They had been waiting a long time. However, Valerie's happiness didn't seem to be overshadowed by the waiting time.
Tuck killed time with his tablet without problem. And Sam continued to curse the seat, because she had at least half an hour that it hurt to stay seated.
"I'm not sure about this, Val." She commented, feeling how the seconds became more tense. And that damned waiting music that didn't seem to end.
"Well, he's an important person. Important people have things to do."
"I don't mean that! " Sam exclaimed. "Seriously, doesn't that make you suspicious? You usually have more common sense than that."
"Sam, Sam, Sammy." Valerie clicked her tongue while denying. "Of course, if it were something unknown, I would be in doubt, but this is a great and well-known company. There is no need to fear."
Sam rolled her eyes. That really didn't convince her that way.
"Well, could you explain to me again how that man contacted you?"
"Hmm, well that night after training. I received the call. He said he had heard from us, which is logical, right? I think you're just a little paranoid, Sam."
Sam gasped, stepping aside after that accusation. But before she could answer, someone had deigned to call them to pass them.
"Finally!" Tucker's voice exclaimed, he who was oblivious to the whole conversation of the girls. And of course, he was also the first to stand and walk.
"Give the benefit of the doubt at least." Valerie suggested
Sam sighed completely defeated. Maybe she was exaggerating this time
"Okay, Gray. Wou won this time." She replied, receiving a smile from her friend.
Both girls walked down the corridor through which they were guided, one after the other. Until you get to the main office.
A large wooden door, which was then opened by that worker. They were waiting for an elegant old man behind the door.
So that gesture that was reflected couldn't be another to meet a young lady with long black hair, giving them back.
And it wasn't rude, but she seemed to review some things on the desk in front of her.
"Whoa, hello." Saluted the only guy with a huge smile and brightness in his eyes, which were extinguished by a good blow to the head from Valerie.
"Ouch, Val Why...?" He decided to keep his mouth closed when he saw her face, and that look that buried him completely alive.
Immediately the woman turned around, with a few papers. And to tell the truth, she wasn't at all a stranger.
After recognizing their faces there was a moment of silence so tense that a rope could be formed to hang on the lamps.
It was like if their minds had been paused and waiting to load and keep playing.
"Oh, it's you bat." It was the first thing she managed to say. And it's that her attention had been fixed on the Gothic girl from the beginning.
"Paulina?!" The voices of Tucker and Valerie sounded together.
"I thought that the pretty and brainless secretary was just a stereotype." The goth girl commented, without any kind of malice or anxiety, casually came out of her sarcastic mouth.
The other woman frowned at her small, snub-nosed little nose because of the ghost-hunting comment.
Suddenly the office was the place of a nostalgic confrontation between that pair.
The other two young people felt light years away from the world where those two had had their reunion. Totally displaced by a line of frivolous indifference.
"Ahem." Valerie wanted to get their attention. Getting only that of her friend Sam.
"Oh, we were expecting to see your boss."
"Mr. Masters is not here, he had to leave on an emergency and he left me in charge. He is a busy man." Paulina spoke, with some superiority in the tone.
The looks of Tucker and Samantha connected with a certain stupor.
Valerie never mentioned the name or surname.
"He couldn't be the same. - The techno geek spoke, without thinking very well. His tablet went into the background.
Valerie watched them crash glances, seriously wondering which bee had stung her friends.
"Then I guess we're leaving." The Gothic girl came forward, impatient to get out of there.
Paulina kept looking at her from top to bottom, as if judging her with a very inquisitive look.
Further. It was the opportunity to get out of this situation.
"Mr. Masters isn't rude. If he made you come here, it was for something, and I will attend you." Paulina took some papers to bring them to Sam. For some reason Tucker and Valerie were invisible to her.
Valerie knew the reason. And is that, since she began to be friends with Samantha and Tucker, after the accident with Daniel Fenton, her previous friends began to brand her a traitor, labeling her a failure.
Although they didn't mess with those they called failures. Even they felt that tragedy in which Fenton's parents death.
"You can talk to Mr. Masters another day, for now you just have to leave your resume and fill out this sheet. It is an attitude test, and it is by mere protocol. He is convinced that you are the ones indicated for this position." The girl indicated, just as they had told her.
"All right... And that would be it?"
"For now." Paulina answered.
After that, they read that sheet. It was the same exam they did for any job.
Nothing suspicious.
However, even Tucker and Sam had doubts about that Mr. Masters. And of course there was a possibility that it was Vlad Masters himself.
"I was told that the boss was young, I doubt he is the same." He contradicted them, overwhelmed by that talk.
"What do you say, Tuck?
The techno geek sighed.
"We have to try. Only to leave doubt, and if it is not he could be beneficial to us as a team."
Sam didn´t object, Tucker might be right, but she still had that suspicion.
After solving that test they returned with Paulina. She pretended to review it and then keep it in a folder on file.
"I'll schedule another appointment." She said, typing on the computer in her own office.
They waited for another time. Until finally that girl finished typing and photocopying some sheets that she had to give them.
It was already strange that Paulina was there, it would be much more bizarre that Vlad Masters was their next boss.
"Technically they are hired." Paulina mentioned without real interest, she only said that as she had been ordered. "All you have to do is accept, although I suppose you'll have to talk to him first." she handed them the papers, then sat down again, waiting for them to leave.
"Well, that's all." She insinuated.
The three friends understood that hint.
Both girls came out one after the other with the same drooping frown.
"Goodbye." Tucker said goodbye with a friendly tone, gently moving his hand before being pulled out by young Gray.
"Let's go, Captain Hormone."
Paulina rolled her eyes.
Things still did not change that much.
The swivel chair rolled gently.
It had been a long day, and his secretary had made several mistakes that he had to correct.
But at least she had done something right.
It was funny just thinking that it was she who had to assign that task.
He ran his hand through his black hair, ruffling it a little more.
The young Masters gave a heavy sigh.
"We should celebrate this." He commented looking at the papers