OK! Exclusive: Inside Britney & Kevin's Secret Meeting!

OK! has learned that both Britney Spears and Kevin Federline met up at the legendary Beverly Hills Hotel on Wednesday afternoon for a rendezvous that included several bodyguards.

Around

11:30 am, Brit, following her assistant in a separate car, left her

home in the Summit Circle gated community to make the 10-minute trip to

the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, where Kevin's security

patrol was already standing guard in the lobby.

Almost an hour

later, Kevin rolled into the hotel in a Dodge Viper truck, entering

through the employee parking lot. Soon thereafter, hotel security,

mentioning a "VIP arrival," cleared the lobby.

At 1 p.m., Kevin,

who had been smoking outside one of the hotel's bungalows, made his way

to a small conference room on the hotel's west side, where sources tell

OK! that Britney was waiting for him. No children were spotted with either parent.

After

an hour, it was time for another smoke break for Kevin, who exited the

conference room to take up his former position outside the bungalow,

where he enjoyed another cigarette for a few minutes before heading

back into the room.

At approximately 2:45 p.m., Brit left the

hotel via the valet exit, followed by a swarm of photographers, and

headed straight back to her home at Summit Circle. A few minutes later,

Kevin's truck was seen exiting from the rear of the hotel, though it

was unclear to witnesses whether the aspiring rapper was driving.

While

the reason for the meeting has yet to be announced, speculation is

rampant that it was for the first of their court-mandated joint

co-parenting counseling sessions with a court-approved therapist.

Therapy poolside in a cabana? How very Hollywood of them.

More

than likely, it was a get-together organized by their attorneys to try to

calm things down between the two before they meet up in court Friday

for the next hearing in their hotly disputed custody battle.