Meeting the new guys was a drag and Mac thought it was so boring. He had been through this so many times already, he was interested when Gabriella was introduced to the place because he knew her and didn't find it so annoying but when he was greeting a whole lot of newbie's it was a completely different matter.

Kaori and him sat there completely uninterested and staring mindlessly into space when Gabriella sat down beside them.

"What a drag huh?" she asked.

Kaori nodded.

"Well, Kaori and I have been through this before when we were here. First at the tricky tour and then last year and now here." Mac explained.

"Huh, well, I must say some of the newbie's are pretty good looking…" Gabriella was eyeing a blonde guy and he was lining up to be introduced by one of the organisers.

"Hey! Tyson!" Nate called out and the blonde waved.

"What? He does he know him?" Gabriella asked

Nate then walked over and smiled.

"He's my junior." Nate stated

"No, can't be, he's better looking than you, how can he be your little brother?" Gabriella joked.

Nate laughed and then gave her a glare and walked over.

"You upset the big man and you will never be safe again." Mac laughed.

A girl from Australia was introduced as Skye; she walked down and stood by herself before she was talking to Zoe.

Suddenly a 27 year old Japanese named Sid caught Kaori's attention.

She eyed him and Mac caught her looking at him and wondered what was so fascinating.

He saw what it was, he instantly became worried.

Maybe it was the fact that Kaori had someone she could talk to in her own tongue and she could relate to, he was scared of the worst case scenario. Kaori and the new guy together in a circle of friendship and he was just on the outside next to Psymon who would be chewing on chains.

But he didn't let him worry him that much; Sid didn't seem like that much of a threat besides he was married to her so he really couldn't steal her away from him.

Mac shook his head, this was stupid, he was worrying about his wife with another man when Kaori had made it clear she was never going to leave him.

Why the worrying?
Sid came over to Kaori and greeted himself in Japanese and Kaori replied.

Mac felt a little bit left out, he had learnt a little bit but it wasn't enough to understand them for all he knew he could he flirting right away, he seemed like the type.

He kissed Kaori's hand like how the posh people do, and Mac stepped in.

"Hi, I'm Mac. Kaori's husband." And he held out his left hand with the ring to prove it and he let Sid shake it and then he looked at Mac with jealousy, awe and hatred, always a mixture.

"You have a wonderful wife, Mac." Sid smiled.

'Why you trying to be friendly?' Mac thought

"Mac, Sid's a skier, he'll be racing with us more often." Kaori smiled.

"I'll take you down," Mac smiled.

"We will see Mac." Sid smiled back.

"It's great having another person with the same nationality as yourself and you can relate to him a lot." Kaori laughed.

"What about Hiro?" Mac asked.

"He was too old anyway, but Sid's only 27, I'm 21, and I don't see that much of an age gap." Kaori smiled and she started to walk off.

"Yeah whatever." Mac said and then he followed his wife.

"I'm 20, does that mean anything?" Mac asked behind her.

"Your age doesn't matter Mac, it's the fact that I love you is more important." Kaori laughed.

Mac smiled and ran up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist and kissed her on the cheek.

"I love you." He whispered in her ear and Kaori smiled.

"I truly do."

"I know you do Mac; you proved that to me on our honeymoon." Kaori smiled and Mac let her go and she entered the lodge.

"So Kaori? What you gonna do about your sir name? Change it to Fraser or keep Nishidake?" Mac asked.

"I like Lady Fraser but the competitors prefer Nishidake so I'll keep it Nishidake on the slopes buy home with you I'm Lady Fraser," Kaori turned around and smiled again.

"Okay." Mac said and then he turned around and walked out to the new house that he was renting at the moment, he didn't want to live in the lodge all his life.

Kaori stayed the lodge for awhile and ate some salad that she was craving.

While she ate it Sod walked into.

"Ah here you are Kaori." Sid greeted.

"Hi Sid." She smiled.

"You have an amazing husband; he seems to really love you." He smiled.

"He does, he loves me to the bone, I don't think he'd take any rejection that well." Kaori continued to eat.

"Hey wanna take a quick ride after this? If you're not busy that is?" Sid asked.

"Okay, it has been a while since I've tackled the snow," Kaori agreed

Kaori and Sid strapped up and went out onto the new course named Son of a Birch, and Sid was better than Kaori had expected.

"Wow, for a newbie you sure are a good rider." Kaori said.

"I'd been at this in forever, I'd have to be good to get into SSX circuit huh?" he said in Japanese.

He eventually crossed the finish line first and Kaori followed less than 3 seconds later.

"So how long you and Mac been married?" Sid asked.

"Two years, it will be our anniversary around next month, I should show you our wedding video." Kaori said.

"Thanks but no thanks; I can already imagine it being the perfect wedding." Sid said.

"Well, it did have its perks but in the end everybody was happy and tired." Kaori explained.

"I see." Sid said and he moved a little closer to Kaori when she unstrapped her snowboard and walked over to the plane to get back to the lodge.

Looking at her, he thought she was absolutely gorgeous and he really wanted to know her better.

"Do you have any brothers or sisters?" He asked.

"If I do, they were adopted," she joked and Sid laughed along.

On the plane, Sid was getting really close to Kaori and she was oblivious to the whole thing, he kept thinking how hot she was and how he really was jealous of Mac for having such a beautiful woman for a wife.

Kaori just sat there looking out the window and didn't know Sid was only an inch and a half away from her face.

"Hey, Kaori," Sid started and Kaori turned around but she accidentally turned her head and her lips brushed past Sid's.

She backed away in fright.

Sid looked stunned.

"Wow, I didn't know you felt that way." Sid smiled.

"I…I don't. What?" Kaori was stunned as well, did she just kiss him?

"If that's the way you wanna play…I'm all for it, but wouldn't that go against your vows when you married Mac?" he asked with a hint of a smug smile on his face.

"What are you saying? I'm married and nothing happened, it was an accident and nothing happened. It was just a coincidence that your face was there and mine was here." Kaori turned back around and put that little mistake behind her.

Sid smiled, that couldn't have been an accident, something sparked and he knew it.

When Kaori entered the lodge, she saw Mac sitting on the couch with a bag of chips.

"Hey my little bunny rabbit." Mac smiled at her.

"Hello Mac," Kaori smiled back.

"Okay I have some good news and some bad news, what do you wanna hear first?" Mac asked as he stood up and hugged her.

"The good news" she stated.

"Okay, I found a new house for us!" Mac exclaimed.

"Oh my god! Wow!" Kaori smiled as she hugged him tightly

"The bad news is we have to pay for it and will be in debt for the rest of our lives." Mac smiled guiltily.

"I don't care! We have a new house! When do I get to see it?" kaori asked.

"Aw, you'll love it babe, it's got everything we need. It even has an entertainment room!" Mac shouted and Kaori gasped, this was a dream come true.

"How much was it?" She asked.

"You don't wanna know." Mac whispered in her ear.

"Yes, I do how much?" Kaori asked with determination.

"Over 50." Mac answered.

"Hey, where would we come up with that money?" Kaori asked.

"I told you, you didn't want to know!" Mac said.

"Oh okay I guess I didn't need to know." Kaori smiled.

Mac kissed her on the cheek.

"We're moving in tomorrow." He quickly whispered ands then made a dash for it.

"MAC!" She yelled but he was gone.

Silly billy, she thought.

Then she sat back down and wondered about that little accident, had it been an accident and she had just misplaced her lips or had Sid been that close for a reason?

She didn't know bit she knew she was excited to see the new house.

With the next day greeting them with a pleasant amount of powder, Kaori and Mac were packing and getting the cab to the new house.

"Is the house close to the mountain?" she asked.

Mac gave her a duh look.

"You'd think I'd buy a house far far away just do it would be complicated for us to go there for races. Duh Kaori you silly potato." Mac laughed and hugged her.

Kaori looked out the window when they approached it and her eyes widened with surprise, Mac was holding an enormous grin on his face.

"You like?" he asked,

"Oh my god Mac, how could have you afforded it?" she asked with an excited tone as she saw the two story house filled with vines growing up the entrance and white house sparkled under the sun.

The car stopped outside the entrance and Kaori rushed out of the car and gazed at it in awe.

"It's all ours baby." Mac smiled as he put his arm around her and she wrapped her arms around his waist.

"Mac, you are amazing!" She shouted.

"I know. It took awhile to find but I managed it." Mac proudly bragged.

"Go on, go in!" Mac gave her a push and she went straight inside to find the polished silver floor shining with her amazed reflection, the walls were a light cream colour with a bright red carpet rug occupying the lounge area on her left, on her right was a little office room with a red wood desk in the middle of it and the paintings on the wall were extraordinary, most likely some form of surrealism.

Kaori still couldn't close her jaws in surprise, this house was absolutely beautiful!

She walked in further and opened the large doors to find a very large kitchen, complete with a bar like table for it.

She looked to her left again and found the dining area that was a glass table and a giant golden chandelier hung right above it.

What she saw was amazing when she noticed a little tiny glass café table by the bar table in the kitchen.

"Oh my god." She whispered as she turned to her right and found the loving area, with a massive TV stuck into the wall.

"Oh wow." She exclaimed.

She turned the corner and found a bathroom with a tiny blue spa pool inside.

Kaori was speechless, it was amazing!

She explored around and found the guest bedroom next door, the laundry was right beside it and the door to the guest bedroom had a sign saying "If this room is messy you know I am still sane."

She took a small giggle until she had a look in the garage, a massive garage big enough to hold 3 cars at least, if you added a small mini cooper or a motorbike, it would be big enough for 5 cars, it was massive.

She closed the door and heard Mac drop the bags and swear really loud.

She smiled and continued looking around.

She remembered seeing the stairs by the entrance and she ran for them, taking a little hallway between the office and the kitchen.

She headed up the stairs and found this house was a 4 bedroom house.

She arrived at the top and saw the massive window that gave her the view of the entire neighbourhood, all the houses were extravagant but hers was the best, Mac had done it this time! He was so in her good books.

The window had a little leather chair that anyone could rest in and enjoy the view of the snow covered houses.

She turned away and walked down a much spaced out hallway to find 3 doors, she opened one to find a single bed and a balcony to the outside in bedroom number 3 so it said on the door.

"Wow," she whispered.

She exited that room and then opened the door with a big and gold number 2 on the door. She opened it and found a double bed and a tiny walk in wardrobe in it.

"Another guest bedroom?" she asked no one in particular, she knew it was gonna take her by surprise if she opened the master bedroom door but the curiosity killed her almost instantly, the biggest bedroom in the house and it was complete with an attached bathroom, with a golden spa pool in it! The bed was enormous and the window was big enough for the light of the sun to light up the whole room.

The bathroom had cream lino and the sink was black chrome and the shower was in the same chrome as the sink.

It was absolutely luxurious!

But the walk in wardrobe was definitely her favourite part of the house; the wardrobe was almost the size of the bedroom with the number 2 on the door.

"OH MY GOD!" She shouted.

She walked out, completely stunned but happy, she continued to explore but she was definitely coming back there.

She walked down the hallway now opposite the view and the leather chair on the other side of the stairwell, she found another bathroom but this one was just cream and gold, no black chrome or any spa pool, it was just a double sink and a large bath tub with neatly polished silver taps.

The toilet was brand new from the plastic was still on the seat.

"Wow, our house is awesome." She whispered and she walked back down to find Mac paying the driver and he smiled at her.

"Mac! Our house is amazing!" she exclaimed.

"Is it what the doctor ordered?" He joked.

"Yes! I will never be sick ever again!" she replied.

"That's good cos it's half a mil." Mac smiled.

"It's worth it." She whispered and hugged him tightly.

She grabbed her bags and started to unpack right away.

Soon enough Mac and Kaori were lying together on the leather chair and enjoying the breathtaking view.

Kaori had her head resting on Mac's chest and he playfully stroked her hair, he wondered how it was so soft and perfect, it did occur to him that the haircut was similar to what he had two years ago, back when he was a gawky teenager with raging acne, although he didn't think the acne was to the extreme but it would have been better without it.

Suddenly Kaori's m-comm. beeped and she sat up to read the message.

Her eyes became distant when she saw it was from Sid.

"I'll wait for you by the lodge for a race, you interested?" it said and Kaori didn't want to but she didn't want to hold up a friend, who she now immediately assumed was.

"Who is it babe?" Mac asked.

"It's just Psymon, raving on about how he is so much better than me as per usual." Kaori lied and Mac could instantly tell something was up.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Nothing." She said.

"C'mon you can tell me," he said.

"There is nothing to tell," she said and Mac dropped it.

Although he was sure something was up but why couldn't Kaori tell him?

What was she thinking?