Hotel Majestic

HOTEL MAJESTIC

IT WAS A WARM , LATE AFTERNOON, AND JAMES SYMONS WAS DRIVING, CONTENEDLY ALONG THE STUART HIGHWAY,APPROACHING NOONAMAH. ON HIS WAY TO HIS NEXT APPOINTMENT IN ALICE SPRINGS.

JAMES HAD JUST FINISHED DESIGNING A WEB SITE FOR A COMPANY IN DARWIN, HAVING DRIVEN THERE FROM BROOME , WHERE HE HAD SERVICED ANOTHER WEBSITE THAT HIS COMPANY HAD SET UP FOR A BREWERY COMPANY .

JAMES HAD STARTED HIS JOURNEY FROM PERTH , WHERE HE WAS BORN, JAMES WAS FOUND – LITERALLY - UNDER ABUSH !- A SECURITY GUARD FOUND HIM, WRAPPED UP WARM, EARLY IN THE MORNING ON THE EIGHTH OF JULY 1985, UNDER A LARGE BUSH THAT WAS NEXT TO A PATHWAY THAT WAS A SHORT CUT BEHIND A ROW OF HOUSES. THE SECURITY GUARD PICKED UP THE LITTLE BUNDLE , AND TOOK HIM TO THE NEAREST DOCTORS,SURGERY.

AFTER HE HAD BEEN EXAMINED AND PRONOUNCE FIT AND HEALTHY !, JAMES ENDED UP IN THE LOCAL HOSTELLERY FOR UNWANTED BABIES AND INFANTS . HERE HE WAS NAMED - JAMES – AFTER THE SECURITY GUARD AND SYMONS AFTER THE DOCTOR .

FOR ALL OF HIS LIFE – IT HAD BEEN JAMES AGAINST THE WORLD !.

JAMES HAD HAD A VERY SECURE , BUT NOT PARTICUALLY HAPPY CHILDHOOD , HAVING BEEN JUST ONE AMONGST MANY , IN THE HOME . .AS JAMES GREW OLDER HE HAD DEVELOPED A VERY FIRM AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS LIFE . “ I AM THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN HELP ME “. HE WAS FOND OF STATING.

JAMES RELIED UPON NO ONE BUT HIMSELF , HIS CONFIDENCE WAS REALLY OVER WHELMING !. JAMES EVENTUALLY FOUND HIMSELF IN THE WEB SITE BUSINESS . AFTER TRYING VARIOUS OTHER JOBS , HE DECIDED TO ENROLE ON A COMPUTER COURSE , AND HE FOUND IT SO SATISFYING , THAT

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HE SET UP HIS OWN WEB SITE (– J.S COMPUTORS )- PRODUCING WEB SITES AND ALSO REPAIRING AND SERVICING THEM . JAMES TRAVELLED THE COUNTRY , SETTING UP NEW SITES . AND REPAIRING OR UP DATING OTHER SITES FOR HIS REGULAR CUSTOMERS .

JAMES WAS THIRTY FIVE YEARS OF AGE , FIVE TEN IN HEIGHT , WITH GINGERY, GREY HAIR , AND WAS SLIGHTLY OVER WEIGHT – I.E PODGY !. HE LOVED HIS JOB, AS IT MEANT LONG PERIODS ALL BY HIMSELF !.

JAMES LIKED TO DRIVE TO HIS APPOINTMENTS , WHEREVER THEY MIGHT BE , AS HE FOUND THAT THE PERIOD BETWEEN LEAVING HIS OFFICE AND ARRIVING AT HIS DESTINATION WAS SO RELAXING FOR HIM.

JAMES HAD NO FAMILY , HE WAS CONTENT JUST TO HAVE THE OCCASSIONAL GIRLFRIEND , BUT MOST TIMES HE JUST USED PROSTITUTES , AS HE NEEDED .

IT WAS JUST AFTER SIX IN THE EVENING AS HE PASSED NOONAMAH ,’ SUPOSE I HAD BETTER LOOK FOR SOMEWHER TO STAY ‘, JAMES MUSED TO HIMSELF , GLANCING AT THE SUN , STARTING TO SET. ‘ GIVE IT ANOTHER HALF HOUR OR SO ’ JAMES THOUGHT.

IT WAS STARTING TO GET DARK , JAMES HAD SWITCHED ON HIS DIPPED HEADLIGHTS, AND HAD STARTED TO LOOK OUT FOR A PLACE TP PULL IN TO.

IN THE DISTANCE HE NOTICED A GLOWING SIGN , GOING ON AND OFF , “ LOOKS LIKE I HAVE FOUND MY STOP !”, JAMES MUTTERED , WITH SATISFACTION, BEING READY FOR A NICE MEAL ,MAYBE A COUPLE OF DRINKS AND A NICE COMFY BED !.

AS JAMES APPROACHED THE FLICKERING SIGN , HE READ HOTEL MAJESTIC !, JAMES SLOWLY PULLED OFF OF THE HIGHWAY AND DREW TO A HALT JUST IN FRONT OF THE MAIN DOORS OF THE HOTEL, JAMES SWITCHED THE ENGINE , AND LIGHTS OFF , AND SAT FOR A FEW MOMENTS , LOOKING AT THE HOTEL , “ DON’T REMEMBER SEEING THIS ONE BEFORE ?”, HE QUERIED TO NOBODY IN PARTICULAR, ‘ LOOKS REALL Y NEW ’, HE THOUGHT AS HE LOOKED AT THE HOTEL FRONTAGE , ALL BRIGHT AND SHINY IN THE GLOW FROM THE NEON SIGN , THAT STATED BRIGHTLY – HOTEL MAJESTIC .

JAMES SLOWLY EASED HIMSELF FROM BEHIND THE STEERING WHEEL , AND ‘POPPED’ THE BOOT OF HIS STATESMAN, JAMES RETRIEVED HIS SMALL SUITECASE FROM THE BOOT , AND SLOWLY SHUT THE BOOT , AND GIVING A CLICK ON HIS KEY PAD , JAMES LOCKED THE CAR AND MADE HIS WAY SLOWLY UP SOME MARBLE STEPS AND ONTO THE PORCH OF THE HOTEL. AND LOOKED AROUND AT THE FRONTAGE , LOOKED LIKE IT WAS MADE OF STAINLESS STEEL ,IT GLEAMED SO MUCH !.

JUST THEN A BRIGHT AND BREEZY VOICE CUT THROUGH JAMES’S THOUGHTS, “ GOOD EVENING SIR, WELCOME TO THE MAJESTIC !”. JAMES CASTE HIS EYES IN THE DIRECTION FROM WHERE THE VOICE HAD COME , AND SAW A GOOD LOOKING YOUNG MAN , SMARTLY DRESSED IN A DARK RED UNIFORM ,” MAY I TAKE YOUR BAG SIR ?”. THE YOUNG MAN ASKED POLITELY.

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“ IS THIS PLACE NEW ?” JAMES ENQUIRED OF THE YOUNG MAN, WHO WAS OBVIOUSLY THE HOTEL PORTER.,” DON’T REMEMBER SEEING IT BEFORE “.

“ OH YES SIR “ , THE PORTER REPLIED , SMILING IN A FRIENDLY FASHION , AND TAKING JAMES BAG FROM HIM, “ WE HAVE ONLY BEEN OPEN A VERY SHORT WHILE !”, THE PORTER PROCEEDED TO LEAD JAMES INTO THE HOTEL.

AS JAMES ENTERED THE HOTEL LOBBY , HE WAS IMPRESSED BY THE COOLNESS OF THE LOBBY AND OF THE BEAUTIFULL DECORE, THE RECEPTION DESK WAS OF A LOVELY PINKY RED MARBLED MARBLE , AND THE CARPET WAS SO SOFT , THE SILENC E WAS DEAFENING ! JUST HOW JAMES LIKED IT .

AS THE PORTER AND JAMES REACHED THE RECEPTION DESK , A RAVEN HAIRED WOMAN IN HER THIRTIES , APPEARED BEHIND THE DESK,’ CHRIST THAT WAS SMOOTH’, JAMES THOUGHT AS HE GAZED UPON THE BEAUTY THAT HAD ARRIVED , THE VISION OF LOVELYNESS , SMILED A BEAMING SMILE , THAT WAS ALMOST AS BRIGHT AS THE NEON SIGN OUTSIDE , “ GOOD EVENING SIR ! “, THE VISION STATED “ MAY I CHECK YOU IN ?’.

“ OH. PLEASE DO !” JAMES REPLIED , WITH ONE OF HIS ‘ I WOULD LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU ’, SMILES , AS JAMES WAS FILLING IN THE USUAL FORMS , HE ASKED IF THE RESTAURANT WAS OPEN ,THE RECEPTIONIST REPLIED , WITH ANOTHER DAZZLING SMILE ,” IT WILL BE OPEN IN A HALF HOUR , SIR “, THE VISION THEN GAVE JAMES HIS ‘KEY ’, AND SAID TO THE PORTER, “ ONE O FIVE PETER !”,

AFTER JAMES HAD HAD A LOVELY WARM SHOWER , HE HAD GOTTEN DRESSED AND MADE HIS WAY DOWN TO THE LOBBY TO FIND THE RESTAURANT. AS HE ARRIVED IN THE LOBBY , A MAN SUDDENLY APPEERED . “ GOOD EVENING MR. SYMONS “, HE SAID SMOOTHLY , FOLLOWED BY A BEAMING SMILE ,” I AM BERNARD , AND I AM THE MANAGER OF THIS ESTABLISHMENT !”, JAMES LOOKED SLOWLY AT THE MANAGER , AND SAW A MAN IN MID FORTIES , VERY WELL DRESSED IN A ‘DICKIE BOW’ AND A VERY BLACK LOUNGE SUITE, ‘ WOW’, JAMES THOUGHT ‘ QUITE SWISH !’.

“ I HAVE TALKEN THE LIBERTY OF RESERVING A TABLE IN OUR RESTAURANT !”, BERNARD STATED SMOOTHLY .” OH , THAT’S FINE “, JAMES SMILED BACK, .

BERNARD GENTLY TOUCHED JAMES ON THE ELBOW AND MURMURED “ IF YOU WOULD LKIE TO FOLLOW ME SIR ! “, AS JAMES ENTERED THE RESTAURANT , HE WAS AMAZED AT THE COOLNESS OF THE ROOM, THE TABLES WERE PRISTINE WITH THEIR PURE WHITE TABLE CLOTHS AND SPARKLING CUTLERY AND WHAT WITH THE GLINTING OF THE CRYSTAL GLASSES , JAMES WAS QUITE OVERWHELMED ,” WHAT A BEAUTIFULL ROOM !’ HE STATED , LOOKING APRECIATIVELY AROUND THE ROOM,” AM I TOO EARLY ?’, JAMES ENQUIRED , LOOKING AT ALL THE EMPTY TABLES .” OH , NO SIR ’, BERNARD REPLIED , SMILING BROADLY, “ WE DO NOT HAVE MANY GUESTS TODAY , SO THE HOTEL IS A BIT ON THE QUIET SIDE !”.

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AFTER A REALLY DELICIOUS THREE COURSE MEAL , BOUND TOGETHER WITH A BEAUTIFULL BOTTLE OF 1996 SHIRAZ , AND HAVING BEEN SPOILT ROTTEN BY THE VERY ATTENTIVE SERVICE , GIVEN BY TWO GOOD LOOKING WAITERS , JAMES WAS IN THE MOOD FOR A COUPLE OF WHISKIES BEFORE RETIRING.SO FINISHING HIS SECOND CUP OF BLACK , SWEET TURKISH COFFEE , JAMES EXITED THE RESTAURANT , AND MADE HIS WAY OVER TO WHERE A DELICATE , CUT GLASS SIGN , PROUDLY ANNOUNCED – THE MAJESTIC BAR!.

JAMES ENTERED THE MAJESTIC BAR , AND STOOD AT THE ENTRANCE FOR A COUPLE OF SECONDS , ADNMIRING THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE STAINLESS STEEL BAR AND , THE LOVELY MARBLED FLOOR , WITH SMALL TABLES WITH CHAIRS , SCATTERED AROUND , AS JAMES REACHED THE BAR , A MIDDLE AGED , STILL GOOD LOOKING WOMAN , WAS STANDING , SMILING , WAITING FOR HIS ORDER .

JAMES WAS VERY IMPRESSED BY THE VERY MODERN LOOKING BAR , AND THE LOOK OF THE WOMAN ATTENDANT.

“ CAN I HAVE A SCOTCH PLEASE ?” JAMES ENQUIRED ,LOOKING ALONG THE GLEAMING BOTTLES STANDING UPON GLASS SHELVES . “ WHICH ONE WOULD YOU LIKE SIR ?’ THE BARTENDER ASKED , WITH A WARM SMILE, AND THEN SHE PROCEEDEED TO NAME THE WHISKIES THAT THEY HAD.

“ OH , SO SPOILT FOR CHOICE !”, JAMES SAID , RETURNING THE SMILE ,” WHICH IS YOUR BEST ONE ?’ JAMES ENQUIRED , “ WELL, THIS ONE IS VERY POPULAR “ THE WOMAN SAID , GETTING DOWN A TWELVE YEAR OLD DUFFTOWN MALT , “ THAT WILL DO NICELY !”, JAMES SMILED , THINKING ‘ THIS STAFF ARE REALLY ON THE BALL !”. “ ER , NO ICE !”, JAMES SAID .” PLEASE SIT DOWN AND I WILL BRING YOU DRINK OVER “. THE BAR TENDER ANNOUNCED , REACHING FOR THE MEASURE GLASS,” SINGLE OR DOUBLE SIR ?’ SHE ASKED , GETTING READY TO POUR.” OH. WHAT THE HELL !”, JAMES CHUCKLED “ MAKE IT A DOUBLE !”.

JAMES SAT HIMSELF DOWN ONTO A CHAIR , NEAR TO THE BAR, AND AS HE SIPPED HIS WHISKY , HE CASUALLY LOOKED AROUND THE ROOM, THERE WERE ONLY THREE OTHER CUSTOMERS IN THE BAR, HE HAD BEEN ALONE IN THE RESTAURANT, ONE OF THEM WAS ABEAUTIFULL WOMAN , MAYBE ABOUT TWENTY FIVE , WITH LOVELY JET BLACK HAIR AND HAZEL EYES , DRESSED IN A WELL FITTING BLOOD RED DRESS , SITTING DEMURELY AT THE FAR END OF THE BAR.

JAMES , NEVER SLOW TO TRY AND CHAT UP BEAUTIFULL WOMEN , TIPPED HIS GLASS IN HER DIRECTION , AND NODDED , FOLLOWED BY A BEAMING SMILE - THE YOUNG WOMAN , SLIGHTLY BLUSHED , BUT SLIGHTLY NODDED HER HEAD AND TIPPED HER GLASS TOWARDS JAMES. JAMES APPROACHED THE BAR AND ORDERED A SECOND GLASS OF THE MALT , AND EYEING THE BLACK HAIRED BEAUTY , ASKED HER SMOOTHLY , IF HE COULD BUY HER A DRINK , THE BEAUTY HESITATED FOR A MOMENT , THEN SMILED , AND SAID QUIETLY “ WELL , THAT’S VERY NICE OF YOU , I WOULD LIKE A CAMPARI AND SODA “.

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AFTER ANOTHER COUPLE OF DRINKS , JAMES GOT BRAVE AND ORDERED A BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE –( JUST TO OIL THE WHEELS , AS THEY SAY !), THE OTHER TWO CUSTOMERS HAD GONE AWAY , JAMES AND THE YOUNG WOMAN , WHO’S NAME WAS ROSE , HAD GOT ON LIKE A HOUSE ON FIRE !, AND SURPRISE- SURPRISE !!—ROSE WAS ALSO AN ORPHAN !!.

JAMES WAS GETTING QUITE INFATUATED BY ROSE , AND SHE SEEMED TO BE LIKING HIM. SO JAMES BUCKED UP THE COURAGE TO ASK ROSE IF SHE WOULD LIKE TO COME UP TO HIS ROOM FOR A NIGHTCAP ?, ROSE SMILED ,KNOWINGLY , AND AFTER SQUEEZING JAMES’S HAND , HAD NODDED HER ACCEPTANCE.

JAMES TOOK THE BOTTLE OF CHAMPAGNE AND THE ICE BUCKET , AND WITH ROSE HOLDING TWO CHAMPAGNE FLUTE S, THEY SET OFF FOR JAMES’S ROOM.

AS THE CHAMPAGNE TOOK ON THE DESIRED EFFECT, JAMES AND ROSE , STARTED KISIING PASSIONETLEY AND SLOWLY STARTED TO UNDRESS EACH OTHER.

WHEN THEY WERE BOTH NAKED , ROSE PUSHED JAMES ONTO THE BED AND STRADDLED HIM ,THEN AS JAMES’S PENIS ENTERED ROSE , SHE GENTLY STARTED TO ‘ RIDE ’ JAMES , JAMES CLOSED HIS EYES IN BLISS , ROSE WAS ABOUT THE BEST SEX PARTNER THAT HE HAD EVER HAD.

‘DON’T REMEMBER ROSE HAVING SUCH LONG NAILS ?’ , JAMES THOUGHT , AS ROSE’S NAILS SEDUCTIVELY STROKED HIS THIGHS.

AS JAMES WAS REACHING HIS CLIMAX , HIS HANDS WENT OUT TO STROKE ROSE’S THIGHS , IMAGINE HIS SURPRISE WHEN HE FELT DRY CRINKLY FLESH, ‘ WHAT AM I TOUCHING ?’ HIS MIND ASKED . JAMES OPENED HIS EYES AND NEARLY FAINTED !.

THERE ‘ RIDING HIM’, WAS A WRINKLY SKINNED , , GREY HAIRED OLD WITCH LOOKING FEMALE - WITH DARK RED RIMMED EYES , LEARING AT HIM , HER TEETH BROWNY COLOURED AND DAGGER SHAPED , AND SHE WAS CACKLING LIKE A MANIAC.

AS JAMES TRIED TO CRY OUT , ROSE PLACED HER LONG, DIRTY NAILED HAND INTO HIS MOUTH , AND FORCEIBLY WRENCHED OUT HIS TONGUE , AND AS THE BLOOD FLOWED FROM HIS MOUTH, HE WATCHED IN ABSOLUTE TERROR AS ROSE PROCEEDED TO EAT HIS TONGUE !

JUST THEN THE MANAGER , BERNARD , ENTERED THE ROOM, HOLDING A LARGE MEAT SAW AND TWO LARGE SHARP KNIVES, “ GOOD EVENING SIR “ BERNARD SAID SMOOTHLY , AS HE PLACED THE SAW AND KNIVES ON THE BED .

JAMES WATCHED , ABSOLUTELY STIFF WITH HORROR ,AND BLEEDING PROFUSELY , AS BERNARD PROCEEDED TO CUT OFF HIS LIMBS ONE BY ONE . AND WITH HIS FADING EYESIGHT WATCHED AS BERNARD LAID THE CUT LIMBS NEXT TO HIM ON THE BED !

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DOWN IN THE RESTAURANT , A LARGE TABLE HAD BEEN SET UP , WITH A PURE WHITE TABLECLOTH AND SPARKLY GLASSES AND CUTLERY , WINE HAD ALREADY BEEN OPENED , THERE SAT , READY FOR THE FEAST THAT WAS TO COME, ALL THE STAFF AND THE TWO OTHER ‘ GUESTS’, BUT NOT AS THEY LOOKED TO THE RECENTLY DECEASED JAMES , THEY ALL HAD GREY CRINKLY SKIN , BAD TEETH AND WERE DRESSED IN RAGS , IT LOOKED LIKE THE LOCAL UNDERTAKER AND THE GRAVEDIGGER HAD DUG THEM UP !.

AS THE DAWN LAZILY PEAKED OVER THE HORIZON , AND THE MORNING MIST WANDERED OVER THE LANDSCAPE , THE HOTEL MAJESTIC GRADUALLY FADED FROM SIGHT, GETTING ITSELF READY TO APPEAR WHEN THE SUN SET ,IN THE EVENINBG , WHEN THE HOTEL WOULD BE READY , , ONCE MORE TO RECEIVE IT’S UNSUSPECTING ‘GUESTS’ !. AND THE PORTER WOULD SMILE AND SAY

‘ WELCOME TO THE HOTEL MAJESTIC ! ’.