Ichiro took her by the waist, depositing her on the hood of his car, Aika's legs easily swinging open to accommodate him stepping in close to her.  Those same legs hooked around the street racer's waist, and she pulled him in by his neck with her arms, even as she felt hands on her ass.  It felt so...<em>heady</em>, being displayed like this.  Almost like-<br/><br/>-across the way, speaking to the watcher and another of the queens, Joy would get a visual pop-up at the edge of her vision.  It was an icon, alternately depicting a heart and a face with closed eyes and open mouth.  An arrow would accompany the icon, and presumably once she was done speaking, following the arrow would point her<em>right</em>at Aika, above whose head the icon now floated.  She was still enjoying her makeout session with Ichiro, despite the obvious attention of the crowd.<br/><br/><div align="center"><tt class="bbc_tt">AROUSAL METER, PT II<br/>Above 7, the Arousal Meter begins to inflict penalties upon the character.  The Meter may be re-set to a value of 2 by spending a Night Time Action in the hot springs at the Shrine - <br/></tt></div><br/>...yeah, right, like you were gonna put up with being hot and horny for an entire day...<br/><br/><div align="center"><tt class="bbc_tt">- or via one of several prompts that may appear during gameplay.</tt></div><br/>The first set of races began, started by one of the other queens present, the cars tearing around the streets of the Shopping District in blinks of an eye.  About halfway through, Aika came back over to the queen's stand to hang out with the others.  Joy could still see the icon floating above her head, even as she seemed to be wholly unaware of it, and even tried to play it off like she was fine!<br/><br/>"So...? Hear about our friend?"  She asked the Solar.  When told that she would be here, she nodded.  "Good.  Glad we decided to come tonight."  Maybe it was just her, but there was something about the way Aika said...<br/><br/>...'come.'<br/><br/>The cars whipped past them on the final lap of the first of three heats, bringing the race to a conclusion.  The familiar action pop-up appeared, though one option was missing this time.<br/><br/><br/><tt class="bbc_tt">&gt;START RACES<br/>&gt;INVESTIGATE<br/>&gt;CHAT<br/>&gt;[<em>Oppailicious</em>] START RACES</tt><br/><br/>Perhaps for obvious reasons.  The little text box had said there would be a prompt to help...Aika.  She wasn't seeing that; at least, not yet.  "We got what we wanted...why don't you go ahead and start the next set?  You looked like you really enjoyed it the other night..."  Aika idly selected the<tt class="bbc_tt">CHAT </tt>option for herself, leaving Joy's particular line for the Solar to take.