When I arrive at the spa, I head straight to the front desk where the same receptionist from yesterday is finishing up a phone call. She hangs up the phone and greets me.
“Hi! I just need to tell my friend, Lana, that I’m here. I’m her ride,” I explain to the receptionist with short blonde hair.
“Of course! She should be done with her massage and relaxing in the meditation room,” she says.
“Thank you!” I turn towards the direction of the meditation room and heave open the heavy door. The room is dimly lit and has relaxing music playing. There are a few women reading books and others, just relaxing their eyes.
I spot Lana in a corner wearing a robe, cucumbers covering her lids.
“Lana!” I whisper loudly while walking in her direction.
She doesn’t budge, but asks, “What?”
I take a cucumber off of her eye and take a bite out of it. She peeks at me with her one available eye.
“Enjoying the spa?”
“Yes! Thank you. It’s exactly what I needed after last night,” she says, not elaborating any more than that.
My eyes widen. “Elana Martin!” I say her full name while slapping her arm playfully. I only use her full name when she’s in trouble or has done something crazy, which is never. So this is my first time using her full name. “What did you do?” I ask, dying for details.
She smiles. “What didn’t I do? I thought I was an acrobat last night or something. I bent in all sorts of ways,” she says.
“With who?!” I ask, desperate to know.
“...Derek…” She says closing her eyes tight, causing the other cucumber to fall off her face.
“AHHH! I knew it!”
Many of the women start shushing us.
“Shit, my bad. Let’s get out of here,” I laugh.
We quietly leave the meditation room and go to the locker room.
“Let’s go in the steam room, I need a good steam,” I tell Lana.
I begin to remove my coat when I say, “Now spill!”
Lana smiles a smile I haven’t seen in a long time. “There’s nothing to spill, we just hooked up. That’s all.”
“Lana.”
“Okay, it was the best sex of my life!” She spits out.
I throw my shirt at her, “I knew it! You were practically smiling in your sleep!”
She blushes. “Yeah well, I hadn’t had sex in a while. Not since Evan and that wasn’t even that good.”
We both just laugh. Evan was Lana’s first and last boyfriend. She hasn’t dated around much; she’s more of a relationship type. But Evan cheated on her, so I kept telling her she needs to let out all that pent up energy and animosity towards him. I’m glad she finally listened.
By now, I’ve stripped completely naked and wrapped my body in a fresh towel. I take my already ponytailed hair and pull a piece of the elastic out to loop my hair into a bun as we both head into the steam room to finish our girl talk.
The second I open the door, I am greeted by an immense amount of steam. It’s almost impossible to see in here! I take a seat on the damp tiled bench in the small space and let the steam do its thing.
“Don’t think I forgot about you miss,I can’t stop thinking about this guy, then actually gets so lucky to find him again.What happened between you two?”
“Well, if you must know, he and I also hooked up and it was amazing. His tongue should win an award, seriously,” I say, laughing. “But no, it was amazing, I don’t know how to describe it. We had some sort of connection that I’ve never had with anyone before in my life.”
