Take My Hand Again

Chapter 7

"Hiya Kate!"
Scott says, as Tessa realizes with horror that her mom is calling. At this. Precise. Moment.

"Well what are Virtue women, if not punctual?"
She asks to herself. Then decides to go back to listening to Scott talk to her mother.

"Well yeah it's me, duh! Thanksgiving has always been my holiday with Tess, ya know besides every other holiday. What other guy would be here?" He asks innocently while raising his eyebrow at Tess. She rolls her eyes in response and Scott starts slowly walking towards her again.

"Oh you know, the usual. It's just like any other day. We eat some food Tess thankfully hasn't cooked..."

He gets closer.

"We reminisce about the good ole' days."

Closer.

"This wall and I are getting very well acquainted tonight."
Tessa half chuckles, half nervously states to herself.

"And we shoot the breeze."

Scott has her against the wall again, right leg blocking her on one side and left arm leaning above her on the other side.

"Oh yeah, T is right here!"

Scott says enthusiastically, and then pulls Tessa completely against him so she can hear the phone pressed up to his ear. Even though he really could put it on speaker phone...but it IS Scott, so whatever chance he gets, he takes.

Tessa is really trying to focus on what her mom is saying to her but Scott's left hand has started creeping to the bottom of her hem again and is pulling it up, very lightly pressing his fingertips into the sensitive parts on the back of her thighs on his travels up towards that underwear he's been dying to see. Scott hands Tessa the phone so he can focus on the task at hand. Tessa just about groans realizing what he is doing but knows her mom is too curious of a person to not ask what she's groaning about, and seeing as Tessa can't think straight at the moment, she doubts her excuse would be very believable. So she again tries to listen.

Kate is very animatedly asking Tessa why she didn't tell her Scott was back.

"Why didn't you tell me? Oh we've missed Scott! I mean that boy can work wonders!"

Tessa's starts to laugh at the irony of the statement in that current moment but her breath hitches in her throat before she can, because Scott has pulled her dress all the way up and is now admiring her underwear.

She doesn't actually mind. I mean, he's seen her in underwear before and she did spend a good chunk of money on these just hoping that someone would see them so, why waste them?

She realizes she's stopped listening to her mom again and tunes back in.

"I mean Tessa honey, we of course support whatever makes you happy and I know you'd been seeing that boy Ryan sometimes and I'm not saying he's all bad!"

Scott has grabbed both hands around the backs of Tessa's thighs and is on his knees bent down now directly in front of her, and by god it takes all of her energy to focus on her mom's babbling instead of Scott Moir being between her legs right now.

However, Kate is still blissfully unaware of the almost imminent explosion that's about to occur on Tessa's part if her frustratingly talented (in many ways) partner, non-partner doesn't get out of her personal bubble soon.

So Kate continues,

"Darling of course Ryan seemed nice and god knows he was different if that's what you're going for. But Scott is Scott. He always will be. I mean he knows you. He knows what you're thinking. He knows what each facial expression means. He knows what you want to eat before you know what you want to eat. He can quote your favorite movies by heart just because he sits with you every time you want to watch. And sure I know sometimes you get heated because his mouth can go a mile a minute and-"