who was still kind of freaking out a little.

While Dawn **** herself to stay composed and rational about all this, Rose seized the opportunity and confronted Dakota with her own concerns.

“So does this mean that if the three of us go up to the Master’s Suite tonight and start doing things with Nick, that Dawn will become aroused by her transformation, and that will affect me as well?” Rose asked, frowning.

Dakota looked at Rose and her eyes widened. “My word! And here everyone thinks you’re an idiot who can’t read the room, Rose!” She said with a gasp, covering her mouth. “Yes, that’s very perceptive of you, well done!”

Rose’s eye twitched in irritation and she glared at Dakota. Dakota just smirked back at her.

“…Fine, whatever,” Rose muttered, shaking her head. “Whatever…”

Letting out a long sigh, the blonde scratched her cheek. “Who knows, maybe it could even be fun?” She pointed out, trying to make the best of things. She winked at Nick. “You said you enjoyed the hot sex that ensued from Dawn completely losing her composure, right?”

Nick blushed and nodded sheepishly. “It was… really intense…” he mumbled.

Rose curled up her lips into an amused smile. One that she ****, in order to hide her doubts and concerns. “Well… that sounds like a treat.”

Nick appreciated how hard she was trying, he really did. And her lighthearted attempt to play down the difficulties of this situation was just what Dawn needed to finally come to grips with what was happening. She took a few deep breaths, composed herself, and adjusted her glasses.

“Okay,” she said finally, looking around. “I think I can handle this. All I’ve got to do is keep myself from losing my cool and getting too turned on. That’s fine. I’m a rational person. And while I may indulge on occasion, I know better than to let my hormones get the better of me.”

“You’re really trying to **** this down, aren’t you?” Dakota asked, amused. Her golden eyes twinkled. “Oh, that’s just perfect!”

“Dawn, it’s okay,” Morgana said, approaching her friend. She knew better than anyone how hard it was to deal with a transformation that caused arousal just by being around people. “It can be kind of hard at first, but if you just keep your distance…”

“Wait,” Dawn said quickly, holding up her hand. She looked warily at her friend. “Morgana, thanks for the sympathy, really. But… um… could you just… for right now? Please? Yeah, thanks. That… that would be good.”

Morgana stared blankly at her. “Just…?” Dawn was usually quite erudite, but her sentence had been missing a few critical details.

“Hold back please?” Dawn begged. “I-I… um…” Her cheeks pinkened and her ears wiggled up and down as her tail flicked behind her. She squirmed and clenched her legs tightly together, causing Morgana to gasp.

“O-oh! Oh, I see, um… r-right…” Morgana quickly scurried off to a safe distance. In her urgency to help her friend, she’d almost forgotten that her own transformation might be causing more harm than good here!

“Well, you don’t need to worry about me, Dawn!” Carly said, walking over and draping her arm over the cat girl’s shoulder. “I’m not afraid of a little tingle every now and then!” She flashed a beaming smile. “I think you and I could get reeeeaaaaallly close, if you keep that transformation I mean.”

Dawn looked at Carly incredulously. While she appreciated that the other woman wasn’t bothered by her new transformation, what she was saying…

Marley loudly cleared her throat. “Carly, if you put it like that it sounds like you only want to be around Dawn for her transformation, not because you actually care about her.”

Carly blinked. She quickly withdrew her arm. “Oh! No, uh, that… that wasn’t what I meant at all,” she said, hastily shaking her head. Though it was true, she and Dawn weren’t exactly the best of friends, they’d barely interacted since they stopped rooming together.

“It’s fine,” Dawn assured her, not to bothered. She shook her head. “I’m fine, don’t worry.”

Carly nodded. “Well, uh… this is a little awkward now, huh?”

She realized that maybe they’d overstayed their welcome. It wasn’t like they still had a reason to be here now that Sylvia had upgraded Dawn’s transformation.

“Excuse me.”

Vivian, in a surprising display of politeness, raised her hand to interject herself into the conversation before swaggering in like she owned the place. Nick was moderately impressed by her decorum.

“If it’s all the same to everyone, I’d like to leave now,” she said cheerily. “No offense, Dawn, but I’ve been around Morgana all day, and adding your new transformation into the mix, well…”

She shrugged and smiled.

“No, I totally get it,” Dawn said, shaking her head. Frankly, she’d rather everyone leave, but she was too polite to tell them to get lost.

“We really want to get back to our date now,” Rose said, which was about as close as she could get to telling the heiress she respected to get lost.

“Vivian’s right,” Marley agreed. “Come on, sis. Sylvia. We should leave them be. Morgana’s already ten steps ahead of us on that.”

Try forty. Morgana was over a block away, a tiny speck in the distance waving goodbye. She’d expended her daily ration of social interaction already.

Sylvia laughed. “Well… I hope it works out for you,” she said, taking Dawn by the hands and looking into the other woman’s eyes. “I’m sorry if the transformation gets out of control, but, um… it’s only temporary, right?”

“Right…” Dawn said, forcing a smile to her lips. She really hoped everything worked out, because she didn’t want Sylvia to feel bad. The other girl had tried to do her a huge favor, after all, and Dawn didn’t want to spit in her face.

“Oh, wait, I almost forgot!” Vivian stopped in place and turned back to Nick and the others.

For a second, Nick thought she was headed his way. He bristled, freezing in place as he waited for her to confront him, but just the opposite occurred.

Vivian walked right past him and confronted a surprised Rose.

“What’s up?” Rose asked, a little nervous. She didn’t expect Vivian to come up to her out of the blue like this. “Need something?”

Vivian pressed her fingers together and winked at the actress. “Would it be alright if I borrowed some BP from you, Rose?” She asked sweetly. “I’d appreciate it if you could spot me about 5000 worth. I promise I’ll pay you back.”

“5000 BP?!” Rose sputtered. Her eyes bulged in shock. That was a third of her total BP, and Vivian was asking for it like nobody’s business!

The rich really did have a different sense of money than people like her.

“What do you need all that BP for?” Dawn asked, just as shocked as Rose but doing a better job of hiding it.

“It’s for experimental purposes,” Vivian replied. “I want to test out some transformation stuff. You know how it goes.”

Nick noted from the cryptic way she worded that, without getting into specifics, that Vivian was probably hiding something. He may not have known her very well, but he’d gotten a decent enough sense of when she was behaving shiftily. He was tempted to say something, but he doubted that Vivian would do anything too problematic with the BP if she got it, and calling her out in the moment might only make things more awkward between the two of them.

Besides, maybe she was planning a pleasant surprise of some kind. He could hope for that, right?

Rose frowned. She was doing the math already, considering how difficult it would be to get a return on her investment. After all, Vivian only had 2200 BP on hand at the moment, and she was asking for more than double that. While it wasn’t much to Rose, it would definitely change things for the heiress.

“Keep in mind,” Dakota jumped into the discussion, “that Vivian has some investments already loaded in.”

She pointed her cane at Rose’s enhanced chest, and the blonde blinked in surprise.

“Oh, that’s right, I almost forgot,” she said, even though that was an obvious lie. She winked at Nick. “I just assumed my breasts always looked this nice.”

“Right, sure,” Nick said, smiling politely back.

Dawn rolled her eyes and crossed her arms under her chest. She actually had boobs for once; of course she wouldn’t forget who was responsible for that.

“Oh, good point,” Vivian noted. She flashed Rose a coy smile. “Since you and Dawn will probably be getting into a lot of fun tonight, you could consider that 5000 BP you’re loaning me as incentive for the both of you to make the most out of your… expanded portfolios. The more fun you two have with your new assets, the more BP I’ll make, and the faster I can pay you back! Works out for everyone, don’t you think?”

Vivian might have been dressing it up nicely, but from where Nick was standing it seemed like a lot of smoke and mirrors. The heiress was basically saying “Give me money now, to incentivize you to make more money for me later so I can pay you back the money you’re giving me now” when really Rose had zero motivation to give her any money whatsoever.

Evidently, Rose didn’t see it that way, though. She smirked and stroked her chin contemplatively. “Well… that’s a tempting offer, I suppose…”

Nick could see it in her eyes, she had taken the bait hook, line, and sinker. Again, he considered saying something, but he couldn’t help but notice that Vivian was going to a lot of trouble to not look at him, or even mention him.

Getting involved might just make things more complicated for everybody. So he refrained.

“…Alright, I’ll do it,” Rose concluded. “I do owe you a bit for these lovely eyecatchers, after all.” She gave the heiress a wink right back. “Nick can’t keep his eyes off of them!”

Vivian laughed heartily at that, and the two girls made the exchange.

Rose: 14900 BP – 5000 BP = 9900 BP

Vivian: 2200 BP + 5000 BP = 7200 BP

“Thank you for doing business!” Vivian chirped. “Don’t worry, I promise, I’ll pay you back as soon as I have 5000 BP to spare! I’m a woman of my word, after all.”

On that, at least, Nick was confident that Vivian could be trusted. You didn’t get far in the business world by not paying back your investors.

Now if only he could be confident that Vivian wasn’t up to something nefarious. But as nice as the heiress could be, he couldn’t completely trust her in that regard, unfortunately. Even though he would like to.

“You sure about this?” Dawn asked as Vivian headed off with the others. “You were almost to 15000 BP, that would have been a lot.”

“It’s fine,” Rose laughed. “She’ll probably use that BP to invest in other people’s breasts. Which will result in her getting even more BP. I’m fine with getting in on the ground floor of an exciting business venture like this one. All us girls getting bigger breasts from Vivian’s money, making her even richer? And I’m sure Nick will like it, too.”

Nick had no comment.

Dawn looked at her. “You sure about that? Because what you’re describing sounds basically like a pyramid scheme.”

Rose blinked. “A pyramid? No…” She looked down at her chest. “They’re too round for that, it’s more like a cone…”

Dawn just stared at her incredulously. “…Never mind,” she muttered, shaking her head.

Nick was just glad that this date could get back on track.

“So Vivian why did you ask Rose to loan you all that money?” Sylvia couldn’t contain herself. This smelled of transformation shenanigans, and she was right there for it! “Are you going to start pumping up everyone’s breasts?”

“Ooh, I’d be interested in that!” Carly said excitedly. “Not like, cactus size, but just a little bigger would look good on me, right, sis?”

“If she made your boobs any bigger they would be cactus size,” Marley muttered, rolling her eyes. Of course, having only recently gotten rid of her brobdingnagian burdens, she knew that wasn’t actually the case.

“Actually, that’s not why I borrowed the money,” Vivian said, shaking her head. “I don’t think I need to make any more investments in that regard, anyhow. It seems like it would have diminishing returns, after all.”

“Oh? What do you mean?” Marley asked.

“Well, the way the transformation works is that I get more money the more work my investments get, right?” Vivian said, using a colorful euphemism to describe what was basically Nick playing around with women’s breasts. “Only let’s look at who’s coming up for the rest of the week.”

She started counting off on her fingers. “Dani’s out; I doubt she’d let Nick play with her breasts at all.”

“But she’s having a threesome with Kim tomorrow night,” Carly pointed out. “And then Kim’s night comes right after that.”

“R-right,” Morgana said, nodding. She had doubled back to join up with the other girls again, now that there was no risk of bothering Dawn. “And my night’s coming up not long after that, too.”

“Yeah, so there are investment opportunities,” Marley agreed.

“Are there?” Vivian turned to Morgana. “Would you like a bit of breast enhancement, then? I suppose I could spare a couple hundred BP…”

“No! Th-that’s fine!” Morgana shook her head. Once upon a time, the answer to that question would have been an emphatic “Yes!” After all, Morgana had been overjoyed at her Big Titty Goth Girlfriend transformation, turning her from the waifish stick figure she’d used to be into a curvy goth goddess.

But after seeing the trouble Marley and the others had this week, dealing with the remains of the cactus, Morgana was starting to side with Vivian in terms of diminishing returns.

Vivian grinned. “Too bad. Anyway, to address your point, Carly, Kim’s right out. The less trouble I cause for her, the better.”

“Good point,” Marley said, nodding. “I can’t imagine Kim would go along with anything that would make you more money, Vivian. Even if it benefited her.”

Sylvia groaned. “Spoilsport!” Of course, she ignored the fact that her own night with Nick was in the pipeline as well.

Vivian didn’t. “The other girls coming up, there’s Ella, you, Sylvia, and Teach, of course. And sorry but I just don’t see Nick getting a lot of action with any of you, at least not that way.”

She shrugged. “So it’s not worth it to make any big breast investments right now.”

“Heh. ‘Inbreastments’,” Sylvia joked. She snorted and laughed, while Vivian, Marley, and even Carly gave her a kind of disappointed look.

Only Morgana was struggling not to laugh herself.

“So if you aren’t going to invest the money that way, what ARE you going to invest it in?” Marley asked curiously, changing the subject to spare her mother any further humiliation.

“Upgrading a transformation?” Sylvia asked hopefully. That seemed to be her answer to everything these days.

Vivian just laughed. “No, no,” she said, shaking her head. “Something else entirely.”

She glanced over at Carly with a conspiratorial gleam in her eyes.