In•fec•tion

Prologue

"Miss Anderson? Jordan Anderson?" Rang through the waiting room. I stand up. I walk towards the older man that called my name. He leads me to a room with a phone sitting on the table. "Pick it up when you're ready." He says. I nod and say, "thank you."
He shuts the door. I pick up the phone and begin my interview.

I was on my way to my apartment when my cell phone started ringing. I fumble around to answer it. "Hello?" I say. "Hello, is this Miss Anderson?" A women on the other side asks. "Yes, it is." I say answering her question. "Great. Well you got the job. Your boat is ready to go when you are." She says. "Thank you, I'll see you soon! Bye." I happily hang up and start running home.

I start thinking to myself, I have to get on a boat tonight at 9:30pm. I glance at my phone screen. It says 7:30. After realizing that I jog the rest of the way home and pack lightly. I shower and change into a black sweatshirt and light blue pants. I hear a knock on my door. I run down stairs. I trip over a stair and I wait for the impact of the stairs but it never came. I feel two strong arms around me, Cold hands slide under my sweatshirt and grasp my back. I arch my back and gasp and to get away but, I open my eyes and see a familiar face. I see, Cole Waters. His dark blue eye are staring into mine. He chuckles and says, "what's the rush?" I broke eye contact. "I have to leave for my new job, that I told you about.." I trail off. His smile fades, "I'm sorry, I wish I had more time to spend with you." he embraces me once more. "Allow let me walk you to the board walk." I weakly smile." okay."
We make it to the board walk with five minutes to spare. Cole links his fingers with mine."Cole?! what are you doing?!?" He looks at me and chuckles. "I'm going to miss seeing your cute face." He takes my phone out of my back pocket and puts his number in it. He smiles once more as he says, "text me!" I smile and say, "okay." I head for my boat. And the captain smiles at me and she says, "you are the only passenger, do you want to leave now?" I think for a moment and say, "yes please." She shows me a place where I can sleep. It's small but it will do. After two hours at sea I feel sleepy. I drift off into sleep, everything becomes dark.

I wake up, I grab my cell phone and it say it's 5:36 in the morning. I sigh and I get up of the small bed. My knees and ankles feel weak as I walk. I took a seat in the bolted chair and, stretched and cleaned myself up. I hear a knock on the tall, narrow door. "We'll be landing soon." I heard on the other side of the door. I mutter"okay", as start changing over into a pair of high waisted black shorts and a red crop top. I lace up my high tops and grab my bag. I walk out on to the deck. I can see the island. It's beautiful, tall trees every where, green everywhere. My phone rings in my pocket, I pull it out to see who was calling. The caller ID was unfamiliar to me and didn't have a name. I cautiously pick up, "hello?"
"Hello, is this Jordan?" A ,what sounds like a, man asks. "Yes, may I ask who you are?" I ask. "Oh how rude, I am the lab director, Tyler Green. I'll be waiting on the boardwalk for you. I will be taking you to the lab." He Finished. "Okay. Thank you." I say. "See you soon." He says as he hung up.

The boat pulled up to the dock. I thank the captain and, I get off. I start walking down the boardwalk. I look around at the trees and the beach, it's all so beautiful. I see a black car pull up, and a tall dark haired man gets out. He has a wide grin on his face. He offers me a sucker and says, "Ah, you must be Jordan!"
I accept the sucker and nod my head yes. He extends his hand, " I am the guy that called, Tyler." I shake his hand and say, "nice to meet you." I let go of his hand. He walks me to the car and opens the passenger door for me. I set my bag between my feet. "Just to let you know. Not a lot of people get accepted for this job, not a lot of women apply for the lab division. Which I am thrilled to see a mixup. So if anyone says or does anything to you, come get me." He warns. "Okay." I say as I continue to look out the window. We sit in silence but, it wasn't an awkward silence. "I would also like to point out that I let everyone have the day off, so everyone can meet you at a barbeque tonight." Tyler says with a proud grin on his face. I become flustered. "Oh, you don't have to do that.." I studder. Tyler chuckles lightly.
We pull into the lab. I see, mainly men, settings up things. My face heats up as I shrink into the seat. Tyler pulls into a parking spot up front. I grab my bag and get out. Tyler opens the front door of the lab for me. He introduces me to the other females that work here. There were three, one was a secretary, the other two were way older than me. Actually I believe they all are older than me. I am only Twenty One. After a short, unwanted conversation, i found out that, the older ladies names were, Beth and Megan. Beth and Megan are in their late forties. Lexi is the secretary, she is thirty one. I took the hint that none of them wanted me here, from all the glares I received. Tyler showed me, my room and left me alone to get settled. I put my clothes away in my dresser and my daily things in the bathroom. I get my charger out of my bag and plug in my phone. I slide my empty bag underneath my bed. I look around my room, thinking that unpacking would make a difference. Nope, it looks exactly the same. I sigh in defeat. I hear a knock on the door. I walk over and answer it. It was Tyler. "Ready? To have some fun?" He asked enthusiastically. I lightly laugh, "I'm as ready as I'll ever be." I say as I shut my door. We walk they way we came through as Tyler told me who to stay away from, in a joking manner. Tyler opens the door for me and vanishes, leaving me by myself. I wonder if I could walk back in and go back to my room.