Author's overview:
This is my first story, and it will be a few chapters long. The idea is to build some sexual pressure among the characters and make the reader not want to put down the story. (This chapter does not have a sex scene as build up to them in the next chapter.) I hope you read and enjoy.
Being in Las Vegas you would believe life would just be a nonstop party and days of consistent wildness would be a blast at 21 years old. However, that was never my intention.
My name is John Woods and I grew up in the small state of New Mexico. I'm actually Caucasian and did the normal academic path of going to college after High School. I was a late bloomer in the world of dating, as it wasn't until I left High School when I gained enough confidence to ask a girl out. Slowly, I got a little experience and became your average college student chasing after a career.
When I was able to transfer from New Mexico out to college in Las Vegas, I began learning a whole new life style. Restaurants and stores were open at 3am. You would do your grocery shopping at 1AM and six check-out lines would be open. After you paid for gas at the local Rebel station you could dump your change in the slot machine on the way out. That is of course, if Joe and Marty from down the street are taking a break from there regular routine of playing it 7 days a week for 12 hours straight.
The point being, it was not a normal lifestyle. It had many advantages that a college student could feast upon. The ability to go out and get a dinner for $1.99 and still hang out with your buddies back at the house made getting by easy. My favorite would be to hit up the Texas Station bowling alley after midnight. You could bowl for free and have $1 beers. The crowd was always entertaining and made for great memories for the low budget college kid.
My goal was to become a hotel manager, and where better to study hotel management than UNLV? The major required all of their students to work 750 hours at an establishment in hospitality industry.
Las Vegas had many options to find a position, but rather than work at the large and famous hotels. I found a small place off the strip. Only one mile away from Las Vegas Blvd you could find tons of smaller franchised hotels. I worked the Front Desk at one of the more famous chains across the world and it had a total of 120 rooms.
These hotels would generate a lot of business from conventions and the clients would differentiate from social groups to attendees at a convention. We even had strippers that would come up from Southern California and spend the night with us while working at the club for the weekend. They could rake in a quick $3000 for working two nights at a popular club. Our job was to be professional, and do everything we could to take care of the guest.
It was a fun job position. I had to take care of making reservations on the phone, give guests their messages, and be the complimentary airport shuttle driver and handle of the functions of checking guests in and out. Being a small hotel, we also were in charge of bringing guests anything they requested from shampoo and towels to help with their Air Conditioner. The stress levels were high, trying to remember to get everything done in eight hours, but it wasn't too bad considering how fast the day went. After you got off work at 11pm you could go out and hang out with friends at a bar and they never closed.
My general routine would be to go to class Monday through Friday and work five days a week. I'd go to work after class and then on the weekend I would work the morning shift and hang out with friends or go out on a date if I met anyone special. The girls in Las Vegas provided a great variety and if you kept your eyes open you could probably find what you were looking for pretty quick. The only thing it didn't offer would be a girlfriend.
I was always in the frame of mind that if I was going to be sleeping with someone, I wanted that to be my girlfriend. In Las Vegas it was more of a continuous connection to a one night stand or maybe a Monthly Booty Call. Seems to be a guys dream, but it wasn't for me. I wanted to feel more than just bragging rights to the fact I was boning the cocktail waitress at the Mirage Lounge.
After a year of work at the hotel I gained a lot of personality. There was no more inward shyness toward people. I found myself saying hello with a smile to complete strangers when going out shopping. Even if I was in line at the Mandalay Bay Buffet I would be chatting with the group of girls that were behind me. The funny thing about it was I had no intentions of ever trying to hook up with anybody. They didn't live in Vegas and therefore they didn't meet my criteria. The lack of hope made my extraverted personality very appealing to traveling women.
Once or twice a month I would get asked out by guests in the hotel to see if I would like to have drinks when I got off shift. I never said yes, as I knew it was against company policy to see guests outside of work. I basically had no guts and didn't want to risk anything. My career was too important to me.
Working at the hotel, it was important to have a good relationship with your coworkers. Jake and I were identical in goals. He was a year behind me, but following the same major at UNLV. He was 5'10 a bit more muscular than I and he too had a good smile. He had dark hair and his eyebrows were a defining feature. It brought out his smile and enhanced his eyes, which many of the girls would blush at.
We both had outgoing personalities and did whatever we needed to do in order to take care of the guests. We were highly motivated to get the best Guest Satisfaction scores and with that receive our bonuses from high results.
It made working together fun and we got paired together usually on the weekdays and sometimes the weekends.
The busy season for our hotel was not the summer. It would be 100 degrees outside and not many conventions would be going on during that time. The hotel would have low rates and do everything they could to drive business. Most of the summer would gain business from travel coupon books or sporting groups needing a place to stay for their teams. This is where an opportunity in my life came and has been a memory I have never forgotten:
"Welcome to our hotel. How may I assist you today?" I asked a guest approaching the Front Desk at the hotel. He was the first person I was in contact with and I didn't even have a chance to say hello to Jake from clocking in. He was busy counting his cash drawer anyway, so I wanted to cover him in order for him to finish.
"Yes. The name is Mr. Randall, I'm checking in." He was dressed in jean shorts and a button down shirt, ready to hit the strip.
"I see you have a reservation for two nights in a room with a King Bed. Would you like to have an upper floor or ground?" I replied in a routine fashion.
"Upper." Mr. Randall replied. He said it with a gesture that it really didn't matter.
"If you could please sign here and initial by the rate. I'll go ahead and make you a key." I quickly handed him his registration card and had his key ready for him before he was done with the signature.
I continued on while Jake was just about done counting the cash drawer, "And your room is down the hall, where you'll run into the elevator. It is up on the third floor. Please feel free to give me a call if you have any questions, my name is John and I'll be glad to assist you."
"Thanks." Mr. Randall finished as he walked down the hall with his new Swiss Army Suitcase.