One Fine Week

03

The exhausted teens went already through 300 rooms from the time that Pao and Lilly have agreed. The day passed with uniform routines. Pao with sticking the maps on the doors and Lilly of asking and taking clients permissions. "Good evening Ma'am, we are sorry to disturb you at this late time, we just wanted to ask if we could quickly get an opportunity to-"

Not a minute and the door gets shut right in front of Lilly's nose. The young girl got upset about many things, and especially by things that humiliated her right in front of other people.

"What a shitty woman", she hissed back, while Pao couldn't help but to only guffawed.

As the hours passed, so did the nervousness of both teens.

"You should have seen your expression, it was hilarious." Pao grins, taking a seat next to Lilly.

"Yeah, just sit and laugh at me, you don't need me anyway, right? Lilly says ironically, cupping her chin in her hands, offended, while shifting her gaze to the swimming pools that are located outside the hotel. "Either way, I am not much of a help for you anyway. You are doing most of the work, so you can continue alone." Lilly lifts her eyebrows at him, standing fervently up.

"But without you, I couldn't enter the rooms." Pao replies calmly, adjusting his glasses. "So it kinda is like teamwork, don't you think so?"

Lilly was amazed by the way Pao used to do his job. She could never see a frown on his forehead, an angry behavior or a complaint against his work. Instead, he used to carry a grin on his face. Whether that was a plastered smile, however, was a mystery to Lilly. The amount of dedication and patience he has inspired Lilly.

"You're right." Lilly nods her head in understanding and both teens begin to stroll along the hallway.

"So, how do you like my job? Pao asks, slightly assuming a bad answer. He ducks and grabs another thick metal escape and rescue plan, his glue applicator never leaving his side. "To me, it seems pretty boring." Lilly answers and Pao tensed. "I was just kidding, calm down," she adds quickly.

"Well," Pao gulps: "What kind of boys do you prefer?" The young male asks nervously, walking backwards, hands swaying by each step he takes.

"That's a secret." Lilly whispers humorous, smoothing down her uniform.

"Oh, so I have get on my knees and beg 'Please tell me your type, miss Lilly.'"

The young teen giggled at Pao's response as she realized that he used her name for the first time, in an appealing way and with a gentle pronunciation. That made the young girl surely blush.

"Wait, I totally forgot to ask you for your name!" Lilly's eyes widen, feeling guilty of why she didn't realize it from the day they first met, while Pao couldn't quite understand what she tried to explain to him. The male struggles for words. Lilly sighs, tired of taking her phone to translate on Google. So, she just risked using her broken Spanish skills to articulate. It couldn't be that hard to ask for his name. She thought.

"Que te amo?" Lilly asks, 100% convinced that she questioned correctly.

The room fills with silence, while Pao's pupils grow bigger as he gazes directly into the eyes of the brunettes with knit eyebrows.

Both teens are staring blankly into each other's eyes.

"... What?!"

"Te amo?" A middle-aged male interrupts their conversation, casually joining the teens circle. "Even my 8-year-old daughter knows what it means and she is not in school," he says unemotionally, taking a sip of his coffee.

"It means 'I love you'." Pao explains to the confused teen as she smacks her forehead.

"Okay, we get it, I just exchanged some vocabulary. Lilly grimaced, trying to defend her poor Spanish skills.

"Some." Pao mutters, letting down a low chuckle, unable to control his laughter. "I think she meant 'como te llamas'." The middle-aged supported, leaving the teens with a glee by their own. "Pao, is my name, by the way."

"I see..."

A peculiar name, Lilly thought.