He grins to himself. "I missed that, too. It was only a few weeks, I suppose, but I like being yours and, and feeling it, and it's really hard to feel it around him."

"All mine," she murmurs.

"All yours," he agrees, and sighs. "Should you go catch the bus? It'd be a bit ironic for you to miss it while talking to me."

"It's a cellphone, pet."

"...right. Of course. Yes. Those are a thing."

"I love you," she laughs softly.

"I love you, too. So, how'd your week go?"

"You mean besides worrying about you? That was the most newsworthy event."

"Didn't you go see Dream Eclipse?"

"I gave the tickets to Myeisha at the last minute, I didn't want to go without you."

"Oh. At least they didn't go to waste, I guess."

"We'll go see it sometime later."

"Yeah. I could see if I can get a new face for that, if I need to..."

"It might take you long enough to master that that you're already eighteen by then."

"...yeah, good point. Ugh."

"Yeah." Sigh.

"I suppose it doesn't really make a lot of sense to plan much until we know more about our resources and legal situation."

"Yep."

Sigh. "On the bright side, Sarah's little crush asked her to be his sub and she adorably brings him candy and he adorably pets her."

"Awww."

"They're eleven so of course that's the extent of what they think relationships are, but it's still cute."

"Yes it is."

"Did you ever have one of those?"

"A sub when I was eleven? Nah. There was one who I suppose in retrospect might have had a crush on me but it didn't go even to the candy-and-petting stage and then I eclipsed."

"It makes me feel kinda warm and fuzzy that I'm your first everything like that."