Ruth

She reaches out with little time to spare, saying she's staying at a hotel and wanted to meet and talk. She's outside the main entrance, leaning up against the building, when you arrive, looking serious...

Okay, not exactly how this went, but not far off either.

We had been talking behind the scenes since I first met her at the start of October. She wanted more of... what transpired there, with indications she wanted more still going forward, and I insisted we talk in person about it. Communication was... sparse, but ultimately she reached out to tell me that she was leaving Kansas City for a while and so that would be our only good chance for a while to talk. She was staying at a hotel with her boyfriend, which gave everything a bit of a... sketchy feel to it. But I ultimately decided to go for it.

And since I'm writing this, obviously everything worked out. I insisted we meet in the hotel lobby first - with the unspoken reason being so I could get a feel of everything, the lay of the land, so to speak. We chatted a bit there after which we moved on to taking shots. Starting first outside the hotel's main entrance before going up to her hotel room.