Have them swing by.

It’s a no-brainer to invite Aor and Yui to join us at The Loft. When I do I can hear Yui and Aor speaking to each other in their first tongue of Thai before Yui says into the phone, “Aor really don’t think it’s smart to bring a baby to a bar. We were just going to pop in for a hello while we were in the area.”

I explain to Yui it’s closed and why and I can hear the pause as my loving teacher girlfriend checks with Aor.

“Have then bring us coffee!” Holly yells out loud enough to make sure Yui can hear it too. Jess and Holly seem to be laying out some other bits of business over the bar and are already tallying and going over the figures.

"Honey, the back door will be unlocked if you and Aor and the baby want to swing by. You know I love to see you."

“Okay!” Yui says excitedly, “text us your orders and we’ll be over.”

Holly, Jess, and I return to the invoices and figures we have in front of us. I notice Holly, without looking up from what she’s doing, respond to Jess trying to roll out a kink in her neck. Holly’s hand slips underneath her fiancé’s red locks and begins to massage Jess’s neck. In a loving and intimate moment, I watch as it seems like Holly presses her thumb against a knot in her lover’s body without ever moving her eyes from her forms and papers.

Jess lets out an appreciative, subtle moan before picking up a tablet and scrolling through some of the results of our inventory. "Thank you so much, my love, you always know exactly how and when I need to be touched."

"I thought you were doing work! Why am I hearing so much moaning?"

Hearing the voice gets all three of us to turn and look to see who said it. Aor, crossing the other end of The Loft. She is wearing a red sundress with no bra underneath, her arms squeezing towards each other to push the stroller causes her breasts to press together.

Jess's staring earns her a playful backhand smack across the shoulder from Holly who is so amused by what is apparently a very predictable reaction from her lesbian fiancé that she snort laughs before saying hello to Aor.

Surprisingly it is Yui, wearing sweats and a hoodie, one of mine. She is carrying a tray full of coffee drinks and beaming a massive smile. She crosses over and wraps an arm around my waist, snuggling tightly. "That's not her sex moan. You'd know her sex moan because it typically has a lot of cursing that follows."

Jess, shrugs, conceding Yui's point. Aor, the busybody mother of the group shoots her lean athletic friend a look of, shock? intrigue? Knowing Aor, probably both but she doesn't comment on it, instead she turns to Holly and Jess and says, "I've never been in here when it's closed. Seeing it emptied out like this, this is a really nice space. I could see weddings and more upscale events happening here if you wanted. Congratulations by the way!"

"Thanks!" The owners of the club say in unison before Holly steps in to talk about how proud they are of it and some of the new plans and events scheduled. "But don't worry, the main focus is still going to be wild dance parties."

"Like your engagement party?" Aor asks excitedly.

"Exactly! We all had a good night, why stop those from happening?" Jess says before changing gears. "Hey Aor, we were thinking how would you feel about exclusively selling your rum here?"

I notice Yui is now looking over Holly's numbers, pointing out things to Holly it very much reminds me that Yui is a teacher and a very good one. It makes me picture Holly in a St. Magdalene school girl uniform, which quickly leads to some very vulgar thoughts on my part that are only interrupted by Aor's response to Jess.

"I don't know if I'm looking for anything exclusive right now," laughing at her own joke hard enough that everyone else joins her.

"That's fine, totally get it!" Jess says, seemingly shifting gear into businesswoman mode, "we would like to really up our order from your rum supplier though. If we can't be the only place in town to get your rum we would still like to be known as THE place."

Aor looks to me to see what I think, I give her a quick nod and she agrees.

Aor's baby starts to get fussy, and I'm surprised by Jess being the one to pick him up. Holly seems to be too but Jess seems to calm him down quickly with a soft swaying and a gentle coo.

The little guy seems to be fascinated by her bright red hair and keeps reaching for it as Aor just says, "wow! he likes you Jess," before turning to Holly, "looks like you're getting a wife with baby skills."

Holly looks mesmerized by the sight in front of her and quickly grabs her phone to snap a couple of pictures of Jess coddling Aor's little guy.

"It really should be time to get him going though," Aor speaks up, "he's been on a real specific schedule and things are going relatively smooth so I should probably try to keep it. Yui, ready to go?"

I look to Yui, she looks at me and says, "I'm helping Aor watch the baby tonight. So I guess we should get going"

"Okay," I say warmly.

We all say our warm goodbyes and I walk Aor and Yui to their car. The whole walk there Aor is asking questions, seemingly innocent questions about Sydney, about Piya's new job offers, about Lawan, about Yui's dad. I'm not sure how many of the questions she asked were ones she had the answer to already but I answer them all anyway but walking the line as best I can to be delicate about not telling something out of turn to the world-renowned gossip that is Aor. I tell them both about the big dinner planned for celebrating Piya tomorrow night as Aor loads her boy into his car seat.

Yui hugs me tightly before we exchange a soft goodbye kiss.

"Hey, how many hoodies do you think I have in my closet by now?" I ask her as I tug on the drawstrings of her pilfered attire.

"You'll be lucky if you have any," Yui says as she gets into Aor's car and blows me a kiss before they drive away.

The rest of the night with Holly and Jess goes almost strictly as business, which makes me feel really good about being in business with them. As we wrap up and go our separate ways for the night our eyes are blurred a little from staring, and counting, and recounting for hours on end. But we got the job done so that's satisfying. By the time I get to slide into my bed sleep is right behind me and I am out like a light.