Meeting Mr. Brony

Madeleine and Jordan met each other at a Holiday Inn where she, working as the front desk receptionist, nearly swooned at the first sight him with his jet black hair. Also, he wore a tight green t-shirt and skinny blue jeans. Therefore, it made himself easy to pick out from his group of eight friends, who were checking into the hotel for their five-day vacation in Baltimore. Meanwhile, as Maddy imagined a dreamy fliter around him, he walked over to her as his tall, wide structured body swayed side to side.

After he approached the front desk, he said to her, “Hello?”

Madeleine snapped out of her mental state as she quickly said, “Ummm… Hi! Welcome to the Holiday Inn. How may I help you?”

He smiled and replied with his raspy voice, “Yes, I’m checking in with my friends... I think we booked six rooms.”

Madeleine responded with professional decency, “Alright, can I have a name?”

“Jordan Baumann.”

She was instantly confused by his last name, therefore she asked, “I’m sorry, but how do spell the last name again?”

He said, “B-A-U-M-A-N.”

“Oh, Okay,” said Madeleine as she entered his full name into the computer. Afterwards, she took the keycards to the scanner and gave it to him. “Alright, here's your room keys and the elevators are right over there. Enjoy your stay!”

“Thank you,” replied Jordan before he asked, “Say, can I have your number?”

Madeleine was befuddled by the request. “Pardon me?”

Jordan tried to play it off. “I’m sorry, but since I have never been to this city before... I would like to have someone on my phone

that I might be able to contact… You know, in case I got lost.” Jordan stopped talking to look at her name tag. “Madeleine, but feel

free to say no if you don’t want too.”

Madeleine was in disbelief; like she was in a movie from Hollywood. Therefore, she decided to go for it. What’s the harm? she thought before she said, “Umm, sure. Here... I’ll write it down for you”. Madeleine took out a piece of scrap paper and quickly wrote down her cellphone number.

As Madeleine gave the note to him, Jordan showed his condolence as he replied with a simple, “Thanks, I’ll text you later.”

Madeleine responded with a wink.

***

After that episode, Jordan and Madeleine began to call and texted each other until their fingers cramped from the constant use of their cell-phones. From those conversations, Jordan told Madeline that he actually lived forty-five minutes away from Baltimore and that him and his friends, from out of state, were visiting the city’s convention center for an annual event. However instead of wasting their money on gas to drive to-and-from his house, they decided to book a hotel and make it easier for themselves to have fun at “the convention,” as Jordan put it.

Understanding his intentions, Madeleine tried a few times to ask Jordan what “the convention” was about. However every time that question was brought up, he quickly changed the subject without remorse or hesitation within his speech or texts. Madeleine was, for the most part, disturbed by this reaction, but she did find out “the convention” was called “BronyCon” after she looked it up on the internet. Upon the discovery of this information, she decided to drop the question altogether while she suggested to Jordan a dinner date and visit our at his place for one night. After all, she and him don’t work on the weekends and thought of it sounded fun.

He agreed to the plan and suggested next Sunday.