Harem House - Selene Pt. 13

"Seriously, though." Kat said again. "We should talk to Kelly sooner rather than later. Maybe we can talk to Arthur and get everyone together in one place."

Selene bit her bottom lip.

"Not like that!" Kat slapped her sister's arm. "To talk. To make everything official and figure things out. We don't want Kelly being okay with Arthur dating other people but not okay with, y'know, us."

Selene nodded. "No, I get it. I agree." She made a turn without using her blinker but remembered to turn it on halfway through when Kat cleared her throat. "Kelly's really nice. I think you'll like her."

Kat smirked. "I know who she is." She sat back in her chair and tightened her grip on the armrest. "Her roommate is on my volleyball team. Katelyn. She's great, but the group calls us the Kats sometimes, which I hate. They're not always the wittiest." Kat frowned. "Never had many occasions to talk to Kelly, though."

"Well, now we do." Selene giggled. "We just need to figure out how to say it. Maybe Katelyn can give you some insight into how to approach Kelly?"

Kat racked her brain, but try as she might, she didn't know how to ask her friend how to best approach her roommate about their group relationship with Arthur. There was no precedent in her mind for that kind of conversation. She could try and google it, but her experience navigating that kind of thing on the web told her she wouldn't find much helpful information.

"It went pretty well with Mindy." Kat reminded her. "Let's just do that."

Selene nodded. "Once she had a chance to process it, yeah. I'm glad Mindy's into the idea."

Mindy was surprised, obviously, but once the surprise was overcome, she seemed intrigued by the idea and then enthusiastic. She was undoubtedly embracing the sisterhood of it now.

"She seems to enjoy having a sort of sisterhood." Kat observed. "I can't say it's a bad idea, each of us looking out for the other like you and I do."

"It's easy to look out for each other when it's for Arthur." Selene smiled and reached over to pat her sister's arm but put her hand back on the steering wheel as the car beside her honked at them.

"I'll never know how you ever passed your driving exam." Kat muttered. That it had taken Selene four tries, that she'd had to retake the written exam, and that she hadn't managed to get her driver's license until her Sophomore year in college were things Kat tried to forget every time Selene drove.

"I'm a good driver!" Selene protested.

Kat's lips pressed together into a thin line of disagreement.

"Well, I'm okay." Selene shrugged.

Kat shook her head and tried to take a deep breath. "Red light!"

Selene giggled. "Using a safety word to get me to let you drive instead? Really?"

"No! RED LIGHT!" Kat pointed forcefully forward as Selene slammed on the brakes just in time. The car made a squealing noise in protest, and Kat would swear in court that the front bumper of their shared car came within less than a quarter inch of the rear bumper of the vehicle in front of them.

The two sat still as stones, both in shock at the near-miss, until Selene giggled.

"Jesus!" Kat smacked Selene's arm.

Selene continued to giggle until it bubbled up into full-grown laughter. She was laughing so hard she could hardly breathe. Nearly bent over double in her seat as she held onto the steering wheel.

"What the fuck is the matter with you?" Kat looked at her, still trying to calm her racing heart.

Selene was still laughing. "The..." She panted. "Red..." She laughed and slapped the steering wheel. "Light!"

Kat looked at her sister and then realized what she'd said when Kat pointed out the red light. It'd gotten lost in the panic of Selene's obliviousness for a moment, but once she found it again, Kat started giggling too.

The light changed to green, and the cars in front of them started to move forward, so Selene did her best to regain her composure after giving the car in front of them some time to put a decent gap between them. She was still giggling.

"We have to tell Master about that." Selene chuckled.

"You mean, Arthur?" Kat asked with a giggle. "You've called him that a few times now, you know. You really shouldn't be calling him that outside of play. Otherwise, you might slip up, say it in front of your friends or something." She was still laughing at the stoplight and added fresh laughter at the idea of Selene embarrassing herself by calling Arthur 'Master' at the wrong moment.

"Hm." Selene hummed. "It's okay when it's just you and me, right? And maybe Mindy?"

Kat's laughter died down now, and she looked at Selene for a few moments as they drove. "You really get off on calling him Master, don't you?"

Selene smiled softly. "It's not that. It's..." She hesitated, trying to think of a way to say it that didn't make her sound crazy. "It's comforting to think of him as my Master. It makes me feel safe, cared for, protected, whatever." Selene shrugged and tapped the thin leather collar around her throat. "It's why I like wearing this. It's a reminder of him every time I feel it or see it in the mirror."

"I get it." Kat said after a while. "He made me feel that way in the shower. It was awkward, being naked but casual with him...." She thought back to him washing them down and felt herself respond. There was a simplicity in nudity around him and a sense of security. That secure feeling was almost as addictive a feeling as the arousal. "Well, I'm fine if it's just the two of us." Kat shrugged. "But you really should be careful who you say it around."

Selene nodded and stopped protesting, which was as much agreement on the issue as Kat felt she was likely to get.

"Slow down." Kat warned as they pulled onto campus. "Yellow light."

Selene giggled but slowed down all the same. The campus security jeep parked just behind the dumpsters was disappointed at the lack of tickets they could pass out today. They watched Selene and Kat roll past them just under the 15 mph speed limit posted around campus. Plenty of students were out and about today, enjoying one of the last warm, sunny autumn days before the weather eventually turned cold. Selene parked in the lot closest to the dorms and then pulled out her phone to call Mindy.

"What dorm are you in, and where?" Selene asked quickly.

Mindy laughed. "I'm in the Washington building. First floor, Suite 2."

"Okay. See you in like two minutes." Selene hung up as she and Kat exited the car. The walk to the dorm was quick, with Selene always a few paces ahead of Kat. Mindy was waiting for them just inside the dorm and led them swiftly to her suite. The old halls were surprisingly familiar yet exceedingly maze-like, even if they only had to make a few turns before they came to Mindy's door.

Selene and Kat had both lived in the dorms, but not together. They had been in different buildings rooming with other girls, but almost every college dorm building was the same. Two bedrooms linked to a common suite room, one on either side. Each bedroom had two beds, two desks, two dressers, and two closets with barely enough room for clothes. Bare, they all looked the same. After Orientation weekend, they were postered and decorated with all the bits of personality their occupants could craft, bring from home, or purchase from local stores.

Mindy's suitemates were absent, but Selene and Mindy hardly noticed as they made their way through the beige-painted room decorated with paper flowers on the walls. The U-shaped sofa in the middle of the space surrounding a small coffee table was a nice touch, but there was no TV and a mini-fridge on either side of the room. The names Ji-Min and Penelope were splattered across the bedroom door to the right as they entered, cut out in paper and decorated with flowers.

Mindy shoved them through the door and then closed it behind her. The pile of clothes on the bed was even more enormous in person, as though Mindy had emptied her entire dresser and closet onto the bed and became overwhelmed at the hopelessness of choosing entirely because she had too many options.

Her mattress couldn't be seen for all the clothes on it. Her roommate's bed bore a simple blue quilt and pillow, made neatly and piled high with stuffed animals of all shapes and sizes. Mindy's half of the room was decorated with boy bands that neither Selene nor Kat recognized, not being familiar with Korean pop, and bands of girls in gothically stylized lolita dresses wielding heavy-metal guitars and instruments. Selene was distractedly captivated by all of it.

On the other hand, her roommate had posters of bands they had heard of and cringed at seeing.

"Is your roommate a youth pastor?" Selene scoffed and then felt apologetic. She knew Mindy said she'd gone to church that morning, which she was still trying to reconcile with her being okay with this unconventional relationship. She'd said her parents were more traditional, so she assumed it was a thing they made her do, but she didn't want to ask.

"No." Mindy shook her head. "But her dad is."

Selene almost laughed. She'd been teasing Arthur about Mindy's roommate being a prude, but to find out it was true seemed as though she were a prophet. She wondered what he would say if he ever discovered it or what Mindy's roomie might say if she ever discovered Mindy was part of a harem.

"Wow." Kat said with a slight laugh as she took in the in-person size of Mindy's pile of clothes. "Well... I guess we should pick you something slutty to wear before she gets back. Let's get started. Selene... what's Arthur's favorite color?"

"Red." Selene said without hesitation.

Mindy looked as though she felt she should have known that. "Any color he doesn't like?"

Selene had to think about that one for a moment. "Not that I'm aware of?"

Kat nodded and then immediately took command of the situation. "Alright, let's get sorting. Take all the pants off the bed right now. We know he prefers skirts and dresses."

"I have a lot of those." Mindy said apologetically. "Skirts and dresses, I mean."

Kat nodded but had already started pulling jeans, tights, leggings, and anything else trouser-shaped off the bed and threw them onto the floor.

"What about shorts?" Selene asked.

"Shorts can come off too." Kat decided.

Mindy nodded and moved to help. Between the three, they sifted through the pile pretty quickly, even if they sometimes tossed a skirt or dress into one another's pile. The mountain on the bed was smaller now, with about a quarter of the original mass on her floor.

"I don't see any underwear here." Kat looked toward Mindy. "Do you already have some picked out?"

"I..." Mindy hesitated. "I know you said he liked lingerie, but I wasn't sure what kind, so I bought a bunch."

"Okay." Kat agreed. "Clothes first. Then we'll sift through your undies."

Selene smirked slightly as she lifted up a crop top. "Okay, so... top and skirt combo, or a dress?" Selene asked. "I think he prefers dresses, but what are you more comfortable in?"

"Do you have any red dresses?" Kat asked Mindy.

"The one I showed you on face time." Mindy said. "But it's a little too short, I think."

"Any others?" Selene asked, hopefully.

"Not here." She shook her head. "I have a red Christmas dress at my parents,' but it's a little out of season."

"Any red tops?" Selene asked.

"No... wait, yes. I have this sweater." She yanked out a red sweater that was open in the front, and the top was much shorter than the sleeves. "It's a cropped sweater, open front, ties in front in little bows, see?" She held it up, hopefully.

"It's cute!" Selene said enthusiastically. It didn't look particularly warm, with how little of it there was. It was, however, a cute accent piece to an outfit.

Mindy groaned. "We don't need cute! We need sexy! I want him to look at me and want to rip my clothes off!"

Kat shook her head, which caused her curls to bounce. "He's too much a gentleman for that. He's going to treat you like a princess, especially on your first date."

Mindy seemed to frown at that. "I knew I should have made a move on him in the storage closet."

Selene giggled. "You had him in the storage closet?"

"At work." Mindy smirked. "We had to empty out the storage closet of all the marketing materials because there was a leak. We were alone there for a few seconds at a time. He was all dressed up but slowly getting more casual as he got hot and sweaty moving all those boxes...." Mindy seemed to trail off in thought as her sentence trailed off in volume.

Selene and Kat smirked at her, but they were picturing it too, even if they couldn't recall it from memory.

"Well, you missed your chance. Next time, go for it." Selene teased her.

Kat laughed. "Until then, there's no escaping him treating you well."

"You have to tell him if you want something else." Selene reminded Mindy. "Like, I have to remind him sometimes to be firm with Kat because she can be a brat."

"And I remind him to treat Selene like a slut, because that's what she is." Kat spat back.

Mindy laughed. "So his default is to treat me like a princess unless I tell him to treat me like a whore?"

Kat and Selene nodded, still sifting through her clothes.

"Which one do you want?" Kat asked. "If you want to dress like a whore, we just need to find the dress with the least amount of fabric."

"Maybe somewhere in between?" Selene suggested when she saw that Mindy looked nervous.

Mindy nodded, her dark black hair falling forward. She pushed it back behind her ear, picked up a long maxi dress, and threw it to the floor.

"So slutty, but not too slutty. Something, a little classy, maybe?" Kat asked. Sifting through the clothes on the bed was an almost Sisyphean labor. It felt like every time she got to the bottom of her pile, it grew back from Selene, making way through hers.

"How about this?" Selene asked as she plucked a dress from the pile and held it against Mindy.

Mindy stepped back from the bed and stood straight so the dress could fall against her. It was a black cotton dress that seemed to fall to her knees, but it was shapeless, and its high neckline and capped sleeves wouldn't show off any of her curves.

"Hm..." Kat looked at Mindy holding the dress against herself and shook her head. "No. Nothing black. We want to show off your shape. Your assets, right?"

Mindy seemed to think about it for a moment and then nodded.

"Okay. Everything black, off the bed." Kat pointed her thumb over her shoulder to the pile of clothes in Mindy's closet.

Removing all of the black clothes reduced Mindy's pile by another quarter. They were getting closer, and Selene was excited by some of the prospects. She held up a yellow crop top that would have shown off any abs Mindy might have. Arthur would be into that, being so into fitness and clearly enjoying Kelly's muscular definition.

"This is cute." Selene said, offering it up to Mindy.

"Ugh. Yellow and red, no. She's not a traffic light." Kat said. Then she and Selene giggled so simultaneously that Mindy was sure she missed a joke.

"Did I miss something?" Mindy asked.

"Sorry." Selene giggled. "Our safewords with Arthur are red light when we need to stop and yellow light when we need to slow down."

"Oh." Mindy nodded. "Oh!" She giggled. "Should I just wear green, then?" The other two answered in giggles. "And I guess I should decide on a safeword."

"Only if you intend to find yourself in a situation where you might need to use it." Kat shrugged.

Mindy looked at Selene. They both blushed and looked away.

"Or just use red light, yellow light." Kat suggested. "Less for Arthur to have to remember."

"I think he can keep it all straight." Selene defended Arthur, to no one's surprise. "But you can use it if you want to." Selene nodded.

Mindy nodded but didn't say whether she would use it. She kept moving her clothes around but tossed the yellow top onto the pile in her closet. She picked out the rest of the yellow and tossed it aside.

"What about this?" Selene asked, and she held up a white dress. Its waist was narrow and cinched. The top looked like it was barely there, but Kat realized it was because it was a backless halter dress. The straps looked like it had a low neckline too.

"I usually wear that with a sweater over it." Mindy explained.

"Perfect!" Kat cried out as she held up the red cropped sweater. "Between the two of these, you have an outfit!"

Selene clapped. "Let's see them on you."

Mindy nodded and peeled off her t-shirt in a blink.

"Not shy at all?" Kat asked with a slight laugh.

Mindy looked surprised. "I'm sorry, I thought it-"

"She's just teasing you." Selene assured her. "We've all been in a locker room. We're all sisters here, and this is your room. Go for it."

Mindy nodded and finished stripping down as she stepped out of her pajama pants, leaving her in a black sports bra and a pair of white cotton panties.

Kat couldn't help but look her over, comparing Mindy's toned legs to her thick ones.

Mindy put on the dress and quickly tied the straps of the halter into a bow behind her neck. Then she put on the sweater.

"Looks good!" Selene gave her the thumbs up.

"Hm..." Kat seemed to consider it for a moment. "I think it's missing something...."

Selene looked at Kat and then back at Mindy. She thought it over and looked Mindy over as she stood there awkwardly, holding her hands in front of her and looking down. When Mindy looked up, Selene finally knew what might be missing.

"Do you have any chokers?" Selene asked. "He likes collars."

Mindy's eyes flicked to the thin leather collar around Selene's throat and then to Kat's bare neck.

"I only wear a collar when I'm playing. Otherwise, it's hung up next to the door, remember?" Kat smirked. "But a choker isn't a bad idea if you have any cute ones and don't mind things against your throat."

"You seem to get over that quickly when Master puts that collar on you." Selene stuck her tongue out at her sister.

Kat shrugged. "It's... different. And temporary." She defended. "Do you have any?" She asked Mindy.

"Or I can lend you one." Selene suggested. "But not this one." She pressed her fingers against the thin leather strap around her throat possessively.

"And it's too late to run back to the apartment." Kat reminded her.

"We have time." Selene said, glancing at the clock. "If I drive fast..."

Kat shook her head. "If you want to drive back to the apartment and grab a choker for her, go for it."

"I have some." Mindy finally got a word in edgewise. She opened the top drawer of her dresser and rooted around a bit. Then she finally seemed to find what she was looking for. It was a long strip of deep red velvet with thin black string laces tied through the thread-reinforced holes at either end.

"Perfect." Selene smiled. "You can tie the laces into a bow to match the sweater!"

Kat nodded her approval. "And we need to do something about your legs...." She said after a moment. "You're wearing heels, right?"

"Yeah." Mindy said as she raised her arms to tie the choker. Selene moved to help her. The velvet strip wrapped around her neck nearly twice. Then the thin black strings tied off into a lovely little bow in the front. "I figured socks? Since we're bowling?"

Selene shook her head. "Something classy and slightly reminiscent of the office?" Selene suggested. "Stockings?"

"Won't those get in the way?" Kat asked.

"I have knee-high socks." Mindy suggested.

"Hm... those might be cute." Selene nodded.

"But we don't want cute." Kat reminded her on Mindy's behalf.

"Do you have thigh highs?" Selene suggested.

"Only the garter-belt kind." Mindy shrugged.

"That's even better." Kat assured her. "Something tells me Arthur will love a good garter belt."

"Let's call it submissive intuition." Selene suggested.