"How's it coming along? You look ready to pop," laughed Phil."It's tough. I feel...just gross, all the time. And the looks I get whenI go out it's.....uggh." She could barely finish her sentence as the despairof knowing she was stuck like this washed over her."Do you mind if I feel?" asked her boyfriend.Jenny shrugged her shoulders and pulled her shirt up to just under theline of her maternity bra. His hands rubbed over her bulbous torso,feeling the life growing inside her. After a while. If a guy... say a guy in Japan likes a girl and wants to ask her out. How does he do it?” He said nervously.“We are not in Japan. I understand why you are cautious though, you do not wish to make me upset. How does a man ask out a woman in the United States?”He swallowed a mouthful of beer and said “He asks he is maybe she would like to go to a dinner and a movie, just the two of them.”“I think I like this American way of doing things. Does that answer your question or do you want to ask me. She had a way of telling enough to keep the listener very interested and yet holding back enough to peak one’s curiosity. Where previously I had been impressed with her business approach, now I was equally fascinated with the woman and her life style.Our drink glasses were empty when we returned to her office, and I was feeling the effects just a little; enough that it precluded further business conversation. I suggested that I take the draft contract with me for my attorneys to review and she. ’ ‘Bullshit,’ Thomas said in a loud forceful voice. ‘Ally wouldn’t leave like that.’ ‘I know and that’s what’s got me worried.’ I explained about our argument, my misgivings about the things she’d written in the note, the fact that none of her clothes or personal items were missing and finally about the messy kitchen. ‘You’re right, something isn’t Kosher here. Ally might have waited and beat you about the head and shoulders with a broom but she’d never just up and leave.’ Thomas knew Ally.