10 Luscious
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DEAR DIARY,
We figured it would be easy to find a hotel near the train station. We'd just walk into the blustery winter world and a room would jump into our laps.
As it turned out, there were plenty of hotels around. The problem was that I didn't have the guts to walk into one and order up a room.
Juniper shivered, even though it wasn't really that cold. We were standing outside a hotel that seemed to go up for miles. It had a steakhouse on the main level. “This place looks nice,” she said. “Let's step inside for a sec, at least get out of the cold.”
“I don't know,” I replied as she opened the door. “What if it's super-expensive? I'll have to pay my parents back, when they see this charge on their card.”
“They probably won't notice, if they're on vacatio
