The automatic doors slide, as you quickly place on the lab coat.

[CLOCK: 12:30PM.] The long hallway’s echo doesn’t help the unnerved feeling you have, sometimes disrupting your thoughts.

Some of the scientists greet you, and some show you, your workspace. Comfy, but neutral. And most of them just straight up ignore you. I mean.. not that you mind it, they’re probably working. Yea..

Filing.. monitoring, checking.. It’s a mantra, already? You check the clock once more, as if it had been an eterni—

[CLOCK: 12:42PM] Damn. Not even 30 minutes? You turn back around, going back to—

Then someone just grabs the back of your chair, and turns it around. Only to face the man himself.. Sam.

"So.. err, you are the newbie, right? I mean- of course— scoff, of course you are! Never seen you around here so.. ahem" Sam clears his throat, holding out his other hand for a handshake.

"I’m Sam. The one who’s leading this entire lab, right on my back!" He confidently said.