Tom walked up to the hotel room door and pressed the magnetic key up against the lock pad. He was glad the hotel that hosted his favorite convention had upgraded and cleaned things up. Made for a little confusion between the convention staff and the hotel's new event coordinator, but things seemed to have been all smoothed out. He was beat from all the work setting up and was looking forward to laying down to get some rest before all the convention attendees started showing up the next day.
The convention had rooms for their staff. Better for the con to pay extra and be sure your team would be there than lose out on good people that couldn't afford a room. It meant sharing crash space, but generally he could manage. There was the time he'd managed to land in the room with that guy who snored so loud the
next
room over complained, but mostly it had worked out. The door beeped and he pushed it open. Shower, clean t-shirt and shorts, call it a night.
Tom glanced to his left at the large counter as he walked past the little sink area in front of the bathroom. There were a lot more bottles and containers there than he was used to with past crash space roomies. As he rounded the corner where he could see the beds he stopped cold.
"UM... hi?"
Tom stood and stared for a minute. He wasn't sure if he'd gotten the wrong room key or if somebody was playing a practical joke on him. If it was a joke, it was an amazing choice. The woman sprawled out on the bed nearest him had on baggy gym shorts with an oversized hockey style jersey. It took another moment to realize that the team on her shirt wasn't an actual hockey team, it was the War Boys. Her long, bare legs stretched out across the bed were very distracting.
"Hello? Are you OK?" She pulled her legs up underneath herself and shifted up onto her knees. "Uh... " She snapped her fingers in his direction. "This is Houston, over..."
Tom popped back into the moment, "Oh, yeah, crap, sorry. It's been a long day and I was a little stunned." He couldn't take his gaze away from her. She had long, curly brown hair. Her ears and nose were small and delicate. Blue eyes stared at him as he stood there with his mouth still hanging open.
"Did you eat today? You look like a guy I used to know who did this whenever he didn't eat at the right times." She got off the bed and walked to the mini fridge in the room. When she bent over to look into the fridge Tom could see the beautiful heart shape of her ass outlined by the shorts.
"I've only got 2 of these power drink things in the fridge, the rest are warm. Do you want one?" She turned back around and Tom whipped his eyes back up to hers.
"I'm sorry. I think I must be in the wrong room." Tom started to back toward the door. His confusion was not clearing up in the presence of this gorgeous lady. Just as he was about to turn and leave he heard the door lock beep behind him. He turned as the third crash space roomie walked in. She was short. Funny how Tom noticed that first, but she could have only been about five feet tall. Tom was just over six feet tall so the difference was notable. She had super short curly black hair and green eyes. Her skin was an amazing, smooth creamy brown. He glanced down at her outfit. It looked like she had just come back from a cosplay panel despite the fact that nothing for the con had started yet. She still had half a suit of foam armor on, the top half cradled under her arm rather than worn exposing a cut off t-shirt that said 'property of Weyland-Yutani.
"Oh shit, sorry Sam, I didn't realize you had a guy! Wow the con didn't even really get rolling yet..."
"I'm sorry..." Tom started
"Jo it's not that..." Sam started at the exact same moment. They both stopped mid sentence and she giggled.
"Oh, sure," armor cosplayer said. "Look, Sam, you know I just need some kind of warning system or something. I mean, I walk down the hall for half an hour to work on foam painting and BAM!"
Tom was still processing when a thought struck him. "Wait." He turned to the woman in the hockey jersey. "You're Sam, right?" She nodded. He turned back toward the woman in the doorway, "and you are?" Tom let the question hang.
"I'm Jo." she said and let the door to the hotel room swing shut as she moved further into the room, shouldering past Tom. "And this stuff is getting sweaty already".
"That's it." Tom's thought process solidified. "Sarah the hotel liaison must have mixed up our room assignments. I'm betting she listed all the staff out by first name in her notebook and didn't give it any more thought than that. She put Sam, Jo and Tom all in the same room for crash space."
Both the ladies stopped and looked at him.