Gathering Resources

After visiting Milky for a second time, and getting loads of milk from her, Finn walked back, with the 5 buckets full of creamy white milk, and his whole outfit soaking in dairy, which he hoped Faranne wouldn't notice, as he walked up to her.

"Oh hey, wow... That's a lot of milk, you must be doing some interesting stuff to get Milky to produce this much, but great job nonetheless" - Faranne said, with a cheerful, but slightly tired tone, as she was impressed, after seeing that Finn brought her more milk than she expected. It was so much in fact, that she got a little suspicious, and made Finn shy, as he didn't want Faranne to find out what he was doing with the village cowgirl.

"Yea, some days she just has more stored in her, you know?" - Finn replied, with a nervous smile, as he tried to hide the truth about where that milk came from. But after one last suspicious look, Faranne let it slide, and just chuckled at his awkwardness, before changing topic.

"Oh, and I have another thing I need you to do if you don't mind... We are running low on food, we practically have nothing apart from all of this milk you brought... so I want you to accompany Lilith or Itzel to gather some resources and food if you can" - Faranne said to Finn, with a slightly worried frown, that made him realize she needed a lot of help, but since he was willing to give her anything she wanted, he didn't hesitate to comply, even when he found resource gathering boring.

"Yea, of course... I will try my best" - Finn replied, with a cheerful smile, as he was determined to do whatever for Faranne, to cheer her up, which was already working for him, as she smiled at his enthusiasm, and pulled him into a hug, that not only warmed his body, and heart, but also got him a little hot, so he had another incentive for helping Faranne.

"Thanks, now go get me as many resources as you can find... I have to clean up here" - Faranne said, with a joyful smile, as she was happy to see Finn so eager to help her. But after they hugged, she walked away, to clean everything from breakfast, and he tried to find Itzel, and take him to gather resources.

Finn looked for a while in the group of friends, that were still exchanging numbers with each other, to save them in their messengers, but he was able to find Itzel pretty quickly, as he was sitting next to a tree, and playing with the magical device Adeline gave him.

"Hello dude" - Finn said, with a friendly smile, after approaching Itzel, who was surprised to see him going out of his way to talk with him, as they didn't talk too often, and specially now, that Finn got a girlfriend, and began exploring polyamory, they barely talked to each other. However, he was still happy to see him, as after all, they were still friends, and went way back.

"What's up? It’s rare for you to come to me... I was expecting you to spend the entire day talking with Zoey now that we got these cool things" - Itzel asked, with a playful tone, as he pointed out the messenger he was holding, and that he already loved so much.

"I mean yea, I was going to do that but I will have to test those things later... Faranne told me we need to gather some resources for her because we are running low on food" - Finn replied, with a slightly bored tone, as he already felt like he wasn't going to have much fun in the next couple hours.

"Oh, I see... Well, is Lilith coming with us?" - Itzel asked with a curious expression, as he was interested in spending some time with his catgirl crush, but was disappointed, when Finn responded to his question negatively.

"I think she went with Adeline to play with these messenger things... knowing her she is probably going to make all of us a prank call sooner or later so I guess it is just you and me buddy..." - Finn replied, with an unenthusiastic tone, as talking about all the things his female friends were going to do, made him feel like hanging out with Itzel wasn't going to be that interesting.

"Oh... okay then" - Itzel muttered with disappointment, as he also felt like he wasn't going to have a fun time with Finn. They both were good friends in the past, so it wasn't like this all the time, just recently their friendship had weakened. But even though both felt a little bored, by hanging out with each other, they didn't say anything, to not sound mean, and because they are still friends.

Finn and Itzel started walking to the main areas for gathering resources, after grabbing some baskets, and walking past all of the girls in the group, who were going to do other stuff, that was surely going to be more fun than what they were going to do.

They were now just two guys, alone, without any girls in sight, as they walked far away from the village. It felt weird for Finn at first, because he had spent so many days sorrounded by girls, who for some reason are also trying to have sex with him at every chance they got. But as they continued walking together, it seemed like a good thing to spend time with another guy, and be able to talk about man stuff without problems. So after Finn reconsidered the idea of gathering resources with Itzel, he tried to talk a little with him.

"So, how is it going? What do you think about all of these new girls?" - Finn asked, with a friendly tone, that came off a little awkward, as he didn't know which topic he could use to start a conversation. Since his life has practically been sleeping with all of the girls in his life to this point, he didn't know anything better to talk about. He started regretting it, almost instantly, but surprisingly, Itzel was very interested in the girls' topic.

"Oh, I like them a lot... Adeline is really fun and those foxgirls are very pretty" - Itzel replied playfully, which made Finn laugh, as he also found Katsumi and Sayuri very pretty girls. But after seeing that they both were interested in talking about girls, Finn decided to continue talking about them, to entertain themselves, while they started collecting fruits, and other types of food around the island.

"Hey, maybe you can get one of them to be your girlfriend... you seem a little bit lonely so you could use one, right?" - Finn asked playfully, to make Itzel laugh, but he was surprised to see him get a little embarrassed.

"I don't know... I mean, I already like a girl so..." - Itzel replied shyly, as he didn't want to admit having a crush on Lilith to Finn, who laughed, as he had a strong feeling that his halfling friend has a crush on Lilith. He wasn't sure about it, but he was mostly certain that Itzel liked the cute catgirl, as more than friends{if Lilith Sex = 1}, which also made him feel bad for him, as he had learned last night, that Lilith actually has a crush on him, and they already kissed, and even got intimate. So there was no chance for Itzel to get with her now, although he wasn't going to tell him that, of course{endif}.

"But maybe one of the new girls can be your girlfriend... oh wait, you already have Zoey for that..." - Itzel said jokingly, to pass the embarrassment, he was starting to feel, to Finn, who got nervous, after he heard that Itzel knew about him and Zoey.

"What?? You mean to say that I am in a relationship with Zoey?... what are you talking about??" - Finn asked, while pretending to act friendly, and laugh, to hide his nervousness, as he knew he couldn't hide the fact that he was dating Zoey, and was absolutely in love with her.

"Come on... it was obvious... you were holding hands all day long yesterday at the forest... And I heard you two had a date at the lake before that so yea, it wasn't hard to tell..." - Itzel replied playfully, as he knew everything that happened with Finn and Zoey, from what he had heard from Adeline.

"Oh..." - Finn expressed his surprise, and embarrassment, with just one sound, as he realized his relationship with Zoey was no longer secret, and it probably never was. But it didn't bother him much, as immediately after, he laughed with Itzel, at how bad he was at keeping relationships secret.

Finn and Itzel spent most of their afternoon talking about girls, and catching up with a few things, while they filled all of the baskets they brought, with food, and other resources. But after a predictable prank call from Adeline and Lilith, the two friends stopped talking about man stuff, and started heading back to the village.

At the end, they both were happy to have each other, to talk about girls, and other stuff that they couldn't talk to their female friends. So they were surprised, when they realized the resource gathering was more enjoyable than they both expected, and they actually ended up having a lot of fun, making jokes, and mocking the girls for being girls.

But since the sun had already set, Finn was ready to say goodbye to Itzel, and bring all of the resources they found to Faranne. He had the hopes of making her so proud, she could maybe invite him to her house, and spend the night together again, to share more sexy moments, that he loved, and cherished so much, and was sure that Faranne did too, probably more than him...