Story written with my good friend B.
Kisses
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Rob and his wife Tess live in a medium-sized college town.
Tess keeps busy working for a large non-profit firm in the marketing department. She spends her days traveling and giving presentations in the interest of raising funds to support the organization's purpose.
Rob is a professor and dean of the business department at the local university. The school has been planning to expand the department due to an increase in the enrollment of business and technology students.
Luis, one of the applicants for the job, comes from a university in Puerto Rico. His resume fits the bill for what the school is looking for however, prior to committing to hiring him full-time, the school would like for Luis to visit the campus, meet department personnel and teach a couple of class sessions. The school will pay for Luis to travel to the university. Rob has been tasked with making all of the arrangements for Luis's week-long visit to the college.
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Over breakfast;
"Tess, do you remember that professor I told you about from the University of Puerto Rico that the department is looking to hire?" he asks her.
"Sure, didn't you say that you were planning to have him come up next week for the official visit?"
"Yes, that's next week and we don't have a place for him to stay."
"What do you mean? There are plenty of hotels in the area. I wouldn't think there would be a problem. The place we had my family stay last year, the hotel across town, is a really nice place. He should love it there." she says to him just before sipping her coffee.
"Well, there is some big convention in town that seems to have all of the hotels booked. Even all of the local bed and breakfasts are full." he told her.
"Interesting," she says. "So what are you going to do?"
"Well, I was thinking of having him stay with us. It would only be for the week and he could stay in the spare room upstairs. He would have his own area up there. You'll hardly even know he is here."
"What do you think?" he asks as he takes a bite from his toast.
"Rob, you know I have that dinner party I'm trying plan for on Saturday and we have people from your work coming over Wednesday night for dinner. The following week I will be out of town at that conference. I need time to prepare for that as well. I'm not going to have time to cook and be any kind of hostess during the week he will be here."
"Tess, I know this is asking a lot, but I really need you to do this for me. I wouldn't ask if it wasn't important."
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Monday