“I'll always love you, B, like the little sister I never had," I said gently. "But I'm not in love with you. And I'm not saving my virginity for you."

Belle looked up at me in surprise.

I gave her a tight smile and started to Lift her out of my Lap.

“Hey, wait! We didn't even kiss!" she complained, visibly aroused.

“And we're not going to," I stated evenly, placing her light body back on her feet on the floor beside me. Bracing my hands on the armrests, I pushed myself up to a standing position and turned to face all the girls. "Now that that's out of the way, can we PLEASE let everything go back to normal? I love you all, but I'm not in love with any of you.

How and when I lose my virginity should be up to ME, not just set up when Sam decides to throw a hot girl my way, alright? I really, really just want my friends back. Capisce?"

The girls all looked at each other for a moment. Sam muttered defensively, "I didn't throw Holly at you. She asked permission and we said it would be okay with us. Even though we all went through the exercise of agreeing you're not our boyfriend and we're not going to get jealous, girls don't know that, and they‘re gonna keep asking us if it's okay. Do you want us to NOT give permission the next time a girl asks if she's allowed to fuck you?"

"I'm sorry, that came out wrong." I sighed.

“Of course I want you to give her permission. I mean, in an ideal world, girls wouldn't feel the need to ask your permission in the first place, but I get that my membership in the BTC presents unique challenges to my dating Life."

“You mean lack of dating life," Zofi remarked.

“If you want to really convince us you're not saving your virginity for one of us, go on a date for the first time in a year."

“Is that what you really want?”

"Yes!" Zofi exclaimed while Naimh simultaneously said "No!"

Everyone turned to look at Naimh, who blushed pink and exclaimed,

“What? I rather Like having Matty all to ourselves. Do you all really

WANT him to find a girlfriend, commit to her, and start spending all his time with her instead of us? You wanna have some girlfriend start bitching at you when you get the urge to sit in his lap and grind yourself?"

“No, of course not," Sam said. "But in all fairness, we all know Matty would never stop one of us from meeting a boy and going out on a date."

"It doesn't matter," I interrupted. "It's a moot point, because I'd never do that to you. I Love you all and I love being part of the club more than anything else in the world. I would never risk losing you girls by dating someone else."

Belle frowned. "So you ARE saving yourself for us.”

I hedged, “It's not that I'm expecting one of you to take my virginity.

Truly, I'm not. I'm just saying I know that if I'd actually banged

Holly, it would have affected my relationships with all of you."

Sam shook her head.

“Didn't we all agree we'd be fine with it? Or do I actually need notarized affidavits?"

“No, no.“ I laughed but then took on a serious look.