Page 26 of Deep Blue Lies

TWENTY-FIVE

Sooooo. Second night here, second diary entry. So far, so good!

Another bus arrived, with a few more people who are going to work here, so that now everyone’s in place. I’m not going to list everyone – there’s about thirty of us staff in total. But some are locals, so they don’t really count.

I probably could name them all if I wanted to, I’ve been pretty good about introducing myself and figuring out who’s cool and who isn’t. There’s a guy called Neil – he’s the head of the beach section. He was here last year as well, and he’s super hot.

I’m not so sure about the girls, there’s no one I’ve really bonded with yet, except – luckily – Imogen.

She’s actually really nice and super funny, but in a dry way.

She’s going to be working in reception (when we get the guests I mean, they don’t arrive until Saturday).

She was helping me this afternoon, getting the bar ready, making sure we’ve got all the drinks, and then making a menu of what I’m going to serve.

So that was really fun, making up cocktails and testing them out!

Imogen’s actually really pretty. I didn’t notice at first, maybe because she’s got a bit of puppy fat still, but she’s got this long dark hair and big, round eyes.

Today she said she wished she had my figure, which was sweet of her.

But I think she’s way prettier than she realises. I’ve already seen guys staring at her.

We had this weird thing happen today. The resort manager is called Jason. He’s also going out with Mandy, the deputy manager. He’s alright – kind of sexy – but also super tough.

Anyway, he lined us all up, the whole staff, and he gave us this lecture about how we had to follow his rules, and if we didn’t, there wouldn’t be any warnings – it would be bang, first plane home.

And he stared at us, one by one, while he said it, like he really wants someone to mess up so he can prove it.

And the biggest rule of all is no drugs.

He sounded super paranoid about them, but apparently it’s because the police here are super-hot on them.

Like if they catch anyone it’s years in prison.

They could even close down the whole resort.

It all sounded a bit full-on to me, but I guess they have to be strict.

Anyway, alcohol isn’t such an issue, thank God.

Jason did make the point that we have to get all the work done first. But when we do, he doesn’t mind us letting our hair down.

In fact Jason said he was looking forward to going into Skalio and dancing on the tables.

I’ve no idea if he was serious or not, but Neil swore he was.

We actually had a bit of a session this evening.

Someone brought out a bottle of Metaxa that they bought in the supermarket in town.

So we just sat on the balcony of the staff block, and drank out of plastic cups that the nannies stole from the nursery.

It was fun, a nice way to get to know people a little better.

Metaxa and Diet Coke is super delicious!