Platz Eins

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* alarm going off at 4am*

Penelope's POV

Stop, stopppp, stoppppp!!! I finally gave in and opened my eyes just to be greeted with a dark snowy morning. I don't have to be at work till 6:00am I thought to myself , so gives me enough time to do a bit of yoga, have my black coffee, watch the sunrise, and finally take a nice cool shower.

*time 5am*  I got in the shower right on time, went through my basic routine of washing my long hazel hair, scrubbing off last nights mistakes that (we won't  talk about), using my pomegranate body scrub, and finally shaving my legs. Stepping quickly out of the shower, I wrapped my body in the towel laying across the chair, applied my moisturizer, and made my way to my closet, which I am proud of. I chose a white long-sleeved blouse with black skinny jeans, black boot heels, and a long oversized trench coat. I must say that moving here has definitely helped me expand my closet, thank you New York, but what the fuck its been snowing for 2 weeks straight.

Making my way out the door I grabbed my scarf, purse, gloves, and an extra black coffee for good luck. The time read 5:45am, and to my luck the hotel was 8 minutes away by foot so even better, I didn't have to go down to fetch my car, locking up I started my journey from my apartment to the hotel.

*5:53am*   I made my way through the revolving door to be greeted by Adam, our butler that attends the entrance and customers, he's a very kind and caring man in his 70's, I was lucky enough to meet and speak to him when I had my interview 2 weeks ago. I escorted myself to my area and was greeting by Leia our manager, and made aware if any questions give her a call and as well feel free to ask Adam. So it was just gonna be him, the room cleaners, and I.

As of now we haven't had anyone come in or book online, that's a bit odd but oh well can't complain. I was making myself occupied by reading a new book that I happened to pick up on my way over and so far it was pretty good. I was so into the book I hadn't heard anyone come in or Adam say anything.

"Excuse me...." I looked up dumbfounded and quickly apologized for not greeting the person in front of me, " don't worry about honey, I have a reservation for the entire hotel under the name Zoran" , " are you serious, I don't have time to be playing around" I said, "Im not playing young lady, we were here 2 weeks ago, maybe its written somewhere, you look new", " well it is my first day today, let me call my manager just to confirm Mr...." "Bihać" the man replied, "thank you Mr.Bihać", I then shortly excused myself to call Leia. After 15 minutes speaking to Leia, Mr. Bihać surely wasn't lying and he did indeed have a reservation, Leia had just forgotten to tell me.

Making my way back to the lobby, I again apologized and got to checking him in right away, there was another man on the list, looking up at Mr. Bihać "I can't complete checkin unless the other person on your list is also here, and shows identification sir" I said.

"Ahh.. ok ok..no problem.. let me go get him", he turned back around out the rotating doors to go bring this mystery man. I sat there thinking to myself this is a bit weird a whole hotel for 3 days, no wonder we haven't had anyone come in. I turned around as I heard 2 voices speaking one of them sure was Zoran and I assume the second one was the mystery man, they kept talking as they walked in but not English , hmmm that's German I could tell from a mile away since my papa was from Deutschland so I was fluent in the language, my mamma was Italian so I as well was fluent in it. They reached the desk and switched to English, I didn't make it known that I understood their conversation,  so as well spoke back in English.

Going back to finishing the check in process, I turned to the mystery man " May I see your identification sir" I said, "sure, here you go ...puppe". I grabbed his ID, he's pretty attractive not going to lie, you need to stop dating men older than your dad Penelope, I thought to myself, but he did call me doll, just forget it. I handed him back his ID, " Thank you... Mr.Lindemann"

Hi guys this is my first time ever writing, I hope you enjoyed it so far, can't wait to see where this little one shot will go. Thank You