This story takes place in January 2020, at the time I spent a lot of time working abroad across Northern Europe and was currently based in the Amsterdam office of the company I was working for. I was staying in a hotel about ten minutes away from the office which was the regular hotel the company used.
I’d stayed there for about four weeks in total and my first visit was in December 2019. It was a lovely hotel and one of the best I’d stayed in, (I won’t say which hotel as I do not want to get the member of staff in trouble or have anybody try to stalk her). The first time I’d checked in she immediately caught my eye and I started to develop a small crush on her. For this story we’ll call her Sophie.
As the weeks rolled by I got to know her more and more through casual small talk and one or two longer conversations at the bar, she was lovely to talk to and had a lot to talk about and I could tell that she was genuinely being polite and talkative, not just because it was her job.