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I wanted to get away from it all. I wanted a rest. I wanted my old safe place back, to go there and hide and hope that things would just fix themselves. But the old music room was gone, things wouldn’t simply fix themselves, and running away meant giving up on the things I wanted, the people I wanted to be with.

Think, Oliver. What is the problem here? Before Alice’s public image at being seen with her three ‘troublemaker’ friends was Alice’s relationship with Noelle. One can’t, or maybe shouldn’t, put value on friendships. Even if Alice was friends with Mila, Grace and Sarah for years and trusted them more than anyone, it didn’t mean Noelle was less of a friend to her. The awkward silence here was clearly because of me. I didn’t want to get in the way of that, but I also didn’t want to give up on them. What is the issue I have to address and how can I best work to solve it?

Alice’s soft, weak chuckle startled me. “Isabelle was right. You wear your emotions on your sleeve.”

“Ah?”

“You’re scowling all of a sudden,” Noelle said, fidgeting nervously. “Sorry, we’re…”

I clicked my tongue, shook my head and rubbed my eyes under my glasses with one hand. I **** myself to shift gears, trying to smile a bit more. “Sorry about that. I was… thinking that we’re being really awkward, and I was trying to find a way to fix it.”

That got a small, relieved chuckle out of the two girls.

“We should be apologizing,” Alice said. “But we don’t exactly know what to do in this situation.”

“I mean, we are… both your g-girlfriends, but…” Noelle sounded like she didn’t know how to finish that sentence.

{I wanna kiss him!}

{I wanna kiss him!}

{But doing it here would make Noelle uncomfortable.}

{But Alice is here, so it would be inappropriate, right?}

…

I… Um…. That’s… helpful, I think? But… How should I feel about this? I still couldn’t decide if the random mind reading was helpful or not.

That aside, I guess it made sense. I wanted to be close to them as well. I strongly felt the need to hold them, kiss them and go beyond that. It was reassuring that they felt the same way towards me, but the problem was that, unlike Mila, Grace and Sarah, these two weren’t comfortable showing affection in front of the other.

…

But wait a moment. If I was reading it right, their concerns were more about the other than about themselves. Meaning…

I swallowed my shame and spoke. “Yes, and I want to be the best boyfriend I can be to the both of you.” The girls blushed. “I’m… not exactly sure how I’ll manage that yet,” I chuckled awkwardly, “but I want to learn. I want to know you two a lot more.”

Alice and Noelle looked at each other for a moment. Then, Alice spoke.

“Oliver? Would you mind stepping outside for a while?”

“Eh?”

“Alice and I need to talk,” Noelle said.

“And… I can’t be here?”

“It’s embarrassing.” They both said.

“I… Okay, then.”

I walked out of the student council office and stood a few steps away from the door to avoid accidentally listening in. There weren’t many people in the hallway, and those few who passed by didn’t give me a second glance, yet I felt pretty awkward just waiting there. I looked at my phone just to make it seem like I was busy, but I saw a couple of messages I hadn’t noticed.

-Sis: You’re working today, right? Should I pick up more food cans for Cake?

-Thomas: Hey, you’ve been a stranger recently. Let’s hang out tomorrow.

Weird that they’d send me messages like those when I’m in the same building, but I suppose everyone is busy in their own way.

I replied to Isabelle telling her ‘yes and thank you’, and to Thomas telling him I’d know if I was free tonight. I… hadn’t yet told him about Alice and Noelle. That wasn’t something I was looking forward to.

Noelle finally opened the door and waved for me to go in. She locked the door and moved to stand beside Alice and in front of me.

“So…” I started.

“We’re not getting anywhere like this,” Alice said, and I suddenly felt a chill.

“You’re dating Alice and you’re dating me. If we tiptoe around that fact we’ll continue feeling awkward all the time,” Noelle said.

“So… We want to test something.”

I swallowed. “T-Test what?”

They didn’t say more. Noelle walked up to me, put her hands on my shoulders and kissed me. I tensed up and my first instinct was to panic. I glanced at Alice, who… nodded for me to go on.

Believing I understood what they were testing, I decided to go all out.

I wrapped my arms around Noelle’s slim waist and kissed her back, pushing my tongue inside her mouth. She let out a cute, sexy moan as she melted against me. Her lips tasted lightly of raspberry, a taste that wasn’t there yesterday. A new lip balm?

I didn’t look at Alice and focused entirely on Noelle, devouring her mouth with as much passion as if we’d been alone. No, in fact… Knowing Alice was watching turned me on even more.

{Noelle looks like she completely forgot I’m here. Is that how I look, too? That’s… Fuck, they look so hot…}

Noelle put a hand on my chest and gave a light push. I pulled away and looked at her face. She looked dazed and with a small, blissful smile as she licked her lips. She closed her eyes to reset her expression before she turned to Alice.

“Your turn,” the redhead told her before stepping away.

Now I had Alice in front of me, and knowing already what they were doing, I was the one to initiate the kiss. Alice closed her eyes and let me in.

It was such a different sensation. The angle was different since Alice was taller, but the way she moved her tongue was different, too. Also, having tasted the raspberry in Noelle’s lips made me notice the even fainter taste of mint in Alice’s. It left that subtle, refreshing aftertaste in my mouth that only made me want her more.

Alice had her arms around my neck as she moaned a little louder and more often than Noelle had. She pushed her chest against mine, too.

{She’s clearly loving it. Of course she is. They look so sexy… I want to do it again.}

My heart beat faster and my chest grew hotter. I kept thinking reading thoughts was inappropriate, but hearing them grow excited at seeing me kiss their friend was turning me on.

As I pulled away from my kiss with Alice, I felt a hand on my bicep. Noelle was right there beside us. She looked at Alice, silently asking for permission, and the blonde answered with a smile and a silent nod.

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