The Game

Meeting Team 7

"You are all dismissed."

Loralee steps away from the podium and the teachers all stand up and leave the stage, disappearing into another room.

Sydney turns to face J.T. and I but she doesn't move to get up.

"At least Nat and Tom are on the same team. And I know a couple of the people in my group. What about you J.T.?" Sydney trails off, still looking at me and back to Tom.

"Yeah, George was in my defensive driving class and Opal was in my English class." J.T. stands up and his eyes lock on Marlow who is a couple tables away chatting with a girl from her team. "Not that the English class gave me any information about her. But yes I know both of those two. And I've heard of a few of the other people too."

"Tom," I tune everything else out and wait until his attention is fully on me. "You ready?"

Tom smiles, he stands up straighter and fathers his stuff. I love around to join him on the other side of the table. Slinging my arm around his shoulder, I turn to J.T. and Sydney.

"We'll meet you guys back here for dinner. Eight o'clock?"

"Eight o'clock." Sydney confirms and she looks a little more relaxed.

"Eight o'clock," J.T. says and is the first to walk away. He finds Marlow quickly and they step aside to talk privately.

"See I told you she's his girlfriend," Tom says proudly. I chuckle then tug him forward for start walking.

"Come on let's go meet the rest of our team. Also I hope you were paying attention because I saw my name, your name and Matt's name. And that's it. So I'm hoping you know where we're meeting." I give a quick wave to Sydney and mouth good luck to her then turn back to lead Tom out of the Mess Hall.

"We are meeting in the Main Hall Interview room C."

"Interview room? Like where they meet new students?"

"Something like that," Tom says and I drop my arm from around him and follow him now.

We find the interview room, which already has a few of our members in it, talking amongst themselves. Tom goes over to join them while I hover by the door looking at the room. The interview room seems like it should belong in a police station. If you've seen any show or movie with a police station you'll know what I'm talking about. Bare minimum, table and chairs, bare walls, a camera in the top corner of the room.

"Interview room, it would more accurate to call it the interrogation room. Hey, Nat." Matt bumps my shoulder as he enters the room.

"It's Natalie," I say coolly then head deeper into the room, away from him.

"Hey girl, that's no way to talk to your team leader," Matt says as he follows me.

Before I can respond, two more seniors enter the room followed closely by Dr. Donovan. He barely glances at me as he moves into the room. The rest of the group turns to face him and I take my place next to Tom feeling Matt stop by my side.

"Team 7, Matt Grisham, Natalie, Tom P., Cassidy, Jamison, Amilia, Theran, and Myles. Everyone here?" Dr. Donovan looks up and sees all eight of us looking back at him. He nods and hands one of the boys a stack papers. "Good. Alright here are your assigned positions. Read your job carefully and discuss with your group. You are allowed to use this room from now on and will be assigned a specific lab location before your first mission, so you are able to get in the lab and familiarize yourselves before getting started. Speaking of the first mission, it will start in two days but tomorrow we will meet again in the Mess Hall to go over some initial rules and guidelines. Loralee recommended taking a break tonight and I have to agree, starting tomorrow most of your time will be spent with this group. Good luck students."