Neevie's little Girlfriend of the Week experiment - and none of the rest of us wanting our own week right now - the timing kind of worked out perfectly."

"I told you," Naimh jumped in, "the whole point of this in the first place was to give you some perspective and be able to compare different kinds of relationships. Adding Holly only helps in that regard, both as someone with a different personality from the rest of us and someone from outside the BTC. You'll get the experience of dating someone you haven't been friends with for a long time already.”

“You want me to date her?" I asked a Little incredulously.

Belle jumped in.

“You can do whatever you want with her, including absolutely nothing. We're giving her a trial week; she gets Zofi's slot."

I blinked twice. "You mean she gets Zofi's ‘Girlfriend of the Week’ slot?"

“Exactly.” Sam shrugged.

“Same as Mari or Alice."

“But your week with Mari wasn't the same as your week with Alice and won't be the same as with Holly," Belle elaborated. "What you decide to do - or not do - with Holly is completely up to you. I mean, we do consider you the property of the BTC, but that doesn't mean we can just loan you out against your will."

I frowned.

“But... we barely know each other.”

“That's the point." Sam looked at me like I was a three-year-old who needed her guidance to find the bathroom, and in a similar tone she spelled out slowly, “Hence... the three of us Leaving the two of you alone for a bit..."

I frowned.

“Are you all just expecting me to whip it out on command and service her?"

“No, no of course not," Sam insisted while shaking her head obviously in the negative. Meanwhile, Belle was likewise shaking her head and giving me a Look that said I'd never be forced into doing anything I didn't want to. But Naimh was nodding her head up and down, giving me a big smile with two thumbs up.

My eyelids dropped halfway as I deadpanned, “I'm getting mixed messages here."

"You need notarized affidavits?" Sam sighed and gestured to Holly.

“We cleared this with all six of us. You're not required to whip it out on command and service her, but you do have everyone's explicit permission if you want to. We already know SHE wants to. She won't fucking shut up about you at school and it's getting on my nerves."

Holly shrugged. "I've wanted to finish what we started Last summer for this entire freaking school year. And whatever the hell you're doing to keep six hot babes like these completely satisfied week after week, I want in."

"I can barely keep up with six of you," I said to the BTC girls. "Now you want to add a seventh?"

“For a week. Just a week," Belle stated firmly.

“We'll see how it goes," Sam added with a shrug.

“I do feel bad for shutting her out all this time, especially since you Left her high and dry the last time."

“She definitely wasn't dry," I argued.

“I made sure of that."