In reply to Adam Newman (msg # 74):

Keiko smiled at Adam then looked over at Hikuru who looked neutrally at her guests.

She adjusted her kimono as Hikaru watched more activity.

Keiko looked at beer her gma had and remembered having too many of the same brand at poker games during her usaf years ...

Keiko then told the tale of how she and Adam met.
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Grandmother sat quietly and listened to the tale of how Adam and Keiko met and how they finally got together.

Grandmother placed her hands on both of their hands, then joined them together, then said,"You have gone through quite a lot in just a short bit of time to get together. You belong together." She closed her eyes and smiled and nodded her head. She brought their hands partially in the air and shook them in place and simply said,"Together."

Grandma just basically performed an unofficial wedding ceremony.Stating that they will be married.

She laid their hands back down and patted them and said,"There it's done."  She was in all smiles.

The only one that knew what she did was Hikuru, whom seemed a little perturbed with her mother, and in Ancient Japanese she said,"Mother you know we are not allowed to do that anymore."

The grandmother looked at her daughter and said back to her daughter in Ancient Japanese,"I am a High Priestess, I can perform Wedding Ceremonies and have perform them. These two are destined to be together. They have past lives together. And I will tell them that news. And you shant stop me!"


Grandmother looked at Adam and Keiko and said,"You two have a destiny with each other. You have past lives together." She smiled and it was as big as Adams smiled are to Keiko and she had a glow to her, an aura you might say. Grandmother has a gift of reading the past, present and future.

In reply to Keiko Forster (msg # 77):

Keiko looked at gma and spoke quietly in English "Perhaps this ceremony could have happened with less people around, Honorable Grandmother. Thank you for the ceremony."

She looked one of her hands over..

She then looked in Adam's eyes "Spose we should talk when we can for an extended period of time."

She texted H How accurate is what Grandmother stated? I probably don't need to ask that.
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Hikuru smiled"If you would excuse us for just a minute."

She took Keiko by her hand and lead her to her bedroom and closed the door.

"What your grandmother did was perform an unofficial wedding ceremony, basically stating that you two will be married in the future. Your Grandmother is a High Priestess and has always been allowed to perform wedding Ceremonies as well as funerals. But times has changed and young people want a regular priest to need them so they told your grandmother that she can't perform them anymore."

Hikuru rubbed her head,"Why didn't I grab a drink before I came in here?" She sighed,"She said that you two have past lives together and that you are destined to be together, so she sealed the deal. But she did tell you that."

"Poor Adam is probably confused as hell about what's going on right now. I know you said that you needed to talk but I do think he will take this well. So let's get back out there before the Newman's show up."
Just then the door bell buzzed.

In reply to Hikuru Forster (msg # 79):

Hireto checked who was ringing the bell.

He then happily greeted the new arrivals and said "Welcome to this humble barbecue."

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As Keiko opened the door to the bedroom  she did her best Sam Beckett impression 'Ohhhhh, booooooy..'
This message had punctuation tweaked by the GM at 13:08, Tue 16 May 2023.

Caroline walked in with Selma and Quentin behind her. She said to the grandfather,"Hello it's very nice to meet you."She introduces herself and the kids and they walk over to Adam and Adam has a big smile on his face.

"Mom, I'm so glad you came and brought the brats with you." Selma wearing her usual all black glared at Adam, and Quentin, wearing a pair of tight jeans and a baby blue t-shirt  with a rainbow on it and the letters LGBTQ under the rainbow. He laughed at the joke. Adam gave Selma a big hug as she flinched then hugged him back then he hugged Quinton and he hugged him back.
Adam introduced them to Keiko's dad, half brothers and grandparents.
The door bell rang again...

In reply to Caroline Newman (msg # 81):

Siekomo checked to see who the new guests were as she was very quickly at the front door ...

Said front door was opened and the new arrivals were greeted by Siekomo ..


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Keiko positioned herself near Adam ..  and cutely smiled and said randomly "Hi, been an interesting day so far."
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In reply to Adam Newman (msg # 74):

Selma got a portion of foodage and was hygenic about it.
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Grant and Zoe were standing at the door, Zoe holding a bowl, she handed it to Keiko. "It's Ambrosia salad I didn't want to come empty handed." Zoe flashed Keiko a smile then extended her hand,"Hi I'm so sorry where are my manners? I'm Zoe Newman, Grant's wife, Adam's step-mother. It so nice to meet you."

Grant offered his hand to Adam and Adam shook his hand, then Grant brought him into a hug and whispered in his ear,"Is that your mother's Escalade out there?"
Adam whispered back,"Yes it is."
Adam pulled away and introduced Keiko to them.
Dad, Zoe I would like to introduce you to my girlfriend Keiko, Keiko this is my dad Grant and step mother Zoe."

After the pleasantries they walked in and Grant found Karl and it was like slow motion as they gave each other a hug. Grant pulled back and handed Karl,"Here ya go twelve year old Scotch from my private collection. I didn't want to come empty handed."

In reply to Grant Newman (msg # 84):

Keiko smiled, extended a hand, shook hands and then bowed when introed by Adam.

She kindly said in her natural voice "I am Keiko Forster as just mentioned by Adam."

Zoe walked in and saw Caroline, Quentin and Selma and marched herself over to Grant and said,"Did you know they were going to be here?"

Adam walked over to Zoe and his dad, while Keiko put the Ambrosia Salad in the fridge to stay cold, he said,he said,"No Zoe dad didn't know mom and the kids were going to be here, Mrs. Forster invited them, just like she invited you, but unlike you, mom and Mrs. Forster are friends. Anymore questions? If not why don't you make you a drink and go hide in a corner somewhere and let dad enjoy his evening with his one true friend."

Zoe looked at Grant,"Are you going to let him talk to me like that?"

Adam looked at his dad and seriously dared him to say anything about it."

Grant rolled his eyes then gave Zoe a kiss on the cheek and said,"Why don't you go make Karl and I a drink with this Kitten?"  He swatted her on the ass and she giggled and took the bottle to make drinks.

The kids walked over and hugged Grant as they whispered back and forth about a week long trip that he is taking Caroline and the two kids on. But it had to be hush hush in front of Zoe. She thinks he's going to a conference.

She brought their glasses of scotch to them and took the farthest chair and drank on her drink until it was time to eat.

In reply to Keiko Forster (msg # 85):

Zoe asked Grant a little to loudly "Is Kei -- Keiko British, Grant?"

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Keiko wandered over to Adam with large cups of straight ginger ales. She whispered "Well, take my hand and lead me to whomever, Adam."

She handed him a cup ...

Adam took Keiko's hand and lead her to his mom and siblings, both kids jumped up and gave him a hug then Selma quickly moved back and acted all Emo-ish.

Caroline smiled at Keiko and Adam as they walked up. She shook her head at Zoe's question and for some reason felt the need to apologize for her, even if it was a little sarcastically.

"I apologize for my ex husband's child bride, other than being very uncouth she doesn't think straight either. First time she met Quentin and Selma she asked if they were the other half of Adam's triplets."

Adam laughed,"Yeah I remember that. I didn't think she would ever realize that we were all different ages."

Hikuru walked out and brought the rest of the food and carried it outside to the patio.
She and Caroline exchanged hugs and laughed like they hadn't been apart.
She announced food being served on the patio outside.

Everyone walked out and made plates then staked a claim on a different part of the backyard and patio.

In reply to Adam Newman (msg # 88):

Keiko warmly smiled at Caroline "Nice to meet you Caroline .. In case you wondered, my family lived in England from [X] to [Y] and in [Z] I was born in London. And thus, I soaked up the upper-class manner of speaking. I can show you my US Drivers license and my US Air Force Vet ID in case you wondered... Many folks do so I don't mind explaining, most of the time."
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Caroline smiled and said,"That's ok sweety, I already know. Your mother and I have been friends for quite a long time. She sent me pictures of you after you were born. She called you were little fortune cookie. You were so cute. I sent her pictures of Adam after I had him as well. Sadly we lost touch for some reason. But it won't happen anymore because we are in the same city and our kids are dating."
She patted Keiko's arm.

Grandmother added,"And I have already seen their past lives, they were together, so together they shall be."

Hikuru said,"Mother stop your speaking odd again."

Zoe stood up and screeched"My Ambrosia salad!  It needs to be brought out for dessert."

Grant reached up and put his hand on her shoulder and sat her back down,"Muffin we aren't eating dessert yet, we  are still eating the main course. When it's time for dessert I'm sure someone will bring out your salad." Zoe interrupted Grant,"It's not a salad loveybear it's an Ambrosia salad there's no lettuce in it." She touched his face and laughed out,"Grant rolled his eyes then looked at Caroline and the group she was in and wished he was there instead of stuck with her.
He couldn't wait until his vacay away from Zoe and her drama and be able to be with Caroline and the kids for a week in Branson.

In reply to Caroline Newman (msg # 90):

Keiko chuckled and said "Anyways, I figured I'd do my usual schtick and mention 'Hi, I'm Keiko and you may have wondered why I look Asian and I sound like a refugee from a Britcom and I live in America ..." or something along those lines out of habit. Nice to meet you officially after so many years. Your every so often video and or audio messages, which you sent to me over the years have been very nice. I wish I had sent longer responses more often."

She was barely able to ignore Zoe jealous looks as Caroline was getting ALL the attention of ZOE'S STEPSON'S NEW GIRLFRIEND who was NOW his SOULMATE again after years apart or some malarkey like that.

Quentin said to Hikuru.
"Uhm Mrs.Forster, thank you for inviting us to your family picnic, it really is good food. I hope you like the German Chocolate Cake, I made it myself."

Selma piped up,"Yes ma'am thank you for the invite. I'm on my 3rd plate." She snickered then stopped smiling.

Zoe piped up,"Mrs... Hikuru you have a lovely home. Thank you ever so much for inviting us. Grant and I were just so happy to hear from you, but you beat us to it. You must come over for dinner next week, I'll have our maid put on a big spread."

In reply to Zoe Newman (msg # 94):

Keiko kept a smile on her face and started to walk towards a drink tray ..

She almost sidestepped her brothers who anticipated this move and one towards a door to the house by their sister. She wanted to witness little or no reaction by their mom ....

Keiko was able to snag a glass of crap beer.

Keiko muttered real low her usual line about that beer tasting like making love in a canoe ... then smiled at one of the Forster parents.

Instead of parents saying anything grandmother did.
"Keiko! You should wash your mouth out with soap for saying things like that. Especially in front of Adam and his family and put that beer back. It isn't ladylike to drink beer. Now get over here and sit next to me until you can behave."
Then she added,"Don't make me get a Willow switch."

In reply to Siekomo Merimuto (msg # 96):

Keiko put her soda down in front of herself after saying in English to Siekomo "I'll be right over to you, Obaasan."

Keiko texted her parents, her bros, Adam and the chief bartender Do not give my humble self any alcohol until my gmother leaves or beds down.

Adam also got another text Suppose there's no airplane with an emergency issue that I need to look at, my newish kareshi.

She hated to do that but she didn't need Siekomo saying something about any other alcohol in her hands.

She smiled realistically then went over to talk civilly with Siekomo about the days she spent at Adam's airfield. She carried a new plain ginger ale.

Adam tired of all the family togetherness, the snips, and glares just between Selma and Zoe is enough for him for a lifetime. And the loving looks Grant keeps giving Caroline is getting the best of him. He needed to just go home, relax, order a pizza and watch some Disney+. He smiled at Keiko, he couldn't leave her to deal with this fuckery by herself.
 He pulled out his phone and sent a message to go to his pager that there was an emergency at the hub, then when his pager goes off he will inform Keiko of their departure.

So here goes nothing...

Adam's pager goes off, alerting everyone that something was going on.

Adam looked at his pager and said,"Keiko we gotta go theres an emergency at the hub."

He stood up and gave his mom and siblings hugs and kisses, shaking his dad's hand he then looked at Zoe and said,"Bye."
He looked at Hikuru,"Thank you so much for your invitation, I'm so sorry about this, we will make it up to y'all, I promise."

He walked over to Keiko's grandparents,"It was an honor meeting you both." He walked to the door as Keiko said her apologies and goodbyes.

In reply to Adam Newman (msg # 98):

Keiko made things look real good to everyone but her immediate family [until it was too late] .. she was probably going to catch hell for her part in this bailing from the party.

Keiko grabbed her electronics-centric tablet to make things really look real good ..

In the car, Keiko said .. "So what did you want to do at the airport to kill time? Passionately make out and talk after I put on my cover-alls and put some grease er make-up on my face and hands and then video chat with folks .. I can show off an engine I was having issues with."
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Sitting in his truck..."I have those parts you asked me to order coming in today and I have the paperwork that I had already planned on going by there an hour or two and work on that I also have a bid to work on to put up for a contract.  So if you want you can work on the plane that gave you trouble the other day or the one that you needed the parts for...unless it was for that plane then work on that one with the new parts while I play catch up on my work and work on my new bid. And if you want you can FaceTime your family showing we are working, but I'll make you an offer..when we are through how about we go back to my Ranch order pizza, snuggle up on the couch and watch Netflix. Unless of course you just want to go home then I will take you home then I will go home, watch order me a pizza watch tv and fall asleep. Up to you"  .