Jayla pressed the button in the elevator, feeling it lurch up. Once on the right floor, 14 to be exact, the panel dinged, and the elevator doors slid open noislessly. She fingered her skeleton key necklace as she turned down the left hallway, towards her room. Once found, room 4018, she knocked, waiting for her mom to open it.

  Last week, the hotel site her mom used, had a crazy event, where the nights you needed to stay to get a free night was cut in half. If you were eligible, you automatically got a free night. It expired in two weeks, so her mom told her to pack, and here they were. At a nice hotel in New York. They were planning on staying two extra nights, since they wanted to check out the area they were in, and go see Niagara falls, which was only 25 minutes away.

  Her mom opened the door for her, and she stepped inside, collapsing onto her bed. 

"Was checking out the hotel that exhausting?" Her mom asked with a chuckle, from where she was sitting st the desk, appearing to have been reading a magazine.

"Oh, very," Jayla replied, sarcastically.

  She had been exploring the hotel, seeing everything there was. It was a pretty nice hotel, and they had a lot of cool things. A pool and breakfast for starters. Next to the lobby, there was a small bar where you could order food and drinks if you wanted. In the next room, was a game room. Everything from claw machines to a pool table. Even a few arcade games were against the wall.

  Everything was well decorated. The lobby had two shimmering glass chandeliers on the ceiling above a escalator that went to the second floor. Beautiful oak chairs and a coffee table where in the middle of the room, and a small piano was tucked up against the wall. Next to the double sliding front doors, there was a huge indented window with cushioned seats on the ledges.

  Three receptionists were behind the polished stone desk at the front. One even had showed Jayla around when noticing she was wandering around by herself. She had thanked the receptionist when they were done, and Jayla went back to her room. She finished telling her mom about it, and she seemed impressed by all of it.

"We'll have to try out the restaurant of course," she said. "And somehow go for a swim tomorrow."

  They had planned tons of stuff for the next day. When they drove here, they had seen tons of shops they wanted to check out. They looked up even more online they had added to their list, and hoped to hit them all the next day. Jayla especially wanted to go to this bookstore that was right next to the hotel. Her mom wanted to go to this coffee shop that was a few blocks away.

  Checking her watch, Jayla saw it was actually quite late; 10:25.

"Yea, we better go to bed." Her mom said, seeing her check the time.

"Yea," Jayla agreed. She quickly got ready for bed, pulling on her pajamas, and brushing her teeth. "Night mom," she said, slipping under the covers.