Anna talked a mile a minute as Hank drove the Bentley to Aika's. She spent the last half of the trip on her phone, first discussing PEP Center business with Fuji, and then girl talk with Sue Marie, made noticeable by giggles and silly bits of Japanese. The constant chatter came to a halt the instant she stood by Hank's side while in the parking lot of Aika's apartment complex. She craned an ear to listen.

"What?" he asked of her odd behavior.

Anna hustled Hank towards Aika's door. "Shush," she said. "Be quiet." She let herself in with a key.

"You have a key to Aika's, too?"

"Yeah. Now shush."

Anna pressed the call button for the elevator. While waiting, she busied herself with trying to text on her phone. On the elevator, she cursed.

"Crap. I lost my signal."

"Who are you trying to reach?"

"Sehrish."

Anna labored to get a signal by holding her phone over her head while moving about in the elevator. When the doors opened on Aika's floor, she gave up and stuffed the phone in her purse, heading quickly down the hall.

"Why are you texting Sehrish?" Hank asked.

"Shush," Anna said over his words.

"Is she home?"

Anna turned on Hank, hissing quietly. "Shut up or I'll strangle you!"

Again, Hank stopped in his tracks. "Look," he said, "I'm getting tired of you…"

That was all he got out, as Anna began shoving him backwards. She surprised him with her strength and speed, pushing him down the hallway until his butt hit a windowsill at the far end.

"Listen to me," Anna said, barely whispering. "We're talking about my job. I am on the clock here, and I need to know what's going on in there."

Hank's expression relaxed as he realized not only was his crush for six long years now deep in his life at the moment, but she also worked for him.

If I'm not in charge of this Reality, he thought, I need to thank who is.

Anna used a more pleasant tone to contnue her tirade. "Hank-sama, please. I am begging. Aika can make or break me, and you need to do as you're told while we're here."

By the time Anna was done speaking, their mouths were dangerously close. The maroon gloss on her lips looked delicious.

She smiled and beeped his nose with a finger. "Good boy," she said before turning and heading back to Aika's.

"I hear music," he whispered.

In her mind, Anna throttled her first PEP Genius client.

She unlocked Aika's door and slipped in, quietly removing her shoes. While Hank labored with unlacing his boots, she stood by his side with her hands folded and her head bowed. Afterwards, he only stared—not at her, but at Teek. She stood near the hallway leading into the kitchen and the two bedrooms beyond, playing her violin with gusto. She wore a crisp French white blouse, buttoned all the way up. It was paired with an expensive silver skirt lined with taffeta silk. The skirt had a huge royal blue satin waistband and was cut high in the front, exposing her tiny bare feet.

She gave Hank a smile that displayed her big teeth as she performed the solo to a concerto. As a homage to her headbanger past, she used exagerated bow strokes while sawing away at the strings. Anna stood close enough to Hank to be able to nudge him or step on a toe should he so much as think about moving or speaking.

She then smiled, for he was mesmerized. Teek's performance became more animated after she sensed the appreciation of her new audience. She danced on her toes as she played, the curls in her hair coming loose from the sweat. Hank held his breath when the tempo slowed, as Teek poured so much spirit into her performance. She proved herself to be the owner of a soul that was deep and complex, and she made the music her own.

Aika sat in front Teek and a little off to the right, staring at her while ignoring her guests. She had her soft body pressed into a corner of the sofa, with her knees tucked up to her chin, beneath her big man's white business shirt. With only two of the buttons buttoned, it was obvious she had on prim white panties, but wore no socks or bra.

Aika's eyes quickly went from Hank to Anna before returning to Teek, taking in all she observed. Hank's attention remained plastered on Teek. For ten minutes, she was the only thing moving. When done, she lowered her violin and looked expectantly at Hank. She breathed hard through her thin lips while wiping sweat from her brow with a sleeve.

"Well?" she asked after a moment, hopping again on her toes. "Well?"

Hank began clapping slow, and then fast. He gushed praise onto her.

"That was amazing! You're so beautiful! I've never seen such talent!"

Goosebumps formed on Teek's arms, as tiny dark hairs stood on end. "Thank you, Hank-sama! Oh thank you!"

"Wasn't that amazing?" Hank asked Anna.

She stayed silent and nodded, keeping her head bowed. "You're late," Aika scolded, as Anna had moved without being given permission.

"Hai, Sensai. I am sorry."

Aika examined the hems of her shirt. "I wanted Hank to be here before Teek began her practice, and you brought him to me after."

Anna bowed deeper. "I beg to please be forgiven."

Aika uncurled from her corner. She sat on the edge of the sofa, her toes barely touching the floor.

Hank bowed as deeply as Anna. "Aika-sensai, it's my fault. I… I asked Anna for help."

"You need to learn to express your Genius," Aika said to him, interrupting. "How to feel it. What it's like."

Hank bowed again. "Yes, Aika-sensai."

"You know nothing about being a Genius, and Teek knows a great deal."

It was Teek's turn to bow. "Oh thank you, Aika!" she gushed.

"You are welcome." Aika returned to Hank. "You will learn from her what's it's like to have nothing, then have everything and become great."

"Yes, Aika-sensai," Hank promsed. "I will."

Aika turned her attention to Anna. "Something terrible has happened, as you now know," Aika said, repeating her words from two days before. "There will be much more."

After a silence that held only Teek's breathing, Hank dared to speak again. "An important person I know is missing. We don't know where he is."

Aika approached and stood close enough for him to see her face without looking up from his bow. "Sit down," she said before walking away.

Hank and Anna sat on the love seat, quietly and side-by-side. Teek busied herself with cleaning her violin before putting it away.

"I'm going to play that piece in concert!" she said, still puffed up with pride. "With the city orchestra! Very soon!"

Hank beamed. "Can we come?"

Aika's voice came from down the hallway. "No. You have more important matters."

Teek scurried to stand before Hank and Anna. "Don't worry," she whispered. "I'll sneak you in!"

Down the hall, a big woman's voice boomed with sweetness to something Aika had said. "Okay! Sure! Be right out!"

"You're going to meet Sehrish!" Teek said to Hank with a grin.

"I'm getting dressed for work," the woman said next.

"No! Don't!" Teek called with mirth, scurrying down the hall towards the voice. "Come naked!"

"Get dressed," Aika commanded in her quiet voice, having returned to her spot on the sofa.

"Why?" Teek asked politely. She straddled the arm of the sofa opposite Aika as is she were mounting a horse. "You're always naked."

Aika put her feet up on the sofa and tucked her legs back under her shirt. Her floppy knockers squished out the sides as she held everything together by wrapping her arms around her knees. Hank fixated over how supple she was, yet so in control. She ruled her world as a sea nymph, with Teek's violin her siren song. No one escaped its call.

"Tell me about Milton," Aika said to Hank.

He blinked. He hadn't mentioned Milton by name, nor said he was the one who was missing. But certainly, Aika knew.

"Do you know where he is?" Hank blurted out.

"What do you think I know?"

Hank struggled with Reality while in Aika's presence. He felt empty, unknowing, unworthy. "Geez, sensai. I don't know. I never know anything, it seems."

"You are wrong. Use your Genius."

"Rio says Milton is missing, and we have his dog."

"Is that not enough?" Aika asked. Hank shrugged, unsure of what that meant.

Sehrish's entrance into the room was the only thing capable of prying Hank's eyes off Aika and her peek-a-boo boobs. Though a scant inch taller than Anna, she towered over the other women. She weighed more than Teek and Aika combined, and had it packed tight in all the right places. With huge curves for hips and a soccer ball bust, her waist was trim by comparison only.

She swayed all she had straight at Hank. What little color he had in his face fell away as dopamine sopped his brain, sending blood to his lower levels. She noticed his arousal and raked him from head to toe with sparkling light grey eyes. Her cheeks pressed against emerald green cats-eye glasses as she smiled, expressing her approval.

"Hi!" she boomed. "You're Hank!"

Everyone stared at Hank. "Oh… um, yes," he managed to say.

Sehrish struck a Rubenesque pose, with a powerful hand on one thigh. "Hi, Anna!" she boomed before swiveling her upper body towards Teek. "That was good, Peanut."

Teek bounced on the arm of the sofa, humping it in full violation of her formal attire. "Thanks!"

"Much better than ever before."

"Thanks again!"

Sehrish swiveled back to face Hank. Her skin color was Sinhalese but her hair was Irish red, crowning her with Medusa coils. One stubborn curl seemed intent on residing directly on the bridge of her nose. She blew it away with natural colored lips, using the expertise of someone who'd been doing so since childhood.

Anna placed her hand on Hank's thigh, practically atop where his manhood had begun snaking its way down his jeans. He nearly jumped out of his skin, but his eyes remained on Sehrish. Sexy freckles splotched her face, with the barest of foundation makeup trying to hide their existence. She heaved on her breath and looked flushed, as if the walk down the hallway had winded her.

She swiveled again, now turning towards Aika. "What's up?" she asked the sea nymph in the big man's shirt.

Anna squeezed Hank's leg harder. "We have a lost puppy," she said, after Aika chose to say nothing.

Sehrish now turned to face Anna, swaying her body while adjusting her stance. She wore aquamaine colored hospital scrubs, consisting of a smock and drawstring pants. With a hand on the neckline of her smock to keep her boobs from spilling forth, she bent low to get in Hank's face. Unlike Fuji's heavy swaying hangers, or Aika's soft pudding sacks, Sehrish's breasts were perfect. They fit well in their triple-plus bra as its panels struggled with maintaining their load.

She stared deep into Hank's eyes.

"You lost your puppy?" she asked with concern, brushing hair from her face with her other hand.

Anna ground her butt on the love seat, bumping her hip against Hank. Sexy Sehrish had the same effect on her that she was having on him. He reared back unintentionally, causing Anna to clutch his leg further up his thigh. Sehrish's eyes danced between them, before she took a long moment to admire the bulge in Hank's jeans that now lay so near Anna's fingers.

Teek giggled, bouncing hard on her mount. She had a great view of both Hank and Anna, and of Sehrish's big ass.

"Uh… no," Hank managed to say after too long a pause.

"Hank has a lost puppy," Anna said, trying to clarify by emphasizing the words.

Sehrish remained confused. "Someone has your puppy?" she asked.

Hank could longer hear. He knew Anna and Sehrish continued talking, but couldn't follow along. Sehrish kept asking questions, with Anna always answering them slightly wrong.

And Teek doing a lot of bouncing.

Sehrish straightened up as she pondered the problem. Her new pose gave Hank a view of strip of her tummy no longer covered by big boobs or smock. He watched it move in and out while she breathed. The musky scent of her body mixed with perfume, baby powder and deodorant, attacking his good moral senses whenever her clothes swished while she shifted her weight.

Anna removed her hand from Hank's thigh and turned to better face him. She guided him with a firm voice. "Why don't you tell her why we're here?"

"Uh… because Aika told us to come."

"Tell her about Bumbles."

"Is Bumbles the name of your puppy?" Sehrish asked.

Hank opened his mouth to speak but no words left his lips. Anna scooted further away, facing him more fully. As she did, Sehrish swooped in. She lowered herself to her haunches, her pants creaking while showcasing her muscle. Now nearly between his legs, she steadied herself by placing a hand on the knee he had closest to Anna.

Anna's face never looked prettier as she enjoyed how Sehrish showed concern. "It's a friend of Aika's," Anna said about who owned Bumbles.

Sehrish shook her head, jiggling Hank. "Okay. I'm lost. The puppy is a friend of Aika's?"

Anna tut-tutted politely. She leaned towards Sehrish and placed a hand atop hers, forcing Hank's leg to bear both their weight and the length of his pecker. Coils of red Medusa hair snaked around cats-eye glasses, caressing freckles as Sehrish gazed into Anna's dark eyes.

"Let's start over," Anna said. "Hank has a lost puppy, but it isn't his. We're looking for the owner, who's recently gone missing."

Sehrish grunted while shifting her weight. Hank inhaled audibly.

"I see," Sehrish said to Anna. "And Aika knows who he is?"

"I believe so. Yes. We also know who the owner is, but we don't know where he is. And we want to find him."

"Oh dear! Do you think he's at Marina?" Sehrish asked, naming the hospital where she interned as a cardiologist.

"He could be. His name is Milton."

"Milton who?"

Anna looked flummoxed. "I don't know. Milton who?" she asked Hank.

Hank forced words out his mouth. "I don't know. I can't remember." He was lucky to be able to recall his own name as Sehrish bore down hard on his knee, shifting her weight again.

"Well, gosh," she said. "That's not much to go on. I mean, I can ask, but we interns don't get much free time."

"And it isn't a puppy," Anna said. "It's a big dog, all grown up. Isn't that right?" she asked Hank, gracing him with a smile.

Sehrish's eyes dilated as Hank watched a smile form on her lips as well. Teek put both hands to her mouth, to hold in her giggles while watching.

"Is your puppy a big dog now?" Sehrish asked Hank with playful curiosity.

Teek's toothy grin grew so wide it peeked out from behind her hands. With one foot up on a cushion, she swung the other one wildly, riding the arm of the sofa like a sex toy.

"Hank's puppy is huge!" she exclaimed, launching herself at her target.

Hank stood up before Teek could land. "Will all of you leave me alone?" he demanded.

Bird-like, Teek returned to her perch on the sofa. Anna reared back and stared. Sehrish, however, wasn't so lucky. Her squatted stance and hefty body made it impossible for her to stay upright. Her ass hit the floor with a thud, plopping her flat on her back. Now with her glasses askew, she blew red curls from her eyes.

Hank looked down at her while standing over her. "A little help?" she asked with embarrassment, holding out a big hand.

He braced himself and grabbed it as she heaved herself to her feet. She then straightened her hair and eyeglasses.

"Okay. I'll ask around at the hospital and see if anyone like Milton is there."

"Yeah, if you could, that would be great," Hank said.

He slouched with his hands in his pockets to help withstand his hard pecker, as Teek giggled at her roommate's face.

"Good God," Anna said.

"What?" Sehrish asked.

Anna pointed. "Um…"

"Oh."

Sehrish's cheeks grew as red as her hair. Her eyeglasses had lost a lens, yet she still wore the frames on her face. She bent low to search for it, covering her naked eye with a hand to help her see. Hank saw the lens at the same time as she, and both of them reached to retrieve it. With one hand on her eye and the other on the floor, her smock opened fully. She allowed him to admire the view as he retrieved her lens. He then fumbled with handing it to her, nearly dropping it down her top toward the expanse of flesh that lay between two perfect breasts.

She smiled crimson bright at her playmates. "Look, um… I've got to fix this," she said, lumbering down the hallway towards her room. "I'll see you guys later!" she boomed. "I'm pleased to meet you, Hank, and hope you stay for the dinner our wonderful Teek is preparing!"

As Sehrish left, Hank noticed two things. One was that Aika was gone. The other was he had to pee.

Right now.

"I'm going to the bathroom," he said, walking in and locking the door.