Chapter 3: The Chart
Just so everyone knows, the next chapter will have DC characters in it!
Thanks to my reviewers from the first two chapters: GracieClaire, JamieMac26, TaylorChesney, Lauren Grant, Mahone-chic-89.
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Everyone was sitting between chairs, against the walls and then the 16 mini-subs were all plugged into a computer. Ralph and John waved and I went over. They both offered their chairs, but I decided to sit on Ralph's lap with my feet on John's. Jason stood and the front of the room. "Men, and lady, thank you once again for going out to the sea and collecting this year's data. Now we must map the sea. We will go around and load the data onto this screen, then the maps will be compared to the past, just for our records, then when we have the captains here in a few days, we will show them this year's map. Our lovely intern," I stood and waved, "will need all this data for her project." As the section's captains spoke, more and more went on the screen. It started with a map of the Bering Sea up from Alaska. The south eastern section went first. They reported mostly cod fish and jellyfish. Both the southern sections had small numbers of crab. The western, northwestern and north had the most luck and our section finished the reports.
The data was all put on a flash drive and given to me. "Paige, you will need to put all our findings in an organized way. Then we will set up our reports for the captains. The Trident Company will be here tomorrow to set the quota and the prices." I nodded. "If you need help at all, ask." I nodded again and went to my "office" and tried to concentrate on the information. I sighed and put my head on the desk. A pair of hands rubbed my shoulders and I leaned into it.
"Need help?" A voice whispered, it was John. I mumbled and pushed away the laptop I was working on. He chuckled. "Relax, I had to help do this last year."
That made me jump, "Help! How many people?" I snapped.
"Wow, calm down. It was just five, including me and I hated it. I am offering because it needs to be done quick. And I want to be with you." I blushed and agreed to the help. He opened the necessary files and helped me put in the info. He opened a mapmaker application. "This is the most difficult part." He copied the whole section of the numbers and imported them. "Now press enter, 562" I did and there were tiny crabs on the map where the crews saw them, I looked at the time. 2 hours. Alls I needed to do was to outline the report and I was done. I turned around and hugged him and pecked his cheek. "Thanks." I said with a smile.
"No problem." There was a silence, "Would you like to go to lunch with me?" I hesitated-it's just lunch- I thought and accepted. I left the laptop, grabbed my bag and let him lead me to his car. He took me to a nice diner where we ate and talked about school and family. After about 45 minutes we decided it was time to go back to work. We walked into the office and I had an angry Jason waiting. John whispered, "Bye" in my ear and pecked my cheek, then seemed to disappear. "My hero," I darkly muttered abd turned to Jason with an innocent look. "Where were you?" He strictly asked.
"I went to lunch with John."
"You should've been working on the charts."
"Done, I just need to do the report for Saturday."
"You sure you are done?"
"Yes, check even."
"Show me." He said with a glint in his eye. I didn't back down but turned away; my hair hitting him and opened the laptop. I opened up everything and showed it to him. I then pushed it towards him so he couldn't complain I hid anything and I glared while he read it. He slid me back the laptop and said, "Good job," in a slightly less gruff voice. I went and sat in front of him and made him look at me.
"Why are you so mad at me?" he looked away. After a while he looked back at me. "I wasn't mad, per say, as much as worried and a bit jealous."
"Jealous? A big handsome man like you. You must have your pick of the town."
"It's nothing, thank you though." I smiled . the rest of the week followed in a similar routine, I woke up, Jason and I went to the office-where many guys would flirt with me- I only responded to Ralph, john and Nick though. I kept my ear buds in most of the time at the office, I finished the outline of the report and then I went to lunch with the guys from the boat, then I helped set up the conference room. After going back to Jason's I did my scheduled work and then at night we ate, watched movies and I occasionally got on facebook, mostly I went to bed from exhaustion though.
On Friday, Jason told me what I'd be doing and we went through the conference. I would be sitting in the front of the room, next to the table where Jason would be talking. I would be talking about the charts and stuff on the laptop. Without Jason's knowledge, I decided that I would see if there was a way I could walk around and see if any captains would be worth the effort to flirt with. I agreed to everything and we went back to his house.
