What is going on my readers! It's ButterHunter here again for the next chapter! We finally made it. 10 whole chapters! The first major milestone have been reached! Next up: 25 chapters! I hope you all still really like this story and continue to read it for a long time. Anyway, let's get into the next chapter!
Chapter 10: Back to Normal and Promises.
Time skip to 12:00 next day…
It took a while to fully get used to Susie being split up. I nearly had a heart attack in the morning when I woke up to see the three of them sleeping soundly next to me. Then, breakfast was strange because all three of them want to make me breakfast, so a good 10 minutes was spent with the three of them arguing. But eventually they made it all together and put everything behind them.
Then, after a little while, much to my disbelief, they said they were ready to go back out and keep building up the house. I tried to talk them out of it, saying I didn't want to risk one or all of them falling again, but they were persistent. I gave in, but only after saying we would start after lunch.
The whole time until we started to work, I kept feeling very nervous. I didn't want another incident like last time to happen. Even though it wasn't windy outside, that didn't mean they couldn't fall. But there wasn't anything I could do about it, so I just waited until we started to work.
I tried to stay positive. I thought, 'There's three of them. That means we will get a lot more done faster. Hell, we might even finish today if we work hard enough.' But the negatives stayed in my mind, no matter how hard I wished to stop worrying about them.
It started out OK. Me and the others climbed the ladder on the side, and started to build. They laid out the rooms and walls, marking off the windows, and I placed blocks where they were supposed to go.
Then, a good two hours later, I looked up and saw a massive storm heading our way.
"Oh shit." I said. I quickly got back to the ladder. "Girls! Giant storm coming! We have to get back inside!" I shouted.
They looked up from what they were doing, confused. Then they saw what I was talking about. They ran to the ladder with no questions.
Back inside, I was trying to board the door shut. I knew just how bad a thunderstorm can really be. Mobs spawn no matter what time it is, and lightning has its own dangers itself.
Ten minutes later…
The wind howled loudly against the windows. Rain poured down in buckets on the house, and thunder and lightning boomed every now and then. Thankfully, I had boarded up the door and windows pretty fast, with the help of the girls. But I was still very worried.
"This storm doesn't sound like it's just gonna blow over very quickly." I said, peering out of a crack in one of the boarded up windows.
"Well, there's not much we can really do about it." Little Susie said, who was doing the same thing I was. She glanced over at me, and must have seen how worried I really was. "Hey, it'll be alright. One storm isn't the end of the world."
"I know, I know. I just… worry." I said, thinking. I had seen my fair share of storms, but this was by far the biggest one I had seen yet.
"Sigh…" she sighed, knowing I was still going to have a hard time letting go. "Come on, let's go find something better for you to do." I followed, but not after one last glance outside.
I wandered around the house a little, trying to find something to do. No book seemed very interesting, it was too early to make dinner, and everything else I could think of involved going outside, something that was not going to happen. Finally after a good ten minutes of searching, I gave up, telling the girls I was going to take a nap.
Laying down, I fell asleep rather fast, even though thunder still was very loud outside. I thought it was odd, but I let it go, just trying to get through the storm.
One rest later…
When I woke up, I didn't hear the storm anymore. 'Good, it passed. Maybe we can get something done around here now.'
Getting out of bed, I couldn't help but feel that something was… off. The light seemed a bit weird in the room. 'Oh well, maybe I'm still a bit tired. Just walk it off.' I thought.
Stepping into the main room, I saw the girls all around the counter, talking. Gelli spotted me first and ran over to me fastest, instantly wrapping her arms around me.
"Whoa, someone missed me." I said, chuckling a little under my breath.
"Well, what do you expect? Come on, food's ready." Gelli said, releasing me.
"Did I hold you guys up from eating? Sorry, I didn't-" I started, before seeing what they had made. 'Ummm… what?' I thought, because instead of dinner, I saw breakfast on the counter.
"Ummm…" I started to say, but they started talking first.
"Something up Cameron? Why do you look confused?" Bloom asked me.
"Uh, isn't it supposed to be time for dinner? Why is there breakfast on the table?" I asked. The girls looked at each other. The looks on their faces told me that they weren't sure if they wanted to tell me something.
"Well, it would be…" Little Susie started.
"If you, well… weren't asleep for as long as you were." Gelli finished.
I blinked in confusion. "How long was I in bed?" I asked slowly.
"Ummmm… almost 18 hours…" Bloom said, her voice very soft. At that point, I nearly went limp.
"Eighteen HOURS?!" I half-shouted. "Why didn't you three wake me up!?"
"We tried!" Little Susie said.
"The storm passed an hour or so after you went to the bedroom." Bloom supported.
"But when we went back there, you were out cold. We even tried to tickle you awake, but nothing." Gelli finished.
I stood there for a while, completely shocked. 'Eighteen hours… How!?'
"My guess is that it was so dark out, your brain kept you asleep even after the storm passed. You just kept sleeping until your internal clock told your brain to wake you up at the normal time." Little Susie guessed.
"Ugh… I'm sorry you three. I had no idea that would happen. I must have cause at least a little bit of worry. I'm sorry." I said, sitting down. They proceeded to reassure me that they didn't mind, that I couldn't have known, all the normal stuff. It still made me sad inside, knowing I caused them worry. 'Oh well, not really much I can do now huh?'
"Anyway, what do we want to do now?" I asked.
"First, you need to eat something. You missed a whole meal, you have to be starving." Gelli said. Not even two seconds later, my stomach made a noise loud enough for the heavens to hear. All three of them busted out laughing at me. I only could blush red before turning to eat my food.
After breakfast, they asked me if we could go back to working on the house. I agreed this time, seeing as we only had a little bit more of the roof to do. The rest would be inside, placing the stairs to go up and down the floors, and decorating the rooms.
An hour later, we were back on the roof again, them handing me supplies while also working on the windows.
But something weird happened right around when I was almost done. Little Susie said she forgot something, and ran back inside, but not before whispering something to the other two.
Then, not even two minutes later, Bloom said that she was going to check on Little Susie. She made it sound like she was in trouble if she didn't. It didn't seem right to me, but I tried let it go.
Another two minutes later, and the two still hadn't come back. I asked Gelli if she could check on them. She said it wouldn't take long.
After a bit, all that was left to do was to place the final piece of the roof. But I wanted the girls here to celebrate with me. They still hadn't come back. 'Where are they?' I thought, standing up to go inside.
Walking inside, the girls were nowhere to be seen in the main room. 'Are they in the bedroom?' I thought to myself.
I tried to open the door, but found it locked from the inside. "Welp, now I know where they are.' I knocked on the door.
No response.
I knocked a little louder then, thinking they didn't hear the first time.
No response.
I knocked even louder this time, yelling, "Hey! You girls in there? Come on out here."
Still no response.
By now, I was getting a bit miffed as to why they didn't answer me. I had to get inside the room. Unfortunately, I didn't know how. They never told me where the key to unlock the door was.
Then, I thought up the obvious solution. I pulled out my axe, and began to chop down the door. After a few seconds, the door fell to the ground. I stepped inside, mentally slapping myself for not thinking that earlier.
But much to my surprise, they weren't in the bedroom or the bathroom either. At this point, I became extremely confused. 'Where are they?' I thought. How could they not be right behind the only locked door here?'
After placing the door back where it went, I started to go back outside, to see if they were around back or something. But before I could open the front door, I heard a fake cough directly behind me.
"Wha-MMPH!" I said, as when I turned, the person behind me kissed me, making me quiet. A few panicked seconds later showed me that it was one of the girls, but something was off. 'Did… did one of them grow suddenly?' I thought, as the one kissing me was nearly my height, whereas the girls were about a head shorter than me.
She stopped kissing me after a few more seconds. Smiling, she stepped back a little for me to see that it was in fact none other than a reformed Susie. Questions started to build up in my head, so many that I didn't know where to start.
"I-What-When…" I tried to speak, but something was wrong with my ability to make full sentences. Susie simply hugged me, shushing me.
Finally, I got my questions pulled together somewhat. "Your… back to normal? It hasn't been three days yet, has it?" I asked first.
"Yes it has, remember? Day One: I teased you a lot. You liked it." Susie said, the latter bit with a mischievous smile. I felt a little blush come into my checks. "Day Two: Storm day. You sleep through more or less all of it. Day Three: Today." she finished.
I quickly ran it through my head again. 'Oh right, it has hasn't it?' I thought.
"So," she started, ruffling my hair with her hand, "how was it to have three of my around you all at once?"
"Oh ummm…" I said, awkwardly. I couldn't deny I had liked having three of her around. But I wasn't sure if that was a good answer. She seemed to be looking for one specific answer.
"Well… it was definitely not something I was completely ready for, that's for sure." I said, hoping that was alright. She seemed to smile a bit bigger after that.
"Oh really? Did you like it? Or is one of me better?" she said. 'Oh shit.' I thought, because that wasn't the response I was thinking of. 'How do I answer that?!'
I decided to try and play both sides.
"Well, I think it doesn't really matter how many of you there is. One, three, even a hundred of you. It's just you being around me, that's what matters."
I think I caught her off guard, because her smile faltered for a second, then it all processed and she smiled even bigger. 'Okay, I think I answered good this time.'
"Really. So that's how you think…" she trailed off, thinking about what I had said I think.
"Back to the main point. How did you hide yourself? I thought for sure you were behind that locked door." I asked.
"Call it misdirection." she replied. "I was able to hide somewhere you'd never look, but I took a precaution and locked the door, hoping that would keep you busy. And it seemed to work like a charm."
"Let me guess: you had to slide your hand under the door to lock it?" I guessed. The smile on her face told me 'yes'. "Ugh… why must I be messed with..." I said.
"So, did you finish the house while I was busy?" Susie asked me. I told her no, I was waiting for her to come back so we could celebrate together.
"Well then, let's finish it now! We don't have all day." she said, pulling me outside.
"Hey! Stop pulling!" I said, to no effect. She didn't let go until I got on the ladder, and then she grabbed it again once we on top.
We got to the small hole where the last block would go. I hoisted up the block, and moved to the right spot. I then decided to have a little fun out of all the hard work we were doing the whole time.
"Here we stand today on this house." I said, looking at Susie to see if she would say anything. She looked confused at first, but then got my act and listened along. "We have worked very hard on making this floor. But this is not the end. Rather, this is just one step closer to a brand new house, the biggest house that this land will have ever seen. May almighty Notch bring to us good fortune and future prosperity." I glanced at her again and said, "Anything else to add Susie?"
She shook her head. "You already said it all I think, 'Captain'." she said, the happy smile still strong on her face. "Well then, let's finish this." I said.
I always had problems with the last block of a structure, be it that it doesn't seem like it lines up properly, or that it would not fit, but this time, nothing went wrong at all. The block slid in perfectly. I quickly ran back down the ladder and stepped back to look at our work. The second floor looked like it seamlessly fit with the first one. But I knew that we were just getting started. It would be a long time before this place looked like we had done all that we wanted.
Even so, as I stood there with Susie at my side, I knew that this was a great first step into the making of our lives. I smiled at her. She smiled back. Before long, we shared a gentle kiss with each other. I'll be honest, having three of her was great and all, but now that she was back to normal, I think we could go back to our somewhat normal life together.
After a minute or so, we head back inside.
Time skip to 6:00 pm…
Me and Susie cooked up a great dinner this time around, as a reward for finishing the long project. Chicken, steak, vegetables, all the good stuff.
After dinner and cleanup, we both moved to the living room. We just sat there reading for a little while, before Susie coughed for my attention. I looked over.
"Hey Cameron." she said, with… 'Is that… a little bit of blush on her face?' I thought, because it definitely looked like her face was a bit darker shade of green.
"Yeah?" I asked.
"Did you… were you really okay with three of me around?" she asked.
"Yeah, I mean, it took some getting used to, but I got around to the idea." I replied.
She seemed to visibly relax at my words. "Okay, I just…" she trailed off.
"Wanted to make sure?"
"...Yes."
"It's ok. Why are you so nervous?" I asked.
"Just… I don't know, I keep working myself up over nothing. I just need to be sure." she said, looking away. I got the vibe that she didn't want to talk much more right now, so I went back to my book. But not even five minutes later, she spoke again, sounding very close by.
"Hey." she said. I looked up to see her almost right on top of me. She was leaning over me, hands on the chair holding herself up. I instantly became very self aware of how close her chest was to my face. I tried to scoot back but I forgot where I was, so I basically pinned myself to the back of the chair
"Y-yeah Susie?" I said, stuttering against my will. She smiled teasingly at my instant nervousness.
"You made a very fine speech today, 'Captain'." she said, almost in a whisper.
"Oh, yeah, well, thanks." I said, squirming a little while fighting with myself not to look down. I knew for a fact that if I looked down, it would be impossible to look back up.
"And in return," she continued, her voice sounding different to me, "I think you deserve a reward. A nice, sweet... fitting, reward."
I think I began to sweat when she said that. "A-a-a-and… what would this… r-reward be, exactly?"
"Hmmm…" Susie said, her face now inches from mine. "Well, I'll tell you, but at a price. Promise me that you will not back down from the reward, and I'll tell you. But if you don't, I tell you later. Right as I give it to you. Tonight."
"Ummm…" my mind was racing furiously. 'What do I say?'
On one hand, I was rather curious about what this reward was. But then, I wasn't sure if I wanted to know. But eventually, I gave in. I nodded, thought I wasn't too sure if I wanted to hear.
"Are you sure?" she said, leaning even closer. I nodded, still getting more nervous.
"Are you REALLY sure? You can't back out from it if I tell you." she asked one more time, her voice undeniably full of lust. Another minute of very careful thinking in my head, and I nodded again, but now with a lot of reluctance.
"Okay." she said in a sing-song voice, still in the same whisper. "My reward for you is this."
She leaned in even closer to my ear and started to speak. At first, it seemed nice, nothing to bad.
Then she pulled out the big guns.
"You want to do WHAT?!" I nearly shouted, in total shock.
I enjoy cliffhangers. At least, only when I'm giving them. Now I know why my favorite author does them all the time. Don't you all like them too?
Oh wait… do you hear that? I hear something… it's faint yes, but… it sounds like…
TROLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL! SUDDEN ENDING! HAHAHAHAHAHA! Hah… let the rage begin… again… worth it...
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed my newest chapter to my story. I must apologize again for taking so damn long in posting new chapters. I have been very, very, very UNBELIEVABLY busy. Thankfully, the weekend I post this will be the last weekend I work until next summer, so there's that to look forward to. Again, I'm sorry, I should have more time to type very soon.
Also, just in case you were wondering, yes, a really good chapter that many, and I mean MANY of you are looking forward to is in the making. So prepare yourselves.
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