Your Loss, My Gain

Snow Bound

A/N: This section will have 3 separate scenes happening at the same time. I hope it isn't confusing for everyone.

POV: Kota

Damn phone! All I want to do is keep kissing Sang. Part of me wants to ignore the call, the 17 year old part. The other part of me says I have to take it. I guess that doesn't mean I have to move though. Sang can stay right where she is on my lap.

"Yeah, Vic, what do you need?" Sang shifts so that she is snuggled beside me instead of straddling my lap. Oh well.

"Mr. B asked me to call to see where you were since you didn't check in," Victor says, his normally smooth baritone voice cracking with anxiety.

"Sorry. Tell him that Sang and I got here about 10 minutes ago, and we are waiting in the sitting room near the fire. She wants him to take her on a tour when you guys get back." Sang looks up at me and smiles. She laces her fingers through mine and rubs her thumb over my hand in a soothing motion. I have never noticed her doing something like that before. We are usually comforting her with touches. She almost never initiates.

Lost in my musings, I miss some of what Victor is saying. "Vic, could you repeat that. I got distracted."

"I'm sure you did, Buddy!" he says with a bit of laughter in his voice. "I was saying that we are almost at Gabriel's and will be another half hour at least. Mr. B said to make yourselves at home. " I can feel my cheeks warm slightly.

"See you soon. I should make sure everyone else is okay." I hang up with Victor and call Nate, who answers on the first ring.

"Dude, you have to come save me! I don't know if I can handle being here with this girl!" he says in a hushed voice.

"What girl?" I wonder what he has gotten himself into now.

"Some bird that the Toma team has adopted. She is living with them, or some of them or something. I don't know, but she is driving me nuts." I chuckle at his comment, Nathan may be acting like it is the end of the world, but in reality, he is just overreacting to a stressful situation.

"Nate, you know I can't come get you. I can't leave Sang, and I can't take her with me and endanger her. My car is not good in the snow. This is not an emergency." I try to spell it out for him as concisely as possible.

"Wait, why do you have Sang? She was supposed to be with Luke tonight. Did Luke get called out?"

"No, Luke didn't get called out. He forgot to get gas and ran out with Sang in the car. I grounded him until tomorrow as punishment and took Sang with me to the lecture I was going to."

"Kota, a lecture? Really? Have you not been listening to me at all? You need to do something romantic with her. Show her that you can be more than the studious team leader. Don't worry, you can try again later." Nate is acting so condescending.

"Nate, she had a great time. Here ask her yourself," I tell him as Sang reaches for the phone and sits up.

"Honey, why are you giving Kota a hard time? I am having a lot of fun with Kota! It may not be the way we spent time together, but in a way it was. Think of it like this...Kota took me to a lecture. You took me to a movie. The only difference is that there was a live speaker at the lecture. She had amazing videos and pictures as her "movie". Then, to top it all off, I got to have coffee, well hot chocolate, with the star. I really did have a lot of fun, just like I have when I get to spend time with you. Now, we are snuggled on the lounge in front of a fire at Mr. Blackbourne's house waiting for him, Victor and Gabriel to show up. Actually, I would say that it was an exceptional date, so don't you put him down. He did exactly what I asked. He took me to do something that he enjoys, and I enjoyed it as well. Plus there were some perks added in." Her voice is forceful, but not loud. It is a thing of beauty to see her becoming more confident and outspoken, at least when I am on this end of it.