Rick slowly opened his eyes and fumbled around with his phone to check the time. He and his girlfriend Penny had flown in to Las Vegas from the east coast the night before and still weren't adjusted to the time difference. The phone read 7:42am. Waking up now could hardly be considered sleeping in, especially since they were on vacation, but they had a few days to adjust to the new time zone and sleep late.
Rick pressed a button against the wall to open the curtains. He and Penny had sprung for a suite with a number of neat, albeit unnecessary amenities. The best, by far, was the wall-controlled curtains. The view that was revealed? Just the parking lot, a couple of medium sized buildings, and the desert horizon, but the idea that he could open the curtains while lying in bed was fun.
Penny started to roll around upon the light hitting the bed. She was 23 years old, 5'5, 120 lbs, had medium length, straight, dark hair and a small figure. Rick was 25, a lean 6'2, and had short, brown hair. He watched as she slowly began to awaken, still not opening her eyes. She usually wore very little to bed; she was in a red, lace pair of panties and had no top covering her small, perky breasts. Rick snuck a peek of her body as she began to open her eyes.
"Good morning babe," Rick said before kissing her on her forehead.
"Mmm, morning."
"How'd you sleep?"
"Good, you?"
"I slept well."
"Good," Penny replied. She had barely opened her eyes during the brief conversation and before Rick knew it, she was falling asleep again. Rick knew she'd be out at least another 20 minutes, if not longer. He decided to walk down to the lobby to see if he could get a coffee and a pastry before Penny woke up again. He threw on some jeans, wet down a patch of hair that was sticking up, took one last look at Penny, and headed down to the lobby.
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Fifteen minutes and a donut and coffee later, Rick headed back up to the suite. As he approached the room, he took the 'Do Not Disturb' sign off the door. He noticed the housekeeping cart was in front of the room two doors down and hoped they'd notice the sign was down. Although it had never happened, Rick sometimes worried housekeeping would forget about his room if he left the sign up too long. It was a strange fear with rather inconsequential results, but a fear nonetheless.
He took off his pants and shirt and crawled back into bed with Penny, who had closed the curtains in his absence. As he lay down, she draped her arm over him.
"Hey babe, did you get something to eat?"
"Yeah."
"Did you bring me anything?"
"No, sorry. I'll go back down with you if you want."
"No, I'm okay right now."