Julie stopped the engine. “Here we are.” She smiled to Daisy.
They both were in their early twenties, Julie half a year older than Daisy. Both were excited about the job, as it was their first one, the first real one anyways.
They got out of the car and slowly approached the big multi-story building. Julie quickly locked her car, put the key into her purse and caught up to Daisy.
“No way they are actually gonna take us” Daisy laughed.
“Oh, don’t be so pessimistic. I’m sure we have a realistic chance.”
“If you say so…”
Julie opened the heavy glass door. The interior seemed very clean and big as well. A lot of glass, a little marble, some wood here and there.
“Well, I guess that about the good payment was true, considering how it looks here”
Julie nodded.
They approached the counter and were soon sitting on some chairs, filling out a questionnaire. This was to determine the best field of work for them, at least that’s what the woman at the reception told them. Julie looked over to her friend a few times, but only saw that Daisy had answered a few questions differently than her. She didn’t think about it any further. Julie was sure, the two weren’t that different and they would soon be colleagues.
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After some more paperwork and a lot of signatures, the two friends were lead through multiple corridors.
“This is it, please have a seat” said the nice man, opening the door, pointing to two armchairs in the middle of the room.
“Thank you very much.”
The two took place and had the chance to talk for another few minutes, before two people, a man and a woman, both in white work coats, came in.
“You must be Julie and Daisy, is that right?”
Both confirmed.
“And you both read and agreed to our terms and conditions?”
The girls looked at each other, then slowly nodded. It had been multiple pages long, so they obviously didn’t read the entire thing. But it was always the same anyways, right? Nothing to worry about…
“Okay” the woman continued “Then we are ready for stage two. Please free your arms and lean back in your seats. You will now get the serum. Just normal standard procedure. I guess you two would prefer to stay together for the beginning?”
They looked at each other again. Serum? Whatever, if it was just standard procedure, that was probably something that was just necessary. Those people knew what they were doing.
“Yes, we’d like to stay together” Julie answered for them both.
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The injections didn’t hurt at all, but Daisy noticed she was getting dizzy right after it.
“Julie?” she asked.
“I feel weird” Julie just answered.
“Yeah, me too.”
“Don’t worry, that’s expected” came the voice from the man. “It will be over soon.”
The man and the woman both looking at each other and smiling, was the last thing they both saw before their worlds turned black.