The Suite

      I wish the noise didn't stop. It has been at it for nearly five minutes; the steady burping of the drain as I let the water out. I tried to ignore the rest of it. The steady marching swirling as the water wound its way round and round helped significantly to drown it out. Seemed strange to me at first how loud the draining of water was, but now I am thankful, at least in the short term. I have tried desperately to drown it out, but now the water has emptied from the hot tub, and I can hear it once more. See, there is only a thin, solid core door that separates me from the rest of the hotel room, and on the other side, something is drooling.