I guess I learned it from him."Cleo laughed. "He isn't a bad man to emulate. Now are we ready for tonight?" Never," Mickey said. "We can always do bet...er. But we'll do fine."We began practicing again. This time the AI appeared to want us to work on specific passages and interludes. Instead of full pieces, the displayed music would be just a few bars. I watched as we repeated one section and discovered that the AI was subtly changing the music. The changes consisted of notes being lengthened or. It sounded very exciting to me. As he opened the door to his room he showed me in and said to make myself comfortable. I sat in one of two easy chairs by a small table.As he started to remove his dress shirt, I thought "Oh my god, this is really happening!"But he reached for a casual shirt and said something about getting comfortable. I said that if he wanted to be comfortable maybe now was a good time to get naked. He seemed to like that idea as I stood to remove my shirt and kick off my. We entered the shower and locked the door behind us, placing our dry clothes on a bench in the changing area and moving past the curtain to the shower portion. I was surprised, really. I had half expected Hayley to wait until Justin was done with his shower. We're all relatively conservative, so he would probably be surprised that we were so obviously in the shower together. This was possibly a politically incorrect behavior among friends and neighbors, and, hopefully, it wouldn't be spread. .." Damn it, Beth, I'm serious! If you drank last night it was because you wanted to, not because somebody talked you into it."I wish you would have at least called me. I could have picked you up. I'm sure the Jeep wouldn't be the first vehicle to be left in the lot overnight."Beth looked even more uncomfortable. "Tommy, I-I couldn't call you ... I was too embarrassed." Embarrassed? Why?" Because of what I did to you. Tommy, once I calmed down I knew you missed that little furball as much as I.