Ohh, god, it was also so hard to talk to this woman. The chief reason being that she always sounded like she was trying to seduce him. What made it worse, of course, was the fact that in reality she probably was. Greg cleared his throat, trying to remain polite! "I'm sorry, Tanaka-san. My father asked me to go with him to an event where he works, and he was pretty insistent. I would rather not disappoint him, and so..!"

It wasn't technically true, though pieces of it were. His father had merely suggested they go on a day trip next Friday, and Greg didn't get many opportunities to hang out with his old man. That didn't sound like a good excuse in his head, though, and he didn't have too much of a problem lying in a situation like this. "I can work an extra day whenever you'd like?"