10 - First mission [2]
After a while, we reached New Jersey, and the plane stopped moving. It was already evening, so the sun was low and was starting to disappear behind the buildings. At this point, looking at the orange sky, I could say that the mission had already started. That thought made me nervous, but I couldn't hesitate now.
We got off the plane and went to get our luggage. After that, we passed through all the security checks again. And finally, we left the airport. This city was unknown to me, so I didn't know where we were. Noticing that I was lost in thought, Rachel called me back to reality.
"Hey! The taxi is already here. Get ready."
"Ah, yes."
After saying that, a taxi stopped in front of us. We both put our luggage in the trunk and we got into the taxi. Rachel told the driver the destination, and he started driving almost immediately.
Although the city was unknown, I knew where we were going. We were heading to the company where we would work until the mission was completed. The company's name was Silverex. About where we would live, the company had rooms for the employees if they wanted to stay there, and since we were on a mission, it would be very useful for us to stay in the company even at night.
After a while, we finally reached Silverex. The whole ride we both keep silent, thinking about our things. When we got out of the car, the first thing we saw was a massive building with the name of the company in the middle. The building consisted of a tower of what could be around 70 floors.
'How much money must have cost? Surely millions. Is this the place where we will be staying?'
"Hey, stop admiring the tower, and let's go inside."
Rachel snapped me out of my thoughts. After seeing that I was back to reality, she started walking toward the door of the building. As I saw that, I quickly followed her and entered through the doors.
What greeted us was a large reception that matched the size of the building. The walls and the ceiling were pure white, and the floor was a light shade of gray. There was a desk in front of the door, and there were two hallways on both sides of the desk. Next to the door, several seats were placed.
After I took a look at the reception, I saw that the only person here was the one behind the desk, whom I guess was the receptionist. She was a tall and slender woman in her twenties, with brown eyes and fine, black hair. She had a pointed nose and thin lips, along with defined cheekbones and a softly shaped jaw.
When she heard the door open, she looked up and saw us walking toward her. She smiled at us and started talking.
"Welcome to Silverex. How may I help you?"
"Hi, we are the new workers of the company. I'm Evelyn Hunt, the new secretary of Mr. Beck, and he is Black Ellis, the new cleaner."
The receptionist gave a glance at the monitor she had at her side, maybe to verify that we were supposed to come, then she looked at us again and asked for our ID. We gave it to her, and she proceeded to confirm the data.
Not long after, she looked at us again and returned our ID with a smile.
"Alright. As I said earlier, welcome to Silverex, Mrs. Hunt, Mr. Ellis. Now, I will explain to you your schedule for the next day. Both of you are free to do anything today, but tomorrow you will start your training with your respective seniors. More information will be sent to your emails later. I hope we get along well."
""Likewise, thank you for the information.""
"Oh. Also, on what floor are the rooms?"
"The rooms are from floor 5 to floor 30."
She stopped talking and looked at the monitor for a moment, before returning to look at us.
"More specifically, your rooms are on floor 28."
"I see, thank you."
After we replied to her, she put on a smile and got back to work again.
We didn't ask for the number of our rooms since we already knew it. And without anything more to say, we started walking toward the elevator. We got in and pressed the button with the number 28, and waited until it reached that floor without speaking a bit.
At times like this, I question if deep down Rachel didn't want me to come. Or I even questioned her hating me, but I didn't know what was the real reason for her cold treatment toward me, even challenging me to a duel. But after that, I remembered what happened on the plane. Her soft smile and the words she spoke. I didn't know what she was thinking, and since in school we didn't talk that much, it is like I didn't know anything about her.
Ding-
"We are here."
The sound of the elevator opening accompanied by Rachel's voice snapped me out of my thoughts.
'I can think about that later.'
We got out of the elevator and entered a small hall that had a hallway on each side. Rachel approached the wall and read the sign that was hung. Then I saw what was written on the sign.
{Rooms 221-225 on the right. Rooms 226-230 on the left.}
"It seems my room is on the right hallway. If I'm not wrong your room is on the left."
"Yes, it is the number 228."
"Well, goodbye then."
"Goodbye."
After saying that, she went down the right hallway, and I did the same down the left one.
'If you do some math, there are ten rooms on this floor, and if we assumed that all the floors had the same number of rooms, there are 250 rooms in total. That is a lot for an office building. In fact, it is strange that they had rooms, but I guess they could afford them.'
And it wasn't like these rooms were always occupied. The function of these rooms was temporal. It is supposed that you have to find your own home, and the company lends you one of these rooms until you can find it.
That could be seen after I entered my room. The colors were like the reception, white ceiling and walls, and a light gray for the floor. The room was a little bigger than my room in the organization, and in the middle of it was a double bed, and in front of the bed, there was a TV. On one side of the bed, there was a desk, and on the other, a wardrobe. On the right of the TV was a door that appeared to be the bathroom. It was a simple room, not made for living for a long time, but was nice enough not to be uncomfortable.
I lay down on the bed and started thinking about what I could do right now.
'The receptionist said that we are free today, but it is almost night, so I don't want to go out, and also I'm dead tired from the trip. I should just stay here.'
After I decided on my plans for the rest of the day, I closed my eyes for a moment before a sound disturbed the silence of the room. It was my phone, I picked it up and saw that a message had come. I read the title.
[Tomorrow's schedule.]
It was my plan for tomorrow, and with that, I realized that the mission had already started.
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