Not that bad

Waiting, waiting, OW. The familiar hot pounding from before is definitely modifying your genitals. You expect it to keep building but instead it just fades.

Upgrade applied. Time window for multiple orgasms successfully increased by 50%.

Apparently you have already experienced the peak. Rationally, you remembered that the app said the “discomfort” reduced with each upgrade, but your intuition was still expecting something far more severe.

It makes sense to you though. Applying two upgrades at the same time means that both would feel like your first upgrade, and because pain works in magnitudes, it probably felt closer to four times as painful. “Keep it up V2” is now your third upgrade technically. So assuming each upgrade is half as painful as the one that came before it, the third upgrade would be one fourth as painful as a garden variety first upgrade. You can feel your thoughts getting loose and wobbly as you drift off to sleep, each idea crashing into unrelated images. So if you account for the magnification of 4, this new pain sausage your upgrade made was one sixteenth the size of the first one.

You start to dream about working in a sausage factory where the sausages are emotions. You have to carefully measure out the size and flavor of the sausages in order to keep them a consistent size without shrinkage due to tolerance buildup. Occasionally a few of your hands will fall into the sausage grinder. While this hurt the first time, it doesn’t anymore. The pain has halved so much it’s negligible and you have many hands so it’s really no loss. The shock from dropping your fifteenth hand causes your eyes to shoot open though.

There is sunlight. Seeing it helps both to start clearing the sausage dream from your mind as well as to reassure you that you slept through the night. Sitting up, you stretch your back. You’re always freezing in the morning, so you crawl back under your blanket before checking your surroundings.

The dot light on your phone gets your attention. You **** your trembling limbs to stir to action once more so you can see what it’s about. Considering you haven’t done anything sexual since your last look at the KDK, you doubt it’s that. Not to mention, there’s only one person who sends you messages this early.

Mom

Good morning when you get this Spring Flower | Received 7:19

I had an idea!... Let me know when you’re awake | Received 7:21

You blink at the texts in the late morning light. The combination of exclamation and ellipses confuses you more than anything. You two-hand the phone to steady your sleepy grip as you type your response.

what idea? is everything ok? | Sent 11:12

Your slight worry is the only thing keeping you somewhat alert as you wait, watching the clock tick up to the next minute before your mother replies.

Mom

Everything is wonderful! I was just thinking about what you said… About yknow spending family time together… And I realized I’m pretty busy the rest of the week but I’m free today and I would love to do something fun with you and my precious dream stone… As long as you think thats a good idea | Received 11:13

Sounds great as far as you’re concerned. Family time with your sister tends to be weird and awkward, but maybe after hashing out your deal, it will be weird and gratifying instead? Either way, being in one room with both of the two people you’ve been influencing is bound to have some interesting results.

that sounds great! what were you thinking of | Sent 11:13

Mom

Yay!… how about a hike to the tar pits | Received 11:13

The tar pits!? That’s her idea of fun?

uhhh | Sent 11:14

Immediately showing her the lukewarm reception before you explain your reasoning should help ease her into the inherent rejection of suggesting something else. It’s been way too hot lately, and who wants to hike anyways? You’d much rather stay home than sweat under the afternoon sun just to visit some rancid-smelling goo. Her next message comes in sooner than yours, forcing you to delete what you wrote.

Mom

I’m sorry you're right that was a silly idea… how about we go see that movie hannah has been talking about | Received 11:15

Oh! Or I could make your favorite food and we could have a girls brunch | Received 11:15

Both of these are enticing options. At the movies, you definitely could work out a way to hold hands with your mom or Hannah long enough that you might be able to level one of them up. Mom seems more likely to accept that kind of casual physical intimacy, but you could probably figure out something for Hannah too. That said, it wouldn’t be particularly fun. The kind of period romances Hannah likes bores you to no end, and neither of the girls are remotely far enough along to do something sexual in public.

While the fast progress of the first option is appealing to your desire for optimization, eating in has its own enticements. Inside the safety of your own home, your mom is likely to be more relaxed and your sister would be more pliable. If you play your cards right, the amount of fun you can get from two level 2 subjects seems too erotic to pass up.