The woman pushed her empty bottle to the rail, dug in a little pocket in her oh-so-pleasant yoga pants, and produced some wadded-up bills. She put them on the bar without straightening them and turned back to him.
She looked at him, considering, seemingly thinking, and said, "You're nice." She thought some more. "I'll suck you. It'll be fun."
He had to sit and stare at her, unsure of the reality of his situation.
She laughed a little, and said, "I'm really, really good at it. Trust me." She waited a tick, watching his reaction, then said, "What's your room number?"
He told her.
"Go on up. I'll meet you in, like, fifteen." She reached out and touched his leg. "It'll be fun." Then she bounced off the stool and strode out of the bar, leaving him.
He looked around, waved the beaten bartender over, and paid her off. Then he walked out of the bar into the lobby-slash-atrium, reflexively looking up to the glass roof, past the cheap rental plants and at the shimmering, oblique glow of the descending day. He'd had how many beers?
"Interesting," he thought, they'd had no effect at all.
He was charged up about this girl. He glanced back briefly, but she was gone; she'd probably gone out the other exit, to the opposite bank of elevators. A brief stab of nervousness hit him, and he had a superstitious fear that if he saw her again right now it would jinx it, and they wouldn't get together. He shook his head and made a beeline for the elevators.
In the glass box he deliberately faced the outer bank of rooms, making sure not to look into the atrium for fear of seeing her in another bubble, across the way.
"Christ, this is stupid," he thought. "I'm losing my mind." When the bubble box hit Floor 23 he stepped over the gap and distractedly scuffed his feet on the carpet on his way to the room, fishing in his pocket for the key card, and suffering another flick of panic when he couldn't find it, only to locate it in his shirt pocket instead of his jeans.
The door seemed extremely heavy and awkward, and when he entered the room he looked around with a nervous eye, trying to see if he'd made too much of a mess in the bathroom. Why did the bathrooms always have to be right next to the entrance door? "The first thing you always see is the toilet," he thought, and closed that door.