Dana had flown into town that afternoon and then attended her dinner meeting. It was already well into the evening when she finally checked into her hotel. She was no stranger to business travel. This was the last leg in a one-week, four city sweep. Finally, after another meeting tomorrow, she would be heading home. She could get a good night's sleep for a change and hopefully, if her boyfriend is amenable, some attention would be paid to those more basic urges that at this point were pretty well suppressed by business and fatigue.
The tension in Dana's very attractive body slowly faded as her shower progressed. Her shoulders seemed to lower as her muscles relaxed under the hot stream of water. Stress was being replaced by the desire for sleep. She left the bathroom, her hair still damp. She was wearing just rather unflattering utilitarian panties under a T-Shirt that came down to her mid-thigh. With just the end table lamp dimly lighting the room, she fell onto the bed and stared at the ceiling, waiting for the last remnants of tension to leave her.
Then it started. The TV in the adjacent room came on with a boom. She heard the disjointed sound bytes from channels being switched until a selection was finally settled upon. She just didn't have the strength to get up much less go over to the phone to call the front desk to complain. She just lay there, hoping that whoever was in the other room would turn the sound down to a considerate level. She waited and waited. Oddly, she eventually found herself trying to listen to the program. Was it a newly released movie on a pay channel, a late-night talk show, an infomercial?
"Oh my God!" she thought to herself. "It's a porno channel!"
Dana just couldn't believe her luck. She was lying there, moments from much needed sleep, and now she had to listen to contrived grunting and moaning with cheap porno music in the background. That did it. She conjured up enough strength to roll over to her side and get up from the bed. She was headed over to the phone when she realized that there was a door that connected the two rooms. Without thinking things through too carefully, she quietly undid the chain and the dead bolt and slowly cracked open the door. Earlier in the day the maid had set the chain on the door in the other room but had forgotten to fully close it so it too was open just a bit.
Dana cautiously peeked through the small slit of an opening made by the two doors. She could see the bed on the far wall and its occupant, a man, dressed only in white boxer shorts. Dana's first reaction was to pull away from the door. Did he see her? What should she do now? Her curiosity made her look again, this time for a longer while. She thought the man was attractive and most likely in his early thirties and therefore close to her own age. Her heartbeat rose while she continued to risk discovery. She continued to look and take in the scene before her. The man lay very still. Only his hairless and very fit chest moved with slow but deep breaths. The flickering bluish light from the television strobed the bed, the man, and the wall. The harsh horizontal light accentuated the muscles in his abdomen.