My friend Megan and I were invited to stay over as guests at another friend's fancy hotel, which was closed for the season.
We were very excited to have a whole weekend to ourselves and to sleep in luxury. We chose a beautiful room with double beds to sleep in, with fluffy comforters on each bed and its own ensuite bathroom complete with a large tub.
We were busy chatting and sitting on one bed in our pajamas when there was a firm knock at the door. Looking at each other, we had no idea who would be knocking, there wasn't supposed to be any staff staying at the hotel.
I get up to answer the door and there's a gruff looking, large man with a beard standing at the door, he identifies himself as the caretaker of the hotel and demands to know who we are.
I tell him we were invited by a friend named Amy and he says he didn't hear anything about guests staying over this weekend. He makes us follow him to his office to sort out the matter. I feel like a child going to the principal's office.
We are sitting in each a chair with him at his desk, looking sternly at us. He makes me tell him again how we were invited.
I say, "Look, I can just call Amy on my cell and she can tell you herself that she invited us here."
He looks at the phone in my hand suspiciously, but gestures with his hand that I can call her.
Dialing the phone, I get her voicemail and as I'm leaving a hasty voicemail on her phone a group of women are heard walking past the door, talking and laughing.
They notice the light on in the office and one pokes her head through the doorway.
She's a beautiful redhead, she sees the caretaker sitting at his desk and says, "hello Jeff, I didn't know you were working tonight."
She spots the two of us sitting on the chairs and says "oh, who's this?"
Jeff says, "I found these two trespassers using one of the rooms." He emphasizes the word 'trespassers'.
She arches a perfectly shaped eyebrow and looks at us more carefully.
I say quickly, "Excuse me, but we are not trespassers. As I've been trying to tell your caretaker here, we were invited by Amy and she said that we could join the coven!"
The redhead says, "Oh really, Amy said that??"
Now she really starts looking me up and down with interest and then finally says, "Well, I'm the boss here. So I will decide if you are coven material. My name is Yvonne. Follow us and we will see how you shape up. But, your friend must wait here."
I readily agree because I want to be allowed to stay the weekend.
Megan looks at me with concern, but I tell her I shouldn't be long and she can wait with the caretaker.