It was over a ½ hour drive during which the conversation went from small talk to more intimate topics. They gave us a tour of their home that include... the playroom and outside hot tub which John started up for what I assumed would be for some later fun. After a great Australian barbeque dinner, they invited us to play in their now full and hot outside hot tub. There was no pretext of the need for any clothes. This was in May which is the Australian winter. That day it was fairly cool (no snow. Birmingham had been nominated for the Best New Artist award. The fact that their album had barely gone gold was, to Jake, further proof of the heavy-handed involvement of the record companies in the whole Grammy process. True, their single, Texas Hold-em, had done pretty well, parking itself at number one for a single week and selling well over a million copies but it had done nowhere near as well as the other nominees in the bunch. National had simply pulled the strings they had to pull to get. " Ayeka thought, wincing slightly from the loud yelp as the actor began a painful hopping dance."Actually good sir." She smiled, attempting to ignore the antics. "My beloved has not, as of yet, set a date for the blessed event!" Ayeka's eyes shifting subtly, gazing side long into Tenchi's "I'm certain just to build the sweet anticipation, of things to come!" She whispered loudly, enough to carry while holding his eye's with a dark, almost malevolent look to her features. "My Beloved would never. Not as nice as yours, but I don't have breasts in the way." Was that an insult about my breasts? From the way you look at them all the time, you'd think of a better way to say something like that." Wait, mom. That's not how I meant it. I'm sorry if I embarrass you by looking, you're the best-looking mom at my high school. All the boys..." All the boys what?" she said turning back towards me and maintaining eye contact even though I was still naked."Well, they all wonder if I've ever seen you.