A/N. I hope you guys like this. Think this story needs a quick update coz my last chapter was way too short.
Might be rambling coz I just read HyperFitched's last chapter of I hold A Force I can't Contain and I'm completely blown away..!
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2.
There she was. Campbell, Naomi. She wasn't fucking kidding me with that name… From all my now 6 remaining arrivals she wasn't that hard to find, and she was staying for, what the fuck(!!), a month!?
I breathe out heavily as I looked back at her.
"Found you. And it looks like you'll be staying here for quite some time..?" Calm, stay calm. I tore my gaze from the screen and smiled at her, but she didn't smile back. She almost looked angry instead, trying to gather all the papers she'd scattered around.
Her voice sounded hard and juvenile. "Yeah, I didn't have a say in the matter so…"
She looked at me with disappointment in her eyes, like she hated being here. Her hand rose and she begun tapping her fingers one by one against the counter.
"So it's correct you're staying till the 18th then? One double room for one..?" I couldn't help the last part sounding almost superior, like I was judging her for being all alone in a double room. Maybe her bitchy attitude just brought that out of me.
She looked me straight in the eye, making me swallow, again, which I'm sure she heard, again…
"Yeah. One double, one person, one month. So?"
I looked down at my screen again, avoiding her scolding gaze. Fuck, I really managed to piss this woman of, and I so didn't mean to.
"Cool." Cool Emily, cool?! You really just said that didn't you?
"Yeah. So awesome." Her voice overloaded with sarcasm. "Could I maybe just get my bloody keycard now so I can go up to my room?" Her blue eyes looking at me with no amount of amusement, humor or care. Shit, she hates me. I've only just met one of the most beautiful women I've ever seen, and within 2 minutes I've managed to make her loath me. I suck so bad…
My voice came out huskier than usual.
"We don't actually have keycards. We use regular keys." I hand her hers and I think I can actually hear her uffh as I place it in her hand. The big iron blob attached to it working it's magic…
She just looks at me with baffled eyes, sighing lightly. I feel my whole body tense as I'm sure she's going to go all berserk on me. But instead she just laughs, now holding her key with two hands.
"You're having a laugh, right?"
I just look back at her. Should I say something? I feel the blush creeping it's way up over my face and I try to avert my gaze towards the front door.
"You can hand it in every time you leave…" I say shyly, trying not to make a big deal out of it.
Naomi just looks at the key, then she quickly gathers all the stuff she'd managed to scatter around herself, me and the reception before she starts moving away, up to her room.
I should say something. Ask her about her day. Ask her why's she's staying her for such a long time. Ask her if she wants to come back to mine and make sweet sweet love…
"What floor?"
"Huh" Focus Emily!
"What floor am I one?"
I regain my thoughts.
"1th floor. Right by the pool." Yeah, so?
"You got a pool?" Apparently something could make this sour woman come out of her bitter shell, cause believe it or not, I'm sure I saw a smile dragging cross her face when I mentioned the pool.
"Yeah. We got a pool on floor one. And on the third floor there's a gym."
Her smirk quickly disappearing. Guess she's not a big fan of the gym then…
"My people never told me you had a pool." Your people?
I smiled at her shyly. "It's not open now, but just let me know when you wanna go down and I'll give you the code for the door so you can take a swim." Hopefully naked…God that must be a sight for sore eyes…
Naomi laughs. And I swear, it's the most beautiful laugh I've ever heard. Like birds flying.
"Cool." She says, and I'm left dumbfounded just starring at the blond walking up the stairs. And just as she's about to disappear in the staircase she turns around looking me straight in the eye. I pause.
"Sorry for being such a cunt. I'm just tired and confused." I drop my pen.
"And since I'm going to stay here for quite a few days, we might as well make this official." "Huh?"
She drops everything. Even the key I just handed to her and walks down the half stair she'd just concurred. Facing med, leaving only inches. The back of the counter in for receptionists only, and thank fuck my boss never watched the security tapes, coz here she was standing next to me behind the counter. Blue eyes meeting brown.
"I'm Naomi. Nice to meet you." Her face transforming , leaving only a great big smile.
I trembled, and by my surprise I actually find her hand at once. Shaking it lightly.
"Emily. The name is Emily." My voice crack more than once…
"Welcome to London Night Hotel."
"Thanks." She turns her heel, and then she's gone.