A warm send off and a surprise upgrade.

Yui and Piya sat in the back row while I drove to the airport, holding hands and flitting between Thai and English in equal measure. Talking about how exciting all of this must be for Piya and what the absolute first things Piya is going to do on her first night out in Tokyo.

My phone buzzes with a message from Candace, new directions as to where to head once we make it to the airport. I make a note of it but don't really draw attention to the changes with the two lifelong friends gabbing in the back.

"I'm going to miss you so much, both of you," Piya says as she is sitting cross legged in the back row, holding both hands of her smaller best friends who is sitting the exact same way.

"We're going to miss you so much," I say into the back mirror.

"So much," Yui agrees, "but it isn't like this is going to be gone forever, we'll see you soon enough."

Piya gets a little teary eyed at the prospect of leaving and says quietly in Thai "and you're going to make sure my, I mean, ‘our man’ is taken care of? God, I love him so much."

My lessons in Thai may be proving me to be a truly slow learner but I heard that loud and clear.

"I love him too," Yui says in Thai, "but I promise you your man is going to be well taken care of." It must have been the way she said it because both of the girls laugh at after Yui finishes that statement.

"Oh baby, I think you missed at turn," Piya says to me as she looks out the windshield, her hand on my head rest to pull herself forward to look.

"No, we're going to the private terminal. Sounds like someone got an upgrade for being the future of fertility science and her bosses want to show off a bit for her."

"What?! Oh my God! What?" Piya says as she pulls out her phone, searching for something that would tell her this. I can see through the rear-view mirror she finds it, relaxes into the back seat of my car and shows it to Yui who simply says, "that's a nice plane."

The conversation quickly turns back into two lifelong friends navigating and charting out Piya's adventures. "Video call me the moment you get into your apartment, take pictures... eeeh! I can't wait to see what your new place is going to be like! Are you going to go dancing the first night? I hear the clubs in Tokyo are wild."

We arrive at a standalone building at the airport I've never seen before, which makes sense, I've never flown private. There are three bellmen there ready to help with Piya's luggage and load it directly onto the plane and one absolutely gorgeous woman, dark skin and silky black hair done up in a tight bun wearing an elegant skirt suit with a bandanna tied around her neck. She is easily identifiable as a flight attendant, only with a high fashion elevation to her uniform that makes it clear she is much more in charge than the typical flight attendant.

"Miss..." she begins before Piya can interrupt,

"Please, call me Piya."

"Miss Piya, The Takade Sankyo Corporation would like to welcome you to the company by providing you with your first access to the corporate jet for your flight. Now considering how highly valued a member of the development team you are you should know this jet is available to you and for you to send for anyone that might prove to be helpful in your research.

Today we will be flying you to Japan solo, is that correct?"

"Yes, it’s just me and my luggage this trip."

"Lovely, I will be joining you if that’s alright. My name is Grace and I'm the company's travel coordinator, if you ever need anything you can come to me."

"Grace, it's lovely to meet you." Piya says professionally, "these are my partners." Piya introduces me and Yui to Grace, "I was hoping for a little bit of a goodbye before boarding the plane if that is alright."

"Of course!" Grace says warmly, "you even have more well-wishers waiting to see you off just inside the building there. Take your time and when you're ready, we'll start getting you off to Tokyo. I'll be waiting in the plane."

"More well-wishers?" Piya says looking to me and Yui before walking into the building, "what did you two do?"

"SURPRISE!" yells a group of women holding good bye signs and waving them at Piya. Candace standing on the side, wearing a low shirt and jeans and a pair of over-sized sunglasses. Holly and Jess with hands wrapped around each other’s hips. Dawn and Holly holding big shimmering glitter boards saying ‘Go Get Em’ and ‘We love you Piya!’ Aor on the other end holding her baby boy on her hip, also wearing a very low-cut shirt and jeans. Her baby pulling he neck of her shirt down even lower.

"Oh my God girls!" Piya is able to push out as she tries to hold back some tears. "You didn't have to do this, but I love that you did." She moves through the group, hugging and kissing each member of her farewell party.

"We love you Piya," Aor says as they kiss and Piya's attention immediately turns to fawning over Aor's son, making faces and cooing at the little guy.

"We even brought presents." Lawan says, pulling something out from her bag and hiding it behind her back.

The idea of presents snaps Piya from her baby trace and starts to look around at the group.

"I'll go first!" Dawn says as she pulls her present out of a black paper bag. Handing a pink cell phone shaped box to Piya. "It's a remote access egg-vibrator. It can be controlled by anyone who has the app on their phone or through this remote that comes in the box. It’s really great." Dawn looks at me, "Roo knows what the remote looks like so he gets the idea of it."

This statement earns me a few looks from all the other women in the group but Dawn keeps going and talking so excitedly that her chest bounces a lot as she explains. "This is a new one, it's not the one I have. I figure it might help with the distance, if you, you know..."

"That's actually very kind of you Dawn."

Lawan protests immediately, "now my gift is childish and stupid." She pulls a blue stuffed gorilla out from behind her back, staring down into the eyes of a clearly well-loved memento from her childhood "I wanted you to have Ooh-ohh back so you could have someone looking out for you in Tokyo... I'm too old for him now but I thought."

Piya cuts her sister off with a deep long hug. "I love Ooh-ohh and that’s so sweet Lawan."

Turning to me Piya explains that Ooh-ohh was Piya's favorite toy, a security blanket for her when they first moved to Australia, took him everywhere but when Lawan was 4-5 she got very scared of the dark so Piya gave her baby sister her protector, the blue gorilla. "And he never left Lawan's side ever after that."

"He's been on my bed every night, but I want you to have him with you in Japan."

"Aww! Lala!" Piya says as she hugs her sister again.

"But now Dawn has given you the dirtiest gift, I feel stupid."

Dawn looks proud at the impact her gift has, and the title its seeming to have won.

Holly and Jess clear their throats as a point of contention. "It’s probably not the dirtiest..." and with that the couple hands Piya to look at a box about the size of a shoe box.

"We figured you might miss your man while you were over there so we got you a moulding kit," Jess says before Holly finishes, "It'll make a mould of his cock and then they turn it into an exact replica dildo, every vein, every curve.

"Ohhh this sounds like something I'm definitely going to want in Japan." Piya says, opening the box and looking at the components, her eyes darting to my crotch multiple times as I see her wheels spin.

"But how’s it going to do her any good if Roo stays here and the kit is getting on the plane with her?" Lawan asks, clearly not thinking it through.

"Yeah and will there be copies for... others?" Dawn asks.

Luckily Yui steps in, "I'll be in charge of it. We'll take the mould here and then ship it to Piya's new place. We'll have it to you P before you even crave it."

"Well, I know you won’t get it to me THAT quick," Piya says subtly as she brushes her hand across my crotch. "just make sure its shipped discreetly I don't want my doorman's first impression of me to be that I'm getting dildo's shipped."

"absolutely not." Holly interjects. "we should make it perfectly clear whats in the package"

"I actually have something for Yui and Piya," I announce, pulling out a jewellery box, opening it in front of the two of them to show three rings of three looping metals, "I wanted us all to have something that signified our relationship."

Both Piya and Yui stare at the rings with equal measure awe and confusion "Is this like..." Yui starts, taking the ring as she asks.

"No, I mean, sort of." I start explaining, "there isn't a question you need to answer or anything attached, that comes later, I think. This is just me showing my commitment to us."

Piya kisses me, wrapping her arms around me and pushing into me so hard that her ring and my ring fall out of the box as we kiss. She doesn't care for a few seconds, losing herself in the kiss before breaking the kiss and asking, "where is my ring?"

Its easily found and she immediately slips it on her finger before holding it up to Yui who has done the same.

At last the time comes where Piya has to board, hugging and kissing everyone again, tears welling in her eyes as she begins to back away from us and towards the private jet waiting for her just outside. We all group together to wave and see her off all stressing how soon we'll see her.

As we watch the plane depart Yui turns to me, saying sadly, "take me home."