Waking up alone.

The sound of a quick knock on the door of the bedroom awakened me from my nap. I must have dozed off at some point but was shocked to find myself alone in the bed. That... that hadn't just happened, had it? No... no two ways about it, I had just had... sex with Imogene.

There was a part of me that hated myself. She depended on me, dammit. I was the good guy, the responsible one! I shouldn't have taken advantage of... she was ****, and she needed a place to stay and... I felt like an absolute bastard.

No, that's what she would have wanted me to think, I realized. If she had been alone with me and made it special like she had wanted, she would have had something that she would have held over me until the end of time. Probably would have announced it to Kaila at the most inopportune moment, and in a manner that would ensure we would have yet another pause...

Well, at least there would have been another good session of make up sex to look forward to, I snickered. I could hear the soft sound of conversation, and occasional laughter in the now familiar voices of my little... I didn't want to use the word harem, because it seemed so hokey. And really, they weren't just all for me, I didn't OWN any of them. They just... wanted to be with me. I didn't get it. I still didn't get WHY they...

The rap at the door repeated.

"Hey Brent! Quit goldbricking and get your ass out here!" Helen's voice through the door was followed by a chorus of laughs and chuckles from the front room. Looks like the Girls were back. But gotta remember to never call them that because... aaaack... I was gonna need a damn chart to remember this. Maybe we should color coordinate... Helen's gotta be blue...

That was really, really weird. Here I was trying to gather up my clothes, trying to slip into them, having just had sex with... I still couldn't believe that It had happened. I pulled the last button through its loop, and quickly tried to banish the whiteboard that had appeared in my mind's eye.

"I'm on my way! Gimme a second to actually, you know, look human!" I shouted back through the door. I opened the small door that led to the hallway, then immediately crossed to the bathroom. The place looked... well, pretty well trashed. I wasn't sure whose stuff was whose, but... there was a lot of it. Of course, I was used to this, I lived with two women...

A sudden shiver went through me as I thought about everything I'd talked about with Kaila over the last day. I quickly splashed some water on my face, and tried to get the combination of sweat and bedhead out of my hair. It did work, but it took a lot longer than I expected.

"Brent! Did you fall in? C'mon!" The familiar voice of my wife resounded from the main room.