[TAM Extra] Chapters 275 & 276. (Patreon)

Chapter 275: It’s Megan.

Her chest presses against you and she plants a hard kiss on your cheek as she hangs on your back. “Surprised?”

“…Hello, Megan.”

You try your best to keep your composure, smiling at her yet moving so that she lets go of you.

“I didn’t catch you this morning and Jessica said you’d be here,” your fiancé says, smiling that bright smile of hers that says her day is better for having seen you.

In any other situation, at any other place, you would take her into your arms, lift her up and kiss her over and over. Her running to you and jumping on your back is a lovely surprise. Usually. Now you need to keep a straight face and a polite, distant approach.

Because your three underclassmen are now looking very uncomfortable, and you totally get why.

“I needed to check up on a few things. I’m just finishing.”

“Cool,” she says.

You turn to the three guys, who are looking down or away from you and Megan. “Sorry about that. But like I said, don’t be afraid of approaching the teachers or the student council, okay?”

“Y-Yeah. Thanks, Prez,” one of them says with a nervous smile. They go back into the classroom, looking down and sighing deeply.

Lilian then comes out, having finished talking to the girls. She shakes her head and sighs in frustration. “You need to learn when to do things like that, Meg.”

“Huh? What did I do?” Megan asks, genuinely confused.

“…Let’s go back to the office first,” you say.

The three of you walk all the way up to the last floor of the main building, where the student council room is. The office received a big makeover since the start of the year, sponsored entirely by Olivia, surprisingly.

The room used to be nothing more than a small, unused classroom, but Olivia insisted that, if you were going to use it all year, you might as well take advantage of it. And so, after asking for permission from the new headmistress, she bought paint, carpets and even new furniture.

The walls were painted in walnut brown and the whole floor covered in dark red carpet. As for furniture, two linen sofas sat across each other in the middle of the room, right across the big new desk, with a glass coffee table between them. They matched the wall colors and were big enough for three people, maybe four if they squished together. At the back of the room, in front of the windows overlooking the yard where students would go hang out, was a big, mahogany desk and a matching desk chair, probably the most expensive things in the room by a long shot. There were dark red curtains over the windows that could be slid open and shut, and the cupboards and shelves that used to be in the room since the beginning were moved to the right of the desk since they were useful and didn’t look out of place. They now lined up the wall, filled with folders and others, though Sophia kept some snacks and refreshments in a couple of the cupboards.

Olivia put the money for it, but Jessica, Emily, Jake and you were the ones to install and paint everything with the exception of the sofas and the desk. Those needed a few more hands.

All in all, the student council room now gave off an imposing aura. Of course, your frugal side kept telling Olivia this wasn’t necessary, but she responded by saying she was only skipping on buying a couple of new guns for this, especially since she claimed to have bought the sofas cheap and had them upholstered by a friend of her dad. It made you shudder to think just how fucking expensive the guns must have been.

Olivia, Jessica and Katherine are already in the room. The latter two are watching a video on the phone while the former is just finishing pouring a cup of coffee and stirring it with a spoon. She sets it on the glass table with a wooden coaster underneath.

“One and a half of sugar,” she tells you.

“I love you.”

You sit down across from Katherine and Jessica, with Lilian taking your right side and Megan your left.

“Okay, so now you can tell me what I did wrong?” the shortest girl asks.

“You did something wrong?” Katherine asks.

“She hugged David and kissed him in front of the new guys,” Lilian explains.

“Ooooooh,” both Katherine and Jessica exclaim and nod in understanding.

“What? Why is that a bad thing?” Olivia asks, crossing her arms. “She always does that.”

“The problem is not that she did it,” you say, “but that she did it in front of these guys who are already struggling with girls.”

“Still don’t follow, David,” Megan says.

“It’s counting money in front of the poor,” Katherine tells her.

“It’s eating in front of the hungry,” Lilian adds.

“How would you feel if you didn’t have a boyfriend but one of your friends was making out with hers right next to you?” Jessica asks.

“Well, that has happened. I was happy for them and thought they looked cute,” Megan says, tilting her head. “Still don’t see what the big deal is.”

“Yeah, she should be able to do whatever the hell she wants,” Olivia says. “It’s not like David hates it.”

“Again, it’s not about that.” You sigh. “I do like those surprises, and we might be making of it a bigger deal than it is, but… How do I put this?” you ask, mostly to yourself. How do you say it in a way that’s not so blunt?

“No one is allowed to be happy until I’M happy,” Katherine says, bluntly. “That’s how it is when your self-esteem is down by the floor. I was feeling just like that when Sophia started dating David. I couldn’t be happy for her because I felt I was being left behind.”

“Same for me,” Lilian says, nodding in agreement. “When I was just losing weight, guys would go up to Olivia and Jessica and ask them out, completely ignoring my fat ass. I couldn’t say ‘hey, that’s a hot guy that asked you out! How cool!’ No, I was more like ‘of course he wouldn’t ask me out. I’m such a fat loser!’”

“So now these guys see David being chummy with his fiancé,” Jessica continues explaining, “and instead of feeling they can trust him, they get jealous he has what they want but feel will never get.”

“…That’s dumb,” Megan pouts.

“It is,” you admit, along with Katherine, Lilian and Jessica. “But sometimes you can’t help it.”

“You’ve felt like that too?” she asks you.

“Oh, plenty of times. What I’m like now is not representative of my high school life in the slightest.”

“I’d love to say they should just mind their own business,” Olivia sighs. “But I suppose we’re no longer in a position where we can just do whatever the hell we want.”

“Exactly.”

“But we can do what we want in this room, right?” Lilian asks, snuggling closer to you and tracing her finger along your jaw.

“So long as the door is locked and we don’t go too far…”

“Perfect.” She grins and presses her lips to yours. She and Megan make out with you for the rest of the break, swapping every other minute. When the bell rings, you realize you barely touched your coffee and have to gulp it down in one go before next class.

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Chapter 276: On life with tha AMA.

Each day of school feels like it drags on for way longer than it should, but before you know it another week has gone by. You suppose that’s what it’s like to be truly busy. You remember claiming to your girls last year how you’d be able to easily handle all the work and still have time for them, and while you have kept your promise thus far, it has been anything but easy.

You look at your phone on the way back home. Keeping such a busy schedule is mostly possible because of the traits the AMA gives you, but then again so it your entire lifestyle at this point. You’ve been trying to rely on it less and less, but at the same time it allows you to do so much more that it’s no longer just about people liking you faster. Things like the Seldom Sleepy trait have become crucial to getting so much done.

You haven’t taken any new relationships to 100 in any category, but that’s due to not really trying. Even with the magical tool, a person can only maintain so many relationships, and eleven spots in your life are permanently occupied. That said, there are people with whom you deal with often, and others that are more important and deserve to have you put in real effort. Of course, you’re talking about your future in-laws.

Some of them you have yet to get well acquainted with for several reasons. You can’t exactly go tell Emma’s parents about your relationship yet, and Anzu’s parents are in Japan. You’ve met them, even spoken to them on the phone about the proposal, but a formal meeting is still on the to-do list. Mia’s parents passed on a few years ago, before you even met, and she doesn’t have any siblings. And your relationship with Julia’s mom so far has been… very much okay. She doesn’t factor into the AMA due to her having it as well, but at least you’re getting along well enough.

As for you schoolmates’ families…

Megan’s parents are a delight to be around. You try to visit when you can and you’re always welcomed with warm, excited smiles. In fact, you think it bothers Megan just how well you’ve been getting along with her dad, since you’ve spent afternoons watching old robot shows with the man. Both of their affection scores have passed the 50s mark, so that’s 100 friendship points to the AMA.

For Emily’s mom, see Julia’s mom. Duh.

Sophia’s parents are also always welcoming. Like Megan’s family, they’re upper middle class, so with enough money to send their daughter to a fancy academy but living in relative modesty. Your only issue is that her mom seems to be a little too curious about the kinds of things you’re doing with her daughter when alone. Or TO her daughter, more like. Sophia has been panicking for a while, thinking her mom may have found her notebook or one of her toys. Regardless, they, too, passed the 50 points mark, so 100 friendship points more.

Jessica’s parents are perhaps the most interesting to visit, mainly because they always make Latin-American dishes for you to try. Mostly Brazilian dishes, naturally, but every so often her mom makes something from Peru, or her dad makes an Argentinian-style BBQ. Jessica seems to have noticed how much you like her family’s cooking, because she’s been learning from her mom. Another 100 points between the two of them.

Katherine’s parents were undoubtedly the most apprehensive about the whole marriage thing. That you were marrying so many girls, that it was too soon, that maybe you were taking things too lightly… It took a while to convince them, but they’ve now come around to the idea. Katherine may or may not have said she’d run away from home if they didn’t give you their blessing. Her parents may or may not have taken it seriously. Anyway, everything’s good now! 100 more points.

Lilian’s mom has looked on you favorably from the beginning. You can’t forget it was entirely thanks to her that you were able to buy 11 decent engagement rings at a price that was practically a steal. She’s happy her daughter found herself “a good man”, and you’ll die before proving her wrong. Neither Lilian nor her mom want anything to do with her dad, and given their complete disdain for the absent man, you understand this isn’t something you should push. Their minds have been made up for a long time. 50 more points.

Lastly, there is Olivia’s dad. An absolutely doting father nearly incapable of saying no to his only girl, yet happy and relieved to see her growth and her changes after enrolling in Hayes. Growths and changes he attributes to you, so when he heard about the proposal, you were already part of the family. He’s actually really close to hitting an affection score of 100, but not quite there yet. 50 more points.

This means your future in-laws alone gave you 500 friendship points. But you can’t exactly forget your immediate family, either. You got your dad to a score of 100 last year, but after a quick visit during holidays, your brother Jonathan, your sister Martha and your mom Lisa all reached 100 as well, meaning 150 more points. They have yet to meet your fiancés, though, since you’d rather they meet them all at the same time. That’s another thing on the to-do list for next year.

And so, adding the 90 leftover points you had since buying the Normalized Polygamy Trait, left you at 740 friendship points. And then 220 of those points were used in giving Sophia and Olivia the Seldom Sleepy trait since they would be working with you in the student council. Everyone agreed it was a necessary purchase. You asked if the others wanted anything, but after a vote it was decided that you’d save them for when they were needed, for when you all collectively wanted something, or for if or when a new hidden trait appeared like the last one did.

So that’s 520 friendship points; 50 leftover love points from buying the polygamy trait; and 890 lust points that your girls find only natural, but you find a little conflicting.

Lust scores are the most prone to rise and fall based simply on people’s moods. Even now, your girls’ lust scores fluctuate around the 50s and 80s unless it’s been a few days since they last did it with you (in which case they rise to 100), or they fall to the 30s right after fucking. However, once a person reaches lust scores of 50 and 100, no more points are awarded. Basically, your surplus of lust points doesn’t come from your fiancés.

…

It comes from being supernaturally popular in a school full of girls.

Through no real effort of your own, there are 16 women in school whose lust scores surpassed the 50s, and several more have lower scores than that, but still comparatively high to what it once was. You’ve only spoken to these girls a few times, and you haven’t exactly flirted with them or anything either. You can only speculate that this is a result of several combined factors: Your physique being quite different from what it was at the beginning of last year, with you now having a lean, muscular build due to regular training; your new status as the president of the student council, effectively making you the student with the most authority on campus; and finally, the company you keep, since it’s hardly up for debate that your fiancés are the most beautiful women in school. Perhaps the fact that having the Normalized Polyamory trait (meaning you’re not exclusive) makes other girls have hopes of getting together with you?

It’s very much a conflicting situation. You can’t lie and say it isn’t flattering and exciting. So many women wanting you is practically a dream come true. But like you said before, there are only so many relationships a person can handle in a healthy manner. Getting seriously involved with other women could be detrimental to the relationship you already have with, uh… how many? Oh yeah! ELEVEN FUCKING FIANCES. Of course they’re more important than random women. Don’t let yourself just go with the flow, David Walker. You’re no longer in a position where you can do that.

It’s been a while since you last gave the girls an update on the AMA. You don’t want to rely too much on the AMA, but not taking advantage of its functions would be a waste.

It’s such a complicated situation.

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Author's Note: This is it for now. I hope you liked these chapters. I actually had a bit of a storyline planned, but it wouldn't have been right to start it only to stop in the middle since I'm not sure if I'll do more of this. These chapters were more to show how David's life as a second year in Hayes is going. I didn't get to write anything about the teachers, though, and  that just feels wrong. I'll be sure to do it if I come back to this.

Well everybody, take care and stay safe!

See you all soon!