“Shit…” Joshua half groaned, drawing the eyes of all the women away from the movie and to him.

“Something wrong?” Natasha asked, tilting her head back, staring up into his face. Sitting between his legs, with her head nestled warmly against his bare chest, she was the first to respond to his exclamation.

“Not really,” Joshua frowned, glancing left and right to look back and forth between Olivia and Rebecca, who snuggled tight against his sides. “Well, kind of,” he admitted, reluctantly. “You guys will find out in a moment,” he warned them. “We were wrong…”

“Wrong on what, dear?” Maria’s soft voice blew teasingly into his ear, as she’d wedged herself behind him to act as his pillow.

“It’s not forty-eight hours,” Joshua sighed. “I just completed rank three advanced and got my six minor points for companion’s familiarity. Rank four takes seventy-two hours to get, not forty-eight,” he informed them, shaking his head softly from side to side.

“Three whole days?!” Olivia gasped in shock. “How the heck are we supposed to do that? That doesn’t seem possible!”

“Umm… Maybe,” Rebecca frowned. “Since we started Friday evening, we just need to hold out until Monday evening. If we skip a day of school, we can last seventy-two hours.”

“I can’t do it,” Joshua sighed, nixing that idea. “My mother is the type to call the school on Monday, just to make certain I made it to class okay.”

“I can call her around school time, Monday morning, dear,” Maria offered. “Let her know I personally drove all of you to school. That should probably ease her mind.”

“And how are we going to keep the school from declaring us absent and calling home?” Joshua asked, uncertain.

“I’ll just call them as your loving sister,” Maria laughed. “It worked before. It should work again, easily enough. If someone is nice enough to break a rule for you once, and they don’t come to regret it,” she advised, “then they’re more likely to break another rule in the future for you. After all, you’re partners in crime already.”

“But,” Natasha warned, “if they ever come to regret it, you’ll never catch another break from them ever again. You’d be the jerk that got them in trouble, and not a friend. They’d remember that.”

“It won’t be a problem for me,” Rebecca shrugged. “Unless it’s a call from the hospital, a cop, or the morgue, my parents don’t care what I do. I’m dying, after all, and they don’t want my last memory of them to be them fussing at me. They’re afraid if they raise their voice, or tell me ‘no’ and upset me, I might just drop dead on them.”

“Well aren’t you the lucky one,” Joshua sighed, sarcastically. “I’m stuck with parents who want to know whenever I sneeze, and on whom I sneezed on.”

“They’re not that bad,” Olivia giggled. “After all, you can spend all evening talking to a naked girl on your phone, and then spend the whole weekend surrounded by nude beauties, without them knowing a thing about it. You can’t be on that tight of a leash!”

“Well… Maybe,” Joshua admitted, grinning happily as he slowly glanced left and right all around. “But if they ever did find out about any of this, they’d probably end up neutering me, or something,” he smirked, half smiling.

“Then I guess we need to make certain that they never find out anything about this House of Decadence,” Rebecca chuckled lightly. “You don’t have to worry though – everyone in here is all on your side. We’ll help keep your secret.”

“After all,” Olivia giggled, ”we’re all your harem-ites, or your concubines. The biggest worry you have to concern yourself over, with this group, is who you’re going to shower your loving on first!”

“Well that’s obvious,” Natasha chuckled happily, as she squirmed her bare back lightly against his chest. “Obviously, it’s going to be me. Olivia is saving herself for prom night. Maria and the young lady Rebecca don’t have any experience in love making. That just leaves it to me to step up and teach out your lordling everything he needs to know to become a man.”

“Now that’s not fair!” Maria instantly objected. “Joshua doesn’t want his first time to be with old, worn-out, second-hand goods! It’s much better for him to choose me for his first, rather than you!”

“Actually,” Joshua chuckled, blushing slightly, “it’s not going to be either of you…”

“Then it’s going to be me,” Rebecca interrupted, sticking her tongue out over at Olivia for some odd reason.

“No,” Joshua corrected, firmly. “It’s not going to be you or Olivia either. I’ve gave this some actual thought, and all you guys talk about saving yourselves to fulfill your dreams – Olivia’s dream is to be wooed and give herself to her lover after a magical night at prom, for example – so I’ve decided I want to do the same. I want my first time to fill all my dreams, and to make it a special moment just for me.”

“Oh! Sounds lovely,” Natasha gushed, her eyes twinkling with the afterimage of an fantastical romance dancing between them. “Tell us about this dream, and we’ll make it come true, no matter what it takes! Who do we need to conquer? What beach, mountain, or park do we need to reserve? Do you need reservations to some exclusive restaurant? Tell us! When we try, we can make dreams reality!”

“Umm… Actually,” Joshua blushed slightly, “my ‘dream’ isn’t really anything that detailed and planned out. I’ve just always kind of, sort of, daydreamed about making out with one of those sexy little supermodels at a beach, or pool, or something…”

“And I bet this little supermodel just so happens to be one of my chosen concubines,” Rebecca laughed, sticking her tongue back out once again towards Olivia. “A little miss Bailee Smithson, to be precise.”

“Oh! That’s great!” Laughing happily, Natasha complexly forgot about the movie they were watching as she excitedly bounced up and sat on the edge of the bed. “We’ve already tamed the young lady, so that solves that problem. Now we just need to set up a nice private pool and a slinky little swimsuit for the young lady, and then we can let our young lord unleash his beast and ravish her thoroughly!

“Maria,” she ordered excitedly, “we’re going to need several cameras and such. We’re definitely going to want to record the first time for them both, so they’ll have something they can look back on in the future and enjoy together!”

“If it wasn’t winter right now, we could do it here,” Maria suggested, laughing lightly as her lady’s enthusiasm was starting to rub off on her.

“I don’t think so,” Joshua said, nixing the idea. “My first time is going to be a golden, magical moment, just for me and my Princess Beauty to bask in.”

“Awwwww! That’s so sweeeet!” Squealing with laughter, Natasha hopped back onto the bed and snuggled back up tight against Joshua’s chest.

‘Phew! I dodged a bullet there,’ Joshua thought to himself. Gradually, he was beginning to learn how to manage all the women currently surrounding him. Natasha, as Olivia’s mother and Maria’s employer, was the absolute leader of the small group, regardless of her position as just a concubine. And, Joshua was learning, as long as he played into her world of passionate fantasy, she wasn’t really that hard to manipulate.

“We might record our first time,” he offered, as a small possibility to keep Natasha happy, “but if we do, we’ll do it just using a set camera, with just the both of us. And the recording will end up being a precious golden memory just for the two of us,” he added, firmly.

“A secret treasure just between the two of you,” Natasha gushed. “It sounds soooo lovely!”

“I’m glad you approve.” Letting out a deep breath, a wave of relief washed over Joshua. Even if all these girls claimed they were his, and even if they all had no problem with it, there wasn’t any way he could perform in front of everyone! He’d never actually been with anyone, and truth be told, he simply wasn’t ‘up’ to the task. The pressure and embarrassment simply wilted his desires into the ground.

Honestly, Joshua didn’t actually care about holding out for a supermodel — he just wanted an excuse to protect his chastity for the weekend! The Companion’s Familiarity task required the three of them to watch each other and not hide, and the idea of trying to make out with one girl, while another was sitting there taking notes and giggling, wasn’t something he could handle. By pushing Bailee as his chosen first partner, he could postpone the issue until his confidence was up and the weekend view-a-thon was over.

Joshua somehow managed to survive the next few days, but he was certain his innocence was forever dead and buried. Most guys, if they knew of the situation he was in, would quickly proclaim themselves willing to trade places with him. After all, what young woman-loving-teen boy doesn’t daydream of being surrounded by naked, willing, women?

Unfortunately, life isn’t like one’s fantasies. If one were to ever imagine a teen girl surrounded by four horny guys — and some old enough to be her father — they’d instantly pity the poor woman, and be full of sympathy for her. To even imagine just the eyes of those dirty men ravishing all over the poor girl, would lead to feelings of sympathy for her. But when it’s a guy surrounded by women instead?? Somehow, the public perception is, “Hell yeah! Lucky bastard!” The only problem? The public are idiots!

Women are every bit as lecherous as men, and once they gather in groups, they egg each other on endlessly — as Joshua could now attest to! Honestly, Rebecca wasn’t so bad; she was simply content to let him know she was available, but there was no pressure on him to take advantage of her, until he was ready to.

The biggest problem for Joshua, during the weekend, was Olivia’s mother — Natasha. Overly energetic, with absolutely no sense of modesty or embarrassment, she enjoyed seeing exactly how many shades of red Joshua could turn, and exactly what might start to get a “rise” out of him. Stretching, wiggling, posing, taunting, teasing, massaging — anything and everything was fair game for her, if she could get a response out of Joshua!

And, once Natasha got started, Maria would quickly get caught up in her pace, and join in to compete with her. Then, once they both got themselves wound up almost into a frenzy, Maria would push Olivia to join in with them!

One guy, teased and taunted endlessly by three laughing, giggling, competing women…

Needless to say, by the time Monday evening rolled around, Joshua was completely physically and mentally exhausted. It wasn’t exactly unpleasant, and he never actually tried to do anything to stop it, but it was completely overwhelming. By the time the system pinged and let him know he’d completed his task, it took several long moments before he blinked his mind back into focus and read the messages.

“Ha. Haha… Hahaha…” Blinking stupidly, Joshua could only chuckle weakly at the notification.

“What? What’s wrong?” Frowning slightly, Rebecca quirked an eyebrow quizzically at Joshua, while still sitting naked in the back of Natasha’s van.

“You won’t believe our reward for this quest,” Joshua muttered, shaking his head in disbelief.

“Why? What’d you get? Is it something juicy?” Giggling lightly, Natasha half hopped in her wheelchair from anticipation.

“Companion’s True Visage,” Joshua told her, reading from the reward prompt. “We’ve earned a skill,” Joshua sighed, sounding disappointed.

“Well that doesn’t sound bad,” Olivia muttered, frowning slightly as she studied Joshua’s reaction. “What’s it do,” she asked, hesitantly? “What’s wrong with it?”

“Well,” Joshua chuckled lightly, “it basically allows me to see the true form of my companion whenever I want.”

“True form?” Rebecca asked, not understanding.

“Basically, from what I can tell by inspecting the skill,” Joshua smirked, “I think it’s some form of x-ray vision. With it, I can look through your clothes and view you girls naked anytime!”

“Well that’s a perverted skill,” Rebecca snorted. “Not that I really mind,” she added, as an afterthought.

“I guess it’s a fitting reward,” Maria chuckled, from the driver’s seat, “since it came from a perverted quest! But, what can one expect,” she shrugged, “since a guy started it.”

“Hey! Hold on a moment,” Joshua declared. “Olivia was the one who found the task first and started it!”

“That’s my girl!” Natasha laughed, praising her.

“And I’ve gotten my reward now,” Olivia smirked, returning a thumbs up back to her mother.

“Me too,” Rebecca assured them. “Companion’s True Visage,” she affirmed, letting Joshua and the two concubines know her and Olivia had gotten the same reward.

“Thank God,” Joshua sighed, and he lethargically started to climb back into his clothes. “I’ve still got chores to do this evening,” he groaned tiredly, “but once those are done, I’m going straight to bed.”

“I think we all are,” Olivia yawned in agreement. Rather than bothering to slide into the dress she’d picked out, she rolled it into a ball and used it as a pillow to rest her head against the inside of the van.

“Do you want us to help you finish up your chores quickly?” Rebecca asked, as she wormed her way back into her pants and slipped her sweater back down over her shoulders. “It wouldn’t take long if we all pitched in,” she offered, helpfully.

“You guys don’t have to,” Joshua assured her, waving his hand dismissively. “All I’ve really got to do is drag in some firewood and drag out the trash. It won’t take me long this evening. I’ll catch up on splitting extra wood tomorrow, when I’m more awake.”

“Good,” Olivia mumbled, as she was already starting to drift off to sleep.

“Well we’ll be at your home in just a moment,” Maria assured him. “Do you got everything you need? You’re not forgetting anything?”

“Yeah, I’m fine,” Joshua assured her, as he lazily rested his head against the inside of the van and groggily tried to imagine what the future might hold for all of them. After all, everyday that passed, was one day closer to the end of the world as they knew it.