Shopping, Pt. 2

Cassie rests her head next to yours in the couch and closes her eyes, seemingly wanting to just cuddle and sleep uncomfortably in this cramped couch with you. It’s here that you realize that you’re not even a week into this loving relationship with Cassie and you’re already thinking about some fucked up thing like making your cousin want to bang you.

“Penny for your thoughts?” you suddenly hear Cassie ask. “You’ve been distracted since you got that phone call before dinner. Did something happen?” she adds, and here you thought you hid your preoccupation pretty well.

“I-uh, I’m just getting nervous about my date tomorrow with Tanya.” You tell her, not necessarily lying since you are actually nervous about how that date’s going to go. You’re a bit worried about how Tanya will react when you tell her you have a girlfriend already but wouldn’t mind another one. Jeez… just thinking it sounds douchey.

It’s weird how well she can tell that that’s not entirely what’s keeping your mind preoccupied though. “Not going to tell me huh?” she asks before tickling your ribs, making you instinctively react and you hug her around her arms so that she can’t continue her tickling. You can feel her braless chest push into yours with the hug, and your dick reacts instinctively as her body accidentally rubs your crotch. You loosen the hug, not wanting to tempt the fates, or yourself, any further.

“If you really are that nervous about Ms. Tanya, then here are my thoughts on that — you shouldn’t be.” Cassie tells you bluntly, and she smiles at your annoyed face, like the answer was that obvious. “I mean, there’s really nothing more to say. If she doesn’t like you, you still have me; and if she does, you’ll have us both. Sounds like a win-win for you, isn’t it?” Cassie explains.

You stay silent, not wanting to argue the point further. What you’re honestly afraid of is that Tanya does want to date you, but now that you’re with Cassie, she’s not going to want to try even if Cassie’s okay with it. Maybe you should just convert points and buy ‘Normalized Polyamory’ before the date tomorrow, just to avoid being put into that position. Before you can dwell on it any further, Cassie breaks your train of thought.

“But that’s not what’s keeping your mind distracted, isn’t it?” she asks again. “I don’t know what it’s about, and if you don’t want to tell me yet, that’s alright. Just know I’m here to support you.” She assures you, but her statement reminds you of what you’ve been struggling with since Celeste’s phone call.

“What if what I want is something wrong?” You ask her, genuinely curious about her opinion.

“Now I know this isn’t about Ms. Tanya” she responds. “I’m guessing it has something to do with the app, if those are the kind of thoughts you’re having.” Cassie correctly surmises. You stay silent, neither confirming or denying her spot-on analysis.

“You already know how I feel about that.” She tells you, taking your silence as a ‘yes’.

“What if I think there’s something wrong with wanting it then?” you ask, clarifying what you’re struggling with.

“If you really think it’s wrong, then I don’t think you would even consider it.” she answers you.

“You trust me too much.” you tell her.

“You haven’t given me any reason not to.” she quickly replies.

You continue to stare at the ceiling, mulling over what Cassie told you. You agree with her. If you really did think it was wrong, you wouldn’t even give it a single second of consideration. Maybe it was the years of yearning for Celeste clouding your judgment. Then you start thinking to yourself ‘maybe that’s why you got gifted this app’.

Maybe it wanted you to know that your daughter loved and supported you, maybe it wanted you to know that the girl you’ve been babysitting for years has feelings for you and loves you, and maybe it wanted you to know that your forbidden fantasies shouldn’t be all that forbidden.

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“I don’t want you to lose sleep over this.” Cassie says concerned, noticing you’ve been staring at the ceiling all this time. She starts rubbing your chest with her now free hand to calm your nerves. “Is it a new trait?” Cassie asks, once again just reading you like a book. You answer yes, and she asks, “Can you already buy it?”, and you answer yes again.

“Just buy it, Jay.” She advises you.

“It’s not that simple.” You try to reason with her, but she seems adamant that you’re the one overthinking it.

“It is that simple. I trust you. Stella trusts you. On some level, you have to think the universe trusts you for even gifting you the app and making you able to buy that trait in the first place.” she states.

“Just do it Jay, so we can finally go to sleep. Then we’ll wake up tomorrow and you’ll realize the world hasn’t changed as much as you thought it would.” Cassie further encourages you.

With Cassie egging you on, you take out your phone which opens back up to the photo of Celeste you were looking at before hearing Cassie coming towards you. Cassie didn’t seem to notice as she just kept cheering “Do it! Do it! Do it!” under her breath. You open up the app and you go back to the ‘Normalized ****’ Trait and the question that’s been plaguing you for hours.

Normalized **** (200 Love points and 200 Lust points): Everyone accepts the fact that you have a romantic and sexual relationship with your relatives, whether by blood or by law. Relatives no longer have inhibitions against a romantic relationship with you, or inhibitions against finding you as an attractive sexual partner, on the sole reason of your familial relation.

Available points: 330 Friendship points / 200 Love points / 200 Lust points

You have acquired enough points to acquire this trait! Would you like to purchase it now?

YES/NO

“Do it! Do it! Do it!” Cassie keeps chanting like one of those cartoon devils. Maybe you are just overthinking this. Like you said, if you really feel icky about it, it’s not like you can’t stop yourself from going after Celeste if you realize you don’t really want to.

You tap the buy button and confirm your purchase… once.

“Did you do it yet?” Cassie asks. “I—”

“Do it! Do it! Do it!” she starts chanting again.

You confirm it for the second time.

Available points: 330 Friendship points / 0 Love points / 0 Lust points

“I did it.” You inform Cassie, so she can stop chanting. No turning back now.

“I’m guessing this whole thing is about that girl on your phone screen. Was she the one who called?”