Matt picked up the telephone the third time that morning before placing it back in its cradle. Biting down his bottom lip, he glanced over his shoulder at the man on the sofa reading the morning paper. He took a deep breath, slid his fingers through his silky hair and turned his icy glare back at the current rival, the telephone. Finally, on the forth try he was able to dial his mother's work number.

"Um..hi I was wondering if Nancy was available?" Matt rushed out.

Hiroaki peered over the paper at his son before checking his watch. He was impressed; it only took Matt twenty minutes to call Nancy's office.

"Oh. No no, thank you I will just try back another time.'' Matt placed the receiver down. "She's not working today. I spent all that time trying to get up enough guts to do that and she isn't even working!"

"I'm sure if she knew you were going to pick today to call her, she would have been happy enough to work. Try her at home."

Matt rolled his eyes as his fingers pressed over the numbers quickly. He waited until he heard a voice on the end. "Grandma. It's me, Matt….No, Matt. Your grandson. No the other one. Yes, Matt."

Hiroaki laughed as Matt glared over at him.

"No, he's fine. He won't quit smoking though." Matt stuck out his tongue as Hiroaki's smile swept away from his face. "No. He smoked three this morning. No three. One, two three. Okay yeah, he smoked about thirteen." Matt shrugged as Hiroaki rose from his place on the sofa.

"Don't lie to your grandmother!" Hiroaki warned him.

"I know." Matt ignored his father, moving away from Hiroaki's outstretched hand. 'Tk's at school. He does not live with me. No. No, he is not here. Not here, Gram!" Matt shouted. "Yes dad is here. No. No. Yes, I think so. Huh. What is that? No, Gram I don't think spiders can live in the washing machines…they drown. Um…" Matt made a face and quickly looked at his father. "All right, if you say so. The reason I was calling was because…yeah that is my favourite season too. I know you know. Anyways, the reason….no reason. Reason, Gram, reason! Yes. Oi…talk to you later. Love you."

Matt hooked the telephone back on line and turned to his father. "You need to get a new hearing aid for her!"

"She won't go to the doctors. I've tried she is just so stubborn."

"I completely understand. You had to collapse before you would go!" Matt growled.

"We'll have to take the baby up to see her." Hiroaki ignored his son's comment. "And when we do you will be more respectful towards her."

"I was trying but she kept going on about potatoes and washing machines!"

"Call Nancy." Hiroaki turned his back on his son and walked over to his grandson who started to stir in the cradle that Hiroaki brought out into the living room earlier. He gently picked up the infant, speaking softly about getting him something to eat. Matt watched as his father walked into the kitchen to get some formula ready.

He took a glance at the telephone then walked over to the sofa where he collapsed on his stomach.

"Do you want to feed him…?" Hiroaki walked back into the living room and looked down at Matt. "Did you call your mother?"

"No."

"Matt."

"Oi!" Matt put a sofa pillow of his head. "You call her!"

"No." Hiroaki pulled the pillow off Matt's head with his free hand "She is your mother."

"She's your ex-wife!"

"Matt." Hiroaki warned his son as he settled down on his chair across from the sofa Matt now laid upon.

"Dad…" Matt whined.

"Stop acting like a child, Matt. Call your mother!" Hiroaki raised his voice.

Matt sat up and looked up at his father. Hiroaki cooed over Ryoko, who seemed to love the attention more then the bottle. Biting the inside of his mouth, Matt gaze went to the pack of cigarettes that were laying on the end table near his father.

"Are you serious about your smoking habit and me trying to…you know? With Nancy?"

Hiroaki smirked. "I'll try to quit Matt if you try to forgive her."

"This isn't just other promise that you won't keep, is it?"

Hiroaki gave his son a hard glare. "What is your problem today, Matt? You seem to be trying to instigate an argument with me this morning."

"Sorry." Matt mumbled.

Matt picked up the remote control and the two men held silence for an hour before Matt broke it.

"I um, was thinking that maybe I should take Ryoko over to Nancy's apartment."