There was this sleazy hotel out on route 15 back where I come from. Sometimes late at night I used to imagine what it might be like to take a lover there. To hold her hand as we got out of the car and walk past the blue neon sign that constantly flashed "vacancy" outside the small dive hotel.
I wonder if she would look nervous when we walked up to the front counter and waited for the fat man to turn around. I imagined to the very smallest detail the way that I would smile and wink at him when she turned her head to nervously look around the lobby. It would have been one of those -- yeah, I'M here for the reason you think I'm here, winks. I would have paid in cash and given the fat man some ludicrous name. Every time I dreamed of this I would change the name to something different. One night it would be Jen McMurphy, the next it would be Roxy Smyth. I took my time grinning, while thinking up what name I would use that night. The man would take my cash and with short stubby fingers slide a large plastic key ring under the grill across the counter.
I thought about how I would twine my fingers in hers and lead her outside and too our room. I would tell her the number and let her lead the way. Giving her a sense of power, and me a great view of her round perky ass. Most of the times my lover was wearing a pair of low cut jeans, but sometimes I have her in one of those little black dresses that makes you just want to melt. When we got to the door I had a few different witty sayings planned out, but I knew that I would just hand her the key and walk in behind her.