"Dull surprise" was the best description for Akira's face when his smooth-talking backfired horribly. Victoria's words rung in his mind as he watched her sweet ass depart the room.<br/><br/>He was all too glad to take the bunnygirl out of Alex's hands. Partly out of some instinctive sense of protection, partly out of hoping his own kindness would make the as-yet-unnamed waitress warm up to him.<br/><br/><strong>"I...errrr...back there was all a show on my part,"</strong>he said to the bunnygirl.<strong>"Truth is, I'm rather desperate to get a good job, and don't want to screw things up. But you shouldn't be treated like that. What's your name? Mine's Iwasaki Akira, but you can just call me Akira."</strong>