Why must we fall apart to understand how to fly?

“Are you sure about this?” Nick asked hesitantly. “We can still go for that nature walk.”

“We walked back to the hotel, didn’t we?” Kim pointed out with a smile. “In my book, that’s good enough. And there’s only so much hiking I can do in this dress.”

Kim’s qipao was a pretty resilient garment, given the **** being brought to bear on it. Nick wondered if one of the unspoken perks of the outfits she had won from Dakota was that the clothes themselves were stronger than your standard fare. He supposed it wouldn’t be fair for Kim to be tied to only a handful of alternate outfits if she’d have to throw them out due to wear and tear after a couple of months.

Perky attitude aside, Nick was still hesitant. He didn’t want to put too much pressure on Kim and act like he was questioning what she wanted, he was just… concerned. He bit his lip. “All I’m saying is that you were the one complaining about spending all day with other girls, and now you want to go back to the hotel to talk with more? That seems kinda…”

“Nick.”

Kim turned back to face him, her eyes glowing with sincerity. She gingerly shook her head. “I appreciate you looking out for me, but come on- you agreed this was a good idea. We can go on a nature hike another round,” she pointed out, tucking her arms under her chest. “When I don’t have these weighing me down.”

Not that they were a problem, thanks to Dani’s transformation. But she raised a valid enough point.

And she was right- her idea was a good one. Nick knew Kim had a good head on her shoulders, but this was pretty genius.

“Besides, we can spend all night together, just the two of us,” Kim pointed out, looping her arm around his and pressing her enhanced chest into him. “Knowing that makes me a lot more comfortable with this plan.”

Nick nodded. He could appreciate where she was coming from. “Alright then,” he agreed. “As long as you’re okay with it. Because you’re right- that plan of yours? Pretty good, Kim, I’ve gotta say.”

Kim flashed a dazzling smile. She’d come a long way from just a few hours ago, when she was deathly afraid of anybody finding out about her transformation upgrade. Now, she was planning to utilize it for her own benefit.

Once things settled down and Dakota was out of the picture, and the two of them stopped flirting, Nick and Kim took a step back and analyzed the situation with an open mind.

To start? 50 spankings was a lot. Nick and Gina had gotten up to some rough stuff before in the bedroom, but he didn’t think he’d ever spanked her that many times in a row before. And Gina liked it. For Kim, who was a novice in general when it came to sex, let alone kinky sex, that was raised a critical concern.

So the first step was to get some assistance from someone who Nick hoped would be happy to lend a hand.

“Back already, you two?” Gina raised her eyebrow in surprise as she looked over Kim’s body with an appraising gaze. She leaned against the doorframe of the Candy Suite as she assessed her roommate’s sudden arrival with subdued intrigue. “It’s not that late, is it?”

She rubbed her eyes just to make sure she wasn’t seeing things. Gina had been very good since coming to the island and hadn’t taken any **** at all (she couldn’t get them) but for some reason she kept getting the distinct feeling she was on an acid trip.

Maybe because Kim had changed yet again since the last time she saw her roommate, having grown over a foot in hair since earlier this afternoon along with some enhancements to her figure. Gina definitely approved, even if she was confused.

“We’re not going to the Master’s Suite or anything like that,” Nick quickly clarified. “We’re here to ask you a favor.”

Gina blinked, confused. People didn’t go to her for favors, usually. That tended to require commitments and shit, and Gina… wasn’t the best at that.

Plus that just led to Gina feeling awkward around them, since now they owed HER a favor, and Gina didn’t really care about that stuff, unless they were sexual favors. But she wasn’t that kind of girl anymore.

“…Well, what’s in it for me?” She asked with a cheeky smile, seeing the eager intent on their faces. Gina may not have been as big of a bitch as her standoffish attire and striking tattoos suggested, but she was far from the goody-two-shoes her transformations had tried to turn her into.

People seldom went to Gina for anything; so she was going to get her money’s worth out of it, if it meant that much to the two of them. It was just good business! That being said, she wasn’t going to bend them over a barrel or anything, but maybe she could get Nick to do that to her in exchange… yeah, that was the ticket.

“Well, maybe we should tell you what we want, first,” Nick said, noting the gleam in Gina’s eyes as she licked her lips. The last thing he wanted was to make tonight even more complicated. “So, Kim, um… uh…”

He looked at his date, realizing it wasn’t his place to say anything.

“Sylvia temporarily upgraded one of my transformations,” Kim explained. “Basically, I’m sort of a walking dumping ground for transformations people don’t want for the next 24 hours or so. Well, a little less… never mind, anyway, I wanted to know if you could pass one of your transformations to me, please?”

Gina raised a crooked eyebrow and grinned a crooked grin. “Well, welcome to the bottom of the barrel,” she sniggered. “Anyway, yeah, I guess I could give you one. What were you thinking?”

Kim shifted awkwardly and her cheeks reddened. Actually asking was kind of embarrassing…

“The tattoo sleeve?” Gina took the initiative herself, her hand shooting to her wrist to start rolling up her shirt. “Because that could be a fun night…”

Kim’s eyes widened like saucers and she shook her head. “No! Are you crazy?! I don’t want that one!” She shot a look at her arm, which was almost completely naked thanks to qipao’s short sleeves. The thought of Nick- of anyone- seeing all of her sexual fantasies laid bare in front of them?!

She would die of humiliation. No, no way.

Gina shrugged. “Your loss.” She wasn’t really serious about her offer anyway, she just liked seeing Kim squirm. She knew that the younger girl still had a long way to go in terms of embracing her desires. As someone who had lost themselves to the maelstrom of hedonistic lust a long time ago, Gina knew better than anyone how far she still had to fall.

Better to keep Kim from landing in the gutter like her, though. For her sake.

If there was one thing Gina’s little game did, though, it was ease the tension around Kim enough for her to express what she actually wanted.

“I was hoping you could give me the spanking transformation,” she explained. “Would that be alright, Gina? For you to pass that one to me?”

Gina’s eyebrows rose in surprise. “Wait, you mean this one?” She lightly slapped her own ass for emphasis. “Man, but I really like this one…”

“It would only be temporary,” Nick explained. “See, uh… Kim, she picked up a bounty that requires her to get some spankings, and-”

“Ah, don’t gotta say more than that,” Gina cut him off with a grin. “I’m in. I’m so in.”

Kim didn’t like the predatory glint in the other girl’s eye, even though she was relieved that Gina was fine with it.

“Really? Thanks,” she murmured.

“Hey, come on, we’re roommates, gotta have each other’s backs, right?” Gina said with a shrug. Secretly, she was just trying to express her gratitude towards Kim for putting up with her being a total pain in the ass.

“Now, what was it called again…?” Gina pulled up the text of the transformation and showed it to Kim. “This one?”

• Sweetcheeks: Gina’s pretty stacked in the tits department, but otherwise she’s a bit skinny. Now her rump will fill out those torn jeans a little better! But at the same time, her ass will be seen as so seductive that anyone who sees it will feel obligated to just give it a big old smack to say hello. (Submissive)

“Yeah, that’s the one,” Kim said. She wanted the extra cushioning for her butt. As great as Dani’s Soft as Silk transformation had made it, some extra cushioning could only be a good thing, and Kim wanted the benefit that came with its resilience. Gina seemed to handle it just fine.

“Well… I feel ya, Kim, really,” Gina said, tapping her chin. “But this one’s one of my favorites too… it just suits me, y’know?” She wiggled her butt suggestively, even though no one was behind her to see. “Plus, aren’tcha afraid that Nick here won’t be able to resist giving you a smack right now?”

Nick frowned. That had been a concern he’d brought up with Kim. Gina’s transformation didn’t just give the punk girl an ass built for spanking, it had a built-in compulsion that made people want to spank it. Combined with Kim’s existing compulsion to finish whatever she set out to do, and he could easily see them falling into a feedback loop where he kept spanking her long past when he should.

Kim had told him not worry, that she trusted him. That was nice to hear, but it didn’t assuage his concerns.

“That’s the one I want, Gina,” Kim said, smiling appreciatively at her. “Please? I told you, I’ll owe you a favor…”

“Nah, don’t want anything from you, you’ve done enough for me already,” Gina said, holding up her hand to stop Kim before she started begging or something. That would just rub her the wrong way for a whole host of reasons.

Still, she couldn’t just give it to her. It wasn’t her style! And besides…

Gina turned to Nick and licked her lips again. She wiggled her hips seductively and fluttered her smoky eyelashes. “Now you on the other hand… I can think of all kinds of ways you could repay me,” she purred.

Nick figured it would come down to something like that. And he was happy to abide. He liked treating Gina nicely.

“Sure thing,” he said with a smile. “If you’re a good girl, I’ll be happy to do you a favor in return.”

Kim didn’t pick up on the intricacies of his word choice, but Gina did. She couldn’t avoid it! Her legs twitched and her eyes snapped wide, and she leaned against the doorframe as her lower half started to shake with pleasure.

“O-ohh…!” Gina moaned, trembling in orgasm as her Trigger Word transformation triggered, sending her into an immediate orgasm at the sound of Nick saying the password.

He could have kept her that way, too, and she was almost disappointed that he didn’t. But when she regained her senses she gave him a sulky look and frowned.

“That’s cheating,” she pouted, but the playful smile on her lips reassured him that she wasn’t serious. “Business first, pleasure later.”

She crossed her arms over her chest and stood up straight. Well, as straight as she could stand, given that her legs were still a little shaky.

“Okay, first, before negotiations begin in earnest, I want something. You gotta sweeten the pot,” Gina demanded.

Nick was fine with giving her whatever she wanted, within reason. If she wanted to be a little greedy, so what? Spoiling Gina was a wonderful idea he felt, given how much he’d neglected her these past few rounds.

“Sure thing,” he said, nodding. “What do you want?”

She gave him a look, like she was a little miffed.

“I just said,” she pouted again. “Sweeten. The. Pot.”

Gina gestured towards her torn jeans, and it took Nick a second to realize she was speaking literally. In her own clumsy way.

“…I just gave you an orgasm,” he pointed out.

Kim blushed while Gina grinned.

“Yeah,” she nodded. “A great one. But no, don’t have to go that far. Just saying, if I’m gonna be giving up my transformation for a bit… I’d like to get some use out of it first. You know, to rev up the ol’ engine and get her in gear.”

She turned on her heel and leaned against the door to her room as she closed it, presenting her ass to him.

Nick didn’t even have time to agree because his hand was already in motion.

“SMACK!”

Kim’s eyes widened and she gasped as she saw Nick’s hand come down on the other girl’s ass, making that juicy rump wobble even through her tight jeans. She gulped.

Gina bit her lip as her cheeks reddened, and she looked back over her shoulder, making eye contact with Kim. “Don’t look away,” she breathed out, batting her heavy eyelashes. “You’re gonna be gettin’ some of this yourself… just thought you deserved a little sneak preview izzall.”

Kim swallowed and nodded, refusing to tear her eyes away as Nick delivered a couple more spanks to Gina’s trembling buttocks. He rounded it off to an even ten before he finished, and Gina shakily stood upright.

She turned back to him, a lopsided grin on her blissed-out face. “Oh yeah… that’s the stuff…”

Without another word, or any further negotiations, she pulled up her screen and made the transfer to Kim. She only went six hours; that would probably be enough.

Kim gasped as she felt her butt start to tingle. She stood up straight like a lightning rod as the tingling intensified, and though she couldn’t exactly look back and see what was happening, Nick was getting an eyeful.

He watched as Kim’s butt expanded outwards, growing even rounder and juicier-looking by the second. Her breasts were amazing, but her ass was turning spectacular to match it, and it took everything he had to not smack it then and there and get this whole thing started prematurely.

Nick dug his nails into his palm just to make sure.

Gina whistled and wiped the sweat from her brow. She nodded in approval even as she felt her own backside shrink back to her original skinny proportions. She’d miss having that thick booty, but in the meantime she could console herself with the knowledge that Kim was getting quite a workout out of it.

“That’s that,” Gina said, stretching her arms over her head. “I fulfilled my part of the deal, yeah? Now you owe me a favor, Nick.”

She wiggled her eyebrows seductively as her face glowed with smugness. “And believe me… I don’t come cheap.”

The punk girl patted herself on the back for her cunning little game. Sure, the pleasure of doing a good thing for goodness’ sake was nice, but she wanted some real meat here. And by fulfilling her end of the bargain first, before negotiations had concluded, she could definitely twist Nick up and get her to do whatever she wanted later.

Oh yeah, he was about to find out that Gina was no “good girl”, just the opposite! She could be a very bad, conniving girl when she wanted to be!

…And poor Nick didn’t suspect a thing! That sucker was just smiling at her like she was the sweetest girl in the world, as if he didn’t expect her to collect on that favor he owed her now as soon as she got the chance, and would make him do some of the raunchiest, kinkiest-

“Thanks, Gina, I owe you,” Nick said, nodding. “I promise, sometime this round, when I get the chance, just you and me, I’ll take you on an actual, romantic date. It’s the least I can do since we haven’t really had any opportunities for that. Don’t worry about the other girls’ schedules, I’ll find the time, I promise.”

Gina stared at him for a second, processing what he’d just said.

She blinked furiously. “Wait, what? Uh… what!?” The punk girl stammered, not sure she’d heard him right. A date?! Like, a romantic date!? That kinda shit? She didn’t want that!

“Hey, that’s not… I…”

“You don’t want to go on a date?” Nick asked, raising his eyebrows in surprise.

Gina’s jaw dropped, and her mouth stopped working. What the hell could she say to that? Nick looked like he’d be crushed if she said no… and… it was a date… did… should she say no? When was the last time she and Nick had some quality time together? But a date…

“I, um, that…” Her brain wasn’t working properly. She was pretty sure she could smell toast. “…Okay!? I guess!?”

She fumed, finding herself perplexed and trapped by Nick’s earnest proposal. So much for her raunchy favor… he’d managed to weasel his way into taking her out on a date as a favor to her, when it was what HE wanted to do!

…Not that she didn’t want to, but…

“Just… enjoy your evening, whatever!” Gina knew that if she spent another second with the two of them, her cool girl image would be irreparably damaged, so she slipped back through her door and slammed it in their faces, ending the conversation.

“…That went well, I thought,” Nick said, turning to Kim with a smile.

Kim rolled her eyes and smirked. “You sly boy,” she playfully rebuked him. “Playing with a girl’s feelings like that. You knew what she actually wanted.”

“I don’t think even Gina knows what she actually wants,” Nick said calmly. “But if she didn’t want a date, she could have said something. And yet…”

He shrugged, pointing out that she didn’t ever object.

Kim just laughed. “Well… hopefully our next stop is just as understanding. Because usually she’s even flightier than Gina is.”

The next stop in question? The Luxury Suite. There was one more transformation Nick and Kim wanted before they started tonight, and it was Morgana’s Like a Virgin transformation. Not only was it useless to the goth right now since Nick wouldn’t be sleeping with her tonight, but it would ensure that Kim wouldn’t feel any lasting effects in the morning if things went too far.

Hopefully Morgana would understand that, and getting her to pass on the transformation would be a simple matter. Convincing her would be the hardest part, though.

At least, that’s what they thought.

“Morgana isn’t here,” Amelia said brusquely when she answered the door, looking directly at Nick. “Why are you looking for her?”

Nick’s throat went dry, not sure how to explain the situation to his stepmother. Never mind, Amelia’s interrogation would be the hardest part for sure.