Hotel

Meeting him

Julia's day ahead was monsterous  for the normal individual looking in but for her was a simple normal day.
Her alarm went off at 5am abruptly until she slammed her hand on it which required more vigorous force than usual. Jumped in the shower, pranced around her dorm and fed "her" cat "Flees". She rarely had breakfast as she preferred sleep than food. The bus came hurriedly around the intense corner and stopped instantly causing people's head to jerk forward and slowly returned to their lolling position. It took an hour bus ride to London from the traffic to just slow mornings, mornings in London seemed to be in slow motion to Julia everyone was loitering around, people seemed asleep and uncaring or maybe that was just London.

She got to the hotel in the nick of time and ran to the restaurant,
"Julia can you just take over for an hour or two, there isn't much in there so Lily has it under control". Margaret was 20 years older than her making her 40 but still felt the need to be accepted by the younger generation constantly using "slang" and referencing the "Kardashians".

Julia gave her a warm smile and nodded but her eyebrows gave away her annoyance as this time gets extremely busy with people going home for Monday or returning to their families after staying the weekend with their mistress. After two hours of standing on her feet and typing credit card details and log out information she was tired and still no sign of Margaret. She let out a sigh.
"Bad morning ?" the voice was patronising but had traces of concern and interest.

"Yep, the bus man gave me back the wrong change called me a bitch, then a person was eating a burrito next to me which splashed on the BLACK trousers, like I don't even mind that , it's just the fact he did not say sorry or anything so I was then day dreaming ways to kill him  on the way here but had no great ideas except something to do with a mountain that's it! Now how may I help you?" She said without looking up from her screen.
He was taken back by Julia's honest and blunt answer and was speechless for three seconds while his personna digested it into reality and a smirk spread across his face with excitement in his eyes like a boy in a candy store.
"Wow I would have thought you were a more poisoning person"
Her eyebrows furrowed as her mind wondered back to what her mouth had just let out and made an O shape.
"Poison is too cowardly........ and expensive", she said while raising her head and looking at the tall wide built man.
His beard and moustache  rusteled making it aware that the suited man was grinning.
"I am Max", "Ok and what was your room number " , he was confused and insulted by her answer as she only saw him as another guest determination glistened in his eyes to make sure she would now him for the next time.
"I was introducing myself" , Julia looked up from the bright screen, shadows crossed her face and the light silhouetted her long eyelashes with crumbs of mascara on her freckled nose.
"Oh-"
"Yeah , I just saw you there and you looked so beautiful and pure"
Julia let out an uncontrollable snort she raised her hand to try cover the loud noise.
"Sorry I was with you until you said "pure"".
"So your not?" His eyebrows perked
"Far from it, now do you mind stepping aside so people can check in and out please."
He stepped aside with a feeling of accomplishment like he had just won the Olympics for everything.