Nothing much left to do except fuck it up in every single way

Dinner went pretty smoothly, even for Dani, and dessert went much the same way. It was cornbread. Although Nick knew that Mary was probably the one who had pushed for that, he still felt like the dish was perfectly symbolic of Dani. It was sweet and delicious without being too showy, too fattening, or too “dessert-like” for lack of a better term- the perfect dessert for the athletic tomboy.

Everyone liked it as much as the sandwiches, and they finished it off without hesitation. Dani relished in their enjoyment, perched on the edge of her seat as pleasure thrummed through her body. Being this close to orgasm just from people enjoying her cooking was a sensation she had yet to get used to, but she was greatly relishing it.

But all good things must come to an end. Eventually, the table had to be cleared and the dishes had to be washed, and they had to move on to the main reason they had all come here tonight. All involved parties had run out of excuses to put things off, and it was time that the trio of would-be lovers made their way to the bed.

“So… how do we start this thing, then?”

It was Kim who spoke up first- Nick felt like anything he said would be too presumptuous of Dani, who he thought should take the lead since she was the most uncomfortable out of the three of them, and Dani didn’t say anything because she felt that if she did, the other two would immediately tell from her voice how aroused she already was.

So that just left Kim to break the ice; her only experience with sex was that one night, with Nick. She had never done this “threesome” thing before, so she had no idea how they went. Did everyone just pull off their clothes and jump onto the bed together? Was there some sort of ceremony or pact or something like that?

Nick could answer her questions, he’d done this plenty. She focused her attention solely on him, which helped relieve some of the pressure on Dani while putting a ton more on him instead.

“I… I don’t think there’s… any particular way to start it, really,” Nick stammered, scratching his head. His cheeks reddened and he tried to avoid looking at Dani too much as he spoke. He was afraid that anything he said might lead to her getting the wrong idea. In the back of his mind, though, he knew that was unlikely- Dani was here for a reason, after all.

The same reason as him.

“I-I…” Dani croaked out, her voice cracking. She shut her mouth and swallowed, and tried to express herself in a way that wouldn’t come out as a full-throated moan. “I think… I’m… getting cold feet, a little,” she admitted.

Kim looked at her in alarm. It was an instinctive gesture and one she was glad came without verbal accompaniment, because the last thing she wanted to do was upset Dani by putting words to her concerns. But if Dani was getting cold feet, that didn’t bode well for any of them.

“N-n-not about the sex!” Dani clarified quickly when she saw the worried looks on her friend’s faces. She waved her hands frantically as if she was trying to sweep that notion aside. “It’s about, um… the audience.”

A glance across the room clarified that Dani wasn’t talking about the intangible audience watching the show from afar. Mary, Holly, and even Nola were all just kind of… present.

Having a threesome was one thing. Having a threesome in front of three other women, all of whom would be watching you like a hawk?

Dani wasn’t as much of a showoff as Carly was, and last time she’d been in a situation like this there had been less women, and Carly was there to take center focus. She couldn’t really imagine Kim drawing the same attention, sadly.

“Just pretend we’re not even here,” Holly said with a pearly smile. “Just a bunch of flies on the wall!”

Nola nodded cheerfully as well. Still being considerate of Mary and Dani, that was the most she was willing to express herself, much to Dani’s appreciation.

Still though…

“Dani, if you’d like us to leave so you’re more comfortable, we can,” Mary said sincerely, wringing her hands. “The last thing any of us would want is to be a bother.”

“Ah, uh…” Dani’s eyes widened as she considered what Mary was saying. She swallowed and shook her head. “N-no, that… that’s fine,” she murmured. “This is your room, after all… kicking you out, that… that would just be…”

She turned to Nick and Kim, searching their faces for answers. She knew that both of them would tell the other girls to leave simply for her sake, but that wasn’t what she wanted right now. Telling them to leave just to make herself more comfortable, when this had been her suggestion in the first place? Sure, they would all go along with it. Especially Mary. But it just didn’t feel right to her to push Mary out of her own room just for her comfort.

Dani hoped that the others could see that. “…What do you guys think?” She whispered. She wasn’t even really sure what she wanted here. Did she want to be convinced to let them stay? Or maybe she wanted them to come up with some other, completely legitimate reason for why it had to be just the three of them that had nothing to do with Dani’s personal comfort.

Anything to take the onus of “kicking Mary and the others out just so no one judges me getting horny watching Nick with another girl and thinks it’s weird” off her shoulders.

Nick’s mouth opened but he caught himself before he said anything. After all, what could he really tell her? This was a situation he found himself in far too often, being watched by others while having sex. But for Kim, this was a new experience completely.

Kim bit her lip. Hesitation flashed across her face momentarily and she glanced at Mary and the others. “I mean… I go to work every day dressed in slinky lingerie,” she pointed out. “And when I’m not working, I’m wearing this.” She gestured to the skimpy schoolgirl uniform wrapped around her trim figure. The short hem of her shirt showed slight flashes of her midriff, and her pleated skirt just barely ended past the curve of her butt.

Dani blinked. “So you’re… okay with it?” She asked. “Being watched while having sex?”

A crooked smile crept up Kim’s face. “Look, um… this whole thing… it’s probably gonna be really awkward, I’ll be the first to admit it. I’ve only had sex once before tonight,” she pointed out.

Dani and Nick both remembered her arguing exactly the opposite thing hours earlier. Apparently the tomboy’s feelings had changed since then.

“…So if it, uh… goes bad…” Kim glanced at the other girls again, particularly at Mary.

Nick winced. “If it goes bad, you don’t want an audience? Yeah… I get that…”

Kim’s eyes widened. “No!” She shook her head sharply. “If it goes bad, then… it’s not because I was bad at sex, or a three-way, or whatever, it’s just because I was uncomfortable because I was being watched! That’s what the issue was.” She lowered her voice into a whisper and glanced at the floor. “I mean, that’s what I’ll tell myself, anyway.”

Dani’s heart throbbed anxiously. As if her own concerns weren’t bad enough, now Kim, who had always confidently approached everything she set her mind to and had never once shirked her responsibilities, was making preemptive excuses like she expected everything to blow up in their faces?

If that wasn’t a red flag, Dani didn’t know what was.

I messed up. I wasn’t ready for this. The arousal that had been building up all through dinner sputtered and died like a campfire doused in sand. I thought I could handle a threesome with Nick and another woman, but I keep thinking about how it’s going to go wrong.

Dani felt her heart split right down the middle. On one hand, she wanted this. Not just for Kim’s sake, but for hers, as well. Her relationship with Nick was a complicated one, and since she would likely end up bound to him forever, she needed to find some way to integrate him into her life. This was the best way yet. It was something that let her keep the parts of her that made her who she was, and more importantly, her latest transformation made her find the idea hot as hell!

But then came that other hand, to smack her across the face and remind her that this was uncharted territory for her. As hot of an idea as this was, she shouldn’t have attempted it until she had a lot more sexual experience with more partners. She knew who she was at heart, a lesbian in a relationship with an amazing woman, but as true as she knew that to be she still didn’t feel completely comfortable in her life. Maybe if she and Carly had been together longer than a couple of weeks, or if she had more experience with other women, she would be more comfortable including a man in her sex life, even indirectly, but right now… she couldn’t erase the mental picture of her kissing Kim while Nick groped her, and then something slipping somewhere and suddenly it was her getting involved instead. Right in front of Mary and everything!

So what? Should she say she changed her mind? Open her mouth and say “Sorry for getting your hopes up, you two. I know I’ve been teasing you about this all day and I still find it really really hot, but I’m gonna have to call it here!” or something?!

Even Dani could tell how much of a scumbag thing to do that was, even if she was completely within her right to withdraw her consent at any time.

Her eyes landed on Nick, and her heart ached. She wanted him to fix this somehow. She wanted him to say something, anything, to fix the divide in her heart and make her be okay with this, but she knew that was impossible. She might as well have wished that he would suddenly reveal he’s always been a woman.

Dani couldn’t do this. But she didn’t have the heart to tell her friends that.

I’m trapped. I can’t stop this. I don’t think I want it, but I can’t stop it.

If only Nick could say something. He was the only one who could put an end to tonight without pushing Dani past her comfort zone or making her feel like the worst person in the world.

Their eyes met, and for a second Dani thought he had read her mind. But no, that look of consideration on his face, that dawning realization, it wasn’t about her, it couldn’t be.

After how long she’d known him, there was no way he’d suddenly gained magic lesbian mind-reading powers.

No, he wasn’t even looking at her now, he had turned his attention to the other party of their little threesome.

“Shit, Kim… we can’t do this,” he said suddenly.

Dani nearly fell onto her butt. “Wh-what!?” She croaked out.

“Why not?!” Kim’s eyes widened in surprise. She almost looked defensive. “Nick…!”

“No, I’m not talking about the threesome,” Nick clarified. “I mean… we can’t do it in front of all of them.”

The relief on Kim’s face from his initial clarification was quickly replaced with confusion. She scrunched up her eyes and frowned. “Huh? Why not?”

Nick stared pointedly at her. “Did you really forget?” It was one thing for him to take a second to remember it, but apparently it had completely slipped Kim’s mind. “Your transformation?”

Kim’s eyes widened and she gasped.

Dani frowned as she saw the mutual recognition flash between the two of them, and tried to piece it together herself. Kim’s transformation? What’s he talking about? Does she even have any transformations that would… WAIT! She does! Holy shit, it completely slipped my mind!

“What transformation?” Mary asked anxiously. The last thing she wanted was to cause any distress for her friends.

Kim’s face turned red and she began to fumble with her choppy bangs.

“It’s, um…” She burned with bashfulness. “My Quarterly Review transformation… I completely forgot about that one.”

Dani nodded sympathetically.

Kim pulled up the text of the transformation for everyone to see.

• Quarterly Review: Kim has always been a hard worker who does everything required of her. But is that enough? Now, the master and her fellow harem members will be judging her performance in the harem. Whenever performing an intimate act with the master (kissing, hugging, intercourse, etc.) she’ll receive a rating of her performance from 1 to 10 from each person present. [NOTE: This rating will be honest.] If her average rating is too low, she’ll feel compelled to repeat the action until she gets an acceptable score. (Service Industry)

“See, Kim?” Nick said gently. “That’s what I meant. The last time we had sex, it was just the two of us. And you remember how that went? It was amazing. But you just said you were anticipating that this would go poorly, right? Well…” He looked over at Mary and the others. “If we have a threesome in front of an audience, then everyone will get a vote. And we’ll have to keep doing it again, all three of us, until you get a passing grade.”

“Why are you looking at me when you say that?” Holly asked, sulking. She crossed her arms over her chest. “Mary’s the one who won’t give you a passing score for any sex that doesn’t involve getting pregnant!”

“Hey!” Mary’s face turned red. “That’s not-! …An… unreasonable grading standard…” she mumbled, averting her eyes towards the floor.

Kim looked a little green in the face. “S-so, so what? We shouldn’t even try, just because of them?”

“No, I mean, of course we can still have the threesome,” Nick clarified. “Just, without an audience. Dani, you feel the same way, right? Help me out here.”

Dani flinched. “Huh? Uh…” She had just been debating whether or not to have a threesome at all, she’d already moved well past the “audience” part. But now that Nick was bringing her back into this, she remembered how this all started.

And the way he was looking at her…

That’s it. That’s what he’s doing… I expressed that I was uncomfortable with the idea of a threesome in front of the others, but I was too proud to tell them to leave for my sake. So Nick found a convincing argument for why we shouldn’t do it in front of an audience, that didn’t have anything to do with my feelings on the matter.

Of course, if Dani wasn’t comfortable having sex in front of the others, that was reason enough not to do it. But Dani was too considerate to actually say that out loud. So Nick… Nick had found a way. He was doing it for Kim’s sake, but from the way he looked at her, she could tell he was doing it for her sake, as well.

Nick… what a guy.

“…I think you’re right, Nick. Sorry, guys, but would it be okay if you stayed in the kitchen? At least… until we’re done here?” Dani turned to them and asked politely, giving the other women a gentle, comfortable, but firm smile.

It was strange. Dani had been so torn just a second ago, and yet without even knowing there was an issue Nick had completely blown away all her concerns and fears. She could do this now, the threesome. More than that, she wanted to do it.

I guess I was just getting into my own head again. Making up excuses for why I didn’t want to do this. But I shouldn’t have been worried. This is Nick we’re talking about. He would take care of me. He wouldn’t do anything to make me feel uncomfortable or pressured. I was so stupid, getting all frazzled for nothing! I almost ruined a great night.

“Aw man… I get it though,” Holly said sheepishly. She headed off to the kitchen with Nola and Mary. “You guys have fun! And try to relax.”

“Thanks, we- we will!” Kim called after her. She was still a little nervous after being reminded of her transformation, since she would have to meet the expectations of two people tonight. But Nick’s words had been enough to ease her concerns. Just by reminding her of her transformation, he’d showed that he was going to put her first tonight, and make this comfortable for her.

Neither Dani nor Kim suspected that the other had been feeling doubtful about this, for many of the same reasons, nor could they ever have guessed that Nick’s gentle reminder to Kim about her transformation had erased most of their concerns.

They glanced at each other, and agreed with just a look that this was something worth trying.

“So… with that, uh… how should we start this, Dani?” Nick asked, looking over at her. “I don’t want to get ahead of myself or anything.”

Dani blinked, surprised.

Then she laughed. “Oh, man… Nick, come on. You need to take more initiative, you know!”

Now that Dani’s concerns had been abated, the arousal she’d been feeling earlier that night returned with a vengeance.

There was only one thing she could think of to really break the ice for all three of them.

Dani leaned forward and kissed Kim on the lips before the other girl could respond.

Maybe that was a dirty move on Dani’s part, kissing the other girl like that. After all, in a lot of ways, you could argue it was a hypocritical gesture given Dani’s own perspectives about respecting consent and sexuality.

On the other hand, if Kim couldn’t accept a simple kiss, there was no way they’d be able to get past a threesome tonight.

Besides, Dani didn’t even use tongue. Not that it would have mattered to Kim if it did. The second she felt the other girl’s lips on hers she stiffened up like a board and her eyes bulged out of her skull in shock. She stood there, paralyzed, until Dani pulled away, leaving the other girl red in the face.

Nick watched from the sidelines with his mouth open.

“…Something like that, maybe,” Dani said with a playful smile, trying to pretend like she hadn’t just done something really embarrassing yet exciting.

“Uh… yeah, I… I get what you mean,” Nick said, nodding slowly. Anything else he had to say on the matter he wasn’t sure would go over well.

Kim blinked, returning to reality like a coma patient awakening after twenty years.

“…W-warn a girl next time!” She sputtered, giving Dani a frantic look and pouting at her. But as far as reactions to a sudden kiss from another girl went, that was a pretty tame one.

Dani laughed, and let out a sigh of relief as the corners of Kim’s mouth tugged up into a smile. The two girls shared a look of understanding, and all three of them knew that tonight was nothing to be worried about. If anything was awkward or uncomfortable, they wouldn’t be judged for it by anyone. They would figure out what to do themselves.