I've Been There Before

Kern Lo looked inscrutable and nodded with smile, “Any room for me tonight?”

“Sure! We have vacant rooms.” Carol worked in the inn to welcome and bid farewell to numerous guests, but this was her first time to meet such a good-looking guy of mysterious feature.

Kern followed Carol to the lobby. He could see the clean windows of the inn all the way. Standing in front of the reception, he also got the view of the yard as well as some of the further Erhai Lake through a glass folding door.

Right now, he noticed a bamboo recliner on the corridor of yard; soon he shifted his eye contact.

Carol introduced to him, “Sir, we have an agreement for you before check-in. Could you please read it and sign?” She never knew the reasons to make such a weird agreement with guests. Yet she had to do as the owner told and there was not exception since she started to work here.

If guests wanted to live in, they had to sign the agreement.

Kern got it and seemed to be curious…he neither heard about the rule that guests would make an agreement with some other hotels or inns.

Anyway, it did not matter. He read through it and came to realize that, why the young couple in the recent news was ordered to leave here by the owner.

She even

eyes, this was a bossy man coming

Kern talking, “Do you

so happy to give him a pen, “Oh...of course.”

Kern signed his name on the

at the outside recliner in the corridor of yard; it was swinging by the

are you

view, and a lovely recliner. May I use it? It is interesting.”

has a nap under the sun around noontime.” Carol was too honest to

seemed not to be angry about this, just answered, “I see.” But he felt some of pity and went on to say, “It belongs to the owner. I cannot try it.”

rooms on the second floor. In the afternoon, Kern finished a shower to be in a clean causal wear and stood beside the room window, watching the recliner downstairs.

assistant said, “Boss…”

told you not to call me boss

call you instead?”