clearly! if he's been at the hotel for two years, maybe he started a few months before she quit and they spent their downtime planning trips they never took, and she still uses him for discounts sometimes when she wants to have parties aka spend a night in a bed the size of her apartment without anyone else around? or if we want to complicate things, her estranged dad's been in and out of remission for years and it's one of the things keeping her in austin, so when his mother died last year she wouldn't have known how to handle it and ghosted for a while so whether they're still friends or not could depend on how he would have taken to that