Chapter 8

I stood up and waded into the center of the hot tub. Five sets of eyes looking up at me. Two feet reaching out to rub my leg under the water.

“Hi.” I said.

“Hi!” Emi said.

“Oh, god, what’s she doing now?” Iggy giggled and rolled her eyes.

“What’re you doing?” Dawn asked, a little nervously. Directed at me, not Emi.

“Slave auction,” Ray said.

I happily turned around for everyone. Emi oohed and ahhed my butt. Which she kicked with her toes.

“I’ll give two goats and four chickens!” Emi shouted.

“That’s a lot of milk and eggs,” I rubbed my jaw, smugly.

“No milk. No eggs. Meat.” Emi declared.

“Oh my god!” Iggy reclined back, her tits breaking the water, as the momentum of her eye-roll carried her whole body.

“Seriously,” a red-faced Anna caught my attention. “Why’re you up in the middle?”

“Maybe he just needed a real woman?” Ray suggested.

“Don’t pick fights,” I said. Ray turned her pale sheepish face downwards. “In fact,” I reached out a hand to her. She took an elbow from Iggy to get to her feet. Ray only took my hand once she had stood up under her own power. I twisted and reached a hand to Anna.

“Wait!” Ray said, but did nothing to make me wait.

Anna laid a hand in mine. I slid my grip down to her wrist and pulled her with my whole body. She stood up quickly, and rolled herself down my arm to lay her back against my chest. I got whipped in the face by mostly wet hair.

“Tasty,” I said, spitting out blonde.

“Wow, hold still,” Ray reached up and picked one of the hairs out of my mouth. Anna wiggled her butt across my dick and settled on my side. My waving member sprung back and said hello to Emi and Iggy. Dawn couldn’t see through Ray’s butt.

Emi waved back. Iggy watched Emi and then did one better shoving two fingers in her mouth from each hand and wolf-whistling loud enough for the entire pack.

Ray hadn’t been paying attention to Iggy. The shock of the loud whistle made her jump. She let go of my hand and I reached around her waist to steady her. I quarter-turned Anna and Ray so we all faced Iggy, Dawn, and Emi.

I cleared my throat.

“Hear ye! Hear ye!” Iggy and Emi said together, giggling. They quickly started poking and tickling each other in revenge for having the same joke.

I cleared my throat.

“I’ve got cough drops in my bag,” Dawn said, reaching for the rim to climb out. I reached over with a foot and pushed her down into the seat.

“For my birthday,” I pulled Ray and Anna closer to me. Anna’s hand skated warmly over my chest. Ray glared at Anna and then pinched my butt. When I put my heels back on the floor, I continued. “My mother gave me a magic potion that would turn my favorite girl into my little love slave.”

“Who’s it going to be?” I’d never see Iggy’s bright giggly face get that dark, that quickly.

“Well,” I said, to her, “I was having all of my girls over. The best people in the world.”

“That’s true.” Emi breathed on her fingernails and polished them on her tit. Anna grabbed my chin and lifted my gaze out of Emi’s chest.

“So that’s what we’re going to do today?” Dawn asked. “Become your love slaves?”

She didn’t make it through her questions without laughing. She shook her head and covered her face with her bangs, which were wet and stuck on either side of her nose. “I’m sorry. Your mom’s a kook.”

“Still,” I said. “I’m gonna give it a try.”

“I want a turn!” Iggy said.

“Yeah you do,” Emi said. “I wanna go with Anna and Dawn. Which girls did you want, Iggy?”

“Girls?” Iggy crossed her arms and then touched her cheek as she tilted her head and thought about it. “You and Anna!”

“Good taste,” Emi elbowed Iggy.

“Well, you can have your turn soon enough.” I said. “Ray, I missed you and I’m so glad you made it out today. Anna, I love you. You should’ve told me you slept with Theo.”

“So you could’ve been jealous too?” Anna was angry-blushing.

I shook my head.

“Because, I’m proud of you,” I said. “Theo’s awesome. I’m glad to know you made a good decision.”

“What?”

“I need my hand for a second, Ray,” I said.

“OK...” she let go of my fingers. I reached over, took Anna’s spare hand and lifted it above her head. Her wet palm, and mine, thunder-clapped a nearly-100%-accurate high five.

“What?” Anna said. She looked up at her hand as I snaked mine back around Ray’s hip again. She grabbed my fingers on the far side of her like a wild west gunslinger getting ready to draw.

“Theo slept with you and Ray,” I said. “That was years ago. It’s time for you guys to forgive each other. To be friends again. When I--” I looked over at Iggy. She noticed me staring hard and her eyes grew wide. “--make love to a great friend. I expect high fives.”

“That all?” Emi said. “I’ll suck your--”

“Emi...” Iggy said, unsheathing her elbow from Emi’s liver.

“I’m more of a hug and head pats kinda girl,” Dawn said.

“I’ll high five you,” Ray said, grinning.

“I’ll smack the shit out of your hand so badly that you’ll need to go back to Iggy ‘cause I broke your...” Anna made a crude gesture symbolizing masturbation, “ ... hand.”

“We already have one Emi!” Emi shouted at Anna.

“I could go for two of you,” Iggy said, hugging Emi.

“You’re lucky Iggy’s bipolar, Anna!”

“I am not!” Iggy giggled. “I’m obsessive compulsive.” She smiled and harrumphed.

“No, you’re not, slob-girl,” Dawn sighed. “Obsessive compulsive is--”

“My turn,” I said. “Shh!”

Dawn clamped her jaw shut and wasn’t sure if she wanted to apologize or glare at me.

“Good girl!” I said, as to a puppy.

Glare at me. She wanted to glare at me.

“Anyway,” I said, squeezing Ray and Anna. “As my first act as super-powered love slave making master and god.”

“Sex god!” Emi cheered.

“What other kind would he be?” Iggy shook her head. She caught my eye and roughly grabbed Emi around the mouth. “We’re shushing! We’re shushing!”

“I am demanding that my girls get along and forgive each other,” I said. “Anna--”

“Why me first?”

“Because you’re my right hand girl,” I said. Referring to having her in my right hand and Ray in my left.

“Oh, OK.” That argument worked perfectly. I was needlessly shocked. “I guess, I can forgive you for moving on the guy I liked and sleeping with him, like a slut.”

“That’s not very forgiving,” I said.

“It’s actually more than I expected,” Ray said.

“Well I expect the very best out of Anna,” I said.

“You do?” Anna said. She was uplifted and shamed all at once. She took a deep breath and bought an extra moment sweeping her bangs out of her face. “Ray, just because I think of you as a slut, doesn’t mean I don’t want to think of you as a friend again.”

“Wow,” Ray said.

I stared hard at Anna.

“Aaannnddd ... I totally get why you wanted to say good-bye to Theo the same way I did. I just--I’m sorry I didn’t actually think it was such a true good-bye, and I took it out on you.”

I looked at Ray.

“That’s excellent. I--I’m hurt you were so quick to tear me down,” Ray said... “I’m sorry I ... slept with the guy you liked. Even if I really liked him, loved him too.”

She spoke really slowly to keep any ums and uhs from her voice. “I forgive you too?”

I looked back and forth. I tried to see if it stuck. I think it did. I breathed in hard. I still didn’t smell anything. I arched out my jaw and tried to breathe up my nose.

“Yeah, there’s a little still there,” Anna said, watching me.

“Well, I--Thank you both,” I pulled them in for a tight three way hug. Anna took to me like lightning. I had to pull Ray progressively harder. They still didn’t hug each other. I met Anna’s eyes.

“OK,” she said. “It’s not just saying ‘I forgive you’, is it?”

“No, I want you to--” really forgive her.

Ray shrieked as Anna grabbed the pale faced girl and kissed her on the lips. It wasn’t a sexy romantic kiss. In fact, it reminded me more like the kiss of death at the end of The Godfather. I worried.

“Group hug!” Iggy tackled into Ray and Anna as the kiss broke apart. Dawn raced Emi, and lost, to tangle everyone into a mess. I didn’t have to slip. I made us all fall on purpose.

We were kicking, giggling, and splashing as we twisted out of each other’s arms and ended up in a tight circle kneeling in the center. Iggy popped up all of the way and set her foot on my chest. I looked down at her cute wiggling toes. She pushed me backwards and I flailed, but I was on my knees and not really in risk of tumbling over. Anna still grabbed me.

“Where are you going?” Iggy grabbed Anna’s arm and then Emi’s hand. “It’s my turn!”

“Your turn for what?” I asked.

“Play master-goddess make girls do things!” Iggy said. “We all want a turn, right?”

“Yeah!” Emi shouted.

“OK,” Dawn said.

“I don’t know,” Ray looked around.

“Oh, shut up,” Anna said. She grabbed Ray’s shoulder and pushed her into me. “Go sit with Lucas and watch Iggy do her silly thing.”

Ray looked from me to Anna to me to Anna to Dawn, Emi, and then Iggy. All nods. All sincere. I think it really worked. I mean the Love Potion. Like, girls don’t just throw away four-year-long grudges on some strange kiss.

“You’re not going to stop me being so pervy around your boyfriend?” Emi worried.

“I don’t think Lucas would like me being that psycho-jealous,” Iggy laughed.

Anna and Emi breathed sighs of relief. I looked at Anna. She blushed as she always did.

Ray and I had taken our seat. Dawn took hers, sliding her ass right to the stairs so she could see around the girls in the middle to see Ray and me.

“Oh stop being like that,” I reached across the stairs and dragged Dawn through the water.

“I’m hardly going to fit,” Dawn worried.

“There’s always room on top.” I pulled her down sidesaddle on my lap. Ray looked down at Dawn’s legs and pulled them up across her own legs. Dawn looked at Iggy.

“Besides, if I stopped you from being a perv, don’t you think Lucas would try to fill the vacuum?”

“I guess so,” Emi said.

“No one could ever replace Emi’s perviness,” I said.

She curtsied and smiled. “Thank you!”

“My turn!” Iggy shouted sharply. “Alright ... So, Lucas likes it when his girls make good choices with boys and, except for Theo,” Iggy looked at Anna. “You’ve got even worse taste than this one.”