When Gaby Valentine started her new job at the Solana hotel she expected it to be quite uneventful. But with rowdy families, crazy coworkers and criminal activity every now and then: it's anything but.
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Today was probably going to be ordinary except for the sun which was unbearably hot on this occasion and the constant drilling hammering into my ear drum. I had an early shift today. I never really enjoyed the morning shifts as it wasn't very excited just tidying up plates mostly.
I walked past Mateo as he was clearing up the breakfast dishes of a young woman. "Hola" he purred flirtatiously. She glared up at him looking angry.
"Fuck off!" She whisper shouted at him. I held in a laugh but smiled widely. His eyes widened and he walked away with her plates in hand.
"You've been told" I giggled as he put the plates down on the counter. He smiled sarcastically at me before walking away.
By around 12 I had heard word of an arm wrestling competition. It was against the rules to hold your own competitions inside the resort but I wasn't going to say anything. It was only a bit of fun. However, I wasn't planning on taking part. Not because I was too weak. It just wouldn't look good on me if Janie found out. I saw out of the corner of my eye Geoff and his mum setting up chairs around a table that had a jar of money on it. I also saw Mateo march over to the scene. I knew he was going to try and stop it so I went to make sure he didn't do that.
"Hey what is going on here?" I heard him ask sternly.
"Nothing" Geoff lied.
"What do you mean nothing? Why have you moved all the chairs? You are not allowed to do this". Geoff remained silent.
"We're having an arm wrestling competition" his mum said blowing his lie.
"Shut up!".
"What competition? You cannot make your own competition" he said pointing a finger at him.
"She's only joking" he said trying to get out of it.
"But we've already taken peoples money" his mum said confused clearly not understanding what was happening. She held out the jar for Geoff and Mateo to see.
"For Christ's sake!".
"You cannot make an arm wrestling competition here. I bring the manageress". I looked down at one of the flyers for the competition and one sentence caught my eye. Winner takes all. I stepped in front of Mateo to stop him walking off.
"Hold on buddy," I started. He stopped to look at me. "There's about 100 euros in that jar". I pointed at the object in Geoffs hand and winked at him telling him to go along with it.
"And guess what? Winner takes all" I pointed to the flyer to prove it to him. He seemed interested now. "There's a five euro entry fee but if you win you would get all that money. Think of what you could do with that". I smiled knowing that this would probably work. I knew how to appeal to Mateo.
"Yeah" Geoff agreed and walked over to stand by me. "And if you let us have this competition you can enter for free". That sealed the deal. I smiled knowing we'd won before he even said anything.
