Arthur's visit to Dreamland was interrupted throughout the night by various sounds and discomforts. For all his usual displeasure at being woken up from slumber by a numb arm or an uncomfortable elbow in his side, he couldn't complain. Every time he opened his eyes to see his five girlfriends cuddled, huddled, and piled against him beneath the queen-sized blanket, he was waking into a dream. Was it the best night's sleep he'd ever gotten? No. Was it the best night he'd ever spent on a makeshift pile of blankets in his two-bedroom apartment? Absolutely.
Wednesday night drifted into Thursday morning in lazy waves of sleep, waking, comfort, and discomfort until finally, Arthur realized that dawn was drawing near, inevitable as any shore. He stretched and found the movement impeded by Kelly on his right and Kat on his left, whose legs trapped his. Mindy was straddling his waist, her legs also trapped by the other two, her head on his chest as though his pecs were a pillow. She blinked awake as she felt him stir, and the soft noise she made in protest of the waking world was the cutest thing Arthur had ever heard.
They were young. They would recover from an uncomfortable night's sleep within an hour or two of wakefulness. And it was worth it. For Arthur, at least.
He made a mental note to get more bedding. He needed more pillows and blankets. Especially if they were going to have a repeat of this on Saturday after Homecoming. He had no idea how he would pull that off with the grumpy downstairs neighbors. Maybe Selene and Kat would be willing to host on Saturday.
Once they all moved into his parent's house, that problem would take care of itself. A California King bed would sleep them all if they wanted, and far more comfortably.
Arthur felt stiff, his lower back hurt with a dull ache, and his limbs were numb in places and tingling in others. Beyond all of that, however, forcing its way to the front of his body's protests with all the delicate grace of an off-road 200 mph garbage truck was his bladder. There was a significant amount of pressure on it from Mindy sleeping on top of him, and he felt like if he moved the wrong way, he would burst through his skin.
Unfortunately, there was no way to slowly or gracefully extricate himself without waking at least three people directly on one part of his body or another. Waking one sleeping woman without coffee to apologize for it was a dangerous prospect. Waking five? He liked his head where it was. Still, he had to go. So he tried to be careful. He did his best to snake his right arm out from under Kelly. His hand was on Kelly's breast, his forearm trapped between her front and Rani's back, and his upper arm was under Kelly's head. Removing it stirred both of them.
He gently tapped Mindy's shoulder, and she blinked at him with dull, dark, sleep-crusted eyes. The world outside was starting to lighten its shade of night sky from dark violet-black to soft cloud-covered gray, but there was no sunlight to see by. The windows provided a subtle lightening of the darkness rather than any proper illumination.
"I have to pee." Arthur whispered as quietly as he could.
"Hmph." Mindy grunted. She started to roll off of him, but there was nowhere for her to go, so she ended up trapped between him and Kat, waking Kat and Selene on his left. If Mindy's waking was dull and slightly grumpy, Kat's was like stirring a hornet's nest with sleepy little nails instead of stingers expressing their displeasure by clamping down on Arthur's left forearm, which she'd cuddled between her and Selene.
"Sorry." Arthur apologized as he shifted, trying to scoot toward Kelly and out from under Mindy, hitting the wall of Kelly's back even as Kat tugged hard on his forearm to keep it in place in her adamant refusal to wake up or let go of him. "I have to pee." He explained to no one in particular. No one was listening. All the girls wanted to stay asleep, even as wakefulness came for them as Arthur jostled and jolted them slightly.
Arthur realized the hopelessness of trying to stand up from under the blankets, so he one-arm army crawled out of the blankets toward the pillows from an off-kilter side-plank position and was finally able to drag himself free of the mass of bodies who immediately closed the hole he'd vacated by cuddling up to one another. He would have thought it was cute if the comparatively cold air hadn't immediately reinforced the urgency of his bathroom visit.
He made it in time, even with closing the door behind him gently, but let out an involuntary groan as he stood at the toilet. He immediately felt more relaxed and much better than before, even with the cold bathroom tile beneath his bare feet. He washed his hands and looked at himself in the mirror, reviewing his daily checklist. He had a bit of stubble and would need to shave. He also noticed two significantly noticeable marks, one near each collarbone. He had hickies. Rani and Kelly must have given them to him last night.
Usually, he would have gone for a run, but with all the girls in the living room, he didn't want them to wake up and panic over where he'd gone. He was also supposed to do cardio with Kelly this morning. The plan had been to meet at her place, but she was here, and he had no idea what she had planned. He supposed he could always skip the workout this morning and try to crawl back into bed, but that didn't seem like it would work without waking everyone anyway.
"Boss?" He heard a small, quiet voice on the other side of the bathroom door. He knew it was Mindy by the name, if nothing else. It was funny to think about how his girlfriends had different names for themselves and him. It made sense in a way. Each of them was a different kind of submissive, which kept him on his toes as he had to be a different kind of Dom to each of them.
Selene was a total slave, addicted to submitting to Arthur, a cuckquean, and loved serving him. Her sister Kat was still a bit of a mystery to Arthur. She claimed to like to be submissive, but he didn't call her Brat for nothing, and she called him on his shit whenever she felt like it, for which he was honestly grateful. Kelly seemed to fantasize about being a traditional, submissive housewife, which she turned into a kink of its own. Rani was also confusing, switching between Queen and Concubine whenever she felt like it, calling Arthur her King either way. And Mindy was something of a pain/humiliation slut, though he wondered how much of her experience was from actual experience and how much was fantasy.
That meant he had to be a firm and commanding Master to Selene. He was still figuring out what to be to Kat, but she seemed to enjoy it when he took control, even if she fought him for that control when he tried. He had to be a husband to Kelly, which he honestly needed to do some research on to see what that entailed. It was more subtle than he was used to, compared to being a Master. Being a King to Rani felt more leisurely, though he realized that might be because he hadn't put much effort into it yet. Mindy took nearly constant effort to manage as her Boss, and he had to play up the sadist bit when playing with her.
"Boss?" Mindy's voice asked again, and Arthur opened the door. Mindy stepped inside quickly and closed the door behind her. "I just wanted to make sure you were okay." She said. "I heard the flush and the sink, but then you didn't come back out." She explained.
Arthur nodded, whispering to keep from waking the others on the other side of the door. "I was trying to figure out what to do next." He smiled softly. "I don't always have everything planned, and you all threw me for a loop last night, staying over."
"Is that a complaint?" Mindy asked, surprised.
"Never." Arthur corrected her and kissed her good morning. Their breath was terrible, but neither of them seemed to mind.
"We should all stash an overnight bag here." Mindy almost laughed. "At least until we all move into the house."
"Sounds good to me." Arthur nodded. "In the meantime, I think I have an extra toothbrush in the linen closet. Mine came in a pack."
"Do you have four more stashed somewhere?" Mindy asked.
"No, but Selene and Kat live across the parking lot." Arthur reminded her.
Mindy smirked, kissed Arthur again, and then shooed him toward the door, taking the opportunity to slap his butt for a change. "Okay. Go now. I have to pee."
"What if I want to stay and watch?" Arthur asked.
"Gross." Mindy shook her head. "There should be some mystery. Get out."
Arthur laughed. He didn't actually want to stay and watch anyway. He was only teasing her, even if the sight and feel of Mindy's naked body had reminded his body that it was good to be awake. Arthur lingered by the door, just to see what she would do.
"Bratwurst." Mindy said as though it were a curse word. "Now get out."
"Okay, okay." Arthur raised his hands in surrender, turned, and left the bathroom, closing the door behind him.
In the living room, Kat and Rani were still in the 'bed' of blankets, sleeping. Selene had woken and was kneeling, naked except for the thin leather strap collar around her neck that she never took off. She was in the nadu position a pace away from the bathroom door. The sight of her pert round breasts, open mouth, and lowered eyes stirred something lustful in Arthur. It was reinforced by a naked Kelly bending over at the waist with her back toward Arthur to pick up her bra from the floor. Looking over her shoulder at Arthur and smiling at him, she let Arthur know she'd done it on purpose.
"Good morning, hubby." Kelly straightened, flinging her tousled red hair to cascade down her upper back. She took several steps toward him, putting a little extra sway into her round hips with each step, her breasts steadily jostling in the opening air with each step like something out of a lewd paperback. By the time Kelly made it to Arthur, he was thoroughly distracted and hard as a rock. She touched his arm just above the elbow, leaned up, and kissed him softly. She cooed softly in pleasant surprise when Arthur took control of the peck she'd intended to give him and turned it into something more passionate.
Selene, still kneeling just a pace away, patiently waited her turn while she watched their gently making out.
"Hmm." Kelly hummed. "Are you still good for cardio together?" Kelly asked. "Or did you want to go for a run?"
