As Eden, Akira, and I file out of the locker room, ready to meet Hazel in the lobby for our second day of training at the Colorado Club, excitement fizzes across my skin. I hope I see Byron again after work. Less than a week ago, I was supposed to be walking down the aisle with another man. I know it doesn’t make sense that I’m almost kissing someone else. Not just almost kissing him, but thinking about him, dreaming about him, seeing him in strangers at work.

It's just more evidence that Frank was never meant to be my future. In the two years we were dating, I never felt butterflies in my stomach the way I do when I see Byron. I have a list of questions I want to ask Byron, and I keep thinking up new ones. I never had that urgency to know Frank. Maybe whatever I’m feeling toward Byron is nothing more than childlike infatuation. But it feels good. It makes me feel alive. I’m excited for the new day. The fact that I never had that with Frank must mean I made the right decision by not marrying him.

“We’re going to start off by touring the swimming, gym, and spa facilities,” Hazel says. “We saw the Eat Well Café yesterday, but I want to get into the non-F-and-B aspects of the area. You’ll notice we don’t just say sports or even indoor sports. Indoor sports are divided into two areas. First swimming, gym, and spa, which are all on level one, and then the basketball, squash, racquetball, indoor tennis, and pickleball, which are all located on the basement level.”

“Is spa a sport?” Akira asks. She does it in such a gently inquisitive way, it’s like she was born a diplomat.

“It depends how seriously you take your relaxation,” Hazel says. She smiles and adds, “It’s not technically a sport, but as it’s in the swimming pool and gym area, we include it when we refer to our facilities on level one.”

We follow Hazel as she points out the entrances to the spa and gym. She explains that members will be able to order foods from various restaurants to be delivered to them wherever they are. “There’s no such thing as no,” she says. “If they don’t want to eat the food at Eat Well, they can order from wherever they like. As waitresses, you might not be working at Eat Well, but you may well deliver food from the restaurant you are working at to guests in the basketball court, or who are seated at Eat Well.”

“And if they want to eat in the swimming pool? Or want an order of fries in the sauna?” Akira asks.