Simone sat on the edge of her bed alone in her room, quietly thinking about what had happened. Outside of her room paced Elizabeth with Vanny and Vanessa standing by.

Elizabeth: I-I mean, a-after what h-h-happened, s-should we just g-go in? S-Snuggles? C-Could snuggles f-fix h-her!?

She asks the two girls.

Vanessa: Liz, please calm down and-

Elizabeth: How am I supposed to be calm right now!?

Charlie: You can start by not screaming.

Liz looks over, eyes narrow in an angry expression.

Elizabeth: What are you doing here?

She says, her words laced with venom.

Charlie: One of my friends just got held hostage by a ceriel killer, I'm here to see if she's alright.

Elizabeth: I-

Charlie: Before you talk, listen.

Elizabeth decides to pause.

Charlie: I've known Simone since kindergarten. I know that you get jelous when I'm around but please, she's my friend! All I want is for her to be happy and you make her happy so I'm not going to get in the way of you two. I just... I just wanna help her!

Elizabeth stares at her for a second before speaking.

Elizabeth: Tch, fine. So what do you think we should do?

While they were talking, Simone was listening in.

Simone(thinking): Lizzies jelousy is a weakness of hers, I should exploit it... Charlie could also be handy to keep close, depending on how this next interaction goes I might even get her into the harem-

Her thoughts were cut off by her door opening. Before anything happened, she felt herself suddenly get picked up off her bed by Charlie and getting held under her arm.

Simone: Wh- Charlie!?

Charlie: We're making you feel better.

She put her down on the floor.

Simone: How's this- hey!

She saw the V sisters moving her bed.

Elizabeth: Let it happen babe, this is for your own good.

After they moved her bed, they move around the rest of her furniture before taking a bunch of pillows and blankets, turning them into a fort.

Simone: A... fort?

Charlie: Yeah! Like what my dad made for us back when we were kids!

Simone:... Oh- wait not aga-aaain!

Charlie picked her back up and put her inside the fort. The other girls climb in with her.

Simone:... this...

Elizabeth quickly hugs her girlfirend.

Elizabeth: Are you okay Simone? You've been saying you're fine but you don't act it!

Simone:... heh, I'm fine. That was... stressful. But don't worry, I'm fine now, really.

She doesn't smile however.

Simone:... Just need a bit of time before I get back to normal.

Simone(thinking): Increasing the number of partners I have will basically give me a wall of people willing to stay on my side if anything comes up.

Charlie: Aww, C'mon Simone. We made all of this for you, you can at least smile!

Simone: S-Sorry, I'm thankful it's ju-UHS!

She jumps away from Charlie. There was a moment of silence before Simone finally said something.

Simone:... C-Charlie... No...

Charlie: Hehehe. Charlie yes!~

She held up her hands, wiggling her fingers a little. Simone looked to her girlfriends for help, but they had a glint of malicious intent in their eyes and mischief all over their faces.

Simone(thinking): Okay, maybe keeping them all around isn't that good of an idea.