CHAPTER 2

            I couldn’t stop staring at this blond bombshell that was excitedly telling me about the room.  Every time she would catch me staring – which I wasn’t really hiding – she would give me a small smile and blush but then continue on which whatever she was talking about.

She was maybe an inch or so taller than me, with a creamy, flawless skin-tone and a 100-watt smile.  And though she wasn’t what you would call ‘hot’, initially, she was truly drop-dead gorgeous; something extremely delicate and refined, she had an ethereal beauty.  She had stopped talking and looking at me expectantly. 

“Huh?” I was vaguely aware that she had asked me a question.

She smiled again, “I asked if you cared which bed you slept in.”

“No,” I replied snapping out of my trance and placing my bag on the vacant bed to my right.

“Okay cool.  I had asked someone to come and fix the beds, because they had them as bunk beds when I got here,” she frowned at the thought, “I guess to give us more room or whatever.  But…,” she trailed off looking as if she were contemplating her next words.

            I started to grab my bags from the trolley, pushing it into the hallway to give us more room when I was done.  I had to sit for a moment; all this manual labor was something I wasn’t use to.  Taking a seat on my new bed, I turned back to Spencer and looked at her.

            “Yes?”

            “Um, well, I had him take the bed down so when my girlfriend or your boyfriend comes over, we wouldn’t…,” Spencer cleared her throat, “disturb one another.”  Spencer began to fiddle with things in one of her suitcases.

            I arched a brow, “Your girlfriend huh?  Like girl friend or girlfriend?”, I asked, fully aware of the answer but wanting to tease her a bit.

            “Girlfriend, like I like girls, girlfriend.”

            “Oh okay.” I said simply, jumping up from my bed and walking over to one of the many suitcases, and began to unpack.

            “So, I guess you have a boyfriend, yes?  What’s his name?”

            “Jess.”

            “Is that short for anything?”